I suddenly feel the need to track down a few Sam Colt-SamNDean AUs to read.
We're in love. We're ... lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.
Willow ,'Potential'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Beverly - Oct 04, 2009 6:20:59 am PDT #3791 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 04, 2009 7:08:01 am PDT #3792 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Folks do tend to gloss over that there's been a lot of inhumanity throughout human history. Really, the 20th century is only remarkable insofar as there were a lot more people than before to suffer, and some of said inhumanity was inflicted en masse by new technology rather than on an individual level.
Weird thought just occurred to me. A big difference from previous times is the infant and childhood mortality rate. What if the big to-do isn't about bombs and gulags, but about the fact that there's no longer as steady a stream of innocent souls wafting upward from being cut off early in life? So that more and more people survive into adulthood and the percentage of souls being corrupted by the world is growing too large?
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 7:10:07 am PDT #3793 of 30002
Because books.
Oh, man. That's creepy and sad, Matt. But I can see what you mean.
It sort of reminds me of that movie, The Seventh Sign, with Demi Moore. Where the Guff was empty?
SailAweigh - Oct 04, 2009 8:26:03 am PDT #3794 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, yeah. That's something to give you shivers.
P.M. Marc - Oct 04, 2009 9:00:01 am PDT #3795 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My thought had been (after Samifer's speech) that where the 20th Century exceeded all others was in the damage, not just to ourselves, but to the planet. The technology-enhanced cruelties and horror. Sure, we've been ghastly to each other all over the place, and man's inhumanity to man is nothing new.
But the 20th Century basically production lined it.
Lee - Oct 04, 2009 9:18:41 am PDT #3796 of 30002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think the damage to the planet was key--Samifer called it the last thing God did or something to that effect, and made it clear the hairless apes were screwing it up.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 9:23:28 am PDT #3797 of 30002
Because books.
Yeah, I got that impression, too -- he kept calling it this "beautiful thing".
JenP - Oct 04, 2009 9:39:13 am PDT #3798 of 30002
Samifer
Ha! Excellent. JP was just fantastic in that scene, I thought.
Also, since my name is Jennifer, I can read it as a different portmanteau, and one that I find particularly appealing. I wonder why? No, I don't.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 9:41:53 am PDT #3799 of 30002
Because books.
On rewatch, I think he overplayed the first couple lines, but once he got into the scene it was gorgeous.
I wonder why? No, I don't.
I can't imagine why!
P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2009 9:08:25 pm PDT #3800 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I rewatched this morning.
Now I want the Watsonian explanation for both last week's dayenu and the kibbutz reference from this episode. (Neither of which I'd expect to hear out of the mouth of a midwestern boy from a generic culturally Christian background.)