like a hurricane

un·re·pent·ant /ˌənrəˈpen(t)ənt / all roads lead to me

[holydestruction]

                   𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?                                                               𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖? 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕪?

                                   『𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖』

                                                               ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇᴠᴇʀꜱᴇ / ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇꜱʜɪᴘ                                                                      ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ / ʙʟᴏɢꜱᴛʏʟᴇ                                                                         ᴇʀɪᴅᴀɴ ᴀᴍᴘᴏʀᴀ                                                                          ʀᴜʟᴇꜱ . ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ

[devilfokke]

An old windjammer by Robert Watts

[wizardarchetypes]

we need another bidoof’s law to refer to the phenomenon where someone says some rude stupid shit in the reblogs of your post and you go to their blog and all their posts are about nature loving you and being kind to each other and cute illustrations about friendship etc. the cognitive dissonance

[canadianwheatpirates]

Fleming's law: the most toxic person you've ever met over-relates to woodland creatures on social media

[worst-roommates-ever]

[autokrates]

I have to put these stupid little silicone(?) caps on all my sharp stabby bits when I want to go anywhere with crowds so I meet safety standards. Which is fine, whatever. They look stupid and they're pretty uncomfortable, but it's not like I want to accidentally pump every poor bastard that bumps into me full of deadly neurotoxins.

However. I draw the LINE at putting tennis balls on my horns. I'm taller than most people. My horn tips curve upwards. Who the fuck is going to get stabbed with these things on accident. You want me to cap my horns but I'm allowed to bring a GUN in here???

[holydestruction]

its gonna start vwith soft plush balls and i feel like its goin a creep up to full on pool noodles ovver your fuckin horns

vwild that theyre lettin you bring in vweapons and aint vworried about your magic at all but the HORNS

[holydestruction]

staff and the tenants look forwward a seein ouros and alder more than me

and the tenants i get

but koshek is absolutely spoilin these lions and i cant evven stop her vwhich frankly should be illegal

[defilerwyrm]

Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

[got-zayn]

Still call it out and question it ….

[defilerwyrm]

Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change. 

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.

[sepdet]

We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.

[sarasa-cat]

Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

We really need to start asking where this purity bullshit came from. I’m not  Christian and was not raised Christian but there has been a lot evidence that much of gold star activism and purity culture originated in of evangelical youth movements and then infiltrated progressive left-wing and center-left politics when those youth left their churches but failed to leave behind the black-n-white puritanical “you’re going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path” style of thinking they were taught.

I distinctly remember some conversations I had in the late 00s and very early 2010s with long time social justice activists who were baffled and disturbed by the new crop of youth activists who were practicing something that was decidedly NOT social justice despite stealing that phrase from us.

In the decade and a half that has passed since then, all of this gold-star activism and purity culture has done exactly what I predicted back then: empowered the far-right while sowing division everywhere.

Folks. This shit needs to stop.

[notaplaceofhonour]

The extremely important part is that trust should be proportional to how much they actually demonstrate that they have changed. Especially when it comes to power.

A random person who had a moderately shady past or fucked up views before shouldn’t need to flog themselves to show how penitent they are beyond just doing better now, just to be able to live their life in peace, but if someone is campaigning to get political power and all they have to say for their life up to that point being a field of red flags, it isn’t enough for them to say “well I’m not like that now” if they haven’t actually achieved anything that makes up for it in the opposite direction.

We can’t allow ourselves to be our own worst enemies. We need an approach that allows for Oskar Schindlers without making excuses for Graham Platners.

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[holydestruction]

holly, digging into his notes on the nebulous subject of human sexuality and identity expression, desperately trying to find this color pattern to read up on which identifier it's related to

[autokrates]

[autokrates]

I will trot this out again with zero shame.

[holydestruction]

when you look up a bunch of polished horns and antlers for reference on color/mineral striation, and have a tiny space to pack enough detail for something to read well.

but then your character is a fuck-ass bitch and keeps his horns regularly polished, so you fucking lose all that work in the goddamn end:

[pridefulsuggestion]

i still have my anger. i still have my spine. i still have the point of the blade in my bone. i will defend my free will and remember my will to be free.

[holydestruction]

so im painting a new selfie for holly and i haven't finished yet, but because of the chin i keep seeing robert pattinson, and i have to stop and laugh

[ceilidho]

I respect the fuck out of people that are just like “yeah sorry that ship does nothing for me but you guys have fun” even when a lot of people get into something at once

[holydestruction]

the duality of bein married and ensigned is strokin your mates hair vwhile hes all cuddled up and sleepin comfortably vwhile changin random apps to light mode on his palmhusk

[pmamtraveller]

Jules Elie Delaunay - Young Woman with Sword

[possumcollege]

"Tits out with weapon," a timeless genre.

[holydestruction]

@autokrates

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits