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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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This needs to be a panel.
The only problem is that it takes a comprehensive knowledge of the shows.
So, what, you’re saying there’s a surfeit of potential panelists? 😉
More like a dearth–I’ve been to way too many panels where the panelists’ knowledge was severely lacking.
so you make it a competition, the shows are assigned randomly and a panel and you have X amount of time to create your pitch then a team of of judges score the pitches
it would be The masquerade for aspiring writers and fan fic enthusiasts
I’d watch this panel.
the proposed mash up would be a lot like Escaflone or Aura Battler Dunbine
I prefer to think of it as “Alchemech: Destiny of the Hunters”
Until the tank starts dating one of the mechs.
Well Toei Animation in Japan made a merged episode of DBZ, One Piece, and Toriko in the show One Piece. Just wanted to put that out there.
They did even worse in an episode of Gintama.
I thought it was Maychek…
Also spelling error in Panel 3, “Cark”
Oof – thanks for catching the typo.
As for the pronunciation of “Macek” — I’ve always heard it pronounced “May-sek,” so at the very least (whether it’s right or wrong) that’s how Max and Veronica would say it. 😛
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