#Alright folks that's the traditional meme post

[nesrinslittleworld]

DALS S4 Episodes 7&8 Memes

[desidarling123]

Alright, I'm a little bit new, but listen... I'm a wolfstar stan and I don't see a real reason for this particular drama flare up. First of all, I don't like remadora and I doubt I ever will, but that's personal preference and I don't think the wolfstar fandom thinks there's anything wrong with the remadora fandom. With the reblogs on both sides, it looks like wolfstar fans think remadora fans are accusing wolfstar of being problematic, toxic, and/or abusive, inherently (I don't know the history behind you and op and I'm going to stay out of that as well but I'm talking about the fandom to fandom accusations). And remadora fans think wolfstar fans are accusing them of being homophobic because they don't ship wolfstar? That's not true, like I said, that's personal preference and I agree with what you said about nuance. The homophobic thing is in the context of accusing wolfstar of being problematic. To clarify, it's not that if you don't ship wolfstar you're homophobic, it's that if you think it's problematic while NOT thinking remadora is problematic (because, again, nuance) then that seems pretty homophobic. Anyway, I don't know. Maybe the fandoms just want a reason to be mad at each other and this isn't helping but I just wanted to clarify anyway.

You’re fine, and thank you for hopping into my inbox! Let me smooth the waters as bit -- us folks on the Remadora side are well aware that there are loads of issues with our ship, too (thx 4 nothing, JKR). We talk about it a lot within our community, and I think a healthy amount of critique is something everyone should be open to. 

What’s not been OK (and what I sort of jumped down OP’s throat for, which I understand, to unassuming onlookers would have been very !!!!) has been a recent flouting of what I would call traditional rules of engagement in fandom -- if you dislike something, tag it anti-X, and don’t cross-tag where someone who DOES like the ship might see it. 

Instead, as of late, the Remadora tag here and elsewhere has been FLOODED with accusations of homophobia (fully baseless, as you said) along with loads of general negativity from folks who do not know anything about us or why we enjoy the ship. People who are NOT a part of our community have felt entitled to entering our spaces and harassing us over what we like. 

The point of irritation (that led to the post OP talked about) is that the relentless attacks on our ship have come ALONGSIDE claims that Wolfstar is 100% unproblematic, or a “better alternative”. This feels unfair -- whatever your personal preference, painting one ship as strictly Bad and one as strictly Good is preposterous on face. It also puts us on the defensive -- yet again -- and so of course the counter has been to say, well, if we’re so Bad, what about This Thing About Wolfstar? Or This? (The kicker here being that we STILL manage to tag our critiques appropriately, even if that respect has largely not been returned to us)

It’s not enough for people to not like or be indifferent towards our ship -- instead, some folks have become hell-bent on proving that Remadora is the Beacon of All Things Wrong with fandom. Which is, frankly, exhausting.

OP has been part of that deluge of negativity -- their contribution was a meme  that deliberately misstated the facts of a real case, and spurred further attacks and accusations of homophobia towards our fandom. There’s been other accusations, too, but the homophobia one has struck a personal chord because so many of us ARE, in fact, queer.

They’ve also engaged on a personal and extremely rude level with many of my mutuals (the ‘cyberbullies remadora stans’ in their bio is a nice touch), so when I saw the post on my dash I did get angry. I got angry, because I looked into the very serious accusations his post made, accusations that had made so many of us feel guilty over something (a supposed lawsuit from Hers Truly) that we couldn’t have possibly had any control over -- only to find out they were all bunk, and clearly written to spur more hatred between the two sides.

Also, before I end, I’d just like to clarify: 

I was being snarky in comments to snipe at OP directly, but I have nothing personal against Wolfstar. (I actually have grown to like it quite a bit, despite other drama.) Nor do I think a ship needs to be canon for you to enjoy it -- that’s the whole fun of fandom, of filling in the gaps. Who cares what a renowned TERF has to say about it? Every iteration of these characters and pairings has a right to exist without backlash. You can enjoy Wolfstar and I can enjoy Remadora and we can all stick our🖕 at JKR, because I think both communities have been critical enough of her work and motivations to have reclaimed the ships -- problems and all -- on our own terms.

Anyways! Sorry for such a long post, and thanks for being so polite about it. I hope this clarifies some things from our POV. 

[leam1983]

On Grief

This is a long one. You're under no obligation to push further if you don't want to. It's a personal post, so I'll more than understand if this isn't to your tastes. The normally-scheduled pedantry, commentary and memes will resume shortly.

One of my relatives was diagnosed with ALS. What started as an odd case of palsy in her left set of vocal cords that could've been far more benign was just confirmed by her referred physician. It's Lou Gherig's, and with her age and current condition, her prognosis is of three to five years, tops. Sure, Stephen Hawking blew his own prognosis out of the water, but a combination of notoriety and luck enabled him to eke out as much existence as medical tech could've possibly allowed.

We knew things were suspect when my aunt, a marathoner with a monthly sub to Runner's World, stopped running. Her food intake dropped like a stone, and she soon took to increasingly simple painting and drawing styles. At first we thought it was just her wanting to explore simpler rendering techniques, but then...

Then we noticed the twitching. How awkwardly her pens and brushes were set in her hands. She was in great shape and didn't mind living in the ass-end of Sutton, basically in the open country and with a path leading up to her front door that was all in rough cobblestones. She broke a hip against them, last year.

Her speech started to slur, lately. Her last bike trip also landed her in the ER. She doesn't bike anymore. She doesn't run, and being a gourmand by nature, feels obligated to restrain herself, for fear of gaining weight. She's aggressively vegan. Not towards others, but towards herself. No meat, no eggs, nothing. Most of us ovo-lactos and omnivores in the family know her constant snacking meant her seventy-plus body is desperate for energy.

From the look of things, it feels like the diagnosis broke through her bullshit reasoning for being vegan. She wasn't vegan for the sake of limiting her carbon footprint or making more responsible choices at the grocery store, but because she, as a lifelong anorexic, thought she was ugly and needed to lose weight. That's been a constant with her. Age catches up and skin sags? She mistakes it for a love handle, cuts out virtually all sources of protein and carbs safe for tofu, seitan and bean-based preps. Of course, like a lot of anorexics, she'd have bulemic episodes. I used to sleep over at her last bachelor pad, as a teen, and I remember her pantry was loaded up for bear with Danish cookie tins, Nutella jars and whipped cream. I remember she invited me over specifically when she intended to cheat. Then it was back to yoga, pot-smoking, meditation and shopping runs - and she probably kept her purging for when I was gone.

So yeah. I'm betting Belgian Asshole (see one of my previous posts) convinced her to break her vows and went looking for a "slice of authentic Tikka Masala", to quote his email. The entire family is made up of ethnic food diehards, so we spam-flooded his inbox with recommendations. Looks like she'll be eating meat again, soon. Her own email mentioned concerns of strength and stamina, so I get it.

Otherwise? We're gobsmacked. Imagine spending an entire weekday both at work and off work, aggressively goofing off because you're trying as hard as you can not to think of your favourite aunt's mention of assisted suicide as an option.

Three to five years. Maybe one, or two good Christmases. After that, her condition should probably have started to deteriorate quickly.

I'm not close with a ton of my own family. I love them all, but it's more a sense of polite respect than anything involving solid bonds. The only two folks I know I'll be devastated for when they'll die are her, and my youngest cousin on the other side of the family.

I'm mostly okay now. No doubts, no crisis of unbelief, no anger, no rage... But then I'll see her in a more diminished state, one of those days. How am I going to take to it?

Part of me keeps a tally of the deaths in the family. First, it was my uncle on my mother's side. Ruptured abdominal artery, with a leak small enough to pool into the gut's cavity for months. Decay settled in, guy got anesthetized for an intervention...

They didn't even bother sewing him back up.

Second one was my other paternal aunt's new husband. First one was great, but left the country in the seventies to go live in Stockholm with his medical assistant. Second one was a geologist and physicist at the same campus she taught as. French guy, the son of innkeepers four generations down. It showed, too. Our Christmas tables haven't been the same since he left us his recipie books, all his corny jokes on provincial eating habits, and his obstinate focus on turning every 25th of December into a Roman orgy probably befitting of the old Saturnalia traditions. I mean, when's the last time you've had an eight-course meal, outside of Thanksgiving?

Tumors in his mesenteric artery lined the blood vessel's inner walls, deposited virtually everywhere in his body. He was diagnosed in June and dead by August. He'd always been the lanky type, bone-thin even if he hoovered food like he'd never have enough. He looked even thinner in his hospital bed.

Then, my maternal grandpa bit it. Decades of casual alcoholism, cirrhosis more or less jumping on him around his seventy-sixth year. He looked a bit like John Keston, the actor who played Gehn in CyanWorlds' Riven. Same hairline, same hawkish nose, same eyes - just more Cajun and less New England-esque. I don't know if it was youth or stupidity or - anything, really, but I dropped by to see him, just two days before he died. I didn't realize he was tallying my life, asking me if I had everything in order, if things were planned.

Now, I understand.

