#i see her as a church girl

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican?? #they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard' #you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious) #(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics) #(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights) #('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it') #(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???') #(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

[star-bastard]

SOMEONE GET THAT BITCH AUGEFORT BACK IN THE PRESENT!!!!!! EVANGELICAL COLONEL SANDERS IS TRYING TO KICK APPLEBEES OUT OF SCHOOL

#delete later #THAT EPISODE PREVIEW HAS ME STRESSSEEEEDDDDDD #Shoutout to Gertie tho I love her i hope her and Kristen can work out even if they really are starcrossed #god.....why is Brennan so good at the evangelical southern tone that gave me horrible flashbacks to church camp #genuienly made my stomach drop how am i gonna survive hearing next weeks episode #dimension 20 #fantasy high spoilers #so excited to see kipperlilly again tho everyone hates you girl and i am no exception but man i cant wait to see you fight in the big bad #big bad final episode fight #okay im calm now 😌

[zeb-z]

bo katan living the far too relatable experience of pretending to be religious for family or extended relations to keep the waters calm. when everyone else around says amen This Is The Way with conviction and she can quietly get away with not saying it. it’s like when you have to go to church for some holiday dinner - you just smile, nod your head, and take extra care to say gosh instead of god

#or like when the missionaries are over and you have to say ‘oh I just can’t pick one what about you?’ when they ask your favorite scripture #or like when you have to go to mormon girls camp and pretend to be buying and believing the shit they wake you up for at 6 am #the most realistic shit that’s ever happened in this show #the awkwardly standing there like yes He has touched me and I have found the truth and was baptized to rejoin #i have come back to the church yes of course I’ll see you next Sunday #of course I haven’t removed my helmet since This Is The Way #still don’t like her but the accuracy here is so funny to me #the mandalorian #the mandalorian spoilers #sw #Star Wars #bo katan kryze #z speaks

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

girl help

#the only two girls I actually honestly get along with and enjoy hanging out with #are two girls who both have parents who go to our church but they're like in their early 20s #and are kind of rebelling and not sticking to their faith super well at this point in their lives #which like I can UNDERSTAND even if I don't APPROVE of. I'm the most faithful of the three of us tbh :/ #like they've both made some (imo not SUPER damaging. I've seen plenty of young women come back from stuff like this) mistakes #and despite that I like them and like to chat with them and stuff. but my mom has said that she's proud of me for NOT #hanging out with them because they're not the kind of people I should be friends with #so how do I explain to her that like. people make mistakes. even bad ones sometimes. and they still have a pretty solid #foundation in both of their sets of parents and I don't see any actual huge issue with being friends with them #like.... these are the ONLY girls my age who have actively invited me to be friends. I would LIKE to be friends #I just ran into one of them and she asked if I wanted to go to the farmer's market together this weekend. how do I tell my mom #without her Disapproving because of this girl's current issues in keeping with her faith??? #how do *I* make up my mind if it's even ok to be friends with these girls. idk how it works!!!!

[frontlinebicepsoftheninth]

in light of a second migration to this site i just need to speak my truth which is that harrow is a redditor gideon is a twitter user and ianthe is a tumblrina hope this helps

#coronabeth is an instagram influencer obviously #and babs is a tiktok one they collab #camilla is like that one user on that math forum who posts answers to insane equations no one can solve without a proof to explain how #palamedes meanwhile is a quora/yahoo answers (rip) certified expert who gives helpful and detailed answers to everything #slash ao3 writer on the side #i know we all see john as a twitch streamer but i think he's most like a discord mod #wait lowkey that's mercy but i want to give them all unique sites so. ok fine john is the streamer and mercy is his insufferable twitch mod #pyrrha stars in like a woodworking/survivalist skill youtube channel that's filmed and run by nona #who is always giving encouraging commentary from behind the camera she just wants everyone to see how awesome her dadmom is #abigail has a channel where she talks about famous historical events or like analyzes media based on historical accuracy #magnus pops into frame as her every now and then bringing her tea or asking a question. she doesn't edit him out bc the fans love him #augustine is a podcaster. the WORST kind #isaac and jeannemary run a gaming channel where they play the same games as jod and bully him online #one day magnus pops in during a livestream. they are embarrassed but the few crossover fans from abi's channel start going crazy in the chat #judith would just like. write a memoir i think #one of those with a super patriotic portrait on the cover #dulcinea is also an ao3 author she and pal do fic exchanges and she's also like a cool fanartist idk on what platform. maybe here #silas has a girl defined channel or he's one of those people who spends all their time arguing in facebook comments #mercy would also be that person considering she literally references that one church lady. her neuroticism is just peak overly online person #oh oh nona and the gang also get pyrrha to do sexy tiktok dances for her channel they are highly successful #god i haven't even gotten into the BoE characters this cast is so fucking large i'm stopping here #the way i was literally just going to add one tag to this and then i couldn't stop lol anyways we have fun here #tlt #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #nona spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #(just in case bc of a few tags)

