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They may have taught me the proper use for parentheses at school but I do not remember, Punctuation bends to my will. I've got a side note, I'm going to use them, I'm whispering in my post or message, I'm going to use them, I'm adding nonessential knowledge like I'm supposed to, it's going to be like 3 sentences long.

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you know a fic is good when it has this

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You can tell I'm going through it just the right amount cause I've started writting (angst) again.

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You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

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So, just wondering- has anyone else had a little bit of a crisis about the cyclical nature of history and humanity (didn't cry! yay!) in a museum specifically about burial mounds and the artefacts found within, all while being absolutely ragingly horny?

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2025 LDS LGBTQ Anniversaries

I'm in charge of the stake calendar where I live. In addition to stake meetings and activities, I also add significant anniversaries of LDS history that happened 200, 150, 100, 75, 50, 25, 10, and 5 years ago.

For 2025, I found 2 significant anniversaries:  

Oct 8 - Conference Center dedicated 25 years ago

Oct 16 - BYU founded 150 years ago

While I don’t post them to the stake calendar, I also look for anniversaries of Queer LDS history, and 2025 is loaded with such anniversaries (some of which may not seem today like a big deal, but were important at the time). I like how this list of anniversaries shows oppression by an organization and the bravery of queer people to say they exist and demand better.

50 Years ago 

January 1975 - Under the direction of university president Dallin H. Oaks, BYU began a purge of homosexual students which included pulling all male drama & ballet students from their classes to interrogate them in the hallway, searching the dorms of suspected gay students, and surveillance of Salt Lake City gay bars by BYU security. 

May 30, 1975 - The First Presidency sent a letter to church leaders encouraging them not to label people as homosexual because that sounds like they wouldn't be able to "conquer the habit." Thus began the decades-long church tradition of insisting the words "homosexual" and "gay" are adjectives used to describe behavior, not people. 

September 8, 1975 - LDS member Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was featured on the cover of Time magazine with the caption "I Am a Homosexual" for challenging the U.S. military ban against gay men and lesbian women. He was subsequently discharged from the military for openly stating his sexual orientation and excommunicated from the Church two months after the article was released.

25 Years ago 

February 25, 2000 - Stuart Matis commits suicide on the steps of the Los Altos, California stake center where Elder Holland was scheduled to speak later that day. His death came during the LDS Church's fight to ban same-sex marriage in California by way of Prop 22, also known as the Knight Initiative. Right before his death, Stuart wrote a note stating, "The church has no idea that...there are surely boys and girls on their calloused hands and knees imploring God to free them of their pain. They hate themselves...God never intended me to be straight. Hopefully, my death might be a catalyst for some good." His death receives much attention inside the LDS Church.

October 8, 2000 - In General Conference, Elder Boyd K. Packer says that homosexuality can begin as an "innocent curiosity" which leads to a "pattern" leading to an "addiction." He said the idea that "God created them with overpowering, unnatural desires" is "not true," further saying that "He can cure and He can heal."

10 Years ago 

January 11, 2015 - TLC airs the show My Husband's Not Gay which is about the lives of LDS men in Utah who are attracted to men but dating or married to women. Over 100,000 signatures against the show are gathered and national LGBTQ leaders denounce the program. In response to media inquiries, LDS Church spokesperson Eric Hawkins said the church "does not promote marriage as a treatment method for same-sex attraction" and that religious couples in a mixed-orientation marriage should have our "support and respect".

January 13, 2015 – Andrew White was a BYU student & employee at the Missionary Training Center. He was physically assaulted by his roommates after he told one of them that he was gay. Andrew had bruised ribs after being dragged from his room amid gay slurs. The situation results in a lawsuit

March 11, 2015 - Utah passes the "Utah Compromise," which is an amendment to the state's nondiscrimination law based on an agreement struck between the LDS Church and LGBT advocates. The amendment granted housing and employment protections for queer people while including religious exemptions for the church from the law.

March 13, 2015 - Elder D. Todd Christofferson does an interview with Salt Lake City television channel KUTV in which he said members who support same-sex marriage on social media or hold political beliefs different from official church stances would not lose their temple recommends. He also said the church would never accept same-sex marriage.

March 2015 - The church released Ministering Resources–Same-Sex Attraction for local leaders, which included the advice to "avoid offering overly simplified responses, such as the idea that ... missionary service will eliminate same-sex attraction."

March 2015 - A survey of 1,612 LGBT Mormons and former Mormons found that 73% of men and 43% of women had attempted sexual orientation change, usually through multiple methods across many years.  It also found that the 51% of the respondents who had entered a mixed-orientation marriage ended up divorcing, and projected that 69% of all these marriages would ultimately end in divorce. The study also found that engaging in mixed-orientation marriages and involvement in the LDS church were correlated with higher rates of depression and a lower quality of life for LGBT people.

June 25, 2015 - Michael Ferguson, a gay LDS man, wins his case when a New Jersey court rules that conversion therapy is consumer fraud. Life coach Alan Downing, who is LDS, is ordered to refund thousands of dollars paid by former clients and is prohibited from engaging in any form of conversion therapy in New Jersey (he moves to Utah where he continues to work).

June 29, 2015 - Three days after the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, the First Presidency sent a letter to be read to every US & Canadian congregation which says that "Changes in the civil law...cannot change the moral law that God has established." The letter clarified that leaders should not perform same-sex marriages and that any church property cannot be used for any activities "associated with same-sex marriages".

August 2015 – Courtney and Rachelle received media attention for choosing to get divorced in order to join the LDS church. Their story was celebrated by the church while others noted how sad these ladies are at the dissolution of their marriage and how cruel for a church that centers families to breakup Courtney & Rachelle's family.  

