what's up everyone i finished Gunbuster today and i DIDN'T cry for realsies. what do you mean what am i hiding behind my back (surreptitiously waters a nearby plant with tears i've collected in my hand)
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TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS. GOD. imagine what it would take to preserve that memory and the infrastructure to light up the big welcome home message. like. that's a lot more than just putting a reminder in your google calendar, that's roughly 160 human lifetimes. the fuckin epic of gilgamesh is only like 4000-something years old and we don't even know who wrote it. i'm gonna need 2 to 7 business weeks to lie on the floor about this
