Clustered Chaos

(Apparently the average age of one’s first period is around 12, but I’m curious to see where the demographics are here, and if it’s been trending younger in younger generations! I had my first period just shy of my 10th birthday 😭)

King Arthur at Tintagel

there, now it can finally stop bothering me to not have the whole trio in my style.

honestly i think its funnier for Daxter to be the tallest/lankiest in the entire village, the type to constantly use his height to mess with people, especially Samos, and then he gets turned into rat and dude is just

"....ok first of all, what the fuk"

also am i the only one who thinks Daxter's goggles sorta stand out against the other villages? maybe his parents had come from a different area. I headcannon that Daxter remembers his and Keira's parents the clearest, and before Samos came through the gateway Daxter took on the job of looking out for Keira.

My version of Daxter is basically Keira's big brother, and when baby Jak showed up Daxter went ahead and added him to the family. I'm giving the reason he messes with Samos so much because he thinks he's a jerk for adopting and giving Keira a home but then just leaving him to still live out on his own (since Samos doesn't recognize Daxter which makes him unimportant to Samos)

It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.

Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.

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