Page 28. See you later, kid.
I’m making room in my office space, so I put a few extra items up for sale in the OHS online store. Among them are a DS9 fanzine I worked on with some friends, the OHS screenprinted poster originally created for the first kickstarter, and signed copies of Meal!
Literally walking on air
wholesome <3
Sulla’s so happy she’s practically walking on clouds! ;D
I’m gonna miss her.
Is- is this the last we’ll see her in the story?
Oh, this is definitely giving vibes of us being really close to the end. I’m gonna miss these characters.
Me too! I keep reminding myself that I’d rather see a well-executed endpoint than something open-ended that clearly runs out of steam.
I’M EMOSH. Those panels are so… luminous? dream-like, in a way. Really driving home how amazing Sulla, the mere fact of her existence and also the chance she got to exist as she does are — look at this happy, glowing girl!! and her non-binary friend/love interest!! knowing each other and existing!! happily!! aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!! I’m so happy Al got to meet and see them!!
oh-oh. In story logic, when someone asks ‘You’ll be ok?’ and someone replies ‘Sure. See you later, kid’, and you’ve got that last glance back …it’s a little like someone in a police drama saying ‘yep, I’ve just got just one more week before I retire to that cabin on the lake …’
Yeah this page made my stomach drop. Sulla and Titus look so much like Al and Brendan this page is making me wonder if the comic is going to open and close with Al’s death, the next generation of fully realized and happy kids including Gimel— trans, cis, multiracial, organic and synthetic— walking/flying off into the bright future. This page looks like a permanent goodbye and it’s freaking me out
i’m cry, they’re such cuties
I think they really will be okay.
I think it is so much more likely that Al will be transitioning to a new body during this phase. So maybe in some ways it is Al’s death – but also a rebirth.
The feels. I have them.
(Applause to our author, this is wonderful.)
This whole journey has been beautiful. This really resonates for me. I have been healing from severe child abuse while doing my best to raise a healthy happy child. It was triggering at first, but as she has grown into a strong healthy empathic confident young woman, it has become healing. I see that dynamic between Al and Sulla. I cannot wait to see what happens next. I’m sure it won’t be the end Al’s healing, but what a amazing big step it will be—not just physically, but emotionally too as it sinks it she deserves change, she deserves love, and it is all real.
Thoughts and/or Jedi hugs from an internet stranger if wanted. If it helps, one of my parents had a childhood with some extent of abuse/negligence throughout (I will probably never know the details), but they did their best to act otherwise when the time to start a family arrived, and I would say that my parents did an *excellent* job.
Oh no, this is Sulla’s exit from the story, isn’t it? We’re at the very end and we’re not going to see her again, are we? I don’t know if I can handle it.
And that is a beautiful goodbye to her. I’m so thankful I discovered this a couple months ago. I had the pleasure of reading it as fast as I wanted up to a point- then having a page a week has made this final act that much more precious. Truly wonderful.
Aw, Gimel looks so happy~