Date: October 24th, 2025 6:47 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
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CQ. To be honest I've been intrigued by the Octopath Traveller concept for a long time and love the aesthetic, so my golden retriever-ish logic answer would be that side of the coin flip - if (when) I return to gaming as both a hobby and a lifestyle it's up near the top of my list
Date: October 24th, 2025 6:48 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
(Also honored that the cool older brother who would have undoubtedly made me less gay or perhaps more gay in the classical sense but certainly less retarded, would ask me such an unironically profound question - genuine expressions of the soul through the medium of gaming tp)
Date: October 25th, 2025 1:36 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
!!! I knew I was forgetting about that and Away (2019) when trying to think of what to watch, now that Tom Cruise has made me want to watch movies again as he tends to do
So tyvm - I love whimsical masterpieces (obviously) so I’m going to watch both back to back because it’s my first wide open weekend in a long time
Date: October 25th, 2025 12:57 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
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Was woken up by an island rain mini monsoon vibe this AM before dawn (the kind that makes being outside too lysergic even for me but not enough crazy weather to cause damage or usually even knock out the power), and when I couldn't fall back asleep I watched Away (2019) first because for some reason chronological order made sense to me in this context. (Im gay if that helps to clarify anything)
All I can say is, WOW. With the storm outside and the whistling of wind and flowing curtains, I just got lost in the vibe, which felt like Hatchet and Kensuke's Kingdom and Saint-Exupery and Shadow of the Colossus all rolled into one, yet so much more (European men are 180, I can't pretend otherwise). The winged soul of Christendom returning the favor when and where and how we least expect it, the eternal camaraderie of Easter Children in all forms...
Can't wait for Flow, which I remember feeling instantly intrigued by when you recommended it because we unexpectedly adopted a blind black cat a few years ago, who was such a sweet angel beyond belief (all our dogs liked her and they normally prefer a cat free household) and departed from us on an Easter weekend...
Also both my parents were born around Halloween, so it's somehow fitting that I'm diving into such mystically beautiful coming of age movies as we approach the Eve of Saints...
Date: October 25th, 2025 2:22 PM Author: avocado violent plaza
know it's been said here before but it's incredible how Hollywood (with all the money power and influence it has) is incapable of producing beautiful films.
Date: October 25th, 2025 11:03 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
My entire household is almost asleep, and the storm has calmed way down, so somehow as always your blessed recommendations come through (both from you and into my space cadet Chestertonian interior castle) at just the right time. It goes without saying that being able to watch this kind of movie from start to finish is the Way (imo) - first time alone and thereafter with good company (hue-man or canine)
Date: October 26th, 2025 2:35 AM Author: avocado violent plaza
first time I stumbled into the room seeing my son watch Flow- I took in the scenery for a minute not knowing what it was about and quickly decided "this has Emilio written all over it"
Date: October 26th, 2025 10:48 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
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TFW growing in ethereal virtues alongside all creatures great and small, wise and wonderful, bright and beautiful (take a wild guess which character I related to most) 🐶
Date: October 26th, 2025 10:57 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
There’s something profoundly uplifting about the fact that this gorgeous gentleman of illustrious Baltic descent (Eastern Euro women are stereotyped as seductive feline ice princesses, but being around a lot of them in college, engineering students mostly in my little corner of the world, it blew my mind how wholesome many were along with frequent supermodel looks - best study partner I ever had unironically was an irrepressibly cheerful Lithuanian girl next door, USAslan) is making such heartfelt expressions of the European spirit, and not in a mindless escapist way but in a genuinely helpful Tolkienian “it might get crazy but an earnest spirit will get you through and you’ll be glad you did”
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:08 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
"Men at work doing traditional crafts it's a beautiful thing."
