#these people are fucking nuts

[anewnewcrest]

What kind of lessons is Martha teaching those kids? Bankruptcy?! Is the Matthews family secretly full of financial criminals lol

This is - unfortunately - an absolutely Fundie-accurate easter egg. *takes deep breath* Rant incoming in 3, 2, 1...

The IBLP (Bill Gothard's cult that the Duggar and Bates families used to follow, and some still currently follow) used so-called Wisdom Booklets (Content Warning: EVERYTHING, and they specifically talk about sexual assault and abuse in the most horrendous fashion possible. I am not kidding here. Also, be prepared to lose a few IQ points) as their homeschooling materials. The way these booklets of making people actively dumber worked is that every child from kindergarden to high school graduate worked with the same booklet, and learned the same lesson as a family, with the mother providing differentiation (meaning she's responsible for breaking it up and supplementing the materials and teaching it in ways that a 5y/o and an 18y/o and everyone in between can get something out of it, which is something even teachers with actual fucking degrees and shit would struggle with in that situation, with those materials). A family was also supposed to work through all booklets in a year, and then just repeat every year, so if you spent your whole school career homeschooled, you'd repeat these booklets 13-ish times or so. This obviously did not work for a lot of reasons, and led to disastrous educational outcomes, not least because the booklets are also factually inaccurate (like, basic 7th grade math is just... plain wrong), horrific from a didactics standpoint, and read like a 12 y/o with a thesaurus was supposed to mock up an educational resource. They also indoctrinate children into the cult, by - for example - telling children that abuse is their fault and that they need to forgive their abuser, or that they're supposed to be willing to die for their faith, amongst other horrible things.

Enter the first Duggar TV Special, 14 Children and Pregnant Again from 2004. At 21:12, the Duggar homeschooling setup is shown, and they are using this Wisdom Booklet (#35) whose "Law" (basically, indoctrination into cult rules but make it seem biblical and universal) section is about Bankruptcy to scare good cult children into never even touching a credit card, because people who have debt are stupid, lazy, greedy, proud, and impatient. No, no, this is not a fucking joke. I'm not making this shit up.

Which leads to the somewhat only famous moment where little Joy Duggar, who's about five years old and busy adding a pretty border to her worksheet because she doesn't understand a fucking word about bankruptcy and also doesn't particularly care, because again, she's five fucking years old, gets told by her mother, "Joy, bankruptcy doesn't mean you go to the bank."

So, to make a long story short, this is why 7y/o Madison Matthews knows about bankruptcy! Because fundies teach their children that!

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

‘don’t watch dungeon meshi for the ships you’ll be disappointed’ ‘why does everyone in the fandom focus on shipping so much why can’t you just enjoy the actual story’

We did. We did enjoy the story. And if I wanted to read something that explores only the canonical themes and plot and platonic relationships I could just reread the manga.

Fandom has always been primarily driven mostly by shipping, like what the fuck were you expecting?? Dunmeshi is not unique in that way. And people are out here acting like a ship has to be canon for it to be enjoyable which is incredibly silly. Are y’all new to fandom or something? Is this your first anime? It’s okay if it is but like, maybe temper your expectations a bit.

Like, oh no people are focusing on their favorite ships when creating transformative fanworks! In other news, water is still wet!!!

[spite-and-waffles]

FUCK YES STEPHANIE IS THE JASON THAT NEVER WAS PANDA YOU ARE THE HERO THIS FANDOM NEEDS BUT DOES NOT DESERVE PREACH THE GOSPEL OF STEPHANIE AMEN

[murk888]

Aro 👉👈

I DIDN'T HAVE MY TWILIGHT STAGE IN TIME, OKAY?!? Now I watch the films while dying from laughter most of the time, their faces I can't-

MICHAEL SHEEN >>>>> 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

[the-holy-ghosted]

congrats 2 henry peglar for being the only bitch confirmed as to be Fucking That Old Man

[1495-gauge]

there's that fucked up three-eyed thing that lives in the woods. whose turn is it to chase it off again??

[metaben]

idk why this fandom has such an issue with acknowledging abuse when it isn't Astarion but Gale was pretty obviously abused and groomed and I would rather people in denial of this unfollow me :|

grooming is also not a minor-specific act so trying to use his age as a reason he wasn't abused is pretty dumb and shows both your ignorance and that you don't take abuse on adults seriously. like suddenly cults and brainwashing and power imbalances and human trafficking doesn't exist because you just don't want to see Gale as a survivor of abuse himself lol?

it basically comes down to people being ignorant about what grooming is in wider terms. and even if you want to ignore the actual definition of grooming and how adult survivors are impacted, Mystra is still a GODDESS. if anyone is able to exact a power imbalance on someone equivalent to the traditional child-grooming that you think is the only type to exist, it would be a Goddess to her Chosen

this is also ignoring the fact that he started discovering his powers around 8 and Mystra would have been aware of him immediately?

also-also ignoring Minsc outright describing how magical boys in his village were hidden away from Mystra?

just how is this even an argument? you are simply wrong...

[spicyraeman]

finished the creche with Hound and god seeing lae'zel surrounded by her dead kin and yelling to the heavens asking if all the pain shes been through has been for nothing fuckin gets me everytime

[puppyeared]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[harryzroze]

i think he gets it, wade

[celestie0]

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[essektheylyss]

was reminded that people get riled up about this the way they get riled up about pineapple on pizza and honestly, as a knowledge org nerd, it is weird and unnecessary 😌

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

There are only so many fanfics that use the entirety of DC as cardboard cutouts to prop up bat family characters that I can read before I go berserk.

I swear to god. Every character that has ever been shipped with a bat or coexists on the same team as a bat is owed an apology.

How many Young Justice fanfics that solely revolve around Tim must exist? How many Titans fanfics centered only on Dick? Why is it a herculean task to find a Justice League fanfic without Bruce as the main character?

And then even when you do find a fic that seems like it's balanced, everything still revolves around the bat. Like Kon, Cassie and Bart have nothing else going on in their lives except Tim and Tim's issues or thinking about Tim. Like Donna and Wally and Roy just cannot function if they aren't spending every waking moment thinking about Dick.

I'm... Guys. I'm at my limit. I swear to god. We need to make a Batman tag and surgically remove all these fics and quarantine them there. We'll keep the actual DC fics and they can do whatever the fuck they want in their own tag. It's getting ridiculous how hard it is to find fanfic that's actually DC related and isn't just 'The BatFam Show'.

[moomin279]

People in real life: hey man hows it going

[dykedvonte]

I dislike takes that Danse would be just as conservative in modernized aus when it's clearly shown his staunch views of things come from his time in the Brotherhood and his deep-rooted desire to belong to something with a greater purpose.

Not to mention lines that show much more open-mindedness that get overlooked for his harsher sentiments when you first meet him. Like the oppurtunity to be a part of something is why Danse fell so far into Brotherhood dogma and it doesn't negate the offense things he does but I feel like it's just lazy to be like "hmmm he'd def be racist" just so it aligns to his BoS beliefs.