Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

my followers can have some cave pics, as a treat

Good reference for writers

I'm not a doctor. I am the Doctor. The original, you might say.

eliot’s apron

Listening to the Silt Verses is great. I feel like I'm hearing the TMA gang agonize over the harm they could cause by working for the watcher and then it cuts to the General Mills board room and the CEO is saying "We didn't quite get the profits we wanted under the Desolation last quarter so we will be switching to the Corruption. Prepare some employees for sacrifice."

I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

All good children's fiction says you are going to have to shoulder responsibility even if you don't want it.

And btw this isn't a punishment or a condemnation, it's a recognition that The Right Thing is a burden but you have to carry it anyway because it's Right.

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

This may sound grim, but “doing good is its own reward” is deeper than some realize. The reward of doing good is that GOOD EXISTS. When we accept the responsibility of doing good, a little more good enters the world (sometimes a lot) and a little more darkness is beaten back. Maybe by doing good you will save all of Archenland. Or maybe by doing good you will remind someone there is good in the world and refresh their dwindling hope. It may be hard, but is worth it.

Such is the nature of doing good, then.

how does one even go about explaining this to anyone??!?

Leverage S01E07 The Two Horse Job.

the long way down job is such an important turning point in eliot & parker’s relationship bc they’d both been viewing the things they have in common as fairly negative: they’ve both been told that they’re cold and ruthless and dangerous and they know those things are true. so when they’ve recognised themselves in each other, it’s been a sense of "the thing that’s wrong with me is a lot like the thing that’s wrong with you". and there’s comfort in that, in a way. but now eliot gets parker to see that maybe those aren’t all negative traits, they’re just… traits. neutral. it doesn’t make them bad or good, it makes them who they are. and now when they see themselves reflected in each other, it’s not a reminder that they’re wrong and bad - it’s kinship, it’s familiarity, it’s belonging.

@lotr20 | Day 6 ↳ Healing: Aragorn in the Houses of Healing

ELIZA DUSHKU as FAITH LEHANE

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 7.18 "Dirty Girls" Original air date: April 15, 2003

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 1.10 "Nightmares"