sorry, died for a hot second bc the 2023 ukagaka dream team ghost development jam was happening.
i may be a bit more active from time to time. do not expect high activity atm, since my muse for wilson tends to wax and wane, and i’m obsessed with risk of rain atm. i do have a blog for the captain of the UES Safe Travels if anyone wants to badger an old man with slightly shittier joints.
I’ve been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in predominantly white churches in the American South.
I’ve spent countless hours in church staff meetings and men’s Bible studies and youth pastor conferences.
I’ve stayed connected on social media with thousands of people still there in those churches. I read what they share and post and amplify and I know how they think and what they believe.
I need you to understand something and I say it without any hyperbole: white Evangelicals need to be stopped, now.
If the 2024 elections allow Republicans to gain a deeper control of our government, Conservative Christians will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again. We will all be at their mercy—and they will no longer have use for mercy.
This is not alarmist, sky-is-falling histrionics, it is the clear and sober forecast from someone who knows these people better than anyone. [...]
LGBTQ people will have the rights to marry and adopt taken away.
People of color will be fully squeezed out of the electoral process.
Immigrants will be denied access to opportunity and refuge here.
These are not creative projections. They are precisely what Evangelicals have repeatedly stated as their intentions, and they’re closer than they’ve ever been to having a rubber stamp.
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Pavlovitz wrote this in June 2021. How many of these are Americans already seeing playing out before their eyes? And the 2024 elections haven't even started yet!
We can still stop it, though.
We just need a unity and coordination that transcends theirs.
We need a sustained, passionate, dedicated defense of humanity that rivals their relentless assaults on it.
I hear many people say they’re terrified, but being terrified alone doesn’t do anything but help these people.
Be terrified and get angry.
Be terrified and get busy.
Be terrified and go to work.
Be terrified and fight like hell.
I wish more decent people in America remembered they are among the vast majority instead of acting as if they are helpless victims of Republican Christians. We could defeat them, and we need to. We just need to stop lamenting how much damage they are doing and start doing something to oppose them.
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“It’s absolutely not excessive when they steal our food. If you have never seen a rabid animal before, you know how they froth at the mouth and have a tendency to be very aggressive? Usually in the later stages, anyways. As I was saying, not even a rabid animal can compare to the absolute fury I feel when seeing a glimpse of those drunkard birds.”
“Feel like I should point out, Mr. Higgsbury,” she started, barely biting back a chuckle, “that comparing yourself to a rabid animal is perhaps not the most dignified. Asides - I doubt a wagon would do much against those turkeys. Fast little things, aren’t they?”
She couldn’t deny, though, that having the wildlife steal already scarce resources was… not ideal. But the only thing scarcer than berries out in the wilderness was meat.
And, well… no use starving the fowl.
“We just need to find a more reliable way of catching the little buggers.”
“Ma’am. Ma’am, with all due respect, you underestimate the sheer vitriol I have for those stupid bastards.” He may have vibrated slightly as he spoke the statement.
“Chasing them to the shoreline works, most of the time. Due to how the land seems blocky, it’s beneficial to get them into a corner, but there’s always the risk of them going where you don’t want them to go, or escaping from the corner.”
I want to preface this letter with the assertion that having you as my lab assistant has been a greater success than even I’d anticipated when I’d offered you the position. You have been an asset to this household and to my pursuit of science. I tell you this - which you surely already know - to make clear that my motivations were never to deceive you, and that your company here would be sorely missed should you ever decide to pursue employment elsewhere.
However, I have not been entirely truthful with you, and I find it difficult to admit this. The longer you stay under my employ, the more I fear my confession will feel backhanded. This is not my intention.
You told me things, caught up in the fever of the shadows in that wretched world, that you may not remember - things that I have shamefully neglected to confront you about for fear you would have rather me not known of your old life.Â
Despite your reluctance to talk about that time, I know about Salem, and your previous home there, and the witch hunt. I understand the time you’ve come from and the time you ended up in are very different. I assure you, Miss Winifred, that when I offered you the position, it was from a genuine place of wanting you to have some place to call home, even just for a transient period. I never meant to take advantage of your delirium for this long, and my offer was not made out of an obligation of pity.
