((if you wish to be loved, love.)) LJ / Ellen / Jasper, nonbinary, they/he/she. queer, pagan, feminist, clusterfuck. you can buy me a ko-fi @ vvvwrites

asha-mage:

What is your Toxic Writer Trait?

it’s not a run on sentence if I use enough commas

better to capitalize to much then not enough

I dare not repeat this single word to often, to the thesaurus!

better my prose read like a text book rather then have someone call it purple

feedback WILL include “the setting feels like a character” so help me GOD

their is no such thing as to much fun with italics and bolding

so what if my barely literate farmboy talks like he got a high school education?

i had to think up socioeconomics for this STUPID world, you WILL hear about it

it’s my story and I’ll include my thinly veiled fetish if I want too

other (specify in tags)


justcatposts:

Okay I’m full now bye bye

by @world_of_meows


catchymemes:

Monaco’s actual sea wall


myclericalromance:

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said “we’re not catholic here”. now every time i’m doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.


May 16 | 8:29 | 38576♥ | vaspider

wh0re-behavi0r:

which one of these “childhood activities” do you not know how to do?

ride a bike

jump/skip rope

hula hoop

whistle

cross the monkey bars

cartwheel

i cant/never did more than one of these (name which in the tags)

i can do all of these

you forgot one (name in the tags)


ben-learns-smth:

I always bring a book just in case but today I forgot and now I’m bored on the train, so

what is the one (1) thing you always bring with you that isn’t your phone, wallet, or keys?

a book

a snack

a drink

a fidget toy

headphones/earphones

an extra piece of clothing (jacket, sweater, ..)

a hat/cap

none of these, it’s actually… (tags pls!)

actually two or more are integral to my survival (tags pls!)

show results

reblogs appreciated!


May 16 | 8:04 | 24217♥ | vaspider

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  1. “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” - Ilya Kaminsky
  2. Truisms - Jenny Holzer
  3. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
  4. Proverbs 31:8
  5. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
  6. The Plague - Albert Camus
  7. Poznan grafiti 1991
  8. “September 7, 1939″ - W. H. Auden
  9. Meditations - Marcus Aurelias
  10. John Lewis
  11. Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
  12. White Rose Movement Memorial, Munich
  13. Proverbs 24
  14. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett

Bonus round:

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15. The Blues Brothers


May 16 | 8:02 | 290♥ | vaspider

tahanialjemil:

me, after buying things for myself and trying not to feel guilty about it: *through gritted teeth* s-self care


ohboylookatthatbugbeepbeep:

the-haiku-bot:

trapny:

“Not everything is a poem it needs intent” yeah shut up you bitch.

Maybe accidents are beautiful. Ever think about that, dumbass?

“Not everything is

a poem it needs intent”

yeah shut up you bitch.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

for fuck’s sake—


arcaniumagi2:

peel-a-potato-with-a-potato:

maneth985:

a-humble-waffle:

taramaclaywasaterf:

unified-multiversal-theory:

sugary-bowl:

kropotkindersurprise:

June 22 2019 - A fascist trying to pick a fight at Bologna Pride gets more reaction than he bargained for. [video]

Exit, pursued by bear.

@exeuntpursuedbyabear

The description of the original video:

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Translation:

“A neo-fascist, in all his Italian virility, begins to insult some women participating in Bologna Pride. This until, frightened by other protesters covered with glitter and by a bear far more virile than he, to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.”

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR. I’M SOBBING

La fuga, pursued by bear in glitter 🤣🤣🤣

“to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.” ROAST HIS ASS

the Strength, the Solidarity, and the Shade here is examplary


p4nsy:

This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I’m never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn’t make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn’t use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.


May 16 | 7:16 | 9887♥ | childoffantasy

catgirlcowboy:

rb this n tell me what is the same and what is diff abt ur relationship to ur gender n sexual identity compared to urself 7 years ago :3c


ruffboijuliaburnsides:

brightlotusmoon:

anarchistmemecollective:

jupitermelichios:

asgardian-viking:

the-library-alcove:

I have a story that’s topical; I’ve told it before on tumblr, but it’s topical to this and thus worth repeating.

