#(but mostly for being a protestant)

[autumnhobbit]

continually weirded out hearing normies talk about/acknowledge lent

#and i don’t mean this in a bad way at all! #but when i was a kid lent was like this weird thing no one had ever heard of #and the secular world seemed shocked anyone still did it #or like it hadn’t occurred to them people still did it #(aside from fish fry’s which was the only cultural benefit) #and protestants had by and large never even heard of it and mostly treated it with hostility #like it was another one of our ‘pagan customs’ #all this to say i would not have heard my hairdresser & her sister talking about valentine’s day also being the start of lent #and how culver’s & red lobster would need to be avoided for date night. #lol.

[avvocarlo]

I was at one of the wealthiest suburbs in brisbane/tbh the entire country the other week and I saw these older women doing some kind of self defence class in the park. you know they're for sure paranoid some Youth Crime Spree Psychopath is going to beat them up and steal all their shit

#for those not in Australia rn there's a huge scare campaign going around that is essentially a complete lie #in that crime is out of control specifically youth crime #despite it being the lowest in history and there being proof of this fearmongering here since as early as the 40s #funny as there's these loser motherfuckers that protest for Victims of Youth Crime #and it sounds stupid as shit but there's shitloads of em like they're actively protesting to have less rights #because this is obviously bad for mostly everyone even annoying ass 150k a year type mfs

[giftedpoison]

yo pjo fans come get your author what the fuck was that post about palestine and israel. (i say this as if I'm not also a fan of the series)

(Like on one hand I'm glad he recognizes it is a genocide and that the palestinians deserve to be free. But this entire section is horrid:

"The only real solution is treating each other like equally worthy human beings, and negotiating a peace that allows all parties a chance to live in security and dignity, with hopes for a future that does not include bombs and rockets and gunfire. This means security and support for Israel, yes. It also means a secure Palestine which is allowed to get the international aid and recognition it needs to build a viable state.

Do I think that will happen? Unfortunately, no. Humans are simply too selfish, too ready to blame “the other” for all their problems, too ready to dehumanize, though I also believe, perhaps paradoxically, that most people just want to live their lives in peace and have a chance for their children to have a brighter future. The problem is when we don’t allow other people to have those same hopes and dreams — when it becomes a false choice of us versus them." )

^ yes that is the link to the post in question. I think you can already see a less than tasteful element to the post (which i actually just noticed)

#like #i just cannot even #he then says he'll continue to write books that will give young readers joy and that he will continue to refuse to demonize any group of #people and that he will continue to call for less violence not more #but how he plans to do that when in the opener he says he is not on social media at all and only posts about his projects and books #I feel like the first paragraph is mostly fine if not a bit neutral for admitting earlier that the Palestinians were being genocided #but to follow that paragraph immediately with the second one? oof #rick riordan #palestine #pjo #israel #free palestine #pjo series #i could expand upon my thoughts on this but just read it for yourself on his page it's not great #i realize I'm like five days late to this but i digress #like he does so much for diversity and is hosting POC authors under Riordan presents but sir #massive L take from him #completely negates how all over the world people are fighting for palestine #people are actively calling in to their reps and donating and protesting and posting about it like crazy to get Palestine help #but no “humans are selfish” #shut the fuck up its the imperialist governments that are selfish that are funding this actually

[magentagalaxies]

vent incoming:

got my grades back for my courses last semester and most of it was to be expected, mostly A's, maybe an A-, etc. but i honestly can't get over the fact that my independent study (the buddy cole documentary) was for some reason given a B. like sure getting a B isn't bad per se, I usually get at least one B every semester and i honestly don't really care about what my exact gpa is as long as i can graduate, but come on. this school put me through months of psychological torment over this project and didn't even have the nerve to give me a B+??? i'm still coping with the self-doubt they forced on me and this bullshit is not helping!!

