my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"
OP the tags!!
the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.
You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it
you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.
Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."
And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.
I guess I do have a lot to say about The Discourse surrounding the “I’d burn it all down” line because no, it’s not too self-aware or too early or out of character!
Like, idk why everyone is just ignoring all the context leading up to this but Percy just found out his brother is DEAD and he blames himself for it. Then, this witch lady tells him that the thing about himself that he believes is his only good quality (standing up for others to the point of self-sacrifice) could actually kill not just himself but like everyone else too. This is after he just got news that he has to make a huge decision that will actually determine the fate of the world. He knows that if faced with a situation like the one where he just lost his brother, he would absolutely destroy everything to make sure it didn’t go like that again. And that’s terrifying to him! He doesn’t know wtf to do except tell the only friend he has left that he is dangerous because of this.
Meanwhile, y’all are out here debating if he’s declaring his undying love for Annabeth or something.









