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They/she/he. Be kind and do good. 27

[archmagetolvan]

"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up."

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may

[mzmarple]

Some PTerry quotes that feel especially salient at the moment:

"He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”

“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.

“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."

- Night Watch

Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.

- Jingo

It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.

- Snuff

The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

- Feet of Clay

Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say “we’re the good guys” and do bad-guy things. Sometimes the watching watchman inside every good copper’s head could use an extra pair of eyes.

- Thud!

[thekalpar]

Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!"

"Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm.

"What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?"

"I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.

"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"

"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

[bakedbakermom]

fuck terry pulling no punches in this one

[whenimgod]

Something I love about the Sinners movie is it reminded me that some of the best stories are "one night" stories. There have been so many long con world ending save the universe humanity at stake the villain is the government stories for a while that I lost sight of one of my favorite stories- where some fuck shit goes down for One Day maybe One Week with a small crew of people Inextricably Familiar with each other and the end is like "ay that shit was crazy"

Thanks for the reminder Ryan Coogler

[maureen-corpse]

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

[ghost-mantis]

And stabbing yourself, swearing, crying, threatening inanimate objects, and the five stages of grief.

[qqueenofhades]

Honestly, this sounds fucking FANTASTIC to me, and we should do it. Cry harder, Mitch.

[crescent-coral-base]

Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

[obi-wann-cannoli]

ALSO shout out to Tamora Pierce for humanizing the bandits Kel fights. She does this in Trickster’s Choice too, where bandits are explicitly shown to be poor people with few options and starving families.

[clemtiness]

the energy of The Seven campaign is so slumber party/bathroom talk and it makes me so proud to be a teen girl disaster

[vacuously-true]

Oh so the plural of surgeon general is surgeons general, huh? Well what about bunnies rabbit. Puppies dog. KITTIES CAT. Did you ever think of that, you sillies goose?

[mother-shipper]

[souvenir116]

So, someone tweeted this on f1twt:

And quotes made me lose it:

🥺🥺

[ef-1]

Also may God grant the misplaced confidence of Lando Norris because imagine Sir Lewis Hamilton COMPLIMENTING YOU, saying wow you're so fast!!!! And you snipe back at him "you were fast 7 years ago" and he verbatim has to explain to you he's not complaining and it was instead a compliment 😐

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

it's important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye

[anarchistmemedistro]

[glaivesofmindelan]

Not to kinkshame but why are there so many Omegaverse F1 fics? Genuinely curious

[absolution-in-absentia]

Do you guys think that we'll see hughies mom in the next season? I was so sure that itd come out that she wasnt his actual mom but maybe some sort of shapeshifter?

Not seeing her again would feel like bad writing because it all seemed way too convenient??

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

[mysteryteacup]

If they had done things differently they could have been happy, but to do things differently would require them to be someone else.