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one critical piece of advice is that opportunities are fractal doorways

you can take an opportunity that seems small, a group meeting for an hour once a week let's say, and if you really commit and put a lot of effort into even a small opportunity, if you work to prop open that passageway, then you will find that it can surprisingly quickly multiply into many future possibilities, many future paths.

one of the members of your small book club desperately needs a babysitter for the weekend. that's a gig. another one hits it off with you on some obscure topic. the bulletin board at the place you meet has a flyer for a class on writing. you go, and now you're in an environment full of other people who are there for the same reasons. talk to them. over drinks one night an older member encourages you to apply for uni with one of your short stories you wrote for the class. et cetera.

I spent a lot of time paralyzed with indecision, trying to find just the right opportunity to get me where i wanted to go. that's the entirely wrong way to go about it. practice pursuing possibilities is more important than optimizing your choice of path, waiting for just the perfect opportunity to magically drop into your lap. It likely won't happen like that, it's not necessary, and you don't need to live your whole life at once. Frodo didn't arrive at Mt Doom by making the optimal choice on the first crossroads out of the shire.

Instead cultivate an attitude of engagement with whatever imperfect seemingly insignificant opportunities that are already in front of you, and keep an open mind & eyes, and trust in the fractal nature of reality. look for threads to pull, opportunities to pursue, and engage with people as if every one of them has something new to teach you, and somewhere new to take you that you've never been. they probably do. the more you engage the more you'll find out that this is true; trust that paths will lead to more paths even if you can't see them yet. trust that the big scary void question mark of a future contains not only unseen dangers but also an unseen unfurling infinity of options and paths, friends and lovers, work and play. i love u

Fuck it Rat Fairies

happy old gnoll

for every we're so back there are three consecutive it's so overs

Vulva en Vogue

just call it the Labia Case and be done with it

This is still a great technique

“Now I’ll try to outline the 30-day test I want you to make. Keep in mind that you have nothing to lose by making this test and everything that you could possibly want, to gain.

I want you to write on a card what it is you want more than anything else. It may be more money. Perhaps you would like to double your income or make a specific amount of money. It may be a beautiful home. It may be success at your job. It may be a particular position in life. It could be a more harmonious family. Each of us want something.

Write down on your card, specifically, what it is that you want. Make sure it is a single goal and clearly defined. You need not show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day.

Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up and immediately you have something to work for, something to get out of bed for, something to live for. Look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night. As you look at it, remember you must become what you think about and since you’re thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours. In fact, it’s yours, really, the moment you write it down and begin to think about it.

Look at the abundance all around you as you go about your daily business. You have as much right to this abundance as any other living creature. It’s yours for the asking.

Now we come to the difficult part. Difficult, because it means the formation of what is probably a brand new habit and new habits are not easily formed. Once formed however, it will follow you for the rest of your life.

Stop thinking about what it is you fear. Each time a fearful or negative thought comes into your consciousness, replace it with a mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal. There will come times when you will feel like giving up. It’s easier for a human being to think negatively than positively, that’s why only 5 percent are successful. You must begin now to place yourself in that group.

For 30 days you must take control of your mind. It will think only about what you permit it to think. Each day, for this 30 day test, do more than you have to do. In addition to maintaining a cheerful positive outlook, give of yourself more than you’ve ever done before. Do this knowing that your returns in life must be in direct proportion to what you give.

The moment you decide on a goal to work towards you are immediately a successful person. You are then in that rare and successful category of people who know where they’re going. Out of every 100 people, you belong to the top five.”

“SELF-CONFIDENCE will solve almost everything in your life. You must never, I repeat, you must never stop complimenting your qualities and loving yourself as deeply as you possibly can. A great tip: record a long audio-file of the most powerful affirmations (that is, positive sentences about yourself, your life, the world, and your future) that you can possibly think of. Hear these sentences when you are taking long walks, when you are cleaning up, when you are doing the dishes, in short, whenever you have any time to spare at all. Keep this habit going as long as you can…and your life will soon improve massively…because the thoughts and beliefs that underlie its quality positively has.”

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I would be very cautious about broadcasting your L’s and self-deprecation. Your subconscious cannot take a joke. What you repeatedly tell yourself is what you become. Other people will start to believe it too. Don’t be shocked if you keep joking that you’re a dumb bitch and people use you and discard you. You insisted!

Simon Weil's 'The List of Temptations (to be read daily)' from her diary.

Im actually getting repulsed by level up gurus and their awful advice.

