Long Time No Shear

Review written in May 2026
I don't really fully get my own relationship to the sheep thing. I don't know if it's a therian thing or a furry thing or just an aesthetic that I have taken and made a part of my identity. It is important to me in some way but like it also feels very constructed—it is meaning that I made for myself in the face of the meaninglessness of the universe. I'm not literally a sheep-person because those don't exist but in a way that feels deeply meaningful I am.

All this to say this story really spoke to me. It's probably not just the sheep thing, it's the trans thing and it's the thing about having an ex with an alcohol problem and it's the awkwardness of intimacy and it's the dating while sitting at the intersections of marginalisation thing. I really like Dolly, I really feel like I get Dolly. I don't know, this one touched my soul. But it isn't just Dolly, both of the other characters feel so potently real.

While there is a lot that I really like about the setting the prose style is a little weird. It has a fairly strong voice to it which I really like but it is nonstandard in a way that had me rereading sentences a few times. I don't think it's a bad thing—I think its something you could also say about literally everything I have written—and I did sort of appreciate the way it made me linger in certain moments.