The Nest

My collection of neat and shiny posts

[sorryimamagpie]

When you think about The Character™️ and can honestly feel your pupils dilating >

[summers0lst1ce]

Gonna be real normla this month

[harvestmoth]

bwuh

[tibby-art]

i love peak sm

[scuffledig]

all roads lead to yuri. START WALKING

[scribeherself]

I love saying “no worries” instead of “it’s okay,” like do not spend a single millisecond of your finite mortal existence letting anxiety over this situation consume you. I have already erased the incident from the timeline. It is gone. You are safe now.

[twigbranch4556]

My friends have been begging me to watch VSMP so I finally did it 7 years late to the party. Bet you can't guess who's Pov I watched lol.

Genuinely it's darn good, I did this sketch immediately after I finished binging it :D

Thank you Xenon and Sunnier for bullying me into this!!!

[dogpuppy]

[pineberry-princess]

[fruityshirts]

#ranibow sprimkle

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front

[furbiefleshsuit]

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+ a comparison to another webtoon

[sconesalot]

the winner of BRAVERY

[thisisgraecie]

how am i meant to have a cutieful time with my minecraft not girlfriend girlfriend on the flight when servers won't let me connect

would anyone be interested in me potentially doing au ttrpg one shots with flight characters because i need to work on something to cope (ie space crew au with MOTHERSHIP or something idk i'm SAD)

[thisisgraecie]

don't tell anyone i'm telling y'all this... it stays between us...

giving tumblr a lil update because i can't keep my excitement to myself but i'm teaching a few of the girlies ttrpgs in the next few weeks and if they like it i'm gonna rope them into a mothership one shot where i put them in a sci fi flight au setting i've been brainstorming... wish me luck on getting them to like it because i neeeeeeed them to be the crew for a Dragon model cargo ship called The Shepherdess with a friendly AI named græ-c1

(this is all i've been able to think about for days i am so excited about this silly (spooky) setting with little nods to the flight UGH i already know the adventure i'd send the crew on)

[harvestmoth]

best bros

[powcreations]

The Gods have decided on a time!

#PantheonSMP is set to release on Youtube...

August 9th - 12pm ET | 5pm BST

[butchlinkle]

got out of bed the second i saw this and knew what i had to do i cant lie

[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.

[charlesoberonn]

It’s tricky with parenting, because parents have to control their children’s lives to start with, since newborns are incapable of taking care of themselves.

A healthy parent will gradually relinquish control as their child grows and becomes more capable. And even while they’re in charge, they will treat their child with honesty and transparency and respect. They’ll prepare their child for independence, giving them the tools they need to live their own life.

A culty, abusive parent will go far beyond the level of control that their role requires. They will use manipulation and undue influence, taking advantage of their child’s naivete and malleable mind for the parent’s own benefit and agenda. They will continue to exercise this control well into their child’s adulthood, possibly their whole life.

[fr3sh-c0rn-2]

Martyn answering rens "did we get married" with "well I did chop your head off" in wild life makes me want to raise several questions about the kinds of weddings hes been to. in what world is that a qualifier