Literally nothing I said yesterday is mutually exclusive with this, just saying. Yes. He does crappy things because he wants to make his parents proud. Agreed. See: yesterday. Hmm. (Also, noting that he is redeemable, or that he COULD have been nice if things had been different, is a long way from claiming that he […]
The fan attraction to Draco isn’t “white boys always get forgiven”. It’s the slightly gut-chilling recognition that “there, but for the grace of God, walk I”; the knowledge that, with the wrong parents, in the wrong time, in the wrong place, many of us could BE that person. It’s the recognition that our start in
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Just totally snowed under by work etc this week. Have the new opening to #FoxBook as a thank you for being here despite my non-brain-ness :3 <3 Trigger warnings: The dog starts out dead. It’s not described in horrific detail, but if that’s problematic for, you skip the first 400 words and start at the
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Yesterday, @Nicole_Cliffe, whom I do not know except for this brief encounter, started a thread on twitter, asking for times when strangers have been kind to us. Please. Take time to read the thread. You will not be sorry. This article, linked to in the thread, is also very much worth your while: a story
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Since dreams seems to have been the theme this week, I thought this would be relevant. It’s also kind of a theme song of mine, I guess: it resonates pretty hard. Enjoy <3 What inspiring things have you found on the internet this week? Read more:How To Plan A Pinterest-Worthy Party WITHOUT DYING (Or Losing
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I needed this reminder. It’s been seven or so months since I worked on a novel, and restarting after so long is pants-wettingly terrifying. What if I’ve forgotten how to do it? What if it’s all crap? Why am I doing this anyway when I already have a full-time job and more items on my
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Depression hitting hard today. Nothing specific, just existential dread about the state of everyday reality and humanity, and missing being *with* people not just bodily, but in action and purpose. If you have happy memes or cute pictures or whatever, I’d be grateful. For now, I’m losing myself in Unstable Unicorns (because the artwork is
I’m back from two weeks away essentially without internet, and I need to talk about that. But first, I’ll do that thing that I ‘should’ do, which is announce that How To Create Cultures is now out and available everywhere in ebook – print release has stuck to the original date of the 17th, so
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Found this on a stumble through the archives, and it felt timely to repost. Go on. Be rebellious. You know you want to 😉 Modern Western consumer culture particularly sets us up to be in competition with each other – as men, as women, as non-binaries, as teens, as adults, in the workplace, in comparing
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Step 1: burn your diary Step 2: now you have nothing to do Step 3: congratulations, you got everything done! …If you’d like a slightly more practical approach, this was a great article I found last week about using discernment to tackle your to-dos. I suspect it will mesh nicely with The One Thing,
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