*stabs Julius Caesar In The Back* You're Bleeding Because You Don't Floss

*stabs julius caesar in the back* you're bleeding because you don't floss

More Posts from Herhighnessthegoblinqueen and Others

Now I’m just picturing Charles doing research on Edwardian hair styles so he get Edwin’s hair exactly how he likes it, and surprise if him with it on like the 10 year anniversary of the agency starting and these boys are so married.

i have had enough DBD sadness. canonically, they cannot see themselves in mirrors, which means charles and edwin are constantly fixing each other’s hair, clothes, wiping dirt of each other’s faces. there is no other reasonable explanation for them both being so well kept.


Tags

When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”

He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)

I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.

What is your objective?

Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.

I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.

I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.

Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.

Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.

How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?

Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.

Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?

I think Muskrats is a bit more accurate

I dont like musk and I dont wanna talk about him but I DO want to start referring to his fans as Musketeers


Tags

Giant cookie for giant me🥺

Giant keyhole for giant key

Giant beehive for giant bee


Tags

voice-over: Halloween is the one night a year a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it

makeup montage

voice-over: the really hardcore girls only wear lingerie and some kind of animal ears

close up of someone putting on a pair of cat ears

cut to the agency door, which the cat king slams open, wearing the perfect mean girls Halloween costume


Tags
THE IDEAS YOU RECEIVE FROM CHEESE CANNOT SAVE YOU

THE IDEAS YOU RECEIVE FROM CHEESE CANNOT SAVE YOU

If Hadestown has a moral, she says, then it’s “you have to try, you have to have hope, not because success is a given – it’s not. Orpheus fails. We heroicise” – here she breaks off to apologise that jet lag has led to her making up words – “we heroicise Orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries, and that endeavour alone is worthwhile. How to live, and not merely survive, is to believe things could change.”

Anaïs Mitchell on her musical Hadestown: 'I worked on it so long I was afraid I'd never make another record'

The very act of officially sanctioning a wizard orb destroys all its vibes

Pondering My Ricky Rain Frog

pondering my ricky rain frog

Never ever ever eat raw white onion and then smoke cigarette.


Tags
  • missmagitech
    missmagitech liked this · 1 month ago
  • liamabob
    liamabob reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • gothcatboygirl
    gothcatboygirl reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • platonce
    platonce reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • platonce
    platonce liked this · 1 month ago
  • and-this-is-faraday
    and-this-is-faraday reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • allykiwi
    allykiwi reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • justheretoread-ao3
    justheretoread-ao3 liked this · 1 month ago
  • disgruntedvampire
    disgruntedvampire reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • dizzyfowl
    dizzyfowl liked this · 1 month ago
  • indigoatari
    indigoatari reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • skysybil
    skysybil reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • skysybil
    skysybil liked this · 2 months ago
  • chronurgy
    chronurgy reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • sipral
    sipral reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • freaklafreak
    freaklafreak reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • freaklafreak
    freaklafreak liked this · 2 months ago
  • toamonster
    toamonster reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • the-doodle-darling
    the-doodle-darling liked this · 2 months ago
  • im-nerv0us
    im-nerv0us liked this · 2 months ago
  • edgemarquess
    edgemarquess reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • godzillabutpink
    godzillabutpink reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • here-be-worms
    here-be-worms reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • dustydaydreamer
    dustydaydreamer reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • theone-and-only
    theone-and-only liked this · 2 months ago
  • canadiantardis
    canadiantardis reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • transpoettryinghisbest
    transpoettryinghisbest liked this · 2 months ago
  • infantisimo
    infantisimo liked this · 2 months ago
  • jzevnix
    jzevnix liked this · 2 months ago
  • pinkkea123
    pinkkea123 reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • a-rain-atherapy
    a-rain-atherapy reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • swimreader
    swimreader reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • chemically-cathartic
    chemically-cathartic liked this · 2 months ago
  • syncogon
    syncogon reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • 5thearth
    5thearth reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • unproductivedaniel
    unproductivedaniel reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • suspiciouscombustion
    suspiciouscombustion reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • ironic-lion
    ironic-lion reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • missofmidnight
    missofmidnight liked this · 2 months ago
  • winston-ramone
    winston-ramone reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • winston-ramone
    winston-ramone liked this · 2 months ago
  • buddieboos
    buddieboos reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • idontknownothin
    idontknownothin reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • fancyblogname
    fancyblogname liked this · 2 months ago
  • beachcommxnity
    beachcommxnity reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • floristea
    floristea reblogged this · 2 months ago

231 posts

Explore Tumblr Blog
Search Through Tumblr Tags