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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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Whenever Awesome Roy talks, I imagine Atop the Fourth Wall’s 90’s Kid voice.
I had to look up clips to see what you were talking about…
…but yeah, that’s not far off from the voice in my head.
Duuuuuuuude!! It’s the poly bagged variant of “Empire Builder” with the trading card and embossed holo-foil logo!
Really? I imagine Chester A. Bum from Bum Reviews.
Games? Y’got games? Oh, c’mon, help a guy out! GAMES?!
or
Ohmygod this is the
greatestawesomest game EVER!Nope I never forgot Awesome Roy
AwesomeRoy is my favorite character.
So, I started yesterday, around the same hour as now, reading the first strip of this. Besides of being awesome and funny as heck and all(with the necessary spices of sadness and seriousness), I have to know… How does max’s hair works? Does he have the forbidden secret of mickey mouse’s ears perspective? And finally, what would happen with it if two spectators were to look at him in different angles?
1. Max’s hair always points to the right (unless viewed from directly behind)
2. As the artwork in UnCONventional is an abstract representation of their reality, if you were to directly observe Max, he would appear in a much more human form, with hair that obeyed a much more reasonable set of physical rules 😛