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demonictumble · 3 months

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Matthias isn't my favorite character, but his personality and growth holds my heart.

His deeply religious background and how he tries so hard to keep his faith. His love for someone whose always been deemed "unnatural" in his world. His inner war with himself as he tries to balance his beliefs and nina.

it's beautiful towards the end, when he finally finds a way to merge his beliefs. I think I can read that chapter over and over again because it had been a long time coming and boom he had that revelation. It's beautiful.

how beliefs that encourage hatred and division can be altered to something that breeds love. it's a matter of perspective in religion. religion can be used to aid conquest, commit murders, everything and more. but it can also be used to spread love. Matthias is proof of that, he never got to spread his new revelations but the fact that he had them showed that change was possible. showed hope for a future not built on hatred and religious justification.

his story is one of hope to me. that one day religions can stop being used as tools of hate. that people can change. that people are not stuck in a box. that people can learn that there are no "unnatural" people and there just are people.

#this is kinda obvious though im not making any new points #discussions about religion in wars and peace have always existed #can you tell this is personal for me #having lived in a place surrounded by religion and conservative beliefs #I like to think that there are people who are matthaises and will character develop #the characters are so complex and I love this series so much #six of crows #soc #matthais helvar #nina zenik #crooked kingdom #ck #six of crows duology

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safety-pin-punk · 6 months

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Everyone admire the pen my coworker bought me because 1) I use 20 different colors for all the things in my notes and lab books and 2) I kept complaining about my pens going missing.

Well. Guess no ones gonna steal my pen now at least lol

#personal #welcome to my life #blasting green day while writing with a hello kitty pen surrounded by old conservative men

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firelise · 5 months

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why does yuan keep talking about going hiking and seeing nature while abroad? was he not in new york? sir wtf are u talking about? what mountain? did they go to the poconos? like

#an avalanche?? where??#was he upstate? in which case he would have been surrounded by conservative trump ppl & farms #where tf did he go fishing on the fucking hudson? did he catch a dead human body like #am i dumb like what is he talking about #camille watches #unknown the series

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kermit-coded · 1 year

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i will never be able to put into words how much the percy jackson books mean to me... they were a formative experience and they truly helped shape me into the person i am today, so the fact that we're finally getting a good live action makes me feel unwell...

#i will be SO insufferable when this comes out #also the riordianverse in general was my introduction to a lot of different people and cultures #first positive exposure to gay and trans people #first positive exposure to muslim/nonchristian folks #it helped me learn about the world around me #and i know they arent perfect but god they mean so much to me #so im sobbing fr that theyre getting it right...#the bit in tkc where carter mentions that his dad told him that he needs to dress well bc otherwise he's going to be seen as a threat as #a black man in america #the parts in mcga where samirah talks about her faith #specifically when she has magnus take watch for her while shes praying #and alex's whole introduction and the exchange about his/her prounouns #specifically magnus going ''wouldnt it be easier just to go by they/them'' and alex saying ''easier for who?''#all live rent free in my head #as a queer kid stuck at catholic school and surrounded by conservative adults these books saved my life #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson disney+#soda speaks #riordanverse #pjo

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reclaiming-god · 11 months

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kinda funny how my most profound religious experiences have always been in times of despair, identifying with my queerness and the struggles of other queer people, or in anger about the injustices of the world

#being surrounded by a very conservative religious community makes one's spiritual landscape so barren man.

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nancys-braids · 19 days

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seeing people online saying trump won that debate last night by a land slide. i just have one question, do you have cement for brains?

#i’m still so stunned by half the shit he said last night #but also. so saddened. that this election is close at all.#living in area surrounded by conservatives i may not survive the next few months #us politics #2024 presidential debate

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louisdotmp3 · 1 month

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#i'm surrounded by too many like well meaning gen x'ers who want to chat casually about politics #like girl i fear if i get into with you i'll have to call you an idiot i'm SORRY #but you can't just say 'you know something crazy there hasn't been a single republican president that's left the country better #in my lifetime'#without me saying and there never was and never will be #saying oh well republicans used to be chill and normal and just financially conservative #even if that were true that would still be terrible WHAT is going on in there #them saying oh they've been talking a lot about reproductive rights at the dnc #like i have to follow that up with oh yeah that thing that they're only ever going to campaign on??#that thing that they did nothing about but campaign on and now we no longer have ????? THAT thing?#met with well we don't have a majority in the house right now <3 #as if I'M stupid. girl they had decades.#sorry elections make me a miserable bitch !#i fear it's the democrats being born and bred losers that does it

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bandedbulbussnarfblat · 9 months

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one thing i think the fandom fails to acknowledge is lestat's racism. like, no, he does literally think black are beneath him. he's not nazi racist, he's just regular racist. like in the way he refuses to try to see how race very much has an impact in the way louis lives. he just assumes that as a vampire, he's beyond that. and refusing to acknowledge that doesn't just make him a shitty boyfriend, it's racist. bc race literally affects every aspect of a person's life. it's racist the same way those 'color-blind' people are racist.