Nothing is about the individual. Everything is about the idealized woman who is not only sexy and beautiful but worldly enough to realize that being a human being is for commoners not elite successful women

"If I've got a problem, then we've got all one." Today's art warm-up brought to you by more World's Beyond Number fan-art! This time of the Lightning Bolt & Fireball 'Tomori' This was a really fun design challenge! I'm pretty sure I'll change some things about their design over time too :)

Of the three metaphysical axioms put forward to the mages of this Citadel: The Axiom of Interpolation, The Axiom of Mediation, and The Axiom of Proliferation — this third axiom does not describe any actual truth of the lingua arcana, nor does it more broadly describe any facet of the greater binding.

Rather, this axiom is pure intellectual technology that serves a political purpose within the Citadel, given as magical writ for the expedition of a Citadel convenience. The ramifications of this being made magical law sully every instance of the lingua arcana that it touches. Its danger to the future of wizardry, when the convenience of its acceptance has long since passed — the ripples of its effect on magic itself will still be felt.

Should the archmagi see it in their wisdom to reverse my dismissal, I will be happy to walk them through how I discovered this stain on the face of magic itself.

Good day.

The Wizard Shundri

hi sorry i have a question. how do you become a person. how do you develop the will to be a person. i have sadly proven unkillable

you have to be sincere. you have to stop being sad that you haven't been killed and take up the burden of loving yourself and taking care of yourself. and when I say love yourself I mean pretend you are an angel sent down by God for the purpose of loving and healing one specific person, yourself. and when I say take care of yourself I mean pretend you are an alien zookeeper and your only job is to look after a single human being in the Earth enclosure, you. after a few years of practicing this, you will develop the ability to like yourself and enjoy your own company, and you'll know enough about yourself to take it from there. I'm ordering you to do this, whether you have the "will" to do it or not, out of pure self-interest, because five years from now it will have made you good company and I prefer the human world to be populated with good companions. little lanterns against the inhospitable night of the age of Iron.

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

Boycott Israel Cheat Sheet: Cosmetics, Health and Personal Care

When I began this blog, it was my intention to keep it strictly focused on the art of Palestine, and not to use it as a sounding block for pro-Palestinian politics. This is not to say the two things are unrelated – to the contrary, the art coming out of Palestine and from those living in exile is often explicitly political, and in all cases is shaped by the ongoing occupation of Palestine. My feeling was, and largely still remains, that this is a place for contemplation rather than debate. In light of the latest assault on Gaza, however, I have been doing a lot of talking with friends about BDS. What started as a conversation bemoaning the affiliation of MAC cosmetics with Zionist causes rapidly turned into a project; I spent the better part of a day compiling a list of cosmetics, health and personal care brands to avoid if you’re boycotting Israel, along with alternative products to use.

The process was abysmal. Surely, I have taken care never to underestimate US corporate ties with Israel, but even so, the explicit connections and the vast scope of products involved is frankly demoralizing.  That said, the boycott of Israeli goods is a vital step towards liberation for Palestine, and if you are interested in learning more, visit the BDS website and consult the list below.

A note about the scope and content: I focused on health and beauty items because they are the items I use most in my daily life, and because my friends – who seem disproportionately to be incredibly beautiful and well-groomed femmes – wanted to know about the products they are using. To do an exhaustive list is impossible at this juncture, though I hope to make lists focused on different sales arenas in the future. Topically, it bears repeating that Palestine is a feminist issue – we as women and/or feminist advocates should remember this as we make choices about the kind of products we buy for our bodies.

The list is after the cut, please share widely! 

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Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

are u trans?

No

lets hear it for transgenderism and faggotry. can I get a round of applause for transgenderism and faggotry

I am taking this so seriously. I’m at the used book store

Stand on business they said. Self respect is important they said.

So why does sticking to my guns make me feel like I’ve been shot.

Found out my mom’s name means sister in our tribal language and almost burst into tears.

I love my culture. I love who i am.

Through no work of my own I’ve been born into tradition so beautiful it makes me shake with joy.

Now what if I said that objective beauty does not exist. Now what hmmm?

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most important realization you had that helped you become stable in your current relationship?

I was recommended this Ted Talk, sat down, listened to every single word, and let the thoughts I had wash over me. I wouldn’t consider myself to have ever been in a physically abusive relationship but Leslie Morgan Steiner was able to brilliantly articulate some of the feelings I’ve always had but never been able to say. The words "I wasn't in an abusive relationship; I was in a complicated relationship with a man who only I understood” helped me to begin to think about some of the things I’ve tolerated and really begin unpacking some of the experiences I’ve had with some of the men I’ve known and loved over all these years. It’s a great talk and I’d recommend taking the time to watch it.

Its difficult fully closing doors you wished would have something different behind them if you just waited long enough.