Light in the darkness🤟

Hi! The name's Rayroo! Pronouns: she/her ADHD, Latter-day Saint, what's not to love? 🤟 Pfp: @izoluss

[rayroo1223]

The Impact of Pride

HAPPY PRIDE, EVERYONE!

I wanted to take a moment and appreciate all my queer siblings. You existing and sharing your experiences and expertise about the queer experience is something that has helped me tremendously, especially as someone who’s neurodivergent.

I started off as not hating gay people, but not completely understanding it either. I hardly even knew what a trans person was, let alone other identities.

That all changed during the pandemic. I was getting even more into Thomas Sanders’ content, especially Sanders Sides, specifically the fandom on YouTube and Instagram. As I perused fan content, explanations of not just gay identities but all sorts of queer identities popped up on my feed. This began my deep hyperfixation on the LGTBQ+ community. I also found queer Latter-day Saint resources and spaces like the Podcast “Questions from the Closet”, “Listen Learn and Love”, and “Lift + Love”. This led to a deconstruction of my faith that continues to this day.

As I continued my hyperfixation, I noticed how people’s experiences reflected mine as someone with ADHD. Someone who had a body and mind that worked differently than others needing to force themselves to be like everyone else and being shamed all for it. Seeing queer people online not just explain their experiences but aiming to be free from society’s pressures helped me in not just my neurodivergent identity but also my personal identity.

I now want to explore more of myself instead of trying to appease everyone. I want to study how my body is, and not what it’s expected to function.

All because queer people helped change my mind and see a new perspective.

Just by existing and showing themselves.

You sharing your experiences and thoughts helps others grow and become more in the long run. You have an impact, even if it’s a small one.

Spoiler alert: it rarely will be

Happy Pride, everyone🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤟🩷

[rayroo1223]

Reading Archie Sonic again, I’m just realizing how horrifying roboticization is. A beam comes down, and everything organic, flesh, nerves, thoughts, emotions, organs, become steel, metal, wires, data. Along with that, you come out with no free will. You are under the command of the robotocizer, and they can choose if you’re useful

Or if you’re scrap.

And when (spoilers) Sally gets roboticized, Eggman literally MODIFIES HER BODY!!

So whumpers/angst writers, here you go: another form of reader torture.

It definitely was for me

(WHY DID THEY LEAVE HER ROBOTICIZED, WHYYYYYYY???!!!!)

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[animentality]

[amethystmoons]

My mormon ass pulling up to the crusade against ai

[rayroo1223]

Blame @thebluelittlewitch for this

Which Side/Thomas Sanders character is the Tumblr sexiest Tumblr sexyman?

Logan

Roman

Patton

Virgil

Janus

Remus

Sleep (Remy)

Emile Picani

Homer

Secret third option (comment!)

Results

Voting ended onFeb 12

[rayroo1223]

And the winner is...JANUS!!!!

You heard it here, Tumblr. Put him in the roster!

[rayroo1223]

From what I'm seeing, the Tumblr Sexyman competition is upon us.

@sexy-people-contests-2026 I request that Janus be put in the roster. Other people need to know the glory that is Janus!

(Only if you want to, though. I did put in a form.)

[sharpedgedfool]

It's been tiring but we're still here, happy pride yall

[demigirl-in-christ]

june is both Pride Month and the month of The Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.

some people may see this as a contradiction, a sort of clashing of ideals. i cannot disagree more.

for what is the Sacred Heart if not a devotion to God as Love Incarnate? His love that is boundless, passionate, and flows eternally like the ocean waves.

and what is Pride Month if not a celebration of love? love that persists in the face of great adversity and turmoil. love that has, does, and will forever endure even as the whole world seeks to destroy it.

against all of the hate and wrath that much of humanity has for us, always remember that it is never hopeless. for if God is Love, and He is, then He is on our side. and what can these people do against us if God is on our side?

happy Pride Month, and happy Month of the Sacred Heart. God bless you all <3

[tieflingkisser]

[roseaesynstylae]

I just got The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic book, and there’s a quote from Ian McCaig I really liked.

“Here’s the thing about the Force — maybe it’s just my interpretation of it, but I thought it was something George [Lucas] told us back on The Phantom Menace: There was no light [versus] dark side of the Force. The dark side is part of the Force. What keeps it in balance is saying no to it, allowing it to do what it does, to warn and to frighten and to guide us through our dark emotions, and then you’re using all of the Force, not just one little piece, which is where the dark side always goes wrong. But what [the Jedi are] calling the light side is the entirety of the Force.”

