I'm told that sometimes, life goes places.

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I have some new followers recently so TO BE CLEAR if you rock up into the inboxes of people disagreeing with me or discussing things in good faith (or even bad faith) to leave harassment, threats, or general unpleasantness and I find out about it, I block you. Everybody fucks up sometimes and everybody has been misinterpreted on the internet, and even if they aren’t in good faith or being misinterpreted, blocking and moving on is more efficient. Do not harass in my name. Don’t harass in anyone’s name.

For new would-be followers: look I have too many trans friends and followers, many of whom are teens, to take the chance that somebody who still has a hogwarts house in their profile isn’t a dick. It’s time. Just ditch it if you decide to follow me.

Or get blocked. It’s no skin off my nose.

The Saraneth thing? I’ve decided to sort myself via free magic death bells frankly it makes more sense than the bad wizard books

The Pellinor/Throne of Glass comparison chapters

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booksandghosts
gean-grey-blog

Watching my mutual aid groups go "okay everyone please start growing potatoes so we'll survive under people intent on destroying everything and everyone we love" gives me a new appreciation for both my Irish ancestors, and why potatoes and gardeners hold such a big role in LOTR.

WWII food shortages, victory gardens to mitigate that...they weren't just tasty, they sustained life and gave hope

Thinking about the riff off the seeds quote, "they tried to bury us, they didn't realize we were potatoes".

Thinking about every human before us who cultivated and grew and shared these plants that nourish us and selected thousands of individual varieties adapted for every climate

Thinking about the fact it really does just take a chunk of potato with an eye on it, dirt, time, work, and water, to feed people

Thinking about this pretty comprehensive potato growing guide from the Farmer's Almanac

How to Grow Potatoes: The Complete Guide
Potatoes taste better when you grow your own! Nutrient-rich "taters" epitomize the joy of gardening—satisfying to plant, quick to grow, and
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ursusmaritimuslocaha

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

messofthejess
honeyviscera

showering:

pros: you get to feel clean. you get non greasy hair, non oily feeling skin, it just in general makes you feel better, more energised, refreshed.

cons: there are so many steps. oh my god are there so many steps. before getting into the shower there are steps. during the shower there are steps. and once youve gotten out of the shower? guess what!!! more fucking steps!!!!!!!! UGHHHH

longsightmyth
longsightmyth

"The problem ACTUALLY is that nobody is reading, not that people aren't reading widely or are being smug about what they read"

Daddy has to be honest kitten, I don't think people who aren't reading at all are the ones reading that post or hanging out on the dot com of the tumblr

Like yes absolutely! That is an issue! But do you think being smug about a category being The Right Category or another category being The Wrong Category will encourage people to read

longsightmyth

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agardenandlibrary
tlirsgender

Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

tlirsgender

It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society

tlirsgender

Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???

My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah

mark vorkosigan prev tags my first thought tho
morhath
problemnyatic

If you can't cope with the reality of having been wrong, done something wrong, or hurt someone without melting down or having a crisis, you're not safe for anyone to be around, btw. Fucking up is an inevitability of being alive. You literally need need to learn to handle situations in which your actions caused someone else to be hurt, because this is never going to be a thing that just stops happening. Being able to just be wrong, or misinformed, or ignorant, or straight up the one who committed an unforced error to others' detriment while maintaining at least a thin veneer of decorum and reasonability is not optional.

You're not owed forgiveness by others, but you need to learn how to forgive yourself for running afoul of your own value system, otherwise you will render yourself incapable of internalizing when you actually have, thus rendering the value system itself utterly useless at guiding your behaviors, and rendering you effectively devoid of one, besides "I'm never wrong, I'm never the bad guy," I guess. And I'm sure you don't need me to explain how that can only go horrifically, catastrophically wrong.

problemnyatic

The 102 of this lesson is that, sometimes, the right thing to do will mean hurting someone's feelings. Sometimes, doing the right thing means saying something that can't be said without upsetting someone, even someone you care about, and/or making them feel bad about themselves. Things like setting boundaries can mean having upsetting, uncomfortable, or otherwise unpleasant conversations, and you need to be able to have those conversations, otherwise you are lacking a skillset necessary to, among other things, meaningfully give consent.

