#be the good

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

Getting the same vibes from these two scenes:

Fern: Yeah, the galaxy is scary and dangerous. Everywhere we went, even the worst places, there were good people too.

Omega: The Empire's not the only threat. We've seen so many in the galaxy like Mokko.

Tech: Unfortunately, yes. However, there are many like us out there as well. And that is something.

And I just love the subtle reminders to look for the good AND be the good ❤️

[lamestteenagegirlever]

we are all made of bits of stardust that were once all so close together. hold your loved ones. let those particles come together again. maybe they miss one another after trillions of years. maybe everything is more human than we think.

[hopefullysomethinggood]

“and when darkness comes / if you cannot find the light / you must / become it” - catarine hancock

Do you know how long I have wanted a lightbulb tattoo? 5 years of deep depression and a year of being okay. It’s always, always, about light.

“Don't let this darkness fool you/ All lights turned off can be turned on” - Noah Kahan

Shit, but he’s right.

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light” - [she who must not be named]

I’m not trying to convince anyone that things are okay, they are dark. But there will be light. We can be the light. My new goal is to be the light.

[mrs-mikko-rantanen]

Hey so since I'm having a hard time being hopeful about 2024 I want to share the thing my mom sent me this morning:

🌸💐💮🏵🌹🥀🌻🌼🌷⚘

[conscious-pisces]

“You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself. Don't expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your own misdeeds.”

—Musonius Rufus

[antvnger]

Does your faith in humanity ever get tested? If so, does it affect your line of Avenging at all?

Sure it does, unfortunately. I’ve learned a lot of things I wish I never knew, especially things related to kids. Things that just break my heart. Things I literally cannot wrap my head around.

And I’d be lying if I said it didn’t affect my line of Avenging, but how it’s affected isn’t always the same.

Sometimes it just makes me want to go out more and do literally anything I can think of to make the world, even a little corner of it, much better. And I bend over backwards to do it sometimes, the Energizer Bunny Avenger on speed, as if I could fix humanity myself. Which I know I can’t but still.

And then sometimes, it just sucker punches me and leaves me feeling wretched and defeated almost. And that’s when I have to dig deep and not let it pull me down. I think about those people who can’t fight for themselves and think about what if I was the only one who could help them. And then I just gave up? No. No, I couldn’t do that.

I keep going. I keep going because if even one person needs me, then it’s enough. If I can represent the good part of humanity and help make things better if even for one person, then it’s all worth it.

[jmal0]

…𝓜𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝓥𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒔 𝓦/🐇 & 🐾

[malialauren]

Hello World!

Recently life has been a little chaotic, but chaos isn’t always bad chaos can bring so many new ideas or people into your life. My family is really chaotic but the good kind where everything is happening all at once and you need a second to breathe but you gotta jump back in because of all the love and play. Sadly this is not the chaos I’m experiencing and this past week I had on of my first rounds of finals before my AP testing and some of my loved ones are staring to feel left behind, this chaos and stress is the kind where you need a good cry and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s to drown out your thoughts.

In this case my breath was a morning with this lovely lady before our AP Biology review session. This is us getting slurpees from 7–Eleven in baking tins. Later we washed our cars and spent the day outside. I can’t stress enough how important having others around you who support you unconditionally and love you just the same.

Good is just around the corner!

-Love, Mimi <3

[quotesinrealityandfiction]

be the good in other people's lives.

[housecatincarnate]

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus... There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world, there is nothing else as real and abiding.”

Source

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[oneluckygoose]

Girl help us spread kindness and joy in a world that may seem void of it because we can still be hurt but ultimately finding that kindness and joy will make it all worth it

you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[maudiemoods]

If life is a never ending loop of dirty dishes and laundry then that means life is a never ending loop of home cooked meals and comfy clean clothes