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i don’t support noah/brett/shawn/the duffers and don’t support st financially (pirate), i also don’t support jkr or hp financially or the squid game cast, please dni if you do also terfs and proshippers dni
i often block over little things (like post preferences, for example i block alot of fanfic accs to get clearer tags) so pls don’t be offended if you’re blocked it’s probably nothing personal😭
hi where did U get your scenepacks for mindae - your mindae edits from??
i recorded them myself and deleted them after to save storage, sorry !
what I think will happen if I message my mutuals
the image was making me really sad so i drew the little guy being taken care of
To be loved is to be changed
the thing about the hunger games is prim was always meant to die. She should’ve starved to death, but Katniss intervened. She should’ve been killed in the arena, but Katniss intervened. She should’ve died in the district 12 bombing, but Gale intervened. She should’ve died in the district 13 bombing, but Gale intervened. Then the circle closes when Katniss is too slow, too helpless to do anything against the bombs in the Capitol. Prim dies like she was always meant to. There's nothing Katniss can do.
Which is why it’s important to not be mean.
Their cult teaches them that the world is full of scary monster people who hate them for being so good and loved by god. If you swear at them and call them names or get in their face you’re just doing the cults work for it.
I’m not saying you have to listen to their presentation or try to debate them (and really getting into a debate without thoroughly understanding what they’re being taught will just make things worse)… I am just saying to be polite and say no thank you like if they were trying to hand you a flyer for something you don’t care about.
It’s easier for them to see the world outside their bubble as less scary if they see everyday people just going about their business and being as nice to them as you are to everyone else. This goes doubly for anyone who happens to dress modestly, not swear, and not drink or smoke because whatever you believe, they’ll see you as a “good” person who happens to strangely have no interest in their “message”, and that might be enough to get some curious about the possibility of themselves living in the real world.
It’s sometimes hard to be nice to people who seem to represent something you dislike. Just remember these “elders” are sheltered young men, some of which are getting their first real contact with people of other/no faiths.
They are not your enemy. They are victims.
They aren't being sent out to actually convert people, they are being sent out hoping that they will be harassed and treated poorly so they view those outside the cult as dangerous and evil and stick to the safety of the familiar group.
You being mean to some teenager isn't sticking it to anyone, you're doing exactly what their church elders want to happen.
PLEASE READ THIS.
Please read this.
Don't do the church's work for them.
If you're kind to enough of them, they put you on a block list.
They were such sweet kids, they'd turn up at my door with the thatch of raspberries out front and try to share their word with me, and I'm me, so, I fed them.
Then it was one of the wee 'elder's' birthday, so I made him a cake, and all the little lads came, and they asked about my books and board games and CCGs, I was just a nice frumpy middle aged Jewish lady, I was no threat, so I fed them and made them cakes and took them to the local gaming store and listened when they talked.
One loved yu-gi-oh cards, and it turns out, one of the other wee lads, we'll he loved him back, so I got them in touch with some resources so they had support and a different way to pay for college, they're still together 15 years later, they have dogs, they send me ecards on their birthday. No-one figured out I'd.helped them, I was just the nice lady who made them tea and listened when people were slamming doors.
The next one really wanted to be an artist, so I left out art books and resources, my eldest shared their coptic markers, they draw comic books now, no idea why his folks were insisting he needed to be a dentist, but, he's not a Mormon anymore, (not a Jew either before anyone makes any counter conversion claims).
The first 2 lads were the only dramatic ones, the rest went back into the network but, like Hugh of Borg, they spread the word, sometimes I'd get Mormons from other cities come and make the journey to break bread at my Sabbath table and be seen.
I still think very fondly of that time.
Many of those boys still email me now and then.
Most of them aren't Mormons anymore.
Someone higher up spotted the pattern and suddenly no more Mormons at my door.
I was blacklisted, for kindness.
So there you go, if you don't want Mormons at your door, just love those kids for a couple of years, feed them, help them, and eventually, no more will be allowed to visit
Image description: A photograph of two 19-year-old white men wearing white polo shirts and striped neckties standing next to each other, smiling at the camera and pointing to The Book of Mormon between them. Bold white text has been added along the top and bottom of the photograph to say, “Excuse us, we're 19 year old kids venturing out into the world for the first time and know shit about life. Would you like to hear about what we were forced to learn from a book written by a 19th century con-man?”
I remember being approached one day while I was sitting in a park, crocheting a present for my brother. At least one of the two young men seemed a lot more interested in what I was crocheting than in the conversion talk he was supposed to be giving. I said I wasn't interested for various feminism-related reasons, and we agreed that doing good things for people was indeed pretty cool, and they went on their way. I think of that kid whenever posts like this come up.
