this new wave of overly permissive/entitled parents raising children and never teaching they're not the center of the universe + more early age mental health diagnoses are going to create a wave of adults that have 0 idea how to cope with their own problems beyond attempting to control the behaviors of everyone around them and calling them ableist for daring to defend their rights to exist....this goes triple if they're white

like bro idk terf arguments against trans men sound the same to me as truescum did back in the day. YOU cant be trans that way because I cant be trans that way. just because YOURE dysphoric as a woman doesnt mean youre trans because I AM TOO. you CANT be trans because the liberation you tout has been stolen from me. like girl you can be trans too. get out of the fuckin echochamber and maybe youll start to feel a lot better about yourself and not need to cut down other people to feel something. maybe your dysphoria would be helped by transitioning. maybe it wouldnt. wont know unless you explore it though.

not sure if ive just been shipping byler for too long but mike and el being in a genuine romantic relationship now feels like. out of character. like even ignoring all the theories about him being queer and such just looking at his and els characters and ignoring the romantic context theyve been put with since the start, i dont look at them and think “hm theyd make a good ship” it just doesnt feel like a thing they would do i cant explain it

Ok not gonna actually put my replies on someone's post bc that's RUDE (and it's not borne out of ill will I genuinely like discussing this stuff but idk if that is appropriate here!! I don't know this person!! I am bad at knowing when to open my mouth!) but I really liked the theology of vespertine? I didn't take it as things done in the Lady's name are Valid Religious Actions, nor did I take it that both good and evil come from the Lady. Its clearly based off of Christianity, and i thought the questions it asked about theodicy were quite interesting (and perhaps my favourite bit of the book, and why I found it so moving).

It was less that the Lady causes xyz bad thing to happen, and more that the Lady /allows/ xyz bad thing to happen only so that ultimately some good can be brought out of it. Which, imo, is very in line with a Christian view of theodicy, esp in the Pauline epistles (and Job, and obvs the Gospels). Evil is brought into the world by human action, but that human action is allowed to happen (BC free will) and ultimately is transformed toward the Good. That doesn't mean that ppl aren't shitheads who claim that their evil is divinely sanctioned, nor that hurt people do not (understandably) blame the divine and lash out in their hurt. But that ultimately, for whatever ineffable reason the inexorable will of god PERMITS evil to occur, knowing in divine wisdom and grace it will be transformed to the Good.

That's not a comfort. Not really. I think it is frightening and terrifying and awe-inspiring and horrible all at once. I have my own personal feelings on the subject. I just think it's an important distinction, and fwiw much closer to my own reading of the book. Its the same sort of troubling not-answers to questions of divine providence, grace, and the will of god that the sparrow duology examines (in a much less harrowing way, albiet, the sparrow is heavy).

Idk man I think I'm just fascinated by theodicy and conceptions of evil in non dualistic universe where evil exists despite an omnipotent and all-good divinity. I think the Augustine Brainrot got me.

everyone say thank u to my roommate for going to visit her parents this weekend so I can jack it loud and nasty 🙏

I Genuinely love my jib but I also sometimes just cant with my job.

my brain stop giving me debilitating migraines challenge

I am eagerly waiting for my society to figure out that our sex is more complicated and nuanced than "male and female" and I think a nice baby step would be admitting that our concept of sex is...

...inadequate?

...incompatible with a comprehensive understanding of life?

...silly?

I don't think humans will ever have the perfect terms for perfect comprehension but...it's kinda human nature to try to find the words. Are you telling me that this type of terminology (link to the Wikipedia article) is the best we can do? Even when discussing creatures that clearly are not compatible with a binary view of sex?

Like, if we can't even admit that complex sexes exist somewhere on the planet, how could we fathom that they exist within us?

Spoiler warning: Saria somehow got Kristen back down to Terra, Saria has to get Kristen to go for a walk. Like how dogs or I’m guessing any animal who doesn’t have walks or anything engaging the animal will become restless and behave poorly. Kristen needs to go outside since she doesn’t or once in a blue moon she’ll walk outside for a second.

Saria walking Kristen since she can’t be near anything science related for her trial lmao

i had this ask being just there for a while and i don't know what it's supposed to mean. are you asking me to draw saria walking kristen like a dog

i have weirdposted abt daudlurk in the past on here i think but it isnt even bc its quasi-incestuous its bc ppl play it straight. she is too much like that old man to want to fuck him !!!! and he is gay. godbless

(( Endlessly amusing to me how Miranda represents the apex of multiple different canon settings, the cream of the crop, the dream atop the hill that everyone else can only strive for.

And her and the other royals this applies to never really use it because why would they use their special good boy powers when the ol' reliable methods work just fine?

Tim and Jay Marble Hornets 🤝 Adam and Lawrence Saw: both definitely gay and they are gay with each other but I just don’t think it’s in a romantic way

well i love writing katniss divorce simulator whenever i write katniss and peeta fighting its like an angel gets its wings <3

sorry my only jokes right now are miles ant ones

man, that post reminds me that a while ago i was looking around to see if anyone had made any mods for ds1 or 2 that made enemies permanently die the first time you killed them and people are so fucking mean about anyone so much as suggesting dark souls doesnt need to be a tedious slog to have merit as a game

as if severely limiting the levels you can get would make the game easier

Clowns are the purest expression of God's love for humanity and this Earth and its creatures, so jot that down real quick.