into the garbage chute flyboy

Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

The view from Calvin's neighbor's house.

certified door post

[ID: Art of the Orion spacecraft launching into blue-black space. Its jet plume is composed of warm, earth-toned cave paintings of hands that seem to be reaching up. The pieces are identical, but the one on the left features a quote from Christina Koch that says, "We will always choose Earth We will always choose each other."