It occurs to me that, though in the context of Hamlet's soliloquy it's a metaphor for Death, Chancellor Gorkon conflates "the Undiscovered Country" with "the Future" *because* Klingons' optimal future is a day that's a good day to die. #startrek

What happened to the angel wings that were associated with bells that rang in the temporary alternate reality where George Bailey had never been born? #itsawonderfullife

How did all of these nerdy, charming, first-time reaction YouTubers grow up and manage to watch no movie ever made

I'm at the library sitting next to the recording studio room in which someone's laying down some theremin. I realize that (1) that room is not as soundproof as I imagined when I've gone to town in there, and (2) it sounds just like Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky covered by The Chipmunks.

One of your oldest pastimes is stoking the self-perception of wanting and being denied, then reveling in the exquisite agony of disappointment that stimulates and flatters without asking of you the wild leap through indeterminate spaces.

It has long been my headcanon that Anduril survives into another age of the world where it is called Excalibur.

#tolkien #lotr #lordoftherings #arthurian

Freedom without
Love is
Barbarous
Tin-pots
Clattering
Out of time
Always out of time

#poetry #micropoetry #writer

A mashup of The Lumineers' Stubborn Love and Bruce Springsteen's Secret Garden.

@thelumineersmusic.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net #thelumineers #brucespringsteen #mashup #cover #singersongwriter #folkmusic #guitar

Insanity is different and over doing the results and expecting thing over same.

If the house always wins, then it's important to understand under which conditions houses arise.

Don't get mad. Get odd.

At the moment when
You've suffered enough,
The Dark Side holds its breath
In anticipation of
Its chance to Bloom.
Righteous wrath
Is its greatest delight
And it thirsts
For ancient warmth,
For the wash
of the wellspring
From which flows
The power to punish
And to seize power in bitterness

It's like when you're a kid and you learn how to ride a roller coaster. You open your eyes and let go of the handlebar. Unclench and raise your hands. And, like magic, the fear transforms into exhilaration.

Are there happy endings? Are there endings? There are happy nows, and if that wasn't one of them the next is only a breath away.