• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    I stand with you because although I am cis, you are my people. My life and my communities are enriched by your existence, and so an injury to you is an injury to me.

    "All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

    I have a duty!"

    - from "The Wee Free Men" (Discworld #30), by Terry Pratchet
    
    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      I stand with you also because although I’m queer, you help us stay safe and you are kind. Life is also enriched by you lot.

      Very nice quote, Terry Pratchett’s a great author. I’m partial to this one;

      I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
      “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

      - from “The Fellowship of the Ring”, by J.R.R. Tolkien