[july-19th-club]

was looking up the only ash wednesday song ive ever loved (offering of ashes. btw. or just ashes. tom conry 1978 i know nothing else about this man except that he wrote this song) (for fic purposes) and stumbled upon a forum full of catholics discussing the revised version that was included in the 2021 hymnal and boyyyyyyyy the trads HATE this song. it was a 70s piece and a bit hippydippy in the sense that, for a catholic song, it is low on guilt and strong on self-forgiveness, and the first guy in the thread just has to point out that the unrevised version was too pelagian to be properly catholic

#pelagianism is one of my favorite heresies and i dont even know how this song could be that #next commenter 'i wouldnt use either in church if you put a gun to my head' third commenter 'i love it when heresy is removed from hymnals' #so far im feeling great about what i want this song to DO in the fic. like i knew i liked her for a reason #she's actively contrary to the spirit of lenten guilt! she's doing her own thing! and she's doing it hauntingly #lots of the commenters dislike the fact that the song contains the refrain 'an offering of ashes' because the ashes of ash wednesday #are not an offering they're *an outward sign of penance* #which even as a child i thought was sort of self-aggrandizing. like ohhhhhhhh we get it you went to church and we all see it #it always made me feel like a guilt trip if i washed mine off #i love when religious folks get SO up in arms about theology of lyrics in songs. girl i think he was just trying to make it rhyme #do you not have bigger things to worry about. religiously? #theology is like grammar. to me. it's fascinating to learn about its history and usage but some people treat it like the laws of physics

[russelross68]

dumbass deltarune oc/idea

Since there might be a trend of speech quirks throughout the bosses

Anjle's might be for a word at the end of it's sentence to be spelled backwards

Or

It's might be to refer to people in pronoun form as it and instead of saying gendered names like girl or boy.. It'll just use thing instead leading into it not believing in gender

Anyways, that's all for now.

#Deltarune oc #Secret boss oc #Are secret boss ocs gonna be like alicorn ocs? It might get like that #Worked for like 6 months to make a decent idea for a secret boss oc #Tryna learn the Disney style so I cam draw Anjle like that #Inspired by the baby angel things #100th time you probably saw a secret boss oc today tee hee #Why tf I have a dumbest idea for it to actually be like a dude in his 40's that's also fun sized to play as an lil angel girl or something #It's tbh law to have the secret boss to be smaller than Kris #If chapter 4 is the envy/church chapter then Anjle might fit #Might change name to angle since I see mfs my age misspell angel to that #Tryna bring the confidence to ask the person who made the chart of secret bosses if they can pretty please add mine #Working day and night on sprite #Thought 1st attempt at sprite was shitty #I was right #New one makes me feel better #My dumbest just realized when making the comments her dress thingy looks like noelle's #Ig a gag could be made on how it reminds them of noelle's dark world fit if she ain't there #Btw idea for if you beat in it the battle/reveal thingy. You can take out it's eyes to use as a boost thing for battles in future #Btwz kinda thinking it could be a fake angel like the shit with gaberiel in mandela catalogue #sonadow sucks #Otay bwye gwuys

[summers0n]

i refuse to support anything with beatrice attempting to move on from ava via new girlfriends, one night stands, casual dating, etc etc - no matter how well it’s written/drawn/portrayed - whatever (even if it’s made clear ava is the only one for Beatrice and that she’s just rebounding/trying to live her life like ava would have wanted).