#honestly it's kind of hilarious ngl. especially bc i also got my documentary work counted as an independent study the previous semester #and the previous semester even tho i barely worked on the doc itself #(mostly just planning and putting together the crowdfunding which was still a lot of work but like compare it to the past few months) #they were willing to give me an A (my school doesn't do A+ so this is the highest mark possible) #vs this semester. like i'll admit my final assignment was late and could have been more polished #but i was literally on tour in documentary-mode 24/7 for several weeks. i filmed an entire comedy special! i put together a live interview! #not to mention having to fucking negotiate with my own college censoring the footage they'd promised me of an event i put together #and play nice with a professor who literally outed me on twitter in an attempt to cancel one of my best friends #at this point the ''B'' feels more like a petty grudge than anything else #like ok we can't get away with *actually* fucking over jessamine's grades bc clearly ze did do the work. but let's just give zir a B #like i will admit the audio quality in my final isn't great. and i could have used more polished footage in some sections #but counterpoint: 100+ students were arrested at a protest while i was editing and i was having a mental breakdown #the fact that i finished *anything* is goddamn impressive especially after they essentially conditioned me to hate myself any time i was #working on a project i loved!!! #due to the aforementioned student arrests my college did put out an option where we could change any letter grade this semester to pass/fai #so anything passing wouldn't impact our gpa if we didn't want it to. so i could just change the B to a ''pass'' #but really what's the point. ''B'' is still a good grade and my GPA is fine (3.65 on a 4.0 grading scale. 2.0 is required to graduate) #it just sucks that after what i went through last semester i feel like nobody takes it seriously #i was reminiscing earlier about how it's honestly kind of funny how after that professor outed me on twitter #i was at the hotel with scott like an hour later sobbing and having an existential crisis about my relationship to gender #and scott was so supportive but also awkwardly being like #''i know i should offer the crying child a tissue but where the fuck are the tissues in this room what do i do'' #and he just handed me a full-on towel instead like oh my god he was trying his best but also so clearly out of his depth #but of course i then had to remember how when i told that story to a different professor to be like ''this is how much scott cares about me #this guy called me fucking UNPROFESSIONAL for crying in front of the subject of my documentary????????? #like yeah maybe so but how DARE you call me unprofessional when a different professor tweeted my full name and gender without my consent #in an attempt to fucking cancel one of my friends for ''misgendering'' me for using pronouns i'm fine with him using!!! #i don't think i'm ever going to be able to forgive my college and i don't know how i'll be able to get through one more semester #that experience genuinely changed things about my psychology that i'm not proud of and i need to work through #so if i have to miss a goddamn kids in the hall event because i have class this november i am going to set something on fire

[navree]

you can call anne boleyn many things, good and bad alike. a protestant martyr, however, is not one of those fucking things

#personal #like a martyr in the context of christianity is a very specific thing #a martyr is someone who is killed (oftentimes by the state) for their religious beliefs #and that sure as shit isn't anne boleyn #because anne wasn't killed for her religious beliefs at all! #anne was killed specifically because her husband felt she was reproductively useful anymore and wanted to marry someone else #her religion had fuck all to do with it #which we know because the charges henry lobbed at her had nothing to do with religion it was all about adultery and incest #because he just wanted her out of the way because he was a misogynistic ass #was anne a protestant? absolutely! was she a martyr? no fucking way! #if you want an example of a martyr from that time period thomas more is the closest thing #as he was very explicitly killed for being a catholic and thus refusing to bow to henry's supremacy as head of the church #if you want a protestant martyr then look at thomas cranmer when mary burned him #which she did very specifically because he was a protestant (and also she kinda hated him personally because of the great matter) #(but mostly for being a protestant) #like anne's murder didn't have anything to do with religion at all #and i'm tired enough that i've decided to get mad about it

[navramanan]

persian women took the killing of a kurdish woman and the resulting jin jîyan azadî movement, inherently kurdish in its origins, and portrayed it to the world as theirs instead of acknowledging where it came from. it will never not make me angry

#i could punch a hole in the wall rn #these protest mostly took place in the kurdish region while it was crickets in the rest of iran #people who participated are still being charged. i follow this iran based human rights org. not a single one was persian #oh i could go up in flames right this moment #because they know! and they do this on purpose #the streets were yelling jin jîyan azadî. not zin zindigî azadî. they know and they dismiss it on purpose #they'll be all about feminism until it's the rights of kurdish people. #nesi rants

[welcometogrouchland]

