#light shines bright

[choosejoyangel]

I watched Stephen Curry on Stephen Colbert earlier. I admire anyone who is not afraid to express their faith. This is one of my favorite blog posts about his faith in Jesus Christ. :)

[amid-fandoms]

HE IS EVERYTHING TO ME

[mipexch]

been thinking about something wicked a little too much lately. no harm in romanticizing the ominous dreadful unstoppable force

[crabsnpersimmons]

✂️ New 'Do, Same You Chapter 2 is up on Ao3!!

Your first day continues! Your new coworkers show you around and help you get ready.

[feminineenergylife]

Never dim your light for anyone

Divine Feminine Affirmations

[inartchive]

[numbuh424]

happy 6th anniversary your turn to die! 💣☠️✨

[sin-erella]

𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐑𝐀 𝐃'𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐓 is not a victim of her seduction, but a 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐓. She have 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 not the men who fall in love with her charm. She know too well that 𝐒𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐑𝐓 and every encounter is an achievement, but her 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 lies not in her 𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐘 but in the ability to use the 𝐃𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐄 and 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐄𝐒 of her prey. As a 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐏𝐒𝐘𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓 she always manage to understand and manipulate the deepest desires and 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 of her prey.

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[arom-antix]

Hey, just wanted to reach out to say that I found you pointing out and calling this person was really great and you shouldn't have apologized. It was incredibly true what you said, and to be honest it seems out of touch with the reality of a great deal of the japanese fandom, the nuances and their culture. Also, it was as you pointed out, extreme and may I say rude. I want to mention too that the way it was written, as if entitled of the knowledge and the 'explanation' made it all worse in context of the 'fucked up'. The original poster always gets away by using the 'well-written academic'' statement of their 'metas' as an excuse to do or say and make everyone else agree and if not, uses victim narrative and discourses exactly selecting wording for people to agree on it or feel bad.

I don't know if they tagging you in the way they did made you reblog and apologizing/backing up, but no one thought bad about you pointing it out. On the contrary, a lot of people had been bullied and discriminated by this person when they called them out/disagreed going onto lenghts of sending their friends to harass people, and the other persons can't even defend themselves because they are effectively blocked. To quite a few people in the fandom has been done, even accusing them as 'acephobes' (when they're not) or even Nazis by spreading lies. So yeah, I just wanted to say that. I think you were right to call them out publicly.

Thank you very much for this ask. To be completely honest I agree with everything you said here and don't actually feel bad about pointing anything out. I mainly apologised because I didn't want any potentially poor phrasing from my side to cause unnecessary hostility and because I myself have gripes with this person's behaviour but didn't want to cause a scene.

My honest opinion is that they have a serious issue with taking accountability for their own mistakes and highly overestimate their own intellect. If you're reading this, @thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai, sorry if I seem harsh, but it's true. I saw your post lamenting how you're the only academic meta writer / fan in the fandom and I didn't interact then because I honestly do not care enough to start that drama but with the information Blonndiec has just given me, I think it's necessary that someone calls you out.

You're not an academic. You're not beyond the mental capabilities of other fans. You're actually incredibly childish in your metas and analyses and I am not kidding when I say that I was halfheartedly writing essays more academic than every analysis I've seen from you when I was barely a teenager. I don't know how old you are and I frankly don't care. You're not as clever as you think you are.

Also, don't think I didn't notice that you didn't reblog my correction (link here to my correction and here to their "response" for those who didn't see that exchange) of your post so that you could control what your followers saw of the exchange. You're the opposite of an academic. You control information to tailor the narrative, you don't cite your sources properly if at all, you don't format your posts in anything close to how an academic analysis would be, you make unbased claims, you reference posts and canon material without in any way indicating where that information is from, you reference your own (equally unacademic) metas and your conclusions from them without indicating what post it's from or that it's your own theory this new one is based on and instead present it as a common fact, and I could go on and on and on. Your posts are also riddled with logical fallacies and you talk in absolutes and opinions when there's no canon basis to claim such things. I'm sorry, but that's not academic in the slightest.

To be clear, you don't have to be an academic to post on the Internet. You don't have to be anything at all. You could up front be a genuine idiot with no remorse and that's fine. But when you claim to be an academic and also put down the rest of the fandom for not being on your level, you have to be able to back that up. It'd still make you sound like a prick but at least your arrogance would have a basis. It currently does not.

I haven't personally seen the discussions that Blonndiec is referencing and I'm not going to claim anything definitive (because that would be unacademic of me, take notes) but if what they're saying is true and did happen as described, which I have empirical, if anecdotal, evidence to believe could very well be (a friend of mine has personally been blocked by you after they criticised you without actually mentioning your name which I of course can't prove is the reason for the block but the timing is awfully convenient), you should know that you should be ashamed of yourself.

If there's context missing, feel free to enlighten me and call out any incorrect accusations. You have every right to defend yourself. However, I encourage you to cite your sources since you're such an academic. If you don't, then it's just your word against Blonndiec and anyone else who might comment's word and that doesn't prove anything. Don't misunderstand, acephobia and nazi rhetoric should absolutely be called out but only if it's actually happening. False accusations can ruin lives. I hope you know that.

I'm not a fan of calling people out publicly and, again, thank you for this ask, Blonndiec. But considering many of the issues I've personally seen and those I've been informed of by second hand sources were posted publically, I don't really feel bad about calling this out. I could do a full breakdown of just the insulting "academic" comments alone and how there's no academia to be found in said academic metas and, Samurai, if you give me reason to, I will show exactly what I mean point by point (and academically just to give you an example of even low level academia).

If you respond to this, do it in a reblog. That's what a real academic would do. If I'm wrong and you can prove it, you'd have no reason to not show my post in your rebuttal. If I'm right, you'd have every reason to be upfront about your mistakes and how you intend to rectify them. There's nothing wrong with being wrong but there's a lot wrong with refusing to admit to it in a way that lets others peer review you (academic thing, look it up) and come to their own conclusions about the situation. That's what you did when you just @'ed me instead of reblogging my response. A true academic wouldn't hide a peer review. You'd know that if you were one.

I swing in many academic spaces and yet that doesn't make me any kind of expert and I don't claim to be one because I'm not. But since you want to be one so badly, reblog this with a response and show us all how smart you are. I'm dying to know what your academic take on this is.

[beneathsilverstars]

i love themes. i love when i'm writing and i'm like ughhh i have to come up with some filler bullshit details to go here because it's necessary to the rest of the plot but not actually very relevant to it, and then i'm like wait. i know how to make it relevant. i just have to make the details echo the overarching themes of the piece. and suddenly it stops being filler bullshit and starts being, like, foreshadowing or allegory or some cool shit like that ^w^

[crrows]

An incredible set from Good Luck made of denim with raschel lace.

[toyastales]

Come on baby light my fire 🔥

[kooki914]

What are asgore and spades favorite colors

[momo-shut-the-fuck-up]

Little vampire :】

[catluniscia]

Bonita Soleil

One of my favorite character looks in Psychonaugts 1, I like her level too...kinda, I like the meaning behind it, and the self criticism and you know loosing your muse and all that...playing it on the other hand...not one I enjoy.  But I love Bonita Soleil I love her look, I love the aesthetic, and I wanted to draw her and...yes I did a semi Virgin Mary/saintly look I think it works a lot...can't wait for those types to complain about me being sacrilegious and a dirty sinner, and how jesus saves. -sips coffee- I can handle it don't panic.

[t-hiswifey]