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Here is what my mother told me when I was young: the world is harsh. It is unforgiving and it has teeth. Take no shit.

Here is what I have learned from the world: it is wounded and the humans scattered throughout it are rarely the rats of Rat Park, they are the tired, trembling experiments in need of more kindness, not less. Do no harm.

Here's what I have learned from the world: humans are good. They are soft, and gentle, and they are wounded, all of them. When humans were young and wild, they looked at the snarling beasts that came to their fires, the ones with sharp teeth in their long muzzles, and they saw soft fur and the welcome-home wag of a tail.

Here is what I have seen: Given an opportunity, humans will choose creation and love. They will create art, and music, and community. They will tell each other stories, sing each other songs, help each other heal. Even without safety, even when it wounds them, they will love. They will love each other - their family, their friends, their mates - and they will love the world.

Here is what I have seen: there is hope. Sometimes it is ugly and twisted and burns, but humans will hold onto it with both hands and their entire heart. They will share it with one another. They will use it to tame beasts with fur and teeth as well as the ones that live inside of themselves. They will create because of it; they will say I hope this makes someone smile, I hope this makes someone cry. I hope this saves someone. And it will.

Here is what I know to be true: evidence of a healed broken bone from thousands of years ago reminds us that what makes us human isn't our wounds, but how we care for one another through them.

Here is what my mother told me: the world will gnash its sharp teeth at me. It will try to wound me.

Here is what I know to be true: I am human, and humans heal one another and can turn sharp teeth into wagging tails.

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#omg this is beautifuuul! #are they an oc of you? do they have a backstory yet? #this gives me some Guido of Arezzo vibes aww #awwwwwww

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Yes, I am a classical music enthusiast who find classical music the most incredible genre that ever existed. Yes, I do respect other genres and people who listen to whatever the hell they want and yes, I even do listen to those. We exist.

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my beloved cinnamon roll

#awwwwww

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tag yourself baroque opera edition

florentian camerata:

- history freak

- has like two (2) friends who also are history freaks

- writes fanfics about greek gods

- doesn’t know how to talk to people

venetian opera:

- drama queen™

- the popular kid

- good looks

- omg i’m such a libra

- secretly has crush on the shy kid

roman opera:

- rich parents

- sigs in gospels

- into cosplays (a lot)

- stupid jokes

neapolitan opera:

- has everything planned

- the negociator

- is here for the puns

- can be very serious sometimes

- don’t talk to me before my sixth coffee

french opera:

- asks to copy your homework just to say it’s shit

- teacher’s pupil

- takes ballet classes

- s(he) be(lie)ve(d)

english opera:

- the rebel one

- has dark moodboards on pinterest

- knows shakespeare’s tragedies by heart

- black soul, black tea

#florentian camerata lmaooo #doesn't know how to talk to people point resonates with me on a special level now #and now is the new generally #also the greek part #so true

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bach: you know what would be awesome

bach: adding here a choral canon for three voices, that nobody would ever hear or discover without the score. and then let's mirror it. what do you think?

infant johann christian: gaaa

bach: ye, that's the spirit, son

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embroidered silk wallets, 1770-1820

The National Museum of Finland

#shine!!! #the pigeon one is my favorite☺️☺️☺️

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Mortal Flesh

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#gosh #this is beautiful #i think i'm gonna be just staring at it and fall into this athmosphere

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Gottfried, is this you?

#lil bro you look fabulous today #swannnn #lohengrin #richard wagner #opera

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the emperor of petersburg

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#meme #victorian #victorian couple

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The whole self love thing is good and all but some people can’t fathom being loved. They can’t imagine there being anything good about them. So they can’t simply just stop doing unhealthy things, there’s a process.

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Oh and i forget my favorite

-i'm too sensitive

My best part in this shit is that i'm literally not allowed to feel down/upset

Like

-No, it's because i'm a teenager

-I'm gonna get my period soon, not I?

-It's actually not that bad, i just want attention(?)

-that fucking full moon today, isn't it?

-oh some change in the weather makes some folks distressed

-and the list goes on

I'm so fucking tired of it.

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My best part in this shit is that i'm literally not allowed to feel down/upset

Like

-No, it's because i'm a teenager

-I'm gonna get my period soon, not I?

-It's actually not that bad, i just want attention(?)

-that fucking full moon today, isn't it?

-oh some change in the weather makes some folks distressed

-and the list goes on

I'm so fucking tired of it.

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Birth is a curse and existence is a prison.

#Rodya x Sonya are these you? #crime and punishment #raskolnikov #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #sonya marmeladova

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One more time.

There is no way for a human being to be born innately, inherently, ontologically, “a bad person”. There is no mental illness that makes a person innately, inherently, ontologically “bad”. There is no “abuser gene”. There is no “abuser disorder”. Whether or not someone is abusive, manipulative, and cruel, is based entirely on the behaviors they choose to engage in. How they choose to see people and treat people. What thoughts they choose to entertain.

If you immediately “morally diagnose” someone based on their mental illness, that they did not choose to have, you are choosing to engage in a cruel behavior. I don’t care if you believe you’re “empathetic”, you do not have a “good person” gene, or some sort of “good person” condition. Whether someone has high empathy or no empathy, all people are individually responsible for their own behaviors. There is nothing innate about you that absolves you from being responsible for abusive behavior.

Stop demonizing personality disorders, and start actually holding abusers accountable for their choices. End of argument.