would you be my cup of tea?

But the bookshop in my brain is still open. Only on weekends, or the occasional open stint on a quiet midweek day or two, but Whickber Street still bustles around it. It still exists, and is still tended to by a fussy, soft bookseller and his angular, hot headed, but incredibly loving husband. No one was invited to the wedding, needless to say. They just kind of showed up wearing rings one day, and no one had ever thought to ask when they tied the knot, or in fact if they ever even did.

And within its walls are a stock room, still painted yellow; a bedroom, now shared by a snoozing demon and a reading angel, on the weekend and those hazy midweek days; and a desk which never gets dusty or messy.

There’s also a cottage in the South Downs, with a large green house and vegetable plots which miraculously never deplete, and roses which bloom year round; there’s an armchair which has a worn down left arm cushion, from where a demon drapes himself over his angel more often than he sits on the matching chair across from it; a bedroom, shared, again; and the sounds of two lives well lived, infinite happiness and love beyond measure echoing within its floral, wallpapered walls.

Before there was The Wow! Signal, there was Drones, Matt's heartbreak and separation album. Before Drones, there was The 2nd Law, the love and life falling apart album. And before there were those, there was Escape.

Escape. The original song written from the point of view of the child of divorce (Matt has talked about it in the past). The forgotten child in the middle, finding himself as the 'unlovable' collateral damage of the relationship that couldn't be saved. Raging against having the ideal childhood snatched away from him: his family broken up and his own personal guilt around it, being sent away to Teignmouth, not having enough money, not seeing his parents; being teenaged and scared and raging against his parents and wishing he could reverse this and put his life back together: "why can't you just love her?/Why be such a monster?" Ultimately, he concludes that him and his dad are the same, and that he shares the blame ("But I'll still take all the blame/Because you and me are both one and the same/And it's driving me mad").

And it brings me forward in time to 2012-13, about Kate Hudson sharing in a 2021 interview that Matt said to her that he wanted their son to feel like he was gaining rather than losing family from their split. Matt knew what it like being a child of divorce, feeling the love, care and attention of a parent slip away, of feeling neglected and lost and not wanting to put his own children through that.

And it brings me to 2026 and The Wow! Signal: Matt is now on the other side of Escape. Matt could well be the dad character of Escape. And somehow, the feelings that remain are eerily similar to his childhood. Divorce still tore his family apart - everything he'd built his life around, everything he'd dreamed of, gone. Just like young Matt. He reached out, and his life was torn apart; how could he start again? On the other side of the fence too, Matt finds, "love can drift away". It's as devastating in his forties as at fourteen.

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

He has pokemon sun and his team??

Nothing but wishiwashi and incineroar

Like what the fuck

How in the shit

He BEAT THE GAME with this team

5 fish fucks and an angry ass cat

The cousin will most likely not see this but I hope he enjoys it anyway.