Objects Celestial, Terrestrial, and Up There Either Way

I sat down outside a couple nights ago, decided just to take a little break from all the bustling with the Outlet project due in the morning, sitting on the stairsteps outside the Spori out in the chill air and looking up at the night sky. It was a snowy night, but the stars were very clearly out, because I could see one, well more than one obviously but this certain one I remember, I wasn't sure if it wasn't just a particularly still helicopter or airplane hanging up there, or a satellite in geosynchronous orbit around not-the-equator somehow, or whatever else, and not truly a star. And I thought it was interesting.

There are stars, and nearer bodies. From our position it's so easy to get them mixed, them being yet so different: any starrish object, though smaller and dimmer than a real star, is virtually indistinguishable from a real star due to its proximal nearness.

Maybe this can be taken to represent how we can be fooled by false miracles, taken in due only to our position and the assumption that where we're standing is the only place to be, while in reality it's only the best place to get duped. Maybe this can be taken to represent how petty things can seem so significant because we let them. Maybe this can be taken to represent the properties of the inverse-square law. None of that is what I took it to mean, though.

I took it to mean: you be the star. Act like a star, be unafraid to stand in a high place and offer what light that you do have, and there ain't ain't-them-bodies-saints who can tell you that you aren't a star.

And then I realized the other symbolism too, and was all, that's not as cheerful. The second and third ones, though, aren't they really just the same thing? Yes. On a symbolic level, yes they are.

Okay so meanwhile one of the suggested similar movies on the Google Play page for Fursonas is a documentary about underground extreme tickling rings, what's apparently a shadowy multi-million dollar industry. And I can't stop saying the word "what" over and over again. The thing that gets me is not that that's a thing, but that it's a thing that, judging by the comments in reviews ("I have seen tickle videos on YouTube and elsewhere and always wondered about the economics behind these strange, professional looking videos..."), everyone already seems to have heard of, except me...