I have accepted defeat on the researching creative writing tutoring front

Just to clarify my thoughts (since I've had a number of people ask me about it) re: Job and cursing God. There's a big difference between cursing God as used in Scripture and how we generally would think of cursing at God today.

Cursing someone, in the Bible, has a lot of depth to it. It's not just saying "screw you " in anger, it's got a sense of forsakenness to it. It's the opposite of a blessing, a removal of blessing. If the blessing is presence, your face shining on the person you're blessing, then a curse is absence. In some translations, Job's wife tells him to "renounce God and die," which I honestly think makes a lot more sense to modern ears.

Job says a lot of unpleasant things to and about God in his anger and grief. So do the Psalmists. A number of the Prophets. So can we. God can take it if we come to him with honest expressions of our emotion, including those not-so-nice ones directed at him. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting mad at God and saying, "How dare you, you bastard" when you suffer unjustly. You can say much worse, I think, without sinning, though I don't feel particularly inclined to give examples. But as long as it's an honest expression of your heart, I think you're doing exactly what prayer is for. You're presenting him your heart with an open hand. He can use that. Opposite of love is not hate but indifference, etc.

Job doesn't renounce God. Neither should we. But I think when you're truly suffering, you're gonna have those feelings toward God either way. He'd rather you address them with him directly than try to avoid them. Cursing at God in the modern sense is actually a great way to keep the relationship strong and not end up cursing/renouncing him in the Biblical sense.

My mental health and gender are whatever this relatable pathetic French blond has going on

something something gisela would be taken more seriously as a villain if she were male

I just read up on the whole queuing situation at Böle and man what a shitshow...

I really hope something will be done about this in the future. It really cannot be that people show up a day before a concert and camp in front of the venue overnight (and actively break the venues rules by doing so) and end up being awarded for it.

Maybe it sounds harsh, but in my opinion these people should not be allowed to access the venue at all. If you can't follow basic instructions like "please don't start queuing before 8am", you might not be trusted to follow other rules that the venue has in place to ensure everyones comfort and safety, either.

Seriously, unless their actions are starting to have consequences, I don't think they are going to change their behavior.

I mean, the fact that they already attended countless gigs and still need to be in the front row every time, tells you enough about what kind of people they are. Nicely asking them to stop won't probably be enough.

Anyway, I don't want to rant any more about that. I just really hope that something will be done about this in the future and I'm sorry for everyone who followed the rules and ultimately got punished for it, I hope you still have a great time! 💚

so much art about being rejected romantically and not enough about how devastating it is to find out someone was only interested in you romantically and therefore your rejection of their romantic intentions is also their rejection of your platonic intentions

So fucking pissed at people who say that hyperspecific labels “make the queer community look bad” or “is just pure attention seeking”, NO MF I JUST LIKE HAVING A NAME FOR THINGS I FEEL.

Like, my situation with gender is so fucking complicated that having a person coin something such as “dazegender” was so good to me, and I still have a complicated relationship with gender !! I’m so glad for whoever coined the term “Omnisexual/romantic” because it would've been a living nightmare to do mental gymnastics to feel like I fitted pan or bi.

“But those are spectrums” do people treat them as such ? Do they really ? Plus it's just difficult to my head to grasp the concept of “spectrum” it either is or is not, that's how my brain works personally. (My brain needs to be able to name things, basically. And also to know exactly what to do, if we're talking about chores, per say).

In today's generation so many people (me included) just find it SO HARD to put their feelings into words that it is genuinely a blessing to have labels that can label what we feel so precisely (to us, at least), “but you're overcomplicating something that should be simple” feelings are so far from being simple, honestly, and what is simple to you may not be to me, and that's okay, just don't call me attention seeking or whatever.

Also, also !! Hyperspecific labels/flags just make me (at least) feel more validated, since it makes it clear to me that I'm not alone in the way I feel and it kinda validates me (in a good way) :] And it's the Queer Community after all, so I think it's past the time we start actually acting like that.

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You know what? Yes, top surgery WOULD fix all my problems. Fuck you

finally processing that we're probably gonna have to have these teeth removed with either sedation or general anaesthetic and unfortunately I have a phobia of both of these to the point where just thinking about it gives us panic attacks and I genuinely don't know what to do because I absolutely want to avoid this at all costs but we also might not have any other option

I feel that I have to put a message for incest/pedo shippers in my posts, because they just keep coming. Although I always thought it stupid to put those sentences, they don't make posts look good. But I am tired. Why are there so many and they don't stop coming?

All of these "who has more anything gender!" polls are just. white man without extreme body builder muscles v white man without extreme body builder muscles. The gender is "masculine" stop pretending it's universal

i don’t think i’ll ever be the same as a person after the massacre that happened in my country but at least i can enjoy stuff in small doses as i did last week. like i’m looking at taylor’s new photos and i’m like god i love her look at her. this whole week i was kind of numb and stuck and while i can’t really escape the horrors and the heartbreaking stories of what’s going on, it’s nice that i can come in here and just feel like a normal person again.