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(…) the faultline between artificiality and sincerity: a thrilling but terrifying place to be. It’s her reaction to “the complexity of the situation we’re in, as people living now,” she explains, halting as she extracts a thread from her spiralling thoughts. “You can have contradictory feelings about everything and things don’t make sense. The range of knowledge available to us is so confusing.”

“But also it’s surreal and it’s ridiculous,” she concludes. “I’m trying to get to a point where I can just embrace that feeling fully, as a human.”

SOPHIE: Earthly Pleasures
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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler

i don’t think the intention matters. i think what matters is what are you going to do. what are you going to do about this. it doesn’t feel good, it doesn’t feel good so what are you going to do.

if this thing happens, then what do i want to do after that. if i get a job, what would i feel excited about or capable of. there is work everywhere that is trying to help. and those types of resources can help you too.

nävouny divinne

The Tyranny of Stuctureless
The Tyranny of Stuctureless
The Fairies are Back & They’re Even Smaller: The Meeting of Magic & the Microscopic World of “Smalls” - Braided Way Magazine
The Fairies are Back & They’re Even…

the most important aspect of fairy stories is that they are received as true.

Sophie Strand

But even with regard to language it seems to me that the essential quality and aptitudes of a given language in a living monument is both more important to seize and far more difficult to make explicit than its linear history.

J.R.R. Tolkien

“I take a stance against a temporality that describes liberation only in terms of unilateral ‘victory’ against the reactionary. Such a perspective shows an “enormous condescension of posterity” towards those who are defeated. Writing history this way suggests turns the story of oppressed peoples’ struggles into one of successive defeats, imposing a linearity in which any setback is taken as proof that the fight was badly conducted… rather than one that exposes the determination of reactionary and imperialist forces to crush any dissent. This is what songs of struggle — Black spirituals, revolutionary songs, gospel songs, songs of [enslaved people] and colonized people — recount: the long road to freedom, a never-ending struggle, revolution as daily work.”

Francoise Vergés

Decolonial Feminism (2019)
Patterns of Transformation: Designing Sex, Death, and Survival in the 21st Century
Patterns of Transformation: Designing S…

“doing nothing, observing, having conversations, exploring, and through self-directed learning”. They liken the “chaotic nature” of informal learning to the process that leads to scientific breakthroughs, the early stages of crafting a novel, coming up with a solution to a technical problem, or the act of composing music.

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