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anamericangirl · 1 year

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One of the biggest failings of the church that makes me so sad is the relationship we have built with the lgbt community. I cannot tell you how many times i have heard someone from that community say they grew up Christian and part of the church and the reason they left is because they realized they were gay or bi or trans and so they couldn’t stay part of the church or remain Christian because God doesn’t want them and they aren’t welcome and don’t have a place in heaven.

And for so many people to feel that way means that we, as Christians, have failed to be the example of Christ and His love that we are called to be. People who come to those realizations should not feel ostracized and shunned from the church or that God won’t accept them. They should feel like they are exactly where they need to be.

We need to actively to do better in this area. No one should feel unwelcome by the church and if we are giving out the message to people who identify as lgbt that God doesn’t love or want them than we need to pause and reevaluate our behavior here.

Every time I hear someone say they left Christianity because they’re gay my heart breaks for them. This is not ok and we’re not following God if we don’t fix this serious problem and show the people in that community how much God loves them and welcome them into the church.

#just heard someone talk about how they left Christianity when they realized God didn’t want them because they are gay #it makes me want to cry sometimes #we need to do better #religión #christianity

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oxygenpdf · 2 months

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We as a community don’t talk about goofy Max enough.

#formula 1 #f1 #formula one #max verstappen #We need to #he needs to be talked about more #we need to do better #as a community

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darlingdesire · 1 year

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ADORE

just a plotless fluffy block of writing about how whipped Matty is for Y/N. (first time writing for Matty)

Matty woke up early in the morning, feeling the warmth of the sun's first rays seeping through the curtains. He looked over to see Y/N sleeping soundly beside him, facing him, her chest rising and falling with each breath. He couldn't help but smile as he gazed at her, her beauty taking his breath away.

He brushed a strand of hair away from her face, reveling in the softness of her skin. To him, she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He loved the way she smiled, the way she laughed, and the way she looked at him with those sparkling eyes.

God, he thought she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. He knew he had never seen anyone as beautiful as Y/N. Every time he looked at her, he was struck by her stunning features. He loved the way her hair fell in loose strands around her face, the way her eyes glimmered when she smiled, and the way her lips formed a perfect pout that he loved kissing.

Y/N was more than just beautiful. Etheral, yes. But it was also her character that drew him to her. She was kind, funny, and intelligent, and he was constantly in awe of her. He loved the way she laughed at his jokes, the way she listened to him when he talked, and the way she always seemed to know just what he needed.

Matty knew that Y/N was beautiful both inside and out. He loved the way she cared for others, always putting their needs before her own. He admired her intelligence, her drive, and her unwavering determination to succeed in everything she did.

Matty couldn't help but stare at Y/N in wonder. He loved the way she moved, the way she talked, and the way she just seemed to light up the room.

Y/N was a work of art, a masterpiece that he was lucky enough to have in his life. He knew that she was special, and he cherished every moment they spent together.

He would often tell Y/N how beautiful she was, but he knew that his words could never do her justice. She was simply too perfect, too stunning, too amazing for words. So with a kiss to every inch if her skin, he thought that all the love he had pent up inside would transfer onto her. Actions served greater than words.

Matty was grateful every day for the gift of Y/N's presence in his life. He knew that he would never find anyone else like her, and he thanked his lucky stars that she was his.

As he continued to gaze at her, he thought about how much he loved her. Y/N had helped him become the person he is today, and he was grateful for every moment he had with her. She had changed his outlook on life, made him appreciate the small things, and showed him what true love was.

He couldn't imagine his life without her. Y/N was the light in his life, the one who had filled his days with joy and happiness. Matty knew he would never find anyone else like her, and he cherished every moment they spent together.

Matty leaned in and pressed a soft kiss on Y/N's forehead, feeling her stir in her sleep. He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her closer, savoring the feel of her warm body against his.

He knew he was head over heels in love with her. Y/N was his everything, and he would do anything for her. He wanted to make her feel special, to show her how much she meant to him.

