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women--are--amazing · 1 month ago

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I physically cannot see female Rin Okumura dressing in tight clothes . Like she probably has a pair of booty shorts but other that most of her outfits are long skirts with baggy T-shirts, loose fitting pants with long sleeves, Clothes that Yukio probably grew out of or just doesn't wear anymore. Like this girl walks in the cram school classroom with the only skin that's visible in her face and hands and a uniform that is two sizes too big because the original uniform was "too tight" (it was a one size up from her size)

#she was raised in a church #most of her clothes were probably like handme downs #she looks like a tom boy #i can imagine her looking at the true cross uniform skirt size and saying nope and wear the boy uniform #blue exorcist #aoex #rin okumura #female rin okumura #this shit is probably hard to read

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fictionadventurer · 11 months ago

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Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican??#they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard'#you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious)#(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics)#(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights)#('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it')#(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???')#(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

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onedivinemisfit · 1 year ago

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If she was raised in the church. I keep thinking about that. How different would that have gone down, would sothis have awakened earlier? Would rhea have brainwashed her? Would jeralt still be a part of her life?

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#fire emblem three houses #fe3h #byleth eisner #female byleth #raised by the church au #i guess #myart #just did the mage outfit real quick #would she be meeker?#would she have discovered her knack for magic earlier and skipped swordmanship?#would rhea have forced her to take sword lessons? to anticipate the sword of the creator #would jeralt feel more and more alienated?#going on longer lasting missions #leaving her alone more #would rhea initiate her to her purpose earlier? or keep her in the dark still?#so many thinkies

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faaun · 7 months ago

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we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

#27% circle line with a lovely friend of mine rail tracks screeching etc etc u know the usual. im just gonna write down memories #a few weeks ago my friend read thus spoke zarathustra by the fire to the music she was dancing it was her silhouette #against the flashlight lit up gold and royal blues and tiger's silk i tried not to fall in love with her. in bordeaux we searched #for pomegranates he sent her 300 quid by the beach she cut it open with a knife her hand covered in red we each had a taste of her work #sweet red wet the sweetest grit. too barely clothed to go into the cliffside church they painted my eyes we painted hers #8 shots of gin she screamed joyfully IT'S ALIVE! at the book she said become the child i said i feel like a monster she said i was insane #i tried to believe her. fortified wine and later a red pen crossword defiled by humidity her hair in my hands two king sized beds #pushed next to each other she took her top off she told us to watch her arms raised up the musculature on her back was precise cut from #marble we saw oceans we saw the birds take cold baths the midnight sun over a wasp-infested pool our chemicals in their bodies #gold flakes dark skin gold cross shoulders against mine drawing some form of each other on the train i didn't hesitate #to say her eyes were beautiful over and over monks at the soapshop with titanium credit cards i loved you like i loved no other #he tied his hair up and walked us into the river he held a bullet between his lips i never held his hand he said what an honour #you own too much capital your mother thinks i'm a natural i realised i haven't told my mother i loved her in years she's always been mother #never mom i'll watch you watch seaweeds this is terminal akrasia i'll feel your fingers smear perfume on my lips your girlfriend grins #bite into the straw take the shot hold my hand get it all wrong draw in the sand kiss him right stab through leather shower in chlorine #you're the determinable vicissitude is all yours we won the Game AND the Battle AND the War i'm proud of you like crazy we feed each other #saffron cliffside lovers well-fallen brothers fat cats blue windows southwest sun ALife SynBio design aXAA grow us a city in silico #we've grown to the ends of glee fire-jumper ocean-eater sure-footed lists on lists hands on eyelids не устану искать тебя #...anyway ive put my face on this blog b4 but hiii again #feel free to rb btw the rants r not personal

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water-weaving · 16 days ago

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holy shit i just got a "jesus saves" lecture from the lab nurse. took me by surprise because i've seen her many times before and she was always very nice and only asked a few respectful questions about the whole trans situation. like geez maam i thought we were cool!!