Back around 2005, I ran into a Baptist missionary who spotted my kippah and basically took that as permission to attempt to missionize at me.

I defended myself, using the basics of the knowledge I have of Christian theology and texts that I learned specifically to fend off missionaries.

We went back and forth and back and forth, and he wouldn’t leave me alone for… oh, probably the better part of an hour.

And then…

Then this part is seared into my memory. I have nightmares about it.

He smiled at me and said that, with my knowledge of the Gospels, I am sure to be one of the Elect when the time comes.

I asked what the hell that meant.

And he told me. He told me in a tone of utmost sincerity–even envy, because to his belief system, it was a good and enviable thing…

Because to be one of the “Elect” is to be one of the 144,000 Jews who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior at the Apocalypse. This will happen when all of the Children of Israel have been Gathered in the Land of Israel; war will break out, the Assembled Jews will have the Gospels preached to us, and 144,000 Thousand–Twelve Tribes times Twelve Apostles times One Thousand–Jews will spontaneously convert to Christianity.

Once that occurs, all of the Jews die in the Apocalypse, but the Elect ascend to Heaven to be Jesus Christ’s personal escorts down to Earth for his Second Coming (the rest of the Jews go to hell for eternity, in case you’re wondering).

In short…

He told me that I existed to be a human blood sacrifice to bring back his god. I was not a person to him. I was nothing more than a means to that end.

And he was jealous. Jealous of the fact that he viewed my knowledge of his religion, something that I had learned specifically to fend him and his kind off, as proof that his religion was right and correct and inevitable. That in learning it, I had made myself more valuable to his worldview.

Jealous that, because I was more valuable, because I existed to die for his god, I would meet that god before him.

It was terrifying, to be told that I was to die… and he thought that it was a good thing.

This is how Evangelicals view death. Not as something to be avoided, but something to seek, something that is a positive, and not just for themselves… but for everybody.

They are the closest thing to a full-fledged Religion of Evil on the planet, and I say that without hyperbole.

When you guys say the US is being controlled by a death cult, you werent kidding!

It’s also worth noting that a significant number of premillenial dispensationalists (aka people who believe in the rapture - actually a pretty small minority of christians found almost exclusively in the USA) not only think the end of the world is good, they think they can rules lawyer their way into making it happen.

when I was a little kid I used to build nests out of sticks and leave them in trees, because I thought we’d get more birds that way. If I created the conditions in which I knew birds to exist, that would cause birds to appear. That is how a lot of evangelicals think armageddon works.

they’re surprisingly pro-israel, even by american standards in general, which seems off given how virulently anti-semitic they all are. until you remember that they think the twelve tribes gathering in israel is one of the conditions for triggering the end times. they don’t just hate palestinians because they’re islamophobic, they literally think them living in jerusalem is stopping jesus from coming back. (This is also how they justify the fact that most of them want all jews removed from america - they want to send them back to their ancestral homeland *cough*to be a human sacrifice for jesus*cough* so how could you ever think they’re antisemitic?!)

this also creates their extremely weird attitudes to the UN, which most of them think will be responsible for the antichrist (the apocalype of john says he will unite all nations - and never mind that we know who he was and he’s been dead nearly 2000 years now, and uniting all nations meant bringing them under the rule of the roman empire, which provably didn’t happen), which they want to happen because it’s a precursor to Jesus, but also don’t want to happen because wanting it would mean supporting satan and if they do that then they won’t be part of the group who get saved during the rapture.

