"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

'this story is a tragedy because along the way we got just enough glimpses of alternate timelines and barely-averted prophecies to know that somehow, the way it turned out is the best it could have gone'

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

lost to time

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/36603

It looks like it could have been made last year. It is SO bright and whole. I am staggered.

Anthony Hurd (American, 1975) - You Have This Hold Over Me (2025)

Locally hated

We really are never going to stop stripping this land bare

if bringing in corporations to mine raw materials from the appalachian mountains was good for the community, appalachia would be known for how happy, healthy, and wealthy the people are.

from "Heimat" (Hometown) by Kobinata in G-men, January 2000

The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.

In South Africa by Zaheer Ali: Zali_Photo