#she ambushed me asking about my family and idk why i didnt think of lying as an option #so i said i didnt really have much contact with my family anymore #and she kept pushing for more info and then “strongly advised me to read the bible and put my faith in jesus christ like herself”#and i was like maam i was raised catholic i can tell you i have read the bible.#and she IGNORED ALL CUES on PURPOSE (??) and kept telling me about how we were made just and holy by jesus dying for us #like where are we??? what's going on????#she usually is careful but fast because it's her job but like she forcefully kept me here with a needle in my arm & physically holding me #long after the blood sampler had been drawn (highly unusual!!!!) to force me to stay here and attend her jesus saves! lecture #at some point i feared she wouldnt let me go at all until i said i would go back to church lol #what is this????????#also i am pretty sure the receptionists were gossiping nastily about me in the waiting room. i may be paranoid #but they were shooting nasty glances in my direction (i was the only patient in the waiting room) and they were whispering between #themselves the whole time and one of them (who'd already been nasty to me re: trans stuff but not outwardly) glared at me #i think i caught something that sounded like “no it *is* weird and were it up to me...” while they looked at me #like once again i may be paranoid and let my inner bullied student speak but.... the combination was. weird #ive never had a problem here before! you'll tell me this is not an actual problem like nobody beat me up or anything and i'll agree ofc #but. still

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4c-aperture · 26 days ago

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What’s the matter? You don’t think you deserve to be saved.

this post from @daalcuntynatural came out of my queue and sent me into a fugue state until this sketch was done (ALT text)

#ayo edebiri #spn #castiel #destiel #the continued saga of me trying not to draw hands #noticing every single thing wrong and physically restraining myself from redoing the whole thing #if anyone’s interested in like. The Lore. The Symbolism.#ae’s jenny novak was raised STAUNCHLY southern baptist #choir girl the whole nine (that’s the robe that’s the other half of her wings)#she’s in the typical black auntie church suit DESPERATELY trying to cling to some heterosexuality #(it will not work. she’s possessed by wavelength of celestial intent that’s INTENT on becoming a lesbian #the second she meets butch dean)#also her hair’s freshly flat ironed and half wrapped to preserve it for the performace #that’s scheduled for two hours after she got possessed #(what big church event is happening on a random thursday night?? don’t worry about it)#my art #OH YEAH HER EYES IN THE FULL BODY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GLOWING BUT IDK HOW TO DO THAT IN A SKETCH

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synchodai · 3 days ago

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i am of the camp that dislikes how Larian reduced Viconia DeVir's complex character into an evil stepmother stereotype whose only purpose is to be sacrificed on the altar of Shart's questline. A lot of people have gone on about how it's an insult to Viconia, but I wanna point out how it's an insult to Shart as well. Shart's story could have been uniquely about religious trauma — tackling that ambiguous border between faith/trust in community and blind dogmatic zealotry.

It's wild that the wizard had a better character arc questioning his faith and his relationship to the gods than the cleric, and the fighter had better self-reflection on dogmatic thinking and life-long indoctrination. Does Shart ever examine why people willingly turn to Shar in the first place? No, she doesn't have to, because she was tricked into becoming a Sharran. Her endgame conclusions never go beyond "Viconia bad actually" or "Shar bad actually."

We get to conveniently blame Shart's pain and trauma on one person (and maybe one god) — so crisis of faith averted! She still believes in religious institutions, as long as they have a light color scheme instead of a dark one. In the end, it's just another "I get vengeance by beating up the person in power who abused me" boss fight that two other companions already have.

#she was tricked into worshipping a bad god!#She just needed to believe the right kind of dogma and submit to the good kind of unquestionable authority #bg3 critical #shadowheart #long post #bg3 #basically Viconia DeVir's OG storyline was what i wanted for Shadowheart #Viconia showed awareness and empathy for her people who still worshipped lolth and understand why they did it #She didn't just become good after denouncing her evil goddess either #She ended up with another evil goddess because she admits not knowing any other way to live #Eventually in the endings where she lives she gets the strength and power to leave Shar's church #And not have to rely on the power of an evil goddess just so she could survive #Viconia would have died if she didn't have shar and she willingly worshipped her knowing that Shar was evil #Shadowheart on the other hand doesn't seem to realize how evil Shar is and keeps downplaying her atrocities in Act 1 #Which is realistic indoctrination but it makes Shart look kinda naive and easily duped #Especially compared to Lae'zel who had to be betrayed by her people no less than 3 times before realizing #That what she's been raised to believe her entire life might be wrong

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thevoidstaredback · 2 months ago

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Actual conversation me and Twin had on Wednesday:

Twin: Don't tell mom, but- Actually, nevermind

Me: What?

Twin: No, don't worry about it. I don't wanna gross you out

Me: Whatever you say can't gross me out. Just tell me!

Twin: Fine, but you can't tell mom or dad!

Me: Got it

Twin: I made out with a guy

Me: Cool. ..why would that gross me out?

Twin: I just thought.. because you're, y'know?

