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If I have to be on my period while taking what is arguably the most important exam of my life thus far I may genuinely scream

#ONE BREAK JUST ONE

soundcarvings

I’m kinda feeling a bit of everything these days and also nothing

#posts that hit like a train

hilobiak

thomas--bombadil

A wren dances for his mate with so much joy.

#birdposting

kosmogrl

what doesn’t kill me leaves a pit in my stomach that never goes away

#posts that hit like a train

vonlipvig

i'm actually curious, what trinkets do you guys have on your keychains? 🗝️

#my keychain was a gift from the Irish community centre :)#so it’s got their logo #a rural Irish bungalow #an Irish flag #and a tiny pint of Guinness

minty-mori

reminder for mostly myself

The circle, that is, about which the geometrician reasons is the essence common to every individual circle in nature, and without which the individual circles could not exist; it is more real than the individual circle that he may draw on the blackboard for illustration. Now, the circle that the mathematician reasons about is one he never draws upon the blackboard; it cannot be drawn because it never comes into existence; it is outside time and therefore eternal. So too it never comes to be in actual physical space; and it is non-spatial in the same sense in which it is non-temporal. All the Ideas, for Plato, thus constitute a realm of absolute realities beyond time, change, and existence, and existence is merely a shadowy replica of essence.

Irrational Man - William Barrett, 1958

#as someone without any philosophy training I found this really useful for understanding the broad strokes of Plato and his essentialism #existentialism #passages

fairycosmos

i noticed my horrible patterns! i think the process stops there

#posts that hit like a train

laterkiss

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

hyenaswine

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

hyenaswine

this is true, but it is not bioessentialist. both cis & trans men WILL see a mouse & eat it. this is because it is in their best interest to eat mice. they benefit from eating mice. this is essential to their class position, not their biological makeup.

#hmmm #I think gender essentialism =/= bioessentialism =/= feminist analysis of gender as a social class #and the three are getting frustratingly confused with one another #feminism

autism-thoughts

The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit

autism-thoughts

This post is about a lot of things but it is especially about racism, medical abuse, and eugenics

It is a mystification to maintain that woman becomes man’s equal through motherhood. […] There has been an enormous amount of talk about the sacred rights of women, but being a mother is not how women gained the right to vote; the unwed mother is still scorned; it is only in marriage that the mother is glorified—in other words, as long as she is subordinate to the husband.

The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 (tr. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier)

#thought I queued this one?#glad I went through my drafts #passages #feminism #literature in translation #simone de beauvoir #the second sex

They would like to make us believe that their past isn’t wasted, that their memories have been condensed and gently transformed into Wisdom. Convenient past! Pocket-size past, little gilt-edged book full of fine maxims. ‘Believe me, I’m talking from experience, I’ve learnt everything I know from life.’ Are we to understand that Life has undertaken to think for them? They explain the new by the old - and the old they have explained by the older still, like those historians who describe Lenin as a Russian Robespierre and Robespierre as a French Cromwell: when all is said and done, they have never understood anything at all… behind their self-importance you can distinguish a morose laziness: they see a procession of semblances pass by, they yawn, they think there’s nothing new under the sun.

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938 (tr. Robert Baldick)

#was reminded of this one #my favourite excerpt from back when I read it #passages #literature in translation #existentialism #jean paul sartre