Meh.

Real life ace arrow ace.

[one-paper-bag]

reblog if you’re asexual, support asexual people or really really want a crossbow for literally no reason.

[officiallordvetinari]

So apparently the Animorphs cover artist also made that amazing series of wizard pictures?? And he sells prints of both? His Etsy store is here and the other link is here.

[teathattast]

he wanted a tattoo

[cursed-kat-images]

I can’t stop laughing help

[mst3kgifs]

Oh, I don’t know.

[jedi-anakin]

STARGATE SG-1 (1997-2007) “Spirits”

[squeeful]

[tentacuddles]

would much like  to point out that the people publishing these articles are trying to needle millennials into treating gen z with the same disgusting vitriol we were treated with.

don’t buy it.

our younger brothers and sisters might eat a tide pod and get us blamed for it, but we have more in common with them than we ever had with boomers or gen x.

they are terrified of the things we can do together. remember that.

[heliacal-paladin-deactivated202]

[caribouwolfonstilts]

[la-laborista-republiko]

I hate these fucking cannibals so fucking much

[howboutthatbreadtho]

Love that AOC became Nancy-Pelosi-In-Waiting so goddamn fast

[anarchblr]

“[I]t would be absurd on our part to hold a grudge against the socialist leaders who, finding themselves caught up in the electoral machine, end up being gradually transformed into nothing more than bourgeois with liberal ideas. They have placed themselves in determinate conditions that in turn determine them. The consequences are inevitable.”

–Elsée Reclus, “Evolution, Revolution, and the Anarchist Ideal” (1898)

[captaindullard-deactivated20250]

I like how, 10 years later, and after huge proven disinformation campaigns, tumblr still hasn’t learned AT ALL to look at a source.

On Feb 23rd, in reaction to news about camps, AOC tweeted this:

In response to this, AOC then received this question from another user, which she answered, and which is being displayed in isolation above:

If you’re not following, AOC went in on how we need to completely revamp our immigration system and fundamentally restructure it away from a carceral state mentality (aka, prison-based).

She was then honest that this is not something that can be done in 2 months, so she called on everyone to keep pushing towards a radical future.

In response to a very specific question about how we should handle children who arrive at the border unattended, while we get this process of revamping the entire system started, AOC’s response was to:

1. Immediately require that only licensed facilities can house children 

2. Address the actual question of whether or not these services should be contracted out as they are now (Which AOC just made VERY clear her stance on)

3. Specifically cited the issue of companies who are pushing to reopen (again, her stance on this is clear).

4. Then directly drew attention to a comprehensive framework for legislation which AOC and Rep Jayapal are actively trying to get support for. And the only way we get the support, to drive this kind of radical change, is to underscore that the people have power to make this change, and our activism and support is vital.

STOP LETTING PEOPLE PRESENT INFORMATION OUT OF CONTEXT SO THAT IT IS INCENDIARY AND UNDERMINES THE ACTUAL POLITICAL PUSHES THAT ARE IN YOUR INTEREST AND IN LINE WITH YOUR OWN RADICAL POLITICS.

We’ve been doing this way too freaking long, tumblr.

[scythfi-writer]

reblog THIS ONE

[schizocassandraoftroy]

No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn't find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes

[schizoalienboy]

This is how you treat us!

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i am reblogging this as someone who does not have delusions and often makes shitposts about werewolves, and i just want all my followers to know this is not a joke!

i am so glad you had this positive experience, and i hope this sort of kindness catches on with doctors and the general public.

[rosslynpaladin]

Look when someone is in a confused or compromised state, no matter why,

and they are your medical charge,

it is vital to continue to treat them with dignity. Like that. Reassure them with visible practicalities that you acknowledge their fears, will not belittle them, and can show them facts to help them cope.

THAT is the proper compassion of a Healer.

[yellow-lemon-lime]

Can I just add that, if you like me have delusions where everything bad that happens is your fault, the doctor shouldn't be like "Yeah, you're probably right" but try to reason with you in a respective way. OP's doctor did it right, but some of the notes make it look like people think delusions must be agreed to always, when doing so can be detrimental to the person's wellbeing

[schizophrenicfordpinesmoved]

This is my favorite addition to this post because it’s true. When dealing with delusions you need to avoid the extremes - DO NOT tell the person flat out “you’re wrong”, “thats not real” or worst of all “you’re crazy.” BUT DON’T ENCOURAGE THE DELUSION EITHER! Let’s take my werewolf delusion, for example. Doctors who have flat out told me “that isn’t real” haven’t helped because for me it is real and no amount of you saying it isn’t will change my perception. It makes us feel alienated.

But someone saying “You ARE transforming into a werewolf but i have a poition thatll stop it! :D” is just as dangerous because you’re furthering a delusion which could get someone hurt. its also manipulative. we’re psychotic, not children.

So what DO you do? Acknowledge that the situation is frightening. If possible, give them the objective facts (ie, i don’t see any monsters; your mom hasn’t said anything to make it seem like she’s going to kill you) while also acknowledging that for them, it is real. Most of all, ask what you can do to keep them comfortable and safe.

