#idrisah

Less than 48 hours remain on the Runaway to the Stars Kickstarter! C'mon Talita, put your back into it!

Help us reach our last stretch goal and support a strange slice-of-life webcomic about a bunch of scifi outcasts becoming friends! And maybe also stealing company property and assisting a criminal!

How has no one else done this yet???

Talita gives a treat to an incredibly chill horse, Idrisah backseats horse feeding.

Some questions for the resident humans.

Gender transition is broadly socially acceptable and medically supported in Jovia, though political attitudes on it vary. The common conservative attitude is that there are three genders: male, unisex, and female; and the only legitimate goal of gender transition is complete surgical sex reassignment. Working reproductive organs can be grown with an individual's DNA, and the most normative way to transition is "match" your sex organs with your chosen gender. Obviously it gets more complicated than that in practice, though, because not everyone is interested in "matching," nor can everyone who transitions take on the risk of major abdominal surgery. There is also an overall perception that the older you are when you decide to transition (or god forbid if you transition more than once) the more undignified it is, and the more inconvenient it is for the other people in your life. So Gillie had a very normative transgender experience for Jovian culture, except for her surgery aversion; while Mel had a very normative medical transition but had to deal with a lot more social friction.

Because of that L-bend it's more safe for Gillie to stick a swab in her ears than it is for you. She can't stab herself directly in the eardrum.

Idrisah has way more books than the average Jovian because she's a history nerd who is interested in stationary and manual writing, relatively niche hobbies.

Questions for Talita. And one more for Idrisah!

Nexus Jovia has no crewed aircraft, because pressurized spinning cylinders that are 15km or less in circumference are not a great place to fly anything large. Meanwhile, Dirtball just doesn't have enough gas clinging to it to make any reasonably proportioned airfoil work.

In the future, Border Leicester sheep have even bigger ears. For, uh, better heat radiation. Because Earth is hotter. No other reason, humans would never gradually exaggerate the breed characteristics of domestic animals over time for no reason but aesthetics!

A new round of character AMAs is happening on the webcomic, but they're only going up on Tuesdays and the main comic is on hiatus until February 17th. Read more about that here.

Cheevwut definitely named themself some cool sounding gibberish.

RttS is mostly about weirdo only children who have have trouble fitting into their communities finding solace in each other's company, for some reason. I need to write more about their friends off of Dirtball, though. Both Gillie and Idrisah are still in contact with Yusuf, and despite the social turmoil Gillie didn't lose contact with everyone she met in college.