Matty closed his eyes and took a deep breath, inhaling the sweet scent of Y/N's hair. He felt his heart swell with love and admiration, and he couldn't help but whisper to her, "You have no clue, do you?" And let it simmer out into the open for a few seconds, all while his dark eyes continued to trickle over his girl’s face, “how much I adore you.”

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hobartsaglet · 3 months

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So let’s talk about why I think Hazbin Hotel and V!vz!3pop’s works are terrible and shouldn’t be praised or consumed at all.

CW: mentions of Zionism, r@pe/SA

We all know how terrible of a person Vivziepop is. She’s a Zionist, fetishizes r@pe, and overall has some very dangerous beliefs about sexuality. Her show, Hazbin Hotel, features unwarned sex and r@pe scenes. Gross.

My problem is the people who think it’s okay to like her content even when boycotting and pirating.

“It gives great asexual representation!” “This show helped my identity as a queer person.”

Awesome! I believe marginalized groups should have representation in mainstream media as any sane person would.

It’s not going to be this show.

If we have an ounce of logic and critical thinking skills, we would slowly realize that Miss Pop probably made this show with some of her r@pe fantasies in mind. And even if she didn’t, the material directly relates to her atrocious ideas of sexuality. The media comes from a malicious place and we should feel disgusted. Someone who has beliefs like hers should not have a voice in our community, nor as big of a platform as it does.

Even if pirating the show, Hazbin Hotel still has a large fanbase and it needs to stop. Vivziepop doesn’t need to have a dime from viewers to still have influence and a platform and support, and continuing to defend this show and try to separate atrocious media from its evil creator eliminates the point of boycotting.

Furthermore, we as people should not be consuming this vile show anyways. It’s not something we need to put in our heads, especially people who struggle with mental health and may find the material triggering.

The sex scenes in Oppenheimer and Blue Eye Samurai, for example, are why I won’t be interacting or at least watching those media. The stories in both media can be told without the sexual content in them, and if they can’t, they shouldn’t be told at all.

Find representation somewhere else, or create your own spaces. I will never support or defend this disgusting show.

#hazbin hotel #anti hazbin hotel #anti vivziepop #anti zionisim #we need to do better #this show is disgusting

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malbecmusings · 5 months

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The hate that divides humanity must end. And yet, I fear it will not until it consumes us entirely.

#we need to do better #individually and collectively

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smutinlove · 4 months

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im so sick and tired of "writers" saying that their books, fanfiction or whatever is so diverse when it only has japanese, chinese, or koreans. WHAT ABOUT THE INDIANS, PAKISTANIs, BANGLADESHIS, JUST EVERY SOUTH ASIAN EVER.

WHAT ABOUT US?? it's like we don't exist. And I'm just so sick and tired of people, especially "writers" making excuses on why they don't have indians in their books. like we aren't rats.

And I'm not trying to say that EVERY BOOK should include characters that are south asian. But at least some books should have SOME REAL AND TRUE diversity.

AGGTM IS A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF REAL CULTURAL DIVERSITY. PERIOD, BITCHES.

#writers on tumblr #writing community #writerscommunity #writers and poets #female writers #male writers #culture #we need to do better #Aggtm #aggtm is fucking great #anyway rant #RANT #cultural diversity

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gayglitterdinosaur · 3 months

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#we need to do better #free the world

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rockbottomwithashovel · 3 months

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In Honour of Invasion Day <3 (/sarc)

I would like to be proud of my country. I want to celebrate the culture of mateship, siding with the underdog, telling the pollies to piss off and multicultural diversity... but how can I??

How can I be proud of my country when the day we celebrate the country is the very day that this nation got stolen from the 'traditional owners'. There's already a problem with that term, see, a lot of Aboriginal people (First Nation Aussies and Islanders) see it as they belong to the land, not vice versa. I would like to appreciate Kevin Rudd's apology speech back in 2008, but not much changed, so where's the apology in that??

The people who's land I am currently writing this on deserve better than being seen as "lesser". What people don't realize is that the racism in this country is far from gone. Did you know that the stolen generation legislation didn't stop being a thing until 1969? Sounds a long time ago, right? That was only 55 years ago. My mother is older than that. Let that sink in. There are 55 year old men and women out there who were stolen from their families and given to white people for some wankery of an excuse "so they can have a better life" more like so they can be "civilized" and assimilated to our culture which we deem correct and anyone who stands in the face gets murdered, thrown in jail or worse.

