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For Love and Acceptance, and Kindness To and For All: A Christian Essay & The World’s Wake-Up Call

By Maestro

Greetings and salutations, everyone. My name is Maestro. I am a Christian, Autistic, Queer cisgender man, and I am so angry at how the world is right now. First off, so many people are so gosh darn repressed right now. They can’t be themselves freely due to how society treats them, judges them, and, in some cases, harms them for being who they are when being who you are does not harm anyone. Granted, if you are harming someone, that’s a whole ‘nother issue. If you are, you need to seriously reflect on yourself and what issues are causing you to act like a jerk to people just trying to live their lives. I would recommend therapy. That’s another tangent for later in this essay. Trust me. We will get there.

               Going back to where we started, I have been masking for most of my life. What is masking, you ask? Imagine you take a core part of yourself and push it way down. Some folks, like me, pushed it so far that that we don’t even feel and recognize that we are, in fact, suppressing ourselves. And that is so harmful especially for us Autistic folks, even if you don’t understand it. As a matter of fact, this sort of masking has caused me, and so many other Autistic folks so much trauma. The fact that me and so many other people, whether they be Autistic, part of the LGBTQ+ community, or anyone who society doesn’t understand and doesn’t make an effort to understand are ostracized just for bein’ who they are NEEDS to change.

Every single one of us is a creation of the Lord, no matter if they don’t fit into society’s mold. The fact that we even need to hide who we are and our identities, when it doesn’t even harm anyone- especially when doing the opposite and loving ourselves for who we are and having people around us who do the same is so freeing and helps us to finally love ourselves and feel free to be boldly us and happy. Doing so doesn’t hurt anyone, our actions to cause harm and repress people for being the wonderful person The Lord made them to be is what hurts people. Granted, if who you are is someone who does want to harm people, you need to, as I’ve stated, take a serious look inward. Why do you feel this way? What are you feeling inside that drives you to hurt and judge other people just for being who they are? Why, why do you want to lash out at other people like this? And if you hear this and feel rage building up inside of you, ask yourself this. Why are you feeling this way? Self-hatred? Anger towards something really bad that you had to endure in the past? Whatever the root cause, your feelings are valid. I get it. I have experienced so much self-hatred towards myself for my entire life without even realizing it until recently, and It really sucks. Darn, does it suck.

However, your feelings do not give you justification to hurt people, say things, and act in ways that make others feel like they can’t be who they are. Especially seeing as, as I’ve stated, being yourself doesn’t harm anyone. What harms people is taking actions that harm others and not treating them with kindness, love, and respect. And if you read this and feel that sense of rage building up inside you, ask yourself why. What is it that bothers you about hearing that I want people to finally be able to be accepted and loved for who they are, be who they are freely if it isn’t hurting anyone, for wars to finally end, and for people to finally stop hurting each other and finally be kind, loving, and supportive to every person on earth, regardless of our differences and what society deems as flawed when simply being who you are doesn’t harm anyone? Like I said, it’s our harmful actions that hurt people, not being who we are. Because I’m sick of masking who I am and not being able to be the fierce, loving, compassionate, justice-oriented individual that I am just because of how the world treats people who are different and treating us like we’re less than. We are not. We are just as fully people and in our own ways as everyone else is, and we need to start treating people as such. We need to start listening and believing what Jesus and The Lord taught us: love one another as ourselves and pay no one back evil for evil. We haven’t been doing that as a collective people nearly to the degree that we should, and that needs to stop. I repeat. The hate NEEDS to stop. It needs to finally end.

Whether they be neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, what have you, we have a duty as The Lord our God’s creation to love people as ourselves and pay no one back evil for evil. And by no one, I mean no one. Jesus called for us to love one another as ourselves, regardless of their flaws and the painful, messy parts of themselves, such as the trauma each of us has faced. And what have we done? Prevented people who desire get into relationships outside of the hetero norm, like myself, from marrying and being in love with who they choose and what feels right for them because of misconceptions. We ostracize Autistic people, like myself, for stimming and fidgeting and self-regulating in a way that just helps them feel better in a world that oftentimes, time and time again, treats us like we’re weird, broken, and infantilizes us like we’re helpless children that aren’t competent, capable, wonderful human beings, just like everyone else is. The reality is that we are the opposite. We are people who just as beautiful, wonderful, capable, and beautiful ourselves like every single person on this planet should be. We also go to war and terrorize, hurt, and kill people in order to solve human conflicts. The fact that that even happens in the first place is so gosh darn screwed up that it makes me sick.

I am sick of people hurting each other and not allowing people to just be themselves and love whoever they feel in their hearts of hearts that they love when it doesn’t harm anyone just because much of society is so gosh darn hateful. And, yet again, if you read this and feel that feeling of rage bubbling up inside of you- like I’ve said, ask yourself why. Take a deep look inward and ask yourself why you are so upset at me for telling people that we need to stop harming each other and finally, finally love each other for being the wonderful people The Lord our God created them to be. Whatever the reason, as I’ve already stated multiple times, whether it be self-hatred, pain that you experienced in your past, what have you, it does not, in any way, shape, or form, give you or any single individual anywhere to ever exist, who exists now, or who will exist the excuse or right to cause harm to or repress anyone for any reason when they’re just bein’ who they are and not hurting anyone.

