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[medusaspeach]

The Empress

Based on the famous Theodora mosaic from the Basilica of San Vitale.

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[losyrin02]

I had fun drawing her, I really like Princess Peach and would love to get any figure of her (I'm new to collecting figures)

[palskippah]

Swordfighter Peach that reminds me of a pirate my beloved!!

My first thought like some people at Twitter was to draw her and Mario in a dress too askdsjdk

This had a second drawing that was Peach and her little friend, but I deleted it and now I can't recover it 😔 it was like this:

Peach (thinking the drawing above while blushing and smiling, dressed as swordfighter): I wish Mario was here,,

Stella (nicely): Who?

Peach: My boyfriend 😊

[goldensunset]

like there’s ‘i ship this’ and then there’s ‘i like exploring this’ and they’re v different lol but alas they are forced to be roommates in the great apartment that is tumblr

[glitterfiasco]

if i had a nickel for every time a game franchise founded on its male protagonists finally decided to centre a female protagonist and opted that her power should be that she's too in touch with emotions...

there's an essay in here i'm too tired to write

[micario-mh]

girls! 🍑🌼🛵🦇

[gingergari]

i’ve been thinking about her for a while so this is the kid mario and peach would have IF peach ruled openly as a toad 🙏🏽

her name is apricot! when she gets older she also goes by the nickname albie :]

due to the circumstances regarding her existence she has quite the magical reserves and has the potential to eclipse her mom as a mage

but for now, she’s just a kid

[pastellbg]

Hair studys of some of my favorite characters hair

[peaches2217]

Having been raised in a cult that started off as a legitimate church and now seeking faith on my own terms, I’ve recently (as in, like, three days ago) developed a hyperfixation for researching various denominations of Christianity. It’s incredible, how little I knew about what denominations actually believe what.

TW: Reflections on religious extremism and experiences (nothing traumatic, I’m keeping this lighthearted, but I know it can be touchy!)

When my cult was still a church, it was an Assemblies of God church, and I’m fairly certain they still hold to a lot of that doctrine, just with even more heaping helpings of fire and brimstone and doomsday. We were taught to jokingly view Southern Baptists (or just “Baptists,” because they refused to acknowledge American Baptists and I didn’t even realize American Baptism was a THING until recently) as our rivals: they were our polar opposite in practice but equals in theology, and all other denominations just couldn’t get it right or were too scared to break free from Catholicism. We were told Catholics and those who worshiped and believed like them weren’t true Christians and destined for Hell. There was no interdenominational unity and collaboration, nor was there any encouragement to look at other denominations’ doctrine. Ours was right, the Baptists were close enough, and nothing else held any sort of merit.

(I’m pretty sure now they’ve even cut out the Baptist sympathetics, and while it’s become wholly self-contained, they’re still accepted as an AoG church — albeit a more extreme example of the denomination — but I can’t say any of that with certainty. I’d ask my dad but, well, he’s still wholly devoted to the cult, I don’t trust him to be objective in his view. 😅)

I briefly attended an Episcopal church before I moved last year, mostly because it was the polar oppose of what I was raised in and there was something very comforting about that (plus they’re openly supportive of things like LGBTQ+ rights), but ultimately my dad and FB friends kinda shamed me out of attending because “There’s no blessing in structure, sis!”. My hope was to start going to the Episcopal church here where I currently live, but when I showed up last week, there were exactly two people and they gave me rather dirty looks, so I quickly high-tailed it back to my car.

I ended up at a Methodist church because I was running behind and theirs was the only non-Baptist service that hadn’t started yet, and… I dunno. They had some trappings of my birth cult, sang some of the same songs, but there was also a structure to things like I’d seen in the Episcopal church. No hour-long praise and worship where you make a show of screaming and crying harder than anyone else, followed by an hour-long sermon that leads into another two-hour stretch of loud music and light shows and shouldaboughtahyundai steadIboughtakias until everyone was either unconscious or in a state of religious ecstasy; there was an order to things, with opportunities to take time in private prayer at the alter or at your seat, and the sermon was heartfelt and impactful but never once delved into the pastor screaming frantically into the mic. I followed their website to the official doctrine of the United Methodist denomination, and I was shocked to find that I agreed with most of it.