Next one on the chopping block is Aunt Doris, still on Mom's side. She of the serial mooching, she of the concept of not needing much to get by if you were the cute one of the family. She was pretty enough in her prime, sure - if by pretty you meant "cigarette-butt blonde with a discount Farah Fawcett blow-up and an unfinished High School degree". First husband was an abusive ass who gave her an uncommonly sensitive son, second one figured she'd stick to the minimum-wage circuit while he tore out rotator cuffs or busted his C7 while on his outboard like clockwork. By the end, she roped my grandmother into living with her, spent her days sloppy-drunk and died on her ratty couch while falling asleep and choking on her own vomit.

Before them all, the youngest of my uncles died at age two. Cancer. Never knew which one, was told it didn't matter. You didn't survive much of anything cancerous, back in the late fifties.

Ping-pong this back to three years ago, and my oldest paternal uncle dies. Paul, who smoked like a chimney for most of his life and successfully stopped after discovering Champix. He got to live five great years as the high-IQ oddball he'd always been, smoke-free. Paul was the weird bird in the family, the type to remember a really engrossing story at two in the morning and making a note to call you up first thing in the morning to share it. He always had a project of some sort to work on, like a simulated investors' tank for young entrepreneurs looking to learn the ropes, or a Byzantine arrangement of coaxials allowing four of his lakeside neighbours to pirate his cable sub. He'd invite us over for dinner, gather all the ingredients we'd need for whatever it was he wanted to treat us to - and then he'd let us cook it - just sitting by the sidelines, chatting away.

He was also a bit of a narcoleptic, and looked a bit like William Howard Taft if you'd worked him out of these old sack suits and into modern shirts and suspenders. He fell asleep practically everywhere, with his more wakeful environments being his workshop and his property's dock. He took me out fishing, once, and knew what the entire family expected.

"Oars're here, Gremlin, fish're that way. Wake me up when you've got a bite."

At this point, it wasn't even a point of concern; it was just an Uncle Paul Thing, the exact thing you'd have expected out of this kind, eccentric blob of a man whose idea of fishing involved pushing his hat over his eyes and basically all but ensuring that his roaring snores would scare prey away. He'd been a supposedly high-IQ type, terminally bored with almost everything, only really getting agitated and interested back when I asked him for help for my Junior High Computer class's Javascript calculator. Once the syntax hit something familiar and he realized that JS has some similarities with FORTRAN, he was on a roll, acting like someone had snuck a Red Bull in his coffee.

Well, fibrosis caught up with him. His last hours were spent directing us on how to cook what would've been his last meal. I think he really just wanted to know we were alright, that we still could exchange laughs around the kitchen counter. He clocked out the way he always did, except he had an oxygen tube running under his nose. His head bobbed down, he snored loudly for a few minutes, then turned increasingly quiet...

And that was it.

And now there's Isabelle. The marathoner, my partner-in-crime when it comes to professing to have a healthy diet while occasionally cheating in glorious, weekend-defining means, my gateway to cannabis and also the first person who took my cringy self-insert fanfic fodder and went No, that's worth it! Push it, develop that universe of yours!

I wouldn't be almost two-thirds of the way through my first decent manuscript, if not for her, and I wouldn't be shopping for publishers with the same energy you'd reserve for weekend-grade Facebook putzing-about. I owe her part of my self-acceptance, and part of my discovery of what defines my routine to this day. Isabelle was my first meditation coach.

And in three to five years, she might be gone.

I just thought grief might be... noisier, is all. Louder. Right now, it's just germane to confusion, and it's sitting there. There's a pinch of fear in it, too. My parents are in their mid-sixties. How long do I have left with them?!

And the family and I just covered that up with jokes and, well, cooking. I've been told I'd make a half-decent therapist but - navigating your own emotions is hard work...

I don't know. I guess I needed to put this down somewhere.

[xhxhxhx]

~ show us your big discord posts ~ UwU

some oy my Discord posts, partially cleaned up:

On Conservatism:

secular social and cultural conservatism is about maintaining traditions and hierarchies, so it should always appeal more to older folks than younger ones, right?

like, if you're at the bottom of the pole, as you are when you're a kid, it's hard to see the appeal of the hierarchy, right? you might not have found it that hard, sure, but it'd always be easier if you were at the middle or the top.

if you've lived with a set of norms and traditions for decades, you have, well, a reliance interest in them. but it's hard to turn them into a propositional political package, something you can teach as doctrine, because its appeal is ... informal? lived?

you could socialize people into it, through example, but ... the evidence for it is implicit, tacit. you're not usually going to have a special revelation that turns you into a committed conservative, or a striking argument, at least not one that turns you into a secular social or cultural conservative.

but then, you’re an American, and American conservatism was always a little bit of a special case. there's no ancient aristocracy or clerisy to point to, not generally; the political-cultural traditions that most American conservatives point to are barely a few decades old.

because the core is a special kind of ... propositional liberalism: the Founding, the Constitution, a society of ordered liberty and free exchange, the rights reserved to the states and the people, the freedom of individuals and families. 

so maybe the dynamics are different in American conservatism, such that you can learn and adopt it as a set of propositions, which would make the age gradient less sharp than it is elsewhere

On Dynasties:

[i have never seen a meme about how we need a democrat's child to take up that president’s mantle]

the national Democrats seem to have a good number of ~dynasties, and I don't think it's unique to any faction or ideology

it's an information cue, a heuristic, and given the low levels of information most voters have, it's going to be a pretty powerful one. (you can only keep so many bits of information in your head!) you know what "the Clintons" are, you know what "the Kennedys" are, you know what "the Bushes" are, here's another one

it's especially important in candidate-centered regimes, rather than party-centered ones, like in places outside the old Northeast belt, where party machines are weak and candidates have to prove themselves in open primary contests.

(although maybe the effect is too small to detect and the patronage-style regimes of the party-centered contests would look the same, dynasty-wise)

On Liberalism:

[I heard that the right is much more unified than the left?]

yeah, but the right is just much less divided on demography and policy than the ~left. the right is a coalition of the "normative", whereas the left is everyone left over, so that makes for odd company, like the Blacks and Dixiecrats of the midcentury

the left is a coalition of interests, whereas the right is an ideological coalition, which makes Democrats more ideologically divided than Republicans. see Matt Grossmann and David Hopkins’s Asymmetric Politics (Oxford, 2016):

lmao

"Republicans are not only the more ideologically homogenous party, but are also more likely to conceptualize politics as an ideological conflict over political principles between the left and the right. Democrats instead prefer to think of politics as a contest among social groups competing with each other for influence over the government. Each party therefore maintains distinct criteria for judging policy proposals and outcomes, with Republicans prizing compatibility with ideological doctrine and Democrats emphasizing the protection or advancement of group interests."

I guess it's ironic that I pair my ~informal, ~group-centered understanding of conservative formation with a ~propositional, ~ideological understanding of conservatism as a movement

On Identity and Ideology:

[interested in if this changed recently with trump doing a thicc "white identity politics" thing]

enh things generally don't change all that quickly. you would have to check to see, but those long-term trends -- and this has been going on at least since the 1950s, when these surveys started -- don't get wiped out in one or two cycles, even if they might ebb. 

[how does this relate to like the Southern strategy?]

the Democrats understood white Southerners as a set of interest groups, whereas Republicans understood them as a set of would-be ideological conservatives?

like, the conservative appeal to the white South is, like, "you were conservative all along, join the conservative party" and, if you don't understand yourself as "a conservative" yet, then "our ideology preserves what you find valuable”

[conservatives hint at black people sucking tho? it seems very thinly veiled behind talk of values to me]

maybe? it's a trade-off between appealing to people's self-understanding of themselves ("I'm a good person") with useful heuristics for leaders ("you can tell I'm racist because I'm saying the racist thing, so vote for me, you racist")

so the more sophisticated the electoral environment, the more flattering the appeal, and the less sophisticated, the more vulgar. although you can apparently get a lot of mileage out of being vulgar, as our current president shows, so our discourse was probably set at too high a level before. we needed to dumb it down a bit.

[i mean that thing where some bush ran an ad with a big burly black guy criminal saying democrats were bad because they were lenient to him. or "inner city welfare queens", which is basically a meme at this point]

but I think those messages get a lot more mileage and replay on the left than on the right, because they offend the group-centered identities of the left. 

"this is offensive to a critical member of my coalition; friends, please pay attention to how offensive the other party is being," rather than, like "you're a liberal, so vote for the liberal party"

[i guess i'm confused whether you are claiming conservatives actually care more about values than libs?]

I think part of the story here is that the white South was just much more educated by the 1980s than it had been in the 1950s or the 1930s, so the appeal had to be more ... sophisticated

take Lee Atwater, George H. W. Bush's campaign manager:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

I think Lee Atwater is talking about how political discourse is increasingly ideological as the white South moves from a Democratic stronghold in the 1950s to a competitive two-party system in the 1980s and ultimately into the Republican stronghold that it is today

"you're getting so abstract ... all these things you're talking about are totally economic things ... [and] "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing," where "abstraction" signifies a move from group-centered talk to ideological talk

and like, at some level all ideological talk should be rooted in something you find valuable (tradition, liberty, white supremacy) but part of its value is that you can reason with it, discourse with it. you can hold a coalition together with it, with a sort of political minimum: small government, low taxes, states' rights.

and you can hold together people who are explicitly or implicitly white supremacists with people who wouldn't think of themselves as at all "anti-Black", because you can say "we're talking about taxes, not race.”

so the Democrats are at once advantaged -- because they're the bigger tent, and can make special appeals to one group after another, and don't even have to think of themselves as ideologues -- and disadvantaged -- because there's something grubby about being a coalition of "special interests", and you can ding them for it.