Also after scrolling through the hollow mind tag for a bit- I know it was definitely hunter's episode (the grimwalker reveal, his panic attack, him fleeing belos AND the owl house) BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT LUZ. AND BELOS. CAN WE TALK ABOUT LUZ AND BELOS FOR A MOMENT PLEASE

#ramblings of a lunatic #toh #the owl house #BELOS IS SO FUCKING SMUG. ABOUT MANIPULATING A CHILD. HE IS WITH HUNTER TOO BUT HE ACTS LIKE IT'S SUCH A ''gotcha!'' W/ LUZ #AND SHE FUCKING BELIEVES HIM. SHE SPENDS THE WHOLE EPISODE SO WELL INTENTIONED BY PUSHY AND NAIVE #BUT BY THE END SHE'S JUST. SHATTERED #he thinks they're the same because she's a human. he thinks she's the same as his brother because she's a human ensnared by witches #and she parallels both the wittebane brothers in certain ways but not the ways belos thinks she does #he doesn't realized that despite being hundreds of years younger than him- luz is a version of phillip who actually grew up #and hollow mind is such a big painful part of her growing up i just. HHHHGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! #man belos' whole deal is just. it's so much. it's so much you guys #local protestant somehow managed to introduce an islands worth of ppl to the concept of catholic guilt!!!! fucked up!!!!!! #idk I'm a bit head empty rn (or at least I'm not super duper coherent) i mostly appreciated all the subtle touches and the lore this time #(like how hunter describes his family as being wiped out because they ''knew too much'' and ''got themselves hurt''- #-like. he's just describing caleb. HE'S JUST DESCRIBING CALEB GOD!!!!! BELOS PROBABLY TOLD HIM A VERISON OF THAT STORY SAYING CALEB WAS- #-HUNTERS DAD OR SOMETHING I JUST. AGHH!) #but like. yeah. it's. its a good episode #i once saw someone say that they think before the great shortening hollow mind was intended to be the s2 finale #which i think is honestly a good theory considering it's kind of toh's thesis statement and biggest show of what it can do #pushing the characters and themes to their logical extremes and popping off with the writing and art direction #i could talk more but also. i couldn't. no notes #my only wish is that the collector got to rhyme more because it scared me so much the first time #(what with the secret code poems and the acrostic poems hidden in the titles. i was like WAIT A MINUTE) #idk we've talked before about ways that s3 could open and how it could parallels past moments in the show #what. what if it opened with the collector reciting a poem that recaps the series til now????? oooh wait that's juicy #even just as a trailer audio it'd be neat #(or a theme song takeover if disney cared abt marketing this show jdbdjsbdkf) #anyway yeah. the gay little witch show is kicking my ass rn!

[futurefind]

//also i still think funniest realization / best intersection of og script and reamomTM chaldea fic is just

guda, canonically, staring at roman on meeting: youre fluffy...

rea, walking in, w even More hair and sparkles: :D

guda: oh my fucking god theres two of you

#mun babbles // #rea being rea has some v endearing Protests abt it which like #maam ur never beating the fluffy allegations LMAO #fun fact: her walking in is... with snacks. bc ofc. why wrangle the doc when u can go awol w him instead<3 #(smth smth bc. yk. in 'canon' tl she DOES rayshift w them but isnt procced as master and so Stays support) #(w the displayed Crest Bullshit Horror preemptively answering why the local bunny ears op mage cant be The Master) #((shes disqualified<3 bc her soul is an endgame jenga tower<3 but for sake of master au she stays fine. ish. mostly)) #(((msq has her majorly kneecapped from rayshifting and guda handles The EventsTM n minor rayshifts for good reason incl training)))

[t4t4t]

Controversy and criticism [of the Uhuru Movement]

...At the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, the General Students' Committee (AStA) broke apart in April 2015 as a consequence of internal dispute over purported antisemitism after having organized an information event about the Uhuru Movement on JGU campus in January.[19] The AStA distanced itself both from the Uhuru Movement, African People's Socialist Party and its leader Omali Yeshitela stating that "the struggle against racism and the consequences of colonialism should not blind us to other reactionary ideologies" and regretted providing a platform for this movement.[20]