Sorry for the long addition but when I made this post it didn’t occur to me apsychotic people would look at it for advice on how to handle an actively delusional person. I’m glad it’s resonating with people, though

[angiethewitch]

I remember when I told a doctor someone had replaced all the veins and arteries in my body with wires and I was no longer a person. she very gently checked me over for any wounds where they could have made the incisions to put the wires in, and took photos of the places on my phone to prove it. all the places I felt were the entry points were out of my sight, behind my ears and in my back and stuff. then she offered to get me an xray if they could fit me in, but it might take a while. I declined because I didnt want to take up space for people who need it, and honestly at this point I trusted her enough to tell me if I had wires. she brought my husband in and showed him how to check me over for wounds and wires, then she asked me if I had any questions. I went back into the waiting room, feeling like I wasn't stupid and I felt much safer.

she came into the waiting room later to check if I was okay, and I felt safe, cared for, trusted and believed. she told my husband she put a psychiatrist on standby in case I got freaked out again, and told me she understands how I feel, and that she can't see anything but she gets how scary it is for me and she's on shift for a few hours and to ask for her by name if I need reassuring again.

I felt safe. I felt believed. that's how you do it.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

people make a lot of touch-starved gay jokes about Lush but the truth is it’s not a gay experience, it’s a human experience. no one is safe, no one is immune.

you walk in there for the first time thinkin’ I’m gonna buy some hand soap today and then some dude who smells like something impossible, like he’s being described by a YA author, he smells like lavender, leather, and the steam coming from hot pavement after a short summer rain,

That guy. He comes up to you and he asks if he can help you sample something. He leads you to a small, metal basin of water. It’s so pastoral, it’s so quaint. You can imagine it sitting beside your bed with a porcelain pitcher in your farm cottage for you to use to wash your face in the morning.

He rolls up your sleeve a bit, and you awkwardly apologize for not doing it yourself, and he says it’s fine.

Sir LeatherRain gently rinses your hand in the warm water, and then he dries it off attentively. Then he massages some of the product into your palm. It’s the cinnamon bean massage bar. He says “don’t you love how it feels warm as you rub it in?”

He’s making more direct eye contact with you than you’ve ever made in your entire life.

As he finishes, a woman who smells like coffee beans and pink-skied winter sunrises approaches and says “oh I LOVE that product.”

You know it’s about the sell. It’s transactional, but you’re in love. You can’t help it.

You’re also More uncomfortable than you’ve ever been in your entire life.

As you walk away to the register, you clench your hand and unclench it like Mr. Darcy when he touches Elizabeth Bennet’s hand to help her out of a coach.

[tackywizard]

As someone who’s worked at Lush I assure you it’s just as weirdly intimate to be the one rubbing lotions into other people’s skin

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

oh thank god

[hogwartsaheadcanon]

Lush has some bizarro magic going on i once wore a hat i’d knitted into a lush shop and one of the staff members casually complimented it and i went home and i got half way through knitting them one to take into the shop as a gift before i realised how fucking whacked out a thing that would be to do like i was ensorcelled there was spell work upon me

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

obsessed with this

[memewhore]

[shoutsindwarvish]

@apocrypals this is real

[bigmammallama5]

[asimovsideburns]

EXTREME TEEN BIBLE… REAL

[turians]

Y'all are NOT READY for their shirt merch

[thotmendes]

I’d buy the “yeet pray love” shirt if it came in black tbh

[universesizedcock]

“Pick up your sword bruh”

[powersandplanetaries]

There are two possible explanations for this. Either no one involved in this project has spoken firsthand to a teenager in over twelve years and their only sources are op-eds written by other baby boomers. Or they did consult actual teenagers, who succeeded in trolling the living hell out of them.

[autisticwolfesbrainisautistic]

six of one, half dozen of the other

[secondbeatsongs]

so, I looked into this, because as an ex-church-kid, this delights me to no end. and, my friends? we have only just begun to pull the thread on this sweater!

this book was originally published on August 14th 2020. as you can see above, Matt Walsh’s tweets were from August 21st - but he wasn’t the only one to notice this garbage, and he wasn’t even the first.

by August 20th, multiple Christian news websites had already taken issue with the book, as you can tell by these hilarious headlines:

and by the end of the 20th (at 5:35pm to be exact) Lifeway issued an apology:

lol, guess they realized they fucked up baaad.

(a day later, Sunday Cool also jumped on board the apology train, with this cringe-worthy nonsense.)

so, both companies apologized, assured people that they weren’t trying to translate the whole bible into this “Gen-Z lingo” (gross), and said that people could still buy the book if they wanted to.

but here’s the deal. the book they’re selling? it’s not the original book.

Exhibit A:

^ that’s the original cover of the book. “The Word According to Gen Z - A 30-Day Devo Challenge.”

but the book they’re selling now? well, see for yourself. Exhibit B:

“The Word According to Gen Z - A 30-Day Devo Challenge Using a Made-Up Language for a Real Generation.”

“Using a Made-Up Language for a Real Generation”

these nerds don’t want to admit that they actually thought Gen Z talked like that! what a lack of commitment. they disappoint me.

and the free sample pdf on their website is edited as well! no longer does it say “Cap G” (short for Capital G, by the way - like how Christians spell “God” with a capital G) and “Big J” - now, it just says “God” and “Jesus.”

