it's 9:44 pm, and my neighbour is playing some form of brass instrument outside their house
they do this every night, at around this time
i don't know what instrument they're playing, but i think it sounds a bit like a trumpet
i don't think i've met them, and if i have, i probably didn't know it was them
and every night they play the instrument, and it echoes around a bit, and eventually, muffled and thin, it gets to where i am
and i like to sit and listen to it
they might not be the best at it, and it might be drowned out sometimes by the sound of cars and crickets,
but i think there's something about things like this that's
nice
one day i'll leave, or they'll leave, or they'll die, or god knows what else
and it won't be there, every night
but it'll still be there, in my memories, at least
i'll forget about it, yeah, but it might be something i occasionally bring up in conversation,
or something that i remember out of the blue and think about for a moment, before sending it back off into the archives
and there's. something special, in these ordinary moments, these little things that pass by so fast to make room for the more important things,
and so i sit on the crooked chair on the balcony, and i listen to the sound of their music
this is going to be a nice memory to forget, one day
i wonder if they know that
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The best fics are the ones that recognize that although Luke Skywalker may APPEAR on the outside to be a normal friendly twink who happens to have cool powers, especially when contrasted with such ship partners as Boba or Din or even Han, he is arguably the scariest person alive in the galaxy around the prequel era. AND, crucially, he is also a fundamentally weird guy. This man was homeschooled on a rural farm his entire life and then apprenticed to a swamp gremlin who showed him how to tap into the cosmic power of the universe. He blew up the death star age 19, killing approx 2 million-ish Imperials. He is a vortex of Force power that can communicate with the ghosts of dead Jedi. He’s staring into the distance and mumbling to himself and doing Yoda aphorisms and casually pulling out the “yeah I could crush that guy into a paste with my mind (:” and nobody around him knows what to do with that. I think he is a character who has very little frame of reference for how a Jedi or a person in general is supposed to act and there is some thing about him that is by necessity really fucking weird and a little scary but he’s so nice that it can throw you off the scent a little bit. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
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