#that thing american christians do. do that

[relaxxattack]

can you rant abt hiveswap and how it changes the per-established alternian lore and not in a good way. i hold no stake in this topic but i love to hear about worldbuilding differences and people complaining

oh my god i would loveeee too. well first of all the obvious stuff with how they seem to think the beta trolls were the stereotypes for their caste (NOT TRUE... very very untrue but ESPECIALLY untrue with like. jadebloods goldbloods and purplebloods who seem to get this the worst somehow)

i hateeee how they made jades preppy THATS KANAYAS THING.. AND SHES EXPLICITLY *WEIRD* FOR THAT. they literally mention it like over 20 times how kanaya is sooooo weird for liking fashion and dressing well and then. oh no i guess every jade does that actually whoops sorry! ToT and god do i even need to go into the terrible prevalence of the idea that "jadebloods are typically/instinctively nurturing" when that is textually not the case?

goldbloods all having double horns is not that big of a deal tbh but its really funny to me that they made that assumption when sollux is like. actively called a mutant for most of the comic. "oh yeah hes mutated and weird and fucked up and some of his body parts are doubled (cue dick jokes here)". like that was a thing for sollux but they just decided to say "well actually. thats just how all goldbloods are"

most purplebloods having a "clowny aesthetic" is fine with me honestly since theres an actual Profession of being a subjuggalator and presumably lots of purples are going to be wanting to go into that? but alllll of them being full on juggalo cultists goes directly against canon. its like. the difference between american lawmaking and christianity. yes the separation of church and state is like nonexistent here. but just because american lawmaking is an enterprise controlled by christianity doesnt mean that All Politicians/Cops are automatically christian. and definitely not the same kind of christian?? there are probably agnostic clowns, or clowns who are only into cultism for the aesthetic. even reformist vs. orthodox clowns. they may all be upholding the same systemic white christian status quo, but they doesn't mean they all fit into that niche themselves. if that makes sense?

and of course i've already made a whole post about how i hate the idea that olivebloods are all feral little rogues, since that makes very little sense in canon.

i would really love to do that full stream of the hiveswap and friendsim games just. going through all of their alternian stuff and explaining my thoughts on it and how it relates to canon... i could go on and on about this stuff for ages and get into way more than just caste stereotypes. i think i would need to reread all of homestuck first to make sure i wasnt just pulling shit out of my ass and was truly studied up though, lmao

#op #hsmeta #hiveswap #homestuck

[stealingpotatoes]

I saw this on twitter and the idea of this happening sounds absolutely hilarious. Like Han, Ventress and Merrin just direct Thrawn to a DMV and make him coming to dathomir absolute hell (I also accidentally sent this ask to someone else 😅)

LMAO???? i take back everything I've ever said about legends, this is everything to me. nothing but respect for MY king of dathomir send that gay blueberry to parking ticket superhell

#finally. han gets to outrank his wife somewhere #instead of being that bum smuggler the princess/general/senator married #thanks for the ask! #also its not a bad thing u sent this to the wrong person. everyone should know abt this #evangelcise (i cant spell that word u know what i mean) it #that thing american christians do. do that

[codychristiantreasures]

I’m weak.

#cody christian #so pretty #he looks so good #the things I want to do.. #such a hottie #asher adams #all american #codychristianedit #theo raeken #teen wolf #mike montgomery #pll #cody allen christian

[wcsprites]

If a native person tells you not to do or use something because it misues or mocks something from their culture, even if you personally didn't think it did or that the thing in question "isn't actually that special", your first instinct should be to listen to them and not try to "prove them wrong" (especially if it's something as small and simple as 'don't put feathers behind the cat's ears' like why are you choosing this hill to die on, are you okay? Do you like yourself very much?).