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Reminds me of the time I was so excited to have enough pocket money to get a wooden sword and shield at a Medieval Times class field trip, then instantly broke the sword hitting some random solid pillar thinking I was in Redwall with no limits on what the sword could take (my 7 year old self had a lot to learn, lmao)
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:26 PM Author: avocado violent plaza
there's an old wooden "scimitar" buried in our huge memorabilia box, probably 50 ft from me rn but it's too cold to be out there digging for it (yes it's from Medieval Times)
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:27 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
Please remind me of your throwaway because it just occurred to me that I can send you a picture which you will unironically appreciate (my beloved grandma's dad in her fairy tale garden at his 90th bday)
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:16 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
Speaking of gorgeous Germanic traditions, this music is making me want to pick up the lightweight very ethereal sounding classical guitar passed down by my grandma and do some (far more amateurish needless to say!) finger picking melodies of life:
it's been too long - funny that my musical journey courtesy of her was autoharp (Froggie Went a Courtin' was the first one I ever learned to play and sing!), then piano, then guitar, then back to piano, now I can never choose because they're all so gorgeous TBH.
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:20 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
That same grandma's dad left her a full garage full of pre-industrial quality tools (I wish I could poast his picture because he's the spitting image of Tolkien, no joke), and the older I get the more I get it, why someone who was well off and didn't NEED to do anything for a living opted to do hands on work as a way of life in his leisure time... I'm undoubtedly too gay and retarded to full get it but I revere it, after a youth of taking so much for granted (took civilization itself as a given, not a Gift from above to be cherished and cultivated)
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:42 PM Author: avocado violent plaza
last 10 generations of men bemoaning the same steady disappearance of quality "no really they just don't make em like they used to" ofc referring to men as well as equipment, furnishings.
was born a decade or two too late to meet those gifted trailblazin family tradesmen, horticulturalists.
Date: October 27th, 2025 12:08 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
LMAO, very cr. Also speaking of good old days I finally figured out how to attach a picture while using gmail on the iPhone web browser, something I haven't done in a while (yet another gmail throwaway on my end, of course, because LJL at my whimsical system of organization for basically everything)
Date: October 27th, 2025 12:24 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
I feel like Tom Bombadil racing against the clock of my own absentmindness, lol (TFW no Goldberry gf with all the time in the world to pursue C.S. Lewis's serious business of Heaven, AKA Play)
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:06 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
Speaking of the creative power of real heart and soul, I can’t stop thinking about the warmth of feeling that I felt immersed in from the very beginning of our ethereal feline’s journey home, like those old Disney or Ghibli movies that feel more real than our apparent reality, and not at all in a wishful thinking way (they’re full of crazy challenges to navigate and push us beyond what we thought our limits were) but in a practical matter of fact way, fairy tales more relevant than many so called “realistic” “creations”
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:11 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
"And once again, after who knows what aeons of the silence and dark, the birds will sing and the waters flow, and lights and shadows move across the hills, and the faces of our friends laugh upon us with amazed recognition."
Date: October 25th, 2025 5:15 PM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
The Roku description of Flow is “Animated • Collaborative • Uplifting” which not only sounds like all my favorite things in this earthly womb and beyond, needless to say an intriguing spiritual sequel to Away, but also basically Autoadmit.com summarized in 3 words*
*once you filter out all the (((noise))), needless to say 🐳🐳🐳
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:11 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
;-)
"For God's love is literally infinite. It is the shoreless sea we are destined to swim in, surf in, and grow in forever."
- Peter Kreeft
I’ve been listening to the Trans Canada Highway EP a lot lately, which starts and ends with the original and a chill remix of the gorgeous Dunedain cowboy national anthem, and can’t help thinking of you always (I love men but have a soft spot for noble hearted Gondorians, being open and honest in this little hidden corner of the ZoZo world) 🌹
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:17 AM Author: Laughsome really tough guy
It’s amazing how beauty itself is so nourishing to the soul, the free fall and the flow and the feline fortitude (I could watch this and Flow and Away on a continuous loop, Thank)