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"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM
"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM
She didn’t know much about human customs, but skeletons had to be private, or else why would they be so carefully wrapped up?
“Junklord videos are pure consumerist pornography: a fantasy of endless 'stuff' in a world that's rapidly running out of resources.”
― Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence
― Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence
“And is immortality necessarily good?" Roisin asked mildly. "What will happen when everyone you love is gone? When you're alone, and nothing matters any longer because you don't have the prospect of your own mortality to give it weight?"
"Listen, I understand you've got an argument to make, but never in my life have I thought, 'You know what really makes this lemon cake delicious? Knowing that one day I will die.”
― A Long Time Dead
"Listen, I understand you've got an argument to make, but never in my life have I thought, 'You know what really makes this lemon cake delicious? Knowing that one day I will die.”
― A Long Time Dead
“I didn't want to have to pour concrete around my heart in an attempt to shield me from the blast.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“Her muscles had locked and released, seized and spasmed and twisted, Her organs had become a frightened mouse, her body the powerful snake digesting it.”
― A Long Time Dead
― A Long Time Dead
“When Audre Lorde wrote that oft-instagrammed quote: 'Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare,' she didn't mean that self-care should be selfish or a form of self-flagellation, that it should be an overpriced moisturizer or a painful procedure. Self-care, in reality, is supposed to coincide with community care. It means taking time for yourself so that you can better support those around you - resting so that you can be a part of the revolution, helping other women with child-care, prepping meals for those in need or providing a voice for the voiceless. We, as women, win and lose together. Sorority is self-care.”
― Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
― Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
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