#how to be perfect

[otterandterrier]

à propos of nothing (*cough* you know), I really liked ch. 10 "This sandwich is morally problematic. But It’s also delicious. Can I still eat it?" from Michael Schur's "How to be perfect":

No new money is going to Woody Allen if I watch Annie Hall on a DVD I have owned for twenty years. (...) I still have to reckon internally with my decision to watch art made by a man whose actions I find reprehensible, but if that movie meant so much to me as a kid, and contributed directly to my life and career as a writer, maybe that’s okay, somehow? The most important part of becoming better people, I’ll say yet again, is that we care about whether what we do is good or bad, and therefore try to do the right thing. If we love a problematic person or thing too much to part with it altogether, I think that means we have to keep two ideas in our head at the same time: 1. I love this thing. 2. The person who made it is troubling. Forgetting about (1) means we lose a piece of ourselves. Forgetting about (2) means we are denying that this thing causes us (and others) anguish, and thus we’re failing to show concern for the victims of awful behavior. We can think both of these things at the same time. And if we do—if we really confront the wrongs of the artists as we consume their work, instead of making excuses or living in denial—we can to some degree forgive ourselves for keeping them in our lives. In certain cases, we will find it impossible to continue to enjoy the thing we love—the artist will do something we simply cannot abide, and it will prove so ugly and damning that we just cannot spend our time or money to support them, even in private. But in other cases, when something is so inexorably woven into our core identities that life without it feels unthinkable, maintaining those two ideas simultaneously can help us avoid the pain of severing all ties while still striving for self-improvement.

There is no heuristic to answer the questions “Can we separate the art from the artist?” (...) We can and should apply any of our moral theories to all of these situations, but at some point we’ll just have to act. To choose. (...) Now, the instant we draw these lines, we guarantee that we’ll eventually find ourselves in a contradiction. We will continue to love and support one person and not another, even when the two of them seem roughly equivalent in their behaviors. (...) Those contradictions are not excuses to throw our hands up and abandon the entire project of outlining our integrity, our sense of being a “whole and undivided person.” They’re reasons to dig back in, mull everything over, and if necessary erase the line we drew and redraw it somewhere else. Contradictions within our own system of integrity are simply opportunities to try, again, to make decisions true to our own beliefs, our understanding of ethics, and our sense of who we are. These moments—when we are caught in a situation that has no clear answer, no heuristic to employ that will spit out a theoretical but practically impossible “correct” decision—are when we see the true value in failure. We’re deciding to do something that will, someday, backfire. The more we chew on it and work it through, the more meaning we can derive from that backfire when it happens.

[wordybee]

"In a fractured national moment of stress and pain, of inequality and injustice, of ethical strain and Moral Exhaustion, we should go easy on ourselves at moments when we fail in our quest to become better people. But we cannot forget this simple truth: we owe things to each other. They may be small things, or simple things, but they're there, they're important, and we can't ignore them."

—"How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question" by Michael Schur

[shrubsparrow]

It's in the eye of the beholder

[chaos-storm]

Also if you like The Good Place, I highly reccomend Michael Schur's (the creator of The Good Place) book How To Be Perfect!

It's a moral philosophy book that's equal parts educational and funny with a lot of Schur's own life anecdotes. The audio book is especially reccomended, as it contains voice lines once in a while from the cast of the good place, while Schur himself narrates most of the book!

Do you guys remember how great The Good Place was. It was fantastic.

[mystupidtheory]

How to be Perfect, Michael Schur

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[amomorii]

Yule Ball, 1994

"Can we talk?"

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[0sbrain]

alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases

zepeto

making edits of your favorite character

searching "dress up game" on the app store

learning how to draw

[blueskittlesart]

putting them in the torment nexus (college) with me

[botanyshitposts]

me explaining to my grandma that the turkey tail and golden oyster mushrooms and birds nest fungi growing on her huge backyard tree stump are simply eating the dead wood to return it to the soil and they're cute and colorful and add to the whimsy of her landscaping and are not causing the weeds in other places of the yard or harming her little white dog

[cryptidmickle]

shadow milk finding pv when he was healer cookie is so interesting to me, and full of drama

[cloudydaayz]

Imagine after ELEVEN YEARS she announces a new spin off series to close out a characters story who was originally supposed to die, and then at 1am on a random Wednesday SAYS SHES WRITING TWO MORE BOOKS AND THEYRE ABOUT KEVIN FUCKING DAY

[storybook-souls]

"are innies and outies the same person" and the show says well yes but also no. "and does love transcend severance?" and the show says well yes but also no! hope this helps.

[shezamaverick]