Despite this transgression of mine, I must stress that you’ve achieved what I once thought impossible and impractical, and have become an essential fixture of the Higgsbury household. I would be immensely disconsolate if you should choose to leave due to these new circumstances.
Yours,
Wilson P. Higgsbury.
He read over the letter one last time. That was really as good as it was going to get, wasn’t it, he thought miserably. He’d been holed up in the attic for hours, trying to pen a respectable letter that might manage to communicate the nuances of his absolutely crippling embarrassment. He’d let this go on for far too long, keeping secrets from her like this, and now that he’d finally decided to bite the bullet and tell her, he was finding it immensely difficult.
With a dissatisfied little grumble, Wilson crumpled up this newest draft of his letter, watching it patter innocently across his workbench as he tossed it down. It just sat there, mocking him.
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“It’s absolutely not excessive when they steal our food. If you have never seen a rabid animal before, you know how they froth at the mouth and have a tendency to be very aggressive? Usually in the later stages, anyways. As I was saying, not even a rabid animal can compare to the absolute fury I feel when seeing a glimpse of those drunkard birds.”
“Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl - a little girl who was different from the other people in her village. She could see and do things that no one could understand, and that made them scared of her.”
CONSTANTHREATS — a simple multimuse blog for prominent mobs and enemies from the don’t starve series. sporadic activity.
CONTENT WARNINGS: violence, blood, gore, etc. these monsters are not nice.
rules.
MUSES BELOW CUT. rlly basic rn fr maybe I’ll go into more detail later
DEERCLOPS.
intelligence: 6/10. she knows what she’s here to do, and can understand her opponents well enough. however, she doesn’t tend to care or act on anything except her wish to destroy.
strength: 6/10. she’s not the strongest, but formidable and will decimate you if you’re unprepared. that freeze attack of hers is no joke.
MOOSE/GOOSE.
intelligence: 3/10. mostly driven by motherly instincts. theoretically befriendable, were it not for her young perceiving everything as a threat that they need to tell mom about.
strength: 5/10. she will knock your tools and weapons out of your hands and the try to gore you with her horns. she’s not the fiercest, but fights with a desperation to protect or provide for her family.
DRAGONFLY.
intelligence: 7/10. surprisingly smart for a giant scaled bug that lounges around lava pools and hoards gems… were she less territorial of her hoard, she would go out and steal to increase it.
strength: 8/10. dragonfly is incredibly formidable. pray you don’t get her angry.
BEARGER.
intelligence: 6/10. despite being a big brute, bearger is rather smart… if only because he has to know how to survive in order to eat, hibernate, and repeat.
strength: 7/10. he’s quite strong and prone to destroying things in a large area around him.
KLAUS.
intelligence: 8/10. he’s sentient enough to know when people are screwing around with his stuff, and he’s smart enough to make sure they find out the consequences. also, he oversees krampii. he sees you when you’re sleeping…
strength: 7/10. rather weak to most comparatively, but if he gets upset you’re toast.
VARGLORD.
intelligence: 5/10. he’s smarter then the hounds he commands, but that’s about it. however, he won’t give up on a hunt and can pull some surprisingly smart moves to corner his prey.
strength: 4/10. his strength relies on the hounds he can call with a howl.
ANCIENT GUARDIAN.
intelligence: 6/10. rather smart, but not enough to be bored of sleeping in the middle of a maze all the time.
strength: 8/10. there’s a reason he’s in the middle of a maze.
ANCIENT FUELWEAVER.
intelligence: 10/10. incredibly smart and sentient. shame he’s confined to the atrium, really.
strength: 9/10. a formidable foe who weaves nightmare fuel to his liking. don’t underestimate him.
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