Girl Meets Girl (& Other Peculiar Love Songs): The Last Dance

Meet the Brides

Marie (aka Haslin, aka Lady-Az, aka Morgainelefae, aka Danger Jane) has too many online aliases to keep straight. She likes to draw and write an awful lot. Right now, she's an associate editor for the Queer Speculative fiction and poetry journal, Collective Fallout. She is in the process of applying to grad school. She has a B.A. in the Interdisciplinary Arts from Chester College of New England, in which she focused on writing short fiction, sequential art and illustration, book-making, print-making, philosophy, lit-crit, and art history, among many things. She also loves the color orange.

Kris (aka Saurou) is much better at keeping her online aliases simple. She just graduated from Chester College, with a B.A. in Creative Writing, where she focused on short fiction, nature writing, medical writing, and memoir. She's working on completing a novel-length memoir/nature/medical writing manuscript entitled "Out of Joint." Some of her favorite things include tree-hugging, dirt-worshipping, philosophy, guinea pigs, and the study of human sexuality. She likes to blog, make and sell jewelry, and keep her scatter-brain academic fiancee in line. She's also very cuddly.

Together, their powers combine to form an awesome tag-team of tattoo-loving, sex-positive feminist, literature-gobbling, magic-believery, gamer-geek, academic-minded chickadees. Which is awesome, because they're in love.

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Last Dance

The Last dance was by far my favorite moment of the day. We danced to Coldplay's Yellow and about halfway through the dance, everyone started to gather around us and form a circle, swaying to the song, and K and I could just feel so much love in the room. This is why we didn't just elope. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful, loving community of friends and family. Really, look at it. That's a family if ever I've seen one. K and I were crying by the end of it, and laughing and just so overwhelmed with how much joy there was in that tent. So K called out, "Okay everyone. Group hug!"

I don't think she expected it to happen.

But it did.

And I don't think either of us thought that moment could have gotten any better.

But it totally did.