22nd Sep 2015, 4:28 PM
in Ch. 27: Same Girl, New Look
Author Notes:
Jocelyn
22nd Sep 2015, 4:28 PM
So, this update and the previous ones almost didn't exist. The original plan was to just jump right into school from the first page of this chapter. I felt like the fear and hesitation Rain is feeling were important to show though (because I can't speak for everybody, but at least my pre-transition life was filled with this fear and hesitation), so these last couple updates were added. Fortunately, despite taking hits hard, Rain is very resilient and tends to bounce back quickly. It's possible she'll be having a lot of ups and downs today, but that's probably to be expected.
The other important thing regarding this update in particular, is the date of Rain's upcoming appointment with an endocrinologist (ie, the person who can give her hormones). As the last page said, it's February 25th in the story right now. She could be on hormones in two weeks (in story time)! Even that doesn't mean there'll be changes right away (it takes a while before you really notice its effects), but it's still a crazy exciting thing to know that's coming, and it can be a HUGE confidence booster. ^_^
Finally: Fara's words. Yes, it's some more motivational stuff, but it's important. It's so easy to suffer some kind of failure (big or small), and think that everything is hopeless. It's so easy to give up. It's so easy to just go with the flow and do nothing to upset status quo. Believe me; I know! But if you always do nothing, you'll never get what you want. If you try, you can fail... but you can try again. If you never try, you can never succeed. So don't let defeats/failures/setbacks get to you. Cry it out or vent if you need to, and "then you get back up and move forward like I know you can."
Preachy week. But I hope it's not too obnoxious and that people are getting something out of this. :)
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The other important thing regarding this update in particular, is the date of Rain's upcoming appointment with an endocrinologist (ie, the person who can give her hormones). As the last page said, it's February 25th in the story right now. She could be on hormones in two weeks (in story time)! Even that doesn't mean there'll be changes right away (it takes a while before you really notice its effects), but it's still a crazy exciting thing to know that's coming, and it can be a HUGE confidence booster. ^_^
Finally: Fara's words. Yes, it's some more motivational stuff, but it's important. It's so easy to suffer some kind of failure (big or small), and think that everything is hopeless. It's so easy to give up. It's so easy to just go with the flow and do nothing to upset status quo. Believe me; I know! But if you always do nothing, you'll never get what you want. If you try, you can fail... but you can try again. If you never try, you can never succeed. So don't let defeats/failures/setbacks get to you. Cry it out or vent if you need to, and "then you get back up and move forward like I know you can."
Preachy week. But I hope it's not too obnoxious and that people are getting something out of this. :)
©2004-2015
Rain, all characters and all other aspects of the story are copyright material belonging to me.
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User comments:
It'll end when I'm good and ready. I don't want to spoil too much, but I'm pretty sure I've already mentioned a few times in the past (somewhere), that I do have plans for Summer in the story. In favor of consistency, I'll say that hasn't changed. So it's at least that far, but if it goes beyond that we'll have to wait and see.
Either way, we're only at like the halfway point of the story. There's still LOTS of Rain to come. ^_^
I get rather depressed when I reach the last episode of my Daria dvd set, and watching Scott, and Ramona drift away through that last sub-space door; it makes me "feel sad, and think about death and stuff," but it is what it is. Things kinda get resolved, and it's time to leave it alone. Or in case of anime, such as One Piece(7XX chapters so far) things just don't resolve, and a single hour can take many chapters, it seems like it'll never end, but like Inu Yasha, it will at one point. Seems like Joycelyn is taking the One Piece route with this, so it may be a while before it ends, anyway- it was what six chapters for the comic con weekend, it's like a DBZ battle...
Picking with you Jocy...
I like to think of it as something more like Fullmetal Alchemist. It's longer than average perhaps, but not longer than it needs to be because there was always a plan to end it and everything shown is relevant to the story in some way.
At least, that's what I'm aiming for. I like telling lengthy stories, but the last thing I want to do is have Rain overstay its welcome. So, there is an actual ending, but there's still much to do before we're ready for that.
Well, with a samurai, I doubt she'll ever need blockers...
Even though I don't fear it, going out, or just talk to someone, is really hard, and often seems too much. I can see where Rain is coming from.
Puddle's always so cute! ♥
I did a little looking around. While I can't find strictly "endo" in Japanese, I have seen "endou" which is a pea. XD
Also of course Puddles believes in Rain, there's no "probably" about it.
2. I JUST realized that they don't have noses from the front...
I know other people have said they were going to use the comic to come out to their parents or friends before. Given how long it is, they usually say they plan to show the short series of pages back in Chapter 4 where Rain explains how she feels to Gavin.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/99/
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/100/
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/101/
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/109/
More recently, I've heard of some people using the scene where Aiken tries to explain his research to Kellen.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/618/
I'm sure there have been other pages used, but these are the ones I've been quoted. In complete honesty, I've only gotten follow-ups a couple times (mostly positive). But I'm not sure if that means the people that never got back to me never used it after all, never came out after all, or it went badly. The one instance where someone DID get back to me after a bad reaction, they said their mom just refused to read it (so it wasn't necessarily that the comic did any harm; there's just no helping the "Strongwell parents" of the world).
Anyway, I hope any of this is helpful. And best of luck to you; I'm rooting for you. ^_^
Yay me for understanding something from a different context?
....screw you, my brain
Btw, yay, Rain's overly cutee plush kaminari is back in scene again ^-^ Rain, Puddle and Kaminari are soo adoorably cuute together <3