[it's always funny to me that rural whites and economic elites don't count as "special interests"]

it's a difference in how liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans talk about things!

conservatives don't say "I'm doing this for rural whites and economic elites", whereas liberals do say "I'm doing this for African Americans, Hispanics, the poor, the LGBT" etc

alright I'm gonna leave to watch some anime

[bardcharms]

Hi love!! For the song ask : 2, 3 and 23! 💕✨

salut ma fraise!! 🍓 these were such good questions thank you!! this post is LONG be warned omg <:)

2. three last songs you listened to

shut eye - stealing sheep

“shoes are made for walking you to lands and better seas”...ooohh this one has weird vibes but it’s been a favorite of mine for innumerable years!! i remember listening to it throughout so many early art classes ahh...

sound of violence - other lives

i found this song a couple nights ago while doing a deep dive to find new songs for an oc playlist I’m trying to pad out! it’s got such beautiful violin and strings, behind such a gentle voice,,, ahhh im really a fan of this one :-) !

your rocky spine - great lake swimmers

this one is surprisingly sensual in such a gentle, loving way. the singer describes their lover as a mountain range and just waxes poetic ;–; I found this song again after a very long while, and I’m so glad I did so I could put it in this month’s playlist!

3. three songs you were recently obsessed with

ofelia - kiltro

this song is BIZARRE....I found it at the very end of march and it’s just been on repeat ever since, the way it begins and ends with these lyrics that change so subtly: “it’s a light, it’s a light / it’s alright, it’s alright / it’s a lie, it’s a lie” ogghhh this song GETS ME!!!! i want to lie down in this song, as if it were a freshly made bed or a field of wildflowers

the adults are talking - the strokes

and on another note, this one’s just a very catchy tune that i found through tiktok haha! it became a popular tune to use for content (not rlly as a meme like a lot of them) so i picked up on it pretty quickly and it’s just plain catchy

shady grove - (multiple artists but my favorite cover byyy) the chieftains

now THIS was a march vibe!! I brought my dulcitar over to me and Scott’s apartment early last month and tried so very hard to learn this song on the dulce <:) it’s a traditional folk song and it has...just so many covers. but this one is both 1) beautiful, and 2) closer to the length of the usual/original, so I’d say it’s good for a first-time listen!

23. three songs that never fail to get you pumped up

carnivore - bear attack!

oh here we GOOOO this is the world’s best song about leaving your goddamn abusive ex. fuck yes. do I have an abusive ex? NO! I have two healthy partners who love me very much!! do I still sing along to this song as if it were relatable to me? YES I DO!!

heart of a dancer - the happy fits

fun fact: I’ve seen the happy fits twice at gigs and they (used to?) know me by name!! i love these three dudes!! I’ve rocked out to this song IN PERSON (pre-covid of course) and ohhhh it’s some GOOD SHIT!! the lyrics are so much fun too omg. convincing jesus AND satan that the blues is cool?? can be done, apparently!

no one lives forever - oingo boingo

and now for my favorite wacky artist of the 80s and 90s: lead by mr. danny elfman, YES, that danny elfman, the composer. this song is one of my favorites of ALL TIME and it’s just plain weird!! the inevitability of death comes for us all, so have fun while you’re alive, babey!!! somehow more poignant (poingonant?) during covid times where we sadly cannot have parties and jam out to wild funky tunes

[risingsunsrp]

Alright folks! Now that the staff is back in relatively good health we’re going to kick off with the traditional introductions game. ✨

While we won’t be doing any early reserves contest with these introductions, we will be opening the discord for our site on Friday (after some more people have hopefully found us)! Once the discord link is posted you’re welcome to join us and get to know everyone a little better. 

In tandem with our discord opening we’ll also allow everyone to snag one canon and one face claim. :) More information about that and the second round of reserves will be posted later, so hang tight!

Without further ado here’s our little intro form: 

alias: 

age: 

favorite hp character(s):

favorite plots/tropes: 

favorite moment in the hp series: 

hogwarts house: 

what are you looking forward to most?: 

gif/meme that describes you: 

Be sure to tag your introduction post with #risingsunsrp!

[sitespeeddiamond]

Grindr ban

Add the hashtag #twinder so other participants can find you!” On September 25th, 2021, Twitter user big relly tweeted the following: “Alright, the #twinder rules: post pic(s) along w/area & what you’re looking for - a date? homegirls? Brunch buddies? winter time boo? A third? I encourage folks to let it be known if you’re strictly het. A Black Girl Protecting Her Magic September 26, 2021 Stumbled onto this #twinder hashtag and…I’m intrigued. However, there was some recent tension about Tinder as a platform, and we want to dive into that before you pick up that app.

If you want to find love with a Grindr alternative, there seem to be quite a few. Or can you? Let’s talk about that in a bit. It’s a definite recommendation from us.įinally, you can’t go wrong with the classic swiping app, Tinder. It’s a clean, virtual experience that promises a more professional experience, as it is also used to find friends and mentors.Īre you a a queer femme person? Then go with HER, a pioneer in the gay dating space that’s still going strong. On the other hand, you might want to consider Bumble, the “hive” where “women make the first move”. But it promises a premium dating experience with others who have also bought into the system. Match is an expensive choice at almost $45 per month. But what other Grindr alternatives are out there? Let’s take a look. Thankfully, Grindr is safe for now, and is still on the app store. This raised questions as to whether apps, specifically LGBTQ+ apps, that promote sexual content will be banned. However, though some of the text is correct, its claim that Apple banned Grindr is decidedly false.īack in June, Apple announced new app store guidelines that states apps “that may include pornography or be used to facilitate prostitution” are prohibited. The picture went viral, gaining over a thousand likes and more than a hundred comments.

Under this text is a cartoon mocking the fact that “teenage strippers” being banned is a bad thing (despite that not being what the original text was saying, but we digress). We are descending into a Christan dystopia and y’all don’t want to see it. Texas just functionally banned streippers under 21 and abortion. Starting the day after tomorrow you won’t be able to buy and sell erotica on eBay. Is it true? Did Apple really ban Grindr from their platform? Let’s look into the facts, and dig a bit deeper into a online chats like Omegle and the viral dating app hashtags in the process.Ī user on Facebook named “Wholesome memes of traditional morality II: Trad dames, and too long names” posted a picture that read the following: By: Naomi Norbez Did Apple ban Grindr? All the gay dating app alternatives

[freedomsoapbox]

Dear “Moderate” Liberal Millennial Christians: It’s Time To Pick A Side

I  went to a conservative  Christian high school.  Most of my friends from  high school are  Christian.  It may surprise you to learn that many of  them are liberal  Democrats or Democrat sympathizers, though if you  yourself went to a  Christian high school this may not surprise you at  all.

It’s  no secret that many Americans  who claim to be Christian are liberal   Democrats.  But I mention the  phenomenon of graduates from Christian   high schools being (often  becoming sometime during their senior year if  my suspicions and  experience are any indication) openly liberal to   highlight the known  fact that even conservative Christian institutions are producing,  attracting, and harboring liberal activists.

I   say “liberal activists” because, in my generation at least, there is no  other type of liberal. Donald Trump’s election has resulted in what  few  of them were not openly political effectively being conscripted   into  The Resistance.  Most of those millennial liberals who went to my high  school are not as extreme as the stereotypical college feminist. They  don’t talk about “safe spaces”, they don’t sympathize with Antifa  (at  least not openly), and most will be careful not to be seen   defending  Planned Parenthood too loudly.  Their activism is mostly   restricted to  Facebook, just like most activism from liberals and   conservatives alike  seems to be restricted to Facebook.

But   being friends on Facebook is enough to know which side they have   picked.  And as moderate as they may try to appear, they have picked a   side. A few shared memes, liked posts, etc. communicate that they are   members of The Resistance, even if they are only part of the reserve   force.

I have  also been able to intuit   what they tend to think of the group comprised  of me and the other   students from my high school who chose to remain,  or even become,   conservative Christians.  Now I want to make it clear  that none of   these liberal classmates have ever individually  disrespected or   mistreated me, and I have good relationships with most  of them. But as a  whole, they view us as relatively intelligent peers  who have simply   not been fortunate enough to break away from the mental  shackles   imposed on us by our church denomination through our parents  and the   conservative faculty at our high school. I could picture their   collective advice to us being something like “Dr. Peterson (made up name   of our Dean of Students) isn’t here anymore to fine you for not   wearing  a belt.  You need to take some of what they taught us at that   school  with a grain of salt.”

That’s   not to say I think all of them necessarily thought the strict dress   code at our school was a bad thing, but the point is that our high   school was very conservative, had its share of nonsense and bullshit   from the administration, and in general they are kind of glad to be away   from it.  Well, I know for a fact that I and several other of my   conservative peers are glad to be away from that place as well, but   liberal millennials tend to view themselves as supporting characters in a   real-life dystopian story, and it is clear that these liberal   graduates  view our Alma Mater as being beholden to the conservative   dystopia that  is currently headed but not entirely controlled by Donald  Trump.  And  as for their classmates who also remain beholden to this dystopia, we’re  kind of like that kid in the terrible movie Dead Poets Society   who ratted out the Society to the school administration and got Mr.   Keating fired, not because he really wanted to but simply because the   agents of the dystopia convinced him that it was the right thing against   his better judgement.  They, on the other hand, are standing on their   desks, and they are trying to convince us that it’s alright to do so.

