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sarah, med student, science geek & art enthusiast
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Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things

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Virtue requires a delicate balance. 

This could be a great set of descriptors for tracking social stats in a game.

Woah

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shaelit

A good chart for character development, especially when contrasting how they are vs. how they see themselves.

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night shift induced existential gratefulness

  • I’m at a stage now where I’m mentoring high school students who wanna go into medicine and I just want to remind you, dear reader, that I’ve had this blog since I was 14 years old and this is astounding to me
  • my doctorate is....happening. Very slowly and not at all the way I think it should, but I did convince my advisor of something I wanted to do and he thinks it’s a good element in my study design!
  • I no longer spiral out of control when an early-stage resident I don’t know ribs me or disagrees with my career plans....like, dude, thanks for your input but you don’t know me - relax
  • for some reason my cumulative experience in the past two months has convinced me that anesthesia is well and good and I’m enjoying doing my doctorate there and it’s interesting, but IM is where I belong
  • I just have that nerdy, do-gooder IM personality - I’m not chill enough for anesthesia on a, like, molecular level
  • I miss my favorite ER resident so much - I wish someone funny and nice and that much smarter than me would always be following me around, doling out advice and teaching me stuff and making fun of me when I’m dithering too much
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hustlerose

douglas adams is literally the anti-lovecraft. seriously, look at the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. it’s not cosmic horror, it’s cosmic comedy.

lovecraft: you’re surrounded by strange things that you do not understand. isn’t it terrifying? adams: those things? those are normal. the worst thing about them is the bureaucracy. you should get out more. you can read all about them in this gigantic book.

lovecraft: you are ultimately insignificant and the universe will be unaffected by any actions you take. isn’t it scary? adams: um duuuh literally everyone already knew that. let’s go get lunch.

lovecraft: you are transforming into a terrible monster and you can’t stop it. adams:

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weird little girls are literally the most powerful creative beings on the planet like i promise you no art made by an adult man can even begin to touch the plotlines of an elementary school girl’s pretend game

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reblogged

sometimes I get so angry thinking about ‘The Imitation Game’ that I have to go in a little ‘upset big tantrum room’ in my head for a calm down

like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander

at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues

And. I. Am. So. Angry.

He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind

he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was

I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system

You are a hero that turned the tides of history like no other and I am so sorry

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boykeats

hey op if you’re looking for a kinder movie about alan turing, you should check out breaking the code (1996). breaking the code was originally a stage play, and this is a filmed adaptation. it’s more faithful to his personality, stars derek jacobi (who was also a gay man and plays the part with so much sympathy), and it doesn’t bungle historical details for the sake of adding more drama. here’s a link to a youtube playlist where you can watch it in full

Oh thank you so much! I will check it out 😃

also, I wanted to share what I found in the tags:

we’re crying in the club tonight 😭 Porgy.

he was also most likely autistic, God, imagine a world where an autistic gay man who didn’t conform to toxic masculinity got a big budget Hollywood film

imagine what it would do to be able to see our heroes be sweet and silly instead of hardened and asshole-ish, imagine seeing autism portrayed with fun-loving care instead of fearful derision, imagine he got to love a man on screen, bc the truth is the Nazi’s weren’t defeated by a mean-spirited narcissist

they were defeated by a man studying next to a teddy bear, a man who was almost everything they hated, and honestly I think that’s a better story

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f1rstperson

Noah fence but the story of a low/no empathy person trying to do the right thing and make the right choices is way more interesting and realistic than a low/no empathy person as a camp villain.

Low/no empathy hero vs. High empathy villain

“How can you choose to be good when you can’t feel it?”

“How can you choose to be evil when you can?”

^^^^^ super interesting characterization tbh!!!

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