i am also a we

I was talking to someone about Fury Road today and they said ‘I just hated how it had no plot. They just left and then turned around and went straight back, it was so stupid’ and I think my soul was in danger of leaving my body because really - that’s the whole point. That’s the great message of Mad Max Fury Road - they need to leave and go back because they need to understand that the Green Place doesn’t exist. Valhalla doesn’t exist. There’s no better place waiting, no Eden to escape to, nowhere for Furiosa and the wives to run to. This world, broken and damaged and war-torn as it is, is all they have, and if they want a Green Place then they have to make it themselves. They have to choose peace. They have to choose love for each other. They have to take the seeds from the older, violent generation and start again. They have to destroy the oppressive power structures holding them back, capitalism and the patriarchy that Immortan Joe represents.

if you find bones in the forest, sit a bit and listen. they are old and have some good stories to tell. maybe they’ll teach you a spell or two, or explain where the water on our planet came from.

it’s memorial day. we’re chowing down on burgers. i am with my family. the sun is beaming. my dad is playing the 80s station. i am content.

usually when books have sad endings there’s a reason for it. there’s a beacon of hope. there’s a reason for you to cry, but know you’ll eventually smile at the memory. there’s none of that in half lost. there was no reason for gabriel to die. his death added nothing. after an entire book (and to be honest, sally green’s promotion of the series) of promoting how nathan and gabriel were going to get a happy ending (including a vision that ended up being false [bc i don’t count nathan hallucinating his dead soulmate] when none of the other visions were wrong) he was killed in the last five seconds of the battle when everything was already over, just because.