It Never Rains, by Kari Maaren
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024
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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and just generally have a great holiday if you're celebrating one, or a nice break if you're not. For your amusement, here is what has happened during the last eleven years' worth of INR Christmases:

2014: Rose has a proper conversation with Maggie for the first time and realises she is fated to be a time traveller.

2015: Jack sees a future Rose vanish in front of him and storms off to Rose's house to confront her.

2016: Rose and Kristi share information about the weird activities of Jennifer.

2017: Rose and Iz watch The Last Jedi, though admittedly, Rose has already travelled slightly into the future and seen it three times.

2018: Alex reveals that she, Radha, and Denise all know about the time travel.

2019: Iz, straight out of an encounter with an injured future Rose who hates him in a much less amusing way than Maggie does, resolves to figure out how to change the very nature of reality (which is harder than it looks).

2020: A future Rose turns up to give present Rose, who is still recovering from her traumatic brain injury and has reached the anger stage, therapy.

2021: An increasingly tortured Iz defies Mr. Jones and goes to see Rose at Christmas. Mr. Jones subsequently buys him a condo.

2022:  In Universe B, Fathima and Kai offer Rose Iz's apartment. Jack turns up at the apartment during a Christmas gathering, wanting to talk to Iz about his own shifting identity, and learns that Iz is in a coma. In Universe A, Iz hits rock bottom. Jack turns up, wanting to talk to Iz about his own shifting identity, and finds that Iz is worse off than he is. He alerts Rose, who calls Iz's parents.

2023: In Universe B, Rose, in hopes that she can save a dying Iz B, makes a deal with the man whose name is not Casey. He pops into Universe A and gives Iz B a hint about how to get home. Iz B works it out just in time, and in Universe B, he opens his eyes.

2024: In Universe B, Iz comes home. And then...[TBC]

Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Panel 1: Iz and Rose, still in their pyjamas, sit on their least problematic couch.

Iz: I don't know if I can stand too much family stuff today.

Rose: I figured.

Panel 2:

Rose: My moms may come say hi, and your parents are going to bring over take-out later.

Iz: How'd you manage that?

Panel 3:

Rose [quotes herself]: "I really want to see you guys, but Iz could die.

Panel 4:

Iz: I take it you used exactly that tone?

Rose: With extra drama, yes.

Alt-Text:  Extra drama is acceptable at Christmas.

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