#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

[kanskje-kaffe]

Silco was born in the dark. Home to him is the greasy green of oil-lamps and the buzz of the electrics, powered with bunched cables that trailed overhead and fanned out at the tunnel junctions. It's the smell of coal and tallow, stone dust and diesel backwash. It's the crunch of grit between his teeth. It's thirst. The fissure folk were always wary of miners, said they could see in the dark. It's true. Silco can. --- Silco endures wounds upon wounds, and still he doesn't die—but he's not the only one. Don't all monsters come from the dark? Tell me about Zaun again, Vander.

Howl Right Back on AO3

Pairing: Silco/Warwick, Silco/Vander Rating: Explicit Chapters: 1/3

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This is a gift for the amazing @wishfulsketching and their bomb ass Silco-meets-Warwick fanart. I was sooososo inspired by the image of Silco screaming the fuck back into Warwick's face! That's a love language babey! I think Silco deserves a werewolf boyfriend who eats people!

(Thank you to @withercrown and @spicedrobot for the beta and edits! Mwah mwah!)

[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!!!

[rejaytionships]

cannot believe i gotta say this but please don't follow me if you're comfortable selfshipping with canon racists. i don't care if you headcanon them as otherwise, because if their racism against a real group of people is a key facet of their character (much less incredibly important to the telling of the story that this character is a racist) then i do not wanna see it. this is not the safe space for you

[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

[gingerswagfreckles]

For all the Hezbollah dick suckers right now. This is what r/Lebanon looks like right now. Extremely unfriendly reminder that Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy terrorist organization that has been occupying Lebanon against her people's will for decades, and have killed hundreds of thousands of people I'm Syria. If you're celebrating or defending absolutely anything they do or talk about them like they're some liberators, you are betraying the Lebanese and Syrian people.

[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

[6-2-aestheticsofhate]

Ultratober day 14: memes

blank version of the pointing meme under the cut if you want it

[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

[victorie552]

Kind of a weird AU but hear me out:

Finwe marries Indis, right? Most controversial thing Finwe ever done and that includes leading elves from their ancestral home to a new continent to live with gods. Silmarillion says that it happened because he fell in love and I believe it BUT what Silmarillion doesn't tell you is WHEN Finwe marries Indis. I saw posts that say the canon is inconclusive and Tolkien probably changed his mind a lot, and half of what of what Tolkien wrote is thrown from the window by fandom, so.

Anyway, one of the versions said Feanor was at least a teenager when Finwe/Indis happens (I think). What Silmarillion states is that Feanor married VERY young by elven standards, and that Nerdanel was below his station (classism? in elven society? apparently!).

Last thing before I get to the main point: Fingolfin marries Anaire, a Noldo lady, who I saw often enough written as a noble or a court lady, perfectly fine that, no idea if that's canon. And Finarfin very much marries Teleri princess.

...I don't know guys, it feels very convienient. For princes to fall in love with exactly the kind of women who would be approved by royal court and strenghten political ties with other elven factions. If it was anything else than silm, I would call political marriages.

Time for crack: based on what I wrote above I propose an AU where it was FEANOR who was supposed to marry Indis. For politics! Vanyar are the most important faction in Aman! Let's marry into that!

But the MOMENT Feanor became an adult and they could process with courting without making it creppier than it already is, Feanor runs off to elope with his coworker and there's nothing they can do. Well, that's what Finwe tells Ingwe when Ingwe rages about it to him.

Finwe loves Feanor, he wants him to marry for love, and that's exactly what happens. But, uh, all Vanyar are pissed that there's no political marriage when they were promised one (they mad cause they look stupid now), and, well. Finwe decides to bite the bullet. For his son.

It's not true of course. But imagine family dinners after that.

[harryzroze]

i think he gets it, wade

[elegantwoes]

Or they never argue that Sandor should be punished for his horrific albeist view. He thinks 'monsters' (his word not mine) like Tyrion and Lolly are better off being dead:

"All?" he mocked. "Tell me, little bird, what kind of god makes a monster like the Imp, or a halfwit like Lady Tanda's daughter? If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with." (A Clash of Kings - Sansa IV).

He is straight up arguing for eugenics, but sure Sansa is the person who really deserves to be punised. Not the child murderer, not the war criminal, and certainly not the rapist. Only Sansa Stark.

I’ve seen a lot of shippers argue that Sansa should end with the Hound because she’s a privileged pretty princess and needs to fuck an ugly lowborn pedophile to unlearn classism 🙄 Ignoring the fact they’re treating wokeness like a STD, I find it pretty interesting that I never saw them use this argument to justify why Sansa should end with Podrick, who is around her age, is as lowborn as Sandor and never tried to rape her at knifepoint 🙄

[beastblade69]

well that's fucking awesome. all of the damage russians have done to our electric infrastructure can be repaired in one year minimum. IT'S GONNA TAKE MORE TAHN ONE YEAR TO REPAIR ALL OF THE ELECTRIC STATIONS RUSSIANS HIT WITH THEIR MISSILES. AND WE AIN'T EVEN TALKING ABOUT CIVILIAN OR ANY OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE. ONLY ELECTRIC ONE. MORE THAN ONE YEAR. AND WE ARE STILL NOT STRUGGLING ENOUGH IN ONLINE PEOPLE'S OPINION. FUCK OFF