I just like this because of the idea of some pretentious Sith going “we have embraced all of the Force while you pathetic Jedi sit around with your narrow-minded idea—“ and then there’s this guy saying “well ACTUALLY”

[im-da-bronx]

Oh my god that’s genius

Like, the whole purpose of fear as an emotion is to warn you of danger and to keep you alive. So it makes sense that the purpose of the dark side of the force is to warn you of danger and keep you alive. But then sith twist it, and instead of using the dark side as a way to warn and protect others as well, they’re using it specifically to gain power over others.

It’s like the difference between a parent telling their child something scary to keep them safe (“don’t go in the road/touch the stove/wander into the woods at night”), vs an abuser telling their victim something scary to manipulate the victim into staying with their abuser (think Mother Gothel’s song in Tangled)

[rayroo1223]

Same goes for the Jedi Order in the prequals. At the time of the Phantom Menace (I haven't seen the films in a while, forgive me), the jedi are scared of negative emotions, as seen with their hesitation with taking Anakin as a youngling. Speaking of younglings, they go as far as removing any outside relationships such as family and lovers to be "one with the force" aka "I'm scared of emotions, so I'm running away, and your kid should, too." It's giving major cult vibes.

Which is why Anakin was so susceptible to the dark side: he wasn't allowed to express or even acknowledge those emotions and thoughts, so when he did, it exploded all over the galaxy.

Lesson learned: embrace and live with your emotions, or you will accidentally kill your wife and be mutilated by lava.

[rayroo1223]

Y'all. If you can, go take a somatic class. It feels so nice to know how your body actually moves and feels like.

Spoiler alert: it's all spirals

[starmin-marmin]

With @nephis-bow-and-aroace getting her mission call (¡felicidades, hermana!) I realized that I don’t know how old Tumblrstake is??? I’ve imagined you all as my age but clearly you’re all babies??

What is thine age, tumblrstake member?

Under 12 y/o (primary child???)

12-18 (YM/YW)

18-25

25-30

30-40

40-50

50+

969 (I’m Methuselah and I just want to see the results)

Voting ended onMay 25

[rayroo1223]

Geez, how many Methuselahs are there?

God needs to stop making people immortal, fr fr.

18-25 crowd, btw

[birdandvine]

Good Morning, I Am Not Going to Commit Suicide Today, by Kimmy Walters

[rayroo1223]

Tumblr/The Internet's Bullying Problem

Is it just me, or does Tumblr have a lot of mean people? Not just Tumblr has this problem, but I'm on here the most.

Everywhere I go, I will at some point either come across people trying to "own" people who say something wrong to put it generally. Heck, some have even been sent to me!

Let me set the record straight:

Bullying doesn't work. Even if it's for a good cause.

Every time I come across posts or comments like this, there's usually a wall of more sass and putting down, trying to see which one of them will beat the other person. And it never gets resolved.

Shame will not change a person. It will only hurt them and make the problem worse. Fight or flight and all that. If hurting them is your goal, then stop and externalize it in a different way.

Trying to own someone looks and feels so enticing in the moment, but in practice, no one feels good.

When people mess up, give people the benefit of the doubt and kindly and civilly explain the situation. If they don't take accountability and or are uncivil back, report, block, and scream into your pillow.

So be kind to one another. We're all human, and should be treated as such. You never know if they're going through something or not.

I would ask that everyone BE CIVIL about this in the reblogs and comments. Please.

[amethystmoons]

My new fitness goal is to be like the daughters of Ishmael who ate raw meat and became absolutely ripped.

[amethystmoons]

Actually I want to talk about this more. The og post was light hearted but this genuinely spoke to me upon reading it. Here are the verses I'm specifically talking about.

1 Nephi 17:2 And so great were the blessings of the Lord upon us, that while we did live upon raw meat in the wilderness, our women did give plenty of suck for their children, and were strong, yea, even like unto the men; and they began to bear their journeyings without murmurings.

3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.

There are so many forces in this world (in lds, christian, and just overall culture) trying to convince women to be weak and small. Diet culture is coming back with a bang. I get ads for weight loss drugs just about everyday. Any female fitness influencer's comment sections is full of both men and women talking about how women shouldn't be "bulky" and they need to be petite delicate little flowers. It's started to drive me insane.

