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One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.
It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.
And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.
#I think you're failing at good worldbuilding and also just like. Idk failing at being an understanding human being willing to learn about#people different from yourself when you approach writing religion from a 'uhhhh what's some random stupid shit people believed in#2000 years ago' angle#Like make an effort to understand the logic and worldviews and value systems that informed these practices before you synthesize your own
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in five to ten years people who r treating Chappell terribly are gonna be like “damn yall treated chappell terribly”
#‘’we failed her” this is a cycle you guys never learn and keep Harrassing every time a new woman rises to fame#chappell roan
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(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:
Your honor the horses are now lesbians
(Anyways here’s the designs)
#mlp#based off my mlp redesigns (no i will not be taking criticism)#mlp redesign#fluttershy is now a giant jacked carnivorous shire horse with anxiety#rarity is a trans queen and she’s carrying the plot on her back#applejack’s been bequeethed the oldest child syndrome after the traumatic death of her parents and learned to do taxes at the tender age of#13?? how do horses age#and rainbow dash is both loved and reviled by her pegasi foundry because she has ‘too much gryphon in her’#(but she FAST AS FUC BOI.)#anyways pinky’s my favorite. we don’t know whats up with pinky but she smiles a lot and the world distorts around her at exactly 1014 am.#twilight is celestia’s favored pupil prophet and is trying her best to figure out what the hell is up with pinkie and failing spectacularly#twilight also hatched a dragon from an inert stone and people have opinions about that#mostly ‘what are you feeding her’#(holds rarity and applejack) i think they’re neat together#they bond over growing up too quickly and have a vi-caitlynn thing goin on#(squints) didnt draw the cute mark crusaders but they’d be like. the batmen of the town. and it was fun and games until twilight heard#and gave them ACTUAL weapons#rarity#applejack#rainbow dash#twilight sparkle#fluttershy#pinkie pie#spike the dragon#I FORGOT SPIKE#spike’s a stone dragon that hatched from a stone egg. he is not meant to exist. he’s an elderitch horror and a baby boy and we love#and cherish his adorable little face#art#critdraws#Rest your Weary Hooves in our New Found Home
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baldurs gate out of context (x)
#they can learn how to knit together :( (failed)#bg3 ooc#oc: ruby the fool#gale bg3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#baldur's gate 3#bg3#my screenshots#bg3 memes#baldurs gate 3#baldur's gate
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If i was Poseidon i would be so pissed that Zeus didnt invite me during godgames
LIKE FIRST YOU LET THE GUY I WANT DEAD CHOOSE BETWEEN HIMSELF OR HIS CREW AND NOW YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE ASS FAMILY MEETING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU'LL LET HIM GO HOME WITHOUT ME?????????????
#average sibling behavior#wolffox speaks#epic the musical#If Zeus really wanted Athena to fail he shoulda invited Poseidon#epic the musical the wisdom saga#the wisdom saga#epic Poseidon#God games#wisdom saga#I'd love to know how Poseidon reacts to learning about the whole God games thing lmao
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“When it's your time to go, make sure you're surrounded by others”
#I'm sick#yuuji's learning the meaning of love by losing everyone at this point#and by failing to save everyone who owned his heart#“”“failing”“”“ not his fault :c#what if he can't save megumi as well?#I'm destroyed#what's next gege?#gege when i catch you gege#jujutsu kaisen#@meyers#gojo satoru#megumi fushiguro#itadori yuuji#nobara kugisaki#nanami kento#junpei yoshino#choso#choso kamo#higuruma hiromi#jjk spoilers#jjk#jjk manga spoilers#jjk 259
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I recently had to do a project in one of my psych classes, and man, I knew that CBT was used for every little thing, but seeing over and over, "do CBT! CBT is the best for every mental illness!" was so jarring. I'm absolutely biased because of my own experiences, but I just don't think it's as universal a treatment model as it's touted.
If you didn't benefit from CBT, it's not because you're lazy or didn't try hard enough or lacked intelligence or foresight into your own needs. Frankly, it's a therapy model that (I think) shouldn't be the only readily-accessible model and among the only therapy models covered by insurance. Some of us should not be treated in a CBT model and that's okay. It's not a sign of poor character or unreasonable demands, and if you don't think it's a model that works for you, then it's your right to express that!