#i'm really nervous posting this but it's been on my mind for this past like week or so and JLDFSKSLDKFJ #i've had a few non native people complaining about or trying to debate me on the ear feather rule on the pixel cat gen #but i've always just ignored them or deleted their messages. i've got no time for that #but ajhjkdf #today i was at my limit #list of every stupid shit argument i've accumilated this week -> #'if christians got mad about halos and angel wings being used on designs everyone would be laughing at them! why is this any different? 🤓' #'culture doesnt have any meaning and all tribes tend to do the same thing so why is this such a problem? 🤓' #'youre wrong and misinformed here watch this ancient documentary made exsclusively by white men 🤓' #'this pains me to see. :( why are you so mad about this when there are serious problems like world hunger and pollution? 🤓' #and everyone's favorite #'i bet all the people arguing about this are just stupid woke white kids... as someone who is 0.0000001% native american i say- 🤓' #warrior cats

[beefstrugglenoff]

as an american i truly deeply believe from the bottom of my heart that the reason none of us can come up with an insult about strayans that actually managed to pack any sort of punch is bc it is relatively common knowledge in the west that australia used to be a penal colony. and yall play it up, lean into it, wear your hick ingenuity and general bugfuckery on your sleeve even as you scoff patronizingly at some of the most dangerous and unique wildlife on the planet. but most americans are simply unaware that much in the same way the australian colonial project began as a place for imperialist britain's criminals to get banished to forever, the american colonial project began as a haven for britain's weirdest and niche-est pseudo-christian cults. and thats really our colonial heritage and legacy over here, its effect on literally every aspect of american life cannot be overstated. and most of us are walking around completely oblivious to that. so to me its sort of like if there were two clowns, right, and the first clown is acting like a normal clown, doing typical clown stuff. but the second clown is, like, sardonically mocking the first clown for looking and acting like a clown, in such a way as to suggest that he is completely unaware he is also wearing clown makeup and a costume and a rainbow wig and a red nose and big shoes

this actually. makes alot more sense. only recently learnt the reasons them first pilgrims made their way to the americas in the first place and yeah it tracks. god does it ever track.

#like the whole thing about them not being shunned #but leaving england on their own accord bc their brand of christianity was extremely cooked and self righteous #makes so much sense lmfaoooo #i still reckon the other half of why this is #is because of how unilateral american media and information is. #to the point where alot of people know just as much if not more about the american electoral system than we do about our own #which is why the dropbear prank is still relativley alive and well LOL

[rithmeres]

they’re gonna kick me out of bible study

#i am not even joking acts 4:34-35 says there was not a needy person among them #for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold #and laid it at the apostles feet and it was distributed to each as any had need. #the american church is doing an abominably poor job at being a church. letting americanism (heresy) and the party line gut the bible #i can already tell what the discussion is gonna be. the leader is gonna reassure the group that this doesnt mean socialism #and just encourage everyone to give a little more money to charities :) #how about we become radically sacrificial and anti materialistic instead. #stop buying thing stop consuming things cancel your amazon subscriptions and welcome a struggling family into your giant suburban house #wealth and materialism are so so evil :) and i see christians praising them all the time :) you cannot serve god and mammon :) #put away the gods of your fathers :) or else :)

[sandinthepipes]

As a European I still don't know what the fuck goes on on thanksgiving besides the turkey

#Like I am so confused #Why do you have this holiday? What is it's purpose? Who are you thanking and what for? #Is it like????? The proclamation of the beginning of Christmas?????? #Is it a weird-american-christian holiday??? #You know what I'm talking about if you're not American #You guys have a weird thing with Christianity and this is coming form somebody who has the VATICAN next door #I'm talking as a country not every single person #Some clarifications on this holiday would be appreciated. Thanks. Signed: every non American #Thanksgiving

[bahoreal]

unpopular onion but i don't really gaf about halloween and tumblr is tiring asf for the entire month of october

#like do you guys know that this is a christian holiday and as a non christian im just tired #it's short for all hallows eve which is from christian uuuhh folklore? that all the evil spirits come out on the 31st october #because the 1st november is all saints day which is the purest day of the year and no evil is allowed #like yay spooky stuff. whatever man #i dont mean to piss in anyones cornflakes im glad people are enjoying it i just hope ppl know it's very Christian and its a very Christian #Culture thing to enjoy celebrating it..... ill take any excuse to get dressy and drink but #tumblr enjoyment of halloween is much more on the '''spooky''' side of it? if u know what i mean? #i tend to just avoid for the day of esp when the americans wake up cos americans seem much more into it than other places. probly cos of th #christianity. u know. america is absolutely classic for that. anyway hope u guys are enjoying your pumpkins. blease don't be rude to anyone #whos uncaring. because not everyone is a christian

[rotzaprachim]

a wild flavor of tumblr user is a certain kind of white American self id’d leftist or commie who reblogs and posts things about I just think all liberals and centrists should DIE (*guillotine* meme) and then posts things needing to be nicer to demographics that vote 80% Republican and are very systemically involved in the structural and practical oppression of people of color and the whole US hegemony like brooo I get having a seriously messy relationship with your own cultural background but who are you talking about? Guillotining everyone at mawmaw’s thanksgiving?

