you know, I really think churches have failed us in so many ways. (I am a Christian specifically talking about modern Christian churches.)
you should be able to go to church with self harm scars, with needle marks, with bandages, with obvious marks of a body you’re fighting against. you should be able to go to church unshowered and obviously struggling and not face judgement or scrutiny. you should be able to go to a church if you are homeless or in a abusive relationship, suffering from domestic abuse, struggling with addiction, etc and be able to be connected to programs and support. you should able to go to a church regardless of your gender/sexuality. you should be able to go with your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your partner or whoever you love. you should be able to be yourself in a space dedicated to a God who loves you. You should be able to get receive support for a place meant to be a haven. you should not face judgement in a place dedicated to a God who does not turn anyone away.
churches are not meant to be places to run from. churches are not meant to be places of trauma, of abuse, of a facade of expectations.
One of the things that always drives me insane is seeing people try to work out coherent chronology and continuity of the Mad Max series, and the thing that makes me crazier is when people push back on this by being like "it's a dumb movie about crazy driving and explosions! it doesn't NEED to make sense!" because in reality the lack of a defined chronology or continuity is a feature, not a bug, and the reason for it is not that the movies are too dumb to be held to that standard, it's that the movies are much smarter than anyone trying to Figure Them Out give them credit for
Hey shout out to every custodial/sanitation worker taking out and cleaning up literal hot garbage so that the rest of us can go about our summer days like it doesn’t exist
english's pronunciation rules are absolute bullshit poopoo made up crap but one of my favorite side effects of this in written english specifically is like. altering the spelling of a word in such a way that it's technically pronounced the same. but reads very differently when your eyes go over it in written form. and that sort of dissonance between the proper spelling and the altered spelling producing the same basic sounds in your brain creates an unprecedented level of comedy.