And that is a personal choice

#it’s not personal my body just rejects it like whole milk #i also just don’t think Bea is the date around type? #miss ‘i joined the church to save my eternal soul’??? come on #and maybe i just like the idea of ava exclusively holding the keys to her badass ninja warrior’s heart ok? #is that a crime? #maybe i get just as territorial as ava when some rando bimbo bar chick or fanfic teresa mf comes in and starts hittin on my girl ava’s boo #is this healthy or realistic? no #are people allowed to pursue all sorts of relationships with other people in their life if they see fit? sure! #just not them😐 #they’re fictional. not real. i can have this #warrior nun #warrior nun s2 #warrior nun s3 #avatrice #ava silva #sister beatrice

[majoringinsarcasm]

Thinks about how Kyouko opened up to Sayaka and tries to get her off the path she herself was on before when before she was fine with killing her to get rid of the competition. How she stopped Homura from hurting her and came up with the idea to have Madoka call out to her in an attempt to save her. How she used up her soul energy to keep her physical body in good condition because she hoped to reunite it with her soul. How in the end when it didn’t work she kissed her soul gem and killed herself along with Sayaka’s witch so she wouldn’t be alone.

Thinks about how in Rebellion Sayaka said her one regret, the person she missed most was Kyouko. Not her childhood friend she fell into despair for but the girl she tried to kill who tried to help her who ended her own life so she wouldn’t be alone.

They are Literally red and blue I don’t think I need to say anything else

#madoka magica #madoka magica rebellion #kyouko sakura #sayaka miki #listen listen listen #she opened up her heart in a church and carried her body I #they both made wishes for other ppl that ended up destroying them #They knew each other for Maybe a month and the timeline of rebellion is a bit confusing bc idk if Sayaka can see timelines like Madoka can #but either way she came back as a spirit witch thing and held her hand and said she missed her #Hitomi was right she is gay but for the wrong girl oh my god

[zemnarihah]

my best friend has been very distant w me lately and i asked today if she wanted to hang out and she said she probably couldn't bc it's her brothers birthday but she would let me know if she could and i have her location and i just looked and she's at her boyfriends house rn....

#we have it bc we're roomates so we started sharing locations when we first moved in like in case someone doesn't come home at night or smth #she recently told me that she wants to move out bc she has always wanted to live alone and she can finally afford it. and i asked her #directly like is there an issue because she is so non confrontational so she has never ever mentioned me doing anything that bothers her #and i said please tell me if there's something wrong because it would really suck if there was and i never got a chance to fix it because #you never told me. and she said no it has nothing to do with that i really just feel like it's time for me to live on my own. and a couple #days ago she was like okay i'm next in line for my apartment i'll probably move out in april. and i try to get her to hang out still and #she always has something else going on and i swear every night this week she's been at her boyfriends. #and if i see her around our apartment and try to make conversation at all she's so like short about it and barely responds like will only #give one word answers. i feel like it kind of started when i started dating e but i realized that i was spending less time with her and i #didn't want to be the girl that loses all my friends bc of a boyfriend so i started specifically reaching out to hang out with her and she #says no most of the time and never asks me. like i don't know what else i can do. #i'm like maybe it's bc of her boyfriend? bc they've been on again off again for a long time and previously when they were together it was #really distant with her like i barely saw her EVER. and they were mostly broken up for the past couple years and have been together i think #for a while again... but she knows i don't approve of that relationship and so she would like not say when they were talking again. so maybe #since lately they've been hanging out or dating or WHATEVER she doesn't fucking tell me what's going on with him. maybe that's why. #i literally like try to think of ways it could be my fault and maybe i'm being crazy but i cannot even think to blame myself for more than a #fleeting second bc i'm like. i have ASKED HER directly if there is an issue or something i do that bothers her and she says no. so even if #i'm somehow pissing her off would i ever know to change anything?? i just feel so frustrated bc it's like she's an entirely different person #to me. like this is not the person i know. and i don't know what else i could possibly do like i feel like we need to sit down and have a #conversation about it but what good does that do if she just acts like nothing is wrong. but i don't want to lose my friend i have such a #hard time making friends. i've known her since i was 14 like i can't imagine my life without her. we were the only two in our whole friend #group in high school to get out of the church i still love those other girls but we have so little in common now.

