#daniel ortberg

[joontora]

WHY I WILL FIGHT GOD

WHY I WILL FIGHT GOD: OKAY • THEOLOGY: I AM GOD’S WORST DAUGHTER AND I WILL FIGHT HIM UNTIL HE LOVES ME

•IF THERE ISN’T A GOD I WILL FIGHT ISN’T-GOD UNTIL IT BECOMES GOD AND LOVES ME TOO

•THERE MAYBE ISN’T A GOD BECAUSE HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A CAVE AND SEEN HOW MUCH TIME IS IN THERE, AND TIME DOESN’T HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART

•THERE MIGHT BE THOUGH

•PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS LIFTING THEIR HANDS UP IN CHURCH LIKE HOW BABIES DO WHEN THEY WANT YOU TO PICK THEM UP WHICH MEANS GOD NEEDS TO START PICKING AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE UP AND IN MY OPINION GOD SHOULD HAVE STARTED A WHILE AGO AND SHOULD PROBABLY HURRY UP

•PEOPLE DIP THEMSELVES IN WATER JUST TO GET GOD TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEM AND I THINK GOD OUGHT TO PAY THEM AT LEAST A LOT OF ATTENTION BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING THROUGH A LOT AND THEY WENT TO ALL THE TROUBLE OF GETTING DIPPED IN WATER JUST IN CASE GOD NOTICED

•I ONCE MISTOOK THE FEELING OF SAFETY FOR THE CONDITION OF SAFETY AND I’VE WANTED SOMEONE TO BLAME EVER SINCE

•THIS WILL ALSO SERVE AS A REMINDER TO GOD THAT I DO NOT PLAN ON EXPERIENCING SUFFERING OR DEATH AND WOULD APPRECIATE THE SAME TREATMENT FOR MY LOVED ONES

•IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THIS COULD WORK FOR EVERYONE BUT IF IT ONLY PANS OUT FOR ME AND MINE THAT’S OKAY WITH ME

•I JUST “FEEL READY” TO GET IN THE MIX

•I’VE NEVER BEEN IN A FIGHT BEFORE BUT I THINK THAT MIGHT WORK TO MY ADVANTAGE BECAUSE A I DON’T HAVE ANY BAD FIGHT HABITS TO UNLEARN AND B I’VE BEEN SAVING UP ALL MY FIGHT ENERGY FOR THIS ONE

•I FEEL LIKE GOD IS GOING TO RESPECT MY SCRAPPY ENERGY AND GUMPTION EVEN IF I DON’T MAKE IT TOO FAR INTO THE FIGHT

- Daniel Mallory Ortberg, the Toast (28 March 2016)

#words #daniel mallory ortberg #daniel ortberg #poetry #why i will fight god

[dandeyrain]

WHY YOU ARE ANGRY: CHOOSE ONE

YOU DEMAND THAT EVERYONE YOU MEET IS EITHER INSTANTLY IMPRESSED WITH OR INTIMIDATED BY YOU AND HAVE DECIDED IF YOU EVER WALK INTO A ROOM WITHOUT A SUFFICIENTLY ADMIRING RECEPTION IT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY REJECTED YOU

INCAPABLE OF DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN REASONABLE, JUSTIFIED INDIGNATION AND FREE-FLOATING, TARGETLESS RAGE THAT THERE IS THE SLIGHTEST GAP BETWEEN YOUR DESIRES AND REALITY

CONSTANTLY “DOING FAVORS” FOR PEOPLE WHEN THEY DON’T ASK YOU TO THEN FEELING OVERLOOKED WHEN THEY DO NOT RECIPROCATE EVEN THOUGH THEY MADE IT CLEAR FROM THE BEGINNING YOU WERE SHOULDERING A BURDEN NO ONE INVITED YOU TO PICK UP

REPEATEDLY CONFUSED “STOICISM” WITH “QUIETLY FUMING”

YOU THINK YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING BUT ASK FOR NOTHING

YOU’VE SO SUCCESSFULLY CUT YOURSELF OFF FROM MAKING YOUR FEELINGS CLEAR TO OTHER PEOPLE THAT SELF-RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION IS THE LAST AND ONLY JUSTIFIABLE EMOTION YOU HAVE ACCESS TO AND IT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE A PURPOSE AND CLEAR SET OF GOALS LIKE NOTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIFE

