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I have a dog. But there's a cat I fed once who now wants to stay with me
If I leave them in the same room, one will kill the other. No matter how it plays out, I will be the murderer.
This is hardly the first time I have faced this conflict.
As dawn rests I wake up with this almost devotion to achieve freedom. To wash away all the emotions left over from last night as I wash my face.
But as the day goes by, I shamelessly sell this freedom to the stranger in the club, to my two friends on a motorcycle, to a girl in love behind the phone-screen.
There are only two things I want more than anything else in this world;
to be free and to be less lonely.
But if I leave them in the same room, one will kill the other.
No matter how it plays out, I will be the murderer.
- Rakesh Swain
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being a derry girl, well, it's a fucking state of mind
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Out with the 'am I took much' ' yes but I love you in spite of that'
In with the 'am I took much' 'yes but you're my too much and I love you because of it'
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ESCAPE
Bint El Khandaq - Mashrou Leila / Succession 2x07 / Fast Car - Tracy Chapman / fax from comedian Graham Kennedy to probable lover Rob Astbury / Mikey and Nicky, dir. Elaine May, 1976
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When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”
He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)
I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.
What is your objective?
Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.
I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.
I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.
Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.
Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.
How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?
Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.
Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?
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first impressions from heartbreak high ep.1 :
quinni is my fav. right away. chloe hayden thank you for her.
as soon as the show said that harper and amerie were best friends i KNEW something was gonna happen
pink mullet girl (i think sarah?) is an icon
darren is incredible and i love them
jojo > woodsy
amerie honey no why would you cut your own hair
malakai is the sweetest baby and if anything happens to him (it will i’m sure) i’m committing several crimes
DO PEOPLE REALLY JUST HANG OUT IN CEMETERIES WTF i mean you do you babes i wish i could join you but w h a t
oh quinni darling your lack of social cues is hitting very close to home and i love you for it
why oh dear god why did my mother have to walk in on quinnie showing some dude the vagina book oh god i will never recover from this
i want quinni to do my makeup please and thank you
i have feelings on dusty?? like not bad or good just??????
“you’re so much more interesting now that you fucked everything up” ok no i love him
harper babe what is happening rn. like what?? clearly it is more than just “ur a child and i want to move on” so what is it
darren sneaking in through the window into their on house :(((
just in general hearing all aussie accents is so amazing to me. i’m australian and i love this sm.
harper and dusty????? amerie and dusty????? what?
WAIT WHAT WAS THAT CLIFFHANGER HUH WHO’S STARTING THE INCEST MAP AGAIN I NEED TO KNOW
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[JUST FRIENDS]
Enjoy the first 4 pages of my comic about friendship and the depth of platonic love, which I’ll be selling at the first edition of Pride In Panels this month (aspecs are you listening?)!
Find me at the San Francisco Main Library on Sunday, Feb 18th, from 12-5PM.
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one of my favorite and seemingly underrated exchanges in heartbreak high is darren offering to get malakai something gayer to wear and malakai saying “oh Yes PLEASE”
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“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
- Charles Bukowski
(via (41) Pinterest)
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Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
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