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For every person who thinks you're "too quiet" there's one who thinks you're an amazing listener. For every person who thinks you're "too clingy" there's one who loves how much and how openly you care about others. For every person who thinks you're "too weird" there's one who admires how you dare to stand out from the crowd. For every person who thinks you're "too sensitive" there's one who respects you for being so in touch with your feelings. For every person who thinks you're "too confident" there's one who thinks your self respect is an inspiration. What's a negative trait in one person's eyes might be exactly what someone else is looking for. It's not black or white.

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captain carter: i could do this all day

narrator: she could not, in fact, do this all day

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Doctor Strange burying his own dead body like

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Multiverse of Madness + Text Posts ♡

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A post flopping is the worst thing that can ever happen to a tumblrina

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that damned lake

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A taste of your own medicine.

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arthur heard merlin say "life's simple out here, you eat what you grow and everyone pitches in together. as long as you've got food on the table and a roof over your head, you're happy" about ealdor ONCE and fantasized about living with merlin on a farm far away from camelot ever since

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in case it hasn’t been clear, this blog is firmly and unwaveringly pro-choice.

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I want to talk real quick about something really important to me:

When you have something important to say on the internet that you care about, you will be most successful at changing people's minds if you take care to state your ideas in an understanding, non-aggressive, and non-accusing manner.

There has been a conversation a while back about how people of color should not need to be "nice" and "polite" when they are resisting being dehumanized and abused. This is true and I 100% agree with it.

However, it seems like some people have taken from that a principle that "if you really care about the truth, you should be willing to accept it even if the person saying it is not 'nice' or polite" and applied it to everything.

This is not good.

Emotional discomfort at being nice to someone who disagrees with you on a topic you are very emotionally invested in is not the same as the dehumanizing and demeaning experience of being "nice" in response to oppression and prejudice from people who think your life and the lives of people you love don't have value.

What I'm saying is, if you are talking about why spiders are important to the ecosystem, why cats should be kept inside, or why public transportation is a good idea, it will not hurt you to be patient and kind.

You may not feel like the person arguing with you deserves kindness. You may not think that being kind will help them get their stubborn opinion unstuck. But not only is understanding and patience much, much more persuasive, it makes people comfortable enough to ask questions. If they don't ask questions they will never get past their misconceptions.

People that would otherwise say "huh, I didn't think about it like that but now I see what you mean" get defensive when people present new ideas to them like an attack.

I have done it. You have done it. When someone on the internet is making what feels like nasty, rude accusations about you, demeaning you for not knowing a piece of information, or haughtily proclaiming how Right and Correct they are, your instinct is to get defensive.

So put your ego up on a high shelf and show grace and kindness to people who are ignorant. This is just how persuasion works.

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"Safe Abortion for All.

No Compromise - No Apology"

Print by Bum Lung Press

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2 3 4 aka the dream team <3

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rb to get your "I was here before Elon Musk bought twitter" badge

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so much hate on the dash rb to hug the person you reblogged this from <3

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glad to see those spreading the truth