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The good and the bad and the EXAMS THAT START IN AN HOUR
Before I go off to get my ass handed to me again, I shall post. Oh, politics, I'm sorry for beating you up so much. I promise that I'll stop soon. Very soon. Probably.
The good:
- The New York Times writing about how newspapers in the city have been sold out since early this morning. ♥ History, you have been made.
The bad:
- Proposition 8 got passed in California, 52% for, and I've had so much heartbreak over gay rights that right now all I want to do is beat something in. With a fish. A big fish. Like a tuna. That's huge fish.
The pretty:
- From the Yuletide counters: Ursula K Le Guin - the Hainish Cycle (4,9). OH YEAH, BABY. GO, MY CHILDREN, GO FORTH AND PROPOGATE.
The ugly:
- The Kinkfest prompt that the elections ended up rolling over; will probably end up being a few days late OH GOD I AM SORRY asjflka.
The smile:
The Hainish Cycle victory made me remember one of the things about Le Guin's writing that moves my personal philosophy, and keeps me alive in moments in between euphoric victory and relatively crushing defeat. These are the words of a young king, self-exiled, to a plenipotentiary of a union of many worlds:
"The dream of the Ekumen, then, is to restore that truly ancient commonalty; to regather all the peoples of all the worlds at one hearth?"
Axt nodded, chewing bread-apple. "To weave some harmony among them, at least. Life loves to know itself, out to its furthest limits; to embrace complexity is its delight. Our difference is our beauty. All these worlds and the various forms and ways of the minds and lives and bodies on them - together they would make a splendid harmony."
"No harmony endures," said the young king.
"None has ever been achieved," said the Plenipotentiary. "The pleasure is in trying."
♥
The good:
- The New York Times writing about how newspapers in the city have been sold out since early this morning. ♥ History, you have been made.
The bad:
- Proposition 8 got passed in California, 52% for, and I've had so much heartbreak over gay rights that right now all I want to do is beat something in. With a fish. A big fish. Like a tuna. That's huge fish.
The pretty:
- From the Yuletide counters: Ursula K Le Guin - the Hainish Cycle (4,9). OH YEAH, BABY. GO, MY CHILDREN, GO FORTH AND PROPOGATE.
The ugly:
- The Kinkfest prompt that the elections ended up rolling over; will probably end up being a few days late OH GOD I AM SORRY asjflka.
The smile:
The Hainish Cycle victory made me remember one of the things about Le Guin's writing that moves my personal philosophy, and keeps me alive in moments in between euphoric victory and relatively crushing defeat. These are the words of a young king, self-exiled, to a plenipotentiary of a union of many worlds:
"The dream of the Ekumen, then, is to restore that truly ancient commonalty; to regather all the peoples of all the worlds at one hearth?"
Axt nodded, chewing bread-apple. "To weave some harmony among them, at least. Life loves to know itself, out to its furthest limits; to embrace complexity is its delight. Our difference is our beauty. All these worlds and the various forms and ways of the minds and lives and bodies on them - together they would make a splendid harmony."
"No harmony endures," said the young king.
"None has ever been achieved," said the Plenipotentiary. "The pleasure is in trying."
♥
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Because, you know, it's totally better to make kids live in state care facilities instead of expanding the potential number of loving homes that could take them in. :/ I really hate my state sometimes.
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Still, frozen tuna to the face is probably more efficient than a mop-whacking...probably...
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I concur. Mop vs Tuna? No contest. Welll, unless it's the school janitor's mop, cleaner of a thousand pools of vomit. I'm pretty sure that's lethal--all critical hits if you take a blow from it. :D
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*snuggles* Well, with hope, you and many other Arkansas-ians (ARKANSII?) will get up and one day change that bill, and give homes to deserving young children. ♥
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Tuna is a gigantic fish, indeed. What about Sword Fish? A deadly sting to it's bite?
And don't you love the history that is going down at the moment? It's just so momentous.
Good luck my dear, I wish you all the best! Make sure you hand them back their own asses, equally whooped.
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Hee hee hee, SWORDFISH. Added advantage of being able to be used as a rapier, if fishslapping fails?
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2%? I hadn't known it was that close. Argh! Can I borrow that tuna when you're done with it?
And on a completely unrelated note: icon love. <3
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