[iscariotapologist]

to be quite honest i'm not entirely over having my teenage body scrutinized and deemed overly scandalous and inappropriate at various times by insane staff and faculty in evangelical high school for existing in leggings or a dress. just things i'm thinking upon and getting enraged over this nye. imagine having a normal body image

#couldn't wear leggings or tight pants in the cult school and once was pulled aside by a male teacher who told me my shirt was too low #(the shirt had literally been given to me by the dorm dean) full offense but i hope he dies painfully #and then at the next (liberal by adventist standards) school had dress check every fri night and sat morning to go to mandatory church #in last two years had a fully evil head dean who pulled me aside on my way to sunday breakfast to look at my ass and tell me no one wanted #to see that and when we had (also mandatory) 'banquets' instead of prom she told me at the (mandatory) dress precheck that the dress i #borrowed was too tight around the armpits (?) and i needed to fix it (i just hiked it up higher when i had to walk past her to leave and #she didnt notice) i dont even remember what kind of dress it was #this woman was so cartoonishly evil. people whose skin i would rip off and burn in front of them #also if i were skinny u know none of these evil motherfuckers would have looked twice #i literally will never be able to afford enough therapy to fix the damage these people + my mother did to my self image....anyway #oh plus purity culture..........wow its crazy how my eating habits are abnormal idk why #i hate adventists sm #wait im not done. this woman also put up a sign on the front doors of the dorm about how us girls have to 'protect the men of our campus' #by not wearing leggings etc. die in a fire. ok im done #me #ed tw #(?) just in case #ex sda

[myname-isnia]

What I miss most about going to school while we're stuck home due to the cold is my little daily game of finding where the younger kids dragged the octopuses off to

These are Methodius, Paphnutius, and Martha. Often the only things in our entire school building keeping me sane

#no I wasn't the one who named them #methodius was the first. just one of the toys they have lying around for the younger kids. an ex friend of mine named him #after a nickname her brother had. for some reason. his name is arseniy idk how he got that nickname #I missed how paphnutius came to be #one of the teachers of the younger grades must've bought him #and named him that bc it kinda matches with methodius #he's the most deformed since the younger kids wanted to see if it was possible to see both faces at the same time #cause these are the kinds of toys where you can turn them inside out and they'll be a different colour and have a frowny face or smth #then this year on Halloween my favourite teacher gave Martha as a gift to the school #decided the octopuses needed a girl in their group #named her Martha since apparently we're now going for russian orthodox names #and yeah I know all three of those have different origins #but they were very commonly used in churches and monasteries and the like #so.. yeah there's a theme going on there #also idk if octopuses or octopi is the correct term and honestly I don't care #what matters is that I miss these guys #I like putting one of them on my head and just chilling in lessons like that #cause why not? #okay nia its 5 a.m go to bed #me being sick fucked up my sleep schedule so badly..

[northwest-by-a-train]

Anyway re: Jeanne d'Arc. It's anachronistic to define her as a fascist saint or as a nationalist warrior. To quote Lucien Febvre, you're giving Diogenes an umbrella and Mars a gatling gun. I don't think people in tumblr making comics about Joan of Arc as she relates to gender, violence, or her relationship to god are the reason we have the far-right turn her into a fascist icon. I don't think Leslie Feinberg writing about her emboldens Eric Zemmour. I don't think F'murr's Jehanne au pied du mur (an excellent comic book where Joan is either piss-drunk or trying to have sex with her alien husband or trying to rope Attila the Hun into many a harebrained scheme) had any impact on racism in France.

I think we can say it's sometimes cringey & annoying when people use complex & flawed historical people as blorbos (cf: Hamilton, Our Flag Means Death, The Terror). Sometimes it's done very skillfully and it sheds light on history and sometimes it's in poor taste and obscures the events and one's mileage will enormously vary over time (used to be big into Hamilton, find it a poor history lesson and a cringe fandom now, but I don't think it has had any negative consequence on antiblack racism in the U.S)

But people on Tumblr or even writers have very little impact on tradcath fascist radicalisation, and if they do, I don't think they're worsening the situation in any way shape or form. The people in Orleans aren't reactionary racists because Joan of Arc is an inherently Racist or Royalist or Christian figure. They're racists because they're pieces of shit and right-wing tradcath reaction has been a big thing in the french countryside for structural reasons. I can understand getting mad at "Marie-Antoinette did nothing wrong" Coppola-snorting coquettes (M-A was ridiculously and blithely evil irl) but I find it really strange to have Joan of Arc being a tumblr blorbo for us queers a hill one would be willing to fight on.

