As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of...
Aragorn: You have some skill with a blade. Eowyn: The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain. Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady? Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until us...
The Vision: I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique... and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the Earth. So he must be destroyed: every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the 'net. We have to act now, and not one of us can do it...
[None of the Avengers can lift the Mjölnir, but Captain America moves it slightly] Tony Stark: It's biometrics, right? Like a security code? "Whoever is carrying Thor's fingerprints" is, I think, the literal translation. Thor: Yes, well that's a ver...
Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five - a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population but increasingly untenable as they approach 20 perc...
Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.
If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.
Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
Maybe if we all prayed for somebody else, somehow we'd all be forgiven.
I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti
This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.
Scared?" "You haven't lived until you go grave robbing.
How's daydreaming affecting nightmares?? Showing the light where is all dark!
I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.
You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.
Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger
Dallas popped his jaw. “I do not cackle. I bitch like a he-man.
We do not believe that light exists in spite of darkness. We believe that light exists because of it.
