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whatever. i miss them a normal amount. i don’t even care

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👆 truest shit anyones ever said

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Sometimes all I think about is you

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honestly ladybug you’re lucky it wasn’t a musical

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OH TO BE A FLY ON THEIR WALL. OH TO SEE ALL THE KINDS OF MESSED UP INCOMPLETE CONVERSATIONS THESE TWO APPARENTLY HAVE. OH TO BE ON THE FIELD AND COLLECT PROPER SAMPLES TO STUDY UNDER A MICROSCOPE

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Honestly the thing about Adrien’s s6 model that feels so odd to look at is that he LOOKS like he’s in an awkward transitional period. He LOOKS like he kind of doesn’t really know what to do with himself so his hair grew out a bit and he let it just get limp on his head because he’s paralyzed with indecision on what to do with it. He LOOKS like he awkwardly stands out among his friends who all got new styles and changed their appearances while he’s still awkwardly stuck in the past. He looks so much like how he did before but Not Quite, and that’s unsettling when every other character simply looks new. So while I can’t help but feel like something is Off every time I look at him, I’m also like… yeah. Yeah, that actually fits him perfectly for where he is right now. Trapped in a new situation that he doesn’t know how to navigate while his past haunts him. Trapped not knowing a single thing about himself while all his other friends move on.

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"adrinette is my favorite side of the lovesquare" "i prefer ladynoir" "marichat is so cute" WRONG. the best dynamic is when they're detransformed hiding from each other on diff sides of walls/other barrier hiding them and communicating thru yelling at each other while recharging their kwamis

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happy pride my fellow aces

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This episode changed my life

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Anyway

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@stvksn on ig

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fucking love when I'm on a call with someone and they start to do a little errand or go somewhere else and they say "and you're coming with me" like. absolutely I am let's go on an adventure I've been spirited away

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short animated movie where there’s this kid made out of clay. they start off as a poorly defined blob playing with other normal looking children until her parents pull her away and sit her down in front of a mirror. (the parents are also red and made of clay but they’re shaped normally) they take a fettling knife to carve the impression of a face and hair onto the kid and throwing away the excess into the bin. fast forward thru and past high school i guess and the kid realizes that there’s nobody else like her. everyone around her always look perfect and human and complete while she spends hours carving herself and smoothing out edges only to still look amateurish and incomplete (scene where she finishes and even is proud of her work, until she turns her head and realizes that it doesn’t even fit with the other half) she gets so frustrated that she cuts more and more of her form and throws it away, wanting to reduce herself to nothing but a heap of waste. she gets so carried away that she accidentally cuts a big chunk of her face off and gives up

the next night she walks into a bar with a hoodie to hide her face. at some point she walks into the bathroom and stares too long at herself in the mirror, until some lady walks up to her and offers a carving knife. clay kid doesn’t do anything to the lady goes behind her, cuts off a bit of hair, and uses it to sculpt her a new face. after this the lady looks into the mirror herself and pulls her hair out. it turns out all of the other normal looking people are wooden puppets that regularly replace and change their parts and clay kid didnt even know. puppet lady reties her hair, replaces her ear w something in her bag, and whittles something into her cheek. at home our clay kid takes the wastebin and adds it back onto herself and sculpts herself more to her liking than to what’s realistic. when she goes back outside, she’s physically bigger and people notice her easier. later she becomes some sort of teacher despite a buncha kids and parents thinking she looks strange. one of her students breaks their arm and refuses to wear it again because the repaired one isnt good enough, so she offers them a new arm out of clay that they’re allowed to change as they please

Obviously this would all be live action, of real clay and wooden dolls. the average viewer would accept the dolls as regular people with regular human capabilities until the bar scene bc clay girl sees them as such. everyone here is trying to pretend that they’re human and hiding the fact that they’re all just dolls. maybe some secret lore would be that this is some post apocalyptic world where dolls came to life and just started imitating what they saw in humans. clay ppl aren’t super common because they traded all their limbs for wooden ones

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Another Twitter trend I had to do

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with all due modesty this was a fucking banger of a text message for me to compose after 10 hours in the emergency room and 30 hours without sleep

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Mafuyu is actually a crybaby and Ena will always be there to wipe her tears.

YESSSS and this is after Ena takes care of Mafuyu :)

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I warned you.

About 15 years ago, I had a minor moment of Internet fame when I wrote a lengthy essay series on LiveJournal called "Christians in the Hand of an Angry God." In it, I argued that right-wing evangelical "Christianity" was literally Satanic by scriptural standards, was literally the cult of anti-Christ that Jesus prophesied in Matthew 25:31-46, that they were literally worshiping a made-up guy with the same name to justify cruelty, just like Jesus predicted they would the week before the crucifixion.

And at least half of the people who read it and praised it called it excellent satire. They saw my point, thought I was onto something, but couldn't take seriously that I literally meant what I literally said.

"Do not commit the sin of empathy."

Jesus' prophesy that these people were coming was not especially miraculous, in hindsight. No philosophy or theological movement becomes a large organized church, let alone a majority faith of a nation, without needing rich people's money, and/or government funding, to pay for it all.

And rich people in general, and right-wing governments in general, get to be the way they are by believing that the poor and the down-trodden can never be shown anything but cruelty, should never be rewarded, or else they'll lose all motivation to obey, to work hard, to be good. (By contrast, they believe that the same thing would happen to rich, powerful, popular people if they were ever punished in any way, if they were ever anything but rewarded.)

And rich people and governments are not going to subsidize your church foundation funds, your church repair funds, et cetera if you tell them that they're evil. But someone definitely will come along and offer to take that money. The people who take that money and conform won't even all be lying psychopaths; if you truly believe that your organization matters, is doing irreplaceable good in the world, you'll sacrifice any principle of your faith to keep the bills paid, you'll look away from or excuse any sin. It's that or see it all shrink and crumble into irrelevance.

I've come to the conclusion that it may not actually be possible to be a good person while practicing the majority faith of the land you live in. Or, if it is possible, well, like the man said, "straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it."

The Episcopal Church has its own legacy of sin, they've long overlooked a laundry list of crimes to pay their own bills, so don't rush to congratulate a mainline bishop for preaching mainline Christianity or take too much pleasure from Trump and his fascist followers being surprised that that happened. But do remember this:

From the mid-1970s to the present, right-wing billionaires have poured a LOT of money into church expansion and maintenance conditional on them distorting the Bible's teachings to make it appear that Jesus was pro-fascist. "To deceive, if it were possible, the very elect." So when honest theologians tell you that this is literally anti-Christ, literally checks every box in the Bible's description of the future cult of anti-Christ, you need to hear us.

The modern book and movie image of "the Antichrist" was a well-funded propaganda campaign to distract you from the plain language of the scriptures. The biblical anti-Christ is not some socialist liberal peacenik. The biblical anti-Christ is everyone who tells you that Jesus wants you to be cruel to "the least of these, my brethren" so that they'll straighten up and fly right.