βandromedaβs a big, wide open galaxyβ - andromeda by weyes blood
one of my favorite video games is bioshock infinite; a complex story that can be surmised as rescuing a girl named elizabeth from her tower in the floating city of columbia, and thatβs putting it lightly. along the gameβs path you find recordings left by the citizens called voxophones. one of them is from the wife of a husband who is kept alive through machinery. she said something thatβsβ¦
for katie,
even in memory you shine πΉ
there is an innate, almost inevitable, comfort from watching disney movies. the mixture of lively, theatrical music and memorable, often larger than life characters is what keeps us coming back time and time again. suspending our disbelief for imaginative fantasy can be relieving. and, as time passes, these animated visions eagerly await generation after generation to console and inspire.Β
however, this isnβt to say that disney is infallible. theyβve had their fairβ¦
βGod knows I lived
God knows I died
God knows I begged
begged, borrowed, and criedβΒ
- God Knows I Tried by Lana Del ReyΒ
βdidnβt i do it for you?Β
why donβt i do it for you?Β
why wonβt you do it for me?βΒ
- Cellophane by fka twigsΒ
over the years i have become better acquainted with the outside world. there are innumerable disasters that plague our earthly experience - brutality, murder, consumption of the innocent. the deplorableβ¦
βmidway upon the journey of our life,
i found myself within a forest darkβ - the divine comedyΒ
i was thirteen years old when i was baptized. i remember the pit in my stomach, the white garments i was clothed in, my pastor plunging my head into a watery grave, and its cold embrace followed by the air returning to my lungs. baptism is saying farewell to what you once knew so that you may be reborn. in this way,β¦