#My mom was bitter about white middle American farmers and like it made me kind of ….. #but also they do fucking vote 70-80% Republican and horrifically abuse the millions of undocumented laborers who run the system #But I see this kind of thing with a lot of white working class American groups #It’s not an argument against empathy we any group we all need more empathy #It’s that a) I think white Americans who got into leftism by themselves often end up #In this violence-centric ideas of reform that are still intensely conservative and culturally Christian #Like bro you just want to kill everyone to make a better shiny world of good people bro #And b) they have exceedingly little empathy with why people from any other background might have family or complex relationships #To conservative ideology #The white leftist culturally xtian relationship to many diasporic groups etc #Idk it’s interesting…… #Also like I’m not letting anyone off the hook but uh some of the language that gets pulled up in these talks #Can be a weird reflection of Fox News rhetoric #The Real WorkinG Class (from predominantly white and rural areas) #Versus the Coastal *Liberals* and *urban people* at fault for income inequality #Or the death of American working class leftism or something #Like blaming that specifically on California and New York and or some of the areas with the highest proportions of people of color and Jews #It’s just like hmmmmm sussssss to me

[andromedasummer]

i ended up having a like. 30 minute conversation with some of those "freedom convoy" people. was at the bus stop. they were wearing trump hats. i ended up roped into the conversation because i was so taken aback at seeing one in public i was just. staring at it. ive never felt more depressed about someone elses life and beliefs than when i talked to them.

#they fucking. tokd me about the litterboxes in schools for kids identifying as cats and i had to #break it to them that that wasnt true and explained that. also explained. what its like yo be autistic. how i find it joyful #and also discussed how they believe trump has been spoken to by god and chosen to lead and how they arent christians or catholics like they #used to be but instead talk directly to him and have him inside them #and also apparently how 15 minute cities in china are used to keep people imprisoned where they are #and we arent a democracy anymore. which was so funny considering. they are participating for a party #running in the election #i gave them my perspective on being transgender and gay and watched them have like. 3 or 4 ''are we the baddies'' moments #explained what puberty blockers actually do. that surgery is paid out of peoples own pockets. that we literally only have #one doctor who can perform these surgeries and hes abt to retire #and at the end of the convo they were like ''youre so pleasant. youre really smart young lady'' and i was like ''ty? i just. read a lot' #god i hope they learned. something. or i changed some opinion. they seemed to have a more positive view of autistic people at least #i just like. fuck dude. these fuckin right wing grifters are ruining these peoples lives. #the lady has been unemployeed since covid cos she got sucked into this antivax stuff and now theyre both financially unstable #perfect targets for tamaki and the freedoms people who were known for squeezing money out of people through bogus religious stuff #those two have been twisted into just. hateful and scared and are saying the most. insane shit and they dont even realize it. #and the worst part of it was the amount of young people there. so many people my age just deluded into this nonsense. #and kids JESUS CHRIST so many kids holding signs about ''protecting the kiwi way of life'' like bro every single thing #you are getting upset about an imported culture war. you arent threatened by this shit. #youve latched onto american culture war stuff because youre insecure in your whiteness and existence in a colonial country #its so fucking evil.

[loveofastarvingdog]

i don’t think i will ever fully bring myself to forgive the churches that raised me for the way they taught people to constantly question other people’s salvation even when those people were self-professed christians

#timothy's txts. #even now the thing that bothers me most about coming out is the idea that my parents will question my faith. the way they already do to some #extent #i hate how they used statistics the wrong way and wanted so badly to be oppressed or whatever the shit that they twisted the numbers to mean #something else #like saying 70% of americans professed to be christians and then the pastors saying but not all of those people are actually saved #constantly making the church have to self flagellate and examine and say to themselves but we are! oh sure *they* (accompanied with a #sneering side eye) yes *they* might not be true believers but we are… we would never be like *them* #making up an imaginary enemy from your own people and then attacking them #and that’s all you have to do! make them into an unbeliever in your eyes and you can say anything about them. excuse any flaw as something #outside of and unrelated to the church #but moreso allowing any person to judge and question and condemn anyone whose beliefs don’t perfectly like up with theirs #tw religion #tw christianity #anyways. hm.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

tired of going on the news to see conservatives saying that criticizing israel's government is antisemitic, while also ranting about "soros-backed globalist woke elites etc etc" like. they. they know what they're doing. right

