#Intelligent Fool

[alohapromisesforever]

Thought For the Day: Make Everything As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler. A Man Should Look For What Is, And Not For What He Thinks Should Be

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move…

[xcruelprincessx]

"Cardan is just a silly little fool haha so bby girl 💁🏻‍♀️"

Did we read the same book? R u blind?

[palatinewolfsblog]

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain.

[lobsterfork]

so close to a realisation

[spectrum-color]

Do you ever think about how Fitz treats Beloved like his manic pixie dream girl and they tend to come in conflict when he’s too human and has needs and feelings of his own? And he honestly does the same thing with Molly only he never really lets her break out of that mold?

[knific]

Is he smart? Is he smart? Is h

[wobubling]

Hey if fitz brought beloved back into his own body then died when he was trying to revive beloved’s, leaving him behind all alone possessing Fitz’s empty shell would that be fucked up or what

[softness-and-shattering]

So I put on this netflix show, in their tradition of being extremely obvious with names its called Mech Cadets, and its an alien-mecha human-pilot fight-the-giant-bug-aliens story. My first complaint is that the alien mechas are called Robo's. Wow exciting /sarcasm. Anyway thats totally forgiven because 1 the story actually makes choices and puts the characters through consequences instead of like hinting at oh it something bad gonna happen psych we dont have the guts for that. Its a kid/teen show so its not super dark but it follows through and goes the places it needs to.

2, and maybe most importantly, I gotta talk about the disability rep. There's four teens chosen by the alien mechs to be their drift-compatible pilots (I think im using that correctly? Im not super informed on the genre but I know some), and we see straight away that one of the guys has a prosthetic leg from the thigh down, and uses it as an example to tell the main protagonist, hey none of us are perfect we dont have to be perfect we just need to be human. The next episode the mechas are given human-designed weapons to fight with, and the disabled kid gets these flippy sticks I cant quite work out. One of them gets a staff, the other gets this glove for punching, story moves on. Then a bug-alien-antagonist gets into the teens dorm and while fighting it, the alien dismembers the guys prosthetic. He immediately grabs his crutches and goes to town on it with his crutches, and balancing on them to kick with his one good foot*. Then they disconnect the rest of the prosthetic and use its sharp edge to kill the alien. And then he just moves around on his crutches with no comment and Ill cut myself off there so I dont spoil the whole thing.

Except, a couple episodes later, Im watching him in the mech fighting and moving around, and I realise that his giant fuck-off monster attacking weapons ARE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. Theyre his fucking WEAPONS. Thats cool as fuck!

[random-xpressions]

Life altering philosophy for ultimate peace of mind:

"You won't understand & I won't explain!"

Random Xpressions

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I feel sorry for Monty and the Cat King, they're out there being all modern, shooting their shot, but don't realise it has taken that Edwardian boy 30 years to come to terms with his gay feelings and there's zero chance he'd simply fall into bed with them. If they'd given him some breathing room they'd have had more of a chance. It's not like he was opposed, just startled.

Does anyone else want Edwin/Charles/Crystal polyam? Mostly because (well I am polyam but also) Charles having to rangle the chaos they'd cause him together and smooth over all those hurt feelings their combined bluntness would cause to dead patrons would be entertaining to watch. Every night he's trying to instill some level of emotional intelligence in the people he loves most and it only works sometimes.

[faychanan]

it was the case when i was studying the book in school, and it's still the case now: i am obsessed with the myriad of references made to daisy's voice. i am obsessed with daisy's voice, and the role it plays in the story. the way it represents her interactions with people and the world around her. her voice as a coping mechanism for the things she has no control over, or no will to change. her voice as her own acceptance of her position that allows her to continue inhabiting the class and system that she inhabits. affluence echoes in it, its indiscreet, full of money, affected. nick and gatsby both romanticise her voice, they associate it with the wealth that she has, but nick also clearly states that it's a social performance. "[her] murmur was only to make people lean towards her" revealing her calculated control of her own voice, her cultivating her own image, her own person.

[kinos-fortress-2]

miss pauling is too much of a loser to be a girlboss bruh what are you guys on.

[pratchettquotes]

"Vy are ve stoppink?" said Otto.

"That's Sergeant Detritus on the gate," said William.

"Ah. A troll. Very stupid," opined Otto.

"But hard to fool. I'm afraid I shall have to try the truth."

"Vy vill that vork?"

"He's a policeman. The truth usually confuses them. They don't often hear it."

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

[callmepippin]

whoa i've made a fascinating linguistic discovery. the german translatian of the english word "how" is "wie", which sounds exactly like the dutch word "wie", which translates to english "who", which sounds exactly like the dutch "hoe", which translates to the english word "how"!!! language is a flat circle

[shrineofprophecy]

Bully Tier List

[mawsmauls]

Day three for the @dragonaday-fr challenge! Serva is certainly warm and fluffy, just don't ask who's turning up the heat.