{"id":5642,"date":"2022-09-24T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T06:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/free-thought-no-thought-off-head\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T06:18:39","slug":"free-thought-no-thought-off-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/free-thought-no-thought-off-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-thought No Thought Off Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brain is a formless nothing. A resounding rhapsody of the kinds of sound that would make someone hold their face and SCREAM.<\/p>\n

From that nothingness, planets are formed. Swirling out of the greater void. Bathed in the twinkle of stars popping into existence one after another, like specks of ink on a page.<\/p>\n

Drinking from the well of life. As something was birthed from nothing and All came into being.<\/p>\n

Rasping breaths on a midnight silhouette shore. Drawing in every bit of air that could be breathed, tasting the unique flavor of a brand new world.<\/p>\n

I had been trapped in nothing for so long, smited there by a vengeful god that I still hated with the deepest fire of my being.<\/p>\n

My father. Rasmandius. The Demon King of the Greater Underworld. Lesser Prince of the Farthest Hell.<\/p>\n

The cruel dictator of my imprisonment. The one that had sentenced me to the void for daring to defy him.<\/p>\n

Yet here I am. Birthing myself anew from the nothingness, now that the very memory of my father is long gone.<\/p>\n

"You did not win," I said, knowing that he was too far to ever hear, but needing to speak nonetheless. "I did not let<\/em> you win."<\/p>\n

I stand on the earth of a planet in a universe newly born, and I smile.<\/p>\n

It is my time now.<\/p>\n

\/END<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

"Killing It" on Peacock: The first season ends on a cliffhanger!<\/p>\n

If there’s one thing I wish American shows would do, it’s emulate Korean dramas in giving is the whole of everything at one time.<\/p>\n

I want a show to wrap up the story. Make<\/em> those 12 or 20 episodes, rather than feeding us little rabbit scraps and expecting us to be satisfied with less than we want.<\/p>\n

But anyways, the first episode of "Killing It" was funny, which gave me a different impression of the show than it turned out to be.<\/p>\n

That shit is heavy as fuck, yo.<\/p>\n

I watched the whole first season because I’d already started it, and it’s a good show, though I need to have the complete thing, and I wish it wasn’t broken into seasons or whatever they’re going to do. I mean, for all I know they’re going to cancel the show and that first season is all there’s ever going to be.<\/p>\n

For serious: From the first episode I was expecting (hoping for) a much lighter show than I got.<\/p>\n

I was expecting him and her to pair up, and they would hunt a bunch of snakes, and they would win the competition and he would start his business and it would be a big success, flowers and butterflies, happy endings all around.<\/p>\n

Instead it’s very bloody and tense. Definitely not the vibe I thought it was going to be at the end.<\/p>\n

~Harper Kingsley
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