#mental health#mental health advocacy#it was just so annoying because every resource i could access for this project often ONLY recommended cbt and#that just doesn't seem helpful for a good chunk of people#because i know i never benefitted from that model of therapy#obligatory: i am not against this therapy. me having a negative experience with it is not indicative that i believe it should be abolished'#if it works for you: KEEP DOING IT. cbt is not inherently harmful for MANY people and it's a good and valuable tool for many#but the overemphasis of cbt as the Only Therapy Model You Need sends this message that YOU failed...#...if you don't miraculously recover with that therapy model. it often feels like you'll Fail Recovery/Therapy and you're now a Bad Person#i've tried for over a decade to stick out cbt with a dozen therapists to boot. so i think i know a thing or two about my experiences with it#and overall its an unimpressive model (for me) as someone whos had a history with abuse and miscellaneous mental knickknacks rattling around#it's also frustrating because i genuinely like psych and i love learning about people#it's just. i'm tired of only being exposed to cbt (because i hate it honestly)#i feel similarly about cbt as i do with sigmund fucking frued#anyway i just want other insane people (affectionate) to remember that they deserve to not beat themselves up over this#if you're an insane person reading this: i love you i love you i love you i love you#i will share a slice of cake and homemade bread with you <3
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Finally managed to record a bit of David at curtain call 😍
Brilliant seeing this incredible production once again - and getting to see what's different and what isn't 🥹🥰
(Please don't repost ☺️)
#david tennant#west end macbeth#macbeth#Completely failed to record my own videos at the Donmar#since I couldn't get myself to just hold up a camera in their faces rather than joining in on the clapping#so also didn't record the whole thing this time but at least a bit of it ❤️#and ah the handle is from twitter 🙈#also I really need to learn to make better gifs and/or video edits because the quality definitely looks better on my phone than this 🙈#Edit: Looks like he has tried not to kick as high this week from what I have seen 🥺#I hope that's just random and not because they saw the photos and videos and were like maybe try not to show too much#Because my main reason for uploading this was just that he's absolutely adorable and such a delight to watch 🥹#and it's not like there's actually anything to see besides the shorts and his knees which are on full display throughout anyway#and will probably be on display for the filmed version as well#So hope it's just that either I haven't seen any videos from the same angle or it's just random how he ends up doing it#please keep up with the cute twirl and kick DT ❤️
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Even more Steve Has Older Siblings AU add-ons:
1. Steve wanted to be a ninja so bad when he was little but Hawkins didn’t have any martial arts classes he could take. Jason offered to ‘teach’ him. This was just an excuse to throw him around a bit but they had to stop when he accidentally dislocated Steve’s elbow two weeks before basketball tryouts.
2. Anytime his dad decided to be a good father, he’d send Steve to his grandparents for the weekend that the other kids were at their house and then do activities with them. Steve didn’t mind this at the time because Grandpa Otis told him cool stories about the war, but when he got older he realized that it was a really fucked up thing to do.
3. Steve thinks that Richie is spearheading fixing their relationship because his own kids live in a different state now, but it’s actually because Will Byers went missing. He called the house six times in between Will going missing and being found, and no one picked up the phone once. It genuinely scared him, especially because he heard their dad bitch about Barb going missing at their house. Steve was mainly screening the calls but for one of them, he was fighting a monster.
4. Carol fucking hates Steve’s siblings so much. She used to cut tiny holes in their bedsheets with fingernail clippers when she’d come over on the weeks that they weren’t there. Later when she worked the summer at the movie theater, she’d spit in their drinks.
5. The first time Steve’s siblings meet Eddie Munson (sans Richie) is after the murder charges are dropped. It’s also in the middle of a forced family dinner. They’re all sitting there awkwardly and then heard the door fling open, and Eddie shout out as he moved through the house, “Harrrrrington, let’s go! I’ve got beer in the cooler and a lunchbox full of - bibles. Hi!” Steve’s out of his chair and dragging Eddie back out the house like, “Sorry, gotta go. To church. Bye mama, love you. Bye.” Eddie is crackling the entire time and Steve comes home the next morning smelling like weed and a good time, and is promptly handed a cup to go piss in. Jason takes the drug test for him. Fails it.
#objectively funny if someone else fails your drug test#somehow Eddie Munson becomes a problem that their dad expects them to fix#Carol thought for a long time that Steve was an only child like her#and when she learned that he had siblings and they sucked#she dedicated the rest of her life to making theirs a little worse#she ride or die like that#steve harrington#eddie munson#carol perkins#Steve has older siblings au
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cuddles
#pokemon#pokespe#pokemon adventures#preciousmetalshipping#trainer gold#rival silver#dexholder gold#dexholder silver#trainer silver#this was meant to be them kissing#guess i failed????? lmao#i DID sketch them kissing though and i WILL post once done#art#fanart#digital art#sen draws#these two make me learn how to draw characters interacting hoorayyy
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How do you get this far into adulthood *on the internet* without basic knowledge on how to cook are you stupid on purpose
Dang, I wouldn’t say that I’m stupid just because I didn’t know one thing.
My parents hate vegetables. Every meal I had at home growing up was either a frozen box meal or a from a can. My family didn’t teach me how to cook. They taught me how to heat up a frozen meal.
Now I absolutely love vegetables, and I love cooking. Unfortunately it’s hard to learn basic cooking skills as an adult because I tend to get called stupid when I admit that I don’t know something.
