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pocketss

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

bigtimetommy

me after ants find me asleep at the picnic

hometoursandotherstuff

anotherhawk

You know, in other circumstances I might dislike making a character immortal, but I think that the Eridian medical thrum were faced with the choice between trying to solve Rocky's severe co-dependence and PTSD in less than thirty years time OR unlocking the secrets of the human genome and turning off Grace's aging and felt that the latter was a MUCH more realistic prospect.

mangoku

xhellnhighheelsx

Handcuffs vs Sonic Screwdriver

Perspective is everything.

fivepebble

people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

oaks-and-willows

"Don't you feel satisfied that your windows are so clean now?" It sucked and it sucked and now I don't care. I just remember the sucking.

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

jewish-joy

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

jewish-joy

I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

So Dorothea's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.

depsidase

geocaprican

It is becoming increasingly apparent that colonialism never really ended, but like so many other previously government sponsored enterprises it moved to the private sector and rebranded

Alright, I'm slightly sleep deprived and I have no friends in the van diagram overlap of these two fandoms, so here's what I think each of the phantom thieves would play in Warhammer 40k.

Ren: absolutely Harlequins, because he's a dramatic bitch who loves the flair, and also with how bad he's been treated in his life, he's ready for the treatment he'll receive from Games Workshop for the crime of playing a Xenos faction not named Orks

Ryuji: ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS OR-

Ann: I could see her playing a Craftworld or Drukkari list, but probably pushing more towards the Elite sides of the army because I can see her getting annoyed by long movement phases

Morgana: Custodians, because he wants his models to feel powerful, also he's a fucking cat he can only move so many models so fast

Yusuke: Chaos Demons, because nothing was really blowing his hair back at first, and then someone mentions that Demons are canonically mryad and form and look like whatever. He spent his life savings on Clay that afternoon and started sculpting a Chaos Demons army, the codex, Datasheets, and standardized base sizes mean nothing to him, his collection is beautiful, he has never played a game

Makoto: Sisters of Battle, because they bring the army up to her as a joke and she brushes it aside as too obvious, but then she looked at the model range and actually liked them. She has an ultra sweaty meta list painted and ready for the day the rest of the group wants to stop being dirty casuals

Futaba: she almost didn't end up with an army because she thought that painting was annoying, and then Ren talked her Into Necrons and now it's all warrior spam all the time, only one who can stand toe to toe with Makoto's best list

Haru: A horrible, Croonanberg list with a Rogue trader as the warlord "Because she's just like me for real!", imperial guard, and an imperial knight. She painted the Rogue trader stuff herself but the rest she got commission painted and it's beautiful. Has the fluffiest list but of the group has the highest win rate. Also she bank rolling all of this because these bitches poor

Sumire: not super into the game but she has an imperial knights army that she paints with the gang to be included

Zenkichi: probably Chaos space Marines for the edge, Akane helps him with the painting most of the time and vibes with the group when they play

Sophie: doesn't play but loves to watch

Akechi: Ultramarines

theonion

definitely-not-lordenglish

Starting a collection

definitely-not-lordenglish

home-and-having-tea

dredgen-dumbass

assorted favorites

nolightlost

2. Raze

Some Lightbearers embrace the Darkness for power. Others didn't have as much of a choice.

Bonus character sheet (I feel like I've made a pizza cutter of a character😭)

ohnoitstbskyen

"If they introduce either of them, I hope they are straight up villains. I am tired of Jesus Was A Nice Guy Actually interpretations of that particular prophet, it lets Christianity off the hook far too easy."

That is certainly a challenge because, just as Tv Tropes explains in their page for "Jesus Was Way Cool" (a.k.a: this trope), he is God in human form who routinely mingled with and was willing to forgive those who were considered outcasts even to the church primarily through the pen and not the sword

9 times out of 10, you will look like a asshole because you're demeaning what might essentially be the most universal "Greatest Of All Time" to ever exist

See this is the shit I'm talking about. It's this shit right here. I am so tired of this exact thing.

"Jesus was so nice" he was a cult leader who claimed to have the divine power to define and forgive human sin, and you live in a culture which is pathologically obsessed with worshipping him, even while the religion he founded has slaughtered and persecuted untold millions of people over the course of two thousand years in his name.

I'm not particularly atheistic as a person, but I feel vomit well up in my throat when people uncritically and without a hint of irony take it as Literal Gospel that Jesus Was Nice Actually, and that it would somehow be unfair to him to use him in fiction to embody literally any of the bad things that his religion has done.

I dunno man, maybe the apocalypse cult leader's eschatological teachings are partly to blame for how the followers of his religion obsess over sin and purity in the eyes of God? Maybe his claim to be an instrument of universal divine justice on Earth is partly to blame when his followers abuse and murder non-Christians as enemies of that divine justice?? Maybe some of the things Jesus said and did have a causative impact on how the followers of his teachings behave??

But no, I'm just talking crazy talk here. Everyone knows that the things Jesus said and did can never be to blame for any bad thing that Christians do, but they can always be credited for all the good things that Christians do.

Only the good things, because Jesus Was Nice. He was the universal Greatest Of All Time. It says so on tv tropes dot org

crazedporcupine

I mean I get it, I get the rage and frustration about how Christianity has quite honestly devastated the world.

But you really have to remember that very few people ever actually read the Bible. They just accept whatever slop is taught to them as children or by casual pastors in churches.