#no shade intended to the mutual who complained about Joan of Arc #if i'd spent more than 5 minutes in Orleans' train station i think i'd have burned the city down the vibes are off and rancid there #so i somewhat understand where you're coming from #but like. to see Joan of Arc as some sort of nationalist Christian mystic qui a bouté les anglais hors de France is EXACTLY #what Michelet la 3ème République et les Le Pen are trying to have us swallow #whereas ''teen girl grows up in time of war; chooses a side to end the war; gets killed by fellow french speakers of french culture'' #is also a historical reading of it. the knights joan fought spoke french lived in France knew the same songs the same landscapes #and she; again; was burned by the Catholic church yeah yeah yeah it was political but the church being a tool of politics... #all i'm saying is that if the only reading we're willing to entertain is that she was a [something that won't exist for 100+ years] #then yeah let's not have her in our art or mention her. but the mental categories of her day & age are fascinating and so is her story #i don't see why we can't celebrate; if not her fight... her life ? i don't see what she did in life that was so wrong

[forbiddennhoney]

i love seeing new therapists bc every time i start seeing them i always catch the process of them transforming into a cooler more authentic version of themselves

#personal #downside is i can barely comment on it bc its inappropriate #anyway my therapist now went from like..... church looking girl to literally having neon green roots with dark brown ends #that is the most info i can give out on changes #but this happens every time #ik im not causing this but seeing them change themselves and look happier does actually make my sessions more pleasant #i remember when my first therapist got her belly button pierced she didnt show me but she DID tell me #cause she knew I'd be excited

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok dad Moments in Pathways

Bonus: Tuvok being absolutely shocked that he wasn’t a perfect angel when he was a child...I can’t believe these lies would be spread about Tuvok [Redacted], the world’s most perfect boy then man...

#this is not my Varith characterization but I love love love seeing any interpretation of Tuvok's kids so I am FEASTING on it #'close your mouth' I got THROWN back in time to my mom saying that to ME!!! #I love reading the preview bits of these novels and picking out the parts I like and throwing out the parts I don't without a second thought #I don't know who M'Fau is bc of said reading technique (A grandmother maybe?) but I love her ... she called his ass out HEHEHEHE #also does Tuvok's fam ily have...a c ook??? pampered boy for REAL #Oh M'Fau seems to be some sort of religious leader~! #Tuvok's mom rings a bell to brought breakfast...TUVOK??? RICH BOY??? #Honestly I already knew this based on vibes and the fact he had a Vulcan master giving him private kal-toh lessons #I want Tuvok to drop little hints of this background while on voyager to which everyone's like f uckyou....you had a COOK as a child???? #In this novel he says 'Terra is a barbarous place' Hhehe he's like mom d ad PLEASE don't send me to Starfleet!!! #I don't like the light misogny the author seems to be sprinkling in here and I will be filtering it out in real time as I skim through #an oh so delicate smattering of misogny -chefs kiss and then I spit on the floor- #There is a funny moment where a girl tries to make out with him and he picks her up under her arms and puts her on the ground and is like #uhh thank you...for teaching me geometry. You should be like...a teacher or something. Bye. <- while backing away from her #also a cute moment where he has a little crush on a girl is like 'what isthis?? it's like curiosity but tenfold...should I quell it or can I #act on this curiosity??' <- He wants a good girl who go to church...nREADSER Vulcan Tombs or whatever #TOMES #Tuvok marveling at his daughter is so cute...he SO thinks she's a special little geniu <3 #SUCH a dad...he 1000% is like my kids are better than your kids (lowkey...but also in a very very high key) #novel experiences #<- tag for these posts #M'Fau: Tuvok. You were NOT a perfect little angel as a child. #Tuvok: (TIK TOK BOOM SOUND EFFECT) .....????

[capesandshapes]

How I'm doing as summed up by my Google search history

#i dont even go to church and im not christian but you know who is #my grandma #and you know whose church's holy man got a disciple in training MY GRANDMA #AND YOU KNOW WHOSE FATHER FAILED HER BY RETIRING RIGHT WHEN HOLY BOY CAME INTO TOWN #GIVING A GIRL NO FUNERALS TO SEE THE HOLY ROLLER THAT EVERY PERSON IN TOWN IS DISCUSSING???? ME.