#not proper not very Christian

[buttercuparry]

I guess I understand why Mike's Bly Manor didn't sit right with so many fans of Turn of the Screw. Peter Quint in Bly Manor was the representation of greed, of obsessive love, of selfish love and the root cause of everything Miles had to go through. Peter Quint in the books was a question. If he truly were the evil, Mrs Grose saw him as, or if he simply refused to bow down according to the norms of social class. If his sexuality and affair with Miss Jessel threatened the carefully constructed codes of conduct. If truly it was his ghost preying upon Miles or if it was simply an ill deduction by the narrator herself.

[75screamingtoads]

Been having nothing but nightmares about standing up to my parents, either about them finding out about my tattoos or my religion or both

Gee I wonder if I'm stressed about anything, thank you brain for reminding me every single night I might have forgotten

[highfunctioningfleshrule63]

I always wanted to see Face Christian vs Heel Edge. Did it ever happen during his second WWE run outside that backstage segment when Christian won the ECW title?

this never happened cause the fed thought christian was a joke

[impulsivedecisionsat3am]

god put me on this earth to experience joy and happiness and yet he forces to experience the impending thought of joining the workforce

[papa-m0thman]

every day, i am cursed with the knowledge that only i can understand and appreciate the story of adam and eve in a far superior way to literally everyone else. alas, someone had to carry this burden.

[edge-oftheworld]

still though actually what the fuck

[lokh]

i willingly went to a bible study in uni cos i thought it would be interesting and they might actually get into analysing stuff. they did not

[dysfunctionalgiraffechild]

just eat the rich

I know that’s kind of the go-to thing to show that a vampire character is “one of the good ones” or whatever but it actually seems a little bit more fucked up for a vampire to steal blood from a blood bank than for a vampire to attack people for blood, at least as long as it’s not the kind of vampire where a bite is instantly lethal like it never stops bleeding. 

People can recover from losing some blood but blood bank blood is constantly in short supply and is reserved for people who imminently need blood transfusion of a specific blood type or else they die.

[bucephaly]

Hey I think I'm a little late but you asked about history book recs I think? Is there a time period or something specific you're interested in? I read almost exclusively nonfiction and a lot of history/philosophy so I might be able to help find something specific for you

Oh yea! I love prehistory in general, paleolithic, then some prechristian religion studies, old English/ anglo saxon, indigenous north america, uhh and general religious studies stuff particularly europe and the middle east. Not history but linguistics too are really cool, I've been particularly interested in old English linguistics. I'd love to find some good books on pre christian anglo saxon culture, an anthropology / religious studies perspective on European folklore and what has roots in pre christian culture and what doesn't, etc. I guess I'm more interested in specifically prehistory and religious studies more than regular history haha. And it'd be cool to find some cool research on indigenous north america religious studies or culture that is fairly modern, or preferably from an indigenous perspective, but I kinda don't have much hope that that exists. I may look into that book about paleolithic north america or whatever it's called, I need to see if that's considered accurate and trustworthy

I just wanna make sure any books I get are reliable and well researched and not just a guy writing what he thinks. I've found a few books that caught my eye on particular topics, but they're often like. Upwards of $100 and sometimes up to like $500 lol.

[vamptastic]

the places where i think religion made me Weird are i think morally doing (consensual) fucked up shit to corpses is fine but i find the actual processes of embalming and cremation to be violating and disgusting on an instinctual level. and also i think judaica tattoos are insanely tacky if not outright disrespectful even when other jews get them. and generally seeing tattoos in jewish spaces is a weird feeling. but overall i am i think a chill guy for being considerably more religious (or idk, knowing/caring more about religion) than the average person. idc about promiscuity or gender roles or whatever. i just feel guilty every time i eat shrimp.

[jackalhadrurusluvr]

want to get back into tarot but my dad would nooooot approve

[confessional-dashboard]

Oh fuck

Oh fuck I've never been big on corruption kinks before, but as an occasionally bitter atheist, what a move it would be to court an otherwise good Christian girl, gradually help to free her from the dogmatic and repressive opinions about sex that have been drilled into her, help her discover her submissive side, and top it all off with THAT FUCKING PHRASE after we have our first time together. "You don't belong to God anymore." OOF. FUCK. Lol.

Priest Kink less in the way of wanting to be dominated by a religious figure and more in the way that i drive a holy man to sin at my command and if he dares to try to repent i remind him in whatever way i see fit that he doesn't belong to god anymore.