You can't go through life without hurting anyone. It's just not possible. Not only are mistakes inevitable, but sometimes, the correct or necessary actions will unavoidably create conflict. Sometimes it's not gonna get to be a mistake. Sometimes, the option that means you don't have to directly hurt someone is wrong. And so you need to know how to navigate a situation in which you have caused hurt, because not every kindness is nice, and not every necessity is kind.

I'm sorry. But it's kinder to tell a hurtful truth when it is necessary than to tell a pretty lie in its stead.

problemnyatic

You need to be able to take Ls with dignity and composure otherwise you will, inexorably, become tar pit. Whether that means being willing to make compromises, to change your mind even if you've invested your energy into something, or just willing to walk into something unpleasant but necessary, you have to be able to be the one who just needs to change or look bad sometimes.

Otherwise you become unable to handle one too many inevitabilities of life and having relationships with other people, and in such a way where, essentially, you will not allow yourself to be wrong. This way of thinking is how abusers get made, and I'm really not kidding. You must be willing to be wrong without also disposing of your responsibility to do better. You need to hold both at the same time and you need to let it hurt until it doesn't anymore because it is not optional.

Sorry. Some things about being alive and healthy just aren't easy or pleasant. But they are still necessary. This is one of those things.

magicalgirlcrazycatlady
longsightmyth

"The problem is people don't read classics anymore"

No I think the problem is people don't read WIDELY. The ONLY ya and/or fantasy romance crowd is just as insufferable as the ONLY classics crowd or the ONLY litfic crowd or the ONLY nonfiction crowd and vice versa.

You gotta get some variety in there my guys

longsightmyth

Upon this post I have seen people assert that nobody needs to read 'books by dead white guys' to be widely read with the context that they believe only dead white guys wrote classics,

People saying that because classics are in fact written not only by dead white guys you can get by on only reading classics,

And the classic (hah), people are just always going to be insufferable.

All of these have missed the point and are examples of why people should in fact read widely.

moniquill

Read widely. Read beyond what you've been told are 'the classics'. Read works by authors from other times and places. Read works by authors who are different from yourself.

ephemeral-gremlin

dare i add: read a bad book once in a while too. flex your critique muscles a bit

longsightmyth

Actually yes this last point is an extremely valid addition

Not only does it help you learn and hash out your critique skills, you might be surprised

derinthescarletpescatarian

You absolutely should read books written by dead white guys. Along with books written by other people.

magicalgirlcrazycatlady

Classics are only written by dead white guys..........

*holds up 3 Musketeers in one hand, Frankenstein in the other, SCREAMS INCOHERENTLY IN ENGLISH MAJOR*

longsightmyth

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You seem a lovely person but Margaret Cavendish published The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World in 1666, well before Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818.

Shelley was innovative and should be celebrated but she is neither the mother nor creator of sci-fi

longsightmyth
longsightmyth

[Ren and Kishan] talked the entire way, and I was fascinated by their conversation. I’d never heard them speak to one another so … civilly before. Ren told Kishan about the first time we’d visited Phet and politely asked me to fill in the blanks. He remembered a lot of it. He just somehow forgot anything that applied to me.

This is sort of fascinating, mostly because that visit was Ren literally leading Kelsey through the jungle with the express purpose of luring her to Phet's so he could explain the curse and have Phet confirm or deny her chosen one status.

So what exactly is Ren remembering here? It's aaaaaaallllll tied up with his plans for Kelsey. Why would he have otherwise gone to see Phet? What would they talk about in this kelseyvoid memory? The entire quest is so wrapped up in being All About Kelsey (while Kelsey continues to have no drive and take no initiative) that I am genuinely curious that there even can be 'a lot of it' to remember.

myth rags on tigers curse
divorceblogger
lezarus

genuinely what is up with this desire to believe that stories ppl like are all completely written by accident by idiots rather than like a combination of well constructed plotting by writers that care about their craft and smart if not preplanned reincorporation. not EVERYTHING in a piece of media is plotted exactly but equally stories do not appear out of whole cloth and its deeply odd to me to pretend that they are