oh that I had been writ down an ass

What he told me was to look after you, get you on your feet, take care of you like family. Well, you did so much. You did more than that. You let me come over and let me have a place at your table for dinner. Why did you?

I just. They're truly the opposite besties. And their dynamic is just so. SO. UGHHH.

He's darkness, she's light. She's life, he's death. She's hopeful, he's realistic. He's metal, she's nature. They're both leaders, but he began as a posh noble driven by vengeance and ended up as a kind and fair man. She began as an insecure and awkward girl and became the Voice of The Tempest, serene and unyielding, and also full of anger. She used to have to get him out of his workshop, but in the end, he was the one who regularly traveled to Zeprah to make sure she didn't overwork herself. At first, he was the one angry, and she still hadn't seen the world's horrors. Then he healed, became happy, and she was the one who became angry. Raishan, Vax. She said it herself in c3. "I have been angry for 30 years." And he was thriving. Of course, both of them grieved, but you can't compare it.

Despite being so different, their cities have parts of each other. Zeprah, like Whitestone, is full of innovation and complicated mechanisms that make the citizens' lives easier because it's the city Percy's more focused on after Whitestone. In return, Whitestone is full of vegetation and flowers because whenever the Voice of the Tempest comes to visit the Lord of Whitestone, everything blooms like it's spring.

abuse in caregiving professions (like teaching or nursing) is not solely a result of power dynamics. it's also because people who go into those professions often have a idea of themselves as Good People, and are consequently incapable of recognising or acknowledging when they've hurt someone else. instead, they mentally put 'people who have inconvenienced me' into the Bad People box so they can freely abuse them while maintaining their moral high ground.

i read ross greene a lot when i was working with "difficult" or "behaviourally challenged" children. his refrain is "kids do well if they can" - meaning, in short, that most kids act out only when the demands of a situation exceed their capabilities. punishing them for this is not only cruel but also completely pointless, because they also don't want to be doing what they are doing.

>looks inside