As an ex Mormon, it's expected by the time you graduate high school, you've read the old testament, new testament, and the Mormon scriptures at least twice over. Most will have done this if they're more bought into the cult attitude of righteousness. Many will go to BYU which requires multiple religious studies class that require focus on either old or new testament, the Mormon scriptures, and one elective style class (I did historical looks on global religions which covered zoroastrianism, and others)

As such, the Mormon church has a base that is more educated than the average Christian in regards to the content of the Bible.

Christ was a revolutionary against the Jewish sects. He was compassionate, but gave 0 shits about the attitude of the "holier than thou" upper crusts of the Jewish leaders. He taught to reach out to the lowest dregs of society and treat them with kindness and charity. When the temple became a ground for corporate greed, as people profited off of religion, he fucking flipped tables and told them to get that shit out of the temple.

He condemned the people who refused to offer aid to those in need, and celebrated those who overcame the prejudices and hatred of their culture to help those considered beneath them.

Humans are fucking human and will use any excuse they can to exclude "out groups" because humans are deeply tribal creatures, and once we've decided certain people aren't part of our tribe we will refuse to open up and let them in. Christianity has been just a bigger way to create that "Us vs Them" tribalism that has been the cause of every conflict in human history.

Yeah Christianity is a current issue, but hell Christianity also fucking discriminated against gnostic Christians, and the number of Schisms in Christian history has resulted in just more us vs them mentality.

Christ was a radical progressive, and he got killed for it. People have now used that "persecution" as a reason to persecute others

ohnoitstbskyen

You are still doing it. You are still doing the thing. You are uncritically accepting the framing and understanding of Jesus developed by Christians in Christian texts for Christian audiences, and what i am trying to ask people to do is to just for one picosecond adopt a hostile reading of those texts, or literally any frame of understanding of them other than credulity!

"Wow, I'm reading this book about Dienetics and L. Ron Hubbard sure is a swell guy! He was a revolutionary against the galactic tyrant Xenu! Sure, his followers have done some bad things in his name, but Ron was a radical progressive!"

For just a moment, please understand Christian theology and Christian texts and Christian narratives as what they are: propaganda literature, written by and for members of a cult to reinforce and justify their own moral and political belief systems.

Literally not one single word of the Bible is written in Jesus' own hand, all of it is writing ABOUT the man, after his death, by other people with an agenda for how they wanted his martyrdom to be meaningful politically and spiritually. It is a text with hundreds of authors, all competing for authority.

If there was a historical Jesus, he did not heal the sick, did not turn water to wine, did not feed 5000 people or walk on water, and was not resurrected after being dead in a cave for three days. And because we know that all of those stories about him are, generously speaking, fucking fairy tales, we should also be able to accept that the rest of the stories about him are not credible historical reportage either, and understand that "Jesus" is a literary creation who bears at best passing resemblance to whatever real man may have inspired him.

Please be willing to read the Bible with the same frame of skepticism that you would use for any other piece of beatific cult literature. The Bible makes Jesus look like a swell guy because it is religious propaganda designed to glorify a martyr and rhetorically justify structuring power around his (purported) dogmas.

Once we adopt a skeptical or hostile reading of the Bible, and once we understand Jesus as a literary creation, maybe then we can treat him like one and have him play a villain in a TV show.

Maybe then he can be used to narratively embody a critique or satire or mockery of his pop cultural persona or his movement in history or the religious dogma that is ascribed to him, just the same as we do with so many other historical and religious and folkloric figures. And maybe we can do it without credulous cultural Christians jumping in to be like "um actually this is factually incorrect, Jesus was historically an uwu cinnamon roll smol bean, it says so in my favourite fanfic!"

The eschatology espoused by Christ in the Bible is and remains fucked up, by the way, I will not yield on this. Human life on Earth is not a gauntlet of noble suffering whose misery is justified and paid for by a reward in the afterlife. Being oppressed and abused does not make you spiritually more pure it just fucks you up and usually makes you a worse person. And the meek shall not inherit the fucking Earth, the Earth will be strip mined and left a scorched wasteland by capital holders unless the meek stop sitting prayerfully in their holy misery and start [redacted] some fucking executives' houses.

"Render unto Caesar" how about render unto the oppressor a mouthful of their own broken teeth actually, Jesus, how about that? Maybe it kinda sucked how you made a virtue out of material inaction against oppression, maybe "turn the other cheek" is dogshit advice for making a better world on Earth. Maybe the idea that the suffering of the poor shall be repaid in the kingdom of heaven has turned out to be a really effective way of justifying keeping the poor fucking miserable.

Rich men can't enter the kingdom of heaven? Oh wow, I guess I'll enjoy my epic moral victory over Jeff Bezos as the AI data centers cook the atmosphere and drink the lakes dry. Truly, the most noble thing an oppressed person can do is die about it!

I'm not even a fucking atheist, i don't think religion is inherently either good or bad and I don't think Christianity is evil or poisonous. I am just so desperately bored with the special little moral exception carve out that is constantly given especially to Jesus specifically, sheltering him from ever being portrayed as anything other than a really swell guy who is sooooooooo tragically misunderstood, and who can never be held responsible for any bad things done in his name, but always be credited with the good things. I am sick of people considering it somehow taboo to mock or be rude about a fucking cult leader.

sanguine-humor

phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye

sanguine-humor