#also like. #disclaimer. I'm not jewish but there's this VERY weird and blatant thing people. especially christians. in the american south do #where they romanticize judaism while also spouting antisemitism. usually at the same time #most obviously in the phrase 'judeo christian values' like. they're different religions #with some similiarities but also a lot of distinct differences. including the way they engage with and interpret holy texts #and a lot of them have this idea that they can take closed practices from judaism bc 'jesus was jewish' #and overall treat it like a primitive form of christianity. which it's not. it's a completely separate religion/culture #and like. they act like they respect it. but only as far as the idea that it's a 'stepping stone' to christianity. which it's not

[codychristiantreasures]

One of a kind.

#cody christian #his smile is so contagious #the cutest human being #I want to snuggle the shit out of this boy #I’m liking the whole black and white thing I’ve been doing #codychristianedit #asher adams #all american #theo raeken #teen wolf

[troonwolf]

How can you tell someone is one of these white middle class people you speak of? What should i watch out for

I feel like this is sarcasm and I can't remember who I was calling white middle class people + tried looking through my blog but it's too far back or in between memes for my impatient ass to find.

With that said I'm pretty sure you're talking about my criticism on endogenics because I've called them that a few times.

Obviously not everyone in a group is gonna be white and middle class even if the majority are, but as someone who used to be in endogenic spaces I noticed a few things

Grand majority of them are white Americans

Grand majority are from middle class backgrounds

Grand majority come from fundamentalist religious (Christian) backgrounds and have religious trauma in connection to it but they outright refuse to consider how that may impact their perspective and beliefs today.

Now as someone who is no longer in the community but still observes for critical reasons, things are genuinely not that much different today. Where do you think this whole weird approach to mental illness even comes from, my man? Christianity. Unironically it's from white Western fundie culture.

Fundies hate mentally ill people. In fundie circles you're taught either to approach mentally ill people like they're special and somehow blessed, or that they're fucking possessed by demons. This is an attitude that persists very strongly in Western fundie circles. They don't trust psychology, they think it's all a scam. If they think there's something demonic about being mentally ill, they will perform exorcisms and many people over the decades have died due to abuse during exorcisms and other "cleansing rituals."

The "positive" outlook of mental illness isn't much better. You're still denied treatment, and now you have the burden of being a weird Christ-like figure to your family and neighbours, essentially suffering for "the glory of God" because they think your psychotic audio hallucinations are actual angels.

Many endogenics leave environments where this ^ is the norm, and though they have enough critical thinking and self-awareness to recognise that religious brainwashing for what it is, they don't realise or care that they're falling into the same trap as before, except with liberal-friendly language.

They don't want to approach mental health symptoms as if they're mental health symptoms because they're taught that's scary, bad, that it makes them broken, that the trauma and illness "taints" their system. These are things you can easily find endogenics saying for why they refuse trauma labels. It's not because there's any logical reason to refuse those trauma labels, it's because something inside them is averse to it. Scared of it. Because that's what they were taught. That mental illness is scary and makes you broken.

And so you end up with thinking like this: (all yanked from sysmedsaresexist)

All this ^^^^ Is about spirituality. It's about faith. it's about ideology. Even the stuff that isn't explicitly about faith, is still about faith, because that's how they approach it. It's not about data, or what's healthier, or even what's probable, it's not even about having a good internal reason for yourself WHY you resist trauma labels. It's about what makes them feel the best. Because that's how fundie religious backgrounds teach you how to reason- with belief, and faith, not with grounded reasoning backed up by data.

Asides from that, there's also the very middle class white person thing of appropriating other cultures and bastardising them for your unhealthy anti-science belief system. A lot of the time when I vaguely make fun of white endogenics it's because of that.

#anti endo #endos dni #syscourse #endo cult #tbh dude if you see someone obsessed with anime and tulpas they are most likely white #but in general all of this [spreads arms wide to encompass the mess of endogenics] #is the internet nerd equivalent of your weird hippy aunt who denounces christianity #but has just replaced it with a load of misunderstood and fake bullshit about how rocks have magical properties #it's the same anti-intellectual psuedo-science navel-gazing shit that white people always do #like white americans have no real culture #and their only culture is terrifying and tells them to whip themselves everytime they have bad thoughts #so they just go around stealing culture from everyone else #same shit with tulpas etc #actally I take it back the bit about white ppl having no culture #becaue every white person has the option to look into their ancestry and discover the roots of their culture before christianity took ove #but they would rather appropriate from other cultures and refuse reasonable explanations for things #most of y'all have some kind of pagan root you could rediscover but instead you do....alll this...