This   dynamic is not unique to alumni from Christian high schools.  It is  the  same attitude with which many of the more “moderate” liberals of  all  age groups regard their conservative friends.  It’s not that we’re  bad  people, it’s just that we don’t get it. It is the same attitude  conveyed  a little more condescendingly in articles like this,   which explains a study that purports to demonstrate that being a   steadfast conservative is often reducible to having stronger primal   self-preservation instincts than liberals.  If you want to drop the   clinical facade and judge the article as the propaganda piece that it   clearly is, what the author is really saying is that conservatives in   middle America, by and large, are at best the unfortunate victims of   repressed mild emotional trauma from our parents never letting us leave  the house alone until age 13 for fear of kidnapping, and at worst   atavists whose genetically predetermined responses to stimuli are more   fitting for societies of a more, ahem, simple state  of development.   But don’t worry, society needs folks who possess such  mindstates as   well, after all the root of such attitudes is a healthy  drive for   safety and prudence (wink wink).

You  see  the liberals in my friend circles, especially liberal Christians  who went to my high school, like to share articles like this on social   media.  They will also, without directly addressing us conservative   peers, delineate on how such findings relate to the rise of Nazism and   other hyper-nationalist movements in a manner that they no doubt think  is erudite.

First  of all, as a quick   aside, I’d like to address this narrative of the  rise of Nazism.   Someone needs to point out that while the ability to  regurgitate this tired thesis that Hitler was able to rise to power by  manipulating   people’s primal urges in a population that was starving and   war-traumatized, by giving them an internal enemy (the Jews) to project  their fear and bitterness onto, and by promising them a better life   while not telling them very much about the uglier side of his agenda   until they had been fully initiated, on an essay exam may have impressed   your AP World History teacher, it is at best an oversimplification of   history and at worst disingenuous.  Germany in the 1930s was not just a   country of poor farmers and unemployed Great War veterans who simply  let  themselves be led down Hitler’s path to hell before they realized  their  mistake. The fact of the matter is that Weimar Germany was  already a  society of people who by and large did not value freedom and  democracy  and which already suffered from widespread moral bankruptcy  before  Hitler became prominent. Hitler did not recruit the Brownshirts  by  inviting young men with no future to be part of something greater  than  themselves so much as he simply organized and militarized the  criminal  element of several major cities to serve his purposes.  The  Germans had  to be carpet-bombed and then occupied before they were  ready to finally  be a part of the civilized West. And any attempt to  connect the  narrative of the Nazis to the rise of Trump is, you know,  stupid.

But  anyway, getting back to the  point, I’m focusing on my liberal peers  from Christian high schools  across the nation because I know that we,   conservative millennial  Christians, will have to deal with them in the not-so-distant future.   My liberal classmates may not have much respect  for the conservative  traditions of our school, but they will likely  comprise a large share  of the school’s future teachers, staff, PTO  leaders, Alumni Association  officers, and major donors.  And that’s a  problem. We know where their  loyalties lie, and it is with the  Democratic Party first and Christ  and His church second. You cannot be a  loyal Democrat and have those  priorities reversed. These people will be  leaven within the church’s  institutions.  We’ve seen what their so-called “moderate” liberal parents from the Boomer generation can do to such institutions   simply by being tolerated within them even if most of them don’t go   out  of their way to be liberal activists. And they will be active   soldiers  in the war against conservatism and Christianity, whether they  know it  or not.

And  so I’d like to   address the remainder of this piece to those people.  Not  just my   liberal classmates, but all moderate liberal Christians of my   generation (hereafter “you”):You  have picked a side, and it is the   wrong one.  You think that we  conservative millennial Christians   (hereafter “we”) are on the “wrong  side of history”, but it is actually  you who have chosen the wrong side.   You may very well have chosen the  winning side,  but your side remains  objectively, morally wrong (alternative title for  this piece: Some  Things Young Conservative Christians Wish We Could Say  To Our Liberal  Christian Friends If You Guys Would Hear Us Out).

We   can still be friends.  We have remained friends with you even after   you  have indirectly called us homophobes, fundamentalists,   reactionaries,  woman-haters, and the like.  Many of you have not   directly addressed us  so to our faces, but we happen to fall into the   group of people whom you  regard as such. Nevertheless, we remain your   friends.

But  you need to realize that we  have also chosen a side, and it is  decidedly against everything you   stand for.  That does not mean we stand  against justice, fairness,   charity, and the like. It’s just that those  are the things you claim to   stand for, and I am speaking of the things that you are actually   willing to stand for.  When the chips are down, you will stand for the   evil of abortion. You will stand for middle school students being forced   to share shower facilities with members of the opposite sex, including   adults.  You will stand for police officers being railroaded by the   media and the justice system for doing their job in cases where a young   black man happens to end up dead.

And   you will stand for the persecution of Christians.  Specifically, you  will stand for the persecution of Christians who have not thrown their   lot in with the American persecutors of Christians, which means   eventually that you will stand for the persecution of us.

For   example, whenever you guys rail against a certain Christian artist or   business owner for not accommodating a same-sex couple or someone who   identifies as transgender, it never seems to occur to you that your   Christian friends on the other side of the political aisle could and   probably will be in that same position in the future.  We are afraid to  open our own businesses or go into creative professions because we know   that the minute we cross the LGBT agenda, or possibly the abortion   agenda, we are liable to have our lives destroyed by the government.

And   you support this.  You will side with the government when they come to   take our businesses away from us or even impose criminal sanctions.    Perhaps you will reason that it is regrettable but necessary, and that   it’s our own fault in the end for resisting civil rights.

You   know, I’m not going to go as far as to pull out the “if you’re a   liberal Christian then you’re not really a Christian” card here, but   Jesus does have some strong words of warning for those who persistently  side with the world over Him.  We all side with the world over Him, and   we all do so often. Even the Apostles did. But you have formally   chosen a  side, declared it, and it happens to be the side that is   waging war  against Christ and His Church.Your  excuses that you would   actually be furthering Christ’s love are totally  hollow.  Jesus would   not have baked a cake for a gay “wedding” (or  built a gay couple a   house to live in, being a carpenter), he would not  (does not) support   Planned Parenthood, and he would not (does not)  support the gender   transition process.  If you disagree with this, you  are disagreeing   with Him, the Apostle Paul, not to mention the Church  Fathers along   with every serious prominent theologian throughout the  history of   Christianity until the past three or four decades. Of course,  the   church fathers never spoke about transgenderism, but that’s only   because it is an insane demonic dystopian agenda that even the ancient   pagans could hardly have conceived.  They did speak on abortion and gay   marriage, and their opinions on the matter hold a lot more weight than   yours. Ecumenically speaking, the scholarship on these matters, along   with evolution and some other things, within Christianity is as settled   as you claim the scholarship is on climate change. The denominations  and  clerics that claim otherwise do so ashamedly and uneasily, and can   accurately be described as “Bible deniers”.  And don’t try to bring  lame  arguments regarding shellfish and eating pork into this, because those arguments have been quite thoroughly debunked,   and if you haven’t heard the debunking it’s only because members of   your side ban us from the message boards (one of the things that annoy  us about debating with you liberal Christians is that, while you guys  are generally more willing to at least debate us in the first place than   your more extreme SJW allies, many of you have a tendency to need to   have very basic theological concepts explained to you as if you've never   heard them before.  It makes it difficult for the discussion to   progress when we constantly have to stop and do your liberal pastor's   job for him.)

Of  course, I wouldn’t   expect that to hold much weight with atheists and  hardcore secularists who don’t believe the Bible to have any authority  anyway.  They have   chosen their side, and they are proud of it. But at  least they won’t be  attending a Christian college claiming to want an  authentic Christian  education and then working to tear down  Christianity within that   institution.

Your  Christian brothers and  sisters are being persecuted by the side you  have chosen, and you will  be required to assent to and sometimes  participate in the persecution  in order to be a loyal member of your  Resistance. Although the gap may  be closing, you are still the  out-group within American Christianity,  and yet you demand equal  (greater) say and status. You call our kind  Pharisees while enabling our  persecution at the hands of the side you  have chosen.  You have gone  out of your way to declare yourselves  “allies” to every group from gays  to transgenders to feminists to  Muslims, but we never seem to part of   your alliance. Not that we would  want to, because you’re allied with   enemy powers.

You   see, we don’t disagree with you because we are more afraid or less   college-educated or whatever else you have in mind.  We disagree with   you because the Bible is on our side, the facts are on our side, common   sense are on our side, and moral principles are on our side, and not   yours.  We showed you footage of Planned Parenthood trafficking in baby   parts, and you ignored it. You might be a little uncomfortable with it,   but you would never be as vocally outraged as when a police officer   shoots a black person and it gets the attention of the national media,   despite the fact that in almost every single case your side has been   objectively and completely wrong about both the facts and the law of the   matter.

