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Warrior cats makes me so mad because it could've been such a fascinating exploration of how fascism takes root in a society with pre-existing honor culture, corruption of laws, the long-lasting effects on society and individual people, generational trauma, questions of compliance, guilt, responsibility, historical revisionism and so many other themes if only the Erins weren't cowards and actually paid attention to what they write
#the clans' relatively simple structure and the cats' short lifespans allow to explore so much on a relatively short timespan#and this is a series that has been ongoing for TWENTY YEARS#it could've been a massive fucking cultural milestone with so much literary and societal value#but then you have the erins excusing the actions of the likes of leopardstar and blackstar and never addressing the fact that#in blindly obeying a dictator they are just as guilty. and just let them continue leading the clans without punishment#or how the reason so much of the crap that happens in the series is because of preexisting social structures and not a matter of#''the cat was already prophecized to be evil'' bullshit#or the whole question of religion and all that#fans who do rewrites that properly address these topics i am kissing you on the mouth#warrior cats
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Ted saying that no driver has had this level of attention on them since Michael Schumacher...
Gentlemen, a short view into the past; Max's debut season, his Red Bull debut, the literal rule changed as a result of his debut in the sport... oh and everyone and their mother calling Kimi Max 2.0 and Toto's second chance at signing debut!Max since he failed the first time around...
#max verstappen#f1#formula 1#formula one#the sky sports commentators were literally clutching their pearls when max debuted 😭✋️#and practically screaming crying throwing up after the red bull switch was announced#gleefully questioning whether he was ready for it#him then winning his debut red bull race was chefs kiss#also... you can't really compare the attention schumi got#we've seen glimpses of it no question with the attention max & charles get#especially Charles as he is the predestined son of ferrari#ferrari is a religion after all#but schumi was on a whole another level#i can see max & charles reaching and exceeding it#but it was an insane level of attention#in the peak of paparazzi#the 90s and early 2000s were something else#not to say it's gotten better because it really hasn't but the way its done has changed#adapted to better suit the world of digital media so to speak#schumi was a cultural phenomenon to a lot of people including baby me he was f1 he was ferrari#i'ma stop before i start writing an essay about how Michael was F1's Diana because i feel thats where my head is at the moment lmao#also not ted also forgetting seb#my man got a penalty 6 seconds into f1 career 😭✋️#and was quickly dubbed the crash kid#max was crashtappen#max seb michael were all labelled aggressive#seb & michael only got appreciation when they were leaving/ when they left the sport#the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself
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Imagine being modified and trained since birth to be the perfect servant to the infallible god-computer that your entire society revolves around to the point that you don’t believe in free will anymore. In fact free will as a concept is counter to your very purpose, which is to act as a living repository for unchanging information about the future. And then your perfect god shoves that highly engineered overclocked brain into the body of a heroin addict. And it’s not part of some grand plan it just destroyed your life by accident. Not even by accident, it doesn’t have the capability to commit “accidents” because it’s not sentient. It just miscalculated. It’s just a computer.
So there is this show called travelers (2016)-
#RAAAAAAAAAAAA this show makes me actually insane. and no one knows about her#like his whole arc revolves around that one turning point. that’s when he starts to question the actual human cost of all this#rlly love the suble worldbuilding in this show in terms of religion and never showing the future they came from I think it’s genuinely so#skillful and also just awesome. and historians as a concept are CRAZY and Philip in particular is CRAZY#yeah I know I latched on to the most predictable Guy but to b fair they r all very special to me#but like addict and the whole historian thing come ONNNNN I have to#warlock wartalks#travelers#travelers Netflix
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It's so difficult, because I genuinely do want to understand what the whole deal with Christianity is, but Christians are so apposed to any line of questioning about their belief system (in a way that no other religion is) that if you say anything they don't like they shut down and accuse you of being a sinner.
And it's like bro, I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm trying to understand why this religion is even appealing to you. How do you manage to get so many converts when you're not even willing to answer basic questions about your theology?
Everyone I've found who's actually willing to discuss Christian theology with me is an ex-Christian which is super unhelpful, because ex-Christians are people who have deconstructed Christian belief and come to the conclusion that it doesn't work for them. They're always very cynical about the whole situation. That's not what I'm looking for.
I want to talk to someone who's still into it. I want to understand what actually draws people to this religion ( I do not want to be trauma dumped at - I don't know what aspect of Christian belief confuses y'all into thinking that trauma dumping is an appropriate substitute for theological discussion, but it absolutely isn't).
