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*GNU Terry Pratchett*
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I've ended up thinking tonight, on the occasion of missing an online bardic circle due to sleep issues (having zonked out earlier, my ability to sleep on recent nights troubled by anxiety, and still hoping to go back to sleep in a bit) but half wanting to sing "All the Little Angels" in company, unfortunately, about how the way we memorialize The Glorious 25th is largely directly borrowed from the book and probably seems esoteric and meaningless to those unacquainted with it despite, I think, being quite meaningful to the ones memorializing it.
(It's also another Star Wars day and Towel Day re Douglas Adams, and idk, much as I have, after a fashion, loved Star Wars, it feels right now all too easy for a celebration of it to linger on superficial matters that are ...not, to, me, as meaningful and broadly applicable as the 25th of May.
...which is probably unfair, and another matter on my mind recently has been (regarding music), my propensity to a juxtaposition of serious and earnest music and well... absurdity.
sometimes you do get both.
and I do think Luke being willing to ~redeem his father is a poignant message but I think it's embedded in a very noisy whole signal, where it's easy to get caught up in the question of the significance of being family to this point, let alone the possibility for wandering off into the visually compelling fascist regime weeds ...or, once you include the PT, an on ramp to e.g. stanning a religious order of police... (I don't think the mythological scale of Star Wars renders the nuances of "Are You Tearing People As Things (=doing evil)?" with anything like the force of this era of Pratchett's writing))
and, while the emotionally devastating effects are largely a result of my own poor practices at the time, this day this year marks the tenth anniversary of the time I lost several thousand words of fanfic, some of it deeply personally important and something like the baring of part of my soul through a ~philosophical meditation(but via an edgy but earnest teenager) to Windows bluescreening on me*, so that's A Feeling...
...erm, anyway, I bring up the symbols because I think Star Wars is so broadly popular and celebrated (not so much memorialized, really) with obvious and well known symbols that most people are apt to get it, while the Glorious 25th is, say, 90% Night Watch, with a 9% side of the opaque clacks system code from Going Postal, by which we mean to say that a man is not truly dead, so long as his name is still spoken...
*...due to neglecting to save in a writing setup lacking an autosave
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I've ended up thinking tonight, on the occasion of missing an online bardic circle due to sleep issues (having zonked out earlier, my ability to sleep on recent nights troubled by anxiety, and still hoping to go back to sleep in a bit) but half wanting to sing "All the Little Angels" in company, unfortunately, about how the way we memorialize The Glorious 25th is largely directly borrowed from the book and probably seems esoteric and meaningless to those unacquainted with it despite, I think, being quite meaningful to the ones memorializing it.
(It's also another Star Wars day and Towel Day re Douglas Adams, and idk, much as I have, after a fashion, loved Star Wars, it feels right now all too easy for a celebration of it to linger on superficial matters that are ...not, to, me, as meaningful and broadly applicable as the 25th of May.
...which is probably unfair, and another matter on my mind recently has been (regarding music), my propensity to a juxtaposition of serious and earnest music and well... absurdity.
sometimes you do get both.
and I do think Luke being willing to ~redeem his father is a poignant message but I think it's embedded in a very noisy whole signal, where it's easy to get caught up in the question of the significance of being family to this point, let alone the possibility for wandering off into the visually compelling fascist regime weeds ...or, once you include the PT, an on ramp to e.g. stanning a religious order of police... (I don't think the mythological scale of Star Wars renders the nuances of "Are You Tearing People As Things (=doing evil)?" with anything like the force of this era of Pratchett's writing))
and, while the emotionally devastating effects are largely a result of my own poor practices at the time, this day this year marks the tenth anniversary of the time I lost several thousand words of fanfic, some of it deeply personally important and something like the baring of part of my soul through a ~philosophical meditation
...erm, anyway, I bring up the symbols because I think Star Wars is so broadly popular and celebrated (not so much memorialized, really) with obvious and well known symbols that most people are apt to get it, while the Glorious 25th is, say, 90% Night Watch, with a 9% side of the opaque clacks system code from Going Postal, by which we mean to say that a man is not truly dead, so long as his name is still spoken...
*...due to neglecting to save in a writing setup lacking an autosave
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