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Time is moving weird.

The first three months of the pandemic move in a weird blur. Logan comes home from college, makes some crochet, learns to draw an apple, makes some online friends, and then it’s suddenly 2021. The new year is celebrated and nothing really changes. People sort of start going out a little more, but it’s not a feeling of safety, it’s a feeling of a slow building blind spot to the issue.

Michael’s parents get sick twice, and only start taking things seriously when one ends up in the ICU. They both live, but suddenly their Facebook posts are a lot less about overbearing government, and a lot more about wishing friends happy birthday. Other families aren’t so lucky. We know this song and dance.
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Bay Jubilee Oldest child of Shamus Young. They/Them

Logan is discovering the hard way that he isn’t good at…anything, really.

At least, not to his own standards.

Logan’s skills are based in socialization and leading. He’s good at a bake sale, or running his parents’ bookshop. He got high marks in most of his classes growing up, but ‘participation’ was always his highest mark and sometimes carried him through his less successful subjects. Isolated the way he has been, he has too much time to think. He’s failing over and over to write, bake, sew, paint, and all matter of other miscellaneous hobbies he picked up to endear himself to strangers. The thought crosses his mind that maybe he only ever got attention for projects because he was friendly. The thought then keeps crossing his mind as though participating in some screwed up game of Frogger where the goal is to have an anxiety attack.

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Bay Jubilee Oldest child of Shamus Young. They/Them