I would love to celebrate, crack open a tinny, play some cricket and sing waltzing fucking matilda but that's not right. I have no rights to celebrate when fellow Australians have little rights in general and are being put in jail left and right, beaten to a pulp and left to die in prisons. And of course their deaths get covered up. The police brutality in Australia is horrific because it's insidious (I'm about to write another post about this with statistics, so stay tuned). A lot of cops around here will let you off with a warning, chilled out... but that's my experience. As a white girl who can cry tears at her "mistakes". I remember once I talked myself out of a $200 on the spot fine for sneaking onto a train, said I lost my ticket and fake cried over it (shitty move, right? But to be fair, I couldn't afford the train ticket, let alone a fine). The officers were nice, gave me a warning. But how nice would they have been if I weren't white? I'd probably have been taken in to the station even if I genuinely had been crying, bought a ticket, and lost it.

There is so much fucking racism in this country. I remember being 10, disgusted as the class threw the new, Aboriginal kid under the bus for a missing toy in the class room. He didn't steal it. We found it months later. But the hell he got as the students and teachers blamed him for it? He moved schools (Darren, if you're reading this, I'm so fucking sorry for not doing more). This system is against them. And my country, my people, have the nerve to celebrate this culture on the day that marked genocide of people who were perfectly happy just living??

Sometimes I hate being white. It's an unfair advantage and I don't want anything to do with those colonizing aka land stealing genocidal bastards, but what the fuck is the point in having this privilege if I don't use it? If Indigenous people aren't getting heard then I'll stand with them, maybe this racist system will listen to a white girl.

(Final note, you're not punk if you don't fight the system, you're a poser, if you don't stand up for people who are dying you're an asshole, if you're part of a minority and let other minorities get squashes what the fuck is wrong with you, and last but not least, if you don't have an opinion on things like this, you might want to check your privilege.)

#rock rambles #delete later #invasion day #australia day #survival day #aboriginal people #indigenous people #stand for something #boost this #tw stolen generation #tw racism #we need to talk about this #we need to do better #Spotify

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cosmicnuisance · 1 year

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I'm so...indescribably sad right now. How is this progress? How are we living in a better society?

Every day my community is attacked. Every day another piece of legislation is attempted to be pushed through. We aren't even human to them anymore.

Haven't we had enough? When will it ever be enough for them? When we're quiet? When we're dead? When every trace of our existence is wiped off of the face of the fucking planet?

.. I don't know anymore.

Sometimes it's far too exhausting to exist in a society where just being myself is an act of active protest.

And on top of all this, my rights as a person are being stripped away bit by bit. my community is being attacked. We are dying in the streets because people are so obsessed with the fact that their idea of who we should be doesn't correlate with who we are. Because we don't act the way our assigned gender should. Living openly as a transgender or genderqueer person right now is an act of protest. And it shouldn't have to be. We shouldn't have to fight tooth and nail for basic fucking health care. For benefits. For basic human compassion.

Haven't we sacrified enough already?

I'm so jealous of binary trans people. Of trans people who have the option to be stealth. My identity will never be anything other than the "made-up gender". Than the fake one. When people talk about the "bad" part of the LGBT community, I know they're talking about me. I know that it's me who's "tarnishing' the reputation of the transgender community.

What absolute bullshit. I shouldn't be jealous of people who are in the same leaking, sinking boat that I'm on just because they're sitting in a drier spot.

The transphobes will never care to learn what the difference is between a cishet man who wears skirts and a trans woman. they will never bother to understand the difference between genderfluid and nonbinary. They don't care if you're medically diagnosed or not. They are coming for ALL OF US. we are all the goddamn same to them.

That's what our community was built on! Uniting many identities together under one flag.

And with the emergence of labels and micro labels and super-specific flags, people seem to have forgotten the true reason that Pride came around in the first place. To unite us. We are SAFER as one. STRONGER together.

