Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

Also, the pure hubris of saying we never recognized how shit ads were even back when they started being put into newsprint.

you have to love the tgirl but you have to let her love you back too

hey. you have to love your trans brothers of color okay. and your trans sisters of color. and your nonbinary siblings of color. you have to okay. its simply non-optional

official library post

something something sazed specializing in preserving forgotten religions and mare converting to larstaism after he tells her about it. mare meeting kelsier and them falling in love and it being very likely that their wedding was officiated by sazed & following larsta traditions. something something mare's drawing of a larsta flower representing her dream of a world of green and a yellow sun, of hope preserved. the drawing becoming a symbol of her dream, passed on to kelsier upon her death. for her dreams, he could. i am hope. then passed on to vin upon his death. something something vin, the adoptive daughter of kelsier & mare in spirit, carrying their dream onwards together with elend. vin and elend, their wedding being officiated by sazed, in the larsta tradition. vin, passing on the larsta flower drawing to sazed after tindwyl's death, giving him a symbol of what he lived, fought for, a symbol of a dream and preserved hope he metaphorically gave to mare in the first place, starting the cycle. the flower drawing - kelsier, vin, sazed, handed down the line in the same order of each of their ascencions to preservation. sazed, as harmony, having regained faith and hope. having the power to make the dream come true - kelsiers, elends and vins sacrifices paving the way to make it so. sazed making it so that the larsta flowers grow on the field of rebirth. something something kelsiers cognitive shadow, touching the flowers and green grass. elends and vins bodies, lying peacefully in the green grass and surrounded by the flowers, then, centuries later, their statues watching over elendel, the flowers named after mare. something something marewill, mare's will - hope, a dream

me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i’m anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian

when you keep yourself small all the time (swallowing the words you want to say, seeing everybody else as though they’re automatically above you, downplaying your feelings and achievements), the entire world will constantly be looming over you. that’s not the way to live your life. you’re supposed to be experiencing it, not be subjected to it. (this is your sign to take up more space)