one more confessional

... is finished.

My work isn't finished -- I've got multiple follow-ups in the works at varying levels of completion -- but this piece of it, "One More Confessional", is done. This is the first multi-chapter story I've ever completed. It was a weird thing, closing out that last document and adding the word "Complete" to the summary.

So much heartfelt thanks to all my collaborators -- Lee, Ry, and most especially Ikon, without whom none of this would have ever existed. I am so looking forward to whatever else you all come up with, and maybe even working together again.

This is starting to sound far too much like something I would write in a yearbook, so I'll stop now.

big rights news

Somehow I missed this yesterday, until I saw a headline on the paper outside the grocery store: the California State Supreme Court granted equal rights to same-sex parents.

Not only does the ruling uphold the rights laid out in CA's domestic partnership law, it's retroactive, covering couples who had or adopted children before the law was passed in January. I expect there are many families breathing easier in my state today. The ruling doesn't touch marriage; that's a separate case, and it's working it's way through the system. But I think this is a good sign for that issue as well. We can only hope. Sometimes I love this state.

Of course, the whole thing could be derailed if the evil propositions in the pipeline for the 2006 elections make their way into law. Sometimes I hate this state.