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[not-so-superheroine]

my Community if Christ/Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Black history article is out. will be posting soon :)

i was so nervous about it, but now that it's out, i think it's fine and that i did well. which is a relief. i was concerned about coming across as inflammatory, but it doesn't read like that, and the article made it past the FP and church historians. they wouldn't leave me out to dry. neither would the Diversity team.

a brother i really respect, who's like 80, really liked it. and he is a history buff. (he's also the one that consistently asks me about Black culture and my experience as an African American in the Church)

the Apostle/GA for my area sent me an email, and he appreciated it, too.

i think i honored the people i featured, and talked about the challenging parts (racism on behalf of the church mainly) with love and grace while also being raw, honest, and true to the experiences of historical Black church members. as well as my own experience, which is also included.

i hope reading it builds faith in God and in Zion, educates, and illuminates. i really focused on building up Zion together, as equals, with every willing hand.

[ethosiab]

I see a lot of designs out there in which tango has red tinted glasses/goggles (mine included) but I don't think enough of us acknowledge how much that would affect his vision

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 5x21 // Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x9

[noodles-and-tea]

For the twins in time AU, I genuinely wonder what kind of people the young twins grow up into because of Stan’s/Ford’s influence. Especially if it takes years for the portal to get fixed.

(Sorry if it seems like I already sent this question, I don’t know if it got sent the first time I asked)

I haven’t fully fleshed out how Ford grows up in the past but I do have thoughts on Stan presently

[dogddays]

little wip fo tonight ! gonna be designing him a wheelchair for the post-game things & it will have some stickers here and there & sun symbols on the spokes !

[somewhereincairparavel]

a huge chunk of the pjo fandom has turned into such a superficial, judgemental and PROBLEMATIC group who defeat the purpose and point that the books were trying to make, it's so fucking atrocious. the prime example of mischaracterizing/reducing the value of characters who are already misunderstood/misjudged in canon. this fandom does this to every.single.character.ever omg

percy jackson is so relatable to many people is because he didn't have to capacity to absorb textbook knowledge but was HIGH on street smart knowledge that got him to succeed. the whole point of his character is that he had low self esteem because he was ridiculed at school by the faculty and the students for being a 'dumb' and 'useless' guy that made him think he's an inconvenience to his mom. the baggage he carried is so overlooked.

the fandom saying stuff like 'annabeth had adhd and dyslexia too but she carried percy' is so fucking disrespectful. one, she's an athena kid who's supposed to be smart that's like the whole point, and that does NOT mean percy wouldn't survive without her. he's a DIFFERENT character and he doesn't need to be a scholar to be a powerful demigod who has his own identity. stop belittling him and comparing all of their adhd/dyslexia struggles. just because annabeth is smarter does NOT mean percy has less value than her, and that whatever comes out of his mouth is just silly gibberish, which is exactly what y'all are trying to imply. no he did NOT get by with just "luck" he's smart and capable enough to actually achieve things. It isn't rocket science.

making jokes like his only purpose is to have a goofy personality and wondering how he 'pulled' annabeth is NOT cute whatsoever. just deprives him of his canon developement and fails to recognise him as an important person because he is not book smart. the level of belittlement. in a way rick also contributes to this character assassination because he added another scene of piper saying something along the lines of 'thank god annabeth is there to keep percy from going wild/doing something stupid' like no miss girl

