I still believe in heroes

in 2026 i am wishing for all of us the energy of bilbo baggins, who was headhunted for an extremely well paid role he had no qualifications or experience for, blagged the interview, and within his first week found a magic ring that does the job for him

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

#this is such a fundamental difference between angel and darla #because now they have both gotten their souls back #and angel has accepted his and decided to try to make up for what he’s done #but darla can’t deal with hers and can’t wait to lose it again #honestly i don’t think i could be as strong as angel #i think i’d be like darla in the same situation #i wouldn’t be able to deal with the consequences of everything #and i’d want to stop feeling the guilt #i’d rather completely lose my soul than be damned by it #but angel… he just takes it and accepts it and lets it make him stronger #and that’s what this whole show was about

trip and t'pol's relationship was unhinged actually. wdym they spent a year feeling each other up every night all because trip had insomnia. wdym they met their lovechild from an alternate future and he inherited his mom's ears and his dad's penchant for melodrama. wdym they banged and t'pol played it off as "an experiment" but they accidentally bonded so hard they became mates and started appearing in each other's daydreams. wdym trip's clone spilled the beans about trip's feelings to t'pol and admitted she was all he could think about. wdym trip was t'pol's only guest when she went home for her sham forced marriage and their love was so obvious that t'pol's mother spotted it instantly. wdym their love was so renowned that a xenophobic hate group used their DNA to create a secret love child in order to prove to humanity that interspecies relationships were wrong. WILD

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!