Dreaming the Impossible Dream

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit

I'm so endeared by the French term for a stray cat being "chat errant." This implies the existence of a stray knight. Or that a chat errant is searching for noble purpose.

I can't find it right now, but there's a haiku by I waaaaant to say Kobayashi Issa that uses the term 主なし猫 nushinashi neko "masterless cat," which reminds one of a masterless samurai.

EXTREMELY valuable addition to this post, thank you

when I first saw this quote I was like 'that's either david lynch or hideo kojima' and then read the source and realised it's the third and last of their species

@wearepaladin

sharing a wikipedia page is romantic

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.

A lot of people's objections to the panic over AI companies destructively digitising books are not incorrect, but much less damning of the panic when it's put in the context of a larger epistemic crisis

'You're fetishising the physical object; destruction of physical books happens all the time in institutional contexts' is not wrong but also not really significant in the context of the hollowing out of academia &c

Missing the forest for the trees but every individual tree is innocuous or tolerable so surely complaints about the whole are just hysterical

God forbid a girl wants to get kissed by a knight with the helmet ON.