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Sweden just added a gender neutral pronoun (hen) to their National Encyclopedia. Then some folks came up with the "Henerator". You put some Swedish in and it strips all gendered pronouns and replaces them with hen.

failed attempts to do something constructively

So, I IMed an old friend (I've known him since middle school) to help me with my coding woes and I found out that he's in the Bay area now and actually comes up to LA pretty regularly. Which means that we should be able to meet up again pretty soon. Which is awesome. He's been really accepting of my gender transition and loves my name I picked out for my name change. (He also pointed out that the upside is he can spell it.)

I won a raffle for a ticket to Paramount Studios this week. I'm not exactly sure what the means yet, but I'm not about to turn down free stuff.

I'm also probably going to the movies next week! Transitions does outings every once in a while to strengthen the community. I haven't been to a movie since the Hunger Games and it was a really long time before I saw anything before that. Movies are just so expensive now.

As for my challenge:

It's definitely linear.
It has two healthy relationships.

...but I'm not sure if it's optimistic. It's not depressing, but when I think of optimistic sci fi, I think of stories that tell how humans and technology will make the world a better place. I guess I think of Star Trek. I think in the end, it will be... a happy ending, but I'm still not sure that's optimistic. If I fiddle with things, I guess it will be.