Russian foreign influence controversy

The Uhuru Movement has been accused by state prosecutors of collaborating with alleged Russian foreign agent Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov to sow social divisions in the United States.[21] Members of the group have traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to attend an anti-globalization conference, and the group has also acknowledged that it supports Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.[22][23] On July 29, 2022, the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, was raided by the FBI due to an indictment by a grand jury alleging a conspiracy between Ionov and the Uhuru movement to spread Russian disinformation under the guise of domestic political movements. An FBI Tampa Special agent said that "The facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most egregious and blatant violations we've seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American Democracy."[24][25] On December 23, 2022, the Uhuru Movement organized an emergency meeting via Zoom, stating that the APSP expected new indictments by the FBI and the Department of Justice "in early January 2023 and possibly sooner", for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.[26] On April 18, a federal indictment was unsealed alleging that the Uhuru Movement, including the founder of the African People's Socialist Party, worked on behalf of the Russian government to spread pro-Russian propaganda and influence local elections.[27][28]

#not sure what to think. ive seen them at local portland protests and i signed up to their email newsletter years ago just to see what they #talk about #mostly reparations afaict #american democracy is a lie so im wondering whats really being revealed or said here but its interesting

[absenthiium]

a non-comprehensive list of good things happened while occupying my uni's law faculty as protest

-i got to explain the scout movement to a guy. he was rightly worried (both about it, and me being in it).

-a dude decided to eventually get a rainbow spiked mohawk and go to a punk gig in a unicorn costume.

-a great, sudden use of the "no bitches?" meme in regard of a nasty conversation had with the headmaster. made us laugh out of discomfort.

-we broke into a bathroom closed from the inside like it was a matter of life or death, found no one in, and proceeded to lock it again with my pocket knife (i cut my finger open in the process).

-someone said, regarding one of my country's most loathed politicians, "wouldn't it be funny if we woke up tomorrow and he was dead?". morning after, he's not dead, but he is indeed hospitalised.

-everyone is everyone's mother when it comes to getting people to take a fucking nap.

-no one feels ashamed in saying something has made them cry.

-a room slowly filling with people who got there to read a bit.

-i stood behind those writing the occupation statement, giving advice or just reading. i really wanted to take their tiredness away, though i didn't know how.

-"i think we should go besiege the Vatican right now. they'll never expect it."

-we call each other "compagnə". we are gentle with one another.

-we thanked each other for being there, and hugged goodbye.

#lists #protest #antifascism #antifascismo #something something i love humans #weird love songs #personal #forgot to mention that “compagnə” means “comrades” #and that funky little letter at the end is the schwa #which is being more and more used here in italy (mostly in militancy) as a non-gendered written form #(since italian is an heavily gendered language)

[simonstamenovic]

all I can remember from my dream now is jells showing me smth and being like 😑 don't be transphobic and I was. so concerned like why would she think I'd be transphobic ): my dreams are a weird combo of a realistic and unrealistic hell scape

#like.yes jells WOULD approach me abt that presumably but #why would my dream point that out?? #if u see this i love you sm and yay #for being in my dream (: sorry u hated me but tbf i have mostly stress dreams/nightmares #after that everyone was at a protest against femme ppl. not related just weird.

[goremeat]

thank you to Die Mannschaft for giving the L in LGBT a second meaning rather than adding another letter. we couldn't have done it without you.

#from the office. #ok to rb if you want? #listen i kept getting second hand embarrassment esp when you had the two people who ran across the stadiums with flags #this is very like mean but everyone has been talking about how cringe it was including LGBT people within gulf states hating. #please don't be a smart ass on my post when this is specifically about Die Mannschaft's half-assed activism which has been #criticized across the board for just being kinda silly #Truly society if we could engage in a conversation about how Europe is lining its pockets pretty well as we speak but wont boycott shit #without it being called whataboutism? we could maybe understand why this was a stupid protest. #i know ive been harsher but like im mostly just disappointed #im not posting this on twitter but only bcus i wanna mention that Germany's been nicknamed rainbow in arabic throughout the three games. #i think other commentators have also used similar names #i didnt catch if they changed the name in spanish #png #insp

[fideidefenswhore]

Henry was more of a problem. It could be argued that he was responsible for the initiation of the whole process of heresy-hunting in England, as it was he who split off the English Church from Rome. Though his motives were primarily bound up with his desire to have his marriage to Katherine of Aragon annulled so that he could marry Anne Boleyn and have an heir by her, he also had some sympathies with the 'new men' or Protestants, particularly during the years he was in love with Anne, as she herself was a Protestant sympathizer.

