#this is not a failure but a part of the process

[gaykarstaagforever]

Us living in a corporate-run wasteland of internalized advertising and formulaic sitcoms and buttrock and shitty processed food was culture the whole time!

"I HAVE TO TAKE MY FAMILY TO A DISNEY PARK AT ANY PRICE AT LEAST ONCE OR I AM A FAILURE AS A PARENT!" is our bagpipes! That's us! More direct flights to Florida! People in the Northeast flying Confederate flags! Olive Garden! All your local bands are cover bands! "Look most cops are good people."! Everyone you know likes Morgan Wallen!

You're a fish, and this is your water!

And Donald Trump is holding the fishtank.

Also hey hipsters - being a cool awesome rebel against this is ALSO part of the culture. That you will someday soon grow out of once you and your fake-blonde wife mortgage your first rental properties.

It all sucks and is terrible, and it is 100% what we are.

the reason you, a white american, believe that white americans don't have culture is the same reason fish don't believe in water

[heathersdesk]

You're Being Haunted by the Ghost of Bruce R. McConkie

An incredibly important skill set to develop as a Latter-day Saint is constantly asking "How did we get here?"

When you do that, the answers will find you.

And it's in that spirit that I want to talk about how the books of scripture you grew up reading have come to be in their present form.

This is a documentary on the 1981 edition of the standard works. It's when the standardized version of the Bible, all the references, the current formatting, and the footnotes and headings were written. It talks about who participated in the project, how different parts were developed, and the timing of when all of this took place.

This is important to know because no one person has had a greater impact on your experience with Scripture than Bruce R. McConkie. And he was sexist and racist. You need to understand that when you view the parts of your scripture references that still haven't been revised since then.

Like these entries on Interracial Marriage, which are still present in the current edition of the Topical Guide.

Who put this falsehood in your scriptures?

Bruce R. McConkie and his team of white male RMs in the 1970s.

A great deal of inspiration went into choosing the format of the LDS edition of the scriptures in 1981. They were attempting to do many things that had never been done before in publishing any edition of the Bible. It was a sacred process that is fascinating to learn about.

They also codified in writing some of the worst failures of conservative Republican thinking to enter into LDS thought, which still lingers and festers today.

Both of those things can be true at the same time.

This documentary is worth your time so you can begin to understand that about the scriptures you read. There are dead Church leaders whose ghosts still haunt you, whether you can see them or not. And this documentary was how I began to see how true that is for Bruce R. McConkie.

[bigmasterpiece4444]

I Woke Up in Another Reality: This One

Right now I’m at my grandma’s house. I stayed over with her because she wasn’t feeling well and I wanted to spend time with her. A few months ago, my cousins and I slept over at her place and I remember that in the morning she told me some stories. She loves talking about her childhood, she looks so happy when she does, and I love imagining everything she tells me. She doesn’t just talk about her childhood, she also shares tough experiences she’s been through. But something strange happened this morning while we were talking.

She told me something she had already told me months ago, but something changed. (To not make the story too long) My grandma helped a woman a few years ago who was her friend and had no one. She was completely alone and sick. My grandma has a big heart, so she brought her to live with her. I remember the whole story perfectly, and how she met her. But what I never forgot was when she told me that this woman had passed away here at her house. In her bed. I remember it so clearly because I was in shock. That’s because I’m very sensitive to the other side, to energies from other planes, and I know spirits exist because I’ve seen them myself. So I wasn’t scared, but I did think that maybe this woman’s spirit was still here in the house. I also remember thinking that maybe the energy of her illness stayed in my grandma’s bed. That’s because some time later, my grandma started to get really sick.

The thing is, today when we woke up, had breakfast and talked, she mentioned that she wanted to visit a friend she used to care for. Her kids had taken her to a nursing home and left her there. She started telling me how she met her and I froze. She told me the same story as months ago, and I stopped her and repeated everything she had told me about that woman because I already knew it, and I ended with the part where she had told me that this woman died in her bed. And it’s not a different woman, it’s the same one, because I asked the same questions as I did months ago and it was the same story, except she didn’t die. Well, I guess I shifted to an alternate reality where she didn’t die.

But the universe is so precise. Everything happens like it’s part of a perfectly written movie. It’s like reality itself is stepping in to show me I’ve changed realities.

I literally wrote in my journal on July 4 that I shifted realities to manifest it.