This  is the point where many of you decide to pull out the “personally  opposed” card. Mainly, you   will use this card in the abortion debate,  since you have long ago   given up pretending to be “personally opposed”  to gay marriage   (although you might be one of the few left who will  admit the inability  to defend gay “marriage” on Biblical grounds but  simply sidestep the issue by repeating the lie that the Constitution  requires the   government to recognize it even though it does no such  thing, which is to say you think that the despot Supreme Court has  absolved you of   having to make any further defense of this abomination  to others or to your own conscience) or gender conversion. Conveniently,  you have   already passed the point of having to worry about being a  scared   freshman girl who now has to share a locker room with a boy. And  come   to think of it, you’ve also conveniently passed the point of having  to worry about being aborted. I’d just like to point out that your  sudden  “personally opposed” fig leaf when it comes to especially morally   uncomfortable topics like abortion kind of clashes with your persona as  a fighter for justice in the face of dystopia.

Of   course you don’t have to use that card often, because compared to your   more extreme, non-Christian contemporaries, most of the political talk   we hear from you centers around the somewhat less controversial topics   like gun control, immigration, environmentalism, welfare, etc. Much  of  what you have to say concerns how “uncaring” our side is more than  it  does any actual evidence, but at least you could hold the Democrat   positions on such issues and still theoretically be a member in good   standing of Christian orthodoxy. These are issues that the Bible does   not give explicit guidance on like abortion and gay “marriage”.  But   there are still two main problems with you siding with Democrats on   these issues. The first is that in most cases your opinions are wrong,   often unconstitutional, and easily debunked. But more importantly for   your case specifically, even your stances on these issues and the way   you argue them betray a mentality that is fundamentally at odds with   traditional Christianity.  For example, when you argue that the New   Testament commands us to accept waves of refugees from Islamic nations,   or to expand the welfare state, or raise the minimum wage, or whatever   else you think is “caring”, claiming that “Jesus would want it”, you  are  twisting His words and putting your own words in His mouth, you  know,  like how you claim we are doing whenever we articulate what the  Bible  clearly says about homosexuality.  Twisting the words of the  Bible to  make them say something they do not and advance an agenda that  is not  Biblical is called heresy. Heresy is not something people who  have  chosen the side of God should be comfortable with. The Bible  leaves room  for Christians to disagree on the worldly, practical merits  of things  like welfare, immigration policy, and gun control. It does  not leave  room for you to make Jesus the champion of causes he never  took up,   especially since there is no reason to believe Jesus would  take up a   political cause despite most of the evidence being clearly  against it.

What’s  more, your  championing of such lesser causes is often used as a fig   leaf to  deflect from your moral cowardice concerning bigger issues like   abortion and homosexuality.  You know you can’t win a serious   theological argument about those issues, so you, like the Pharisees,   make a show of how “caring” you are for others, mostly by making arguments that have no factual basis and usually require someone else to do the “caring” for you.    And in so doing, you show signs of where your loyalties lie. When you   got angry about Harambe being shot, you betrayed your anti-life   colors,  because many of your arguments boiled down to the implication   that the  kid somehow deserved to be mauled by a gorilla or at least   that the  gorilla had an equal right not to be shot as the human child   had to not  be mauled at the zoo.  When you defended Michael Brown and   said his  death was a murder in bold spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary,   you betrayed your warped sense of justice or general disdain for true   justice. Whenever you demand that the welfare state be expanded or   advocate socialism, you ignore the evidence reagarding the welfare state   and socialism. Ignoring the evidence regarding such issues does not   automatically reveal that you harbor anti-Christian values, but it does   indicate that you care more about your public image than you do about   the lives and families that have been destroyed by the welfare state and   socialism, especially when you ignore the historical link between the   abortion agenda and the welfare state and population control and   socialism (or environmentalism).

And when you protest against the Trump administration for wanting to favor Christian refugees from Islamic countries despite that making every kind of humanitarian sense   while simultaneously demanding that millions of unchecked Muslim men be  let in and allowed to stay indefinitely, one has to wonder: whose   side  are you on?

And  if most of what I have said does not actually describe you, if you  actually are appalled  by abortion, would defend my rights as a business  owner if I were ever  targeted by a vindictive gay couple, if you are  willing to take an  evidence-based or at least moderate and balanced  approach to   immigration and environmental regulations, and you don’t  want to put   cops in prison for doing their sworn duty, then one has to  ask: why   have sided with the American left?

Note:   “Trump scares me” is not a good reason.  I was a firm “Never Trump”   conservative in 2016, and did not vote for him.  That didn’t cause me to   throw my lot in with the party that wants to force me to fund Planned   Parenthood.

And one more thing: your  more extreme secularist liberal friends that have gone full-SJW are not  impressed with you.  They aren't impressed with your virtue-signaling,  they aren't impressed with the constant apologies you make for us, they  aren't impressed with your attempts to prove yourselves as [the  Christians that are cool and will respect you](http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/02/an-other-christian-responds-to-buzzfeeds-questions-christians-have-for-other-christians/)  while treating us like an uncle who sometimes says racist things at   Thanksgiving dinners but whom you love anyway.  To them, you're still in  the same group of square losers as us, it's just that they may think   there is a little more hope for you.

I   realize my words so far have been harsh, but they could be a lot   harsher.  I don’t want to burn bridges with my friends on the other side   of the aisle, and I certainly don't think every cause they take up is   completely without merit (for example, I do think conservatives have  railed just a little too hard on the #MeToo thing, wrought with   hypocrisy though the movement has been). But I’m writing this piece   because, frankly, things are going to have to come to a head between our   two sides.  Your side has engaged an unrelenting campaign of attacks  and persecution against those of us who have remained faithful to   Christian orthodoxy for the past two or three decades at least, and we,  orthodox Christian conservative millennials, are not going to defer   responsive action against the agents of those who seek to destroy the   church indefinitely, even if those agents include our friends. So when   you take up teaching positions at Christian institutions only to reveal   your sympathies with the militant LGBT movement, we are going to have  to  move to get you fired. When you start advocating the leftist social   agenda within the church itself, we are going to excommunicate you.  When  your church is caught harboring illegal immigrants in brazen  defiance  of the Biblical command to submit to the civil authorities, we’re going  to speak against your church and possibly work with the   government to  root them out.  The Democrats and the liberal   establishment have  declared total war on conservatives and the   Christian Church in  particular. We are under no obligation to sit back passively and take it  all the time.

So with that in mind, I ask one more time:  whose side are you on?

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Laid-Back Camp - Episode 12

Alright, the last hurrah. One last camping trip with these girls. Let’s see how it goes. It’s Laid-Back Camp, episode 12! Here we GO!

-We begin…In a possible future. Rin’s camping ways have continued, and she’s taken more after her grandfather, with a cool motorcycle and sweet boots. She arrives to a campsite to find the others already waiting for her. Chiaki’s become the new Toba-sensei, treating all camping trips as an excuse to get her booze on…Well, I said the others, but Nadeshiko is a ways out still. In this fantasy, Nadeshiko didn’t just keep camping…She now owns a camping gear company, bringing American styled equipment to Japan. Also, Aoi still hasn’t lost her fang…

-And Nadeshiko arrives…On…

-Good.

-Fucking.

-God.

-She’s in the flying tent from the opening.

-So obviously this is our title-card shot. As much as I love all the other shots of the girls all grown up…I mean, come on.

-And this is all Nadeshiko’s idea of what it’ll be like when they’re all grown up. Which explains a lot. And Rin’s gotten back with stuff! Yayyyyy.

-Opening! So here’s the magic question for you: In Nadeshiko’s possible-future, did she imagine herself and Rin being married?

-Episode 12: Mount Fuji and the Laid-Back Camp Girls

-So doggo has to go. He’s picked up by Ena’s family to go back home to warm bed, while the others scrub their dishes and ask the question of who’s gonna take advantage of the actual baths first. Well, Toba-sensei is out.

-In the end, Aoi, Ena and Chiaki end up in the bath, in an actual proper hot bath no less. Which leaves Rin and Nadeshiko to stay warm around the fire, and they end up asking Toba-sensei if she doesn’t mind being out here all alone instead of with her lover…

-…That was her sister she was with, you dorks. Anyways, all of this gender and romance confusion has Nadeshiko so off-tilt that she ends up outright asking Chiaki if she’s a girl or not when the others get back. Do you want to die?

-So round two of the baths, chatting with Toba-sensei. Who has a camping history not entirely dissimilar to Rin’s, though hers is more group-oriented. Her dad was a huge outdoorsy type when she was a kid, so the whole family would practically be out every weekend in the summers. Her sister picked up the bug full-force, and she tags along.

-Also speaking of camping, Rin still doesn’t know what that thing she saw in the darkness was. It was your teacher. Aaanyways, by the time they get back from the bath, everyone’s done their hair up in a Shimarin Bun. Nadeshiko is surrounded by Shimarins and it’s wonderful! Rin is quietly a bit mad at that name.

-So Nadeshiko has enough hair that she gets the true Shimarin treatment: Having Ena do something ridiculous to her head. Which she doesn’t see until they take a selfie together. Alas, Nadeshiko. But now they’ve kind of used up their tasks, but it’s too early to sleep…

-So Chiaki has a treat. You know outdoor film festivals, and vintage American drive-ins, and all that? (GOD I wish I could justify using that shot of Anime To the Future) Well Chiaki just signed up for a data plan and streaming services for her tablet! It’s not quite a grand projector, but they can just dive deep until they forget what time is!