…good thing I’m a veritable internet detective, because I found the original sample pdf, which is just as cringey as it looked! I recommend skimming it if you want, because it’s a disaster.

but, now that we know that they edited the book, how will we find out what the rest of the verses were? how ever can we know just how bad it truly was before Christian news sites yelled “blasphemy!” and Lifeway had a collective panic attack?

well, guess what! this devo book came with video lesson tie-ins, and they left their whole website up, for anyone to stumble across!

it’s right here, and it’s…jesus fuck. it’s painful.

here are a few of the other “translations,” next to the original verses, so that you can compare:

Isaiah 40:8, NIV Bible:

“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

The “Gen-Z” version:

“Moo moo food goes bye bye, and pedal pads take an L, but Cap G’s scripts are perm.“

what the fuck? what the actual fuck? here, have another:

Matthew 4:4, NIV Bible:

“Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

The “Gen-Z” version:

“Dudes can’t make it on sammie blanks alone, gotta feast on that real talk from Cap G.”

“sammie blanks”?? sammie blanks?

Ephesians 6:17, NIV Bible:

“Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

The “Gen-Z” version:

“Take that noggin guard of savies and that big ol’ knife of Cap G’s wordz.”

ah, of course. that big ol’ knife.

one last one, and then I’m done with this.

Galatians 6:2, NIV Bible:

“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

The “Gen-Z” version:

“Forklift your fam’s saddies so Cap G’s sched is maxed out and relaxing all cool.”

I…I’ve got nothing. this broke me. I give up!

final notes:

1. don’t go following Matt Walsh on twitter. like, I’m glad he brought this to our attention, but he’s marked red on shinigami eyes, and from his tweets, he looks like a shitty person.

2. all of these translations are actually blasphemy, and I’m pretty sure a few of them count as straight-up heresy. so, there’s a fun thought!

3. I’m pretty sure this is also racist? like, some of these verses seem like mangled AAVE, and that’s not okay! that’s fucking terrible!

4. when you click on any of the video tie-ins, you’ll find out that the guy in the devo videos looks like this:

yes, he’s wearing sunglasses in a dimly-lit room. and yes, he’s wearing a shirt with a picture of praying hands and the word “Yeet” on it. and on that note…

5. what the fuck do they think “yeet” means? I mean, that “yeet pray love” shirt is a work of art, but this begs the question…what do they actually think it means?

what are we supposed to be yeeting?

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[prismatic-bell]

Also if you missed it, the Galatians one includes a fucking meme. Those are the lyrics to The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. “On the playground was where I spent most of my days/Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool, playin’ some B-ball outside of the school.”

HOW DID THEY MISS THIS.

[yankee-doodle-danger]

Hi, late stage gen-z here (born 2001) and I think it’s hilarious that they shortened Capital G to Cap G. “Cap” is slang for a lie in zoomer terms, so by calling God “Cap G” they’re kinda just calling him a liar. someone hasn’t spoken with the youth in awhile

[lynati]

It’s too bad none of them knew what yeet really means, because a “Yeet The Dove” parody of “Eat Pray Love” with a doodle of Noah’s Ark would have at least MADE SENSE, even if it’s not actually that funny.

[jabberwockypie]

Nobody has fandom wank like the Jesus fandom.

[harukami]

I was CONVINCED when I saw this that they’d been fooled by some kind of “text to gen z translator” that they used wholesale by just dumping quotes in, or maybe searched urban dictionary, but using “Sammie Blanks” as my rosetta stone there is… literally nothing. You put ‘bread’ in those stupid text translators and you get ‘bread’. you search urban dictionary, no results. Google search “sammie blanks” and all you get is their website and tumblr. They literally just came up with the most absurd terms they could figure to call anything, like they were in a bad cyberpunk book, and just went with it.

[catchymemes]

[mentalisttraceur-humor]

[mentalisttraceur-humor]

[kata4a]

this is an extremely good joke format

[god-of-chainsaws]

I wish I knew how to play chess

[grand-arbiter-dovin-baan]

[speakingofcharlotte]

I needed this.

[quinintheclouds]

I understand chess and oh my god can this be a meme format? Cause there are so many possible combinations here

[teatops]

[aubrey-plaza]

GET TO KNOW ME MEME: 2/10 FAVOURITE MOVIES

Today, she loves me. Tomorrow, who knows?

SAVING FACE (2004) dir. Alice Wu

[hurricanenoelle]

[ayellowbirds]

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

[tharook]

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

wait. wait wait wait.

In stories, people always try to get rid of a curse by tricking someone else into buying or accepting it. this implies curses are analog.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it’s not like passing on, for example, an mp3 file. when you pass on a curse you are passing on the original copy (thus freeing yourself). which means curses are analog.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

alternatively, curses are digital but are under stringent DRM rules

[bananonbinary]

me: *frees myself of a curse bc i forgot to pay the subscription last month*

[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

I cannot understand the hold Keanu Reeves has on people can someone explain it.

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[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

Oh it all makes sense now