Excellent Lines

Just a personal account of quotes from fics, poetry and books that I really like. I want to collect them here so I don’t lose them.

[tworobocops]

there is no old self to get back to there’s a new u to create n nurture

[ifwesurvive]

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known”

- Chuck Palahniuk

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“Self-Portrait as The Other Girl” by Molly McCully Brown

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[wordsfromfics]

There is no good way to talk about pain, how it means you are only ever kissing the image of someone’s face in a pond

Bruh.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

Fuck you, pay me.

[did-you-know]

Humans have more empathy for dogs than they do for other humans. 

(Source)

[wordsfromfics]

Yes. I knew.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

Mad this. It literally says he got jailed for ignoring a court order telling him to stay away from the school - yet the headline says it's for not calling a kid they. He broke the court order cos he was being a self righteous stalkery Christian weirdo. I know the sort, they did the same to us at school cos we were scruffy poor unfortunates / desperate people that apparently needed god to save us. Loads of Christians are like this, proper weirdos.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

timeline of events:

teacher misgenders a kid in front of his class

the kid politely corrects him and the teacher gets really mad and upset

a few days later there's an event at school. pretty much everyone is there. teachers, students, parents

during this event he makes an impromptu speech about how pronouns are bad. reminder that this event had nothing to do with LGBTQ stuff. it was like a big school dinner or something

he also goes on a huge homophobic rant. other teachers, students, and parents are annoyed.

he then follows around the principal all night begging her to "ban pronouns"

the principal repeatedly asks him to leave her alone

teacher does not fuck off

principal puts teacher on paid leave. tells him not to come to work tomorrow

he shows up anyway

someone showing up at school when they've been told not to is a security risk and also a crime

staff ask him to leave

principal gets a legal document forbidding him from coming to the school

he continues to show up to school multiple days in a row, despite not being allowed at the school

he is potentially a threat to students

staff ask him to leave or they will call the cops

he doesn't leave

he gets arrested

judge rules that because he wasn't allowed near that school, and yet still showed up at that school multiple times, putting everyone at that school in danger, he was found guilty of contempt of court

so no, this was not a teacher going to jail because he used the wrong pronouns. this was a ass wipe who couldn't take no for an answer and violated a restraining order, potentially putting the kids and staff at school in danger, so he faced the consequences for his actions.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Don't fall for Poilievre's war on the media

We’ve seen this script before. Donald Trump took aim at the media throughout his presidency, calling journalists “the enemies of the people” and branding critical stories as “fake news.”

Pierre Poilievre’s debut news conference as official Opposition leader didn’t go smoothly but at least he found his real enemy.

That enemy is not inflation, or the national debt, or young people getting squeezed out of the housing market, or the cost of groceries. Those things he can blame on Justin Trudeau because he’s the prime minister and Poilievre isn’t. That’s politics.

The bigger enemy out there—the one he’s calling on all freedom loving Canadians to help him conquer—is reporters asking questions. And that leads us down a very dangerous road.

Poilievre last Tuesday invited reporters to be stenographers as he bashed Trudeau over Canada’s high inflation rate. There was only one condition—that he would not answer any questions.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[aeolianblues]

I hate to nitpick, but about the study linked in the post. Is 1500 a good sample size to determine that 44% of all Canadians believe racist conspiracy theories?

[“We recently completed nationwide surveying among 1500 Canadians. 44% (the equivalent of 13 million adults) believe “big events like wars, recessions…”]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Yes, the sample is large enough. With the margin of error you could have anywhere from 42-46% instead of 44%. But broadly the claim is true. +/- 2% is pretty accurate.

I swear people have no idea how statistics works. You sample hundreds to thousands to gain an accurate reading of a larger population.

I’ve taken multiple statistic courses and how they work isn’t rocket science. You don’t need millions of people polled to get a representative sample.

[wordsfromfics]

- FOR M by Mikko Harvey

[wordsfromfics]

“What Strange Claws Are These Scratching At My Skin. I Never Knew My Killer Would Be Coming From Within”

King - Florence + The Machine

[tamaharu]

the thing is, i think horror needs to have a little love. it needs to have an obsession. does the parasite in your body love you? it raises you from the dead, it sustains you. this is its body. this is your body. does the haunted house feel intruded upon? is it hungry? what is hatred but adoration?

[wordsfromfics]

WHAT IS HATRED BUT ADORATION?

[wordsfromfics]

“Because maybe I am loved. Maybe I do have the ability to love and be happy someday. Maybe I’ll be able to pull myself out of the quicksand and fly away like Mary Poppins. Maybe I’ll become something I want to be. Maybe I’ll find out what that something is. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll become someone I’m proud of.

I’m trying.”

- when every no turns into maybe by cosmicwoosan

[wordsfromfics]

“everything in life is hard already as it is, so you shouldn't put so much pressure on yourself because your bare minimum isn't actually that bare or minimum."

- lightly and quietly jumping over your heart by heartspound

[wordsfromfics]

“To be grateful for what you have is one thing, and to deserve the right to ask for more is another.”

- Pictures of Us by néohs (bangin_patchouli)

[wordsfromfics]

“What a thing it is, to touch someone on purpose. The smallest point of contact, yet it dances in the rest of you, scalp to toes.”

- i'd like for you and i to go romancing by dollsome

[wordsfromfics]

“Meaning, your life is still being painted. You are in a painting, you’re in a process. Whether that process is drawing the lines, layering the colors for shading, or drying it out on the rack- you’re still in the motion of being created. There are still so many paintings and sections of your life to be created and drawn that it’s not even over yet. Why rush? Why slow down?”

- Boy With a Star by wooyoungies

[wordsfromfics]

“Wonwoo thinks that there are just some things you have to carry by yourself because they’re so deep within you that once you dig them up and hand them to someone else, once you’re suddenly staring at it in the face, Wonwoo thinks that he’ll start to feel the burn of tears in the bridge of his nose, every unsaid word threatening to spill over.”

- jeon wonwoo's invincible summer by yoonbot (iverins)

[seaoflove]