[mikkeneko]

I've been musing a bit on that one post that went around during the recent holiday season, to which someone added their family tradition of Present Practice. My god! Imagine actually telling kids what behavior is expected, instead of expecting them to intuit it and punish them when they get it wrong!!

Separate post because this topic is a little tangential to that, but I think it does a great job of unearthing one of our very well-hidden internal biases, which goes as follows:

Good people don't need to be taught.

A good person (in this case, a good child) shouldn't need to be told to be gracious and grateful when given a gift. A good child should just know that a holiday tradition of gift-giving is a social performance to strengthen family bonds and that personal preference or genuine reactions are secondary to that performance. A good child should just know how to value gifts, how to express thanks, how to praise and compliment. No caretakers in their lives should need to put any effort into instructing or modeling these things.

Good people should just know how to be good. If they were really Ontologically Good, their inherent goodness would simply intuitively guide them to correct behaviors. If they can't do that on their own, in a vacuum, in the absence of cues, that's a sign of their inherent moral lack.

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...Which all sounds very reasonable and obvious, and surely a mistake that only fundie christian families would make! Except that people in the social justice sphere also do this all the time. It's not anybody's job to educate you. It's 2024, how do you not know this already? If you were a Good Person, you wouldn't need to be taught. You would simply intuit the correct philosophies and gravitate to them according to your superior internal moral compass.

If you were a Good Person, you would already know that everything you were taught by your family and/or background was wrong. You should have rejected it already. You should have cut off your family, your heritage, everything about your childhood and upbringing that was Bad and Wrong. You should have known it was all a lie.

If you were a Good Person, you should be able to find the correct way yourself. You should be able to seek out the proper educational resources, and distinguish them from bad advice leading you astray, and make sense of them all according to your own internal moral code.

If you were a Good Person, you would have found your way by the proper, dignified, official channels, not by reading a comic or watching anime. You shouldn't need entertainment or art to guide you. You should just know.

And if someone can't do these things on their own, in a vacuum, in the absence of cues, that's a sign of their inherent moral lack.

[earlyspringtranscendence]

just wrote a massive thing on the gomens2 costumes which i’m not gonna repeat here but i will just post some screenshots i used in that bc. good :)

look at that raw collar. i love it. i mean this is s1 but it was a comparison sort of thing i were talking abt

the angel crowley pussycunt slayage. chef’s kiss.

[werspinna]

One of Wolfs most precious posessions- or more accurate her most precious posession since she is pretty much propertyless- is a small leatherpuch she wears on a leather- cord around her neck. Normally a legitime way to carry money, Wolf had been carrying that small pouch since she had been fourteen years old. Around May of 1212 when Nikolaus Crusade reached the alp the crusade was suppose to cross to reach Genua. Obviously crossing the alps without any food supplies or let alone proper attire ended up in a catastrophe and many of the children either left or died. At this time Wolf had already been traveling with a certaine group of young teengers with whom she had become friends and for which she had started months ago to steal from and rob people for food for them. The children, very much by now confronted with their own mortality ended up all making such a small pouch with strain of hair of each so in the case they would not survive crossing the alps, a part of them would travel along with their friends.

It was also this group of children who brought Wolf into the italian cloister when Wolf fell ill with the pox. Wolf has no idea what had happned with her friends as she was at that time too sick or not able to register what was happening around herself. In her mind she had fallen asleep very sick in the cloister with her friends aorund her  and woke up one year later on a slavemarket in Pisa with poxscars on her whole body, but healthy yet with all her friends nolonger there.

Years later (1228, Wolf is 30) when Wolf joins Friedrich II  as a Medicus ( more accurately a inofficial Memeber of the Lazarus Order, due to her beeing touched by the pox and having great expierence working with leprosy. Nolens volens, she still wore a black and green tabbard.) on his peaceful crusade to Jerusalem were he and al-Kamil came together to set the peace of Jaffa, she leaves the small pouch in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Finally making sure her friends reached Jerusalem, Wolf eventually left Jerusalem to return to italy on her own. 

[underasettingsun]

Book 11/50

Someone on facebook recommended this as being funnier than her other books typically are, and that was definitely the case right from the get go. The heroine really reminds me of Catherine from Northanger Abbey with the taking novels a bit too seriously.

This here made me laugh:

Let the record show that I predicted the profession of the male lead in chapter 4 😉

Overall impression: I loved this book, especially how much the heroine grows as a person, and how much of her thought process the author gives us. There are many times where I would have made different choices than she does but none of her actions make her irritating or frustrating. I liked how many options she has for her life (with a suitor for each lol), even though maybe it's not the most realistic thing.

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