Trees are whispering...

Thanks so much to @nichestars for tagging me in this!

Last song: I actually didn’t listen to music at all at work today which is shocking. I exercise very early in the morning on weekdays and have determined that kids movies are pretty good to work out to at an ungodly hour: do not require much thought or attention, bright and cheerful, engaging. Which is all by way of saying that I started watching Encanto for the first time during my workout this morning, but didn’t get very far into it so my last song is The Family Madrigal.

Currently watching: Surfski and I always have several shows that we rotate through slowly. At the moment we’ve got Star Trek Voyager, Landman, the West Wing, Abbot Elementary, and The Vampire Lestat.

Current obsession: Uh, to be completely honest, work is kind of sucking me dry lately and I don’t really have the energy for an obsession at the moment.

Currently reading: Radiant Star by Ann Leckie, which is the latest novel in the Imperial Radch series. I was kind of meh on the last two books (Provenance and Tranaslation State) but so far I’m really liking this one.

Currently working on: I was working on the Kiera of Tyrosh-focused follow up to If You Call I Will Answer, and I have about 6k words written but see above on work kicking my butt. Not really any juice left for writing in my non-work hours. One of these days I’ll pick it up again because I really love it and may be able to convince like 3 of you to read it.

Last song: Technically it's an retrowave mix but for the purposes of this I'll say Level Up by Vienna Teng. It's a soft song that'll get your blood moving and I find it quite the inspiring piece. Great for listening to at loud volumes in a car.

Currently watching: Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You has proven quite charming so far. I recently watched all of The Amazing Digital Circus with my wife and we've been having great fun talking about it at length. She wants me to watch I Saw The TV Glow but that's a no thank you from me!

Current obsession: The bones I've got processing and where to find more bones. I currently have twenty seven carcasses (all but three are just skulls) processing in a friend's yard (I love them very much) and am planning to go look under some local bridges to see if I can find anything there. I actually find domestic animal bones to be most compelling and hardest to acquire, especially since I have very stringent ethical standards I adhere to for my own brain.

Currently working on: A sort of 1984 sex worker/dragon thing I just rediscovered in my journal. Also a story of a Lady Catherine de Bourgh style platypus who is so offended that anything should impede her quest that it must be removed immediately and so it is.

this comes after the alberta provincial government recently used the notwithstanding clause to push forward legislation banning gender affirming care for minors, along with other bills targeted primarily at trans youth.

if this passes 500 signatures it will be brought to the house of commons so i urge you to sign only if you are a resident of canada! (you will need to provide a postal code when signing)

also make sure if you do sign to check your email you submitted afterwards to confirm your signature because it will not count otherwise!!

e-7027 is asking the federal government to use section 90 of our charter and evoke a disallowance clause (which has not been used since 1943) that would overpower the alberta governments use of the notwithstanding clause.

e-7005 (the petition in my original post) is asking for the federal government to rule that access to trans healthcare is a human right based on the evidence and testimony from multiple reputable health organizations. specifically mirroring how in 2000 the alberta government used the notwithstanding clause to rule that marriage is between a man and a woman, which was overruled by the federal government enshrining marriage equality in 2005.