Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
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I’m guessing this particular con’s cosplay policies don’t forbid this. Get with the times, guys!
Whole thing seems like a rollup to Jim acting like Jim again. He’s been weirdly ok…ish? lately. It can’t last. Or this’ll be his Waterloo – pick one or both.
The guy in the uniform should have volunteered info about cosplay, but it’s possible nobody was listening.
Yeah, see, I have this medical condition. Anytime someone in a Nazi uniform opens their mouth, all I hear is a racist version of the teacher from Peanuts. Whatever justification or argument he might give is drowned out by the fact that he’s dressed like a NAZI.
Yeah. Pretty much this. *points to Viktor*
I also have the same medical condition. It’s called “Good sense.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwTuzGasSU
A couple of Nazis at 3:18 and a Nazi officer at 3:20. I asked why and my wife said; “Hetalia.”
(That wouldn’t explain the Nazis in the gas masks, though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDrK2KLXkQ
1:30; “zombie” Nazi?
Part of me says ‘of COURSE that’s awful and shouldn’t be allowed.’
But I know if someone wandered by dressed up as Schrodinger from Hellsing I’d be delighted and likely not even cross my mind they’re dressed as a Nazi.