#punishing people for asking questions

[furiousgoldfish]

If I don’t know and I am asking, and you respond by talking down to me, you’re punishing me both for wanting to learn and for thinking you would be capable of teaching me.

[divinemachina]

hi tumblr. how do you like angelic centipede prophets

close-up on face + a height ref under read more!!

[butchniqabi]

In islam are all nonbelievers going to hell permanently? If god is truly merciful wouldn't most good peple get into heven eventually, once theyve ben proportionately punished and repented?

theres an old joke my catholic grandmother told me once where a man dies and goes to heaven and is greeted at the gates by saint peter. he gets shown around and sees wonders beyond his imagination, people existing in harmony, and all the glories of god. soon they come upon a tall wall stretching out for miles and miles and the man, shocked, asks "why is there a wall in heaven?" saint peter quickly says "shh! thats for the catholics they think theyre the only ones here!"

[ronnyraygun]

The Hearts of Darkness crew from my earth, btw.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

what if we held on to whatever we get the idea of as Normal as unquestionable & think all you can do to this normal is apply some veneers overtop it to be more polite & also resent that. maybe we could project that everyone who seems to be Annoyingly Disruptively doing more than this must be putting on a performance to look good &/or humor others b/c that's all we ever believe we're doing, & again, we resent even that much....maybe we could use our show of More Polite language to make the same points blaming everyone who our Normal mistreats for their own mistreatment

[t4tvglow]

it happened so early in the morning and i am STILL frothing with rage over this text my boss sent me

[the-little-crab-in-your-pocket]

Idk I just think that treating your child as less-than on the basis of them being your child (whom you are responsible for having) is kind of very shitty

[milo-is-rambling]

Me looking at my own mood boards like “oh yeah this guy gets it”

[torgawl]

never thought i'd see people try to argue or analyse wriothesley's murder in regards to his personality. i think people are missing the point. the situation has nothing to do with him and has everything to do with an extremely traumatic environment that made a small boy think the only solution so save himself and the people he cared about was to take the life of his abusers. it's not supposed to be rational, it wasn't premeditated, it wasn't about getting away with it. if you read his description of the murder you can see how out of it he was. his goal was to protect himself and his siblings and that's what he did. that's why he admitted to the crime so easily and why he is keen to associate the fortress as a rebirth place. he was just young, lost and traumatised and that's about it when it comes to the extension of it all.

[just-a-normal-crow]

Hellooo mun!!! If you met your muse (or muses, if you wanna do both or just the birb) how do you think that interaction would go like?

((omg hello!! gosh ahsjdk tbh i never really thought about it because i don't even like the idea of any of the actual canon characters interacting with me personally [see: @dolasach's reason for existence + this blog honestly just being made so that i could have a reason to interact with the rp blogs without having to bring out my oc] but this did get me thinking >v<

for the crow:

crows are honestly extremely rare where i live, at most i see them as small black figures in the sky when they're flying off. so if i got the meet the crow irl i think i'd be genuinely thrilled?

as in. i would go through the motions of trying to befriend the thing and also play the part of a fool that tries to feed a mechanical bird ;-; i'd hope that it'd be like what's going on with yvonne, but i'm not talkative enough with animals to get any sort of emotional investment out of anyone at onychinus hq for what drama might be going on in my life. so like. i'd just be a running joke to the engineers for being a reason why the bird keeps coming back with a chassis full of food lol

for dolasach:

okay so like. i so CLEARLY imagine myself to meet her because of some art event where she's a guest, like a lecture or workshop or gallery exhibit opening. she'd have such a particular vibe to her, i feel? that would make it shockingly easy for me to actually reach out and ask questions about her craft (if it were a gallery opening) or ask some really thorough questions + start a bit of banter (if its a workshop) even if her gaze would be so intense i might die on the spot <-aroace but not immune to cool hot people.

i think it would go fairly well, i don't think i've ever left bad impressions on more important people i've interacted with and half the time end up befriending them + i want to believe i'd get a genuine laugh from her 😭 that's all i want oml))

[emphasis-on-the-oopsie]

I wanna make an essay about my amane thoughts however i think most of my thoughts were already said better by other people so just have my fave screenshot of amane

[caffeinatedopossum]

I feel like for my whole life I've been so patient and so forgiving and that has always been the only thing about me that was rewarded to the point that I genuinely don't know if it's okay to stop being that or to be less of that or to be impatient and frustrated and angry as well

[yay-depression]

i love learning about parenting styles in psych 101 bc i can read it and go “haha yeah my dad was like that” and how that has been proven to mess children up and i can be like “yep can confirm”

[storyranger]

I just went down the rabbit hole about Judaism again and I remembered one time a friend shared a post that basically went

me: I want to convert rabbi: why tho :/

and I just interpreted that as "oh yeah they actively don't want converts so obviously you gotta convince them you're serious"

but today I found out that actually it's tradition to reject someone's request to convert three times as a test of sincerity, and I'm glad I know that now, because my socially anxious ass, upon asking a religious leader "hi can I join your community" and being told "no" would say "okay I am so sorry to bother you" and run away and jump in a hole and never be seen again like what do you mean you're expected to just keep asking until they say yes? People do that? And no one screams at them for it? They are rewarded for persistence?

anyway I'm not saying I will ever convert but it still feels like I have averted a crisis on behalf of future me today

[greppelheks]

Everytime my narcissistic boss does something narcissistic towards me, I steal something from him (keeping nature's balance)

[tuulikki]

It’s also important to be braced for a “yes” so you’re ready to say “okay, I’m sorry you weren’t feeling comfortable saying that without my asking you directly, let’s talk about it”

They should make a "are you mad at me" that is taken neutrally and informationally every time and doesn't make everything worse when you ask it