The Right Promethean Fire

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:

beta server stress test going on so we are now the beatles

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hares look like nefarious rabbits. hares look like normal bunnies but with malice brimming in their beady little eyes. if you had never seen a hare before, you would look at one and say “wow, this bunny fucking hates me”

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

Being prime minister of the uk has a higher regret rate than being trans

being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like