Me: Why would that gross me out? I don't care what you do. The thought of me doing those things grosses me out

#we were raised conservative lds christian #she's still a member of the church #that's why she doesn't want our parents to know

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obibail · 4 months ago

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i know there’s lots of different takes out there about mixed race jason todd, and by extension willis (and i love them all), but let me float this thought: half-lebanese willis todd. son of an australian immigrant mother (faye gunn) and a lebanese, specifically maronite catholic, immigrant father

#willis todd #jason todd #willis actually had sharmin’s info bc there was someone warning ppl about a mossad agent poking around gotham’s syrian/lebanese communities #not because they were romantically involved. it was a warning to stay away #youngest of faye’s kids and the only one not born in australia. she did not want that boy #raised by his father; grows up speaking arabic; grows up attending a maronite church #rejects a lot of what his dad - an immigrant during the civil war - tries to pass down. tradition language food #and then regrets it when he wants to pass *something anything* down to jason and can’t. muddled and misremembered #tries anyway. raises jason maronite; goes to church when they can. teaches him arabic #(good enough that jason is okay alone in beirut when he runs away to find his mom)#definitely passes down the catholicism. catholic jason todd rights #(my own personal headcanon with this is that they lived - at least for a bit - in gotham’s version of little syria)#dc

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kraviolis · 2 years ago

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Belos: I’m going to raise Luz as my daughter and ensure that she remains pure and loyal to me.

Also Belos: I’m going to let the 7-years-old clone of my brother take care of her I’m sure he’ll be able to do that.

you joke but thats LITERALLY his entire thought process at first. he's so isolated and arrogant that he couldnt possibly comprehend the idea that luz wouldnt see him as her father despite the fact he literally told hunter he was going to be her older brother and never once encouraged hunter to see him as anything but an uncle.

i attribute this to the fact that philip is an orphan who only ever knew his blood brother as his only caretaker, so he sorta took having a brother for granted and didn't realize that was something you could want rather than something that just Is.

(also caleb was the only person philip ever truly knew + loved and even well into his 300s he never once picked up a child psychology book and realized that Perhaps His Worldview Was Skewed Because Of That.)

he literally like. could not comprehend the idea that you could even choose your own family outside of like. being adopted by someone. thats the other thing with him being so annoyingly christian in this AU, he was taught that your blood family (esp yr parents) is always the most important thing in your life & you should always be grateful to them no matter what.

(this is another factor into why he keeps making grimwalkers. in his own twisted viewpoint, it's him giving caleb another chance. and another. and another-- at least in this specific characterization of him.)

philip thought that him adopting luz would mean she would immediately be eternally grateful to him and call him father and the whole nine yards. but he forget to actually express that expectation until it was too late (aka until he heard her call him uncle for the first time)

honestly, hes not MAD about it. he's just sorta :( about it bcus hes not actually insane and can still logically think like "she did say she had just lost her real father to an illness its perfectly reasonable for her to not want to replace him" (he doesnt think it outloud but he also enjoys living thru her vicariously

but also later on as she gets older it gets to a point where he's like "ok its been years now why isnt she trying to replace him yet" bcus he thinks its a normal + healthy part of the grieving process to replace the person you lost (figuratively or, in his case, Literally)

#qna #anonymous #little lamb au #toh #also luz is sort of catholic in this AU bcus she was raised like that #as in camila + manny would take her to church on sundays and she did sunday school sometimes and they'd encourage her to pray #but they never like. enforced it on her. it was more of a cultural thing for all three of them than a spiritual thing.#but belos is DELIGHTED when he hears baby luz praying out loud before bed on her first night in the castle #he tries to casually ask her about it like 'what is this God can you explain it to him'#but then as he listens to her little five year old explanation of God and Jesus she drops enough hints to make him realize #'Oh Good Lord She's Fucking CATHOLIC?'#'god truly is testing me by guiding this lamb into my care but no matter. no child is beyond redemption'#cue belos trying to push her more towards protestantism by attempting to have religious debates with a fucking. five year old #who has no concept of religion beyond 'jesus died for my sins which means i shouldnt lie to my abuela about taking an extra empanada'#sorry i love belos forgetting that religion exists up until luz arrives in the demon realm #and then he realizes Oh Fuck Thats Right. Im Doing This For God & Jesus Not Just For Fun #and then suddenly remembers everything his pastor from 400 years ago ever said to him

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the-whimsigoth-witch · 2 months ago

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The beef between me and my ultra-religious coworker is so silly to me because once again, she finds ways to throw religion into everything and again I’m being victimized by my workplace’s Question of the Day.

