Kitsch(wo)man

Wannabe scholar, 21, they/them. I didn't realize that your husband wrote deep club tracks.

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

my absolute favorite part of tumblr is how much you guys hate symbolism and like to pretend english teachers made up symbolism and authors never intended to write it. symbolism is what saves books from being boring and lifeless. i need you guys to understand how lazy and childish you look when you complain about having to find symbolism in books made for finding symbolism

[riverlovesyou1]

Lmao Im a writer and fuck writing symbolism. Its all accidental

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

[first-lxdy]

Also symbolism doesn't have to be conscious. Language is -laden- with all sorts of meanings with so many layers and dimensions from so many sources. Even if you're like "the curtains are blue", there could be all manner of meanings anyway that the author just hasn't personally reflected on. That's why writers who 'don't do symbolism' just end up reiterating dominant ideas/ power dynamics etc because their symbolism is just the ever present symbols within our language already as they are usually deployed.

[waxscoralpants]

Animal Crossing GameCube was so heartless. Villagers would randomly paint your roof. It was so hard to make money. One time a villager sold me a mystery item without even asking and took all the money I was carrying. 12 thousand bells. It was a pitfall seed.

[otterscallops-deactivated202203]

[perchu-deactivated20180224]

also. under certain circumstances forgetting to save will get your face taken away

[sailorbamff-deactivated20210108]

You guys are forgetting the best part

[frenchifries]

animals when you’re rude to them in new leaf: haha you’re such a kidder! oh well have a good day!

animals when you’re rude to them on gamecube: haha it’s funny how much of an ugly bitch you are, you absolute degenerate :) i’m going to take everything you love, do you know that? you’ll never be shit. you’re going to die alone in the woods with no one around to even hear your last words :)

[pizzabills]

anime be like

[ironrescue]

HOLY SHIT

[von-felden]

Im still laughing at this

[ayot4life]

Yo! @staff

Why do all the black hash tags no longer exist?

And yet we still have all of these…

You have some explaining to do staff

[naran-ja-deactivated20161104]

I THOUGHT IT WAS MY PHONE. Black girls doesn’t even fucking work. Please boost this guys! PLEASE!

[sopatra]

love that for us

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

it is so funny how life is just whatever. it’s hilarious. life is so regimented all the way through high school and then after that you just do literally whatever it’s all just whatever. you’re like “should i do this?” and everyone you know is like “just do whatever” absolutely incredible. that can’t be real

[first-lxdy]

Yeah :(

[fuocogo]

Did everyone just…. forget how to create, all of a sudden? Disney pumping out the fourth remake in a row? Movies are like 70% sequels? Stories in games being just bad if they exist at all? Haven’t had a book get hyped in like half a decade? Are we okay? What’s going on?

[fozzie]

#look to indie creators #creativity isnt dead its being held captive behind a wall of capitalism and greed #huge corporations are only willing to make what they know will already sell

[gaynehollander]

[why-bless-your-heart]

Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating. 

[putyouinabook]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

[why-bless-your-heart]

I have a tendency to beat myself up whenever something I make doesn’t meet my expectations (which is always). The result is that finishing something = bad feelings: I am effectively punishing myself for having created something. The natural reaction to this punishment is an aversion to creation, meaning that my perfectionism is harming me, not only by causing me to despise what I do make and by impeding the creative process, but by attacking even my desire to create.

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[queerpyracy]

baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat

[queerpyracy]

you know what i’m in just enough of a bad mood that i’m ready to nail my grievances to the church door so let’s fucking go

black and white morality wherein anyone who doesn’t believe/think/live exactly as I do is a dirty sinner Problematic and probably a predatory monster

everyone is a sinner Problematic but true believers people who activist the right way according to my worldview are still better than everyone else, and I will act in accordance to this belief in my own superiority to let everyone else know I’m better than them because I found Jesus am the most woke

casual and fucking omnipresent equations of womanhood with softness/goodness/purity/nurturing to remind every woman who isn’t/doesn’t want to be any of those things that they’re doing it wrong

aggressive desexualization (particularly of women’s sexuality, to the point where it may as well not exist at all) accompanied by pastels [not a criticism directed ace ppl having a right to sex-free content and spaces but specifically targeted at a wider problem resulting from the previous point]

YOU’RE VALID AND JESUS LOVES YOU and neither of these platitudes achieves a goddamn thing

historical context is for people who care about nuance and we don’t have time for either (see: black and white morality)

lots of slogans and quotes and nice little soundbites to memorize but does anybody actually study the source material with a critical eye to make their own informed analysis

the answer is no

I’ve been to bible study groups don’t @ me I know what the fuck I’m talking about

Good Christians™ Nice Gays™ don’t fraternize with/let themselves be influenced by non-Christians those terrible queers

all the media one consumes must be ideologically pure or it will surely harm the children

it is Our Sacred Duty to protect the children from Everything, thus ensuring their innocence/purity/etc until such time as they are idk probably 25 years old

literally just “think of the children” moral panic y’all can fuckin miss me with that

people who don’t conform to the dominant thinking WILL be excommunicated/driven from the social group, and any wrong treatment they suffer will be seen as a justified consequence of their wrong thinking

I Saw Goody Proctor With The Devil And She Had A Bad Steven Universe Headcanon

[kmclaude]

Thank you for breaking it down like that because so many of us have been saying it but to see a play by play breakdown comparison is just…Thank you.

