#maybe I’m too naive

[newpathpride]

(Please don't hate on me - I come in peace. This has been in my drafts for two months, but I think it needs to be said.)

I am an outspoken liberal atheist - but I really dislike the broad, sweeping statements about all Christian conservatives or even all self-identified Republicans that I've been seeing on here.

Here’s the distinction:

Several years ago, my aging, religious, conservative parents took a hard look at the state of the Republican Party that they were quite literally raised in and were like “WTF, this is NOT how good Christians behave…”. Did they resign themselves to going along with it?

NO! They made their displeasure known. My parents who still identify as Republican because they always have and voted red their entire adult lives, voted blue in the last two elections! They work valiantly to educate their own very elderly parents who are hooked by the fear-mongering. They are not sitting idly by while ‘their’ party actively unravels decades of progress for women, queer people, and minorities.

And that is the difference.

I grant that there are likely many among the Christian conservatives, especially the wealthy and influential, whose intentions are purely evil, but let’s not forget the regular people who can be educated, who can be enlightened. People in general prefer the path of least resistance, the one they’ve always traveled… but so many would be willing to diverge from that path if they really understood the broad impact of the politics that they mindlessly vote for because they’ve been taught to fear the alternative. It’s too bad it took Trump and a bunch of repressive new laws to open their eyes, but among the conservative masses, enlightenment is quietly happening. Let’s keep it going instead of instituting an insurmountable wedge by demonizing every single one of them. We weren’t all born into environments where we felt allowed to question the status quo.

Why did my parents start questioning? Well, maybe because their queer, atheist children were willing to patiently educate them. Or maybe because their liberal Congregationalist minister allowed open discussion of these issues and pointed out the hypocrisy inherent in many religious arguments without alienating his congregants by scolding them for having ever believed it at all. Obviously, not all can be reached in this manner - some are just too far gone. But if there’s any chance, I’ll work with that.

[misc-obeyme]

yo ngl the price of the dating feature (… in a dating game……….) pissed me off so much i might just cancel my vip subscription lmaoo i truly have no issues spending money for this game actually (even tho i probably should lol) but this just takes the fucking cake 😭😭😭 (i won’t actually cancel because i do like the perks but damn solmare… not even mammon would never treat me with such greed 😔)

I mean yeah it’s totally crazy lol.

I’m very particular about how I spend money on this game just because yo I have bills to pay too lol.

I was already annoyed about the old outfits from OG being offered in NB for dp. I was like I refused to buy any of them… except Satan’s yokai outfit because it’s my favorite 😭

But then they wanna charge that amount for whatever this is? Some forgettable content that likely won’t be all that good anyway?

Here’s what bothers me about their methods when it comes to spending real money. An app like this should charge money to either speed up the process of unlocking content or give you more chances of obtaining content (such as in the gacha). In both cases, f2p still has a CHANCE of getting that content. But when it’s something where you don’t even have a chance? It’s either spend money or too bad? The occasional charge events I could look past. But this feels like too much.

I dunno it’s not like I couldn’t afford the $30. But what about people who can’t? That’s what bothers me the most about it.

[tohruies]

had such a sudden and intense vision of death!karasu and felt the ground begin to shake beneath me

[midnighttangerine]

I can’t be the only one who believed him on the first watch.

[usedtobemygirl]

my therapist keeps trying to explain that men can lie and manipulate to get what they want and i still don’t get it. like i know they do.. but like why?

[skid-the-mighty-poet]

[vonkarma2]

I think ludovica is too good for luck im sorry everyone. I understand the appeal + I think luck is a cool character but they are too mean to be deserving of my beautiful angel ludovica’s love and attention

[arcticmist0324]

One thing that is difficult about writing historical fiction is when you’ve set your story up in the same time frame as major historical events, which you KNOW would be on your characters’ radar yet they don’t impact the plot. What is too much? What is too little?

[singhallelujahh]

Today’s vibe is The Oh Hello’s Zephyrus we are stubbornly keeping hope we are fixing what we can and saving the people who aren’t lost yet we are believing if we can change then other people can too the wheel of time moves on and after the winter comes the spring etc etc

[thriftdyke]

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[stormcloudsandshadows]

Having so many thoughts about papyrus and how the fandom at large doesn’t get him. If you even care

[vampire-nyx]

I always feel like strangely embarrassed when I earnestly like and use and identify with a term other people really seriously hate, like oh no. Am I doing self identification wrong

[faerygardenparty]

Maybe this makes me an asshole or something but I get really annoyed when other asexuals act like being asexual inherently means you know nothing about sex or kink or things like that, like as an asexual who isn’t uncomfortable with these topics I get really annoyed when people act like their personal lack of knowledge or care for sex is a universal thing for all asexuals

[swordmaid]

just got the durge reveal..!!! screamnnn it’s saur good when you actually have a durge specific character and not just an au of the char you previously made lol. anyway I’m just imagining yves admitting that she’s one of bhaal’s children and then her going like oh btw I was his bride too 🧍‍♀️

[wyvernne]

help i just saw the tags on one of your rbs about the springvale fairy and i feel so valid cause??

i was so put off after they revealed that it was a deadass CHILD when they first met? like did everyone watch the same cutscene or? i saw nobody talking about it so i thought i was going crazy 😭😭

no DEADASS i’ve only seen people talking about how sweet it is but my immediate reaction was “what the fuck 😭”

i skimmed the original story again and while it says she’s “naive” to human emotions/ways i’m not convinced she was a child herself?? maybe i’m missing where that’s implied. and she KISSED him when he was a child after he confessed his love??? goodbye

[smilingstarlight]

wish I could tape a sign to my forehead that says “your feelings matter too, don’t lie and hide your real feelings or else you just create a loop of untrustworthiness”