Today’s question: “what book do you recommend”

My answer: “The Humans by Matt Haig” (this book follows an alien as he learns about humans and what makes humanity so complex and yet beautiful. It involves a lot of math and scientific concepts while still remaining science fiction)

My coworker’s answer: “The Bible by God”

#it took so much of me to not throw down decades of christian education and say ‘well the bible wasnt written by god it was written by man’#shes so self righteous and holier than thou #religious trauma #religion #witchcraft #ex evangelical #none of these people know i practice witchcraft #The Humans #matt haig #its so upsetting because she treats everyone horribly #tell me why that’s an acceptable answer for a fun little q&a game at a secular workplace #i swear she does it just to piss off me and my athiest colleague #im not even against christianity #i was raised as one and practiced as a devout Christian for over twenty years #but she met me after my deconstruction so i swear she thinks ive never been to church #deconstructing christianity #deconstruction #this is such an interesting way for her to announce she’s never read anything else ever #which is weird because she is also a diehard harry potter fan #but i guess when jk rowling talks about witchcraft its normal but when I do it its uncomfortable and makes her upset

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lightblueminecraftorchid · 10 months ago

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I love learning ASL it’s so good. Makes me happy to learn it. I’m so glad my university has classes for it with professors actually steeped in Deaf culture.

#blue chatter #am I good at ASL? hahahahahahaha. no.#ASL and English grammar are incredibly different and even when I remember my vocab I am easily clockable as hearing #but I do have some language capacity now. enough to communicate the basics.#and I just. genuinely really enjoy it. it’s fun to learn and engaging in a way most of my classes just aren’t.#and I can. yanno. communicate respectfully w Deaf ppl. and learn about their culture #which is incredibly important given that I want to go into a field where there is a higher incidence than typical of Deaf people #autistic? you’re more likely to be Deaf!#not to mention the fact that sign language can sometimes be a useful alternative to speech for nonspeaking/nonverbal people #depending on the person obvi; some nonspeaking/nonverbal autistics cannot use sign language and that’s okay #but surely at some point I will encounter either a Deaf client or a nonspeaking/nonverbal client who uses ASL #and when that time comes I should have some idea of how to communicate with them #I also rly like the Deaf church by my parents’ house #their community is really welcoming and their services are really interesting #I think it’s rly cool how they take intentions directly from the congregation #they’ll raise their hands and then sign what their intention is from their pew to the ambo #which is rly neat #it is funny bc every time I go the Deaf ppl I talk to will tell each other ‘go slow she’s hearing’#which is ENTIRELY fair bc. I am hearing. and I do need them to go slower.#but it also makes me laugh bc truly everyone knows within a few minutes.#oh hey the new person? they’re hearing. yeah they’re learning ASL at college. sign slowly for her.#which again makes sense bc a big Deaf culture thing is keeping ppl informed. it’s not gossip it’s getting everyone on the same page.#Deaf ppl do NOT beat around the bush that is like the height of rudeness to them. u say what u mean goshdangit. do not waste their time.#which I appreciate the heck out of bc i don’t have to try and phrase things delicately or w/e #it was also funny bc my mom came w me while I was home for Christmas and they asked her if I was her kid #and she said yes. and the lady running the kid’s craft corner thing was like ‘great you’re doing a craft now’#and I’m sitting there. visibly over 18 years old. amongst several seven year olds. trying desperately to figure out how to say hot glue gun #I made a v pretty pinecone tree it was a lot of fun ^-^

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m4ndysk4nkovich · 1 year ago

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hey guys!!!!!!! remember when fiona wanted debbie to get an abortion so bad she tackled her!! talk about a diy abortion!!!!!!😹😹😹 not even just a diy abortion for debbie, but for fiona, who had found out of her pregnancy like thirty minutes before!!!!! what was this pregnant 25 year old doing attacking a pregnant 14 year old????? embarrassing!!!!

#seriously though this is a safe space to say fuck fiona gallagher #i fucking KNOW that debbie was making a mistake #us debbie fans are TIRED of hearing about it #but these fiona fans are fucking blind and think that what she did was ok!#and debbie didn’t even lie… she ended up raising franny all by herself #fiona didn’t do jack shit because debbie didn’t want her to!!#shameless #fiona gallagher #debbie gallagher #6x02 #the church of debbie gallagher #<- im gonna start tagging shit as that

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fishfingersandscarves · 2 years ago

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pov you are my grandmother (antisemite who insists she's not bc she had "a Jewish friend once")

#talkies #girl. when will u shut up #an hour of ranting of how when she met my grandpa her friend said 'dont date him hes a jew' only to insist hes not and lmfao #find out years later after your divorce that he was in fact. a jew #woman wont even acknowledge that my uncle is jewish! and that he converted!#just bc you raised good catholic boys and loveeee the catholic church so much. i stg #anyway!#went to the holocaust exhibit at rhe reagan library today and im just full of emotion about it #shavua tov my friends #also this all started bc lmfao no one told her i was converting

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moe-broey · 4 months ago

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Doctor appointment went to go get my shots and.