Valerie

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[fuckyeahyoga]

[girafacong]

i’ve been having terrible back ache for a week now, but i just did this and i heard a loud POP!!!… back ache is gone folks

[adamsmasher]

i have this on my office wall and gave a copy to the front desk staff who also put it on their wall.

[banans13]

I think now that queens dead they should have her stuffed and put on display in Cairo for the next 150 years.

[banans13]

BLAZE REJECTED MY POST WOW LOL

[autisticwolfesbrainisautistic]

We'll make sure at least 100k people see it for free then.

[captainesc]

[astralwukong]

​HEY BTW. BE SURE TO LEAVE A LIKE ON ALL RWBY9 EPISODES BEFORE YOU CANCEL CRUNCHYROLL. V10 GETTING GREENLIT DEPENDS ON IT PLEASEEEEE!

Edit: STREAM LIKE AND COMMENT IF YOU CAN. THE MORE INTERACTIONS ON THE RWBY SIDE OF THE PLATFORM THE MORE LIKELY IT IS THAT IT GETS NOTICED

[minart-was-taken]

So I have this headcanon about Larry...

[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

[charlesoberonn]

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

[probuccalfat1]

how do you know so many ppl

because this is what i look like.

[themetalhiro]

He’s been getting away with it for years. No one on the crew has caught on yet.

[wildragon]

The Royal Ludroth is my fave leviathan.

[wildragon]

Roadhog with Tigerstipe Zamtrios armor.

[wildragon]

Red Khezu, aka Crismon peen wyvern.

[mossyfauns]

Diamanté, Lady of Diamonds, Archfey of the Winter Court

[desolationlesbian]

Making a new rule for straight creators along the lines of "don't kill off your lesbian couple it's homophobic" but this time it's "if you're going to put a lesbian in your show you can't make her a cop"

[vampwiz]

WHAT’S THE WIZARD101 EQUIVALENT OF WEED????????????????????

[deathschool]

Wyd after smoking this

[sweatermuppet]

at times when hope is too big of a thing to have, curiosity (even clinical or small) is a very good placeholder

[nightside101]

Back on my bullshit (drew my necromancer again)

[beasts-flesh]

Wizard 101 fanart I made last night. Love Krokotopia sm, staple of my childhood

[phoenixlionme]

[tubapun]

Okay I had to wiki this one and I find Daphne’s one fascinating.

Semiotics is the study of signs and their meanings. These signs can be visual, auditory, or the other senses, and even be allegorical or metaphors. They can also be intentional or not!!

She’s literally studying how to examine to world for clues!! Whether the clues are signs of a secret passage as she so often found accidentally, signs that someone has been somewhere they say they haven’t, or signs that some object has been used recently!! She’s studying to be a clue gatherer cause THATS WHAT SHE DOES!!

Love love love this characterization concept!!

[disgruntleddemon]