The Verge’s Alexis Ong chronicles the continuing difficulty of owning a home in the world of Final Fantasy XIV:

The last time I went to look at a house that I lost, the owner had filled the yard with twinkling lights, graceful trees, and a cute patio set. I don’t care about building a cafe, and I don’t want to hold house parties. I’m a simple catgirl, and I just want a home.

BIBI’s Lowlife Princess: Noir is on repeat here, and her video output is as compelling as ever. Check out the MVs for Animal Farm and BIBI Vengeance.

Don’t you call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!

C-3PO, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

A Quiet Holiday

Gather at the Ramparts

Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally. It is a spectacle we immortals enjoy, this minor daily resurrection, often we will gather at the ramparts of the clouds and gaze down upon them, our little ones, as they bestir themselves to welcome the new day. What silence falls upon us then, the sad silence of our envy.

John Banville, The Infinities