#I know this is old news but Jesus

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

#I know this is old news but Jesus #Every day I hear more about school book bans and I feels less real #Restriction of information is restriction of freedom #People need stories #Even bad stories #Even tragic or problematic ones #We need to set purity culture on fire I'm not kidding #Abuse mention #Abuse tw

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

simply not getting over the fact that GQ published an article (written by a journalist who’s friends with miles, i might add) that starts off with an unnecessarily detailed description of an alleged threesome between miles and alex and a mystery person???

oh, and it’s also the article that used this artwork as its header:

(full article here)

#SO much to unpack here #SO MUCH #the way they put ‘story’ in inverted commas - #also #just the entire way it’s framed #THE FACT ITS THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE #jesus #genuinely everything about this article is absolutely insane #i stumbled across it about a month ago and still haven’t recovered #sorry to any milex veterans to whom this is old news #for those of us who are a little newer here stumbling across this stuff is truly a surreal experience #you know it’s bad when legitimate magazines like GQ and NME are writing shit that looks like it should be on tumblr #milex #alex turner #miles kane #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #lulu posts

[autumngracy]

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

#A Reflection of Starlight #AROS #valvert #fanfic #writing #Hey I switched back to LibreOffice again after setting up my new computer #(RIP my old computer's installation of MS Office 2009) #And also my old computer in general as it is now giving me the blue screen of death upon boot #but ANYWAY #does anybody know how to make LibreOffice stop highlighting formatted areas? BC with Dark Mode it's highlighting white text #which makes it impossible to read my footnote and page numbers #Also I CANNOT believe this program was coded to be so that 'Ignore' and 'Ignore All' options only do so for the CURRENT SESSION ONLY #Like what in god's name??? #I spent 3-4 hours reformatting AROS after converting it only to learn that all the 'errors' I told it to ignore just popped back #the second I reopened the document like jesus christ #Why even offer those options if it doesn't do it permanently for that document file #HHHHHHHhhhhhhHHHHHH #I then spent another several hours being forced to change the language formatting to French for all the French bits #JUST so it would stop underlining all of them in red #And there's no way for me to get rid of the underlining on things like cut off bits of dialogue #bc they are NOT proper words and I refuse to add them to my Dictionary (thus polluting it) just to get rid of them #Ugh #So anyway remember years ago how I joked about what if I accidentally wrote a fanfic longer than the source material itself #That being one of the longest books ever written (technically THE longest book ever written #if we're counting the FRENCH version of it and not the English translation #And yeah I know I technically split AROS into 3 books but that was only for reader convenience #It's still one book in my heart #And also because I think it would be REALLY funny to surpass Hugo's wordcount #Which is entirely plausible bc in English it was only about 531k so I only a little over 100k off and I think I can easily make that #with the material I have left to write but is already mostly plotted out

[seaxnymph]

✨🎄 merry christmas 🎄✨

#i just stole this from pinterest #i need it on here & couldn't find it #also the answers? #insane #you've heard of she that's carlos #get ready for #jesus that's carlos #I know it's old news but it's still crazy to me #the libertines #peter doherty #carl barat #pete and carl

[poisonheartfrog]

ID: A screenshot of JuanaFlippa standing next to Chayanne with firework sparkles around them. They are outside at night in front of a hill leading up to a white building. Trump the egg, the security guard, and a third person too far away to make out clearly in the background.

She is risen! / ¡Ella ha resucitado!

#qsmp #juanaflippa #Jesus is old news I only know our lady and savior Flippa #poisonheartposts

[jennycalendar]

like is it any coincidence that bisexuals are falling all over themselves about giles and jenny?????????? I Think Not. it’s a professorial dilf and the world’s most bitey stabby witch and they’re in love. there’s a market for both of those things

#i know that this is old news. but Jesus Christ i did not fucking get it before last night #how are any of us surviving #musings

[solargoose]

Yellowfang should be allowed to mutter "jesus christ" under her breath in an exasperated voice. As a treat.

#yes yes great Starclan is the warrior cats equivalent #but it doesn't FEEL like muttering jesus christ you know what I mean? #in my head Yellowfang is an old New York chainsmoker and she should say jesus christ kid when Firepaw finds her on the fire escape #she worked as a secretary for 50 years before the boss's son who is secretly also her son took over the company and fired her #this isn't even an au this is just who she is to me #can you tell what part of the scrambled rewrite I just got to?

[blueskyheadleft010]

My mind keeps slipping back to that part of the Madoka Magika (or however tf you spell it idk I’m not Japanese) movie where Kyubey figures out Homera’s magic is time travel because she doesn’t reply when he asks her.

