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Adjustment of Virtue and Values

1. It is easy to base one’s values on feeling, and cowardly disingenuous to do so, work backwards from that conclusion, then claim it as logic.

2. Feelings can be useful in finding one’s values if properly explored.

3. While there is obvious fault in building a world-view from values alone, determining one’s values from one’s world-view is also cause for pause. Both should be developed individually, then compared to find areas needing greater contemplation.

4. Stand by your values when they are inconvenient, but cast them aside when they are infeasible.

5. After acting in the moment, consider on what that action may have been based.

6. When misaligned with your values, find tangible steps to get closer. This may be as simple as addressing a pattern of thought.

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REBLOG if you have amazing, talented WRITER friends.

Because I certainly do, and I love every single one of them and their work.

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flash games actually raised me more than my parents did and im genuinely gonna miss them

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On Valuing Individualism

1. Valuing the individual and individualism without defending that of others is hypocrisy. Many will say they value the individual when they mean themself.

2. Living as you will means letting others live as they will.

3. Standing for others is standing for yourself; the divided are conquered.

4. Freedom is defined on the baseline considerations of this world; it is not freedom if only one choice provides for basic human needs.

5. None are free until all are free.

6. To infringe on the rights of another is the greatest misstep; being kept from doing so is not oppression.

7. Powerful forces will take advantage of the complexities of rights and freedom by simplifying them to suit their narrative. The duped will see themselves as enlightened, with the tell-tale sign of boundless self-assurance.

8. More important than structural change is practical effect. Don’t abandon the former, rather see it as means to the latter with immediate action available to do alongside.

9. It is possible to practice unconditional love and radical acceptance while still condemning and fighting against their harmful actions. Abandoning pragmatic outcomes based on principle alone gives undue advantage to the unprincipled.

10. Remind others to love themselves, as love expanding from internal to external is the basis of positive change.

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When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

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Working on something new. Hope you get to read it, but you probably won't. It's just for me for now

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Apparently my dreams have a fail safe? Like, the plot of my dream was getting a little too intense, so I stopped for a moment to be like

"This is a dream right? Okay, carry on"

And got right back into the story

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Ever be typing a post, read it while you're typing, and just be like

"I come off like a jackass here"

And just delete it?

Like, an entire speech pattern has been ruined by assholes posturing

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little potate

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@honeytuesday // ocean vuong // lorde

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every english class ive ever had has reaffirmed my belief that english is one of the most necessary classes we have actually

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Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

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Art, Interpretation, and Magick

1. The essence of art is interpretation. The creator interprets an idea, reinterprets to create the final product, then the audience reinterprets it back into an idea.

2. This interpretation and reinterpretation allows for the individual to have initiatory experience via active imagination, regardless of creator.

3. Art is the most concrete magick performed on oneself and others.

4. Let the individual create a formulation of ideas, reflective of reality, both for oneself and the transmission of perspective to others.

5. Through stories the individual can see and display manifest function off the gross assumptions of the creator, whether that be said individual or another. In this way they experience what it is to be divine.

6. Art may not reflect the world, but it will reflect the self.

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.... i have never felt so seen

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It really annoys me that noncreative people try to suck out the fun of creating.

They try to tear down your art, calling it "unrealistic" or "fantasy."

Well, yes. That's why FANTASY is a genre; if you only like realistic entertainment, then DON'T CONSUME FANTASY.

Then they'll try to tear you down with "that's already been done before."

Yeah, okay. Rewatch/read that media you've been consuming. Break it down to the level you broke mine down to and tell me that that media idea has never been done before. Yet you loved it.

I feel like if 2020 has taught the world anything (other than how horrible people are to each other at any chance to be), it's that we rely HEAVILY on creative people in order to keep sane (or as sane as possible).

So I have a challenge for you... tell a writer you love them. Break down a piece of writing they've made and tell them WHY IT'S SPECIAL TO YOU. Really show a writer love.

Do the same for an artist. BUILD UP your creatives because we constantly have to deal with being torn down, not only by our own inner voices but also by people that want to let out their jealousy by shitting on our creativity. So show a creator today how much they've meant to you.

-AKW

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