#core memory

[imstillalexcomic]

The first time I came out to a coworker, it was early May, 2024.  I had just started HRT the week before, and I wanted someone at the office to be in the know just in case it was necessary for some reason.  She’s a wonderful person who I look up to and trust immensely.

I didn’t come out to any other coworkers until October, when I decided it was “go time” to start telling folks at large as I couldn’t hide being on hormones forever.

There was a massive work event going on that week, and I think the stress of it all gave me a push to open up.  The night before this comic, I came out to my cubicle row buddy, and he was as lovely and accepting as someone could be.

The next night, I came out to Yuqun on the stage of a music festival that was part of the multi-part event we were working.

I’ve talked before about not having had any “girl” socialization growing up, last week’s comic touched on it a little and ended on the idea that there’s hope to create some “girl” memories.

I like to ask my friends first if they’re ok with being featured in a strip.  The ask goes a little like this:

“I’m going to do this anyway, but I’m asking permission.”

My phrasing definitely sounds kind of sinister, but I’m not great with words sometimes so I’ll have to ask for your forgiveness.  What I mean by this is that these are experiences that I am going to talk about no matter what, but the permission I’m asking for is if they want their character to look like them (to the best my drawing ability allows).

I asked Yuqun a couple months ago about if she was alright with this strip, and in particular, using the pictures we took.

She said yes!

…I mean, obviously, otherwise I wouldn’t have used them.

Anyway, a couple weeks ago she mentioned that she keeps checking my strip and hasn’t seen the one with her yet.  I thought that this would pair well with last week’s, so it was "go time" again.

Yuqun helped me create my first “girl” memory that night, and I’m eternally grateful.

Love you, Yuqun.

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[carlitosalcaritos]

A little personal story about Madison Keys

So I got into tennis in 2013 as a 16 year old and my first ever live tennis event was Wimbledon in 2014. I went with my best friend and I was SO excited, I didn’t sleep the night before. We got there super early but there was still a HUGE crowd outside the practice courts. My friend and I were right at the back of the crowd, and we waited an hour without seeing any tennis players. We were tired and didn’t think we’d ever see any players or get an autograph from anyone. Suddenly Madison Keys appeared and we were absolutely buzzing even just to see a pro tennis player up close and in the flesh. She stayed for 30 minutes, making sure every single person in that crowd got an autograph or a picture, even though she was struggling with an injury and only 19 years old. Despite us being at the back, Madi spotted us and some other kids desperately trying to get an autograph and beckoned us to the front so we were able to get an autograph and a picture. Her kindness made me love tennis even more and the thoughtfulness she showed made me become a fan. I still have the photo and the autograph almost eleven years later and it’s one of my clearest memories. I am so so happy for her (Australian Open champion!!) as I remember her simple act of kindness for a young tennis fan and how it made me fall in love with the sport. ❤️

[neednostalgia]

[pointedtoes]

i lost you to the summer

[sparrow-writes-draws]

MARIACHI GOKU MY BELOVED

(Closeup under break)

[commodorez]

Core64 – Adventures in Core Memory - Andy Geppert, Jeremy Geppert, Jared Geppert

VCF East XX

[malrieoni]

Kid will never forget this day.

[timetravellingshinigami]

This scene got us girlies absolutely feral back in the day.

[americanrevolutionxx]

📸 high_tide_ on TikTok

[thecheekyblog]

HONEY MAKE THAT PHOTO ALBUM!

Something that i miss for the early 2000 was really them photo albums. They held so much history, so many memories and as technology and social media got bigger so the need to hold physical memories faded.

I mean UNTIL NOW. Because tell me why I never knew that Walmart could print pictures from my phone ( or I never really looked for the information ). I always thought printing pictures was something expensive or too difficult to do. In reality, it only took me a few steps to select over 200 pictures from 2013 to 2025 and have them sent to my home for 40$.

I never realized the amount of pictures that are just in my phone being forgotten and taking space. I forgot about the existence of most of the picture and when on a memory lane

I found pictures of my grandparents, family, friends that I haven’t seen in ages, moments that I forget even happened and it got me super emotional. “

I realized how much I have lived and how many amazing memories I have created.

Now that I have all these souvenirs in papers in the cutest album ever, I am excited to create more memories and share those fond memories with others.

One day, there might no longer be any instagram, TikTok and so on, so all that we share online might disappear like MySpace did at some point in time.

I want my future kids to know that their mom was a real bad bitch you and here are the pictures to prove it!!

I created a whole album just for my favorite selfies and thinking about creating a magazine of myself with edit and shit just because I can and I know that I am fine shit!.

So all that to say, make that photo album, create momentum! Main character's energy is on full display.

[minion3665]

Once upon a time an old classmate who I was kind of a shitty person to somehow found out I was coming out as trans and messaged me congratulating me and I still think about that sometimes

[neelihara]

Computer room is a core memory that kids these days would never understand.

[thunderflow00]

[akirapolarbear]

"Do you remember?"

idk I also made a copy with a worse quality to give it a more realistic look but idk if it looks good

[blot-squisher]

The Legion: *forcing Marcus to watch the Brave Little Toaster*

Marcus: Ah, I can see why the four of you became serial killers…