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20s | she/they | Lanie

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[ourplague]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[red-hot-chili-dogs]

Usamericans are absolutely delusional.

[tongzi-ziqing]

Things to say when you arent an evil empire

[leviathan-supersystem]

"how could our empire collapse when we've overextended it so much? checkmate commies"

[mechanica1-hands]

[cookiethebirddoll]

bus is my friend. shes no train but shes trying her hardest in a world that hates her

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.

Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.

(Source)

[whatbigotspost]

God. You’ll have to excuse me openly weeping atm. I remember being horrified when that law hit the books here.

I had no idea how much worse it would get in 10 year’s time.

[spellfireburst]

"Baldur's Gate 3 is old news now lol that was three years ago"

Would you believe my favourite game of all time that I still regularly play is from 2009

[spellfireburst]

Seriously though, the way some people treat liking media as if it has an expiration date is so weird to me. And three years is still so recent in the grand scheme of things anyway, actually!

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[unfuckablebogtroll]

I do like that Morgan and Karadec are autism 4 autism. He’s the “there are rules and they must be followed” type and she’s the “your social convention is meaningless to me” type. ❤️

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[aroace-ryland-grace]

An aroace reading of grace is really special because his struggle to reconcile his love for his home on earth (the structures and norms that he has been raised and taught are the proper way of doing things) that clash with the way he lives his life on earth (described by himself and others as almost spartan and lacking in “meaningful” social connection ((read: dating, marriage)) outside the classroom) and how he rejects these norms by choosing to go with Rocky and stay with the eridians (new, unfamiliar society with norms he isn’t expected to follow because he is an alien) and finding fulfillment by being himself surrounded by beings who accept that regardless of those norms. This also works with a neurodivergent reading too. I love when the scifi is an allegory for being different

Yes exactly!!!!!! You get it!!!!!!!! There are so many courtesies and kindnesses Grace gets on Erid that he never got/would've gotten on Earth! It's the one place where he can truly be himself because he's expected to be different and for the first time in his life those around him see those differences as good things!

[814519]

let's have a smoke break with mama (and question our career choice)

[eedweiz]

There'll be statues of him all over the place.

Statues of Grace with his new familly and his students

[animentality]

[stillfuckingtired]

Brain fog is not an adequate descriptor, actually. Fog can be kinda nice and beautiful and ethereal and refreshing. The thing we’re describing is more like a brain BOG; everything moves slow like you’re wading through water, it’s clunky and heavy and you keep getting stuck in the mud. It’s uncomfortable and inconvenient and everything takes so much effort. You lost a shoe, probably.

[seren-dipitous-art]

I love the hc that Adrian just adopts the strange human their mate brought home.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

I think the harm of denying people the right to control their own bodies is so, so much worse than the risk of people regretting the decisions they make. Regretting something you decided to do is a much healthier pain than the pain of regretting that you didn't get to have a choice.

[dsmsix]

[dsmsix]

[naamahdarling]

"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High

[defilerwyrm]

[vendetta06]

the sluttiest thing a man could do is be covered in blood and grip his wounded side in agony