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odinsblog · 8 months

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#politics #republicans #book bans #abortion #forced birthers #contradictions #gop hypocrisy #reproductive rights #reproductive justice #forced birth #contradiction #book banning

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moonys-library · 11 months

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men will never be how they're in books

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pratchettquotes · 10 months

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Ridcully flailed at a passing shark. "They won't attack you if you make a lot of noise and splash around," he said.

"I thought that's when they will attack you, sir," Ponder called out.

"Ah, an interesting practical experiment," said the Dean, craning to watch.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

#mustrum ridcully #ponder stibbons #the dean #the last continent #discworld #terry pratchett #wizards #academics #sharks #scientific method #experimentation #bad advice #contradictions #interesting #shark attack

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kissporsche · 2 years

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because the thing about vegaspete is. they see each other, right? they see each other truly, every piece of each other, underneath every mask and they don't flinch. they just dig deeper. the dizzying joy and paralysing fear of being seen after a lifetime in shadow, the way noone ever has before, and the bone-deep knowledge that noone ever will again

they couldn't look away if they wanted to (they don't want to) because it selfishly (selflessly) means they get seen in return. every piece of darkness they twist out from one another is reflected back at them and it doesn't matter that it hurts (it only matters that it hurts) because. if you're upset it means it's important. if you're hurt it means you're alive. it means it's real.

they can only see each other because of who they already are. because vegas is curious and pete is compassionate. because vegas is cruel and bitter and insecure and pete is sarcastic and stubborn and calculating.

vegas has spent his life being told he isn't good enough, he's disgusting, a freak, a failure. and pete tells him; these are other people's words choking you, you can choose to be free of them. it's not about you, it's about them. so make it about you. and pete has adjusted himself to a life without wants, where he's whatever other people need from him. he's useless, without feeling, inhuman. and vegas tells him; i can see what you want without you having to ask, without you even knowing it was missing. you can want what you want, freely. make it about you, let it out.

they've looked into each others souls and torn away at the walls until they've found the pitiful darkness lurking there, and instead of hating it hiding it being disgusted by it, they coax it out and encourage it, they say; this exists and it is part of you, and you should own it for yourself, not anyone else. you are not a monster. you're in need of love. you need feeding.

and without even realising it, loving the darkness they find in the other also means loving the darkness within themselves because it's one and the same. you can't cringe away at seeing your own reflection if it's held fast within someone else, if they love it and love you and if you love them back it means you must, eventually, love yourself.

selfish and selfless love

#kinnporsche #vegaspete #my brain is just a constant repeat of FOOD-DEVOTION-LOVE-MIRRORS-DARKNESS-HOPE-CHOICE #CODEPENDENT AUTONOMY #CONTRADICTIONS #they drive me so insane #kp orig

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todays-me · 5 months

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It is both a pleasure and a nightmare to be so filled with contradictions.

#contradictions #mental health #self expression #me #pleasure #nightmare #nonbinary #transmasc #genderfluid

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toastedwrittenthoughts · 11 months

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The Pink Lady Code

For those of us who are excited to hear the upcoming Pink Lady Pledge, I would also like to remind those who do not know.. They also have a code... Apparently.

Now I don't like/appreciate most of these but if ROTPL were to address them, I would appreciate it. Read them at your own discression, again, I'm just the messenger...

The Pink Lady Code.

Rule 1: Obey the Pink Lady Pledge: Act cool, look cool, be cool. Til' death do us part, think Pink!

Rule 2: At no time is a Pink Lady to become romantically involved with a non-T-Bird member. Restriction is rescinded only after graduation from school or expulsion. A Pink Lady will not date a: Jock, nerd, Preppie, anybody non-cool, or member of a rival school or gang. T-Birds, not NERDS!

Rule 3: The Pink Lady jacket symbolizes that the wearer is the girlfriend / consort of a T-Bird member. Upon leaving the Pink Ladies under duress (violation of rules 1 and 2, expulsion, illness, death, school transfer) or personal choice, wearer must return the jacket to the T-Birds to avoid damaging said T-Birds' reputations. `They got a Rep to protect'. Rep is everything.

Rule 4: A Pink Lady must present herself in appropriate attire at school at all times - Pink Lady jacket a must! Flashy, seductive costumes are not allowed, as they allow non-T-Bird students (and other males, staff included) to see what is for T-Bird eyes only. Seductive attire appropriate only to be worn at functions if accompanied by their T-Bird escort / boyfriend.