Like you would really think for one of the most popular religions in the world finding answers to this stuff would be easier. Why can't you guys just talk about your beliefs?
#Christianity#religion#like I just don't understand#if the basic conceit of the religion is that God sent his only son down to Earth so that he could relate to and better understand humans#then I have a lot of questions#because a) if he's a all knowing god why does he need help understanding humans anyway?#b) if you're taking the Bible literally. Why would he then require Jesus to be celibate and die at 30?#like aren't sex and aging and relationships all parts of the human experience that god would want to know about?#and c) if you're taking the Bible metaphorically. The meaning of this story seems to be#that the divine will never truly relate to or understand you. That you are infact so different from the divine#that if an aspect of god came down from the heavens to interact with the people#your sins and the sins of your community as a whole would kill that divinity before it could live out a full human life#which is a genuinely interesting concept! like I would read a novel with that plot#but I don't understand why that's appealing from a faith perspective#is the appeal the act of forgiveness afterwards?#like the divine are so fundamentally different from us that we would kill them but they would forgive us for that difference anyway#why is difference something that must be forgiven rather than accepted?#like do you see why I'm confused by this stuff?#anyways#posting to this blog because a surprising number of Christians follow me here#maybe one of y'all can help me understand
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2024 reads / storygraph
Sea Of Broken Glass
fantasy
two sisters who live on a floating village in a shallow ocean are exiled when one develops magic and can’t hide it like her sister does
they travel to the land, trying to survive searching for their mother who was exiled 20 years ago, through the wilderness and magical caves
crystal/mineral magic, magical creatures, sister relationships
#sea of broken glass#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#damn this is like. weird and whimsical fantasy world. unique magic system? weird religion? creatures? CAVES?#aroace & sapphic-aspec MCs with basically no romance? MADE FOR ME! unfortunately it’s bad#like just the writing quality is not at all there. like it took me 1/3 to even sort of realise that in theory this is exactly#my kind of thing bc the not good writing was too distracting#the beginning is EXTREMELY fast paced; there’s no breathing room and everything happens too fast to get a sense of anything#The voice of both POVs is the same. Their relationship is so back and forth and all over the place it got a bit annoying#+ they both feel like 16yos not 20-somethings.#worldbuilding details were distracting me - some were answered eventually but not before I was getting distracted with questions.#eg I need to know about the ocean ecosystem. if it’s knee deep where do fish live. where are ocean plants. are there deeper parts of the oc#they hear a wolf howling. how do you know what a wolf sounds like you’ve never heard one.#why does everyone hate magic? Obviously bigotry doesn’t have a reason but like. just felt like it was there to make the plot happen?#if she has magic crystal powers that she can make anything with why did she not make them a boat?????? or shoes???#they walk across the sea for days??#and like I am happy with weird and slightly nonsensical worldbuilding details if the writing style and tone is very whimsical yknow?#but this is not that.#And like there ARE lots of cool elements! salt based magic? the giant cave frogs??#but unfortunately the writing style and execution is just not there.#I had to drag myself through most of it just because I wanted to form an opinion on the whole thing#Also it really awkwardly mentions their sexualities immediately. I don’t mind a slightly awkward delivery of that tbh#but do you need to do so in the first few pages of their pov?
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Have you ever watched a show portraying your own religion in two different lights from the POVs of those who zealously worship and convolute the faith with their bigotry and misogyny and amongst the same people is a person whose beliefs are purely based on logical reasoning, philosophy and Sufism and felt such profound feelings of being seen.
#I’m beyond obsessed with this Turkish drama where different versions of Muslims are shown and way it’s such an accurate portrayal#of the misogyny with which the religion has been convoluted with#It takes place in a sect like cult of Muslims so oppressive and pathetic I wanna k!! them all#and then among the same ppl in the same evil cult is a melancholy and mentally ill man whose entire existence is based on philosophy#and asking questions his conversations with therapist are so beautiful it makes me cry#and he’s forcefully married to this young intelligent girl both are forced to marry but she’s just like him#she’s a match for with her intelligence and philosophy and compassion and the way the converse in metaphors and words make me sanity#lose* my sanity#the way she encourages him and how their relationship/marriage/ is so pure she’s so young and he knows that she’s 16 hes 23#the purity of their relationship has my whole heart can’t physical contact bc his hold committed s@uicide by jumping off a building while#holding his hands ever since he hates that#and it unlocks his truma so their marriage is nothing more than on paper but they’ve fallen in love but it’s not right#and everyone wants them to divorce so he gave HER the choice to divorce since she was robbed of a choice when she was forcefully married#AHHHHHHHHHH I CAN GO ON FOREVER#ignore my typos I’m so in love
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My mom just sent a message to the family group chat suggesting that my siblings download the 'For the Strength of Youth' magazine on their Gospel Library app and talked about how much the youth magazines helped her testimony growing up and like, cool. Fine. Don't know why the 'sending random spiritual thoughts in the gc' thing started out of nowhere when it hadn't been a thing for a decade but this is just another one of those, and you're ofc allowed to talk about things that are significant in your life.
