The state of things

I don't ask much from this world, and am grateful for all I can get, but all I ever really wanted for much of my life was a new Empire magazine to read every month, and a new 2000ad to inhale on the walk home from work, and I've had to give up both of these things in the past year, mainly due to reasons of late stage capitalism. This is why we can't have nice things.

My big metaphor for the world is one of extreme first world privilege, but losing the small things in life is just the fucking limit.

The past year has been great on a personal level, I'm still more dad than human, but the kids are constantly entertaining and funny and make me feel some big, wonderful emotions on a daily basis. 

But I can't ignore the people making the world a shittier place. World leaders continue to be a huge embarrassment, the hatred of immigrants all around the world is a bigoted abomination, and AI is making everything so much worse for no good reason other than problematic porn. Children are being murdered by states all over the world, and that's too fucking hard to fix, apparently. I am, as always, on the side of the people having the guns pointed at them.

My fellow humans still matter to me, and the treatment of our trans brothers and sisters has been particularly enraging this year, and I don't know why the world has to be this way.

I've seen friends and colleagues become their true selves through a transition process and it fills my heart with such joy and wonder to see them so happy, and it's inconceivable to me that this actually makes people angry. I just don't understand any motherfucker who sneers at that happiness, but I know I want nothing to do with them, because their hearts are rancid.

I dedicate every word in this blog this past year to my trans siblings. I admire your devotion to being your true selves, in the face of some bullshit bigotry, and I swear I'll always have your back.

All I can hold on to is the lessons of taking care of your parish, and just be kind on a local level. And I might not be able to have all the nice things we used to have and can't anymore, for some reason, but I can always help out other people, as much as I can. See you in the new year.