Laura

“I was bored, but was I “the Luidaeg has a problem for me” levels of bored?”
― Seanan McGuire, Silver and Lead

“One day it will be considered unacceptable, in the polite liberal circles of the West, not to acknowledge all the innocent people killed in that long-ago unpleasantness. The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming...One day the social currency of liberalism will accept as legal tender the suffering of those they previously smothered in silence, turned away from in disgust as one does carrion on the roadside. Far enough gone, the systemic murder of a people will become safe enough to fit on a lawn sign. There's always room on a liberal's lawn.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“For the last time, Actinia, you can't set humans on fire! It never helps! (101)”
― Django Wexler, The Palace of Glass

“Whatever mainstream Western Liberalism is- and I have no useful definition of it beyond something at its core transactional, centered on the magnanimous, enlightened image of the self and the dissonant belief that empathizing with the plight of the faraway oppressed is compatible with benefiting from the systems that oppress them”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This