please sign up to sit all day in a room where people are debating whether or not it’s ok to be a person like you
please sign up to be the only person like you who is at the table where people are debating this
please sign up to sit nonreactively while the other people at the table name you as a representative of the group under consideration. please sit nonreactively while they address you personally and swear up and down that they don’t want to offend you. please sit nonreactively when they still arrive at the conclusion that it’s better to be like them, than to be like you.
please sign up to remain at the table while people discuss the range of awful things that people like them do to people like you. remain at the table while people parse whether these awful things may be effective. remain at the table while people parse whether there are acceptable reasons to do the awful things. remain at the table while people divide the awful things into some which are acceptable and some which are unacceptable.
if you draw a strong line, you may be viewed as unreasonable, radical, militant, and/or unable to compromise
if you appear offended, you may lose the favor of the others at the table
if you lose their favor, they may judge the entire group under discussion more harshly. you may lose their indulgence to have input in the debate
if you leave the table, there will be no people like you left at the table
the things this fucking city does to people
Tag: motivational things
All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
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This quote right here, which I read years before I read one of his novels literally and I say this with no poetic liberty, saved my life. I repeat it to myself constantly to this day.
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It’s the activist rallying cry. I will protect my people. No force of magic is stronger than my selfishness, stronger than my power to defend and defy.
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RIP Terry Pratchett. We need more writers like you.
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Have a nice day, people
after this , i don’t know if i can scroll down
Omg…. great thing to wake up to.
is anybody concerned that he was paid with a taco…
That was a not-very-well-drawn-taco.
Omg this is great.
But now we know Deadpool isn’t sincere about that compliment.
So none of us actually look awesome.
Please don’t be sad.
Oh my fucking God. This is epic and stupidly it totally made me feel better!!
I had to accept that when I’m in a group of people I think of as above me, better than me, or smarter than me, I’m still in the damn room.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby and is one of our national treasures. A true giant of writing.The silliest thing he ever wrote is the quote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” This is insane. If there’s one thing that typifies the American experience it is that reinvention and rebirth are intrinsic to it. Raymond Chandler didn’t write a single word of any consequence until his 40s. Julia Child learned to cook at 40! Clint Eastwood directed his first film at 41. Don’t be afraid to be a late bloomer. Repeatedly.
The “I am a piece of shit and nobody will ever love me” factoid is actually a statistical error. You are actually are fantastic and infinitely worthy of people’s company. That person you used to care about, who taught you to hate yourself by abandoning you, is an outlier and should not have been counted
if this isn’t the most motivational tweet in the entire world idk what is
One of my favorites quotes ever.
I think a lot of moments of courage start with the words “fuck it.”
“Fuck it” is the first pulse of courage.
Been
Every time I hate my body I remember that there are millions of old rich white men who benefit from my self hatred and if there’s one thing I hate, it’s old rich white men so I snap out of that shit instantly cos I ain’t EVER giving them the satisfaction.
Oh my fucKING GOD
Wait stop this is a game changer.
Kimchi and Justice 