There is no harm in finding a super-specific micro-label to describe your feelings, your identity. Hell, I do it myself. But to start in-fighting over them? When our rights are still actively being attacked?

No.

No, that's not what the community is. That was never what the community was meant to be.

We are dying. We are being attacked from every angle and we are too busy fighting each other to protect ourselves.

So please. Stop the cancel calls and the cries of "faking it". This isn't an extended family dinner when old wound get picked apart. This is an operating room where we are getting dissected for morbid entertainment.

Put the keyboards down and pick up your placards. Because this war is far from over and we're dead if we lose.

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geekthefreakout · 4 months

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So Israel is gonna start declining visas to UN workers and BOY nothing says "I'm definitely absolutely not committing war crimes and genocide no need to check!" like keeping the only body that can hold you accountable out of your "borders".

At what point will the global community stop looking the other way?

#i/p #meanwhile my zionist cousins would have my head #because Israel is our “homeland”#but i dont want a homeland which ousts others and commits atrocities on them #to make space for me #we need to do better

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hestarsia · 1 year

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as a fandom we need to accept that jegulus is just sakusa and atsumu but they’re dead

#the marauders #regulus black #james potter #jegulus #sirius black #peter pettigrew #remus lupin #harry potter #lily evans #marauders era #marauders #jegulus fic #sakusa kiyoomi #miya atsumu #sakuatsu #we need to do better #they are the same #but it’s okay #because i love them

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connorwriteshorror · 1 year

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As a gamer, I’m used to being disappointed in the gaming community. But this just makes me disappointed in humanity. Not only does it put money in a TERFs pocket, but it validates her and her beliefs. It tells her and the big companies that support her that no matter the amount vitriol and hate she spews, she will still make insane money. I was really hoping to see more support for my trans brothers and sisters when this game released, but clearly the gaming community thinks a $70 dollar video game about wizards is more important than human rights.

#hogwarts legacy #fuckTERFs #gaming #lgbt rights #trans rights #jk rowling is a transphobe #video games #we need to do better

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fosterwhat · 2 years

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This is such a crappy day.

The CPS team is considering reunification again. Almost six years straight in care. Zero case progress made. But whatever.

Baby still isn’t born. I’ve been told in the same breath to pray that the baby comes into care so baby can stay safe and that they will probably send my kids home to live with mom and baby. The logic is…

And then the CDC decided to basically delete all COVID restrictions. My toddler isn’t even fully protected from vaccines yet! Plus, I have immunosuppressed/chronically ill friends and relatives who will die if they catch COVID, and now they risk being exposed daily. But whatever.

I don’t know what to do except try to be as apathetic as possible. In reality I’ll ruminate on this forever and probably never sleep again. Until/unless my kids are safe.

#this is foster care #this may be adoption #we need permanency #we need to do better #foster care reform

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literaphobe · 2 years

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this post is really sending me its like damn maybe stats don’t tell a complete story and game selection and order can really mess things up and some players pop off and some underperform -> i love how this is treated like a serious moral failing

#We need to do better #KFKSKDJSJDJS

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livingwithlupus614 · 1 year

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Weight gain is a known possible side effect of some lupus medications, especially Prednisone. I take prednisone daily and have the notorious “moon face” that this medication is known to cause, which can really affect my self-esteem sometimes. This poor woman has the world bullying her over an unavoidable consequence of the meds she takes to keep herself alive and that is despicable. I am grateful that Selena Gomez uses her platform to spread awareness about lupus, so it really hurts my heart to see her getting picked for her weight, especially since it comes from her taking care of her health by taking her meds 💜🦋

#lupusadvocate #lupusawareness #living with lupus #lupus warrior #chronic illness warrior #chronicillnesslife #we need to do better

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zingbott · 5 months

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I just finished watching and im sorry but i actually screamed NO at my screen when frankie came out of that box. i have never truly been that jumpscared in my life.

thank god the season's over i only truly miss the first 40 days of fantastic tv. justice for queen izzy over n out

#i dont even wanna talk about afp #we need to do better #cam winning and MATT being on the list???? fr

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