(Also satan is definitely real guys, he’s really really real and 100% in the bible and not primarily a product of medieval pop-culture at all!)

and hand in hand with the ‘we can make the world end’ thing comes the belief that this is going to happen soon, any day now, so why worry about stuff like depleting resources or climate change or loss of species, because it’s all going to be destroyed within 1 generation maximum, probably next year, so who cares?

oh, and don’t forget that america is overwhealmingly calvinist, voted mainstream protestant theology most likely to fuck up your brain 471 years running! Basically Calvinism is founded on the idea that God knows in advance who’s going to be saved, and most people are actually on earth not to excercise their free will to attain grace, but just to suffer, because they were born inherently bad and god knows it and is basically fucking with them. You can never become one of God’s elect, you can only prove that you already were. On an individual level this is bad, but not that much worse than other christian denominations, you prove you’re one of gods elect by doing good christian things like prayer and charity, if you sin you might go to hell. It encourages more pettiness and rules-lawyering when considering sins, but overall, pretty standard stuff.

Where it gets really fucked, and the reason why John Calvin is number 2 on my list of Christian theologians to punch in the face if there turns out to be an afterlife (right after augustine of hippo), is that it encourages you to think of everyone who isn’t you as either good or inherently evil with hope of redemption. and since everyone wants to think they’re a good person, the criteria for inherently evil with no hope of redemption basically becomes ‘not like me’, or at least ‘not like the ideal my religious community holds up as an example’.

I would posit this is also why they evangelise in the way they do - they’re not actually trying to “save” anyone else, they’re trying to prove to their community that they’ve already been saved

so yeah, they don’t just look forward to death, they’re literally trying to end the world, and fuck everyone else, because anyone who isn’t exactly like them was born evil and can never actually be saved. and these people are in government in the most powerful nation on earth.

Horray!

book cover for "the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism" by max weber but filtered red and black with "antichrist edition" added
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No for real tho, evangelical shit fucks a kid up. While I was TERRIFIED of a shooter coming to my school after the Columbine shooting in ‘99 (I was 13), I also was ground zero for all the propaganda about Cassie Bernall.

For context, Cassie Bernall was a student at Columbine who purportedly was accosted by one of the shooters, asked if she believed in god, and was fatally shot when she said yes. (ftr this has since been found to be untrue - the exchange was overheard by a student who misidentified Valeen Schnurr, who survived the shooting, as Bernall, but the myth had spread super far by the time this fact was known and it’s a whole thing.)

Cassie’s mother wrote a book about Cassie and her faith in god and her martyrdom called “She Said Yes”, and someone bought it for me (probably a parent? I have no idea) and I devoured it. I wanted to live a life like Cassie’s, and Rachel Scott’s (another Christian student who was killed), and if that meant being a martyr then I would surely be brave at the moment of truth and face my death bravely.

Because yeah, they called these girls martyrs. These children who were senselessly murdered, had their memories used by their own families as essentially martyrdom inspiration porn. And let me tell you, a LOT of evangelical kids my age bought into it, at least for a while. Like please try to imagine being thirteen years old and actively hoping that you would get a chance to be murdered for your god.

Like, yeah a little bit of that was probably the slowly growing depression but mostly it was just… I was taught that was one of the best ways I could serve god, was by being an example and refusing to deny him even in the face of death. Because people would be moved by my testimony and feel the holy spirit and come to god or w/e.

I literally cannot explain what it was like to be that kid to someone who didn’t live through that too. There are no words. Evangelical premillenial dispensationalist Christianity is a death cult, and it is terrifying.


andhumanslovedstories:

andhumanslovedstories:

Would your twelve year old self like who you are today, and sorry no nuance allowed you have to pick one

Yes

No

And you can make the rubric for this question whatever you want. My personal one was that young me would be horrified to know she became current me, but that’s because I imagine it’d be quite horrible to a child learning and growing to no longer get to wonder who you’ll be when you grow up, and I think if she and I just like met somehow, she’d think I was a cool adult. Like one of those teachers you get to banter with a little.


sharper-and-bigger:

yimra:

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Gary Larson remains a fucking demigod among cartoonists


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