The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London

#henry has the dubious honor of being the only european monarch (afaik?) that had a catholic burned at the stake #but...idk if i can be argued that he is 'responsible for the initation' #people had been executed for heresy in england before him #it can be argued certainly that he was responsible for the pitch it reached/ pace it came to #also it is so hard to define who was condemned of treason vs heresy in the aftermath of the creaton of the anglican church. #thomas cromwell as we know was definitely charged with both . beyond him... #and with other specifically catholic examples... beyond the infamous one #(john forrest) who received the standard punishment for heresy so we can sort of assume it was that...or at least connected to taht #i suppose to a degree it was both . denying the king's supremacy and also heresy against the new state religion? #but it was mostly seen as far as i understand it as 'disloyalty' to the crown which is more a feature of treason than heresy #*that #thinking mainly of thomas more and bishop fisher but also the carthusian martyrs etc #anyway love the term 'protestant sympathizer' bcus it's phrased as such that it sounds like a 'cancellable' offense rathrwfsdegbfsekjf

[redwolf17]

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

#Hozier #andrew hozier byrne #unreal unearth #take me to church #butchered tongue #jackboot jump #swan upon Leda #foreigner’s god #Nina cried power #eat your young #moment’s silence

[fairuzfan]

Hey queen. You seem v knowledgeable about pro-Palestinian charities. Would you mind making a post or giving some info on which ones are really effective and honest abt their work? I've been hearing some problematic things about UNRWA, and Save the Children seems to be doing very little (as far as I am informed). I donate to PCRF and MAP, but don't know any other, smaller orgs that may also need more awareness? Thanks ♥

hello, thanks for sending this in. so i've been trying to find smaller orgs for palestine that are specifically for helping gaza, but the issue is not much aid is being let in. PCRF is a really good org in my opinion, I'd always donate to them regardless.

There's also the Palestine Museum, which does really great cultural preservation work.

Palestine Legal is a legal aid group that helps palestinian and palestinian advocacy facing legal challenges.

Palestine Action is a direct action group that helps do disruptive protests.

Samidoun helps palestinian prisioners around the world and keeps and eye on them.

Within Our Lifetime is an NYC based palestinian led organization.

Palestinian Youth Movement is a favorite for Turtle Island led Palestinian resistance.

Palestine Feminist Collective is a Turtle Island feminist movement that works to spread culture and information.

Good Shephard Collective seems to be doing good work in Bethlehem as well.

I would mostly look for mutual aid groups for people from Gaza if you want to donate to them. Aya Ghanamah retweets mutual aid groups a lot.

I might share more groups in a second reblog after I hear back on best ways to help them.

#palestine #gaza #donation

[asw-antiusername]

my imagination is severely underrated

#it’s a shame i like sitting on the floor eating crunching things and dipping them in liquid things so much #otherwise i’d have an elite force of the most milquetoast looking surbanites who go to protests with khakis and golf bags and visors #and stand around looking confused and asking the cops for directions and assistance entirely cockblocking/copblockling so that protestors #can evacuate more quickly in the face of militarized threat impeaching the rights of the people for lawful assembly #and they would look so unthreatening but mostly be violently confused about whatever’s happening and so why that they perspire and sunburn #and show distress for their personal situation while simultaneously acting oblivious to the surrounding dystopia of people rallying to for #rights and equity and personal freedom and support services and i just dial them up and say hey they’re getting to r #too * confrontational with people and pretending they aren’t people again so i need you to go be the whitest most entitled version of urself #and the golf/ tennis bags double as a counter measure for being hit with fucking batons and contain first aid supplies #no actual sports equipment though bc people deserve to be hit with sports equipment and i wouldn’t want the jig to be up too quickly