Rain
Comic 1297 - Only Two
Author Notes:
Anyway, I hope that clarifies that. Maybe they'll grab a bite to eat at some point while they're here, but this trip was never really about spending money. It was about giving Emily a nigh endless supply of distractions to take her mind off of things with her mom. Rain knew something there would appeal to her.
With that said, Emily reads through the two available volumes of Birth of the Lilim and reaches the cliffhanger end. Don't worry too much about the context here, though. I've talked a bit in the past, about the character of Lilith, and how she's from an old "story" of mine that never really went anywhere. I didn't really have much any kind of plot for it, though; just a few characters I thought were neat and some potentially compelling story beats. So there's not even much to say beyond Emily's panel 3 description. Hence, using Lilim as the Rainverse "eternal cliffhanger manga" is kinda fitting. XD
Final thing I wanted to say (actually, I think there might be more, but I've already rambled too long), but Rain is reading Moonlight Wanderers, in case anyone was wondering. I'd share a direct link, but I think the image I used is only currently available on Patreon (which I know I've been slacking with lately - it's this year, honestly - but I have some things I want to post very soon).
Anyway, I think that's it for now. As always, thanks for reading my mindless babble and I hope you enjoyed the page. ^_^
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Actually someone else was just telling me how Amazon pretty much sabotaged Borders. I thought it was just eBooks and delivery convenience and stuff too, but I guess there was some really sketchy contracts involved too, pretty deliberately targeting and killing Borders. I knew Amazon was involved; I didn't know it was quite as ruthless as it was, though. :(
It just adds to another of many, many, many reasons I won't use Amazon.
It's like 1,000 Father Quentons. Remember Father Quenton? Wow, if every month is a year long, which they are, that was like.. I'm not doing the math but that was like a decade ago.
thirth?
Anyhow, round one (i.e. parts 1-6) of the Rain Favorite Character Tournament is now complete. Let's kick off round 2 here! As usual, you can vote for as many characters as you want. The top three will advance to the next round.
Not sure what the situation is here. I think Fara will be supporting them, Rain probably plans to get a job after graduation, Emily's family is rich but I think she can't count on anything?
It was called Colour Wheel for anybody interested.
When I was younger, I believed that I should have been a girl. There was some disconnect in how I thought and how other boys thought. With a couple exceptions, most of my friends have been girls and I would generally rather be with girls than boys. My memories are a little foggy, but I think that I spent most of fourth grade confident that I shouldn’t have been a boy because of some notion I had that girls were better. Since then, I have been in social contexts where gender was of no importance and avoiding all labels was the “cool” thing to do. I overthink everything to a substantial degree and decided then and there that gender didn’t matter to me; I could be myself and that was enough.
I’ve always pushed back against things I saw as being particularly masculine, although I saw myself as having other reasons.
Quarantine has been the only event for a long time when I have had time for self-examination. One of my friends came out as trans to me in February and I started educating myself on what that meant and found that I could empathize with a lot of things that people had experienced.
The other day, I shaved for the first time in months and noticed that I looked feminine from the shoulders up and something just clicked. Maybe it was the fact that I finally got rid of all my internal stigma, but I was able acknowledge that I could be pretty one day and it felt good.
I don’t know if all that would point towards me being trans or just being a relatively effeminate boy who has embraced the fact, or something else altogether.
Complicating things is the fact that I am still dependent on both of my parents for financial support and my dad is (I think) mildly transphobic or just poorly educated and sheltered based on some things I’ve heard him say.
It took me many years before someone talked about non-binary, demi-genders, and the whole spectrum "in between the norm or completely outside it". Now my state ID has my gender as X, so I just need to change my name and convince my state to do the same to my birth certificate.