“Oh!” said Polly, exasperated for no real reason. “I do wish you’d stop agreeing all the time! No wonder people bully you!”

Diana Wynne Jones, "Fire and Hemlock"

No, I said, no. I believe in no. I believe in a hard, resistant, diamantine no. No and no again. No, I will not. No and never and not. I prefer not to. I have grown sick to death of yes. Oh yes, I will. Yes, certainly, of course, yes, darling, yes, sweetheart. Yes, yes, yes. And she said yes.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

Virginia Woolf

Meek Obedience

Follow the lead… real acquiescence trusts frank resistance Assurance… true autonomy shares the harmony Submission… valid compliance achieves alliance Reparation… curiosity restores the beauty Let it be… meek obedience fosters resilience

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the other jedi learn cal's one weakness: childhood trauma

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misplaced my tablet pen 0.01 seconds into drawing this and had to use my mouse to draw it instead

Truth Demands Conflict

Giving in to others simply to avoid conflict puts us in conflict with ourselves.  We cannot please everyone else and ourselves simultaneously.  In most cases, acquiescing to the wants or demands of others in an attempt to make them happy, in spite of our own happiness, has the opposite affect on us.  It may prevent immediate conflict, but it leaves something unresolved inside of us and in our…

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random STUFF - in order, we have oap infighting, donk faces (hardest thing in the world to draw), and yet another lineup of morally dubious individuals

a lazy morning in fontaine

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a spider knows that an insect has been caught in its web because it feels the vibrations of its struggle to escape, right? i think The Narrative is the same way.

you can glide through a story relatively unnoticed and unscathed UNTIL you try to leave. and then The Narrative turns its terrible, bulging eye towards you. and you’re its favorite person forever.

can i not even be a part of a whatsapp group about our local nature conservancy without that jumped up wannabe estate group in our area punting their shit

see the thing is, i wasn't on board the train of "this guy is gonna be lex luthor" cuz i thought that people just saw a guy named alex and remembered that lex luthor's name is LEX luthor and were making an insane leap, but then he said all those very lex things to vicki vale and the show made a deliberate point to show his reaction to jimmy and lois's flamebird stream and how that didn't move him at all, so now i'm starting to really think this is gonna be lex

and anime pretty boy slade wilson is already my favorite part of this show but this has the potential to be a close second if it's true, because either a) lex luthor, someone with a very specific look and vibe, is going to look like this motherfucker for the entire show, or b) he's somehow going to lose that rather voluminous head of hair really rapidly and not only be a twink but be a twink who's bald as an egg, and both options are sending me into the stratosphere

Bought acquiescence

Throw the man you used to be away. Bury him with rivalry entirely.

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Been sitting on this for a bit ever since @wifehorrors convinced me of ponytail Rahadin supremacy, a design majorly influenced by their DM.

wriothesley’s whole wolf emblem thing has me thinking the most depraved thoughts about yan wrio and a bunny hybrid reader btw