romcoms do not need sequels !!!!! the whole point is that they end with everything pretty much wrapped up neat and tidy !!!! the viewer is supposed to leave thinking the onscreen couple will live happily ever after forever !!!!!
When historians talk of a king having a lisp or going bald and all the courtiers proudly adopting it as 'fashion', we think them quite daft and archaic and yet here we are. Quite mad.
Someone, somewhere, is the person who pressed go on that software update. And right now they know exactly what they did and what it has done. And as someone who knows that sinking feeling when you realise you’ve screwed up at work, I cannot imagine the state of them right now.
We grew up thinking the internet would be a permanent archive, but whole digital realms can vanish in a moment. Buy physical media, listen to albums on vinyl, write longhand, collect books. The joys of tangible existence are something that no one can take from you.
dostoevsky on losing his first child. gut wrenching. not surprised he produced his greatest work afterward. saw through humanity like glass. pain cracked him open. poured genius out.