I don't think sending the 'What I Did When Someone Close to Me Challenged My Faith' article right afterwards was strictly necessary though 🙃
#hi bg mutuals 👋 i'm gonna vent about this from time to time. if any mutuals dont want to see it block the 'apostake' tag#trying not to read too much into it b/c I think I did last time something like this happened#and i dont want to make an ass of myself even if neither time would actually be in front of my parents#but like...i know that they know that one of my sisters is clearly PIMO#they went through her phone a couple weeks ago and i have no idea if they read my texts w/ her#but if they did they probably saw the conversation i had with her about some of the really common shelf-breakers#and telling her to take looking into it at her own pace b/c it's scary and overwhelming#(a conversation SHE started btw)#and when i talked to my parents about the larger context of that whole situation i talked about not having space to step back#and their response was that they give plenty of space b/c they dont make her go to seminary???#that's not the same thing as letting her openly question & potentially leave the church idk what to tell you#like. besties i dont know for sure what caused it (which is NOT making things better. it just feels potentially passive aggressive)#but from my end? it sure looks like it might be a reaction to that. probably not JUST that (friends exist) but.#if you think I'm whispering anti-mormon rhetoric into my siblings' ears just ask me. i'm very much NOT doing that#i'm just. talking? to them? when and if they come to me with questions?#and not making my answer 'well there's a reason our parents raised us in the church! ☺️'#(an actual argument given in the article my mom sent)#hate it. thanks#apostake#jay rambles#ok to interact#im not challenging anyone's faith. my patience though? INCREDIBLY challenged#gotta figure out how to work my way around a 'hey please dont send spiritual thoughts to the gc *I'm in*' talk tactfully#they've been pretty chill about me leaving over-all?? at least to my face#haven't pushed me to go to church w/ them; was fine with me not visiting for easter; didnt try to convince me to not drink coffee; etc#it's just. frustrating that they're not giving my siblings that still live with them that same grace#my sister's 17 ffs#it's very possible im way overreacting to the article. but what is tumblr for if not screaming into the void#religion#mormonism
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İt's funny how sexualised dust ist. And how she is always pretty and sexy like yeah she is etc. But she is in modesty. She wears an niqab. Whole point is being modest and not attractive.
Like even with hijab you always need to be careful like your tunic is not too short or your curves are not so recognisable , your things are not too tight and she is drawn always like body latex suit but add skirt.
I even saw someone say to her her niqab makes her mysterious and sexy like this is so???
#like seeing niqab sexualised is so weird and and weird#like niqab isnt sexy this is the whole point#and like people still wear things under niqab#like women is not even always in niqab especially with other women they usually in normal clothes#my family were always like most boring looking people with niqab intentionally then they take pff niqab#bam all of them overdressed like they are going to wedding gorgeous with makeup and everything#and sometimes people wear only one part of it#i meam sooraya is afghan amdnthey can have different kind of culture when its come to it of course#but i domt know i know many afghan friends and they are also pretty same?#anyways her niqab being just skin suit but with skirt is annoying#like she can be sexy and beautiful but generally niqabi women only do this for themselves not for outside so its hidden#sooraya qadir#her continuing of her religion and not giving her religious duties but also still be part of X-Men is my fave thing about her#like i am not muslim anymore bit this still means a lot to me she is being awsome and still part of marvels of marvel#and when they literally let her give up her values this just lost all meaning?#also realm of x explain extremely important question next issue how can she find the kabaa in vanaheim?????? /j
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i get normal amounts of heated about badly written multiple choice questions
#question was ‘kids today consume how much soda compared to milk?’#that one semester when i had two classes using inquizitive gave me too much power bc it allowed me to appeal ‘wrong’ answers if i could#explain why. and now whenever i get mad i write a rebuttal even if it’s for a single point JUST bc i expect better from my professors#earlier this summer semster this same prof had a question about ‘which institution codified race in the us’#and the option were ‘academia religion or the government’ and . fucjin cmon. that is NOT. A MCQ. THATS A WHOLE ESSAY#ITS ALL OF THEM IN VARYING CAPACITIES#but i put academia bc i’m an anthropologist and im painfully aware of the impact my field has had what with phrenology and race science and#the truly horrific shit we did to people. and i got it wrong#i held myself back from ranting then but i am allowing myself this frustrated response bc this assignment is specifically a#‘search the internet for sources!’ one. so girlie your sources are outdated as fuck i am GOING to provide you with updated links