August 26, 2015 - Emmett Presciado starts a YouTube channel where he documents his transition, from first testoterone shot to top surgery. Emmett gets a lot of media attention from local & national press for risking his church membership by being so public

September 2015 - Elder Rasband, who was in the Presidency of the Seventy, gave an address at a BYU devotional and lamented how a person marginalized at work for being Mormon would get less sympathy than a person fired for being gay

October 2015 - Church spokesman Doug Andersen confirms that Family Services no longer offers any sexual-orientation change efforts.

November 5, 2015 - An update to Church Handbook 1 was leaked. This update became known as the Policy of Exclusion. It denied membership to the children of gay couples. It also said gay married couples are apostates and face mandatory church discipline. Due to the media firestorm, Elder Christofferson appears in a video to say the policy is about love and protecting children. Each subsequent year, many would post on social media "Remember, remember, the fifth of November"

November 14, 2015 - Around 1,500 church members gathered across from the Church Office Building to submit their resignation letters in response to the policy change with thousands more resigning online in the coming weeks

November 2015 - April Hoagland & Beckie Peirce, a same-sex couple in Utah, were denied guardianship for a foster child because of their sexual orientation by Judge Scott Johansen. The judge is a BYU grad, former member of a stake presidency, and bishop, and he receives so much negative media attention for the decision that he retires.

November 2015 – Seattle couple Celeste Carolin and Kathleen Majdali receive media attention because their wedding would put them at risk for excommunication

November 15, 2015 - A BYU-Idaho event on “overcoming” homosexuality through therapy was advertised in church meetings, but ended up being canceled when it received media attention

5 Years ago 

January 15, 2020 - The BYU Office of Student Success and Inclusion hosts a panel about queer & ally perspectives on faith and sexual orientation

February 19, 2020 - The church released the new version of its General Handbook and made it available online. It defines gender as "biological sex at birth" and states that any kind of gender transition will bring about "Church membership restrictions" until the person ceases their gender transition. The handbook removed the 2015 Policy of Exclusion and now allows children of same-sex couples to be blessed and baptized without limitations that previously existed.

February 20, 2020 - BYU’s honor code is updated to align with the church's new handbook by removing the section about "homosexual behavior" which prohibited hand-holding and kissing between same-sex couples. BYU's Honor Code Office confirms that gay students can date each other.

March 4, 2020 - The Church Education System clarified that removing "homosexual behavior" from the BYU Honor Code did not mean public displays of romantic affection towards a same-sex partner or same-sex dating is allowed, they are still forbidden. This reversal sparks outrage and protests at BYU, BYU-I, and Church Headquarters. The COVID-20 shutdown is what ends the protests

March 27, 2020 - Ben Schilaty and Charlie Bird start the Questions from the Closet podcast

July 2020 – Same-Sex Attracted, a documentary by queer BYU students about queer BYU students, debuted at the Salt Lake City LGBTQ film festival.

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one thing i adore about fandom is the “[bad parent]’s A+ parenting” tag on ao3. it’s so universal and so sarcastic and it makes me giggle every time i see it

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u gotta be like a shark

I will be, I promise

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Decluttering advice: if youre not sure you want it, get rid of it or find an immediate need for it. Also once you start decluttering, dont stop!

Yesss thank you this was very very useful you're amazing

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I like the way you kiss me by Artemas is very Thomas Barrow coded.

Am I wrong? Maybe.

Could actually be more Duke of Crowborough, Philip Villiers coded, directed towards Thomas

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I like the way you kiss me by Artemas is very Thomas Barrow coded.

Am I wrong? Maybe.

Could actually be more Duke of Crowborough, Philip Villiers coded, directed towards Thomas

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watched both spy kids and cabaret within the last two weeks

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I feel like Alan's fandom is dying, which makes me sad cuz I've only been here for three months and I love him so much. He's so underrated and I believe he deserves more recognition :(

Anyways... :P

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Guess who's watching cabaret for the first time.

Alan Cumming my beloved.

I keep looking at the comments cause I'm watching it on yt, I'm waiting for it to like hit me hard with the feels cause I'm like 30min in and it already has and it's going to do that again??

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If anyone wanted to send asks I would be so down, I'm in an answering kinda mood.

And if anyone wanted to send advice on how to declutter and not hoard stuff yk you can always put that in the ask as well... just a suggestion

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What would you do

What would you do if you showed up for a date with me, and instead of a guy like I said in my dating profile, I was a small injured deer?

And you asked me why I didn't say I was a small injured deer in my profile, and I said I was worried you would hate me for being so small and injured?

And then I got a salad and slowly nibbled on it, flapping my ears while you told me about warhammer 40 thousand. And then when it came time to split the bill, I told you I had no money because I'm a creature of a forest, but that I would pay you for my portion in song?

And so I sat up on my hind legs, and sang the most beautiful sonata you've ever heard in your life. I sang of the valleys and the rivers. In the first part of the song, you could hear my voice waver from the pain of my injury. But then it crescendoed with fire and determination, as if in the middle of that very song I decided that I must keep living no matter what happens, and that you must keep living too?

Then, when you came back to your senses from being entranced by the beauty of the song, there were tears streaming down your face? I was nowhere to be seen, leaving behind only a single autumn leaf on the table? You looked down at your hands, and in your hands was a small note with your childhood dream you had long forgotten on it, written by your own hand?

What would you do?

Would you be mad?

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Honest Question for those who know LDS traditions and Eldritch childcare?

If a Mormon couple ended up raising an eldritch baby?

How would their early milestones be changed?

How would their nursery be different?

Is the mother still expected to breastfeed if the baby has a full set of teeth?