(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

i admit i’ve made mistakes, i’ve been toxic, i’ve had a hard time with handling situations in the best way, sometimes i say things in the spur of an angry moment and i don’t always think about how the other person feels. these aren’t things i’m proud of but what i am proud of is being able to admit them and start the process of working on my faults. that’s what is important.

I remember Brennan saying “laws are just structured threats made by the ruling socioeconomic class” during an episode of D20 and we truly just had to stan immediately