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The hell with it all, I just can't think of a thing other than those words of his—HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!

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screenshot of a discord message reading “bodies are so” the three suggested words are “much, beautiful”, and “hard”
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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We writers all stand on each other's shoulders, we all use each other's ideas and skills and plots and secrets. Literature is a communal enterprise. That “anxiety of influence" stuff is just testosterone talking. Understand me: I don't mean plagiarism: I'm not talking about imitation, or copying, or theft. If I thought I had really deliberately used any other writer's writing, I certainly wouldn't stand here congratulating myself, l'd go hide my head in a paper bag (along with several eminent historians). What I mean is that stuff from other people's books gets into us just as our own experience does, and like actual experience gets composted and transmuted and transformed by the imagination, and comes forth entirely changed, our own, growing out of our own mind's earth.
October 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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In commercial fantasy the so-called battle of good and evil is a mere power struggle. Look at how they act: the so-called good wizards and the so-called bad ones are equally violent and irresponsible. This is about as far from Tolkien as you can get. But why should moral seriousness matter, why do probability and consistency matter, when it's "all just made up"? Well, moral seriousness is what makes a fantasy matter, because it's what's real in the story. A made-up story is inevitably trivial if nothing real is at stake, if mere winning, coming out on top, replaces moral choice. Easy wish fulfillment has a great appeal to children, who are genuinely powerless; but if it's all a story has to offer, in the end it's not enough.
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The ground of our experience is dark, and all our inventions start in that darkness. From it, some of them leap forth in fire. The imagination can transfigure the dark matter of life. And in many personal essays and autobiographies, that's what I begin to miss, to crave: transfiguration. To recognise our shared, familiar misery is not enough. I want to recognise something I never saw before. I want the vision to leap out at me, terrible and blazing— the fire of the transfiguring imagination. I want the true dragons.
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to-by gender, sex, race, religion, age-is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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We do have novels that assume that women represent humanity as well as men do; that gays, or people of color, or non-Christians, represent humanity as well as heterosexuals, whites, or Christians do; or that the adult or parental point of view is as valuable as the childish one. The stigma of "political correctness," invoked by those who see all refusal of bigotry as a liberal conspiracy, may be slapped on such books. They are often ghettoised by publishers and reviewers, segregated from fiction "of general interest." If a novel is centered on the doings of men, or its major characters are male, white, straight, and/or young, nothing is said about them as members of a group, and the story is assumed to be "of general interest." If the major characters are women, or black, or gay, or old, reviewers are likely to say that the book is "about" that group, and it is assumed, even by sympathetic reviewers, to be of interest chiefly or only to that group. Thus both the critical establishment and the publishers' publicity and distribution tactics lend immense authority to prejudice. A writer may not want to defy both the reactionary critical establishment and the pusillanimous marketplace. "I just want to write this novel about the kind of people I know!" "I just want to sell my book!" Fair enough. But how much collusion with prejudice, disguised as unquestioned assumptions about what is normal, does it take to buy safety?
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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In much recent fiction written for adults, however, the child's vision is not used ironically or to increase complexity, but is, implicitly or openly, valued over the depth of vision of the adult. This is nostalgia with a vengeance. In such books an absolute division between adult and child is made and a judgment is based on it. Adults are perceived as less fully human than children or young people, and the reader is expected to accept this perception. Parents and authority figures of any kind are presented without compassion or comprehension as automatic enemies, all-powerful wielders of arbitrary power. There may be a few saintly, all-comprehending exceptions proving the rule powerless old folks, grandparent figures rich in the Primitive Wisdom of Another (note the word) Race. Sentimentality fawns on oversimplification.
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The confusion of "us" with "everybody" is most tempting to people who are members of one or more of the privileged or dominant groups in their society or in an isolated or sheltered social environment such as a college, or a white American neighborhood, or a newspaper editorial staff. The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike. Its corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter. The supposed phenomenon of "political correctness"—a conspiracy by bleeding-heart liberals to keep us ordinary folks from talking the normal ordinary just-folks down-home way and calling a spade a spade exhibits the corollary as an article of belief, invoked to defend various bigotries.
