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re your second-to-last paragraph, I don't really understand the logic behind "sure these people are potentially authoritarian abusers, but we have to let them control children, because anything is better than letting these other people control them, because they are potentially authoritarian abusers"
I agree with you that it is important for children to be able to have autonomy from their parents, but I do not think the way to achieve this should be giving another group of people (teachers) carte blanche to abuse the children
if you look at the post you reblogged, I give one example of something i would consider replacing schools with, and you will notice that it does ensure that children have regular contact with adults who are not their parents
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@blossominqxbuqs asked: DO IT DO IT MAKE THAT CELESTIAL RANT I WANNA SEE THE LOREEEE
. . . The council has fucking spoken, I guess??? IMOAMIOWAMD. Alright bestie, you want lore, you got it.
Okay. So. Angels/Celestials in my world don’t serve just one god. There’s a whole as pantheon of different gods that covers different domains that I’m still working out the kinks with.
Celestials come in two flavors, personality wise. Chill and open-minded individuals driven by the pursuit of knowledge and helping others... or literally the most insufferable, vain and manipulative piece of human garbage that you’ve ever had the displeasure of coming across. The latter out-weighing the former... Of course, this is a GROSS over exaggeration, but I think you get what I’m trying to say here.
Celestials who descend/are connected with the triple goddess, goddess of magic/necromancy/knowledge, are typically seen as well... outcasts as they would often dabble in what others would consider darker arcane arts, thinking they only want this knowledge for their own selfish needs. Which isn’t really usually the case. Guess which goddess Allison & her mother descend/are connected with... :)
When it comes to other celestials, Allison hasn’t met many other celestials aside from the ones in her family. Some of her mother's friends, sure, but no one that really stuck out to her.
Aurora, on the other hand... is a different story. She was formerly engaged/married to a celestial noble, but he was a horrid and cruel man, so she ended up leaving him. Ever since then, her ex-husband has done everything he could to spread the narrative that his ex was a horrid and evil with that wanted nothing more than to consume dark magic in order to claim the world as her own, and with her being connected to the triple goddess that wasn’t hard to do.
Allison has always felt... different from others like her. Sure she’s still holy in a sense, she won’t deny that, but there was always that disconnect that she’s always felt due to her family practices and in her mannerisms.
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no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity
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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)
if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.
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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.
I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.
I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.
If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.
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•. A visit in a dream .•
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"Grant me your wrath, my dear. For I've become unworthy of your forgiveness"
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mombin pt 2 because we're committed now
(part 1 is here)
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