#where else was i supposed to learn this shit.#I took a basic cooking class and they assumed I had more knowledge than I started with#these are the kind of things that people expect your family to teach you#and if your family fails to do so#then everyone just calls you stupid
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bunch of very old and not so comms I never posted for some reason but still like 😇 the more recent ones were made for @raven6229 and @frog-frussy !!! the owners of the old ones are lost in IG im afraid......
#some of them are from 2020-21 i believe#I do hope that my memory doesn`t fail me and none of the owners were against the publication atm#but IF pls contact me and I`ll remove it asap#also I'll be completely honest with you dakimakura is what I learned to draw for#its my magnum opus#it has a second side but I`ll leave it to your imagination 😋#hetalia#aph england#aph france#fruk#aph canada#aph russia#aph roman empire#aph china#aph australia
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you are all I have, you are the eyes that see, the air that breathes, how can I worship anything else?
#john design is never going to be consistant he's an eldrich being ok? ok#malevolent#malevolent podcast#john#john doe#john malevolent#arthur#arthur lester#arthur malevolent#jarthur#private eyes#i guess#but itsITS MORE NUANCED THAN THAT OKAY#im havbing feelings about eldrich gods and worship and weird fucked up intimacy and love and friendship#and how can a god who has only been worshipped express that love in turn#how can something that was never raised or nurtured or loved born into a world of chaos with innate bloodlust ever progress if it is#not forgiven#how can a person adjust and live on if they are not allowed the space and decency to grow as such john failed yellow#HOW can you learn to move forwards. you must move forwards#anyway I <3 toxic codependency (in media) ok? ok
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Forever obsessed with the fact that future historians will say that hero Jayce Talis sacrificed his life to defeat the dreadful villain who wanted to turn all humans into robots, while in reality he CHOSE to die with the said villain, who was also his soulmate in literally every universe, because he was in love with him and didn't want him to die alone
#jayvik#arcane#this is the level of historical misinterpretation that serves as the final plot twist in a story happening millenias later#you know as in everyone including the mc knows the official version and believe that it holds the key to solving their current problem#and when the initial plan based on that false story fails the mc learns the truth in a very powerful moment
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Wrong Twin Bozos 🙄
First ever DC x DP prompt because I've been getting brainrot reading yall prompts and I need a nap :> this is crac–
A classic twin Damian and Danny AU, where Danny ends up with the generic fuckery of having the GIW/Bad Parents!Fentons after him from a bad reveal gone wrong, Vlad outing him, or escaping after getting vivsected and injured badly.
Who Knows? But Danny's GOTTA GO-
Now in some scenarios, we get Danny hitting the deck and going to Gotham, to Batman and Robin aka Damian for help and revealing himself. But some au prompts I've seen of Danny ORIGINS about leaving the League of Assassins is via fake death, help or the pit, etc. Danny left for a reason that got him away with a new life- he's FUCKED if he goes to his bio dad and his twin brother, he tells himself =͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇).
Going to Gotham aka the BatFam would blow Danny's cover, getting the attention of the League of Assassins after all this time is definitely not on Danny's to-do list. He's got enough on his plate, thank you :']
So instead, while Danny leaves Amity Park with the help of his friends, he doesn't aim for Gotham, he instead goes to hide in other cities such as Star City, Keystone City, or Central City. Honestly, doesn't even have to be a city, he straight up leaves the country if yall feel like it, guy deserves a break dammit. Can't have laws of legal torture affect you when you're in open seas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now cue Danny's pursuers scrambling to find the Halfa, a constant chase- that is until they finally get a photo of Danny, scowling with his green eyes, trying to hide his ghostly traits that mustve leaked through when the photo was taken in Gotham.
They begin to get ready.
It's time to capture the creature once and for all.
#Basically: Danny doesnt go to Gotham but the GIW or Bad!Fentons do to capture Damian#Mistaking him for Danny since in various twin prompts Danny is assumed to be a clone at first#cue shenanigans: the GIW or Bad!Fentons trying and failing on catching Damian and immediately getting jumped by the batfam#the batfam jump their asses soon learning they want Damian/Robin is because he looks like the ghost boy theyre after#thus Damian/BatFam learn that not only do ghosts exists but also the antiecto acts but also that their target is Damian's twin#who is ALIVE???#cue batANGST#meanwhile Danny: fucking chilling on a tropical island 😎🧉✌️ he's healing from his trauma dammit he deserves this#Sam Jazz Tucker and Ellie making sandcastles#the batfam: losing their shit looking for Danny's goofy ass AND trying to get rid of the laws before the GIW/Fentons god forbid the LoA#dc x dp#dp x dc#dc x dp crossover#dp x dc prompt#danyal al ghul#twin au#batpham#batman#danny phantom#danny and damian are twins#gurlies mtired af but brainrot REAL 😤👊 first prompt idea hope this is legible lmao so much 😭
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Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman for Vanity Fair
#learning and failing at making gifs ... so if you saw one and the other wasn't available.. no you didn't#dev patel#nicole kidman#vili’s gifs !
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