The Berries // Down That Road Again
I could’ve wrote you off, friend
Placed my anger on a shelf
Thinking about it on my way home, I felt sorry for myself
I didn’t have a reason, wish I did, it was my right
Turning down that dark, old road driving back towards polluted light
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mad max: fury road says that when stripped down to its basic parts, the world is run by rich old men who control the production of weapons, oil, and water and food resources. these old men willingly hold most of the world in artificial poverty and take luxury as their right. they regard women as their property. they use sincere religious sentiment to further their selfish aims. they killed the world.
furiosa wants to fight back: she wants to escape to the green place, the utopia of childhood. but no matter what she and the wives sacrifice or how far they search, the earth is sour. the old men poisoned the soil with their bombs and their chemicals. there is no homeland outside of the systems these old men have dominated and these women have inhabited, the system furiosa has learned and perpetuated and rejected. their only option is to go back, to kill the old men and take their place in the tower where decisions are made.
can they hold the citadel, the ones who plant seeds instead of bombs? can they deradicalize the religious soldiers and create a more equitable society? can something grow in sour soil after all? we will never know. we leave our change-makers moving up into the seat of power. but as long as they rise, we can hold on to an ambiguous moment of hope.
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MELBOURNE, March 16 2008 — Hamilton & Rosberg drink champagne on the podium after the Australian F1 Grand Prix. William West / Getty.
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wolf 359 is not a horror story, it's got the average amount of horror elements you would expect from sci-fi, and this is a good thing for eiffel, who is very, very determined not to end up a horror protagonist. (for all the good that effort did him in time to kill, but...)
like he's genre savvy enough to know where these things go. he opens a crate of eyeless russian dolls? hm. creepy. no thanks! puts the lid back on and puts it out of his mind immediately. heard a weird noise? think you should investigate? no you didn't! no you don't! consider hiding in the nearest available hole in the wall instead.
eiffel is careless in so many ways, he thinks he's not concerned about his own well-being... until his safety's even a little bit threatened, and then his survival instincts kick in to an insane degree. his pride has never once outweighed his cowardice and this has probably saved his life. but the other thing about eiffel is that, despite his surprising amount of common sense, no one ever listens to him for it. he's the guy telling everyone not to split up or go in the spooky basement as they leave him alone at the top of the staircase.
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Double teaching joys today!
A couple of the boys were watching me cast on for someone and decided that they needed to learn the cast on I used, because it was so fast. (I do the long tail cast on, the version where you hold the yarn in one hand and most of the motion is with the needle). I got the "wait, look what I just did, that's so cool" look TWICE from one of them as he figured it out.
And I had pulled up Ravelry to help one of the students look for something to make. (This kid has TAKEN to knitting, and was looking for a bit more of a challenge, and I goofed and returned the book with the pattern they were interested in to the library). I realised afterwards that I had been less clear than I probably ought to have about the fact that that wasn't a site for 12-year-olds. Given that I had an e-mail address for their mom, I dropped her a line to clarify and apologise. She replied with a huge thank you for teaching her kid to knit. They have taught her now, and the both of them knit together. (This kid really needed something productive and positive to do too, last I heard from the mom she was a bit worried about some of the decisions they were making.) I'm still smiling over this.
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One day we're going to have an uncomfortable talk about the implications of why Wilbur is the only one with a dragon egg baby that physically looks like him.
And then we're all never going to mention it again because we don't want him to get any cursed ideas about canon dragon fucking.
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Guess who snuck out the open pen door while I was hanging out with Bug, and took himself for a walk down the road for an hour today?
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