This is what I wrote:

July 4, 2025: Today I woke up completely different. I shifted realities, I shifted myself. I’m in a universe, in a reality where I’m aware of the creative power I have. I’m just a consciousness floating in the endless, infinite void. I realized I’m more energy than matter, I’m more nothing than something.

I’m writing in a journal about my process of no longer being myself, because I read a book by Joe Dispenza that made me realize so many things. These things happen to me often, where I shift to alternate realities with small differences. But those differences always stand out, even in everyday things. And last night, while having dinner with my cousins and grandma, I had déjà vu. I know it’s the universe showing me my power, but I feel stupid or something because I still let myself get carried away by circumstances or by identifying with failure. Or not? The thing is, I’ve already decided. Before summer ends, I’m leaving.

[seaglassdinosaur]

Something about how Haymitch continues to drink. That he never ‘fully’ recovers, even though there are plenty of opportunities through and after the series when his access to alcohol is cut off. Something about him perhaps seeing the act as pointless because the damage to his body has been done, but being content with the time he has left.

Something about Haymitch being able to care about people again; allowing himself to care about Katniss and Peeta and not having to fear losing them or anyone else ever again. That he finds a hobby, a constructive and meaningful way to spend his time that not only reminds him of Lenore Dove, but was prompted by the people he has around him. That he finally feels safe enough to open up about and remember everyone who was taken over the years. That he’s able to heal some through this.

Something about how Haymitch’s pain doesn’t go away, but he’s able to find peace with it through these practices and people, and is able to forgive himself and feel forgiven by those he lost.

[triptychofvoids]

I love the way you draw………… I look at it and go 😳………….. And then I go 🙂…………..

ehe,, thank you, i appreciate it as always!

[thepeacefulgarden]

[qoldenskies]

i feel like out of everyone april would be the worst with self-deprecating humor. the boys have self-esteem issues but they're literally all the types to play up confidence or double down instead of addressing them (raph the least, but he can be pretty stubborn at times), but april's momentum only takes her so far and she is pretty willing to admit defeat if her usual methods dont work. the speed at which she falls back into the idea that she cant do anything right,,, there's probably a point where she jokes about it before it even happens to prepare herself for disappointment, right?

[brown-little-robin]

it went fine yesterday btw :}

[pan-fried-kirke]

update! almost 100k words in and you want to know what happened? I realized a fucked up everything and I need to restart. so I either spend another 100k trying to cobble together an ending that may or may not even be applicable in the second draft while dragging myself for fucking up so royally, OR I restart now and still feel like a bit of a failure because I yet again didn't finish a project when I was so close

I just. I've spent the past three months having the free time and the new environment to even have the time and energy to get this far. and I only have one more month before I go home back to a 9hr mentally understimulating job and a family who doesn't know the meaning of silence, and then back to the American schooling system where if you have a day without homework it's a fucking miracle.

and I'm going to throw that all away. for a good reason, it'll seriously improve the pacing and the lore and everything else I've been bungling, but it's throwing it away nonetheless

I'm having feelings

[m0tiv8me]

Food for thought

[coquelicoq]

i fucking love prereading. getting documents about what's going to be discussed in a meeting and reading them and then going to the meeting and having context for all the things that are happening. if i could do this in all areas of life i would. send me a list of the words i'm going to need the definition of in order to understand what you will be talking about. give me a rundown of what topics might come up during this social encounter. provide detailed documentation of what to expect in a new setting. i will read the fuck out of that shit.

[chitsuu]

Trying really really hard to post my art on the internet without tying its value to random likes that are not in my power and also because it's not a fail if it's not catching eyes!! Not everything is an exam and I can't keep on holding myself to way too high standards

[kausijuoppo]

Final experiment

[muirmarie]

I got the screenshot right before I went to sleep last night =)

I know this will seem like a lot to some people and very little to some others haha, but! It's silly to compare it to anyone else, since we all write in different fandoms over the years and write different types and lengths and amounts of fics.

So this is really just me thinking about the number itself, and like. Kinda wild that 30,000 times someone had pushed a little button to say they liked one of my fics!

Kissing all your faces xoxoxo

[pathological-runaway]

what if duets guide has avpd....... what if....

[multi-lefaiye]

friends in the into darkness server: haha yeah i was wondering how eden's been handling that one time james grabbed him by the throat and threatened to kill him

me, visibly resisting the urge to ramble: yeah he's normal about it