-Eventually they’re all tapped out…Until everyone else is asleep, and it’s just Nadeshiko and Rin with their heads poking out of Rin’s tent way off on their own, looking up at the stars. They end up talking about all the shows and stuff they watched, and possible journeys, and New Year’s plans, and just…just talking. I’m not sure if Rin will do these big group trips very often, but I think it’s clear she’ll be doing a lot of these little trips with Nadeshiko.

-And they doze right off, as quiet comes over the campsites…And all is peaceful…

-Until the first alarm goes off. It’s 5 AM Christmas day, and Rin wakes up next to Nadeshiko, just the two of them. I’m not saying they’re a few months at most away from one of them suddenly realizing “FUCK we’re a couple when did that happen crap crap crap what’s the anniversary is it the day we met WHAT DO I GET HER”, but it was aliens.

-Also Nadeshiko you promised to make breakfast so get out of that mummy bag and make with the grub.

-Of course, Rin ends up helping…And by the time the others gather, it’s a truly traditional meal. Some grilled salmon, a miso soup, rice, even natto. Exactly what a certain hungover teacher needs to clear her head. And as they all get their grub on…The sun tips over the horizon, and it is just magic. That first light, when your eyes have adjusted to the pre-dawn, is so overwhelming, and just…Amazing.

-Of course, then comes the end of the trip. The loading of gear, the packing up of campsites. Daily coming to pick various folks up, and of course, one last photo of them all together before they scatter.

-Cut to a new day at the bookstore. Rin’s just hanging out behind the counter…And she’s thinking she wants to go somewhere for New Year’s…Which is when Ena shows up, buying a magazine on winter camping.

-Over at school, Chiaki leads the crew on a full cleanup of their club room! …That took like two minutes. Until they get Rin or Ena to actually sign on, it’s the cramped storage room for another semester. And tragically, they’re both working through the New Year’s holiday, so they can’t even go camping together…Well, except for Nadeshiko, who can’t find work.

-Cue Rin texting with a PLAN. Ena got a temp job printing and delivering new year’s cards and they need more warm bodies. It’s only a week or two of work, but Nadeshiko’s super excited at getting some cash to turn into camping gear.

-And at last, the credits song plays, as we montage over a quiet calm for all involved with the sun low in the sky. Rin’s scooter dutifully parked by her humble home. Ena’s doggo wrapped up snug in his doggo bed. Nadeshiko’s sister after another road trip to a picturesque sight. Rin’s grampa watching the sun set from his latest campsite. Nadeshiko’s folks coming home with groceries. Toba-sensei’s sister setting up camp, and she herself wrapping up a day of teaching.

-And in that little storage hall, a few more photos added to Nadeshiko’s wall…Including the one magical shot that started the series, of them all together…

-Aftercredits! And not a skit, either. It’s post-New Years, the back end of winter turning into spring, and Nadeshiko’s pedaling her humble little bike, with its rack and her bag both full of kit, to a certain campground…It’s a hard ride, but she finally makes it, checks in, and finds herself nearly alone at a pristine lake. The very place where she met Rin, damn near the exact same spot, as she dutifully puts together her setup. Her tent, her little table…And her own little treat, the gas lantern she saw in the shop that day. It’s a perfect, gorgeous setup…

-When Rin texts asking if she’s working. She’s actually out on the road, and just got to her campsite! And thus they get talking, both of them out camping solo, as Nadeshiko hides where she’s gone, until she sends the photo…And Rin’s comes in…And she’s not even a hundred feet back. They both had the same idea and came to the same place. These adorable precious girls.

And that’s a wrap.

I…Damn, this one somehow feels way heavier than it should. The show’s just so warm and comfy that I don’t want to leave it. But there’s no more left(unless they do a second season COME ON YOU COWARDS), and thus there’s no choice.

I mean, except for the fact that I obviously have already made bookmarks for the manga to chew on.

It is no mistake that this show caused a lot of people to want to go camping. This was…Damn, this was real close to perfect for me, and quite frankly the only things that would’ve made it better would be trading some archetypes around to pander to my specific tastes, rather than actually doing anything objectively higher quality.

And that fucking ending. That last shot. That was just…Pretend your favorite meme image of a chef’s kiss is here, because that was perfect.

So what’s coming up now that we did that? A hard pivot to the exact opposite of this warm comfy slice-of-life stuff, and also me trying blatantly to build my presence Tumblr-side with a big-pop. You’ll see. Wait for it!

[rjhet]

Interview Meme - R'jhet Nunh

What is your full name?

”Ah'm R'jhet Nunh, formerly R'jhet Tia buh Ah haven't gone bah that in a loooong time."

What do your friends call you?

“Jhet if they can pronounce it right, buh Ah don' mind bein' called Jet neither."

What is your favorite animal?

“Probably chocobos. Ah swear it's real hard ta be upset with a chocobo around ya."

Where were you born?

“In a tent out in Thanalan, or so Ah'm told. Whole tribe is nomadic so it could'a been a few places.."

Do you have children?

"Yep! Got eight of 'em now, an' more on the way."

Is there a person/people you love?

“Didja read mah last response?"

What is your favorite color?

“Don' have one really. Don' really care fer black or grey though. Typically Ah like a lotta color around me."

What is your full occupation?

“Ah'm the uhh....hmmm...Ah'm the guy tha' gathers jobs fer us down at the Ruby Wing. Dunno the official title name."

Are you good at physical fighting?

“Ah reckon Ah can hold mah own. It's probably the thing Ah'm most known for, nah fer lack of tryin'."

Which form are you best at?

"Ah tend ta favor larger weapons; things ya hafta hold with two hands. S'far as style goes Ah use a self taught style tha' involves usin' aether blasts ta manuever 'round the battlefield. Took a bit ta work out the kinks, buh it throws a lotta folk off."

What about magic?

“Ah've tried time n' time again ta get inta healin', buh fate seems ta want me ta be a fighter. Ah have the trainin', buh not the practice."

Which type are you best at?

“Uhh...healin' an' minor aether bursts."

Craftsmanship?

"Ah've dabled in armorsmithin' an' cookin', buh Ah'm a far cry from an expert."

Any other skills?

“Of course. Ah'm nomadic so ya gotta have some survival skills under yer belt."

Are you an only child?

“Yep! Mah Maw had a condition where havin' kids wasn't a bright move. Apparently Ah nearly killed her. She's fine now though, buh she realized tha' she shouldn't try fer a second."

Where do you see yourself in five years?

“In a post calamity world? Alive n' well hopefully. Been makin' it up fer the last ten."

Have you ever almost died?

"Yep. Used ta be on primal huntin' duty. Only the really crazy or unlucky folk get stuck with that."

Do you have a secret, not just a secret, but like a really big secret hardly anyone knows?

"Ah prefer nah ta keep secrets."

Salty or sweet?

“Sweets are nice, buh salty fills ya up better."

Do you like yourself?

“We all got our demons, buh Ah reckon Ah'm alright. Can't get away from mahself, so might as well get along right?"

Do you believe in the Twelve?

"Very much so."

Are you religious?

"Very much not. The Twelve din't lift a finger ta help us durin' the Calamity. One of our own, a fellow mortal, had ta give up his life along with the aether in a buncha crystals before they'd do mucha anythin'. Ah don't got much against them per say...buh they've shown tha' this is our world now an' they're gonna leave us alone. Fer the better Ah say."

Do you carry prejudice with you?

"Nah if Ah can help it...granted mah last answer might carry some."

What do you consider entertainment?

“Plays...jokes...stories...Ooooh! And Triple Triad!"

Favorite drink?

"A Barber's Delight! A mint coffee of mah own design."

Do you have any family traditions?

“Ah'm tribal...of course Ah do."

Are you a good person?

"Bah whose standards? Ah consider mahself a good person yeah, buh other folk might say Ah'm on a one way path ta hell."

Thank you for answering my questions.

[ravel-puzzlewell]

Your warden Amell or your Hawke for the character meme :)

 Already wrote for Ravyl, so this one on Hawke

B A S I C S

full name: Erica Hawke

Gender: female

Sexuality:if you’re hot, she’ll do you

Pronouns: she\her

O T H E RS

Family: Hawkes.