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#LMAO I FUCKING CANT.#so missionaries came to my doorstep-- which is literally just hilarious. even more hilarious? one of them was from hawaii.#they ask about my religion&i tell them bc i dont see any point not to&the yt man speaking to me tells me#he was a surfer back in the day so--&this is a literal quote-- 'i went to hawaii&heard it all as a haole on the beach'#remember this is literally entirely unprompted from a missionary who knocked on my door in response to my answering a question#about my religion. so why did this come up? probably the same reason that he then went to on to ask me what would happen if HE wanted#to join my religion&when i answer 'you would probably have to handle that yourself as religion is entirely personal'#he literally stands there w no answer before going 'well our church accepts EVERYONE no matter what theyve done'#&--again this is a direct quote-- 'we have ppl who have done blood sacrifices to their ancestors who have found the REAL god' LMAO.#he then started talking about how the neighboring apartment complex has a primarily east european community?#like with actual statistics bc appartently he just knows that the next apartment complex over is 80% yt immigrants?#not entirely sure how they had anything at all to do w anything so thats around when i stopped laughing openly at him#&told him my neighbors were coming up the stairs&i found taking up the entire staircase to be incredibly rude#so they needed to get the fuck out lmao&the missionary from hawaii-- who had said almost nothing the whole time lmao--#wouldnt look me in the eye while telling me thank you for my time probably bc he now had to continue doing missionary work#w a man who spent a solid five minutes trying to prove im racist&exclusionay as a default#literally ONLY bc im hawaiian v traditional about it&proud as FUCK about all those facts#whiiiiich only made him look&sound. fucking TERRIBE lmao.#anyway its good to know that several hundreds of years later&a move away from my colonized home where yt missionaries destroyed my culture#i STILL cant fucking get away from yt missionaries&their ABHORRENT behaviour lmao.#i need to start checking who the fuck is at my door before opening it.#or at the v least start letting roxy just fucking tear ppl like this to shreds like she wants bc their vibes are so rank#my dog can't stand at my side w/o her ridge going so far up she doesnt NEED to growl to get the point across lmao.
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I low key kind of wish I'd been raised more religiously? Like I have such a weird fucking relationship with Christianity but at the same time I only have comparatively mild religious trauma, I only consistently went to church for about two years and the most my mom ever asked me to do was pray during hard time. I guess I just wish I had something more significant to connect all these feelings to. This weird guilt, the even weirder yearning to be more involved. Idk. It's all just weird and I don't like it.
#tw: mini trauma dumping in the tags after the basics ->#religious trauma#religion#christianity#the only real religious related trauma i have revolves around my queerness#in 4th grade a boy outed me as bi by reading a page of my diary to the whole class#i got beat up and called slurs regularly‚ they said id burn in hell and spread disgusting rumors about me#youd never believe the cruelty a flock homophobic of 10 year olds are capable of#and when i was 12 i went to church and one day i asked the pastors wife a simple question#“if god is all forgiving then why dont gay people go to heaven?”#“because god may forgive you but he will never accept you.” was her response#i know there are good christians and good churches who truly believe in loving thy neighbor and acting in kindness#but they seem so horribly rare
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I wish the catholic church wasnt a piece of shit liar bitch
#aside from the being political scum they told me some pretty damaging stuff#that is definitely not part of the religion#i might just be a heretic#every time i want to think of my god im reminded of these horrible people and i wanna throw up#i just wish my thoughts were not whitewashed and like altered by people for their own gain#one time a boy in our school committed suicide#he was my best friend’s family’s friend#he was really poor and beaten by his father#and one of the teachers said he gave his soul to satan and he’s going to hell#no one#not one person in the whole school told us to talk about our feelings to them or like#theyll help us resolve it or something#they just demonized him#one priest directly told us we’re going to be possessed by a demon if we read fantasy books like harry potter#in the 7th grade#i was like 11 when he made us watch some exorcism shit and made us believe in demons and i had to sleep next to my mom for like half a year#i was so scared#i have some of the best memories from this period of my life#i didnt realize how damaging it was until i got out of it and started questioning faith#they just gradually built into my subconscious all these things
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Why do you say but also mormons are fucking awful?
