#Small Wonder

[quotespile]

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life...

Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

[moog-enthusiast]

small wonder x evangelion. a crossover that appeals only to me

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[sideblog-sidehoe]

In a couple episodes of Small Wonder (my fav show), the boy tries using his robot sister to win at sports before learning his lesson by the end

And you'd think that'd translate into a general anti-cheating moral, but the way it was presented and his father's speech at the end focus specifically on it being unfair for a robot kid to complete against human kids

A lot of my favourite media isn't morally bankrupt so much as it is morally incomprehensible. It studiously adheres to the forms of media that has a moral message it wants to convey, but exactly what that message is, or to whom and under what circumstances it could conceivably apply? Now there's the trick.

[captainpirateface]

[litsnaps]

[oldshowbiz]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.

― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder (2002)

(Robert Scott Horton)

[sherisparklesss]

[thekylemeredith]

Tonight’s featured guest: synth-pop legend Howard Jones! We’ll talk music, memories, and how Things Can Only Get Better (we hope).

Plus, Thao (from The Get Down Stay Down), Big Head Todd and The Monsters, La Luz, the Small Wonder theme, and favorites from The B-52s, Chris Bell, Belly, and The Flaming Lips. 6p ET on WFPK—because nostalgia and synths make everything better.

[bot-the-witcher]

On a small world, west of wonder, somewhere, nowhere, all

Arsbeck, Germany, 10.2024

[grrl-beetle]

Small Wonder

[waywordsstudio]

3 Word Review: “Small Wonder” by Barbara Kingsolver -

Kingsolver's post-9/11 essay collection on grief, love, environment, and mores feels at once insulated and imperative.

[rikkiwildfire]

"That's just The Sarah Connor Chronicles!" wrote Reddit user TheRealJerrySupiran.

[wolfw101]

I just found this Alphoi in Wallaru and instantly reminded me of Harriet from Small Wonder.