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[Bird sounds play in the background. When Balnor's letter starts, Greener Shades plays behind it.]
Murph: Hardwon, take your hand-axe, you cut Balnor's envelope, and you open his letter. And you read it out loud to the group around the fire.
[Hardwon (Jake) clears his throat.]
Balnor (Murph): If you’re reading this I’m dead. Or... in a gem? or something? Maybe? I don’t know, that seems to happen a lot.
[Everyone laughs.]
Balnor: Anyway, I’m writing this before we face Thiala, and I wanted to thank you.
Thank you for... giving me a second chance. My world used to be very small. I cared for my family, I cared for my friends, but… I didn’t worry about the world at large-- it took me losing everything to join the fight.
And then I met you guys. And you weren’t like that at all. You fix things because they need to be fixed, you don’t wait until you need it. It isn’t about need, you just… help because it’s right. You taught me that we can’t "have saved" the world. That we have to constantly be saving it. Me after you; you after me.
I am so proud of you, but I am proud of myself for the first time too. Thank you for revivifying my gosh dang soul! And know that I will always be there with you. Whenever you’ve left a Bud Heavy out in the sun--
[Caldwell laughs.]
Balnor: --and it stays cold, that’s me pulling a fresh one from the cooler in the bag. Whenever a gentle breeze swings a rocking-chair, that’s cuz I passed out while you were reading Ulfgar Goes Punch.
[Emily and Caldwell laugh.]
Balnor: Whenever you look up and see a shooting star, that might just be one of the shits I took in space catching fire and hurdling through the galaxy.
[Emily and Caldwell laugh harder.]
Balnor: I hope that you all get to leave this world with the same comfort I had; knowing that it’s in good hands.
I love you.
Murph: "Your knight, Balnor." You guys all… finish reading, and then join your friends for a drink at the Hungry Trout tavern.
Moonshine (Emily): Well how 'bout that?
Murph: And everything ends where it began.
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happy "weird week between christmas and new years" to everyone who celebrates it.. hope everyone is staying healthy over the holidays
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human.
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more backstory that i wrote up for patreon heh:
Simon and Tommy had a complicated relationship as brothers.
At a young age, Simon basically wrote himself off as a lost cause, and did the best he could to make sure at least Tommy had a chance to be a functioning human being. After all, Tommy was the gentler brother, the dreamer, the one who looked like their mother (who'd walked out on them years ago to escape their father). But Tommy got bitter, got sick of the one always being protected, being babied. He lost respect for Simon, for the way he wouldn't fight back, and in a twisted way, grew closer to his father as a way to learn how to be powerful, strong. It backfired, and Tommy got wrapped up in some bad business.
Simon's kid brother died while he was deployed. He got the news in the letter, and it broke him in a big way. In the story timeline, it was years and years ago but it still hurts like hell whenever Simon thinks about him.
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the problem is that being single is seen as the consolidation prize, and not the natural neutral state of being-a-person. at the end of the movie or the book or the poetry, there is a person waiting for you at the altar, and they love you. if the play is a comedy, everyone gets married. the metaphor is about how you are not-whole. the metaphor is about how everyone is going to be happily-ever-after. the metaphor is that romantic love is the most important resource on the planet, not just all-love. all-love is not a thing, that is a disappointment. the treasure is not the friends we made along the way. the treasure is the girl you landed.
the metaphor is that you cannot be alone, that means you are broken. are you getting over someone? that is acceptable, you can be getting over someone, but not for long. you must be single because you would rather not be single. you must be single and looking to not-be-single. you must want to date, eventually.
friendship and community are never seen as being equal-to or even-better than romantic connection. that person is your one! you need to find them. you need to hunt through the sand particles until you can shift out some kind of gem. this is regardless to your own experience of the beach and the sun. you need to be somewhere with someone.
if you are taking this time alone to heal, that is so sad. everyone gives you this little pitying look. the understanding is that you are not actually happier than you were before you were single. it is seen as a sort of pity - oh, you are choosing yourself, making yourself the priority? - that isn't quite right. you must mean that you are making yourself ready for the right person. you are just laying the bed better this time. open up your heart. you'll find them, we promise!
what do you mean you're really-truly genuinely-very happy? you are probably misremembering what it was like to be in a relationship. and besides, once you meet your person, that time will look grey and bland and wasted. your person is the only way for you to see in color. so what if you have taken this time - for the first time in your entire life - to actually-for-real do the fucking work. you can be proud of yourself, sure. but the way we need to know that you got better is that you get a partner. you're healed enough for the next bad part!
people don't choose to be single, they just say they're choosing to be single - they actually mean "nobody wants to date me." it doesn't matter how many people you have gently rejected or how many times you've talked it over carefully in therapy. what matters is that you are single, and by all accounts - that means you are something worth our pity. your successes and life all seem pale in the sunlight. sure, you have done amazing things and finally found your way in life. what matters is that there wasn't a person in the room with you while you did it.
you want to tell them - that's the whole thing. i didn't know how to be alone in the room. i didn't know how to handle the silence. every moment was so sharp, and i kept choosing the wrong way to close the door. i have spent my entire life in the empty well, living in the ricochet of someone else's cruelty. for once i have built myself a ladder. for once everything i taste is all mine, every bite of sunshine and laughter. i have learned how to sleep out in the open with my memories. recently, they have started to purr.
your father rolls his eyes. listen. this isn't about you. i just want a grandchild in my future.
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I wonder if Anakin‘s opinion of Han changes after he learns that he is friends with Chewie (who Ahsoka knows from the Captured Padawan Arc) and SOMEHOW flunked up in the Imperial Flight Academy SO BAD he was busted down to Imperial Army Infantryman (I believe it was because Han went back for a squadron mate)
LMAO liking your son-in-law bc of his choice in best friends instead of his personality,,
(commission info // kofi support!)
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Asajj Ventress trouncing the main characters in a fight, straight up lying to people, and deciding to get the fuck out of there so the plot couldn’t catch her is so Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) of her and I couldn’t be happier
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