#december 11th 2017

[captainlordauditor]

aaaanyway the gender binary is a western concept and gender abolitionism that doesn’t recognize that is inherently racist. you don’t get to destroy a people’s history and culture under the pretext of “freeing” them from something they don’t have. that’s what christians did and we all know how that turned out

[rjbailey]

That’s a scene I’d like to see. 😁

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

i have no self control so... here it is

[reesa-chan]

@book-babe is streaming Hannibal, but I can’t deal with that show’s aesthetic, so I’m going to throw up an alternate stream on Rabbit. I’m thinking I’ll show Sahara first.

https://www.rabb.it/reesa-chan

@copperbadge

[heyitsmylessart]

couldn’t get myself to finish my commissions...I settled with a vent piece instead

[the-witches-tea]

Why I converted

Now that it has been longer than a year of my new religion, I decided to share my story. 

I was raised protestant. To be honest I never knew what branch because my parents rarely went to church. I only have memories of church when I was very very little. My moms side of the family was Protestant while my dads side was Catholic. My dad was never really religious and hardly talked about it, but my grandma was a die hard catholic. 

Also when I was young, my uncle’s family on my moms side converted to Jehovah Witnesses. Imagine trying to tell a 7 year old why they can’t talk or play with their favorite cousin anymore because they shunned us because we were a different religion. 

All of these were very confusing to me. Over time I became less and less religious and as I saw how other Christians acted towards me being gay and trans, this drew me away even further. 

Way back when I was on deviantart, I have a brief friendship with a Wiccan. She didn’t talk about her religion much but it was what made curious and she was the first wiccan I ever met. This will be important later. 

As more time went on, I started to become more spiritual. I guess I was trying to find what I believed in. I learned more about the bible and etc. Now Protestants don’t believe in a lot of things other branches do. I started to believe in angels, saints, and other things but all my life I was told I couldn’t believe in these. However then why is there angels in our own bible? And why was I raised as a kid to believe in Santa (aka based off a saint). It made no sense. So this is where I started to become less and less religious but more spiritual. 

It came to a point that I realized I really wanted to be religious, but I couldn’t connected to the Christian god. I do believe Jesus existed, but in a historical sense. 

I remembered my wiccan friend I used to have and started to research the religion more. I always loved nature so worshiping nature deities made just so much more sense to me. I started calling myself a wiccan and I made this blog to help me research and share my story. I hope you enjoyed it. 

Oh yeah, side note. My uncle and cousin are no longer Jehovah witnesses. I know my uncle lives in Thailand, remarried, and is a Buddhist. I’m not sure what religion my cousin is but she is a tattoo artist here in Michigan. We have recently started to talk to both again. 

[elkian]

I think I have an alternative to the old “people need to get licenses/pass an IQ test before they can have kids”: public education should include parenting classes

(as in real, legit, designed by someone who knows what they’re doing classes, not fulfilling-a-state-quota classes)

hell, even if you, like me, never want to personally have kids, it could be useful for people who aren’t sure how to comfortably interact with kids in public

[captainlordauditor]

gender? just as much a cultural construct as justice, mercy, the hogfather. doesn’t make it irrelevant, nor does it make it fake, or ok to destroy someone else’s