#they are the same person! but they're not

[lowercasenospaces]

“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.” – Exodus 20:12

Parents think it's a sin for their children to disobey them. Parents think it's okay to assault their children in order to instill the fear of God in them.

Those parents are prime examples of using the lord's name in vain. But they don't want their children to know that. So they instead invent some bullshit definition.

[martyryo]

Yaoi blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[glambots]

Kind of a personal HC, but I really like the idea that Moon speaks in "we/us" pronouns and Sun speaks with "I/He" pronouns. Moon is constantly of the mind-set that he's a part of the DCA and no matter how badly Sun wants to pretend that he can, he can't just erase him from existence. And Sun, of course, wants to do what he can to try and separate himself from Moon as much as possible. Sure, he's technically him, but He's the other him, which makes him not as bad, right?!

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[humbuns]

pieced together till they're no longer broken apart

[bixels]

The Piedra sisters.

Born and raised in a small mining town in New Mexico. Calida and María Molina have stayed behind to support their parents while Rosita and Madelina have gone off to pursue their dreams. Madelina recently obtained her Ph.D. in geology from Las Cruces College. Rosita works as a baking apprentice and entertainer in Ponyville, Nebraska. Madelina is the eldest, Calida the middle child, and Rosita and María Molina (non-identical) twins.

[ministarfruit]

day 12: karma ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[sprinklesharkie]

why do they always have the same stance

[madmaudlingoes]

Journalist and anthropologist Sarah Kendzior has argued since ~2015 that this was Trump's goal all along - not fascism, because he, personally, doesn't give a shit about America as a state. But stripping the government for parts, the same way the corpse of the Soviet Union was stripped for parts after its death in 1991. That's where the Russian oligarchy started, taking all the things that used to be run by the state and turning them towards profit creation with minimal up-front risk.

Take over a bridge that's already built and start collecting a toll. Take over a utility that never had any competition because it was run as a public service, and jack up the prices as high as you like. Take over public property - national parks and government offices alike - and either sell it at a profit or charge rent.

The worst parts of American society already operate like this - vulture capitalists taking over a functional company and profiting at the expense of the existing customers and workers, pharmaceutical companies turning publically-funded research into patented drugs with a four-figure markup. And it's explicitly part of the template of Project 2025: kill the National Weather Service so somebody else can profit off weather forecasts, kill USPS so somebody else can profit off your bills and Christmas cards and mail-in ballots. Kill the FAA so Elon Musk can make it a wholely owned subsidiary of one of his companies, paid for out of your pockets directly into his.

So it's worth saying, affirmatively and proudly: public services exist to serve the public. The whole point of government is to accomplish things we can't do as individuals, to provide services that shouldn't have to be profitable or efficient because they're needed. I want parks and schools and libraries, I want a postal service and a weather service and Social Sercurity, and I want everyone to pay into maintaining them because everybody benefits.

Btw, privatization is stealing from *you.* You are the public in "publicly owned." Oligarchs are coming in to take the things we all share ownership of as Americans, like Medicare, Social Security, National Parks, PBS and scrapping them for parts they find profitable.

The right is planning to rob us and quite literally want us to thank them for the privilege by calling it "government efficiency."

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[epi-phan-y]

I had a thought

[ripplefields]

it's literally them

[lindstromm]

This. So much this. I'm tumblr-old (50s) and I was raised in a conservative Christian culture with rigid gender roles. It wasn't a fantasy! It was God's will for my life! All I had to do was be faithful and obedient, and God would provide.

No one could talk me out of it. And if you tried, you were the devil trying to destroy my faith. Gender roles used to be a religious thing. Now they're also secular (sort of - there's a mystical overlay of the divine feminine).

The only thing that breaks through the fantasy and the faith is real life experience. That's why it's important to tell the stories. My mother piously lived a life as a tradwife. I wanted the faithful fantasy, but I didn't want her marriage. I was in my mid-30s before I realized that I had her marriage. I filed for divorce. It took me that long to realize that fantasy and faith are both lies.

And here's the other challenge. I left behind all my conservative values, but I'm the only one. I have six siblings who are still deep in the faith, who are raising my 17 niblings in that same faith and fantasy. Sure, a lot of people leave, but even more stay. It works for some people. And that's something we have to acknowledge if we want to be trusted. It works for some people. The dialogue needs to be that people need choices - being single needs to be doable, getting divorced needs to be easy, men need to be supported in acknowledging their emotions, women need equal pay and equal rights.

The talking point needs to be that everyone has to have the choice to NOT be married so that people can freely choose to get married.

The talking point needs to be that one person can earn a living wage so that a single person can live comfortably but ALSO that a man can support his family if his wife wants to stay home with the kids.

The talking point needs to be that women should absolutely have financial and employment skills so that she can be backup if something happens to her husband.

The talking point needs to be that men are better husbands and fathers if they are in touch with their emotions and willing to be vulnerable.

The talking point needs to be that gays should be openly accepted because it causes harm to conservatives if a gay person tries to deny their homosexuality by marrying a straight conservative person and mixed-orientation marriages are so hard.

Liberal ideas -- women's rights, equal education, equal pay, gay rights, therapyspeak, men expressing vulnerable emotions -- all of it can be couched in terms that conservatives value too. That's our bridge. Even when I was at my most conservative and faithful, I recognized the value in those talking points, in supporting liberal ideas that make conservative lifestyles better.

