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What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

This isn't a "podcasts are the superior form of media" thing, it's a "this is the clearest and most nuanced philosophical discussion of third spaces and their necessity" thing

Midnight Burger is this time traveling, dimension hopping, space traveling burger joint/diner run by a neurotic dad, a Hispanic woman who used to run a taco truck that got shut down because of the pandemic and just loves people, an ex-space pirate genius engineer, a snarky physicist, and two Arkansan baptist ministers from the 30's who exist in an antique radio.

Every single episode is just one more discussion of the need for third spaces and the power of community mixed in with jokes and humor. There's an episode discussing the ethics of having sex with aliens and another where they kill John Wilkes Booth! And both things aren't even the main points of their episode!