#i need something in gold i think

[musubiki]

balor + ponytail (feat my farmer isa)

[isaacathom]

i need more sets of earrings bc the ones i got pierced with are boring and faintly worry me (the stud is quite small and i have previously had issues with headphones pushing them into my ear), but i only have two sets of earrings that i can swap between :(

[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.

[i3utterflyeffect]

anyway do you think king had moments where he accidentally Dad™️'d purple even before his redemption arc.

purple trying to get the plan absolutely perfect to the point of losing sleep and king just sighs and makes them take a break even though no, i've almost got it, i swear, just a few more minutes

purple mentions having not eaten that day and king immediately gets up to get them a snack

[cerealmonster15]

silver 😑 with his one(1) facial expression + the two most expressive people on this earth that he hangs out with every day

and kalisil :3

[faaun]

idk how to live so im going to talk to myself out loud until i do

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I think a recession is just what we call the phenomenon when too many people realize the economy is fake too quickly

[persianmom]

[aflawedfashion]

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva keeps saying she wants to return to competition and a few things sound like maybe, just maybe it could be this upcoming season, and I really want that to be true

[riddlerosehearts]

figured out how to edit the game files and combine some mods so i could try out different things with gale's earring because i have a lot of thoughts... also gale's earring should really be positioned lower but i'm having an issue with one of the mods, oh well

[thebirdarts]

Pose<3

[wing-grayson]

HOW are there no cowboy/western sladick aus?? Hear me out.. Slade is still a merc, maybe an outlaw or a bandit, and Dick is the sheriff's oldest son.. maybe even a deputy/sheriff-in-training.

If this does exist somewhere please direct me towards it immediately lol

[invinciblerodent]

[pochapal]

assuming this is a) not more witch narrative stuff and b) not referring to the Real Kinzo/Ideal Kinzo split then i think there's something telling about kinzo's other side being entwined with/triggered by beatrice

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a tiny group of orange & teal items around, but never enough to make a full outfit out of. There are a lot of situations like that, where I have a handful of multiple small items that all match each other really well, but just not any larger article of clothing to tie them all together lol.  I think I still don’t have enough for it to be cohesive, but this is a work in progress attempt at least?? ..

[dreamedfyre-a]

jae.haerys being sociable enjoying the attention making mischief bc it makes his dad laugh

jae.haera being extremely quiet not wanting to be the center of attention enjoying her little corner with her toys and her mom being there

something something one of the twins being like their dad one of them being like their mom but! more importantly! aeg.on giving haerys attention and keeping him close and wanting him to thrive and shine (because no one gave him that) and hel never making haera feel like she's weird or lesser or not clever or like she has to endure the things that make her uncomfortable (because no one gave her that)