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The Fall of Gil-galad chorus version
His raincoat was never packed, because obviously he wouldn't need it in space—I wonder sometimes if Stratt held onto it for any amount of time.
Something something getting someone out of their shell & shucking clams?
One of the compelling things about Project Hail Mary is that you can't fix it.
"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.
"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid
If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.
If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.
Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.
But you can't remove the tragedy of the story without making it unrecognizable. It's written into the bones.
the upgraded xenonite suit was invented shortly after
inspired by this tweet
rocky likes hats
Why is a school teacher in space, question? 🚀
Bonus:
It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider
Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal
I hate it too tbh
I was thinking about Merlin and reincarnation. And I always see them reincarnated into modern day, but I wanna see Merlin and Arthur in Camelot are reincarnations.
With the way the druids talk about Emrys and the prophecy about the Once and Future King, I can see a story hundreds of years before Camelot, of a previous Arthur (lets call him Carwyn), a low and struggling peasant, going to pray at an altar to the great god Emrys. And Emrys comes down and is just, "sure I'll help, I'm kinda bored anyway." Which leads to adventures of this powerful god of magic (and probably dragons, with his children being dragons and dragonlords) frantically protecting his favorite human, who despite being a peasant, has a strong moral compus and the urge to protect people, and gets into fights he shouldn't.
And I love the idea that Carwyn is Arthur's ancestor, and Emrys, who holds the title 'Pendragon', gifted the title to Carwyn as a surname to show his divine right to rule. So Carwyn Pendragon becomes the first lord/king of the land they're in, believed to be blessed/favored by the God of Magic, while Emrys is hiding his divinity, pretending to be his right hand man (manservant).
And of course, it has to get angsty, and the reason the reincarnated is because Emrys looked away from Carwyn for just a moment during a fight, and Carwyn dies. And as Carwyn is dying, Emrys panics and binds their souls together, because as an immortal he can't tie. But by binding their souls, Emrys gives up part of his immortality, allowing him to die physically, but his and Carwyns souls to linger and be able to reincarnate.
As for what this means for Arthur and Merlin? I imagine that they'd have dreams, or intuitively know things (part of why they became friends so quickly). Like, imagine the context of their first meeting. Merlin, who sees the knife throwing and subconsciously remembers Carwyn doing something similar and going to far in training to protect, and says the same thing that Emrys would have. "That's enough my friend." And Arthur scoffs, looks up, and for the barest second has a moment of recognition. He asks, half mockingly, "Do I know you?" Making Merlin realize that he was speaking to a stranger, that even if he felt like he knew this man his whole life, he didn't.
And I just want to see more reincarnation AU's where Arthur and Merlin were the new lives, instead of the old.
I was thinking about Merlin and reincarnation. And I always see them reincarnated into modern day, but I wanna see Merlin and Arthur in Camelot are reincarnations.
With the way the druids talk about Emrys and the prophecy about the Once and Future King, I can see a story hundreds of years before Camelot, of a previous Arthur (lets call him Carwyn), a low and struggling peasant, going to pray at an altar to the great god Emrys. And Emrys comes down and is just, "sure I'll help, I'm kinda bored anyway." Which leads to adventures of this powerful god of magic (and probably dragons, with his children being dragons and dragonlords) frantically protecting his favorite human, who despite being a peasant, has a strong moral compus and the urge to protect people, and gets into fights he shouldn't.
And I love the idea that Carwyn is Arthur's ancestor, and Emrys, who holds the title 'Pendragon', gifted the title to Carwyn as a surname to show his divine right to rule. So Carwyn Pendragon becomes the first lord/king of the land they're in, believed to be blessed/favored by the God of Magic, while Emrys is hiding his divinity, pretending to be his right hand man (manservant).
And of course, it has to get angsty, and the reason the reincarnated is because Emrys looked away from Carwyn for just a moment during a fight, and Carwyn dies. And as Carwyn is dying, Emrys panics and binds their souls together, because as an immortal he can't tie. But by binding their souls, Emrys gives up part of his immortality, allowing him to die physically, but his and Carwyns souls to linger and be able to reincarnate.
As for what this means for Arthur and Merlin? I imagine that they'd have dreams, or intuitively know things (part of why they became friends so quickly). Like, imagine the context of their first meeting. Merlin, who sees the knife throwing and subconsciously remembers Carwyn doing something similar and going to far in training to protect, and says the same thing that Emrys would have. "That's enough my friend." And Arthur scoffs, looks up, and for the barest second has a moment of recognition. He asks, half mockingly, "Do I know you?" Making Merlin realize that he was speaking to a stranger, that even if he felt like he knew this man his whole life, he didn't.
And I just want to see more reincarnation AU's where Arthur and Merlin were the new lives, instead of the old.
"The usual jokes about the Army aside, one of the many fine things one has to admit is the way that the Army has carried the American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion, in the sense that not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability."
"During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood — this year, for example, on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is."
"I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that."
"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
"I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I'm for it."
"But things I once thought were funny are scary now. I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava."
Tom Lehrer (9.4.1928 - 26.7.2025)
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
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Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97.
"When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. But don't you worry. No more ashes, no more sackcloth, And an armband made of black cloth Will some day never more adorn a sleeve: For if the bomb that drops on you Gets your friends and neighbors too, There'll be nobody left behind to grieve."
from We Will All Go Together When We Go
Elrond as viewed by Númenoreans is hilarious. Aristocracy is one thing, and their long kept histories and direct descent from the elves.
But someone lowborn - still educated, still familiar with the stories. Faithful or not. Lifespan lower than the upper class, but longer than other humans - but that doesn't matter - thousands of years is a long time. The Roman Empire was more recent than this guy.
