#civilized

[thoughtportal]

[internetgreatesthits]

[feralpodcastlistener]

me looking down at all the peasants waiting for new podcast episodes haha. It’s me I’m peasants please come back. *holds the camera in a white-knuckle grip, tears streaming down my eyes, I am violently shaking* please come bacl I need more episodes pls pls pl-

[aowski]

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.  There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. Dreadful indeed it is to see a starving child, but the answer to that is not to prevent the child's arrival but to restructure the world so that the child can live in it: so that the "vital interest" of the world becomes nothing less than the life of the child.

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

[dk-thrive]

Pleasure of sitting by the fire. P was sewing, I was reading. We were silent for an hour at least. We know how to be silent. We are civilised.

— Helen Garner, One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995 (Text Publishing Company, October 12, 2021)

[mia-dessendre]

SD21 - Civilized Light Dragon

Smaugust Day 21: Civilized [ 2023 ] Things I'm not good at: objects interacting with other objects and perspective. This doubtless demonstrates those weaknesses in clear relief. But one must try in order to improve, and that I did. Given enough research and practice, I'll get it eventually. Now is not that day though. Anyway, this is the Light Dragon from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, anthropomorphized to fit the "civilized" prompt. Also drinking tea because such is what civilized persons do. Weirdly, this is the third time I've drawn some creature sitting in a chair drinking tea, which is more times than I thought I'd ever do that. It's definitely my favorite of the dragons in the series and this represents a more light-hearted take on its concept. If you're wondering, I've never completed any Zelda games and don't really consider myself a fan of the series. I've watched my husband and various people play through them though, and find certain designs and concepts intriguing. [Smaugust is an art challenge in August where one must draw one dragon a day.]

[tenth-sentence]

"In a civilized country like where I come from," said Eustace, "the ships are so big that when you're inside you wouldn't know you were at sea at all."

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" - C. S. Lewis