Just An Update: Webb Is Up And Away Safely! It's On A Two-week Course Toward High Orbit, Following An

just an update: Webb is up and away safely! it's on a two-week course toward high orbit, following an absolutely flawless launch by ArianeSpace!

anyone else fucking stoked for the James Webb Space Telescope launch?

wheres seasons greasons

just a normal friend group!

readers of your work don’t owe you anything. this doesn’t mean that you can’t ask for comments or even be disappointed if you aren’t getting feedback, but expecting folks to do something you want isn’t realistic. if it upsets you that much, then you probably either shouldn’t be posting your writing or you are posting for the wrong reasons. treating your work like it’s made for someone and ergo you deserve to get something back is never a good thing. you share, you don’t sell.

it’s just funny though that in The Before Times when the goat burned (or didn’t burn) there was very little fanfare except maybe some tongue in cheek celebration (or disappointment). but give it a few jokes about lack of ritual sacrifice and a five-year survival streak and two plague years and suddenly we’ve collectively tapped into the seasonal worship instincts of our ancestors from 36,000 BCE and created a new sacred ritual through sheer force of internet jokes and desperate hope. it’s like we’ve crowdfunded a god.

Today on Spy Ruins The Classics (with apologies to Aristophanes):

DIONYSUS

Don't mock me, brother: on my life I am in a bad way: such fierce desire consumes me.

HERACLES

Aye, little brother? how?

DIONYSUS

I can't describe it.

But yet I'll tell you in a riddling way.

Have you e'er felt a sudden lust for soup?

HERACLES

Soup! Zeus-a-mercy, yes, ten thousand times.

DIONYSUS

Is the thing clear, or must I speak again?

HERACLES

Not of the soup: I'm clear about the soup.

DIONYSUS

Well, just that sort of pang devours my heart.

And no one shall persuade me not to go.

HERACLES

Do you mean below, to Hades?

DIONYSUS

And lower still, if there's a lower still.

HERACLES

What on earth for?

DIONYSUS

I want soup, you see.

HERACLES

What do you mean, you "want soup"?

DIONYSUS

I mean I want soup!

HERACLES

WHY ARE YOU BUYING SOUP IN HADES?!

DIONYSUS

FUCK YOU!