#I’ll be just fine

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

Do you ever hear rhetoric from right wing people or very religious people that’s supposed to be empowering? And it IS but in the complete opposite affect? That happened to me today, and my mind is a little blown

Came across a clip of a man preaching to a bunch of religious people on belief and faith. He used an analogy that I personally never heard before. It boiled down to a man on a tightrope over a dangerous ravine with an observer. After he successfully crosses the rope, he asks the person watching him if he believes that he can do it again but with a wheelbarrow. The person says yes, I just saw you do it fine. I’m sure you’ll do it again. The man reiterates, ‘You believe that I can do it but do you have faith that I can?’

The observer says it’s the same thing, that he both believes and has faith that he can do it. Okay. The man then tells him, ‘If you have faith that I can do it then get in the wheelbarrow.’

The analogy is supposed to make people feel empowered and enlightened. Which it did, but in the opposite way. I didn’t hear that and think ‘wow I need to get in the wheelbarrow and put my faith in god.’

That’s when it hit me that no, I don’t have faith. I’m not getting in that wheelbarrow and I’m not even going to watch the man attempt it.

It was freeing. Completely freeing and despite the intentions of the analogy, I am incredibly grateful I heard it

Makes me wonder what other analogies people found power in despite the original intentions of it

[pangur-and-grim]

what’s happened now?? oh pangur….

[geraldtheoceanman]

i am never making something with this much detail ever again

[abovesn4kes]

Totally forgot to post the rest of these designs here! More to follow soon :-)

Doodles below!

[darie-vox]

Omg it’s more gaybriel, who would’ve guessed

I’ve never done anything similar to this and uh… not sure if I like it or not :P (but hey at least I made something again!)

yes I know his armor in enraged state is almost fully red, I just didn’t like how it was looking

[ghoulinfuschia]

Romantic breakups suck, but I think platonic breakups hurt just as bad. You lose a person you thought would be around forever. What’s worse is if neither of you did anything wrong. Circumstances just wouldn’t allow it anymore. You stand at the end of your journey together, side by side, and all you can say is “Thank you for everything. I hope the future treats you kindly.”

[midoristeashop]

Long car trips mean hunch over my ipad and film dumb stupid videos in restaurants at 11pm 😍 (future me screw u idk if it’s shaky also do not perceive me)

(That one vine)

Also have the things

[inktr3pid]

Daylily

[puhpandas]

family photo 2.0

[otaku553]

Starting art fight with a portrait of @where-does-the-heart-lie ‘s Mueta :) jellyfish guy……. He’s so cool

[bakudekublogblog]

kacchan going from “rage and revenge” to very softly being like “I hope he doesn’t get in our way” after noticing how much to means to izuku that aoyama has a chance to still be a hero…. kacchan is so soft for one man only

[tf2shit]

quote from @kritzkrieg-kiss

finally got around to more of this (tf2)shit lol

[spicyicymeloncat]

In a recent staff post, tumblr staff said that only a quarter of tumblr is lgbtq, and I don’t think anyone’s really convinced of those numbers. Ik this post might not reach that many people but…

(Edit: oh my god guys ik the results are biased okay?? Unfortunately that’s just how polls work. Check my reblog tho gay, was literally the 2nd most trending tag last night. Even if you refuse to believe the statistical literacy of this poll you can still observe that tumblr is still largely very gay compared to the average social media. I talk more about this in a reblog but god. I get it. Polls have never been that good at gathering unbiased results)

[st-hedge]

Aw shid there’s more of them this year

[turtleblogatlast]

Headcanon that Leo really loved to give his family massages growing up. We know that he’s good at them from the episode “You Got Served” and we know he likes spas and relaxation and getting massages himself from when he tried to get these in “Bad Hair Day” and from when Donnie made a tennis ball massage machine in “Smart Lair.”

So I think it’d be cute to think that maybe one day Leo overheard Splinter complaining about a bad back and immediately Leo thinks back to a comic or movie or something he saw where a massage helped so he offers to give one and it actually ends up helping Splinter.

Then April swings by the Lair at a later time and mentions her back hurting because of her backpack from school and Leo’s all like “I gotcha!”

From there, he occasionally manages to convince Donnie to sit for one because Donnie’s shrimp posture does not help him any (Leo pokes fun at how sandpaper-y Donnie’s shell is despite knowing it’s always like that and Donnie smacks him for it.) Donnie usually prefers hand massages instead however as all his typing and inventing adds up over time, and shoulder massages too once he starts wearing his battle shells more. Leo also figures out how to give massages to Raph and Mikey’s shells as well, though it’s a struggle at first to not scratch his hands on Raph’s spikes.

I think since Leo has such bad luck with spas and the like, he tries giving himself massages (though it’s not as helpful.) Like, with how his abilities work his legs are probably always aching from his portal jumping and one foot landings, so maybe he branches past back massages out of a need to help his own aches too. (Though he really wants a shell massage himself, the same way he’d give them…the one time with Donnie’s tennis ball massage machine was but a short moment of what Leo’s been missing out on and what he’ll continue missing out on…)

I don’t know, I just think it’d be cute to think Leo could have honed his massaging skill this way in order to help out his family (and also partially because he wants a massage himself.)

[mvrdermeharder]

As promised… here’s my character design for 20+ Isagi w an undercut and tattoo sleeve💙

Tagging those who’ve said they’ll be waiting for it @scara-simp69 @zendersenders @someprettyname 🫶

Sidenote: if anyone speaks japanese please please please let me know if i used the correct translation and kanji!!

I looked it up in japanese dictionaries but i’m not sure if it’s correct or not…