#curated box

[talesfromthecrypts]

Panna a netvor [Beauty and the Beast] (1978) dir. Juraj Herz

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

what if i block every person that i see campaigning for or speculating that Buck and Eddie will kiss at the bachelor party bc that enforces the truly horrible bi stereotype that bisexual people, like myself, are more likely to cheat? what if I did that 🤨?

[separatist-apologist]

Genuinely so obsessed with people complaining how toxic the ACOTAR fandom is while screenshotting posts that have nothing to do with them so they can talk shit without having to hear a rebuttal from that blog.

If you want to talk shit that bad, don't be a coward- respond directly to the post you have no business being on.

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[life-spire]

[gilly-moon]

ROTG ship discourse is so insanely funny to me because they’re all morally wrong in some way either because of age difference, beastiality, or technical necrophilia 💀🤣

(Ok but the “I know Jack is over 300 but mentally he’s 17?” What????? That’s not how that works!!)

listen. everyone has a right to think age gaps of any sort are uncomfortable. whether it's blackice, or Twilight, or two legal consenting adults. you can think belle falling in love with beast pre-transformation is gross, or maybe furry porn makes you wicked uncomfortable. i don't care! everyone has a right to their squicks!

but demanding that everyone else share your dislikes is, frankly, stupid. as is treating fiction as anything but fiction.

if people want to think im morally reprehensible for what i ship, then cool. (they're wrong, but that's its own battle for another day.) all i ask is for those people to either walk away from my blog in silence or add me to their blocklist.

[userboard]

Chinatsu Kano

Official Art for ティーンエイジブルー (Teenage Blue) by Eve

[myfairkatiecat]

Okay I’m going to say it, some of y’all treat the KOTLC tag like it’s a tumblr community instead of an organization system that gathers together everything people post and tag as KOTLC

[faggotfungus]

Vintage porcelain hinge box in the shape of a rabbit by MONET [listing]

[travelbinge]

By Jesse.Lab

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

[mixedindy]

[freebooter4ever]

we are hurriedly pulling a few things out of the museum that are actual historical artifacts rather than modern prints

[stonedstargazer666]

I love the Curator!

He’s the smug personification of death in a horror game series called “The Dark Pictures Anthology”

He comments on the players choices and decisions, and sometimes gives “useful” hints. Most of them are quotes from literature.

But here’s the best part: he remembers other games.

If you play the 2nd game in the series, and then slip to the 4th, he’ll say “Oh, it’s been a while. Maybe you could do better this time than last time?” And he comments on how you did last time.

He’s like a flowey across AN ENTIRE GAME SERIES

I honestly love the Curator segments! Absolutely love them. I think you are right though, I need to replay through the games again. He's so sassy, and is very well played. His actor is *Chefs kiss*

[dannyfariiia]

Boxing, 2011 Jeff Wall (Canadian, b. 1946) Colour photograph

[life-spire]

[florallyconscious]

Assorted Sphinx Moth Collection - Indiana State University