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"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

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Remember that the calls for the national guard to intervene are calls to use state violence against Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim and other pro-Palestine students. They’re calling for deadly violence against Jews in the name of “anti-antisemitism.”

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queima minha pele.

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Marcha das Mulheres Indígenas, Brasília, 2021 🏹

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Slidy baby

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

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Just got back from church. Am absolutely screaming inside.

So months ago, I was talking to God knows who (tell me if it was you) that high council Sunday is the worst because it guarantees the most speaking time per year in every ward to the same man. We hear from the high councilmen in total more than we hear from anyone else in the Church, including the prophet.

This bothers me. It was something I was praying about. From what I've seen in this stake, it's the first time they seem to rotate everyone on the council each month. That alone is a good change, but I'm so tired of having incredible female leadership I never see or get to interact with.

Our stake is now sending a woman leader from the stake to speak on every third Sunday with the high councilman. They're creating a standing reservation for women to speak in sacrament meeting every month.

This was my first time seeing and meeting my stake Relief Society president. She gave a phenomenal talk about the sacrament. And the high councilman who was with us this week opened his talk by expressing his confidence in her. They've both lived in this area for many decades, so they've served together in the Church for many years. It was lovely and it was the nicest fulfillment of what I was imagining in my head when I previously criticized the formula for "Dry Council Sunday" in saying it needed improvement.

I went up to the stand afterwards to thank her and introduce myself, and to let her know that her presence was the answer to a prayer for me. We had a wonderful conversation and I confided in her what this means to me personally, my history of feeling frustration with gender dynamics in the Church. She listened so well and embraced me, thanked me for sharing, and said she would let the rest of the leadership of the stake know that this is a meaningful and well-received change.

All this to say: when there is something about the way the Church functions that is painful and unfair, don't keep it to yourself. Tell God in prayer. Pour out your soul about what you think and feel. Leave that hurt on the altar where it belongs, especially if it never should've been yours to carry. Trust your Heavenly Family to know how to help and rescue you.

It may not happen immediately, but change will come. I've seen this so many times in my church experience. God hears us and cares when we suffer. That suffering is held and known completely in the body of Christ, where it can also be healed. And in time, change will come.

#mormon #lds #mormonism #tumblrstake #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #religion #faith #queerstake #christianity

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I know that a lot of people think the Provo temple is ugly and they’re really excited about the new one (and I am too) but also I will miss my silly little cupcake of a temple

Literally gasped out loud when I drove by and saw them taking the spire off

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#mormon #lds #mormonism #tumblrstake #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #religion #faith #ldsconf

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my testimony for tumblrstake this fine sunday

I don't know jack-shit about the existence of God, the divinely ordained status of the church, the reality of anybody's appointment to a calling, or our identities as the children of a powerful and loving creator god. I have a laundry list of complaints about the church - the institutional homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, antisemitism, the refusal to admit that the institutional racism of church history was wrong and not "the will of God at the time," the demand that we unconditionally support leaders whose authority we did not get to weigh in on.

and yet.

this is the only place where I always feel like myself. like all the weird little pieces of me - the body, the spirit, the psyche, and all their fragmented parts - coalesce into something that makes sense, has meaning, and is accepted without the scrutiny of a cop looking for a reason to punish.

the church is fucked up, and so am I, and together we can improve each other with love and goodwill.

no matter how much it seems like this is someplace I can't belong, I always come back around to it. it always turns out to be the only place I belong. and I don't know, but I believe, that that's because I belong with Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Parents, and the way They want to instruct me is through this church and community. So I stay, and no matter how contradictory it seems, it makes me happy.

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YW Magical Girls full ensemble

links to individual images under the cut

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I made my friend tweet this so that I could share it with y’all on tumblr

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This is what ADHD is. Having Weird Al directing all of my actions, exactly like this.

real life cartoon character

#adhd

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Demonic, Undead, & Vampire Ships

For the longest time, I've been wanting to release a monster ship pack that would be crewed by various nefarious forces of darkness.

Many of these ships were inspired by settings other than D&D. For example, the Otherworldly and Flesh ships were inspired by pulp horror and the Cthulhu Mythos.

 Along with each ship map, I've made a night variant, an unfurnished map, and a PNG token with a transparent background.

You can download the first three maps for free here.

Check out my entire map archive here.