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The World Says Hello

 Hello. C J here. I went on a family trip yesterday. I rode passenger with my family to Bancroft Ontario for the three hour trip there and back from Kingston Ontario where I live. I don't drive so I normally help navigate on these trips. This was one day after a severe snowstorm and while the roads were clear the snow in the trees and piled up on the Canadian Shield landscape was stunning. I realized that all of these forests, hills and rocky cliffs are things I could make in my video game project and also draw on cards.


Imagine a typical fantasy setting with little towns and prosperous cities amid deep forest full of wild creatures. In real life those forests would be beautiful in the snow, would grow blackberries wild and have seasonal salmon and deer for hunting. These wild creatures are presumed to eat these normal food items and are capable of reproducing. So the horrible bestial things in the wilderness eat salmon and have genders and families. This is my setting in a nutshell.


Back to my point, we passed a lot of old Canadian farms and small pioneer towns that are completely abandoned and falling to ruin. This is most of the province. I have lived all my 31 years in Kingston Ontario and I'm never leaving. Why? Everyone is moving here. And I mean everyone. I went to a furry Fandom party about a year ago. It was small at only 100 people. We had me and some normal Canada folk, some very cool Japanese people, a bunch of people who spoke what I assumed was Mandarin helping with the food, a ton of people hanging out and eating dessert first and some folk from Europe if I guessed their accent right. 


If you've never been to a furry Fandom event then this level of diversity might seem odd. This event was a two hour trip from my house by the way. It was in Ontario still. Everyone from every nation is here it seems and the Fandom is where we all end up. If you are one of those imbeciles who thinks that the Fandom are strange or deserve to be mocked, well, have fun in maximum security for life. That's called assault. We're 90% of the planet it seems and we have all the money.


We win by being inclusive. The whole internet works together when we're the ones doing it. Anyway, my point. I think in the future the idea of a nation having borders will die horribly. We're one species. We have one name and it's the word innovation. We have green power where I live and enough farmland to feed the entire continent. People are moving here to this region of the world from all over. They're building entire cities worth of suburb and shopping malls and then they fill up in a year. Eventually I think it will all be one nation and we'll be wherever the water is the deepest and the sun the most warm in winter.


We ate lunch on our trip in a little brew pub in one of the still thriving farming towns that helps feed the nation. The walls were brick and the floors wood. It was like something in Ascala, something I've drawn. Then we went snowmobile driving. I rode passenger with my sister because they require going on roads to drive. We were out on the trails for a good three hours. I've never done this before and it capped off the holiday season perfectly. Yes, for us that season lasts months. We win by working together. Normal.


C J Mcpherson 


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