Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
People love to talk about the immortality of the machine, but I’m a mechanical engineer, so I know they delude themselves. Most machines are far more mortal than flesh.
How long does a machine last? A car is a very solid machine, expensive, precision designed, and you’re lucky if you get more than three decades out of them.
Your enemy is not the flesh. It’s entropy. It’s the death knell of the energy imbalance. If you want to live as a complex machine you will, by necessity, generate a great deal of entropy until your machine breaks irrevocably.
You want to be immortal? Then don’t worship the machine, worship the stone, the forest. Seek that which is either simple enough to never know death or diffused enough to accept every death.
Okay but like. Imagine that you’ve had a long day. You’ve been captured and tortured by some neo nazi punk bitch and your mission is super compromised and you don’t know where your little robot buddy is or if he’s gonna be okay and in walks this stormtrooper. You’re like “okay this is it he’s either here to imprison or kill me but I’m not going down without a fight” but then he just pulls you aside and takes of his helmet to reveal not only the WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN but also that he’s helping you escape because hes DEFECTING from the FIRST ORDER which you’ve probably never heard of a stormtrooper doing because the whole lifetime of brainwashing thing but despite the literal LIFETIME of brainwashing this one is too KIND and GOOD and BRAVE to be a part of the first orders cruelty. Like how are you NOT supposed to be like “I’m gonna call you Finn and also if you want the last name Dameron that can 100% be arranged.”
And then he shows up again and he’s WEARING YOUR JACKET because he thought you were DEAD and he’s been mourning you this entire goddamn time!
Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the “lance of longinus” and responded, word for word, “Like from Evangelion?” One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as “Dominican” and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didn’t meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but that’s a weird way to say that and I’m pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.
I once saw the seven deadly sins written out on a board at school (probably was a writing prompt idk) and I went oh the Homunculi from FullMetal Alchemist! and my friend looked at me cross eyed
Oh hey it’s me reading Narnia! It’s about Arthur right, because Lions are Kings, and he’ll be back in the time of England’s need!
I realized I only know 1 person besides myself that wears a non-smart watch every day. I’m curious how common wearing one in general still is? And if the majority of wearers use smart watches.
