All Journal Entries Night In The Woods

Sunny and bordering on hot today. We were told the high would be 90˙F. And then, far we've just seen 87˚F, and the temperature has begun to drib. Simply we nonetheless may run across xc˚F tomorrow.

Last nighttime, I slept an utterly astounding 10+ hours, possibly nearly xi. It has been, fuck, I don't even know. Many, many years since I have slept so much at a stretch, likely not since fashion back when my Gabapentin does was so absurdly high all I wanted to do is slumber. That was over a decade ago. Anyway, all that sleep left me feeling hungover and disoriented. Clearly, my exhaustion caught upwardly with me.

And however, I got up and worked. I got up and wrote. Right at present, the plan is to pull together Sirenia Digest 196 tomorrow, which will be the terminal SD to exit to subscribers until former in June. Then, on Fri, I'm going to switch gears and get back to work on "Living a Boy'south Adventure Tale." If I tin can manage to write at least ane,000 words per twenty-four hours virtually days, so I can hands be done with the novella by the end of May. Fingers crossed.

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At present I'chiliad going to say something that volition brand some people hate me, just what the fuck. A lot of people already do, and the older I go, the less I care. What is happening with the Supreme Count and Roe v. Wade, well...this is exactly what I predicted in 2016 (my predictions are out there if anyone wants to read them). What we are seeing is what would non have happened if Hillary Clinton had become president. We know this, for a fact. During her term, she'd accept appointed three moderate to liberal-moderate justices who would non have been gunning for Roe v. Wade. Instead, America got Trump'due south three appointees. And we knew exactly what they would exercise. No mystery. Just a foregone conclusion. So, here's the truth of the affair: If you lot did not vote for Clinton for any of a number of reasons – you lot didn't trust her, you hated her pants suits, you think the Democrats and the Republicans are the same and didn't bother voting, you voted for Bernie Sanders thinking we were at the dawn of the Great People's Socialist Revolution Blah Blah Blah – whey e'er, whatever, doesn't affair. And yes, this obviously includes people who voted for Trump. If you are ane of the people who refused to vote for Clinton – and equally an American, that was your right – and so if this SCOTUS reverses Roe v. Wade, you own their decision. Y'all had a hand in it, , and it is the height of self-delusion (or utter ignorance of the American judicial organisation) to believe otherwise. This cataclysm, it was 100% preventable – from 2016. From 2022, well, at present were back to the globe earlier 1973. In some states, nothing will really modify. In someone states things will be monstrous. And it cannot be changed at the Federal level for, well, decades. Many decades, because SCOTUS appointees are for life. Reproductive rights activists will now be faced with battles, mostly futile, at the state level. Women will die. Children will die. We'll come across more poverty and suffering and crime. Once once again, these are facts. You don't need a crystal brawl.

But yeah, behind this is irony and paradox: a lot of people who desire legal abortion gambled abroad legal abortion, for generations to come up, because...well, no apply pulling punches. It was just fucking stupid. Yes, the GOP wins, and the Bible thumpers win, and the misogynists have won, in large role because on November 2016 their adversaries handed them the win they'd been searching for during the last forty-nine years (forty-four years in 2016). And it'southward a long, long road back to where we are. And sure, there will be more of this slipping backwards: environmental protection, voters rights, LGBTQ rights, the rights of PoC, labor rights, and on and on and on.

Aye, as an American, yous are free to vote for the candidate of your pick. But you are non free of the consequences. And if the SCOTUS reverses Roe vs. Wade, that's a consequence. Is it "fair"? Are you a grownup?

Later,
Aunt Beast (yep, I'm angry)

2:34 p.1000.

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