this deletion is / temporary.
It’s raining in New York, and it’s making the kind of steady, reassuring patter that you tell yourself sounds like night rain back home, that version of home you wrap around you like a blanket, like armour, like a hug.
It is hard to write right now because the mere recitation of facts is perceived and persecuted as failing to be sufficiently objective.
Language is violence, they say, while enacting violent laws.
When you have seen people repeatedly defend nothing so much as their own cowardice you wonder what they think bravery looks like.
You become very good at being very good at whatever you are needed to be.
Utility never brings safety but it does buy time.
For some of us, talk is expensive.
We tend to run out of courage long before we run out of time.
Attribution
i wrote something here but deleted it because i realized that it’s
just going to bring me more direct, personalized harassment.but this deletion will not be permanent. this deletion is
temporary.so just that we’re clear in this deletion, if we don’t say your
name immediately, we don’t address you immediatelyi will say your name directly at some point before i die
— [i wrote something here but deleted it because i realized that it’s] by Eunsong Kim in Gospel of Regicide