because they are 👍🏼
#i’m taking the good faith interpretation of this ask so here’s a little explanation:#growing up mormon has negatively impacted mine and my siblings’ mental health#maybe if i’m being lenient i’d say that mormonism as a whole is shitty but the individual might not me#but also there are a lot of very bigoted mormons#the religion as a whole is somewhat racist and sexist and homophobic#and also mormonism is pretty damn cult like#i’ve answered questions abt mormon things before and you can find it all in my exmo tag if you want to know more#exmo#anon#asks
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hiii just wanted to say i hope your illness isnt treating you too badly and you feel better soon <33
thank you <33333 im feeling a bit better :) i have to go back to school tomorrow though :( which i am not at all looking forward to but if i want to stay home longer id need a doctors note and idk if im sick enough to go to the doctor for a note for one day yknow
#friday is the worst day out of the whole week too#i start with a class that has no translation i know of#its during religious classes meant mainly for non-religious people but its very very odd#its meant to teach you morals & all the teachers act as if you picked the class bc you want to & not bc you have no other option#we see the same things every year & its all very very surface level stuff#usually themes like identity social justice & such#but its all like “describe yourself in 5 words” “keep a diary for 12 weeks & let your teacher read it”#“did you know you can be transgender?? :0 here's a documentary on the luckiest trans person on earth”#“who has a supportive middle class or rich family a supportive social group and passes perfectly”#“look at this movie of a poor disabled child getting bullied and being just so sad. did this change your view towards disabled people?”#“philosophical question time! if i put an apple in front of you would you say it is dead or alive?”#“i heard someone call their friend dumb as a joke and now im going to talk for 2 full hours on the effect words can have”#“it is actually morally wrong to jokingly insult people btw”#its ridiculous and ive reached my limit honestly i cant not act annoyed anymore#ive started answering the 'who are you?' questions with stuff like someone who does not want to do this anymore#anyway sorry for ranting at you#i dont think i can even communicate how annoyed i am after having had this class since i was 6#ig it really needed to get out#you can just ignore all that#also its kind of like its own fake religion? like they have a 'church' and do certain events at certain ages?#fake religion for those who dont believe but still want to have those rituals to partake in ig#and ive heard a lot of bad things about them in certain regions#where i am theyre okay thankfully#you can ask to not have to do any of the religious classes#but our school really doesnt want you to so they make it as complicated as possible#so its filled with people who do not at all care about it or what the teacher is saying#people#jask#asks
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needdddd to have a conversation with fictional post-apocalyptic death god johnny knives about the ethics of their brand of vigilante justice
they were a petty criminal pre-apocalypse and pre-immortality, right? what made them decide to flip the script? become judge, jury, and executioner-by-proxy? someone deserving of the title your honor?
also, what even makes a person worthy of death in the eyes of johnny knives? are there lesser, non-death punishments? because an individual person killing another is one thing, but putting yourself and your acolytes in a position to decide who lives and who dies (or even, more simply, who’s guilty and who’s innocent) is another thing altogether
#applying my little prison abolitionist media analysis lens where it probably wasn’t meant to be applied#brb riding out into the desert with 2-5 of my best comrades to make a small blood sacrifice call down a god and have a heated debate#edit: ALSO i say vigilante justice but is that accurate when there’s a whole religion around it? or is it just a reproduction of policing#these are questions for johnny knives not critiques of the text persay. all part of rotating the gods in my head#wasteland pony express#wlpe
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ALL I KNOW IS MARBLE AND STONE EYES THAT DONT LEAVE WATCHING OVER ME WHISPERS OF AVE MARIAS AND GRANT US PEACE DONA NOBIS PACEM MISERERE NOBIS GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEM GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME
#im fine 👍👍👍👍 (been thinking just a bit too much about religion these past few days)#being raised by an extremly religious catholic mom really does fuck up your relationship with religion as a whole#the constant guilt. having to tell every single thing you feel bad about to a stranger behind a little wooden separator.#and after you leave#the everpresent question of 'was this really the right decision? what if it wasn't and i really am gonna burn in hell for all eternity'#it fucks you up so much#.......and that's why i usually try not to think about these things 😃😃 repression is such a great coping mechanism#hananans
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