Because imagine the founder of your nation and its first king, who was told to have been born as the son of a bird and a star, lived to be 500, and who died 2000 years ago. Just. Has a sibling. Who is still running around. You can go visit him. You can! He's very friendly. He wrote the medical book your healers study from. He updates it religiously every other decade. You don't hear from him often because he lives fairly secluded from society and seems to prefer a quiet life but every few hundred years something batshit insane happens and he's right there. At the center of things. Pretending to be a background character, as if Sauron didn't look warily at him expecting him to turn into another Lúthien incident. Maybe he's shy?
You are a sailor. You meet him on one of your journeys to Middle Earth.
He's not shy. He's just crown-phobic. He looks like every single painting of Tar-Minyatur you've seen. He glitters under starlight. Literally. His parents are a bird and a star and you keep forgetting that's not a metaphor. Everyone is in love with him. He sings to the birds. He has had a slowburn one-sided romance going on for the past 1000 years. His crush has yet to find out but the king is running a betting pool.
The Pevensie Children
we are somewhat intrigued by High King Peter's floral hat box
He's carrying the girls' bags as well as his own! I had this image about their dynamic at the start of the first book, mostly regarding Edmund: Peter and Susan are clearly the grown up oldest siblings (Peter is carrying all the bags, Susan is keeping an eye on Lucy and navigating) and Lucy is the baby, but Edmund doesn't get to be either. He's not the baby so no one will carry his bag for him, but he doesn't get to carry Lucy's bag and be one of the virtuous grown up children either.
That's You by ungfio
I’m watching LWW which is perfect, no notes, butttt here’s the thing, I think that Narnians shouldn’t have British accents, at least not London ones. Like it’s been 1000 years at least since Narnia’s founding by the time Lucy gets there, their accents could have drifted drastically, especially with Frank and Helen having broad country accents, talking animals that don’t have human mouths, fauns and gods from who knows where (Greek mythology though), and the other random non British people that have come through.
The reason I’m right is because Lucy said spare room and wardrobe and no one could figure out what the heck she was talking about. Like sure, most beings in Narnia don’t really have clothes, but you’re telling me no one has a spare room? Like maybe, but they have castles and dams and caves with rooms, and even in a culture without spare rooms and wardrobes, the words spare and room and highly understandable.
I think the poor Narnias spent the first couple of years figuring out what the heck the Pevensies were saying until they got used to it and the siblings started talking more like Narnians. On the flip side, I think they talked really weird back in England, beyond the formalness and referencing magic and animals too freely.
I was just going to drop an "Oh, I love this" in the tags but now I'm losing my mind over the further implications.
If we're acknowledging language drift then when the Pevensies come back in PC, Narnian accents/grammar has evolved further. 1000 more years of drift and people finding portals to Narnia from other worlds. Caspian being embarrassed by his Telmarine accent but surprised to find the Kings and Queens of old also have some sort of accents, somehow? Like as soon as the Pevensies get to Narnia they pick it all up again but they're talking the way they did back in the Golden Age. They're using the Narnian equivalent of someone now talking in 1820s slang, except mixed in with 1940s British slang, and their accents are all over the place, and no one has any clue what they're saying.
(Let's not think about it, but it does add another layer to the tragedy. The Pevensies are home but home's not the same. Even the words in their mouths are wrong. The trees and waters are silent and the dwarves and fauns and animals speak so the Pevensies don't understand. Death and ruin and strange terms and hiding and gone, curling from their tongues in accents the Pevensies no longer recognize. They spent a year unable to explain to anyone what they were missing and now they have it back and still no one understands when they speak. BUT LET'S NOT THINK ABOUT THAT.)
Okay okay, one of the funniest parts of PC to me is when Glozelle and Sopespian see Edmund coming to deliver Peter's challenge to duel and are all "ohhh, he looks like a fell warrior, oh wow he looks kingly" and like. Edmund has just turned 11. Imagine that, and then Edmund opens his mouth, and out comes this wild hodgepodge speech. Glozelle and Sopespian are so impressed. They have no clue what he's saying so it must be really cool. Miraz is going red in the face because he cannot understand what this twerp is saying! Edmund did not plan on quite so much miming while delivering Peter's challenge but it's fine this is fine he can work with this.
Poor Eustace gets dragged into some ridiculous and unhygenic sailing trip with his weird cousins, and no one will give him a proper explanation of what's going on, including said weird cousins, who no longer speak English, apparently?? Eustace doesn't understand anything and it's so unfair. Everyone's probably doing it on purpose to leave him out of conversations. He comes back with a Narnian accent and a head full of Narnian slang himself and his mother does not know what his cousins have been teaching him.
Actually, the Pevensies teaching the Professor to speak like a Narnian after their first trip. He's a scholar and wants to know the etymology of all the words they're teaching him and they're like. We're 10. We couldn't tell you the etymology of the words we're using here. He tends to use Narnian slang too formally or slightly forced, like a teacher trying to prove he's hip and with it. Polly visits and is better with the nuance of slang words (MN mentions her writing stories, so headcanon she's a writer, and better about getting words in context). She doesn't pick up a Narnian accent as much as Digory does, though, thanks to living with the Pevensies. Also the kids would be trying to sound British when talking to others, but Digory probably doesn't bother. At all. People already think he's an eccentric professor and he doesn't care and he's having so much fun talking Narnian-y. Mrs. Macready is so tired.
(shh soft au where the Pevensies get to travel back and forth between Narnia and Earth freely and they are constantly trying to code switch and forgetting who understands which set of slang and they don't even know what their default accent is at this point, honestly. Young Narnians hearing them use some bit of British slang, taking it, and running with it. The Pevensies hear them using it later and are like. That's not what that means but ok. I guess that's what it means here, now. We should probably stop teasing the Professor for getting Narnian slang wrong.)