Rule 5: A Pink Lady is to have a cigarette and matches / lighter on her at all times, for herself - cigarette equals `cool' - plus her fellow Pink Ladies and T-Birds (and favored Rydell staff) who might perchance wish to bum a smoke.

Rule 6: No Pink Lady is allowed to interfere with other Pink Lady to T-Bird relationships. If the leader of the T-Birds is spoken for, unattached Pink Lady is not permitted to trespass on fellow Pink Lady relationship. If the leader of the T-Birds is available (Pink Lady girlfriend leaves - see rule #3), unattached Pink Lady may make advances on unclaimed T-Bird leader. See rule #4, apply it. The prettier the Pink Lady, the more interested the unattached T-Bird will be.

Rule 7: Returning to Rule #2, Fraternization outside of T-Birds, if all members of the T-Birds are accounted for - have Pink Lady girlfriends - unattached Pink Lady must remain single. Addendum: If unattached Pink Lady has interest in non-T-Bird student, and wishes to pursue relationship with said student, see rule #3.

Rule 8. Contrary to popular belief, (see Rydell school year 1958-1959 (Grease), Premarital `coupling' (Sliding into home base - thank you, Louis DiMucci) isn't a requirement for being a Pink Lady. Just don't die a virgin or die wearing your mother's underwear.

Rule 9: If you're a non-romantic friend of the Pink Ladies, you're a friend for life. Friendship (non-fraternizational) may include nerd/brainiac (good for assistance with essays), and jock. NOT allowed: Gossip Girls (Patty Simcox), or annoying cheerleaders (Stacie & Gracie).

ADDITIONAL - Added June 16, 1962 If unattached Pink Lady meets and falls for former-nerd-turned-badass-biker, who saved the butts of T-Birds and Rydell students, fraternization rules rescinded!! (Co-signed by Johnny, Goose, Louis, Davey, Stephanie, Sharon, Paulette, Rhonda, Dolores).

It may be just my personal opinion, but I've got a scene in my head that I would want to play out..

Hear me out.

I would want a situation where the Pink Ladies are at the Frosty Palace or down where they race the cars and a few guys come over and the Pink Ladies start getting hit on or flirted with. They are polite or some flirt back (but with no real heat behind it) and the T-Birds clock it. They stroll up, nonchalantly- a little smug because they are not worried about a damn thing because the girls can handle themselves and each TBird finds their pair with the Ladies, join their sides. Looking like a force to be reckoned with.

"Hit the pavement fella's. These lovely Ladies are spoken for."

"They looked lonely, not like we could see any signs to say they arn't."

"Dont need em. You're in TBird Territory. And eveyone around here knows... our girls are the Pink Ladies. So if you aint a TBird, you aint got a chance.."

"Meaning you can look, but you can't touch."

"What, is that like a rule of your gangs?"

"Our code. And yes. Always will be."

#grease: rise of the pink ladies #pink ladies #grease #grease 2 #don't even get me started #this infuriates me #contradictions #t birds

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heartofmuse · 1 year

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Life is so strange sometimes, so full of what appear to be contradictions....

You cannot gain unless you are willing to lose.

You cannot really live if you do not embrace death.

You cannot truly learn about gratitude unless you are willing to give.

You cannot hold on to love, and expect it to live unless you have your hands open.

e.v.e.

#reflexión #personal reflection #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poets on tumblr #quote #writers on tumblr #writerscreed #quotes #poeticstories #bitsofstarglow #inkstay #poets #writers #about life #contradictions #writerblrcafe

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slythersith · 2 months

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Two of the biggest contradictions in my collection

#voidpets #voidpet #emotions #anxious #panic #contradiction #contradictions #I just started playing this #it’s on the App Store and it’s so cute!#it’s essentially a game meant to help mental health #by allowing you to befriend and raise the monsters in your head #such an adorable and creative concept imho #highly recommend #voidpet garden

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year

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Since we have entirely no reason whatsoever to think that it did take place, that answers that question once and for all.

In any event, that isn't actually true. Even if a resurrection did take place, even if that can be verified, that doesn't vindicate everything else, like walking on water. Those have to be substantiated independently.

Even if we got solid confirmation of an alien species visiting our planet, that doesn't validate the crop-circles or all the freaky anal-probing crap.

