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Winter Solstice, 2025

Typewritten text: This one snuck up on me. How are we already here, at the end of the year? Since I have gotten some interest in my typewriter, I am drafting and posting this typescript instead of writing it digitally as I usually do. I feel a little pressure to do a 2025 retrospective since it is the end of the year, but since this is a /now page, I'd like to keep it focused more on what I have been doing recently. It doesn't seem like it, but I have been spending a fair amount of time writing. Right now I am drafting two pieces. One is about the system for keeping track of my creative work that I have been using for the past several months, as well as some general reflections on the uses and pitfalls of creative systems. I did not time it like this deliberately, but it seems like it will be very apropos to post around the start of the year. The second piece is much more nebulous. I think it's really a reflection on the place of personal morality under a fascist government, but I've just decided to keep working on this piece intermittently and see where it goes. You may see it some time in the next few months. Who knows! I have also started what I think will be a large creative project about Jane Austen--less about her works themselves than about the position of being a fan of hers in a world that equates Austen's novels with heterosexual desire. I have spent a lot of time in Austenland recently, more than I have since grad school. I'm excited to see what comes of this but I don't really know where it will go. I am very excited for the 3rd Passage of Evan Dahm's web comic 3rd Voice to start going live in the new year. I have written less about it than I was hoping to, but it's a great story. I recommend reading it if you are even a smidgen into web comics or dystopian fantasy. I can't link it here because, you know, I'm typing on a piece of paper, but you can find it at his website rice-boy.com. We still have only one cat after taking Huxley to the shelter this summer (he was adopted within two weeks, btw.) I think my appetite to try again with a new cat is growing, but I'd like to get through the holidays and winter first. For the first time in a number of years, I am not doing any New Year's resolutions. You reach a point sometimes where the resolutions you have already formed are good enough, and it's time to just keep going. So I am keeping going. May you do so, as well. I wish you all safety and luck in the times we're living through.

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I got the idea of the /now page from Derek Sivers, which I found through 32-Bit Cafe.