[thedevotionaltour]

marvel should hire me to write bc i'd pull the funniest thing on earth where i am wiping his catholic slate CLEAN and i would explcitily have him go ehhhh i've never really been religious me and my dad went some easters and christmases and attended a few services outside of that but that stopped by the time i was around 10 and my dad just kinda gave up on it because he didn't particularly want to go by that point either. and even then we hadn't gone every year for easter and christmas in that time frame. and then we never bring that shit up again in the story. he is only catholic in the sense he went a few times and it's the only church experience he knew and his dad probably grew up going to church more in his youth being dragged in by his family but he never felt particularly compelled to go back to it once he moved out on his own. catholic only in the fact that his family was irish catholic but his dad is a lapsed catholic who did not give a fuuuuuck

#based off my own father's filipino catholic experiences. and my own religious experiences in general. bc my mom's protestant but still didnt #raise me religiously. i've been to church a handful of times and it was never bad but it never ever stuck. i just kinda remember some stuff #and what i do know it's more from the general cultural osmosis of american christianity than anything #plus i grew up in a known for its religiosity suburb. but again. that still didnt really rub off on me. #in my mind jack is a guy who when entering a church will still dip his fingers in the holy water and cross with it #and matt watches and maybe mimics but he doesnt really get it still bc their service attendance has been so extremely infrequent. #so i imagine it's far more like that for matt than the insane bs they've been pullin the last few years. given the you know. #50 somethings years of established only really culturally casually catholic matt. bc well. why wouldnt he be new york irish catholic. #i imagine is the thought process. but i will never be a fan of how it's a big deal now. bc it just never has been. ever #and that's not to say a character cannot become religious or be religious or have it become more of a thing in their life! #very much it can be done. but i think it's been done piss poor. from all i've seen and what i've read of recent stuff. so it's just bad. #like it isnt done in a meaningfully way or sensical to my understanding. it's like. pure show pandering fanon appeal. #so it's utterly meaningless as a whole with no point or purpose aside from it #can we go back to just using it for cool art visuals bc i think we can all appreciate a cool splash page of a church fight and stuff #but please. dont try to make it more than that if you arent going to do it well #SORRY I KNOW EVERYONE ON PLANET DD HAS MADE THIS POST BUT I REMEMBER AND GET SOOOOO IRRITATED!!!!! IT'S SO STUPID POINTLESS DUMB I HATE ITT #static.soundz

[itssideria]

when this barbarity one day ends—and it will. it will—i don't want to hear one fucking word about antisemitism within the arab community. i don't want to hear one word about the human rights those countries lack. i don't want to hear it. i don't want to fucking hear it.

#vent post #mari talks #im so fucking angry. i could write for so so long. #literally the only pr israel has left is its being a 'jewish' homeland #if it was american and british or some kind of evangelical christian colony #IF IT WAS MUSLIM LMFAO #the arguments that white western liberals cry of 'but the antisemitisim :(' would literally carry no merit #bc everyone understands when its a historically colonial nation doing the colonising #and theyre quite happy to be antisemitic in their own countries mind you!! #but when its arab and brown people they hate EVEN MORE #THATS when the white guilt flares up. bc we had nothing to do with ww2 or the holocaust. its all them. #THATS when the guilt flares up strong enough to justify genocide #and somehow. everyone understand when our regions hate america and britain and the colonial powers #but people are STILL going 'omg the arabs are saying antisemitic things....' when it comes to the colonial power of israel #OF COURSE THEY ARE YOU FUCK. THE GOVERNMENT IS EXTERMINATING PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF JUDAISM #WHAT IS A PERMANENTLY TRAUMATISED POPULATION MEANT TO DO? #GO ONLINE AND DECONSTRUCT THEIR BIASES? #THEY CANT FUCKING DO THAT! THEIR INTERNET IS CUT OFF! THEIR FAMILIES ARE *DEAD!* #im gonna be quite now. feel free to reply or whatever ill decide if i want this rebloggable