_Closetspace_ seems to be on life support—there have only been four updates since 2019. (If a blog updated in September, and the previous post had been in May, would you think the author was relentlessly persuing her vision? I didn't think so.) As much as one mourns the tragedy of real life moving faster than the independent creator can tell their story, in a way, it seems—fitting?—in the sense that _Closetspace_ is noticeably a product of [its time](http://www.dolari.org/cs/articles/99706roo.htm). Someone starting a comic in the current year, about the challenges of being trans in the current year, wouldn't still be speaking in the vocabulary of the '90s. Specifically, no one in the world of _Closetspace_ seems to disagree or be confused about [what women are](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/). ["I'm not really a woman," Heidi confesses to Allison.](http://www.dolari.org/cs/53.htm) (Not _really_? You mean, you're not _cis_, right?) ["I haven't been your big brother for over a month," Carrie tells her sister](http://www.dolari.org/cs/133.htm) (implying that the _act_ of social transition is what makes Carrie not-a-brother, rather than an underlying identity). For her part, Allison is committed to a life of stealth, disdaining trans people (["I shouldn't be so negative. I just ... have a thing ... about people straddling gender roles"](http://www.dolari.org/cs/254.htm)), rather than taking up solidarity as one of them. Even the narrator is in on it [(describing Carrie as "male" and Allison as "once male")](http://www.dolari.org/cs/132b.htm).
_Closetspace_ seems to be on life support—there have only been four updates since 2019. (If a blog updated in September, and the previous post had been in May, would you think the author was relentlessly persuing her vision? I didn't think so.) As much as one mourns the tragedy of real life moving faster than the independent creator can tell their story, in a way, it seems—fitting?—in the sense that _Closetspace_ is noticeably a product of [its time](http://www.dolari.org/cs/articles/99706roo.htm). Someone starting a comic in the current year, about the challenges of being trans in the current year, wouldn't still be speaking in the vocabulary of the '90s. Specifically, no one in the world of _Closetspace_ seems to disagree or be confused about [what women are](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/). ["I'm not really a woman," Heidi confesses to Allison.](http://www.dolari.org/cs/53.htm) (Not _really_? You mean, you're not _cis_, right?) ["I haven't been your big brother for over a month," Carrie tells her sister](http://www.dolari.org/cs/133.htm) (implying that the _act_ of social transition is what makes Carrie not-a-brother, rather than an underlying identity). For her part, Allison is committed to a life of stealth, disdaining trans people (["I shouldn't be so negative. I just ... have a thing ... about people straddling gender roles"](http://www.dolari.org/cs/254.htm)), rather than taking up solidarity as one of them. Even the narrator is in on it [(describing Carrie as "male" and Allison as "once male")](http://www.dolari.org/cs/132b.htm).