#this post is going to get me hate #i can feel it #tbh i think a lot of the problem with fandom is that they don't consider certain things or people as racist unless they're a cartoon villai #it has to be fucking in your face to really be acknowledged #when real life racism is a lot more subtle than that most of the time #but i'm white and i grew up in the south #i know how to clock racism when i see it bc other white people feel safe enough to show it to me #i have extended family members i avoid bc they're racist #along with the homophobes and transphobes and sexists #i'm basically surrounded by conservative christians in my very red county #what i'm saying is i know racism when i see it dammit

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ittybittybumblebee · 7 months

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i hate my transphobic town

#i cant escape. everywhere i work it seems theres. conservatives....#and i cant say anything abt what i think id get in big trouble if they knew. fuck tghis town. hell..#i have no where. everyone i actually get to talk to always seems to be this way i cant Ever interact with anyone else noooooo #anytime i go to the city and see . someone who may not b Stupid . i cant ever talk to them #i read as cis.#im not out #i dont fucking get to belong in my crowd because eveyone that surrounds me would tear me apart for it #literally all i have is being Me online so i dont feel like im being squished under a rock

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just-your-average-tangerine · 2 months

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Some of yall make it very clear that your journey of unlearning the homophobia you were raised with began and ended with the ways that it affects you personally. And worse, that you have no intention of changing that.

#some of yall really just go around like 'i fully believe conservative propaganda surrounding other queer people #but its okay when i do it because im queer and therefore safe

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crystalis · 7 months

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i domt think my grandma likes me much anymore after these past several months which is funny

everyone always joked about how i was the favorite grandkid and she was so partial towards me and now its like almost uncomfortable being around eachother

#literally cannot see her the same way after all the vocal outward conservatism came out idgaf that shes brainwashed by it because im #not gonna infantalize her because shes old and been surrounded by conservative backwards politics her whole life #she should know whats right and used her moral judgement at any point or questioned it but didnt #and its too late now when someones like 80 and backwards theres nothing you can do theres nothing that you can possibily say that could #make them change their mind or see things froma different perspective #shes so ate up with Fox News its honeslty grotesque

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diluc33rpm · 8 months

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the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

#i love gale he doesn't deserve (most of) the incel slander #but it's painfully such a good riff because it really really does feel like that #the player choices being a b/w alternation between 'hey there' and 'YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF... NOW!' normally is already comical as is #the fact that it carries over into interactions with the party members who you're presumably trying to be close with is... something else #and what makes it worse is it ISN'T jokey hyperbole. anyone remember 'send a mental image of you kissing him or HIS HEAD ON A PIKE.' c'mon #trying to chat and vibe at the refugee camp celebration and the sum of conversation i get is one (1) line asking how they're doing #because going any further than that elicits marking you down for the path of boning take it or leave it #it's genuinely so hard to get to feel like you can deepen a relationship with the characters in ways that aren't trying to pursue them #yes! halsin! i really want to know you better! i just don't want the ass!! why is trying to hit the only option other than up and leaving!!#99% of the time i expect nothing from media creators in terms of writing interactive relationships #larian are beyond parody in that they've somehow managed to do worse than the already suboptimal majority #we're just going to impose the roadblock of do you want to fuck y/n right off the bat. good luck finding a way to talk around that if not #the obscuration surrounding where exactly the checks are really does not help at all either #when the shit's got even the allos complaining about it you know it's BAD #shame because i was excited for character scenes given that's a lot of what's hyped up about the game #but no it's all just the romances. 'what if i'd like to breathe in someone's general direction-' well now have you heard of our romances?#fish fear them party members fear them and tav is going to have to walk alone on this sinful earth #conservative bigoted relative at the family reunion withers era was a fucking time before they tweaked that line speaking of #just so crazy they can get away with this shit #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 liveblog

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mars-in-the-starz · 1 month

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W D Gangster (Feat Bill Ci)

#WD Gangster #wd gaster #w d gaster #gaster #wdgaster #Billici #Billcipher #one sixer please #billford #gangster #undertale #deltarune #gravity falls #My World Is Burning Down Around Me #My Deep Despair Is What Surrounds Me #i havent slept #school has been kicking my ass #i have this one teacher and she is very very very very very “Conservative” iykyk

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lifeofcynch · 9 months

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it really is a weird feeling when you’ve had a specific opinion for like years and only recently start to be like ‘hm is this worth it? is this really the hill i want to die on?’

#ramblings #and then your online persona is forever muddied by it #yes this is about my anti-SJW transmed phase lol #my view now is basically that people can do what they want with their bodies and idc if you’re dysphoric or not bodily autonomy is a right #and also i was very ignorant on a lot of issues #and like it’s so embarrassing to turn around after believing something so strongly for YEARS but i was going down a slippery fucking slope #like straight up believing certain things that are white supremacist propaganda #i surrounded myself with some people that were straight up conservative grown ass adults #and now like half the website has me blocked and i can’t exactly blame them i was an edgelord #also i had pointless debates that did nothing but make my anxiety worse #bc my bad takes came back and bit me in the ass #if you ever saw the cop post no you didn’t #omg sorry for going off in the tags but i’ve been thinking about this stuff a lot #i’m going through changes man #anyway social justice is good actually

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lovecolibri · 2 months

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#the joy of getting baby gifts and making baby gifts #vs the horror of being surrounded by my sil's super conservative family #and men who are offended by drinks having shimmer it #and complaining because 'aren't these things for girls? why do we have to be here?'#ANYWAY #fun reminder to me that i actually do not like socializing with these people

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xannerz · 3 months

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we have to put 'problematic' and 'abusive' on a higher shelf yappy fans keep using these words just a little too liberally, my dudes!

#remember how people started conflating their personal repulsions/dislikes #going from describing them as squicks to insisting they're triggers/morally condemnable. i remember!#my bitching aside very concerned for ppl 25 and under! they're growing up extremely repressed/stunted #and this is coming from someone who grew up repressed/ashamed b/c i as surrounded by a v religious/socially conservative family!#we swapped one panopticon out for another #also yk how you can also tell someone's incapable of forming their own opinions #at least partically b/c they virtue signal all the time #yeah. yeah!#fandom bitterblogging #anyway i saw a bad post and i had to bitch about it. i feel better now 😇🌞#xantalks

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