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domarzioneAnd a happy 5781 to everyone. May you all have good inscriptions in the Book of Life. I think we've all earned a little bit of grace this calendar year. Not enough to cover it all, but some.
I finally watched Jurassic Park for the first time this week because it's leaving Netflix. I'd never seen it, although I'd seen the memes and the Chris Pratt movies. It wasn't as wonky as finally watching Star Wars after having memorized Spaceballs, but it was a little weird. It's held up really well, though. The dinosaurs aren't bad! Laura Dern is still awesome! Jeff Goldblum is still ridiculous but also with a heart! And was this the last movie where Samuel L Jackson could be killed offscreen?
Dallas vs Tampa Bay for the Stanley Cup Final and I have no dog in this hunt. Tampa's not as chock full of ex-Rangers as they used to be and I have much fondness for the Dallas color commentator and that's it, that's my rooting interest. I watch with fascination but no investment.
I'm writing a The Old Guard story, despite my last one sinking like a stone fannish reception-wise, and futzing with Qui Habitat and I dug out one of the old files for the latter that had obsolete outline notes and found this. It's spoilery, perhaps, but...
This is the moment of truth, Rush. This is where you reveal yourself to be a sociopath or an asshole because I want to know what I'm working with. You've been lying to everyone about Destiny since the beginning and they might not realize it, but I do.
You aren't going to outsmart me and I think you know that. I also think you're going to try anyway. But before you do, I want you to understand something: if you get in my way, I will kill you. I have lost too much already and I'm not going to lose this chance to use Destiny to fight the Ori. You can either help me or you can be put down because there aren't going to be any other options. You won't be spared because you're useful or because killing you would make me less. I'm already less and the first thing I lost was patience for people who think that they can somehow live outside this war.
Destiny isn't some neutral utopia you can spend the rest of your days in intellectual bliss, far from the bloodshed and the misery and everything you thought you could leave behind. It's not an unfortunate accident that you are out here with nothing to do but the research the Ancients left for you to complete. I could kill you just for that. I really could. And so could the others once they find out. Not even your little Mini-me Wallace is going to speak up on your behalf once I tell them that you've known all along that Destiny is outfitted as a warship.
So take a minute and think about what happens here, both now and after you tell me that you'll help and then try to stab me in the back. Because we can skip straight to the part where I shoot you. It'll save time and energy. Or we can figure out how to get Destiny to the Milky Way without needing a hundred years in hyperspace.
I finally watched Jurassic Park for the first time this week because it's leaving Netflix. I'd never seen it, although I'd seen the memes and the Chris Pratt movies. It wasn't as wonky as finally watching Star Wars after having memorized Spaceballs, but it was a little weird. It's held up really well, though. The dinosaurs aren't bad! Laura Dern is still awesome! Jeff Goldblum is still ridiculous but also with a heart! And was this the last movie where Samuel L Jackson could be killed offscreen?
Dallas vs Tampa Bay for the Stanley Cup Final and I have no dog in this hunt. Tampa's not as chock full of ex-Rangers as they used to be and I have much fondness for the Dallas color commentator and that's it, that's my rooting interest. I watch with fascination but no investment.
I'm writing a The Old Guard story, despite my last one sinking like a stone fannish reception-wise, and futzing with Qui Habitat and I dug out one of the old files for the latter that had obsolete outline notes and found this. It's spoilery, perhaps, but...
This is the moment of truth, Rush. This is where you reveal yourself to be a sociopath or an asshole because I want to know what I'm working with. You've been lying to everyone about Destiny since the beginning and they might not realize it, but I do.
You aren't going to outsmart me and I think you know that. I also think you're going to try anyway. But before you do, I want you to understand something: if you get in my way, I will kill you. I have lost too much already and I'm not going to lose this chance to use Destiny to fight the Ori. You can either help me or you can be put down because there aren't going to be any other options. You won't be spared because you're useful or because killing you would make me less. I'm already less and the first thing I lost was patience for people who think that they can somehow live outside this war.
Destiny isn't some neutral utopia you can spend the rest of your days in intellectual bliss, far from the bloodshed and the misery and everything you thought you could leave behind. It's not an unfortunate accident that you are out here with nothing to do but the research the Ancients left for you to complete. I could kill you just for that. I really could. And so could the others once they find out. Not even your little Mini-me Wallace is going to speak up on your behalf once I tell them that you've known all along that Destiny is outfitted as a warship.
So take a minute and think about what happens here, both now and after you tell me that you'll help and then try to stab me in the back. Because we can skip straight to the part where I shoot you. It'll save time and energy. Or we can figure out how to get Destiny to the Milky Way without needing a hundred years in hyperspace.
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Date: 2020-09-23 10:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-23 16:07 (UTC)Ugh, doomed to the purgatory of open tabs, never to be read because it's filed and forgotten and "I'm going to read something" will immediately begin a new search. :)
(Rush might not live to see anything. Sam will totally cap his ass at this point.)