And I can’t help but kinda laugh because while the scene needs to exist for the audience to understand what Homura’s deal is, in reality Kyubey is making a very dangerous assumption with little proof cuz magic can be just as fickle as the user applying it.

Bare with me here, but like what if Kyubey got it wrong in that scene? Like he asks if Homura was using time magic, but since she doesn’t say anything to him you could argue that Homura’s magic is anything from time traveling to clairvoyance to just straight up invisibility and teleportation. (Yes I know they ruled out teleportation early on, but since Homura doesn’t confirm or deny this, for all the magical girls and Kyubey know she could actually be using this type of magic and just not telling them she is).

Hell, a wish is only as powerful as the potential it has when granted, (see Madoka’s final wish in the movies for example of this phenomenon). Could Homura’s wish also serve as a form of protection? Like she could also have the ability to camafloge or misdirect a being’s senses so they think she’s somewhere else. (Giving her the appearance of teleporting).

Now the lame answer is that obviously Homura has time powers; but it would’ve been 100 times funnier if Kyubey had been off the mark with his guess and figured her ability had something to do with interrupting a person’s sense of time or place.

Like Kyubey asks Homura if she has time powers, Homura looks away, and Kyubey goes, “Ah, so I was right. You don’t actually have that kind of power, that would be too easy to manipulate, and you seem keen on misdirection.”

Homura: “…”

Kyubey: “So it would make sense that my first guess will always be the wrong one because you manipulate the probability of my guess to always be off. Yes, it makes sense now! Your power is to manipulate the probabilities to be in your favor while taking away the enemies’s chances of winning. You have powerful luck magic! Tell me, what kind of wish did you make to keep us from remembering you?”

Homura: “…I’m done with this conversation.” *leaves via pausing time*

Kyubey: “Shoot. I’ll have to try a better approach next time.”

#shitpost #puella magi madoka magica #fanfic ideas #it’s 1am #madoka magica homura #kyubey #stupid little things my mind needles at until I end up laughing at my own silly ideas #meguka #no meguka #idk what I’m typing about anymore #jesus I’m too old I know too much internet lore shit #my mind just goes #homura should be sassy to Kyubey #since Kyubey is a fucking alien cat #whose an emotional psychopath #that 100% would understand memes #holy shit I have a new idea now

[gxlden-angels]

how do i stop my internalized homophobia?

Ngl anon, it's less stopping it and more talking over it. If you were raised in a strict, homophobic environment, that little voice is still going to be there cause it was a part of your development. So you shout over it instead with new data

"Being gay is a sin" okay I hear you but my friends are gay and I can't really see them as sinful people

"You're broken/wrong/living in sin" okay speak your truth bestie but I'm happier living my life authentically so I'm okay being wrong for now

"You're going to Hell" cool cool but what about now? Am I happy right now? Am I living this life in a way that benefits me now? I'm focusing on this life, not a potential afterlife

I'm very STEM-oriented so my therapist and I refer to it as "Plotting new data points" You kinda just have to listen to the internalized homophobia, say okay okay I hear you but have you considered this new data point that suggest a positive correlation between being openly LGBTQ and my own happiness? Yea I know this was regarded as a sin before but statistically speaking the chances of it actually being sin are insignificant. Yea it doesn't even have a 95% confidence interval. Loving who I am seems to have a positive outcome though but I'll need more positive queer experiences to be certain

#I don't know if this makes sense #It took a long time to realize but you kinda gotta put the cart before the horse so to speak #you gotta do the thing and pretend like it isn't terrifying before it becomes less terrifying #And I don't mean you have to come out or go to pride or have gay sex #I mean like. Saying in your brain I Am Gay #and noting the fact that you didn't get smitted by Jesus or brain exploded by the Lord #You take in new data #and the old data never goes away. it would be considered altering your research then #but as you continue to get new data it starts to lose its power #it becomes less statistically significant #Until it eventually doesn't bother you like it use to #I won't pretend like my internalized homophobia is gone #internalized transphobia too despite me potentially getting top surgery soon #but each day is a new day for research #it's still there #and each experience adds another data point #good luck anon #anon tag

[dolokhoded]

"judas and peter both denied christ but judas couldn't face it while peter repented" shut the fuck upppp peter wasn't in a similar vulnerable psychological state should we throw a party should we invite god what did he even do after christ anyways he teamed up with paul. one would argue that's worse than betraying jesus

#im not religious just insane.jpg #fuckin. paul you can't tell me that's a greater sin than suicide #you can't convince me suicide is a sin in the first place but. paul . #my best friend believes paul is the antichrist. i wouldn't go that far but i will ignore paul and everyone associated with him #maybe not peter peter's kind of crucial. i am not mad just disappointed !!! #paul... be serious. #literally every time we find out me and my best friend talk about the new testament a lot you should probably know that. #we're both agnostic. #we're just neurodivergent. #every time one of us goes 'i have literally never seen jesus say something that implies xyz shitty thing should be excused HOW did they eve #come to this conclusion WHEN did jesus say that' #IT ALL TRAILS BACK TO PAUL . #IT'S ALMOST ALWAYS PAUL LIKE LITERALLY 99% OF THE TIME. #new testament wise. the old testament was just fucked up like that.