The alt-right's foothold into Gen-Z is frustrating and I can see from over here how they're doing it.

You've got a generation of young-adults who are learning to be adults for the first time and for so many of them it sucks. It sucks to be in your first shitty apartment where things break, and to have your first shitty car that needs maintenance, and to be working a low-paying service or retail job where you get berated all day and barely scrape by. And you go home and you have taxes to figure out and electric bills to figure out and a screen on your phone to rot into to destress.

And this is men and women, equally, in this spot. But the alt-right messaging gets to tailor their approach to gender.

And hey women, yes you working a shitty job for shitty pay, overwhelmed by financial responsibilities and car repairs, what if you actually didn't need to do ANY of that? You don't need to. And you don't need to feel guilty about it. (You're not quitting, you're not being lazy), you actually are just embracing the chance to be exactly who an ideal woman should be. You should actually be beautiful, and demure, and barefoot in a sunny kitchen, glowing, pregnant, hearing the joyful sounds of your children while you bake a roast for your wonderful husband (strong, protective, loves you, handles the finances, handles the jobs, handles all the things you hate). OUR ancestors (don't mind the dogwhistle) did this for GENERATIONS, and modern society has failed you instead!

It's offering to break women out of all the parts of their real life that suck, and do it in a way that promises they're actually being better, being more admirable, more moral, more respectable, more correct, can feel good about, can feel proud about, as a Woman as Feminine as Mother as Goddess.

And the thing being promised does not need to actually reflect reality. It's a fantasy. It is not real. For every "beautiful demure barefoot" day, you'd be having another one covered in shit changing diapers of screaming infants with screaming children while your husband ignores you because it's Women's Work (take pride!) But that doesn't matter. It just needs to sound better than the reality they're living.

Then the men are targeted too. And it's the same in that it's getting to them by appealing to pride in their gender, but the messaging is different. It's "those finances are hard but ACTUALLY you're leveling up, you're grinding, you're finance maxing." It's hard but it's the kind of hard that is a challenge you can WIN at, boast about, post about, prove your manliness. Knowing cars, knowing home repairs, knowing taxes, that's your MAN pride, and you are so elite, you are so sigma, you are the envy of everyone, you are a masculine man. Women love you. Women will defer to you. Strong, respected, moral, loyal, unshakeable. Unlike those pansy men (mind the homophobic dogwhistling) who will whimper and cry like girls. You are better.

The shitty retail job is actually humble beginnings because you're minmaxing your way to financial success (bitcoin, crypto, investments). You can sleep with any woman you want as long as you're confident, and then you'll find one who understands how smart and confident and strong and protective you are and she will defer to you as her man. She will birth your children and teach them good morals and you will make it. Our ancestors lived this way for generations (dogwhistle) and modern society took it from you.

And with that messaging it makes it clear who the enemy in all this is - modern society that has convinced women to torture themselves with high education and terrible jobs, turned them Ugly with Ugly opinions and bad hair and nasty attitudes, yelping about "rights" and "equality" (pitting them against men! TAKING things from men!) All the while, society has been trying to emasculate men--replace them with women, make them soft and emotional, make them gay, make them WEAK. We've been made WEAK.

The naive women hearing this go "I'm not ugly! I don't hate men! I DO hate my job and my finances. I've been tricked. I'm actually rebelling by declaring my goal is to get a Perfect (White) (Christian) moral husband who will make all our decisions and protect me and our children." (And when she's financially trapped in an abusive marriage...? When she's suicidal with PPD but her husband won't touch that because it's Woman Hysteria...? And when her husband leaves her for someone who was as hot as she was 20 years ago and now she's figuring out finances, health care, taxes, bank accounts for the first time in her life...?)

And the men go "They've been TAKING things from us for too long! It's time to be men again! It's time to take pride! I am strong and confident. I am in charge! I never show weakness!" (And when he's got a gun to his head due to the depression he's never been allowed to talk about as Women Feelings...? And when he's financially ruined from a crypto scheme that stroked his ego and robbed him blind...? And when he's dead from alcohol poisoning and none of his adult children notice because no one's spoken to 'Dad' in 15 years...?)

And it's so hard to fight because you're arguing against a fantasy. How do you disprove their fantasy? It's so hard to explain to them, hey you're working a shitty job where you have no future because the rich bastards took it all from you. And now you're doing their work for them. You hate society because of what they've done to it and now you're doing their work. Now you're targeting groups who've never done anything to harm you and the guys responsible are laughing to the bank. How do you explain? How do you disprove fantasy?

[kelpermoosee]

My friend labeled this “toxic aromantic yaoi” and I couldn’t agree more

[cutiesigh]

❤️🖤🩷

Wuthering Waves has taken over all of my free time recently, so here's a sketch of Scar!Ren I originally shared in da 14DWY Discord!!

[lala-blahblah]

I get why people headcanon that Trucy would call Edgeworth "Uncle Miles" because it represents how close he is to Nick and Trucy and how he's basically part of the family etc. HOWEVER I cannot help but imagine the shock and horror of passersby who hear Trucy call one man "uncle" and one "daddy" as they watch Nick and Miles interact lovingly in public and come to the conclusion that Nick is openly cheating on his spouse with his spouse's brother.