[jumpingjacktrash]

sipping tea and judging people as a group bonding activity

[curlicuecal]

oh, man, speaking as a queer Christian who gets regular tumblr flashbacks to my childhood in the Bible Belt, YES

-belief that small snippets of text can be analyzed out context to understand the whole work/ judge the whole person -Desire for moral choices to be easy/ black-and-white leads to belief that it is possible to find a one-size-fits all answer to every situation -Literal, rather than literary analysis, with weird fixation on etymological roots that have nothing to do with source material -Belief that there is “one true interpretation” that is self-evident and will be understood by everyone encountering the same material regardless of background -Overwhelming, internalized sense of culpability for other people’s actions/integrity/souls -Overwhelming, internalized sense of personal guilt -Pressure to evangelize aggressively -Tendency to value broad ideals before individual needs -Hostility towards coexistence/tolerance/neutrality -Hostility towards lack of consensus in viewpoint -Knowledge as contamination -Guilt/contamination by proximity -Fixation on the sexual as uniquely dirty/sinful -Belief in “thought crimes” -Argumentation via appeal to higher authority/feelings of revulsion rather than internal, verbalizeable logic -“conversations” that are actually stealth soapboxes because one side isn’t actually interested in listening -“polite requests” that are actually commands because “no” is not considered an acceptable answer -in-group language -virtue-signaling and hostility towards the outgroup -gatekeeping -communities strongly built around the idea of being the world’s underdog -appropriation of other people’s persecution/victimization -treating the concept of oppression like a trophy -glorification/fetishization of victimhood

[congregamus-deactivated20250603]

It got better.

[freedom-of-fanfic]

Bringing this back.

[ixhvenus-deactivated20200308]

how come no one talks about those days where your mental health just crashes down randomly and you start feeling ashamed of yourself because you were doing so good and now you feel like a complete failure because you can’t figure out where you went wrong.

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[aubs-of-steel-deactivated201708]

fun fact: The last supper would have been more like this, according to tradition:

[evangeline-elena-deactivated201]

so casual i love it

[thedevoteddemon]

a sleepover with jc and the boys

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

Paul: Judas truth or dare??

Judas: dare

Paul: okay lmao I dare u to kiss JC

[ghoulfr13nd]

Jesus: ok your turn peter truth or dare

Peter: truth

Jesus: would you ever betray me peter

[papa-peach-deactivated20241019]

Peter:

Jesus:

(a few days later)

Peter: *betrays Jesus*

Jesus:

[that-twink-over-there]

Jesus: *returns*

Peter: “Jesus… you’re back ?”

Jesus:

[images-that-are-only-cursed]

Cursed school presentations? Thank you!

I hate presentations 😂but who doesn’t?

[images-that-are-only-cursed]

[blu3-skyy]

[w0wls]

That shrek one is threatening

[first-lxdy]

Crying

[lesbianshepard]

not to be mean or anything but that american missionary who got killed by the sentinelese was dumb as fuck.

[lesbianshepard]

like…its well documented that they’re a tribe that is aggressive to outsiders, it’s illegal to approach the island itself, and they will kill anyone who trespasses. not only that, because they’re an uncontacted people they have no resistance to modern diseases. he risked wiping out a large portion of an already small population because he wanted to proselytize.

and also they almost certainly have their own independent language that only they can speak. dude was just going to walk up and go what’s gonna sound like “oogity boogity” to them and hope they accept jesus cause of it? dumbass.

[mydreadful-existence-deactivate]

He was a missionary. Somewhere in the Bible, not sure where, it says the world will not end until everyone on earth has heard about Jesus Christ. He was a Christian which means he believed that and he was doing it bc he believed he was called to do so. I don’t know if he was really called to do so or not but if he was he was just being an obidient servant of God. You’re probably not Christian and that’s okay, but he was and so am I. If he really believed he was called to do so for whatever reason, he just wanted to spread the word of God to those people so they could be saved, he wanted to see them worship God on earth, and their souls to be with God in his kingdom of of Heaven. I understand he didn’t speak their language and I’m sure he knew more then just that they were an island in India who didn’t know about Jesus Christ. Anyways, he just wanted to give God to as many people as he could, he wasn’t a “dumb ass” for believing in something that you and other non Christians don’t understand. I don’t have anything against Non Christians but I just thought it was wrong for you to publicly disrespect him like that simply bc you don’t agree and spread something rude/hurtful about someone you didn’t know/understand.

[gayharoldfinch]

don’t people who haven’t heard of jesus christ go to purgatory? whereas people who have heard of him and still don’t worship him go to hell? so this dumb selfish fuck was actually increasing their chances of going to hell just so that he could bring on the rapture or whatever because not only can he not be bothered waiting till the end of his own miserable life to go to heaven but he really wants to see all the sinners burn as well

[first-lxdy]

Also like Christian missions are just colonialism. Not even neo-colonialism, just straight up out of the 15th c on playbook. That's all they are. Fuck the belief that everyone must hear and believe in your faith. They have theirs and are not interested, as is documented, in being converted.

[sweetsappho]

the LMAO+ community

[elisamaza]

me: oh that’s a good po-

*sees the url of the op*

me:

[first-lxdy]

Me when ppl I follow r/blog known transphobes, truscum, lesbophobes and sexual predators xo (ur getting unfollowed) 

[cornflakesdoesart]

althought I wanted to finish these while it was winter , it’s still snowing here so  here, some warmly dressed folks!