nov 5 in idea barrages

I wonder if between the end of spring term and the beginning of fall term, Hogwarts students could participate in some kind of Summoner’s Reading Programme.

A bludgeoning weapon that’s +2 against small-sized humanoids called The Babysitter’s Club.

I love words with no direct English translation yet full of meaning, like the Spanish “duende” for “a work of art’s mysterious power to deeply move a person”, the Japanese “wabi-sabi” for “finding beauty in imperfections” or the Swedish “IKEA” for “the death of all joy”.

Zoomers & Boomers at war, Gen X, we’re just laying low, playing out our strings, just hoping we can delay Ragnarok long enough where the world doesn’t end until we’re off the board. Sick with experience, expectations low, just leave the lights on til after we go.

If Lucy and Viv had been working at a sex toy factory instead of a candy shop, it would’ve been a very different episode.

If Superman lives off solar energy, does that mean he can get by on just a light lunch?

“I don’t want a humane/equitable society even to my own benefit, what if I somehow lucked/cheated into the oppressor’s role? I want that!” is a thin gruel to base an ideology on but a plurality of our culture has absolutely bought it. We can’t just wish this madness away, sadly.

It’s like a clip show of some crappy sitcom where to save money, the lead’s in some kind of a coma or having a nightmare so it’s just a clip show of all the worst times the lead has screwed up. But not of one lifetime, rather the entire history of a nation and we can’t wake up.