space pirates – Penhales

dreamhouse777:

if i was a pirate captain i would get a movie projector and play a movie on the big sails every friday night for my boys to kick back and enjoy some time off unless we were under attack

Pirates legit did the 16-17th century equivalent of this. When things were slow, they would put on plays, act out dramas of stories they knew, or freestyle. The most preferred model of original productions was courtroom drama: “trying” each other for piracy. The “accused” would list off their many, dramatically and humorously embellished crimes, and be equally dramatically sentenced. Sometimes there was a daring escape, sometimes just a really maudlin death scene, but a good time was had by all.

the thing about desire is that its not an unlimited resource–it comes and goes and that’s what makes desire so desireable. but what happens once you get what you’ve always wanted? all of a sudden, the thing loses value because it’s no longer unattainable and that’s why i think some dreams aren’t worth chasing, because they’re only beautiful in their unattainability. don’t bring them down here, to our painfully normal world but rather let them live as something more than just ordinary, let them be unreachable and therefore untainted by the mortality that defines us. some dreams aren’t worth chasing because they’ll do you more good out of reach than right in the palm of your hand.

on the subject of chasing dreams (via baebsaes)

cupcakeblake:

“you were my new dream” was the most romantic thing i’ve ever heard in my entire life disney fucked me good for the real shit