Birthplace: some shithole in Ferelden

Job:  MercenaryMage\ Pyromaniac\ Philanthrope\ Healer\ Champion of Kirkwall\ Pain in the Ass

guiltypleasures: Erica Hawke never felt guilty about enjoying anythingonce in her entire life

M O R A LS

·        morality alignment?: Chaotic Good

·        sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

·        virtues -chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S -O R - T H A T

·        introvert/extrovert:absolute caricature of extrovert from tumblrpro-introvert posts

·        organized/disorganized: a goddamn mess

·        closeminded/open-minded: as long as you’re not hurting anyone

·        calm/anxious: energetic cheerful spitfire

·        disagreeable/agreeable: friendlyin general, but opinionated and will NOT be quiet about it

·        cautious/reckless:TURN DOWN FOR WHAT

·        patient/impatient:impatient in daily life, can be patient when shethinks a person needs it

·        outspoken/reserved: will not shut up

·        leader/follower: charismatic circus leader

·        empathetic/unemphatic:empathy level: drunk girl you’ve never met in theclub’s bathroom at 2 am asking you if you’re alright and then offering to punchyour shitty boyfriend

·        optimistic/pessimistic: optimistic level: juggling fireballs in bed 

·        traditional/modern: “Hello folks, this is Erica Hawke and we’re starting today’s unboxing video! *kicks open the ancient cursed sarcophagus* 

·        hard-working/lazy:energetic, but bad at long-term goals

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

·        Otp: Fenris

·        Brotp: Varric, Isabela, Aveline, mabari

·        Notp: Anders

[oldcrowshag]

Racism in Witchcraft

Okay so I’m starting to get some asks regarding my meme-ish post about how lots of resources on witchcraft are pretty racist and, as a result, are what we refer to as really gross in the community. I’m thrilled that this is opening up some discussion as well as bringing up the question “What do you mean when you say there are books about witchcraft that are racist?”

Questions like this are mostly coming from newer witches or else people who, like me, have educated themselves via the Internet rather than books. Because, let’s be honest, books about witchcraft are often expensive. They can be hard to find, depending on where you live. Witches in the broom closet can be leery about purchasing a book that says WITCHCRAFT on the front in big bold font. Whatever the reason, I’d like to thank these blogs for coming forward with these questions. Keep asking questions! They’re not stupid and it’s how we learn and grow as a community.

That being said, I’m gonna let y’all know that I’m white. My opinions do not speak for any people/witches of color, nor would I ever claim that they do. These are just some things that I’ve noticed as I get into books having to do with witchcraft. Any witches/scholars of color who would like to chime in on this are more than welcome to.

This is gonna turn into an essay, I just know it is, so I’m leaving the rest under the cut. 

Alright, first example would be Hoodoo and other African diasporic religions. My first issue is that these religions and practices are often closed. To be able to practice them properly and with the respect that’s due to them you need to go through training and initiation through elders/priests/etc. within that religion. Many books on witchcraft by non-black authors will ignore that fact entirely and start throwing around their two cents about what ingredients should go into a mojo hand or how to go about making goofer dust. Thing is, it’s none of their business. The way I see it, most of these diasporic religions came about when African people were forced out of their homeland and into the slave trade in the Americas. These communities took their old faiths and made their own over time, which is where you get a lot of these folk beliefs. People who continue to take these traditions without the cultural context are actively participating in the robbing of beliefs and identity that many of their ancestors started a long time ago.

Next up would be the use of the term gypsy. It refers to the Romani people, a community of nomads who are mostly present in Europe and the Americas. Books on witchcraft often start using this word while completely ignoring the fact that it’s considered a slur among the Romani people. There’s a popular post going around Tumblr right now of pictures of signs hung up outside popular restaurants and other public venues in Europe saying that they will not allow “gypsies” within their establishment. (If anyone includes the link to that they’d be a wonderful person). As a white American I honestly had no idea about this while I was growing up-- I think the most I’d ever heard about this group within popular media would have been The Hunchback of Notre Dame and that Sherlock Holmes sequel. But it’s never too late to educate yourself! Watch out for this word when you’re browsing for books, it’s simply not what cool kids say.

So many... so many...books talk about how to find your totem or spirit animal. Thing is, if you’re not Native American, you can’t. You can find a familiar, or a patronus, or a spirit companion if you do the work, but spirit animals and totems are off limits. I find this concept to be a very New-Age practice, at least in the literature where I find it. They treat the “spirit animal” as a blanket term when it really only applies to one culture. Sometimes the word “manitou” will float around as well, and that’s also referring to something within Native American culture. If any of those terms are coming from a non-Native American author, you’ve been warned. (I believe @violetwitchcraft has resources on this, and is far better able to talk about this than I am. Check that blog out for more :))

There’s also the fact that authors who follow religions that incorporate witchcraft will also print falsehoods about their own faiths. During my excursions into Wiccan literature I’d see a ton of anecdotes about the Burning Times, this mass witch hunt that was supposed to have occurred centuries ago. It never happened, people. Check any historical anecdotes in witch literature with outside sources just to double check the facts. It’ll save you a lot of trouble.

To my knowledge, the Norse pantheon is not closed and is available for anyone to research and/or worship. However, there are some dickheads who follow this religion as an excuse to express fascist ideologies, which is simply wrong on every level. Though I haven’t seen this specifically in literature as of yet, it wouldn’t surprise me with our current political climate. Keep an eye out, friends. 

Some authors on Tumblr to check out who aren’t expressing anything racist in their works:

@orriculum (I have not read her book but her blog is A+ and people have been suggesting her latest publication to me so I thought I’d put it up!)

@breelandwalker (Her books are on my to-read list but just go look at her blog. Read her posts. I adore her blog and when you read it you’ll know why I do so go do it)

Please suggest more authors because it’s 3 in the morning and no other names are coming to mind. I sure hope this post helped! 

[airoasis]

The 1-millionth of all Bitcoin goal! Japanese fueled Ripple & NEM bubbles, Ethereum Classic Korea

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The 1-millionth of all Bitcoin goal! Japanese fueled Ripple & NEM bubbles, Ethereum Classic Korea

Good day each person that is Adam meister the BitcoinMeister the disrupt meister welcome to in these days in Incline today is may the fifteenth 2017 this is house of long run cripple these pondering if you’re impulsive then you’ll now not like this channel thanks for the man or woman who sends me to Rio deliver a Bitcoin and i like to thank every person at the Tel Aviv Bitcoin embassy I used to be given the Bitcoin white paper here they released this they gave it to a attractive little booklet is in English and in Hebrew it’s Satoshi nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper that you can go to bit embassy or to be taught more about the Tel Aviv bitcoin embassy but this is particularly a exceptional present a first-rate they provide it out to every body is an effective way to spread the phrase about bitcoin in Hebrew and in English so thank you and some souvenir right here from Israel and sure so right now i am in male I do imply male I do mean east of Jerusalem in the Land of Israel i’m coming from you Eltham external about my buddy’s apartment he has seven kids um you could seem up male I do meme and i am certain you’ll be able to to find all different types of exciting things about it just google it and i am proud to be right here today on this um jap city in Israel east of Jerusalem um this is some the greatest location this show has ever come from this vicinity within the heart of Israel east of Jerusalem so benefit from the view I have no idea what you will see that at the back of me so anyway once more thanks for the first-rate guys of the Bitcoin MC I provide their links under I provide a hyperlink to a a new show that is coming out blockchain Unchained coming straight out of Israel that is awesome for the blokes here um and sorry from squinting due to the fact it can be correct out here uh yeah hyperlinks beneath if you want to get your treads or your ledger Nano like crypto hwl you want to get your shirt Lynda’s all this stuff i will be able to carrying this shirt so much I got it I i do not wear all of it day long just put it on for the indicates however and for the Bitcoin stuff however I got a shirt I consider anyway um but this these are satisfactory shirts great shirts and in addition i realized persons had been buying digital bit bins um that’s like a tracer or it’s the ledger so that’s linked to below which you can get again at crypto HD well that you may additionally determine out this weekend Bitcoin we had a satisfactory show so I fairly love this one millionth of a Bitcoin of all of the Bitcoin ever created principles right here i’ll pound that like button people with 50 men and women here i know Europeans are up americans you’re all asleep truely West Coast uh then she retails he is wakeful so it might a weird time time factor right here i suppose we are going to get back to typical soon ah-ah bye so there is simplest going to ever be 21 million bitcoins ever created and let me make sure first of everyone you can hear me ok nobody’s complaining hi there all people’s out howdy boss girl hey every body but yeah there is simplest provide me 21 million a tremendous coin ever created and so a tweet that I linked to below a guy was talking about how hiya in case your own 21 Bitcoin that’s your intention you’re gonna possess a million of the Bitcoin ever created I mean that is such it what a suggestion imagine for those who own the millionth of the greenbacks so that it will create I mean 1,000,000 of millions of the gold ever created I don’t know what I think that is this is very impressive so the so might be folks’s purpose should be to oh twenty one Bitcoin hey i do know i’m atmosphere your ambitions high I set them to be a ten Bitcoin to be partly however might be be part of the extremely elite right here get twenty one Bitcoin you’ll have a millionth of the Bitcoin ever created but on this tweet the character talks about and i don’t now not his eyes I blinked and below it to possess a millionth of the Monaro you have to possess 21 of them eighty 4 like 230 etherion traditional and including etherium ok you guys are going to argue with me and say there is a cap on aetherium hey pound that like button to Adam Meister he’s not gonna argue that given that he’s now not gonna get into the entire hearing factor and it is windy anyway god i’m hoping I failed to just think anyway so Japan is fueling this nem and ripple the article is listed to is listed under and i will quote some stuff uh no longer so wise cash is flowing into into the all coid and ICO markets led by japanese buyers ever on account that the japanese executive granted it and i’m jumping round in are ever seeing that the japanese executive warranty to monitor gentle to Bitcoin and digital forex funding by using comfortably legalizing currency jap traders began to actively put money into digital currencies with out proper research and figuring out activate the phrases k in order that that seems beautiful bad I imply if that is all true without right research it you’re building up something now not excellent yeah let’s get into it we’re now not researching factor however Higashi defined that almost all of investors in all cash similar to rippln m the two most standard all coins being alternate in Japan as of present have little to no figuring out of their reason and starting place of worth he with no trouble noted that buying and selling cryptocurrencies has emerge as the brand new trend of funding very well that is some thing that doesn’t appear very steady hiya but you persons requested me Adam what do you think of nem what do you believe of man what do you believe of riffle that is what I think of the individuals what I just quoted there so aetherium traditional uh is in the news it pumped a bit of bit a Korean exchange with the six very best quantity in the world announced his aid for et Cie I link to that tweet I also link to that jap article below that I simply referenced ah located that like button persons early morning risers woo right as long as uh and that i was once fascinated about cloud mining once more there may be a number of new humans coming into so i’m still getting asked about cloud mining it is a scam individuals however one factor that every one of us have got to appreciate that there could be these men and women looking for these easy approaches to get Bitcoin and so long as humans are looking for these easy methods we’ll get ripped off utterly the individuals who’re doing the sound predominant things by means of just keeping Bitcoin are going to do well we will do well so i’m seeking to warn you men and women to not do the identical matters like get into cloud mining you get ripped off utterly but hey um for us who’re doing the sound things we will be rewarded for for the reason that humans are still doing insane things and it helps us it helps the unglamorous folks like us who simply buy an ancient purchase and preserve and whats up if it can be too steeply-priced for you right now preserve simply hope nothing mistaken with retaining method if it can be getting pricing you’re maintaining that is actual excellent that’s real just right financial occasions has an editorial Bitcoin surged but the title is deceptive it conserves fuel Spears of a step bubble but but the article itself talks about how all coins and icos are simply going through the roof so it is fairly intriguing the mainstream fiscal occasions is speakme about all cash and icos again it is bet it can be a signal of the occasions right here so i hope you enjoyed uh might be get the hills Jordan is someplace within the heritage there uh Jerusalem’s on that part alright so thank it assess the archives individuals if in case you have questions humans have various questions at all times we have extensive artwork archives here are you so many videos a new one daily i am adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister please remember subscribe this channel like this whilst you share this video check out those section beneath please please please pound that like button leave some feedback i do know there’s gonna be some humans leaving all varieties of intriguing feedback on this one however this but for the the entire haters out there the haters this one’s for you and you already know why it for you in case you google that identify this this first-class city here within the land of israel my last video for israel for the period of this shuttle i’ll see you guys in cyprus the next day