I could go on about how the fandom infantilizes nico, brushes of hazel's flaws/traits because she's a 'smol' bean (when she literally cusses out octavian, why do y'all hate the idea of her being bold/badass when she literally is??) belittling frank's power because he's 'just an innocent goof', saying stuff like 'in my head leo is a tall guy because rick did him dirty with the height when he is so hot' that's basically implying that he loses his attractiveness because he's short and wanting to confine him into those toxic masculinity standards

slandering rachel and calling her a pick me for liking annabeth as though annabeth already had a claim over percy in BOTL when he wasn't even in a relationship and even had a small liking to rachel (belittling BOTH rachel and percy in the process, is percy not allowed to have feelings too? is he only obligated to like annabeth?), also with the fandom's clear misogyny in their treatment of nico liking percy vs rachel liking percy, go on a moral policing hunt when it comes to jason, piper and percy but goes right ahead to defend and glaze luke's behaviour to annabeth, percy and silena (also victim blaming silena because she was manipulated as a teenager by a fully grown adult who KNEW what he was doing, using her)

stubbornly not wanting to recognise jason as an important character and reducing him into a 'whiney pick me guy who wanted everything to be about himself' and that he's 'boring' not realising that his abusive environment both as a baby and as a teenager suppressed him into struggling and not being able to feel worthy to even have feelings of his own, villianizing and getting on pipers throat for calling percy unimpressive simply because she LOVED and was LOYAL to her then boyfriend?? is she not allowed to have a preference??? heck id be more concerned if she did call percy hot whilst being in a relationship wtf.

and DONT get me started on the grover belittlement and erasure please, saying that percy and grover are only annabeth's 'sidekicks' on quests, as though he wasn't capable to go on a hunt for pan all by HIMSELF not knowing he'll ever be back.

[henreyettah]

03/10 🦊

More foxes here

[moethh]

praying for your mutuals 2: electric boogaloo (intercession edition!)

[bamsara]

I tried to make a (rough) timeline of my draft plans for Trod Au from the current point the story is at to forwards in stream last night and it was certainly a task.

Timeline subject to change its allllll under construction and it's still missing a few pieces, I had to keep extending the line because there's actually a lot more that happens that aren't included but the canvas size would not let me go any bigger.

Also this timeline contains images from comics I haven't posted yet, so spoiler sensitive people be wary

[pigeonclaw]

Power of Three will always hold such a special place in my heart. every one of these cats is such a disaster in wildly different ways.

[vaguely-concerned]

the mourn watch background gives you such a GIFT in having other characters notice and call out on-screen that rook code switches like a motherfucker. the whiplash of hearing my snarky 'heeey I'm just a little guy! :>' funnyman rook speak the heightened ritualized phrases of the mourn watch with perfect seriousness and gravity completely naturally and/or break into an academic tone that can keep up with emmrich at the drop of a hat never stops giving me such endless delight. truly their real mind is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside some hideous mourn watch casual wear

[ikea-shark-official]

Getting real fucking tired of people going hurr durr the names of people and places in Dawntrail are just random keyboard smashes, how does one even pronounce this bullshit.

It's almost as if cultures outside of the standard white European/NA exist and the game/SE has drawn inspiration from it. Just please shut the fuck up, you had no issues with the Japanese names in Stormblood or the French ones in Heavensward. This is just becoming straight up racism.

[bugisbonkerz]

(almost) one year later remake of this drawing!!! HE’S STILL RIGHT!

[rambles-about-minecraft-ocs]

one of my favorite things about zedaph is that on a server full of people that find strange and oft-overlooked minecraft mechanics or rare events and then see just how far they can push them in the name of spectacle or efficiency or world-breaking, zed is over here finding these mechanics in order to do the weirdest things he can think of in as entertaining a manner as possible

like i 100% have faith in zedaph's theoretical ability to be just as efficient or spectacular or world-breaking. if he wanted to do that stuff, i trust that he absolutely could. but thats so far from being his priority. instead, hes going to spend around a week of irl time focused entirely on eventually having the good luck to spawn in something insanely rare so that he can convert it into something even rarer, the result of which being something that 99% of the server reacts with complete and utter shock that it even exists in the first place, just because its zany and funny and he wanted to. and i love that

[anomalyaly]

[jariten]

雪の日のすごし方/How to Spend a Snowy Day (Yuki no Hi no Sugoshikata), Yumiko Oshima

First published in 1981 for the second ever issue of Grape fruit