We’re going to move this mini-storyline to being book only long term as a bonus feature, so it won’t go away in all forms, it just won’t be on the website — so folks who buy the PDF version or the print book will still be able to read it.
The idea is to reward folks who check the website regularly with being able to read the exclusive content we wouldn’t have otherwise publicly released to begin with.
Oh I understand, and am glad the storyline will be kept somewhere. But way, WAY too many webcomics that I loved that just stopped, then eventually disappeared.
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.
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.
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I do not find that fact fun. Far far too many webcomics I just to enjoy that are no longer hosted anywhere.
We’re going to move this mini-storyline to being book only long term as a bonus feature, so it won’t go away in all forms, it just won’t be on the website — so folks who buy the PDF version or the print book will still be able to read it.
The idea is to reward folks who check the website regularly with being able to read the exclusive content we wouldn’t have otherwise publicly released to begin with.
Oh I understand, and am glad the storyline will be kept somewhere. But way, WAY too many webcomics that I loved that just stopped, then eventually disappeared.
What did she do to that bratwurst, Jeff?
WHAT DID SHE DO?!
At a guess — a very wild guess — put ketchup on it?
…I mean, yeah. You’re in the ballpark.