Despite all that, here's a verse in the book of mormon literally talking about strong women; and it's portrayed as a good thing. Nephi could've left it at "our women did give plenty of suck for their children," and that would've gotten the point across, but he didn't. He included that they "were strong, yea, even like unto the men." They're not just getting enough food to feed their kids, they're getting enough food to be as strong as their husbands and brothers and fathers. (As a woman who works out this is harder than you'd think. The part testosterone plays in building muscle is so annoying. After years of going to the gym and getting my protein in I'm about as strong as the average teenage boy lol.) They're not criticized for being too bulky or too heavy or too masculine. The men aren't criticized or emasculated because their women are as strong as them. They're all praised because this is the result of following the Lord's commandments.

It's all about the Lord. He told them to travel throught the wilderness and provided a means for them to do so. They didn't just barely get by, they had enough food that the women were able to breastfeed babies for what was probably years, and become strong themselves.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this one line but I genuinely needed it at this point in my life.

[rayroo1223]

You heard it here first, people.

The Mormon beauty standard is to get gains

[rayroo1223]

To my neurodivergent people:

How do you get over clothing sensory issues?

I want to dress in all sorts of clothes and I have ideas on clothes of my own like cosplay. However I have one of the worst sensory issues in the world:

I hate having things on my waist.

I have a pretty big belly (despite being small everywhere else), so I feel anxiety (not quite panic, but you get the picture) every time there is a band or even stretchy elastic on my waist. It feels like I won't be able to breathe.

I also don't really like anything formfitting. I mean sometimes I do, but it's so inconsistant.

Woman's clothes are notorious for having things at the waist and above and being formfitting. I like the look on me, but I just can't wear it. And the clothes that do fit me well look so pillowy and like a potato sack.

I could wear guys clothes, but I get dysphoria thinking about going into that section. I like masc clothes, but I like wearing dresses and skirts.

I also like to move. A lot. And clothes don't tend to have that in mind.

I don't know. I had to return almost all the stuff I got from Old Navy because they either didn't fit me correctly or they caused anxiety.

[ash-pile]

Okay so this may not be helpful since I’m quite a small person so everything not small or medium is large but… oversized clothes. Always.

I learned how to sew so that I could shrink and adjust my clothing and now I only buy large or above sized clothing (except for underclothes like bra/underwear) It lets me adjust to how I need, means I can hide tighter clothes underneath to catch sweat if it’s needed and hides my curvy figure which gives me dysphoria. Also knowing how to adjust clothes means that I can shop in any area of the store (i love thrifting so it opens more options) and then adjust as needed + if there’s a weirdly shaped/formed part of the clothes I can just say fuck that and change it.

So yeah. Oversized always and learn to sew.

And I like to keep an extra set of clothes in my car/backpack for a just in case situation (got dirty, uncomfy for some reason, just don’t wanna wear this anymore)

[rayroo1223]

This actually helps a lot. I know some sewing stuff and have to hem pants constantly (shorties, baby!), although altering clothes otherwise is something I want to learn more about.

Are there any resources you can recomend?

[rayroo1223]

To my neurodivergent people:

How do you get over clothing sensory issues?

I want to dress in all sorts of clothes and I have ideas on clothes of my own like cosplay. However I have one of the worst sensory issues in the world:

I hate having things on my waist.

I have a pretty big belly (despite being small everywhere else), so I feel anxiety (not quite panic, but you get the picture) every time there is a band or even stretchy elastic on my waist. It feels like I won't be able to breathe.

I also don't really like anything formfitting. I mean sometimes I do, but it's so inconsistant.

Woman's clothes are notorious for having things at the waist and above and being formfitting. I like the look on me, but I just can't wear it. And the clothes that do fit me well look so pillowy and like a potato sack.

I could wear guys clothes, but I get dysphoria thinking about going into that section. I like masc clothes, but I like wearing dresses and skirts.

I also like to move. A lot. And clothes don't tend to have that in mind.

I don't know. I had to return almost all the stuff I got from Old Navy because they either didn't fit me correctly or they caused anxiety.

[itsalezzia]

"...𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔..."

The symbol of hope and resilience is still going strong after 35 years ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

IM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS PIECE, I WANNA PUT IT ON MY WALL ｡⁠:ﾟ⁠(⁠;⁠´⁠∩⁠`⁠;⁠)ﾟ⁠:⁠｡

[rayroo1223]

AS AM I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also want to put this on my wall so bad!!