#do good recklessly

[mcelquotes]

What if you didn't have to worry, and you could just cut out the bullshit and do good recklessly?

Magnus Burnsides

[dangerphd]

¡lemon sheep:lemon wool!

this is a ✨second✨ @hyydraworks trifecta! strawberry cow, golden horned speckled dragon hoard stash dish, lemon lamb!!

really really love seeing these every day.

[pragretti]

Happy Pride y'all! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I technically made this last year, but I didn't have an account to really share my art. My beloved partner @phoenixpearl-ashes has posted some of my previous works at my permission so be sure to check them out.

You're wonderful and well loved by so many people you may never meet. Things really can get better. Your existence is proof.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[funkylittlebats]

Y'all know that do good recklessly post. I queued it right before writing this post so theoretically it's either my most recent post or close to it by the time this one gets posted. It's a good post and I don't wanna ever detract from the meaning which is why I never say anything about it but it feels so weird that that tumblr post popularized a The Adventure Zone quote without anyone seeming to recognize that it's Taz.

Bc the post is from 2018. But. Travis McElroy said that on The Adventure Zone in 2016 during the 11th Hour arc so like.

Like I'll see people literally wearing Do Good Recklessly shirts and I don't know if they know or not bc I've heard people refer to that post as their only frame of reference for the quote. Idk it's just always a little silly/weird to me and it's 3am when I'm writing this so. Here void, eat up.

[sufficientlyantique]

Do good recklessly

[lunapwrites]

I am only going to post about this once.

Doing a little cleanup on my about me pages... kinda feel the need to revisit the author-induced HP-verse blowback and renewed fan creator exodus for a moment, just bc I keep seeing... discourse.

For context, in case you're reading this far and are unaware: I am pretty open about being nonbinary probably most accurately agender? still kinda feeling that out, and about being queer in general. So I feel like I have at least a small leg to stand on in this conversation, given the umbrella I fall under.

I understand why other authors and artists feel the right decision for them is to disengage from fandom, or to remove/orphan their body of work. I support them in their choice, and I wish them the best. Likewise, I understand why others may choose to remain, and to continue creating content (subversive or otherwise) that speaks to them and to others who are able to see themselves and their experiences in it. As a member of this camp myself, I salute these people. It's not an easy decision to make to continue in this climate.

I am extremely fortunate in terms of where I'm at in my journey, and where I live and work, and a supportive partner who is cis enough for the both of us lol. I understand that my situation comes with a certain degree of privilege - but that privilege is bought with the sacrifice of my truest self. These online spaces are one of the precious few places I have where I can express those sides of my identity, and my writing is the best place I have to explore them. Characters like Remus and Sirius and Tonks? They're the most familiar to me, and therefore the safest. For me, continuing is the best choice for the sake of my mental health - even with the pressure to quit.

To that end, it... bothers me a bit when I see discourse claiming that people who continue to engage in and create for this fandom are morally deficient. That, by and large, is not the case. Most folks are just out here trying to do the best they can. I don't think that shaming or call-out posts are constructive.

If you are expecting me to post disclaimers or to self-flagellate on every fandom post/fic, you will be disappointed. I will instead continue as I have been and put my limited bandwidth and energy into keeping my queer friends and family housed, fed, and safe. And I will continue to do so without posting about it because frankly I don't have the spoons to advertise every time I do something. (That said, if you're in the US and in need of help, please reach out privately: I probably have resources I can leverage.)

I am a big proponent of doing what you can with what you have and that every little thing counts. Make friends and network. Promote causes. Feed each other. Show up for each other. That's the important part. Like, it's not all big activism and protesting and bold proclamations. Sometimes it's just buying eggs.

Idk. I just feel like we all have better ways to spend our time than all this empty grandstanding. Just go... do something positive. Even if it's just providing emotional support, you know? Everything counts.

[kamorth]

Just as an intro, yes this post reads VERY white. Unfortunately a lot of recent history is only accessible through white lenses and as I myself am about as white as it is possible to be, I don't have another viewpoint that I can write from with any kind of authority. My lack of experience does not negate anyone else's experiences or views.

