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Nov. 6th, 2015 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Not only did the pain keep waking me up, but I got a phone call from my birth state about my birth certificate. They not only doubled the price of a replacement, but are being total assholes about my surgery letters. they do not like the wording, which means I'll have to call around for new surgery letters. Oh, and what it ays on the website about gender marker changes is a lie. They are being way stricter than the law requires. I still qualify, but I suspect a lot of people aren't getting new birth certificates on the grounds that the vital records people are bigots enforcing super strict guidelines that the actual law doesn't require. charming. I should have dealt with surgeon pone/email tag this after noon, but I'm still having trouble with my legs, spine, and now my head. I'm pasted together with some serious medication, shaking as hell, and the spoon count is super low so that every small action I take must be weighed in advance. I'm officially moving it to the next week' problem category. I know, I know, I'm lucky I wasn't born in a state like Texas that doesn't recognize trans folk at all, and given the traditional homophobia and transphobia of my home state, i should have known the easy gender marker change guidelines were a lie. Of course they make it ten times harder in practice. *head desk*
* I finished the Shepard's Crown. We are lucky this book exists at all. He'd finished the actual plot and was in the fleshing out phase when he died, so the book is complete, but slighter than it would have been if he had more time. We could easily have been left with fragments.
This book is heartbreaking. This book is an extraordinary thing to be written by a man so close to death, because it is fundamentally about people carrying on with what needs doing even though someone they love and admire and miss terribly is gone. It is a hopeful book about mourning. It is about the world going on and the next generation coming into their own while still holding the memory of what is lost.
Damnit, now I'm crying. What a beautiful gift for Mr. Pratchett to give up in his last months. Gnu.
* "Jane Austen’s “Emma” Meta-analysis:" http://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/132649094516/jane-austens-emma-meta-analysis
* I finished the Shepard's Crown. We are lucky this book exists at all. He'd finished the actual plot and was in the fleshing out phase when he died, so the book is complete, but slighter than it would have been if he had more time. We could easily have been left with fragments.
This book is heartbreaking. This book is an extraordinary thing to be written by a man so close to death, because it is fundamentally about people carrying on with what needs doing even though someone they love and admire and miss terribly is gone. It is a hopeful book about mourning. It is about the world going on and the next generation coming into their own while still holding the memory of what is lost.
Damnit, now I'm crying. What a beautiful gift for Mr. Pratchett to give up in his last months. Gnu.
* "Jane Austen’s “Emma” Meta-analysis:" http://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/132649094516/jane-austens-emma-meta-analysis