morphinefangs:

it’s okay if you do good things for ‘bad’ reasons

if you don’t see a point in morality and you’re only a good person to others because it’s the rules, or law, or what your parents told you is ‘the right thing to do’, that’s okay. you’re not a bad person just because there are bad thoughts in your head.
if you aren’t acting on those bad thoughts, you can still be a good person.

the difference between you and a truly bad person is that you can look at those same ideas and urges and you’re able to choose not to act on them

not everyone can be kind from the bottom of their hearts.  sometimes mental illness gets in the way.  some people get lucky, and they can easily care about the well-being of others without help.  they can easily empathize and sympathize, and it can be frustrating to see people do that when you can’t.

if you’re a person who has a hard time empathizing with or valuing others, but you still chose to be a nice person despite all that… i am so proud of you

misscherrylikesthediscourse:

Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money. 

Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death. 

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

meabhair:

jenniferrpovey:

Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:

Excalibur.

In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).

From the “Lady of the Lake.”

Here’s the thing.

In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).

Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.

In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.

The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.

But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.

But….but…

The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.

IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake  as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…

…but as a jacked smith in an apron.

and I love her

someone do the art i am in absolute tears