In the 80s, being punk was how you showed disdain for conformity. NO, I DON'T Want to be Like You THE WOLRD IS SHITTY AND I AM ANGRY. They were the trash that you warned your kids to stay away from because they were dangerous and violent.

Grunge quickly followed suit with Yeah the world is shitty why do what the boring conformist bougies tell you when you can just do your own thing over here instead. They were the trash you hoped your kids got sick of but the worst parents ever suspected of them was maybe a bit of weed and some clumsy make outs, not that big a deal.

In the late 90s (my teens) it was goths. We are so sick of you and your church and shoving it down my throat with pushing for prayer in schools and Christian Pop Rock all over the billboard top 40. That kid is a witch now and You JUST Don't Get It. Depression is my baseline and the idea of being like you is the cause. We were the trash that were just indulging in a phase and would grow out of it, so we could be humored but mostly ignored (unless your parents were hard core Bible bashers, in which case you would get sent to something akin to conversion therapy - since you were also probably Queer it often was just outright conversion therapy).

Then the emos showed up and people started getting annoyed, partly because suddenly there were goths that you COULDN'T ignore for two reasons, they were LOUD about being sad and THERE WERE SO MANY OF THEM. Since they couldn't be ignored out of existence, the Western world decided to collectively bully them instead. They were the trash that was Just So Damn Cringe!

And now poverty is skyrocketing. Homelessness is a plague that has struck so many people who have committed no crime outside of bad luck. Actual fascists are in positions of power. Planned obsolescence and decades of lobbying by the oil industry in favour of petrol and plastics is destroying everything beautiful about this planet.

And Punk is back. Be ANGRY at your politicians who don't listen. Let your anger be heard so that they know you will not accept these ideas. Grunge is back. It doesn't have to be new, it just has to be functional. Work together to make a community you WANT to live in. Goth is back. Mourn for the world we were promised but never saw. Learn about belief systems that are different to the one you were raised in, ESPECIALLY if doing so pisses off your parents. Emo is back. Fuck haters. Cringe is dead. Being comfortable in your own skin means being allowed to do what YOU want, not having to exist for the benefit of someone else.

Before us it was hippies and beatniks and flappers and dadaists and before them there were the coffee shop philosophers and the point is there have ALWAYS been people who want the world to see its own flaws and fix them. I know other cultures had the same sorts of groups, like the Japanese Subekan gangs (who created the original lolita fashion trend as a way to take femininity back from being sexualized) and Islamic Sufism (an Islamic sect who practice things forbidden by stricter groups, such as singing and dancing) but I'm an armchair scholar, not an expert.

When society is broken, our numbers surge.

We are surging.

Society needs us.

[starfishupatree]

Before...

After🥳🎉✨️

This was fun, I posted it to a reblog chain from a few weeks ago, so I thought I would post it by itself, too.

Pleased with how it turned out

[aealzx]

Self-appreciation is important.

I sincerely hope you appreciate yourself too. You are an amazing person. So you should be proud of yourself.

Thank you for sharing your drawing style and your writing style with us. And take care of yourself by drinking water, eating good food, sleeping and doing other things you like ✨💕.

uweh ;v; Thank you

I went and got myself a nice lovely banana because of this. I always have water with me, but it's nice to be reminded to get good food. (food and I have a complicated relationship |D )

Thank you for being so sweet and taking the time to post this. You're a great person too and the world needs more of you

[twicedailyquotes]

I’m gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that.

Justin McElroy

[mcelquotes]

What if you could just cut out the bullshit and do good recklessly?

Magnus Burnsides

[chroniclesofskye]

"Do good recklessly"

Image Credit: nekosd43

[ardentcurl]

love is painful! but do you know what is more painful! to live a life completely unknown to another person, to reach the end of ur life knowing u risked nothing and therefore gained nothing! terrifying!

[silavut]

[nightgnome]

a post crossed my dash... oh... maybe a week ago?? and the line Do Good Recklessly stood out to me from that. so ive been carrying it around with me since. but today im drained and feeling low on spoons, and i thought “aint got the energy to do reckless good” but you know what?? same principle applies to self care. so im gonna spend the night doing some reckless good for myself, indulging things i love and being bold enough to not allow my limitations to keep me from being kind in self care.

[darthschabba]

" Do Good recklessly. "