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Bradley Rainbowface Cracktastic Jones

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bradley | she/her | 30 | bi | human bard Current Obsessions: D&D, Critical Role, WandaVision, The Mandalorian, The McElroys, Taylor Swift, TLOU, Stardew Valley, lo-fi Ride or Die: LotR, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steve Rogers, PoTC, Parks & Rec, Gilmore Girls, the entire MCU, Hayley Atwell, Carrie Fisher, dogs, cats, coffee
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“Death is a rare mercy” Alright folks, time to add a new quote to the list of things that go hard and sound like they’re from classic lit, but actually come from unexpected places

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Can we all just be here again if Twitter goes “thermonuclear” 😅

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wish this hadn’t become a meme bc like it’s seriously so insane & true like yeah being seen is excruciating

Tim Kreider wrote a follow-up essay reacting to the fact that the mortifying ordeal line became a meme, and it’s mostly him being sort of condescendingly annoyed at us because he thinks focusing on this one excerpt was missing the point but he dropped another banger in the process:

They think that what another person will learn about them is what they see in themselves — the squirming, icky, insecure mess inside. They don’t know yet that the ways in which they’re secretly screwed up and repulsive are boringly ordinary.

I don’t know why, but I love that. I’ve repeated it to myself a few times in the past when I’ve worked myself up into a lather. You are not uniquely horrible, you are just regular horrible in the way that we’re all a little horrible. The mortifying ordeal of being known is mortifying precisely because you have to accept that someone can know your most awful flaws and irritating behaviors and not be shocked, appalled or impressed. You and everyone else, babe.

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