Ragland Tiger

@Dynamo Pad

"There's n-n-no need for y-you to apologize," Bluebell said.  "Shining has b-been especially di-di-difficult with me, lately.  T-T-To be honest, I'm wo-worried that something may-may be hurting h-him.  I w-w-w-wish he'd tell m-me."

Yu and Mi...

What is Creative Mortification and How Can You Overcome It?

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_is_creative_mortification_and_how_can_you_overcome_it

@Dynamo Pad

"Shining, please!" said Bluebell  There's no reason to think that-...

"How do you know? He's a total stranger," Shining Armor fired back.

"Well, how do you n-know I d-don't know?"

"I just know!"

"No! Y-You don't! You just don't w-w-want to know!"

"You're the one who ought to know!!"

"You ought to n-know b-better!"

Spike's eyes darted back and forth between the two squabbling siblings, struggling  to figure out what they were arguing about.  Shining Armor guffawed, disgusted.  "I just don't know anymore," he said, storming out of the room.  "Shining!" Cadence said, chasing after him.

"That's the f-f-first thing you've said in this con-conversation that makes any s-sense!" Bluebell yelled.  She then noticed that the others were looking at her in stunned silence.  She lowered her head, embarrassed.  "I'm sorry."  she looked over at Dynamo.  M-M-My brother is - um - protective.

"Sometimes, when I lose my temper, I think it's me trying to tell me something I'm not ready to hear."

@Dynamo Pad

Shining Armor looked over at Dynamo, and raised an eyebrow.  Cadence nudged him.  "Shining, be nice," she said.  Bluebell fidgeted uncomfortably.  "Um - Shining, Cadence, th-th-this is d-Dynamo Pad.  He rescued m-m-m-me from the b-bully, and-and brought m-me here."

"Oh, he did, did he?" said Shining.  "Tell me, what are your intentions with my baby sister?"

@Dynamo Pad

Just then, Bluebell heard a soft knock.  She looked to see Cadence and Shining Armor entering the room.  "Hey, b-Bro," Bluebell said.  "Hey Bluey," replied Shining as they gave each other a hoof bump.  Shining noticed the bandages and bruises on her other foreleg.  "Aw, Bluey!   Who did this to you?"

"S-s-some bu-bully I ran in-into at-at the arcade," Bluebell replied.

Shining Armor became anxious and concerned.  "That's not a safe place for you to be.  You know that."

"Guys! someone said I'm racist! But I love all the races -- even the bad ones!"

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"All you rich people, just leave your money in a pile.  We don't need a big show."

For the moms out there:

https://www.wcostream.net/bluey-season-3-episode-18-rain

Happy Mom's Day

"I had a telephone, but people kept ringing it."

--Maynard

Don't kill the part of you that's cringe;  kill the part of you that cringes.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"When you respect people, you aren't afraid of them. When you're afraid of them, you don't respect them." ~ Julius Rock

"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future. Not a future that will be, but one that might be.  This is not a new world; it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history, since the beginning of time.  It has refinements: technological advances and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.  But, like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace... Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete."

--Rod Serling
The Twilight Zone

"Having a point in every direction is the same as having no point at all."

51 minutes ago, Tropical Melody said:

Three puffs and it's up.

Superb air pillow.

 

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. -- Harry S. Truman

If it;s someone else's fault, It's someone else's world.

“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

"Hi, I'm Judge Judy. I get paid $45 million a year to yell at people who have nothing."

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge... Others just gargle.

"That's not what really happened, but then again, it's your lie, so you can tell it anyway you want to"

The work that went into this!