Stuff

She just sat contented in the comfy chair as I built this up around her

PLEASE go read From The Earth To The Moon and Around The Moon.

They're fairly short, and truly Verne at his finest. Some highlights include:

lots of scientific infodumping

a French guy who is incapable of being serious for two seconds

a bunch of trigger-happy Americans who decide that since America was once a colony of Britain, Britain should take a turn being a colony of America

Mr. J. T. Maston, who defies all description

Florida/Texas catfight

a fight to the death that gets called off because both parties got distracted while wandering through the woods

Roundabout for the uk heatwave rn

plus Tigress and Julia <3

Oh yeah baby, animations.

Happy Space to all who celebrate

the fact that if you are just nice enough and decently competent at your job and, well, Don't Get Him Fucking Killed, kim wants to join your precinct. join you. isnt that fucking crazy. why is he so sure he can. why is he so sure he wants to. does he have nothing of value Left in his precinct?? what the fuck.

the fact that he - for the first and only time in the game - smokes a second cigarette if you leave without him. isnt that insane. isnt that fucking Insane.

the fact that harry changed his life as well. not in some passing fancy way, not as an Experience he Will Remember, as a force and as a person and as a gleaming light in the midst of bone deep loneliness and grief. the fact that, arguably, he needs harry just as much as harry needs him. hes a lonely tin soldier trying to hollow himself and not want anything.