A couple of years ago now, someone got a hold of my phone number and tried to harass me by putting me on a bunch of calling/mailing lists for various churches and so on -- knowing, of course, that I'm Jewish and not at all interested -- and when I got a message from a very clearly teenaged Mormon, I felt... really annoyed. Not on my behalf -- my skin is way, way too thick to be bothered by that kind of nonsense -- but because this was just mean to do to a kid. They were trying to make me feel bad, but they were also setting this kid up to possibly be yelled at, and that's just... cruel.
I called back, and he sounded so excited when I identified myself. I felt very bad kindly telling him, "I'm so sorry. I'm not the person who gave you my phone number. Someone was trying to use you to be mean to me, and while hearing from you doesn't bother me, I'm very happily Jewish and not interested in converting. I'm just calling you to let you know, because I respect your time and your humanity. I'm sorry the other person didn't do that. That was unkind of them."
We had an exchange or two more, and I said that if there's a way to mark my number as 'do not call' so nobody else's time is wasted in the future, that would be a good idea for both of us. "I don't like the idea of you being used as a weapon to try to hurt me. That's mean to us both."
And so now my number is on their DNC list, and it ended up being a pleasant 5 minute chat.
I was raised Mormon, but left the church a while ago. My brother left to go on a mission, and when he came back, he was way more radicalized than he had been before he left. Before his mission, we were close. After, and after he went to college at one of the church's universities, we can barely be in the same room together without him picking a fight over me being a "godless heathen".
Yknow what I like about My Best Friend is a Vampire (1987)?
They didn't find a cure for vampirism, he didn't sacrifice himself and die to stop being a vampire, and his friends and family and loved ones all accepted him for who he was. This is such a gay allegory movie but also just a breath of fresh air when most vampire media calls them the bad guys.
Jeremy Capello gets to live his life out knowing how to keep things on the hush side when need be, but he's otherwise secure and able to keep moving on.
ROBERT SEAN LEONARD AS JEREMY CAPELLO IN MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE (1987)
say “darling charming had a crush on apple white” and no one bats an eye… say “briar beauty had a one-sided crush on ashlynn ella because she represented a put together princess who valued her own destiny and respected her role as heiress, which briar herself had problems with” and society goes wild…
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Havana Rose Liu as Isabel Bottoms (2023) dir. Emma Seligman
someone better post those deleted scenes TODAY
Growing up is realising Weilan and Ondina were queer coded
legally blonde where everything is the same except emmett is a butch lesbian
literally forgot you can just click for Palestine (and other issues)
Male character: I'm not attracted to women.
Fandom: Oh, he's gay.
Female character: I'm not attracted to men.
Fandom: Oh, she's a lesbian.
Any character: I'm not attracted to anybody.
Fandom: Well, we don't know that they're ace/aro/aroace. It's open for interpretation. They're not canonically ace/aro/aroace unless they specifically say they are.
Hmmmm. I wonder why we're so frustrated in fandom spaces. I wonder if there's a reason.
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guys. please
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Therapy is expensive, but there are free non-chatgpt resources out there
Free worksheets, treatment guides, and videos for mental health professionals. Topics include CBT, anger management, self-esteem, relaxation
Finch - Your New Self Care Best Friend
You feel like shit. That sucks. You Feel Like Shit is a game designed to help you help yourself through your shitty times and practice self
Introduction to the Analog Brain - Skip the intro and go to the tool - Sometimes (lots of times) (all the time), I have the urge to do
I've used all of these and can vouch for them. Stay safe, love u guys 💖
I need to get this off my chest before I go INSANE.
"You are not immune to propaganda"
This is the main thought I have when people are talking about Effie.
Effie is a clear example of that and people are kinda missing the point.
Suzanne take time to establish that not all Capitol citizens are pure evil, even if they're not rebels. We see it in Katniss' stylists, the girl in the lemon coat, countless kids that died in that bombing, people who died at the hands of both Peacekeepers and rebels alike.
We see it in Effie.
Over the course of the series, Katniss learns that capitol citizens are humans, ones that were put under years upon years of propaganda, with no knowledge on how to behave differently.
The whole message of the series is "remember who the real enemy is". It's the higher powers oppressing people, not common people living privileged life. That is why Katniss shoots Coin, that is why Games, of any kind, had to stop.
Some people focus too much on Effie being typical capitolite, and miss the crucial element of what she is representing. She is a picture of a person who lived their whole life under propaganda and could only break away from it when faced with real facts that contradicted it. Katniss and Peeta being reaped again, shattered Effie's view on Games, making her see through the propaganda.
It doesn't make Effie evil to change only after that.
Sotr also established that Trinkets are an ostracized family, one that is least likely to rebel since they'd be the first ones to go. They need to keep being in the system to survive, they need to comply or they die.
The difference between propaganda in Captiol and Districts is simple.
Districts are confronted with harsh reality daily, Capitol isn't.
That's why propaganda in the Capitol is more effective and why it's harder to break away from it. We cannot judge those characters as if they have access to all the information we have, since it's simply not true.
Effie is a woman in a situation where it's hard to break from the hold of Capitol, from the information that's being fed to her, you have to remember that.
