- Oct 2023
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Metromanie.
mania for writing poetry verses
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We hope, however, that in so young a person, and with a constitution originally so good, even now the disease is not utterly incurable
use of we feels cliquey
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devoted to the purposes of any useful profession, must have rendered him a respectable, if not an eminent citizen
protestant work ethic? everything is related to your use as a laborer and citizen that contributes to society
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- Jul 2022
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archiveofourown.org archiveofourown.org
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"Maybe. I might just live out of the car for awhile." Ed snorts and it makes Stede smile. They both know he wouldn’t make it two days. "Maybe I'll turn it into a boat, take to the sea."This is a familiar conversation, one they used to have all the time, whispered late into the night. One that they haven't had as often since they've gotten older.Ed picks up the thread like they've never let it drop. "Why stop at a boat? Strap a rocket to it and leave the planet."
I am obsessed with this little callback to their first conversation. Feels so bittersweet in that it's a symbol of their first ever phone call, but there's a sadness to the acknowledgement that everything is changing now that they're getting older. The space and the ocean are not the place of their wild childhood fantasies of curiosity and heroism. They become escape. An escape from a life that is beating the curiosity and heroism out of them. However, this is also so beautiful and lovely because it shows how this link between them, this bond and connection, has been there since their first ever phone conversation, and it will stay with them even as life throws misery and rejection at them. Lovely.
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"Yeah. Get the hell off this planet and go to the moon or Mars or another universe and fight aliens or whatever.""Fight aliens?" How amazing! Ed's dreams are so much more fantastical than his own."What?" Ed asks, surly again. "You think it's stupid?""No! Not at all! I just — what if the aliens are nice?"
This is such a sweet and brilliant way of showing characterization for these two characters while highlighting the beauty and wonder of childhood innocence. Of course little baby stede would immediately see the humanity and feel empathy for these alien creatures, and sweet baby ed dreams of being a hero.
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Ed has stories about sneaking into packed concerts and late nights running around the city and ditching school because that’s what Jack is doing.Jack.
The way this is written reminds me of the way people talk about their arch-nemesis... specifically the way timmy turner's dad says "dinkleberg". Im visualizing stede shaking his fist like a cartoon villain
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