Happy (true) 30th book anniversary! :D
Oh. That means I share birthday with Good Omens! That’s nice.
But also: to make it even more fitting, shouldn’t there technically be three publication dates for three babies? And why/how is there a “First 1st Edition” on (British) Amazon that has the date of publication set as 15th May?
I call this piece “Birthdays in the Times of Corona”
Yes, these were all birthday gifts.
You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, now in quarantine
You can dance, you can jive, but you can’t go outside
These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.
To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
The myth of Achilles, but instead of holding him by the heel, Thetis sumberges him fully so that Achilles is completely invulnerable and Thetis has one invulnerable hand.
She only needs one oven mitt when taking cookies out of the oven.
But there would still be two small parts of him that are vulnerable because they were covered by her fingertips at the time, stopping the water from touching them. Which means those fingertips are also vulnerable on her hand
Achilles *putting those little round band-aids on two parts of his ankle before battle*
Thetis *knitting fingertip oven mitts for her thumb and forefinger*
This is a Greek comedy I could get behind
What if she put him in a sack and dunked him in? The water would saturate the sack and soak him and so long as she pulled him out quick, he wouldn't drown. Then they'd have a sack that's invulnerable too and can be used as the most unexpected shield ever.
Imagine Achilles storming Troy with one (1) invulnerable sack for a shield
thetis just sticks him in one of these bad boys
and swirls him around like a batch of chicken nuggets until he’s invulnerable all over.
melxncholyman
if i had a nickel for every time neil gaiman wrote about the evolution of two male characters’ friendship (and perhaps more) throughout centuries interrupted by a recent falling out/denial of friendship and its subsequent reconciliation, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
