Humans, I Come in Peace

“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. They divide their time between labour designed to postpone the moment of dissolution for themselves and frantic struggles to hasten it for others of their kind.”

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

a headcanon: the reason why the lantern festival is the one & only festivity xiao ever partakes in is that he gets to write down the wishes and desires that he was forced to consume, onto lanterns that would be released into the sky for them to come true.

“Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a ‘we’ and not an 'I.’ Only if I were the only one acting could I foretell the consequences of what I’m doing. What actually happens is entirely contingent, and contingency is indeed one of the biggest factors in all history.”

In Defense of Eula

““Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ”

Chongyun: [eating a cinnamon roll]