LOVE WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO REACT TO YOU AND HAVE LEARNED EARLY AND FREQUENT OUTBURSTS OF TEMPER IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER HAVE TO REACT YOURSELF

INCAPABLE OF ABSORBING A SINGLE PIECE OF CRITICISM WITHOUT SUBSEQUENTLY FEELING THAT THERE IS SOMETHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH YOU AS A PERSON AND HAVE THEREFORE MADE AN ACTIVE DECISION THAT ANY AND ALL CRITICISM WILL KILL YOUR HEART STONE DEAD AND MUST BE REJECTED AND PUSHED OUTWARD AT ANY AND ALL COST, LEST YOU CEASE TO EXIST AS YOURSELF

NURTURING GRUDGES IS THE MOST MATERNAL YOU HAVE EVER FELT AND IT MAKES YOU FEEL LOVED AND LOVING TO BRING YOUR GRUDGES OUT AND CAREFULLY NURSE THEM

VICIOUSNESS DELIGHTS YOU AND YOU SPEND THE MAJORITY OF YOUR TIME CONJURING SATISFACTORY EXCUSES FOR CAUSING HARM WITH JUSTIFICATION

NOT YET FREE OF THE DELUSION THAT MAKING SOMEONE ELSE FEEL GUILTY FOR THEIR BAD HABITS IS AN EFFICIENT WAY OF ENDING A BAD HABIT

YOU HAVE MISTAKEN “SUDDEN EMOTIONAL WITHDRAWAL” FOR “TAKING THE HIGH ROAD”

NEVER TOOK THE TIME TO FIND YOUR OWN BREAKING POINT AND ONLY LEARN WHERE IT IS WHEN SOMEONE ELSE HELPS YOU REACH IT

HAVE MISTAKEN “CONTROL” FOR “SILENCE” AND “SILENCE” FOR “PEACE”

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE TO SAY THE UNFORGIVABLE THING YOU KNOW WILL END A RELATIONSHIP AND HAVE BEEN PLANNING IN COLDNESS BUT SPEAK IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT AND USE THAT MOMENTUM AS AN EXCUSE FOR SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS BELIEVED AND WERE MERELY TOO COWARDLY TO SAY WITHOUT THE EXCUSE OF EMOTIONAL MOMENTUM

WHY ARE YOU ANGRY: A TEXT GAME by Daniel Ortberg

#mine #daniel ortberg #daniel lavery #daniel m. lavery #words #i couldnt find this on here but i love it so much

[catrocketship]

“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”  ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

hand lettering by me

#art #artists on tumblr #illustration #my art #quotes #Daniel mallory ortberg #something that may shock and discredit you #transgender #trans #trans pride #trans joy #trans women #transfem #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtqiia+ #queer community #nonbinary #queer artist #nonbinary artists #hand lettering #lettering #typography #graphic art #hand-lettering

[anarchistin]

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

— Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

#quote #daniel mallory ortberg #gender #queer liberation

[hindahoney]

Hashem made converts for the same reason he made wheat and not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity may share in the process of creation

#the original quote is about transitioning and i think thats really beautiful #and i felt like converts also feel this way #i love this quote #it is by daniel mallory ortberg #jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #i love judaism #jewish convert #jewish conversion

[arthropoda-artistry]

“And I’m not going to ask anyone. It’s not that I don’t trust them. It’s that I don’t know if trust is a reasonable expectation to have of another person.”

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

#something that may shock and discredit you #Daniel Mallory Ortberg #on Wednesdays we mean girls wear pink #trans literature

[nando161mando]

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

— Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

#Daniel Mallory Ortberg #Something That May Shock and Discredit You #leftistquotes #book quotes #quotes #quoteoftheday #book quote #life quote #beautiful quote #quote #quotable #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #abtifa #antifa #antifascist #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqia+ solidarity #lgbtqia+ community #transgender #trans

[mercymornsimpathizer]

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#got approved for an arc of the new daniel ortberg book (!!!!!!) we r so back or whatever it is the kids are saying these days

[st7arlight]

Maybe the only thing I have ever wanted is to be a very beautiful, very dead, gentle boy that everyone gathers around and looks at

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg

#quotes #tboy swag #transmasc #daniel mallory ortberg #something that may shock and discredit you #quote tag #mine

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@countrymusichijabi replied to your post “Title: The Instructions Author: Daniel Mallory Ortberg Rating: 2/5 stars I'll start by acknowledging that I have been on the...”

what was the callout post about frank?? does it have any bearing on your future book reviews?

