Fluctuat nec mergitur

in case anyone is missing the sheer beauty of this french pun, in english it says "ominous" but broken up like a separated head and body - but in french "o minous" means "oh kitties"

"Scrooge only changed because he saw how nobody mourned him after his death" NO NO NO NO. You don't get it! The last spirit only worked because of the spirits that came before softening him up! If the spirits had shown him dead and ungrieved only it would not work. As the night goes on amid the visits Scrooge is already visibly changing. He's different after the first spirit and even more so after the second. And it's because of how much he's already changed that the final spirit is able to succeed

If "you're going to die soon and go to hell for being a shitty, greedy person" would have worked then Marley alone would have been more than enough to change his mind, but the story makes it very clear that simply telling Scrooge he's an asshole and will be punished for his sins one day was never going to get him to really change.

i will defend that fictional teenage girl with my life. i literally don’t even care what she did. you would’ve done it too if you were her she’s probably handling things better than you would in her shoes

Amen, sister.

#who died with his work unfinished/ left it to the reader to finish and left it to le guin in georgia two thousand years later#oof the trope of ancient authors dying with unfinished work they ask someone to burn is hitting me hard#a request (possibly insincerely meant) that the reader not be allowed to take their part in creating it#a demand that authorship be the sole province of the author and not the receiver-- but a demand made knowing it will not be obeyed#a convention of unwillingness to release the work to create meanings the author did not intend