[batterymonster2021]

The 1-millionth of all Bitcoin goal! Japanese fueled Ripple & NEM bubbles, Ethereum Classic Korea

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The 1-millionth of all Bitcoin goal! Japanese fueled Ripple & NEM bubbles, Ethereum Classic Korea

Good day each person that is Adam meister the BitcoinMeister the disrupt meister welcome to in these days in Incline today is may the fifteenth 2017 this is house of long run cripple these pondering if you’re impulsive then you’ll now not like this channel thanks for the man or woman who sends me to Rio deliver a Bitcoin and i like to thank every person at the Tel Aviv Bitcoin embassy I used to be given the Bitcoin white paper here they released this they gave it to a attractive little booklet is in English and in Hebrew it’s Satoshi nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper that you can go to bit embassy or to be taught more about the Tel Aviv bitcoin embassy but this is particularly a exceptional present a first-rate they provide it out to every body is an effective way to spread the phrase about bitcoin in Hebrew and in English so thank you and some souvenir right here from Israel and sure so right now i am in male I do imply male I do mean east of Jerusalem in the Land of Israel i’m coming from you Eltham external about my buddy’s apartment he has seven kids um you could seem up male I do meme and i am certain you’ll be able to to find all different types of exciting things about it just google it and i am proud to be right here today on this um jap city in Israel east of Jerusalem um this is some the greatest location this show has ever come from this vicinity within the heart of Israel east of Jerusalem so benefit from the view I have no idea what you will see that at the back of me so anyway once more thanks for the first-rate guys of the Bitcoin MC I provide their links under I provide a hyperlink to a a new show that is coming out blockchain Unchained coming straight out of Israel that is awesome for the blokes here um and sorry from squinting due to the fact it can be correct out here uh yeah hyperlinks beneath if you want to get your treads or your ledger Nano like crypto hwl you want to get your shirt Lynda’s all this stuff i will be able to carrying this shirt so much I got it I i do not wear all of it day long just put it on for the indicates however and for the Bitcoin stuff however I got a shirt I consider anyway um but this these are satisfactory shirts great shirts and in addition i realized persons had been buying digital bit bins um that’s like a tracer or it’s the ledger so that’s linked to below which you can get again at crypto HD well that you may additionally determine out this weekend Bitcoin we had a satisfactory show so I fairly love this one millionth of a Bitcoin of all of the Bitcoin ever created principles right here i’ll pound that like button people with 50 men and women here i know Europeans are up americans you’re all asleep truely West Coast uh then she retails he is wakeful so it might a weird time time factor right here i suppose we are going to get back to typical soon ah-ah bye so there is simplest going to ever be 21 million bitcoins ever created and let me make sure first of everyone you can hear me ok nobody’s complaining hi there all people’s out howdy boss girl hey every body but yeah there is simplest provide me 21 million a tremendous coin ever created and so a tweet that I linked to below a guy was talking about how hiya in case your own 21 Bitcoin that’s your intention you’re gonna possess a million of the Bitcoin ever created I mean that is such it what a suggestion imagine for those who own the millionth of the greenbacks so that it will create I mean 1,000,000 of millions of the gold ever created I don’t know what I think that is this is very impressive so the so might be folks’s purpose should be to oh twenty one Bitcoin hey i do know i’m atmosphere your ambitions high I set them to be a ten Bitcoin to be partly however might be be part of the extremely elite right here get twenty one Bitcoin you’ll have a millionth of the Bitcoin ever created but on this tweet the character talks about and i don’t now not his eyes I blinked and below it to possess a millionth of the Monaro you have to possess 21 of them eighty 4 like 230 etherion traditional and including etherium ok you guys are going to argue with me and say there is a cap on aetherium hey pound that like button to Adam Meister he’s not gonna argue that given that he’s now not gonna get into the entire hearing factor and it is windy anyway god i’m hoping I failed to just think anyway so Japan is fueling this nem and ripple the article is listed to is listed under and i will quote some stuff uh no longer so wise cash is flowing into into the all coid and ICO markets led by japanese buyers ever on account that the japanese executive granted it and i’m jumping round in are ever seeing that the japanese executive warranty to monitor gentle to Bitcoin and digital forex funding by using comfortably legalizing currency jap traders began to actively put money into digital currencies with out proper research and figuring out activate the phrases k in order that that seems beautiful bad I imply if that is all true without right research it you’re building up something now not excellent yeah let’s get into it we’re now not researching factor however Higashi defined that almost all of investors in all cash similar to rippln m the two most standard all coins being alternate in Japan as of present have little to no figuring out of their reason and starting place of worth he with no trouble noted that buying and selling cryptocurrencies has emerge as the brand new trend of funding very well that is some thing that doesn’t appear very steady hiya but you persons requested me Adam what do you think of nem what do you believe of man what do you believe of riffle that is what I think of the individuals what I just quoted there so aetherium traditional uh is in the news it pumped a bit of bit a Korean exchange with the six very best quantity in the world announced his aid for et Cie I link to that tweet I also link to that jap article below that I simply referenced ah located that like button persons early morning risers woo right as long as uh and that i was once fascinated about cloud mining once more there may be a number of new humans coming into so i’m still getting asked about cloud mining it is a scam individuals however one factor that every one of us have got to appreciate that there could be these men and women looking for these easy approaches to get Bitcoin and so long as humans are looking for these easy methods we’ll get ripped off utterly the individuals who’re doing the sound predominant things by means of just keeping Bitcoin are going to do well we will do well so i’m seeking to warn you men and women to not do the identical matters like get into cloud mining you get ripped off utterly but hey um for us who’re doing the sound things we will be rewarded for for the reason that humans are still doing insane things and it helps us it helps the unglamorous folks like us who simply buy an ancient purchase and preserve and whats up if it can be too steeply-priced for you right now preserve simply hope nothing mistaken with retaining method if it can be getting pricing you’re maintaining that is actual excellent that’s real just right financial occasions has an editorial Bitcoin surged but the title is deceptive it conserves fuel Spears of a step bubble but but the article itself talks about how all coins and icos are simply going through the roof so it is fairly intriguing the mainstream fiscal occasions is speakme about all cash and icos again it is bet it can be a signal of the occasions right here so i hope you enjoyed uh might be get the hills Jordan is someplace within the heritage there uh Jerusalem’s on that part alright so thank it assess the archives individuals if in case you have questions humans have various questions at all times we have extensive artwork archives here are you so many videos a new one daily i am adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister please remember subscribe this channel like this whilst you share this video check out those section beneath please please please pound that like button leave some feedback i do know there’s gonna be some humans leaving all varieties of intriguing feedback on this one however this but for the the entire haters out there the haters this one’s for you and you already know why it for you in case you google that identify this this first-class city here within the land of israel my last video for israel for the period of this shuttle i’ll see you guys in cyprus the next day