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Most people, in most places, in most times, are of inferior status. And most people, even now, even in “the free world," even in "the home of the free," consider this state of affairs, or certain elements of it, as natural, necessary, and unchangeable. They hold it to be the way it has always been and therefore the way it must be.
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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If it were true that superior people refuse to be treated as inferiors, it would follow that those low in the social order are truly inferior, since, if they were superior, they'd protest; since they accept an inferior position, they are inferior. This is the comfortably tautological argument of the slave owner, the social reactionary, the racist, and the misogynist.
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The technology is not what matters. Words are what matter. The sharing of words. The activation of imagination through the reading of words. The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place in the vocabulary of profit making. It is not a weapon, though all weapons originate from it, and the use, or nonuse, of all weapons depends on it: as do all tools and their uses. The imagination is a fundamental way of thinking, an essential means of becoming and remaining human. It is a tool of the mind.
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Mutual communication between speakers and listeners is a powerful act. The power of each speaker is amplified, augmented, by the entrainment of the listeners. The strength of a community is amplified, augmented by its mutual entrainment in speech. This is why utterance is magic. Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things.They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I propose an anti-utilitarian, nonreductionist, and of course incomplete answer. The bowerbird builds his bower to court his lady, but also, in Darwin's lovely phrase, "for playing in." The song sparrow sings information, but plays with it as he does so. The functional message becomes complicated with a lot of "useless noise" because the pleasure of it-the beauty of it, as we say-is the noise: the trouble taken, the elaboration and repetition, the play. The selfish gene may be using the individual to perpetuate itself, and the sparrow obeys; but, being an individual not a germ cell, he values individual experience, individual pleasure, and to duty adds delight. He plays.
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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If your body isn't perfect, punish it. No pain no gain, all that stuff. Perfection is "lean" and "taut" and “hard"-like a boy athlete of twenty, a girl gymnast of twelve. What kind of body is that for a man of fifty or a woman of any age? "Perfect"? What's perfect? A black cat on a white cushion, a white cat on a black one... A soft brown woman in a flowery dress... There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.
October 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Certainly we've become so numbed by the quantity of unverifiable information poured out upon us that we admit factoids as more or less equivalent to facts. And with the same numbness, we're generally acceptant of hype of all kinds—advertising, stories about celebrity figures, political "leaks," patriotic and moralistic declarations, and so on—reading it without much caring if the material is credible or that we're being treated as objects of manipulation.
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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screenshot of a tumblr post holythefirm Sep 13 “God’s favorite little darling” as your bio when you’re 30…. It should be “if the lord lets me see another day” salieri-antonio Sep 26 @wolfi-amadeus-mozart wolfi-amadeus-mozart Sep 26 Hm...I may steal that for my own bio Danke schön, Herr Salieri! salieri-antonio Sep 26 ... my pleasure. Wolfgang. holythefirm 4d everyday on here it’s like okay well sure
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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That joy must not be sold. It must not be "privatised," made into another privilege for the privileged. A public library is a public trust. And that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, and that's everyone, when they need it, and that's always. — Ursula K Le Guin
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October 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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screenshot of a tumblr post mx-capgras sep 25 this will stay in my ask box forever. i have never enjoyed an ask so much as i have enjoyed this one [image] Anonymous Sep 20 Anonymous sent nice outfit loser 2001 called and they said something happened to the world trade center.
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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screentshot of two reddit comments cobaltorange • 2y ago Is there somewhere to make sense all of this? Acrobatic_Egg_5841 • 10mo ago Yes that happens in the brain
October 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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oooooh right i can actually do anything because the moon gives me strength
full moon, golden in color, in the early morning skies of fall. it is framed by trees both above and below.
October 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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rayne fisher-quann @raynefq So easy to universalize personal experience into cultural critique... just caught myself thinking "interesting how pumpkin carving is falling out of style" and then remembered im 23 and live alone in an apartment 8:24 PM • Oct 19, 2024 • 3.1M Views
September 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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