In the callout post: "Daniel Mallory Ortberg wrote a weird, depressing book."

Frank thinks the book is so sad and so sad and so sadd so sad so sad.

#daniel mallory ortberg

[transmascsnearyou]

So I finally got 'Something that may shock and discredit you' and????

It's so good? Like I only started reading it about an hour ago and I'm only at chapter 5 but?!?!

Also I just feel this book so much. Some of the thoughts about transition that he mentions I have said to my friend word for word.

Sooo... this book is going to be my whole personality for the next few weeks.

#something that may shock and discredit you #daniel mallory ortberg #trans #book #it's funny #it's incredibly personal #i love this

[catrocketship]

We are some of the most creative people 💅🏼

#tdov #trans day of visibility #art #artists on tumblr #drawing #my art #hand lettering #lettering #transgender #trans pride #transisbeautiful #genderqueer #nonbinary #NB #Daniel Mallory ortberg

[instantkrazy]

Texts From Lord Byron

By Daniel Mallory Ortberg

uuuuuuuughhh

nothing’s any good

what’s the matter

EVERYTHING

do you realize i’m never going to be able to have sex with the rain

i didn’t know you wanted to have sex with the rain

of course i want to have sex with the rain

how can you even say that

i feel like you don’t even know me

maybe

you should focus

on all the things that you can have sex with

yeah

maybe

i just want to live

right

i want to have a threesome with the moon and jealousy

right yeah

and i want to do it with the rain but i can’t

uuuuuuuughhhh

i should just go die in Greece

what?

nothing

#the toast #texts from lord byron #Daniel Mallory Ortberg

[leporellian]

the binding of laika

ben florin, "laika"/jamaica kincaid/le loup, "we are gods! we are wolves!"/archival footage of the soviet space program/genesis 22/alan shapiro, "space dog"/olesya turkina, soviet space dogs/brennig davies, "first dog in space"/daniel ortberg, "children's stories made horrific: curious george"/idomeneo prepares to sacrifice his son in the garsington opera production of "idomeneo"/alan shapiro, "space dog"/louise glück/jonathan coulton, "space doggity"/bojack horseman, "free churro"/maynard solomon, mozart: a life/mac demarco in an interview with npr/@/fateology, “muttnik”/unknown/alex wellerstein writing for the new yorker/ ancient doll found in roman egypt/steiff laika toy/guillermo del toro's pinocchio/richard silken/laika wikipedia page/bojack horseman, "free churro"/photograph of laika//nih.gov’s page on oleg gazenko/oleg gazenko/alan shapiro, "space dog"

#laika #laika the space dog #web weaving #comparatives #tamino #(for character purposes) #(tamino the opera character and the guy in my novel) #(not whoever else.) #rambles #1k

[vividrogue]

"As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

– Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

#my art #vivid rogue #artists on tumblr #illustration #traditional art #transmasc #trans #transgender #trans man #pre op ftm #ftm #trans positivity #gouache painting #gouache #body hair #red #pomegranate #Dysphoria inducing

[antisocialxconstruct]

Everyone I have ever touched has walked away with scars

Two Sonnets for the Left Ventricle of the Heart, Rick Bursky / chronicles of a self-fulfilling prophecy, @judas-redeemed / Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo (Detail), Bernardino Mei / photo by Tony Webster / How To Respond To Criticism, Daniel Mallory Ortberg / This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone / Jenny Holzer / Stardust, IAMX / @danielcalmdown / Everyone You've Loved, Susannah Irene / Foei Graphics

#web weave #web weaving #on destructive love #on obsession #I had a few of these in mind and wanted to see if I could make a whole post like this using only quotes I sourced myself 🤔 #anyway. -posts emo cringe at 9pm-