I’ve finished the updates to my graphic novella Not a Cat Lady: the revised pages are all up and the galleries are gone. The menu in the sidebar with the chapter numbers should still work to navigate the story.
Updates Complete, I Hope
Author: Not Alison
When We
What will happen when we die?I don’t know I don’t know either Will it be like other deaths, The same, indifferent, undistinguished When extinguished? Will we be whole when we awake On the other side? Will we still be we Or simply one? Will we remember our unity of separation The apartness that kept us together Through all these years? Or just blend And no longer be aware we were any different? When we die we may see What fractured us Two of us floating in blank space No ground beneath our feet No clothes upon our backs And in a small globe before us and between: A memory The event that gave shape to all our life Revealed to us at last. It may seem small then On the other side Maybe we will look at it And ask each other: We went through so much For that? When Life is so much bigger And the Eternal so much greater May be We will wonder Why that moment terrible Was able to define us For so long.
What I’m Up To
These are some of the things keeping me busy these days:
The Work in Progress
Every day I’m drawing more panels for my work in progress, seen sporadically in my “Teaser Fragments” posts. Here’s a couple more glimpses:
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Updates to Not a Cat Lady
I’m modifying multiple pages of Not a Cat Lady. Much of the work is mere tweaking and still more polishing, but I’ve also been fixing a number of panels that made me cringe every time I saw them.
While doing that I’m revising the posts for the entire novella, doing away with the gallery interface and presenting the art pages directly. It’s not something I can do all at once, so the Not a Cat Lady posts will transition gradually.
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Movies and TV Shows
My self-indulgent reviews of shows I watch have dragged to a halt because right now I’m working my way through the original Thundercats series (130 episodes), and I can’t resist writing an in-depth commentary on nearly every episode. I’m struggling to figure out how much of that content to post here. I don’t mean for this to become a Thundercats fan site, and I know I’m going off the deep end analyzing it all.
I focus a lot on the “proper” order in which to watch the episodes—neither broadcast order nor production order fully works for season one, even accounting for how multi-part stories were divided—so that brings up the question of how to arrange whatever entries I do post.
At this point I’m still in season two, with about fifty episodes to go, although I might get started posting something even before I’ve finished rewatching everything.
Teaser Fragments 5
More pieces of my work in progress, uncleaned and uncorrected.
You Raised Me Up
When I was young, and my soul so cheerful No troubles yet, and my heart burden-free I wasn’t still and danced there in reliance That you would come and laugh awhile with me. In my life, you spared me cold and hunger Grandparents said that you and they loved me But when need came, and I began to tumble You turned away and held back silently. You raised me up So I could roll down mountains You raised me up To drop in storming seas I am safe when I stay off your shoulders You raised me up And then let go of me.