#Easter #christianity #Henry M. Morris #jesus christ #resurrection myth #resurrection #bible #bible study #bible contradictions #contradictions #self refuting #reasons christianity is false #religion #religion is a mental illness

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katchwreck · 11 months

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Hi comrades, itʼs been a minute. Sorry for being inactive on here over the past months, but I thought I would share something here that I wrote two years ago on this day.

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The ever so misanthropic and cynical arrogance of the petty-bourgeoisie is a universal class trait spun from the intensified monopolizing tendency of capitalism.

*Why did not the lousy serf chose to become a noble? The sub-human deserves no dignity nor affection in their own miserableness. It is not I who have made it the way society functions; it is their own faults for not being capable to determine her own desire.*

... Such is the rotten and mischievous mindset of the dissonantly deflecting oppressor, who steadily is on the hunt to advance in itʼs own economic, and thus hierarchical societal ranks of sorts.

Fear and trickery is constantly used as inducement by the oppressing part (again)st the oppressed part.

Capitalism is, by no (but also every) means, different than feudalism in this regard. It is only the material circumstances and structures that has developed, mainly due to the variousness of technological advancements throughout, and mainly so in the imperialist cores by the extraction and transfer of resources and labour power, which produces both value and, moreover; abundance and scarcity.

As Karl Marx described it when he so eloquently detailed the result of the increased antagonism between two conflicted, yet inbound, poles:

“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital.”

Let me be perfectly clear to you who may read this: the ongoing treats and attacks against the proletariat across the bourgeois states by the capitalist class – behaviorally and rhetorically as individuals, or from the state power itself, whether it comes to austerity-packed reforms or state police and military brutality and repression — is ONLY going to intensify (grow worse and, with that, more obvious) unless the working class study to become class-conscious (awareness means vigilance) of the systematic dependency and thereafter organize, and fight back to put an end to the perpetual spiral of exploitation that is both in- and out of control.

The ruling class perpetualizes the status quo, and they hold on to it by every and any tool possible; from mass media to manufacturing consent through education and various of everyday material and holding of means of communications to productions, to mass-surveillance, to commercially glamorous nothingness, to parlamentarism to manufacturing and determining monetary value and societal laws, norms and abnorms, thus what “is” and what feels right and “is” and what feels wrong, passionate passivity, social alienation, division, wars, meaningless conflicts, better versus worse, competitions, appropriations, corruption, controlled linguistics, receptions, meaning... our very existences.

#marxism leninism #thoughts #philosophy #marxism #cultural hegemony #text post #psychological #decadence #societal abnormality #capitalism #imperialism #reflections #contradictions

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gear-project · 6 months

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Observed by a friend of mind in conversation... but this scene proves that even Xrd had its own interpretation of previous events of Accent Core and GGXX events... (just like how Strive has its own interpretation of Xrd's events).

Basically, Venom met Slayer LONG BEFORE THIS... even fought him... so this scene in Xrd contradicts previous events.

Furthermore it contradicts Night of Knives Drama CD... which showed Venom and Slayer fighting together to defeat Leon Mining's God Series.

Venom was also with Millia and Zato (and Slayer) at a certain Mountain expedition that is mentioned in Revelator which again contradicts Xrd's scene here.

#Retcons #Misinformation #Contradictions #Gaiden Interpretations

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bakaity-poetry · 1 year

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~ Simone Weil - An Anthology, pg 260

#simone weil #contradictions

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severusliketheemperor · 2 years

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i will never stop talking about severus snape because that man is a walking paradox. how are you obsessed with dark arts but you have such a huge capacity to love? love. the very thing that actively repels the dark arts. you can hate him all you want, i don't care. but i think his story is kind of beautiful. because no matter how much he was drawn into darkness, he was always going to be drawn out. because his capacity to love is within his very nature. this is what dumbledore meant. that was the best of him. it always was. i wonder. did snape know how big his capacity for love was? that it was capable of extending outside of lily? because he denies it. rips photos. but puts his life on the line for so. many. people. i am just sad that he couldn't see how capacity for love was the best of him, because he thought it was humiliating. but it wasn't. it was wonderful. even if it was only for one person. it was enough. enough to change the course of the forces of darkness. enough to help train up a new generation of aurors. members of the order. he's a death eater but can produce a patronus. pure energy that is made from happiness. hope. love. a positive force. against one of the most natural allies to lord voldemort. his primary motivation for joining the death eaters was to win back lily. how is your motivation for joining the death eaters motivated by love? that is not the point of being a death eater, it works against their very principles. conflict of interest doesn't even cover it.