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I respect that Kieran uses his inability to lie as an opportunity for intense levels of sarcasm.

Also this just shows how Shadowhunters take it for granted that their protections against faeries are impenetrable, which is why it's important that they actually collaborate with Downworlders.

tiredandoptimistic

Gotta admit, if I'd personally met an angel then I'd also be calling in favors. Getting resurrected by somebody feels like pretty effective networking.

loveridden1999

when james baldwin "you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" & "love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up" & "it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here" & "you have to go the way your blood beats. if you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all" & &

fishpondfish

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

anxietyproblem

smokefalls

The whole Abrahamic world invests itself in this promise: Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t fuck or steal or kill, and you’ll be a good person. Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.

Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

somethingscosmic1251

A snippet from Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

lifeinpoetry

What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.

— Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here