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  1. A quotation from Hugo

    Strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other’s qualities.
     
    [Et puis, chose bizarre, le premier symptôme de l’amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c’est la timidité, chez une jeune fille, c’est la hardiesse. Ceci étonne, et rien n’est plus simple pourtant. Ce sont les deux sexes qui tendent à se rapprocher et qui prennent les qualités l’un de l’autre.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 3 “The House in the Rue Plumet,” ch. 6 (4.3.6) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/75527/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #boldness #courage #fear #love #men #rolereversal #timidity #truelove #women #youth #courtship #shyness

  2. @futurebird

    but gradually the world becomes quieter, and in the distance skyscrapers are there one day and gone the next. Finally, the is no contact with other humans at all and you live in a tiny bubble of undisturbed humanity, a kind of terrarium, separated from but sustained by the sea of colonies that have taken over the world.

    #rolereversal

  3. It’s a different #season of life when a #parent becomes the person needing care.
    #aging #rolereversal

  4. CW: lewd question for subs

    Subs: if you were allowed to take charge of your Dom for one time only, what would you do with them?

    #sub #dom #rolereversal #powerplay #bdsm #kink #sex

  5. Flu sufferers, make the most of the honeymoon period between your partner looking after you and them catching it. #RoleReversal

  6. CW: CW: #dementia #comics #mom

    #journalcomics #comicsjournaling #memory #MemoryCare #unexpectedgifts #disabledartist #patreon #family #graphicmemoir #relationships #parents #sketches #familydynamics #RoleReversal

    This is a bit of comics journaling about visiting my Mom recently. It's just something I drew for myself, with no particular thought to sharing it. But I know a lot of you are slowly losing parents to dementia, or already have, so I'm posting it here for those of you who can relate.
    I wrote more about the challenges, & also the unexpected *gifts* of dementia here, if you're interested:
    patreon.com/posts/are-you-my-c
    I can't help but think of the book "Are You My Mother?" when my Mom asks if I'm her daughter. Here we are, she and I, navigating yet another role-reversal. But that dynamic is familiar territory for us.
    If you can't read my handwriting, I've transcribed all of it in the image description below.
    ❤️