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Alex | 21 | They/Them | 18+ blog

[strategypillar]

Older than history itself

What if the oldest vampire was a Neanderthal girl 🤔

[nudityandnerdery]

Good news for you, this August 23rd.

[nudityandnerdery]

It’s that time of year again.

[cipheramnesia]

Nice

[nudityandnerdery]

Guess what today is?

[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.

[forgotn1]

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

[alp-crispy]

This was the post that lead to breaking my JW mindset. Been a while since I seen it.

[charlesoberonn]

I’m glad I could help in your deconstruction, if only a little bit. I wish you all the luck in your journey moving forward.

[tuulikki]

And to highlight a key aspect of the “two-person cult” dynamic:

Not all high-control groups are religious. Secular cults exist.

I’d strongly recommend reading this brief bio of Janja Lalich. She’s a deprogramming therapist, but she’s also a cult survivor from a political cult.

[disasart-by-chance]

New art! This time it's some aroace and ace Halloween themed flags!!

Feel free to use them so long as you credit me!

[gaydelgard]

if you are the type of person to tell a girl to stop driving around with an adult sized plastic skeleton strapped into the backseat of her car do not imagine even for one second that you could ever score a girl who would drive around with an adult sized plastic skeleton in the backseat of her car

[gaydelgard]

he said it would "scare the kids"

children love my skeleton

[gaydelgard]

woman rolled her window down at the stoplight today to tell me how much her kids were LOVING the skeleton

[gaydelgard]

children love me, tumblr users want me carnally. for my skeleton.

[tom-spanks]

remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

[scumfuckus]

[yiffpunk]

[heatseekingbehavior]

[nonbinarybeartrade]

[falconfate]

Yeah, I’d have killed a man for this bedroom as a kid

[phoen1xr0se]

How did we all have the same brain?

[myszkaa]

Thought tumblr would like to see it here

[extra-salty-rambler-with-a-soda]

SOOS LET US IN

[kipkiphoorayy]

current fandom mood

[punkitt-is-here]

Hanging with 6 year olds is REALLY funny

[punkitt-is-here]

This happened literally right after

[punkitt-is-here]

[mogumogai]

aroace subtle wallpapers :)

if you want different types (like clouds or other landscape or different flag) let me know! made with the dream.ai app

[xxcalicofemmexx]

aroace wallpapers!

Aroace: Someone who experiences little to no romantic or sexual attraction; Has no desire or urge to be in or seek out a romantic/sexual relationship; An umbrella term for people who identify with part of the aromantic and/or asexual spectrum. The abbreviation for aromantic asexual

[hookhound]

made a ref for andrian + his worgen form since i hadnt drawn it before teehee

[crowwkui]

I don’t usually do crossovers, but a comic idea popped into my head, so i decided to see where it went o/ cw: blood

[iwasarob0t]

hey these are some tips for some of the little details in drawing fat folks that some people might not know!

everyone has fat on their bodies so its a worthwhile skill to have, but most art tutorials leave it out. heres some other good tips from artists!!

the strawberry patch

as requested- my zine about fat and plus size body types from instagram!💖 happy drawing everyone!

fat bodies tutorial!

ALRIGHT SO my pal @kalreyno wanted help with drawing fat characters and as a fat artist i felt like i could give a bit of helpful insight on

hometownrockstar

some notes on drawing fat bodies in a stylized or cartoony art style! i tried to explain and illustrate things i keep in mind while drawing

how to draw fat faces and necks better

something i notice a lot with artists trying to draw fat people is that even if they get the bodies decent they often draw the heads and nec

[fatphobiabusters]

Also, please don't forget to draw fat necks. When I search for fat art, oftentimes the lack of a fat neck makes a character not look fat anymore because the artist basically just drew a skinny person from the shoulders up.

A resource I suggest is fatphotoref. You can also look at fat positive blogs for tons of photos and drawings that can help you learn how fat bodies look in different poses. Tags you can search on this blog include fat art, fatshion, fat athletes, and fat masc. Those tags are probably the best if you're wanting to use fatphobiabusters for pictures to help you learn how to draw fat people. Another tip I have heard a fat artist mention before is if you are fat yourself, use yourself as a reference photo. I hope this helps!

-Mod Worthy

[truntechgodhead]

every time i look at the mystery gang i have this like visceral feeling that someone is missing. but nobody ever is. who are they. what happened to them

[truntechgodhead]

logically i know this is them. these are the only people in the mystery gang. fred, daphne, velma, shaggy, and scooby. thats the 5 of them. but something deep within my lizard brain is telling me theres a 6th member that has been, for unknown reasons, banished from this timeline and our collective memory as a species

[sabertoothwalrus]

hey so fun fact.

you’re not crazy

Van showed this to my class last year and then said “this drawing isn’t anywhere online :)” so I wasn’t sure if he wanted us to talk about it outside of class. so I’ve just been haunted by this secret scooby doo character, fully remembering this post in the back of my head, and I couldn’t say anything. But since he just posted it on his instagram I guess it’s fine lol

[thelurk3r]

someone here who can research better check if this is a hoax I can’t find anything else talking about this Instagram post

[sabertoothwalrus]

I promise you it’s not a hoax. If you notice the guy who posted it is Van Partible, aka the guy who made Johnny Bravo. It’s only on that one instagram post because he has the physical drawing and this is the first time he shared it online. Allegedly. The reason he has the drawing is because, if I recall, while they were making the Scooby Doo/Johnny Bravo crossover special, they were going through original art from the archives, asked to keep that one, and they just let him have it. He’s sort of infamous within the industry for being an unofficial archivist for Hanna-Barbera.

Speaking as someone who’s held the original cels of the first time Johnny did the monkey cause he brought them to class, I can attest that this is not a hoax 👍

[legitimately]

sometimes this world really can be good