We were soft as nostalgia together

A little Minas Tirith post coronation inspired illustration

Find yourself a husband that will argue about who killed more orcs with you

Hey friends!

The Spanish-language novelization* of World Ain't Ready is now available for pre-order! You can do that through the publisher's website here. If you read in Spanish or know someone who does, maybe you'd like to buy a copy? (If you have questions about the publisher, you can read more here.)

The book is coming out November 11, the day before my birthday. (Yes, I have the same birthday as The Final Pam, and I no, I still haven't unpacked what that means for me, horoscope-wise.)

Sweet dreams.

When I have something Much to say, it takes me just as many words to say it. I say it with words that are each of them bland and common, unimaginative by their lonesome, with the hopes that if I stack so many together and squeeze a single drop of Much from each that it might flow into something meaningful.

When I have something to say, I say it twice. I say it three times. Because the first or second may not have captured the point. Because I do not trust myself to express the full essence saying it just once. Like just now, those last two sentences. I’ll repeat myself a third time for good measure - because I do not say it right just once or twice.

Poems say things in only a half, only a quarter. They choose single words worth more than ten of mine. I want to know how their minds shop for words. I want to distill myself like poets do. I want to trade in all my too many common words for the way they use an extraordinary few.

If I keep writing this, I’ll write it forever. I’ll explain myself again, as I have already, as I’m doing now. With more and different other words, with the hope of saying myself fully, like how all the hatched and messy wanton scribbles from a pen might finally color in a page. I want to change that. I want to not rip the page I’ve oversaturated by the tip of my pen.

Sam Wilson Aka The Falcon Aka Captain America

⩔ SAM WILSON APPRECIATION WEEK 2021 ⩔