Enjoying retirement had been eclipsed by aches and pains and ever-poorer eyesight and dentures and brittle hair and abundant doctor’s appointments and far too many pills that had to be taken at the correct time on the right days and soft foods and rubber-soled shoes.
Looks like I was doing a review! For once yeesh Turns out to be on this lovely thing by @BlueAfrica (Oh and now the url is in my paste xD)
Unofficial Blue Cat of YWS =^-^= Do whatever you want, forever <3 she/they
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.” -Alan Moore, V for Vendetta "Don't start things you can't finish." -Therion the Thief, Octopath Traveler
Art was made to be dangerous, that is why it is beautiful.
I believe that we're biologically attuned to understand a handful of objective ethics. However, understanding does not mean that one respects them.
People are born as they were meant to exist in the State of Nature. They are prone to good and prone to evil, although evil is really more so the result of one's subverted interpretation of what may be good. That sense of basic morality, however, is dependent upon one's upbringing.
However, I don't think it's even all that useful to categorize people as being good or bad by themselves. Factors such as morality & individual intent really don't mean anything. What defines an action as being good or bad is the consequence of said action.
For instance, a greedy Hollywood celebrity decides that he wants to get into the spotlight for whatever reason, so he donates one million dollars to Save the African Children Ltd. or whatever. The money is extremely crucial into helping improve lives. That was the ethical decision & it was the good decision, as it helped people. The self-serving intention of the Hollywood fellow has no weight in the greater scheme of things. He did something ethical.
Consequence is what matters most. I take this philosophical stance. It's exactly why I often defend with a fervor that the Red Wedding was justified.
oh god, that was a recording of me singing xD it's really bad
"If you have a painting in you, paint. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way. Write if you're a writer. Do what you were born to do. --Toni Sorenson
Jealousy is a sickly, green vine that curls around the heart. It takes the reigns from the brain and drives things down a worse course. It flicks the fingers into forming something harder, shocks them into balling up. The eyes glaze over from the heat of the hateful oven. The heart is strangled, punctured by thorns from twisting roses that entwine the senses. They threaten the false façade of a smiling face. It makes one pitifully aware of how their own roses Have seemingly been ignored by the gardener. First comes the skin-flaying heat of the fire. Then the bone numbing chill of the ice storm. Be careful, Small One, lest your own roses wither in the cold while you admire another’s.
(The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, the Universe, and Everything So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish Mostly Harmless And Another Thing…
Intrepid Explorer Squire of the Green Room Harbinger of the Cosmic Squid Brief Castaway Founder of Hermits United TIME Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year Dark Matter Overlord Kind of a Big Deal
Yes! That's such a good book. I love the audio books too.
My paste thingy:
Hyperfocus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a subject, topic, or task. In some individuals, various subjects or topics may also include daydreams, concepts, fiction, the imagination, and other objects of the mind. (From my blog)
"I have written you down and you will live forever" -Bastille
"We are infinite as the universe we hold inside." -Sleeping At Last
“What is it?” Madeline asked, seeing Ayda’s expression. “Traveling like this is too slow,” Ayda said bluntly. “And I don’t know the land around the road well enough to make it easier.” Madeline leaned back against the trunk. “You could go scouting Ayda frowned. The first rule of traveling was to always have a buddy and to never leave their sight. But this wasn’t working — at this rate, it would take them three days or more to get there. She had to find an easier route for Madeline.
...From my novel!
We're all stories in the end.
I think of you as a fairy with a green dress and a flower crown and stuff. -EternalRain
I think you, @Deanie and I are like the Three Book Nerd Musketeers of YWS. -bluewaterlily
Intrepid Explorer Squire of the Green Room Harbinger of the Cosmic Squid Brief Castaway Founder of Hermits United TIME Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year Dark Matter Overlord Kind of a Big Deal
(i was trying to spell that when talking about the pileated woodpecker. so i googled it and copied the word)
Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
*I mean overseers. The overlords are the other drone summoning guys that come after...
Hmm. I think this had something to do with diep.io...
Dumbledore: "Now, it's great that you've been saving the school and all Harry, but unfortunately your grades have been a tad low, and, well... perhaps Gandalf could explain it better... hit it, Gandalf!
