Eva Doll By Anouk Morgan | April 2012 « The Libertine
i feel like mary lambert just saved my entire day by putting out this music video
i feel like mary lambert just saved my entire day by putting out this music video
im violently crying like literally every time i hear this i cant not sob
Wowwwww I love this so much
She made an official video!
baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat
you know what i’m in just enough of a bad mood that i’m ready to nail my grievances to the church door so let’s fucking go
Thank you for breaking it down like that because so many of us have been saying it but to see a play by play breakdown comparison is just…Thank you.
oh, man, speaking as a queer Christian who gets regular tumblr flashbacks to my childhood in the Bible Belt, YES
-belief that small snippets of text can be analyzed out context to understand the whole work/ judge the whole person
-Desire for moral choices to be easy/ black-and-white leads to belief that it is possible to find a one-size-fits all answer to every situation
-Literal, rather than literary analysis, with weird fixation on etymological roots that have nothing to do with source material
-Belief that there is “one true interpretation” that is self-evident and will be understood by everyone encountering the same material regardless of background
-Overwhelming, internalized sense of culpability for other people’s actions/integrity/souls
-Overwhelming, internalized sense of personal guilt
-Pressure to evangelize aggressively
-Tendency to value broad ideals before individual needs
-Hostility towards coexistence/tolerance/neutrality
-Hostility towards lack of consensus in viewpoint
-Knowledge as contamination
-Guilt/contamination by proximity
-Fixation on the sexual as uniquely dirty/sinful
-Belief in “thought crimes”
-Argumentation via appeal to higher authority/feelings of revulsion rather than internal, verbalizeable logic
-“conversations” that are actually stealth soapboxes because one side isn’t actually interested in listening
-“polite requests” that are actually commands because “no” is not considered an acceptable answer
-in-group language
-virtue-signaling and hostility towards the outgroup
-gatekeeping
-communities strongly built around the idea of being the world’s underdog
-appropriation of other people’s persecution/victimization
-treating the concept of oppression like a trophy
-glorification/fetishization of victimhood
It got better.
Anonymous asked:
shipping-isnt-morality answered:
I searched through my posts and realized I don’t really have a cope shipping masterpost? So here’s the main reasons I’ve heard:
Catharsis: a literally ancient tradition of using fiction to help you feel difficult emotions, like fear, anger, sadness, or guilt, without having to confront them too directly. Sharing those emotions socially can also reduce the impact and lighten the load. For people who are dealing with totally overwhelming emotions because of trauma, catharsis is a way to bleed some of it off, maybe even in fictional circumstances similar to their trauma, allowing them to talk about it and feel it when they’re not yet ready to confront it directly. Probably most angst-shipping is in this category, and it’s by no means limited to trauma victims; anyone can benefit from and even enjoy catharsis.
Narrative Therapy: more directly relevant to survivors, this is the process of shaping what happened to them into a coherent narrative, and sorting through the ambiguities and confusion. While often “angsty”, it doesn’t have to be: I can personally testify that frequently narrative therapy is just as important for dealing with and rationalizing the positive emotions I felt during trauma.
Projection: anecdotally, many people use fiction to regain a sense of power that was lost during trauma, especially sexual trauma. These fics can go a lot of different ways: they may be virtually indistinguishable from the trauma, and overlap with narrative therapy. or they may go radically different ways: for example, the victim becoming the aggressor, or alternately the aggressor being much more aggressive and violent than they were in real life. These kind of what-ifs are a natural part of trauma, and not unhealthy if they don’t consume your life or prevent you from dealing with what actually happened.
Kink: While it’s not universal by any means, sexual trauma (especially CSA) can have a significant effect on your sexuality. Rape fantasies, CSA fantasies, all variety of transgressive sexual fantasies are more common among survivors. These fantasies are common, not harmful, and eliminating them isn’t a part of recovery unless the survivor is very distressed by them. Fiction is an easy, safe way to engage in those fantasies without creating more victims or attempting anything risky in real life.
The 2019 ACA (Affordable Care Act) enrollment period has been shortened from 90 days to 45 days (November 1-December 15, 2018) and the advertising budget to promote open enrollment has been slashed in an effort to sabotage the program. You’re probably not seeing a lot of advertising (read: zero) about the enrollment window online or on TV.
ACA OPEN ENROLLMENT HAS BEGUN
Reblog because Trump doesn’t want you to know.
I’ve got mine! Signed up though the New York State exchange last weekend. Have you got yours?
Yo! Sign up for healthcare if you’re American / in America!
chai tea (tea tea)
naan bread (bread bread)
sharia law (law law)
sahara desert (desert desert)
lake tahoe (lake lake)
el camino way (the way way)
pendle hill (hill hill hill)
soviet union (union union)
mississippi river (big river river)
the los angeles angels (the the angels angels)
hula dance (dance dance)
dc comics (detective comics comics)
shakira (shakira)
