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cracking open a cold one with the boys
(opening up the carton of ice cream while the cats stare at me)
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I love how in so many fantasy series, especially those for girls, we’re told that selfishness is wrong and shit and it’s written as a character flaw, and usually given whole arcs of why with this moral that’s treated like taking a sledgehammer to the face.
And then there’s Discworld where PTerry goes “yeah but nah” and has Tiffany Aching explicitly turn selfishness into a weapon to defeat an Eldritch Fae Queen.
It seems small and trivial, but really think of whom the Tiffany Aching books are aimed at, and just let that sink in.
In a society where young girls are still being socialised to live according to certain “good” traits of femininity decided by patriarchal values, Pterry literally tells you that it’s okay to fucking be selfish, makes it’s a positive thing, makes it a power.
Just let that sink in.
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Reading Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley and this passage got me.
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Disabled people have to live somewhere poor people have to live somewhere you cant just exclude us from everywhere
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Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster
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Week 4 begins with a sploosh
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Huge thanks to @pat-sajacking-off for helping us get closer to an exercise wheel!
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EVERYBODY DO THE WENIS 🕺 THE WENIS IS A DANCE 💃 EVERYBODY IS A GENIUS 🧠 WHO KNOWS IT IN ADVANCE 👯
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Sometimes Twitter is good
#my assumption is that they were googling a stock image of the crest and that came up and they didn't look closely enough#However there are funnier options
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the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this
#one of the things I rant about a lot is that if your plan hinges on 'Well If I Would Just Do The Thing'#and you haven't in these many years Done The Thing#then one must consider that perhaps the plan is not a helpful one and you need to adapt#If I Would Just-#well perhaps there's a reason you haven't?
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doomscrolling is not activism
doomscrolling is not activism
doomscrolling is not activism
"don't look away" is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that's something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.
And then? don't feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don't make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don't read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can't change because they're happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.
I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
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