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Curated Collection and Daily Updates

Look What Aiden Found Today — Episode #261 Favorite stories I read plus community-nominated pieces tailored for avid readers of ILLUMINATION Publications on Medium Dear prolific writers and avid readers, I hope this story finds you well in good health today. I curate these stories while publishing and reading for joy, and post these collections from ILLUMINATION-Curators account for various…

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[venomgaia]

gal who calls you girliepop and collects bugs

[sorryfortheyouth]

REBEL MAGAZINE | JUN 2023 PHOTO- JULIAN SONG WANJIE STYLIST- LOU WEI JUN

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ann demeulemeester aw24

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[notbecauseofvictories]

the real villain of this movie is new york city, because in an alternate universe Patrick Bateman is a radio DJ for some alt station in des moines or detroit, has strong opinions about every album ever released and turns into an insult comic the moment you question those opinions. he's very happy, wouldn't even know what a face peel is.

[richardbyryan]

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Morgan Fernandez by Kristin-Lee Moolman for The New York Times Style Magazine November 2020

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

Curated Collection and Daily Updates from ILLUMINATION

Look What Aiden Found Today — Episode #260 Favorite stories I read plus community-nominated pieces tailored for avid readers of ILLUMINATION Publications on Medium Dear prolific writers and avid readers, I hope this story finds you well in good health today. I curate these stories while publishing and reading for joy, and post these collections from ILLUMINATION-Curators account for various…

[huellitaa]

honey, was it enough?... ♡ 🎀🍂🧸 ྀ𓂃 ࣪˖

[sorryfortheyouth]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) shooting a press photo for Female Convict Scorpion

https://www.instagram.com/sorry.for.the.youth/

https://www.instagram.com/____isle____/

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ann demeulemeester autumn/winter 2024, detail

[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.

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