Brad Simkulet's Blog, page 19
January 14, 2017
the force
If I were a Jedi I would use the force exactly the way I heard Yoda describe it on Dagobah. I would only use my sabre for defence, never for attack. I would never draw first. I would never deflect bolts back at the attackers but into the ground. I would impede and slow down and act as a shield.
Talk to me. I’m just hanging out.
Talk to me. I’m just hanging out.
disneyprincessoflyrian:
broliloquy:
korrigantsionnach:
I want a story about a king whose son is...
I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.
The king’s son becomes the new king, and is prophesied to defeat evil and bring an age of prosperity. His generals and knights all crack their knuckles but he pretty much ignores them and focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of his kingdom. Forty years later he is old and sick but still hearing his subjects’ grievances, and a general’s like “how will you defeat the prophesied evil now? You’re old and weak.” Another visitor, a teenager fresh out of the kingdom’s public education system, looks at the general like he is an ignoramus. The king eradicated poverty, housed the homeless, taught the ignorant, ended class exploitation by abolishing the nobility and imprisoning the corrupt, and established a highly respected guild of doctors that recently figured out how to cure the plague. There are no brigands because there is enough wealth for everyone to live comfortably; hiding in the woods and taking trinkets from people simply doesn’t make any sense for anyone but the desperate, and the people are not desperate. Evil is a weed, explains the teenager. It grows in cracked roads and crumbling houses and forgotten corners, rooted in indifference and watered by suffering. But the king demands that broken things be mended and suffering people be made well.
No evil lives in this kingdom, says the teenager. It starved to death before I was born.
Oh yes.
This is exactly the kind of story we need.
January 11, 2017
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via mrsclarkkent)
January 9, 2017
gaywrites:
ICYMI: Evan Rachel Wood reemerged as a bisexual...
ICYMI: Evan Rachel Wood reemerged as a bisexual superhero this week in a series of tweets about bisexuality, biphobia and bi awareness.Perfect timing, and so important that openly bi people in the public eye are joining these conversations. Visibility matters. Onward, #BiWeek!
January 7, 2017
January 5, 2017
wittynamehere1443:
Favorite Movies of 2016
#2 La La Land
This...
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Favorite Movies of 2016
#2 La La Land
This is my favourite of 2016. I want to dedicate myself to joy.
if you love me, or loved me once, or even if you hate me, watch la la land. please.
if you love me, or loved me once, or even if you hate me, watch la la land. please.
