[ID: 1. Tweet from @/chenwriters: let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite
2. A white borzoi stands in the dip between two sandy mounds. Patches of grass grow across the sand. In the distance is a body of water. Text reads, “to love and lose and still be kind.”
3. Post from @revolutionariess: characters that go through hell yet still believe in the goodness of humanity, still hope for the best despite everything, refuse to let darkness consume them because someone somewhere is always going to be good are literally my favourite, because they give me that little hope too
4. “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
5. Post from @daigah dated November 15th 2023: “Nice characters are boring” to YOU. I love characters who no matter what, will always have genuine love for humanity in their heart. Characters who dance and laugh and sing with sincerity. Characters who believe in others, and are willing to extend a helping hand to people when no one gave them the same luxury. Characters who have gone through so much but believe, no matter what, that humanity and life is something beautiful and worth protecting
6. Post from @factumnihil: “the trauma made you kind” fuck that. no. I am kind because I cannot allow anyone to go through what I did. I am soft because I chose to be.
Reblog from @peculiar-persephone: Trauma made me scared, angry, and vulnerable.
Reblog from @tiltookilakin: “Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaram. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.” – Brandon Sanderson’s Oathbringer. /end ID]
7. “And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence but despite the abundance of it.”
8. It’s so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
9. Picture. A flock birds fly through the blue sky. There is a white cloud.
10. Tweet from @/zenoswol dated February 7th 2023: No character trope will ever hit as hard as “I have every reason to hate the world and watch it burn, but I will choose to love instead. Every time I will choose love.” /end ID]