if u offer me a sincere apology & change ur behavior, I'll never bring up our past issues again. But if no apology was given and ur still repeating mistakes, u can't ask me to stop mentioning the past. The "past" is actually the present if u haven't changed.
The whimsy is a decoy. The most intelligent, militant minded, LETHALLY gifted people I know are VERY playful bc they have a side that is EXTREMELY venomous and even THEY are afraid of what happens when the scales tip just a LITTTTTTTLE too much. Tread lightly thinking that bc ppl CHOOSE peace that they aren’t skilled at war. They’re hidden in plain sight… not powerless.
At a family dinner, my uncle started complaining that menstrual products were a waste of wood because pads contain cellulose, which comes from trees. He kept insisting women in the old days survived without them anyway. My little sister looked at him and said, “Actually, your birth certificate was a waste of paper.” The table went completely silent.
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
sometimes a book is 5 star because its a masterpiece. sometimes its a 5 star because it made my brain release serotonin. and sometimes its a 5 star because it made me cry my eyes out. all of them are equally valid.