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"Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise" is a miniseries written and illustrated by creator Trad Moore and Heather Moore. It was released as a four issue miniseries in 2022, and released as a graphic novel in 2024. It features the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange, but from a perspective outside of the normal scope and style of Marvel comics.

How do I describe what is going on here? The basic plot is that a woman comes to the Sanctum Sanctorum of Doctor Strange, and asks his help in giving birth. But this is not just any woman, this is Sophia, in the sense of the gnostic entity, Sophia, and her child is going to be one of the Aeons, ruling spirits of the cosmos. She is being persecuted by her brother/consort Bythos, and needs the help of Strange to give birth. Doctor Strange transports himself to the astral plane, where he must fight a series of entities in a cosmic battle.

As weird as that sounds, it in no way does justice to what is going on here. Because this is an

I am a lifelong skeptic, nay, cynic, when it comes to Eastern medicine and healing practices.  I plead my upbringing; I was birthed and raised by a pair of rigidly positivist western science practitioners.  Neither was a 'traditional' science doer; my father was a science journalist, and my mother was a psychiatrist (and yes, before you ask, that's the one with the M.D.).  I spent the vast majority of my life to date comfortable with the set of options that Western, U.S.-culture-centric offered me.

In which wertperch talks about feels, dealing with old journal/daylog entries, memories of grundoon and Tessie, and weroland, who's in hospice care at home.

i spent a good part of yesterday going through my old daylogs, for two reasons. Partly I wanted a list summarising them all (I used to have such a list on my homenode, but it got killed off due to my using unapproved Unicode characters, which destroyed evrything typed after them =[). The other thing is that I've wanted to

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