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surgery is like if sex was awesome

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

me in the summer

The ability to have nice conversations with strangers and especially store employees will save your everyday life from greyness

[woman who has never been gentle with herself voice] I just need to be more disciplined

I need to be punished

everybody in this life is at some point willing to destroy themselves for another human being, whether they act upon it or not. to some it may be just one and just once, to others it's a pattern. whatever it is, the object of that kind of affection will tell you a lot about the person. be careful of people who lack dignity and who have an incredible affinity for losers. they are also losers. no, they don't necessarily deserve better. no, they should not necessarily raise their standards. usually they are right on their league, where they should be.

Grimm says, “Wishing is the measuring, outpouring, giving, creating power. It is the power that shapes, imagines, thinks, and is therefore imagination, idea, form." And in another place he writes: “In Sanskrit ‘wish’ is significantly called Manoratha, the wheel of the mind - it is the wish that turns the wheel of thought.”

if hiphop weren't real its existence would sound like an exceptionally heavy-handed metaphor about racism from a really cringe didactic fantasy novel. yeah the racialized underclass in this society, the one that's constantly derided by the ethnic majority as stupid and anti-intellectual, they have a complex artistic tradition based around improvisational poetry which is sometimes enacted on a competitive basis for dispute resolution. you get judged based on the subtlety of your wordplay and the complexity of your internal rhyme schemes. the dominant group periodically gets mad about how this doesn't count as real art like their own objectively more simplistic music and poetry because sometimes it has swears in it