And that shocked me because, due to their notoriously liberal stances and heavy Catholic influence, my dad and those around me always told me that the Episcopal church isn’t really respectable. Most of them, however, consider Methodism a perfectly legitimate denomination that gets enough right to be deemed a proper church… and their doctrine isn’t much more conservative than Episcopalian doctrine. They have no formal stance on queer issues (which I’ll take over “Y’all are going to Hell” any day) but they’re vocal proponents of social justice and sexual education, both things I was taught growing up are evil.

And that’s the long-winded explanation of how I got to where I am now: digging deep into what each denomination actually believes, because I knew my viewpoint was limited by experience and further restrained by indoctrination and trauma, but holy fuck, I didn’t realize just how crazy my cult’s beliefs were until I started comparing all the doctrine. Of course doctrine isn’t everything, I know that, but the more I read, the more and more I realize that the faith I was raised in wasn’t all that Christlike after all.

A side note: my boss let me take half a day off on Sunday to go back to that church. The pastor’s husband came up and greeted me, told me his wife had mentioned meeting me, asked me a couple questions, standard New Person in Church-type stuff. I got about two questions in before I was shaking visibly and so scared I went briefly nonverbal, because for how kindly I’ve been treated and how strong my faith is, I’ve still got hella religious trauma. I alluded to being raised in church and had my trans and enby pride bracelets on, along with my bigender symbol necklace, so I’m pretty sure he could infer exactly why I was so scared.

He clasped my hand and said, in a quiet voice with a little smile, “You’re safe here. This is a safe place. We’re so glad you’re here.” I couldn’t say anything except thank you, but I hope it was enough to express just how deeply those words impacted me.

[studentbyday]

mid-week update (aka i was feeling like posting an aesthetic post today, regardless of how much i actually get done)

src: wallpapers.com + pinterest

these winter days, i often wake up and don't want to leave the warmth and softness of my bed or a stuffed toy 🧸 but then i tell myself it's not as bad as i think it is... and it usually isn't...

✅ stuff done:

biked ~20 mins

journalled

finished 1 more function for cs50 finance (3/7 done)

rested in bed before lunch bc i was really tired (tryna get used to waking up at 8 😪)

groceries

for some reason, this year i'm really struggling with the long, long nights 🤷🏻‍♀️

📸 media on my mind:

cozy writing vlogs (1 & 2) by christy anne jones (watched while exercising 🙂)

write with me in a beautiful old library (watched up to the 24 min mark while journalling)

tips for surviving (and enjoying) dark winters by cecilia blomdahl (who lives in svalbard where they experience polar night 😬)

⭐ the tips ⭐ - keep a strict sleep schedule (e.g. always get up before 9am) (perhaps try using a wake up light?) - power of mindset: put your happiness into the small things in life (e.g. morning coffee/tea, a good book) - gear up and get outside for fresh air (e.g. go for a walk) - eat well (veggies!) and take necessary supplements (consult a doctor) - make your space one you love, especially if you spend a lot of time at home (e.g. add lights, rearrange furniture to your liking) - exercise (good for physical and mental health!) - work-life balance: make time to do things you love

[medusaspeach]

Good Times

Apollo, Hermes, Athena, Artemis, and Ares.

[vamppeach]

[writes the ace character having sex*] do it for silver

*in a nuanced way that affirms their unique relationship to sex

[sweetie-peaches]

*screams in psychology special interest and qtubbo fixation* “HES SO THINGS, HE NEEDS TO BE STUDIED. HE NEEDS A COUNSELOR. HE NEEDS A TREATMENT PLAN.”

[petday]

melee peach

[andwhatnot1]

a lil WIP 👀

[daniellasalamao]

Peaches 🍑