Awoken Cynosure

Hi! Welcome to my blog. As I think the ENFJ profile fits me eerily well, it should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of person I am. My hobbies are witty banter, giving unsollicited advice and caring too much about fictional (primarily game) characters. Feel free to strike up a conversation. I may be awake at ungodly hours but I don't bite!

[bushpoppy]

Unionize with ur fellow pedestrians. They can’t run us all over

[grier-the-goblin-deactivated202]

this is how right of way works on college campuses

[prokopetz]

Realistically, a household the size of Wayne Manor needs more than just a butler, and while Bruce might imagine he can keep his proclivities secret from his own domestic staff, Alfred certainly harbours no such illusions. I've gotta wonder what the orientation lecture he's worked out looks like. Like, of course they're going to be extensively vetted before they ever set foot on the premises, but at some point during the onboarding process the subject of the Batcave has gotta come up – I just wanna know how Alfred broaches that.

[roach-works]

serious answer: it’s the sex dungeon, and everyone knows it’s the sex dungeon, and alfred is extremely good at getting across the point, in his Very Proper Butler Accent, that domestic staff don’t get to go anywhere near the sex dungeon EVEN WITH an airtight nda contract because someone at some point tried to leak pics to the gossip mags and alfred had to murder them and it was annoying. alfred takes care of the sex dungeon himself. if you find a secret passage on accident you stop and immediately go tell alfred, so he can close the security hole, because if you follow the secret passage yourself and end up in the sex dungeon, he murders you. also if you ever so much as say the words ‘sex dungeon’ he murders you.

funny answer: everyone knows the batcave is underneath the sex dungeon because everyone knows bruce wayne is batman’s sugar daddy.

[catchymemes]

[lesbianfanfictionenthusiast]

"you read a lot, right?"

"yes!"

"what are some books you've read recently?"

"uhh i don't remember"

[secondlina]

Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

[daenerysbeauty]

I love harwin strong cause every time he comes across rhaenyra no matter what shit she’s pulling he’s just like “good for her”

[alrightsnaps]

remember what they took from you

[fagarach]

arrested on 17 counts of dracula

[rustingbridges]

if someone was willing to give you $1000, but you had to engage in an awkward email correspondence with them first, would you do it?

[centrally-unplanned]

I literally do this every day its called a job

[durnesque-esque]

and they pay me a lot less

[only-tiktoks]

[stockpilingantihistamines]

[sofiaherzen]

i don’t know what to say except i haven’t touched a video editing software in ages but i couldn’t get this out of my head.

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

My favourite top from the ss23 fashion shows, @ Vivetta

[charlesoberonn]

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[charlesoberonn]

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

[charlesoberonn]

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups

It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.

It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

[charlesoberonn]

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#you might notice that there are a lot of similarities between cult techniques and those of abusive partners#and that is an important thing to be aware of

yah that goes in the post

[potatoburp]

Throwing in here that cults escalate beliefs and practices the same way abusive partners escalate abuse.

[everythingstarstuff]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Wolf

“In heaven, lost my taste for hell”

[onlyhereforangst]

you chucked me? sorry. i’ll bridal carry you for miles on foot be more delicate next time

[anistonjen]

insp