Last month, I released Océanne and Tristan Cross the Atlantic. The culmination of eighteen months worth of work, it was an hour-long satirical radio play about two French-Canadian trans people becoming the center of a new moral panic.
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2024 and Europe Trip
This year was pretty great.
- I travelled to Toronto, and saw Joe Hisaishi perform. This was a life goal of mine.
- I saw a total eclipse.
- I saw the northern lights, twice!
- I went to Rouyn-Noranda, and attended its movie festival.
- I finished Tristan and Océanne Cross the Atlantic.
- I had a fun mini-vacation with Joy where we went off-roading, playing SNES, and bouldering.
- I finished classic games from my childhood, including GoldenEye, Donkey Kong Country, and Command & Conquer.
- I rounded out my typewriter, oil lantern, and watch collection with a few happy additions.
- I quit my job and found a new one.
- My peers in my position were making 50% more than me, and I was burning out from doing the work of three people. Even though I was a staff software engineer, I was making less than a new graduate with zero experience.
- Meanwhile, I got in hot water for leaving a heartfelt message to my departing PM (who loved the message) in her goodbye card, for discussing my pay, and for suggesting ways to improve work-life balance. Despite my colleagues loving me and having helped built a whole new revenue stream for them, I knew I was next to be laid off. (Update Jan 7: the company just laid off 35% of staff. I dodged a bullet.)
- After quitting, my mental state immediately improved. I took the entire month of December off to recover.
- I capped off the year traveling to Germany, Czechia, and Austria.
- I visited my friend who is working in Germany.
- I visited the site of the book burnings for the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
- I spent NYE in Prague; there were so many fireworks it was as if it was raining all evening.
- I got to use my German!
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Video for “Océanne and Tristan Cross the Atlantic” is out!
It’s finally done!
If you’re new here: I made a bilingual radio play that’s a satire about anti-trans moral panics. I’ve worked on it for the past 18 months; it’s been my way to deal with the moment.
Here’s the final product – it’s available in its entirety on YouTube:
One of the challenges I had making this satire is that reality kept eclipsing the preposterous situations I was writing. I updated the events in the play accordingly but also had to pin this in time to 2023, so that didn’t misrepresent subsequent erosion in rights.
I hope you enjoy.
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Océanne and Tristan Cross The Atlantic – Recording Complete
I have finished recording the scenes for the visually enhanced radio play:
- 107 scenes
- 1,300 audio clips
- 52 different voices
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Systems for coming to conclusions
They deny proven geoscience techniques, but only when applied to paleoclimatology because it shows climate change exists. They don’t question that same science when it finds the oil with which to fuel their cars or the metals to manufacture their phone.
They oppose puberty blockers, but only for trans youth. They didn’t even know cisgender minors receive identical medicine, but now that they do, they’re okay with cis kids getting it. Not trans kids though.
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