As I’ve finally stated so many times over the course of this essay, we need to be better and kinder as a society. Heck, as a world and human race. Do you know the power that simply including someone has to impact a person, in the best way possible? Simply asking someone how they’re doing, if they can sit with you for a meal, showing them your favorite thing that you love, inviting them to hang out and finally be included by a honest to goodness, true friend that accepts them, includes them, and loves them for who they truly are can save a persons life- both emotionally, and sometimes, literally. I know, at least for me, if I was just included in things and had more friends earlier on, especially during my childhood, that actually loved me for me and not the mask that I put on for pretty much all of my life, my pain that I’ve been repressing for pretty much my whole life and caused me so much self-hatred would likely be filled with so much upfront joy and confidence. That is why the world needs to change. We need to be able to feel that way about ourselves and finally love each other as ourselves like what Jesus told us to do, since we, and I mean every sing one of us who has lived, does live, and will ever live in the future, are The Lord’s creation, and The Lord loves us for who we are, regardless of all the flaws we have inside of ourselves. As Jesus said, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34). Praise Jesus. Amen.

#Essay #lgbtqia #Autism #Social change #I'd rather be me #Queer #Love #stop the hate #love each other #praise jesus #christianity #the hate needs to stop #let love prevail #be who you are #be who you want to be

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New Year, New Lackadaisy Fandub! Woot, Woot!

Happy New Year, everyone! To bring in the new year, I have uploaded another Lackadaisy fandub to my YouTube channel!🥳🎆

Feel free to watch it here:

#happy new year #lackadaisy fandub #lackadaisy #lackadaisy rocky #lackadaisy mordecai #voice acting #voice over #voiceover #youtube #youtuber #fandub #comic fandub #webcomic #webcomics #new youtube video #happy new year 2024 #Youtube

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As 2023 draws to a close, I want to thank everyone who watched my YouTube videos this year. I realized through making these Lackadaisy fandubs that I want to be a professional voice actor, so thank you all so much for making me feel like I could achieve this one day!

Also, thank you to the cast and crew of Lackadaisy. Seeing what you all have created is a huge inspiration for me, especially since Lackadaisy is what inspired me to want to go into voice acting in the first place! I hope you all are having an absolutely magnificent day!😄

#youtube #aspiring voice actor #2023 in review #year in review #thank you #thank you for watching #youtuber #Lackadaisy #Lackadaisy fan #lackadaisy cats

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Got a short little animated thing coming up tomorrow! Featuring naps.

Catch it on the Lackadaisy YouTube Channel!

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Holiday/Christmas Special: Incoming! Woot, Woot!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Eve, to those of you who celebrate! In the spirit of the season, I have uploaded my Holiday/Christmas special for this year on my YouTube channel: a fandub of the Lackadaisy mini-comic: "Tannenbaum"! The fandub is scheduled to release tomorrow at 8am, Central Standard Time, so I hope you look forward to it! For this project, I also had the pleasure of collaborating with my good friend, Lucy Woods, who did an absolutely magnificent job voicing both Mrs. Bapka and Ivy Pepper in this fandub! With that being said, I hope that you all are having a lovely holiday season- and if you don't celebrate any holidays this time of year, I hope you are having a lovely day. Woot, woot!

Check out the fandub here:

#fandub #youtube #lackadaisy #youtuber #voiceover #webcomics #voice acting #webcomic #mordecai heller #mordecaiheller #viktor vasko #ivy pepper #lackadaisy rocky #christmas #holiday #tannenbaum #holiday special #christmas special #collab #collab fandub #furry #Mrs Bapka #MrsBapka Lackadaisy #lackadaisy fandub #lackadaisy mordecai #lackadaisy cats #rocky rickaby #Youtube

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New Lackadaisy Fandub Out Now! Woot, Woot!

Greetings and salutations, everyone! I am pleased to announce that my next "Lackadaisy" fandub is now officially out on my YouTube channel! It was a lot of fun being able to do some more voice acting again, and make another fandub for you all now that I'm on break from college for the holidays. Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy this fandub and that it brings some joy into your day. Woot, woot!

#fandub #lackadaisy #webcomics #voiceacting #MordecaiHeller #JoeyLackadaisy #voiceover #comicfandub #youtuber #youtube #voice acting #webcomic #mordecai heller #comic fandub #cats #furry #Youtube

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I was watching Charlie Slimecicle play fnaf while drawing this lmao

Best thing ever, I must say.

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- Gyro, do you have any friends? (whoo that’s a lot of #)

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Some of my design concepts for (younger) Ivy and Ruby Pepper for one of the mini-episodes we're working on. (Both designs have since undergone some changes so that they aren't a complete nightmare to animate.)

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More on the Lackadaisy Patreon!

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I couldn’t find a ref sheet for Ducktales 2017 Scrooge anywhere so I decided to make my own. I combed through episode 1 frame by frame, picked out some progressions and then proceeded to trace all of them by hand. I kinda winged it on hatless scrooge, but I think it looks fine.

…I wonder what they’re staring at in the middle lol

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I knit my Mordecai plush a sweater (inspired by a post by @fablepaint )

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Eager to see if anybody starts making custom clothes for the lil Lackadaisy plushes

Mordecai needs his comfy knit sweater

(art by @lackadaisycats, posted with permission)

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halloween season special🦔🐱

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Oh my goodness, this is SO GOOD!

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Brand New "Lackadaisy" Fandub Out Now on My YouTube Channel! Woot, woot!

Greetings and salutations, everyone! I am pleased to announce that my newest "Lackadaisy" fandub is now out on my YouTube channel! This time around, I decided to fandub a comic page from the main comic, as opposed to the "Lackadaisy" mini-comics that I've fandubbed up until this point. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this most recent fandub and that it brings a sense of joy into your day. Woot, woot!

Watch it here:

#youtube #lackadaisy #youtuber #voiceover #fandub #webcomics #voice acting #webcomic #rocky rickaby #freckle mcmurray #calvin mcmurray #lackadaisy fandub #lackadaisy rocky #lackadaisy freckle #new youtube video

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Mordecai omg omg ‼️