17776 - April 7th, 2026
Apr. 7th, 2026 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trashburgersblairIt's today.
Full transparency, I haven't finished 17776 yet. I've spent literal years picking it up and dropping again. Before last month I never got passed the 3rd chapter. I think this is because I was fundamentally misunderstanding what it was about. I thought it was about football, which I guess it kind of is, but I thought that was all it was about. I am someone who doesn't care about football, so for the longest time I didn't care about 17776. I liked the format, but not enough to read it through.
But, I started another re-read last month and I think I get it now. Or at least I get it more than I used to. I don't think I was really seeing what game they were playing. It is football, but it is also so much more than that. It's about human nature in a way. Our tendency to play and love. I feel like there are better ways to explain what I feel when I think of 17776 now, but words fail me.
It's been a great time to be into space. I was playing Blood on the Clock Tower with a group of friends and we all stopped to watch the Artemis II launch. Space is big. I think it reminds us to love. Not to love people, but to love how we interact. How special we all are. How small we all are.
So happy 17776 day. May we stop being born, stop dying, stop ageing. May we learn to live together.
Full transparency, I haven't finished 17776 yet. I've spent literal years picking it up and dropping again. Before last month I never got passed the 3rd chapter. I think this is because I was fundamentally misunderstanding what it was about. I thought it was about football, which I guess it kind of is, but I thought that was all it was about. I am someone who doesn't care about football, so for the longest time I didn't care about 17776. I liked the format, but not enough to read it through.
But, I started another re-read last month and I think I get it now. Or at least I get it more than I used to. I don't think I was really seeing what game they were playing. It is football, but it is also so much more than that. It's about human nature in a way. Our tendency to play and love. I feel like there are better ways to explain what I feel when I think of 17776 now, but words fail me.
It's been a great time to be into space. I was playing Blood on the Clock Tower with a group of friends and we all stopped to watch the Artemis II launch. Space is big. I think it reminds us to love. Not to love people, but to love how we interact. How special we all are. How small we all are.
So happy 17776 day. May we stop being born, stop dying, stop ageing. May we learn to live together.
