オデッセイ / The Martian
characters who dig themselves out of their graves (whether literal or metaphorical) are at the top of the list. nothing beats a character who should have died but didn't and comes back to haunt their own life and the world around them, benevolent or violent it doesn't matter, it's enthralling either way
it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
City birds: Mallard/gräsand, Rook/råka, Eurasian coot/sothöna, Black-headed gull/skrattmås, European herring gull/gråtrut and Mute swan/knölsvan. Dublin, Ireland (July 31, 2022).
i LOVE the idea of "i can't win, but you can lose" in fictional confrontations it is SO fucking tasty. the human nature to self destruct and the human nature to survive by any means necessary combined at its finest.
in a parasocial relationship with the car in front of me on the interstate
*deep sigh* *takes off my cowboy hat and plops down into the dirt* *starts filling my cowboy hat with little rocks* feelings, hunh…