Zayne, c’mon man… I’m just tryna bond with you over your cute cat friend, why’d you have to go and roast me like that 😭

While attending church with @nerdygaymormon recently, we sang the sacrament hymn: While of These Emblems We Partake.

The first stanza says: "While of these emblems we partake, In Jesus' name and for his sake, Let us remember and be sure, Our hearts and hands are clean and pure."

The sacrament is often a place and time for me to reflect, a time to let the Spirit work within me to inspire change, to remember where I have fallen short of who I want to be and to ponder how I can improve.

During the hymn, I thought of a number of things I needed to improve and change in my life to have a more 'pure heart and cleaner hands'.

And then it occurred to me that sitting in sacrament meeting in a dress hadn't been on the list of things I needed to change.

I continue to find no condemnation from God when it comes to being transgender or presenting as my authentic self.

i am honestly so mad that I didn't get Xavier's Heating Up card. T_T

Bg3 being like insanely popular is so scary a girl i knew in highschool is a like ~clean christian~ twitch streamer and she keeps posting astarion content anyways u leave that boy alone

Dreamlight valley lit up my Oswald candle again i think

Uhm

Aus of Oswald i made

Will not explain them:)

Cannot believe one of Curtain's evil plans was to forcefully adopt his brother's daughter via some rich shmuck he had in his pocket.

How did he think that was going to go? Certainly not well, I hope, knowing Constance.

redesign of my hawaii part ii oc simon to completely disassociate him from tally hall

My friend:Why do you still go to church if you're an atheist?

Me not wanting to explain that saying I'm an atheist to my family will make my life so shitty that it's better to continue lying, hiding my interests and opinions even tho it's starting to get on my fuckings nerves any time someone mentions Jesus: It's complicated.

Alright, I´m gonna add my two cents to Jonathan’s current behaviour and state of mind (as of Oct 25th).

There seems to be this idea floating around that he is still determent to become a vampire himself if everything goes wrong with catching the Count- and with that it would mean he would stop the others from staking Mina if it came to it…. and I don’t see that being his plan…

To say his mind is troubled would be an understatement of the worst sort, but by now he has surely understood that there is no way of saving or joining Mina if the Count lives, he must have understood by now that under no circumstances is it even possible for him to “join” or “spare” her against her wishes. Someone pointed out that the vampires here have barely any resemblance to how they were before they turned, no feelings of a softer kind. Jonathan turning wouldn’t matter to Mina if it came to it, nor would it bring him anything either. Van Helsing cautioned against such thinking, and Mina expressed her greatest wish to be that Jonathan would be safe (which means she wants him under all circumstances to stay human&alive).

Jonathan isn’t sharpening his knife to attack the others if it comes to the worst, he is sharpening it to make sure no outsider intervenes so it cannot come to the worst. He’s hands are cold because he is afraid. He doesn’t write his journal for his thoughts are too troubled, not because of “his vow” but because of the realisation that it has to end with Dracula destroyed or else…

Every mormon I know is, unsurprisingly, taking sides with Israel and I'm pretty sure will try and shove the stupid "Two people from the 12 apostles will visit and single-handedly save Israel during a war right before the second coming :)" and I cannot believe I have to live with these fucking excuses for human beings.

So yeah if you know any mormons in your life there is a high chance they are going to align with the misinformation the church is gonna be putting out there on purpose. Remember you should grind fascist faces into concrete.

I am literally debating putting "dni Mormons" on my DNI list.

I already have that I don't accept interactions with racists, anti-semites, and people who are okay with adults being attracted to minors, but apparently people who are from the religion that was created by a random white American dude who tripped balls in the woods and then decided that all native American people were actually lost Jews (hmm, that's really anti-Semitic) who got dark skin whenever they started sinning (hmm, that's really racist) and that the way to solve it was to take over the Utah territory and fight the US government and slaughter a bunch of natives (wow, that's REALLY racist!) so that they could have their paradise of child marriage and forced polygamy (which still happens in different parts of their community, and is really fucking disgusting) in their magical underwear don't think that that applies to them!

It does. If you support a religion that is based on racism, anti-Semitism, and child marriage, I want nothing to fucking do with you.

And to any Mormons who might be reading this, please research what you are actually supporting and what your church actually has done and continues to do. Y'all were literally responsible for so many residential schools and you participated in tons of genocide against native people, and there has been so much child abuse and rape committed in the name of Joseph Smith. Why would you purposely choose to be part of a religion that is younger than germ theory and literally was created with the fucking blood of native people for the purpose of creepy old white dudes to be able to have multiple teenage wives?

Plus, I'm just anti conservative Christianity and anti-cult in general, so to anyone who might be part of a religious group that gets called those things (LDS, JW, Scientology, ect), please fuck off my page.

ao3: runs a donation drive

random people on the internet i've never heard of and who definitely do not provide a free service i use regularly: oh my god everyone who donated to ao3 owes me money, I deserve it more than the [libel] [bullshit fearmongering] [misuse of legal term] website!!!! these gross cumbrain fandom losers are taking money away from me personally!

I recently spent my lunch break talking to my coworkers about Amish and Mennonites and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses while they looked at me with eyes like flying saucers, and I couldn't stop talking ! and really wanted to share everything I know about these high demand religions !

And sometimes I would try to stop talking but then my coworkers would keep asking questions and I thought I could die of happiness from the opportunity to talk more about this.

Is it what people who have special interests feel like when they can info dump about them ? Because wow pure liquid fire in my veins it felt so good

Ok well I got scared of my usual metal water bottle for reasons of my evil brain. So I’ve got this plastic one that I use sometimes. But as previously stated I feel like I can taste the microplastics in here. And also it doesn’t have a straw like my usual water bottle and well yeah it’s simply skill issue but well I spilled significantly on myself. And I just miss my regular water bottle can she stop being scary and be normal again??! Or can someone give me a dishwasher that somehow fits in my time kitchen!!?

okay but actually constance DEMANDING piggyback rides from post-redemption!curtain all the time, a la toph and zuko. shes just like. chop chop idiot i want to go to the third floor library. and he's like i know you know how to walk. and she's like remember how you put me in a waking coma and he's like for fuck's sake but he's already crouching down

but like then: weirdly soft plot twist. constance really is just getting a kick out of making him carry her around, but like. constance knows that curtain's presence makes her--her "roommate", her mr benedict, happy. she also knows, via annoying psychic abilities, that a) he's secretly a huge bitch just like her and mr benedict, which means he will eventually be tolerable, b) his redemption is, as of now, genuinely and sincerely motivated.

so like. part of it is that she's fucking with him. he did still hurt a lot of people, including people constance doesn't admit to caring about but totally does. she's not like, letting him off the hook for this. maybe it's even partly a test, to make sure she's not wrong. but like... also part of it is this: she wants him to stick around longer, if for only for mr. benedict's sake.

and... well, she knows that everyone watching him, dutifully--with exasperation but also some clear like, visible amount of fondness for his niece--cart her around on his shoulders while she snips at him, is softening them up on him a bit. not only is it harder to stay actively mad at him when there's a pink ten year old sitting on his shoulders bullying him, but it's also obvious he's trying, and not only that, but allowing this obvious poke at his dignity go unchallenged.

(also it makes nicholas smile SO much. he'd love to give her piggyback rides but he is far more likely to fall asleep.)

herald voice: im so jealous of women, i wish men could get pregnant too 🥺