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Mr. Spirit, I have a question!! My mind and body are a wreck from continued misfortune.

Will the rest of my life continue to be one tragedy after another...?

- Well... Yeah.

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hey so I might delete my fanfiction.net account. MY FICS WILL STILL BE ON AO3 PLEASE DO NOT BE ALARMED. just a heads up if, for some reason, any of you guys still read my fics on FF.net (lord knows why if you do, I haven't updated there in ages. but hey I still use tumblr so who am I to judge)

speaking of updates, when will I update?????? idk pray for me

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

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What do you do when you almost die in space? Leonov drew the orbital sunrise.

Alexei Leonov was the first person to walk in space. When he couldn’t sleep after pressurisation in his suit meant he almost couldn’t get back into the capsule, Leonov picked up his sketchpad and pencils to create the first art in space.

‘A curved band mixing black and blue represents the portion of Earth visible due to the rising sun. Above the planet, a narrow curvature of red, then yellow, and then the black of space. And in the center of the drawing, we see the red sphere of the sun, almost risen behind the curvature of the Earth. It says something to me that the first art made by humans from outside of Earth's atmosphere depicts Earth's atmosphere.

Leonov was astonished by the brightness of the stars from space, but he did not draw that, nor did he draw himself floating, looking up at the spaceship. He drew home. He drew what Mary Oliver memorably called "this, the one world we all belong to."’ (Green, 2021)

Though we see the orbital sunrise in a more photorealistic way now (NASA, 2021), Leonov’s shows what it might feel like. The awe to see all of humanity’s history in one place, all humans who had ever existed except himself and his team.

‘I like to look at Leonov's drawing when I am exhausted by despair and drudgery, or when I feel the weight of longing and fear pressing in on my chest.

I look at the picture and think of all that had to happen for the drawing to exist, for Leonov to exist, for anything to exist. I look at the drawing and take a long, slow breath, and think of how my lungs were made for this air.’

Quotations from John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed (2021), images from Brown (2015) and NASA (2022)

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Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.

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"Because of You", Paruyr Sevak (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

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“There’s a strange naïveté and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct. I think it should be precisely the opposite: Let’s turn the kindness we show toward the stars to members of the human race on Earth and build up the trust and understanding between the different peoples and civilizations that make up humanity. But for the universe outside the solar system, we should be ever vigilant, and be ready to attribute the worst of intentions to any Others that might exist in space. For a fragile civilization like ours, this is without a doubt the most responsible path.”

— from the Author’s Postscript for the American Edition of The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu (trans. Ken Liu)

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hi guys this week has been an absolute shitshow im not gonna be able to do anything until s.korea impeaches yoon and get its democracy back on track and there is no more possibility of another martial law being imposed, so

i cannot believe this shit is happening again since the last time i marched for impeachment (2016) and i can't even join this time bc literally on the other side of the globe

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THIS DIVAAAAAAAAAA

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imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

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"Traitors of the nation."

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"Never fall into despair. Never fall to cynicism. There is something you must do. Don't look away. In today's society all capital pressures people to become stupid. Cynicism robs people of their will. Never fall into despair. Always have hope. I have high hopes for your generation. If you won't fight, then I will rise and fight, even if I am already dead and underground. I hope that won't have to happen. I wish, with all my heart, you and the generation after you will prosper." - South Korean novelist Cho Se-hui, 2008

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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hi guys, I know I am taking so much time updating, but I recently quit my job, moved across the world to Chile, married my gf, and started learning Spanish, so you can imagine I haven't been in the right headspace. anyway I'm alive, pls look at our cats in the meantime

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Yall might not find a 52 year old goth woman and her 600+ year old trickster demon husband who worships the ground she walks on the pinnacle of Gothic Romance, but thats because you're a wet blanket with no chutzpah. The rest of us are thriving though..