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Overcorrecting

Actual canon:

Furthermore:

I get wanting to distance yourself from old inaccurate fanon but recently it feels like the fandom is just being contrarian and overcorrecting so much they create a new fanon, just in the opposite direction

thesovereignword

Closeness to God isn’t about the situation you’re in. It’s not about how you feel, or where you’ve been, or what you’ve done. It’s about obedience. How far you’re willing to hear His word and put it into practice. Closeness to God isn’t an emotion, or a memory, or a set of circumstances.

Closeness to God is a daily devotion to do the things He asks of you. It’s that simple.

mybeautifulchristianjourney

geekandmisandry

Many Asian cultures used to eat only brown rice, which has a lot more health benefits, until westerners started insisting on white rice because it weighed less and was less “dirty”, so we took a cultural norm and changed a food that was a daily staple for many people to make it more convenient for us. And in return we gave them a food that was less nutritious and a sharp increase in diabetes.

Yay us.

cydonianmystery-deactivated-dea

I can only imagine how many more we’ve likewise harmed due to western culture’s similar insistence on white bread; which has less flavor, less nutrition, and way too much sugar… but looks “pure”.

Stripping grain’s most nutritious part off is so foolish, but hey, “purity”. The right is always so obsessed with the west’s “legacy”. Well? There it is. Malnutrition, starvation.

So yeah, yay us.

swolerbear

I mean this is absolutely, absolutely a pattern with imperialism. White people did this to indigenous people all over the world. Literally all over the world. If you look at the history of countless indigenous populations, they’re healthy and well until white people come and force western lifestyles upon them. There is a set of diseases known rather grossly as the “diseases of civilization” or “western diseases”, and they appear after western eating habits are forced upon indigenous people.

If you look at doctors treating people living in these areas of the world, they note that these diseases are absolutely non-existent until they’re forced to westernize. They’re told that the food that they’re eating is unhealthy, and even that it’s healthier to feed their babies Coca Cola. We make their traditional way of eating next to impossible and sell them refined wheat, rice, and sugar. Within a decade, cavities develop. Then comes heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, autoimmune disease, and even cancer. These things were either non-existent or next to non-existent.

It’s not a coincidence. Imperialism is one of the greatest horrors ever committed by man for more reasons we can even count.

rosesandlavendertea

White people: Let’s make everything white. Including food.

What were my ancestors thinking?

sophtopus

Again.

NO!

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING WHITE! It has EVERYTHING to do with food preservation and taste.

Brown rice spoils faster than white rice White rice tastes more palatable than brown rice.

Our ancestors want delicious food that don’t fucking spoil. RICE GROWING NATIONS HAVE BEEN POLISHING RICE FOR MILLENNIA

And if given the money, they will try to eat like the rich which is HIGH IN FAT because FAT MAKES YOU FULL which is great when you’re damn starving 90% of the time.

rosesandlavendertea

Woops. Sorry, dude. I just read some of the thing and my brain went, “hey! This sounds kind of funny. Thank you for the history lesson.

sophtopus

As long as you learn. It is quite unfun to wake up to comments about white guilt and imperialism over something totally false. So false that it’s laughable.

hj-skb

As a retired MMO junkie I’m quite distressed by this.

hj-skb

I’m finally done with this fic, my heavy heart wants to cry itself out except no tears are coming out and I just want to rest and read some fluffy brotherly love now, help me AO3 gods

It seems to be a pretty unanimously recommended gen and classic-flavored undertale fic by fandom already but here it is anyways, (the warning tags do not kid it is definitely rated 18+ for very traumatic and graphic violence)

> https://archiveofourown.org/works/5056333/chapters/11627629

withtheworms

*loudly @ ur tags*

BABY U WANT MORE FIC? I GOT U.

🔬The Scientist and its sequel 💢Entropy by @talkingsoup. Scientist was the first fic I ever read in the fandom and I got into it in such a big way.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5301182/chapters/12238256 & https://archiveofourown.org/works/5335319/chapters/12319109

🕳 I’m Feeling Fine, Kid by Maximum_Overboner. I read this one late last year and it’s sooooooOOOO GOOD. If you liked FINaGLC you’ll like this. Messed up and traumatic skeletons and I think one of the most unique takes on Gaster in fandom.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5170061/chapters/11910140

And because I’m shameless: 🏡 Rehab Cabin DLC by me and @sansybones. Sans can’t cope with life on the surface post-Pacifist ending and so he and Papyrus have to go live in isolation in a cabin in the woods. It’s written as a series of chronological one-shots and they’re all very, very sad.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/498391

Okay that’ll set u up for ages ‘cause none of those fics run short but seriously they’re all so good. This fandom writes good fic seriously so much of it is so good.

sarasmil3s

Prayer request

I don’t do this often, but I’m really scared. A friend of mine was just rushed to the Er. He was feeling really dizzy and had a headache and then passed out. Last week they found a tumor that they said was small and removable. Not sure if it was that or something else but please pray for him and the doctors. Thanks