despite everything, we stay silly

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[suddenly disillusioned] my illusions..

Oh to be a medieval apothecary and have dried herbs in little jars all through my dimly-lit shop

listening to the same album over and over is good for your health btw

very 🥰🥰🥰 when musicians leave bits in songs where they're saying 'is this thing on?' or 'it's still recording y'know.' chairs scraping, retuning guitars, saying 'let's do that bit again', 'was that take any good?'

american blackbirds are icterids but european blackbirds are thrushes but american robins are thrushes but european robins are flycatchers and they are named robin because (checks notes) brits in the 1400s called them "robert" on account of they are just some familiar guy who shows up in your yard. hold on post canceled is that really why they are called that? what the fuck. they did this with jackdaws and magpies too? i can't even be annoyed. how human. "who's that? that's bob." fuck dude it sure is.

The need to obsess over characters that only exist in my head because I'm way to lazy to write about them

(guy who's not at all mad about failing a coinflip 15 times in a row voice) i just think it's so wonderful how fallen london really allows you to get a feel for the full breadth of the probability scale