[nikkisticki]

I think I have to block Persona 3 so I don't have to hear more about Reload, not a fan of a bad company that hates queers and innovation now taking their best game and un-innovating it

#Bc at this point they are removing the skin of Persona and replacing it with 5's #Yeah i wasn't happy about new voice actors when everybody did their fucking best before but #EVERYTHING IS BLUE #they made any dull blue bright blue and that includes personas so now Akihikos persona is a BLUEBERRY #I know for a fact this is Atlus so they aren't going to mention some insane changes #Shinji doesn't die he just dances aggressively until Revolver Jesus leaves #Revolver Jesus is now a 14 year old girl you can romance #They didn't add FeMC but you can still date Ken #They made Aigis spout memes #Koromaru now speaks with a black carribean accent #YOU'RE A LOSER LITTLE TIDDY BABY - Koromaru #Nyx now has a fifteen minute monologue about how friendship can never defeat evil! #(citation needed) #mark my fucking words

[mirrortouchedsea]

what if I said 40 tatsukana...

Ask game

40. …because the world is ending.

Do you ever think about Tatsukana angst at the grocery store?

Kaname picked at his fingers as he sat on the floor back stage. Normally he wouldn't even think about sitting on the dusty stage floor and getting his clothes messy, but right now, as they were waiting to raise the curtains and announce their new plans for the school, Kaname found it to be the most comfortable place on Earth. Oh how he felt like he wanted to fly but also to sink below the surface.

Everything would be okay, Tatsumi's voice rang in his head. I'll be there to protect you.

"T-tatsumi-senpai," he called out softly into the darkness.

"Yes, Kaname-san?" Kaname felt Tatsumi slide down the wall to sit next to him, a comforting warmth on his shoulder. They were in private, Kaname reminded himself. The audience couldn't hear his true name.

"A-ah, nothing. Are you ready?"

Tatsumi chuckled.

"Getting stage fright? It's okay, Kaname-san. I'm here."

Kaname leaned his head on Tatsumi's shoulder and closed his eyes just for a moment. He was worried about Tatsumi feeling how fast his heart was beating through his chest.

"Mmm, no it was something else." He pulled away and reached a hand for Tatsumi's cheek, brushing it with his thumb. It was now or never.

Kaname pulled Tatsumi in for a kiss, just a peck is all he meant. It was easier than trying to vocalize his feelings at least. Tatsumi was shocked, though he pulled Kaname back in for a slow and gentle kiss. It was awkward and clunky but Kaname wouldn't have it any other way.

It didn't help the pit in his stomach though as they stood up and silently agreed to discuss everything later. Tatsumi gave his hand a comforting squeeze as the curtains lifted and they faced the student body.

#message in a bottle #transactinides #enstars #tatsumi kazehaya #kaname tojou #tatsukana #maybe its cuz my internet is ass out here but like. the new layout feels like it takes way longer to load anything #im typing this out waiting for the ask to even load in the text editor so i can like. write everything #jesus christ man #anyway i thought about doing an au but i think. even if this was successful like #the reimei revolution would have been the end of the old world and the start of a new one u know #so i think. thematically it fits here quite nicely. anyway. #maintagging this even though i wrote it in the text editor like a fucking weirdo #i never do this. anyway.

[hiwaga-fucks-up]

good omens may just convince me to actually read the bible and i'm not ready

#no you don't understand #im a conspiracy board girlie #i NEED to know every little bit of obscure lore from the source material i can use to fuel the insanity #and there's only so many demonology books i can read before i say fuck it and pick up the book of enoch #which means reading the books preceding it for context #which means reading the rest of the old testament to pick up themes #and of COURSE i have to read the new testament to see how our darling ineffables fit in jesus' storyline #i will need to do research on what was censored and changed to sensibilities over time #which means cross referencing the bible with the tanakh and the quran also #and- #😭😭😭 #IM NOT READY #i will. #(i am already catching up on shintoism vs buddhism in ancient japan for a naruto fanfic) #but im not ready #good omens #hiwaga thoughtvomits #in the tags lol