Subtly Brilliant

i really like the line at the end of the book where rocky responds with "i'm not polite company, my friend" when grace reminds rocky that he's avoiding talking about eating in front of other eridians. i like how it implies such comfort between them. they have been with each other for years and have seen one another in almost every state possible that they can handle just about anything at this point. will they react to it? sure! but they can bring it up

this Also adds to the idea i like where at this point the xenonite is the only thing standing between them. they can never be close together in the most literal sense of those words (physically) so they're coming up with increasingly creative ways to be as close as possible in every other way to make up for it

are they gay? not sure. are they hopelessly and entirely devoted to each other? i think we have enough evidence to say yes

why is the human body composed of such capricious tubes

Babe are you OK? You reblogged "even if you get worse".

I MISS THE HEADPHONE JACK FUCK YOU!!!!!!

As a chronic "good heavens" sayer, and as a casual rhyme enjoyer, it's been really hard not to pepper in the phrase "good heavens six sevens" into my vocabulary. It would be so much fun to say, but it would immediately alienate both young hip people and old antiquated people and really only be enjoyed by whimsically autistic transgender women, so yeah :/

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

It’s been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyone’s left to it.