#Activism and Peace Work

[slowtumbling]

Am I a Peace PRAYtivist?

Reprinted from PeaceSigns October 26, 2016 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5)The term “peace activist” itself offers me a clue as to why I seem to be rather imbalanced when it comes to living a life of peace.“Activist” implies action, working for peace, and though that is a good thing in my book, I often find myself wondering why it is so…

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[melanielynngriffin]

Magical Years - Happy 2024!!

Hi friends! I haven’t posted in a while. Or worked on my memoir or drafted an essay or submitted an article for publication or … well, done much of anything in the writing realm. I told you I have a job, a real full-time job, for the first time in a dozen years. I’m working at Third Act, organizing folks over sixty to protect our planet and our democracy, and I love it. But it’s eaten my writing…

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[xiyao-feels]

The thing is I do get the, like, instinctive suspicion of JGY? Or—well, no, I think a lot of it is classism. But suspicion is honestly a really reasonable response to JGY's activities under JGS! It's worth it to ask: was he really in danger of his life? And even if he was, having had to do this to survive—what will he be like, when he doesn't have to anymore?

They're fair questions! The problem is they're questions we can answer from the text. He absolutely was in danger of his life. And as to what he'd be like when he didn't have to anymore—

I've talked about the watchtowers a lot because they're such a good example, and the kind of thing that would never have happened without him. But sometimes I want to shake people and say, look at the result of his governance! Look at the world WWX wanders through, post resurrection! Look at the peace, look at the way the juniors really get the chance to be kids!

This isn't something that happens automatically. Or really what I want to say is, it means something about the powers of the cultivation world. You can't just treat it as an interesting background fact to the juniors' characterization, with no depth beyond that! The cultivation world under WRH was the way it was because of WRH; the cultivation world under JGS was the way it was because of JGS; the cultivation world under JGY was the way it was because of JGY, and the way it was was better than any other time we've seen it.

#jin guangyao #you wouldn't have this peace if he hadn't actively been working for it! #and obviously it's not only him #it matters that JC isn't interested in stirring anything up #and LXC of course is pretty much his partner in this from the get-go #but it is /more/ him than anyone else #he's xiandu! #idk man I wouldn't want to live in the world of mdzs at any point for a whole host of reasons #but if I had to pick I think 'during JGY's chief cultivatorship' is really clearly the best option

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Part 2 of the little comic

Moon really does not like the situation but Y/N can't just not do their work.

Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

#dca fnaf #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #daycare attendant #moondrop #sundrop #fnaf sb #my art #automaton au #well i didnt proofread this bc i am tired #i just like drawing nervous sun #i hope y/n doesnt come across as mean here they really are in a tough spot #they have to work with the old ones and have the responcebility to keep peace #but they also now have sun and moon around who kind of actively hinder them from doing their work sometimes #and its not sun or moons fault they believe the old ones are extremely dangerous #which they are actually but only if you fuck with them #just an overall complicated situation

[blinkpen]

i am Withering

#sporadic warbling #i crack jokes to cope with just how deeply deeply upsetting it is to me #i enjoyed working out and gym. unironically loved it. it brought me peace and joy. i was disabled but it was literally a Fun activity #and actually Alleviated my symptoms #now i can barely do it because of how discouraged i am over where the Wasting has put me. i Resent my loss of mass. #i am trying to power past it to relocate the joy bc i know its there and i do still better with an endorphin boost but man... #why yes i Am channeling some of this particular angst along with many more into a particular arc

[alaynestcnes]

It's 2024 and there's still those who feel the need to tell people who ship Jonsa that all the evidence is a reach. Why is that? Why are they so preoccupied with a ship that they think is delusional?

I think Sansa and Sandor is delusional, there's zero chance of it happening but I'm not sending anons to the people who ship it saying it's never going to happen.

The antis just need to admit that they're terrified that Jonsa is going to happen. GRRM has subtly sprinkled Jonsa dust and it's the critical reader who sees it. That's why you have people who don't ship any of the characters and aren't interested in any of the fandom ships who see the links between Sansa and Jon and wonder what it's about and why it's there.

we got that modern day cassandra curse. no matter how much evidence we have, the greater fandom will ignore it. but that’s ok, half the takes this fandom comes up with are terrible so i would rather keep them away from jonsa as long as possible.

#reddit’s silence on jonsa suits me very well i won’t lie. i don’t respect them and i do not want to know what they would have to say on it #like i am very comfortable with jonsa’s odds that if twow was announced tomorrow i would happily put money on it being partially confirmed #i want to live my jonsa life in peace. if they don’t see the vision then they are missing out on some of grrms best work #you can’t force a horse to appreciate a monet 🤷🏻‍♀️ #but yeah i agree abt the antis just lashing out bc their own ships have scraps while we are very active with all our fun theories #it’s very sad that their own ships are not even interesting enough to keep them engaged. they have to peek over at us all the time #asks

[wikoymi]

akechi (and some jokers) which all have the same exact pose for some reason

#i finished the stupid game. i hate persona 5 royal DNI never talk to me again #working on an animatc so. huuurhgh #goro akechi #persona 5 #persona 5 fanart #p5 #fanart #art #doodle #wikoart #im literally so. #@ person who rbed my last akechi asking if i was having fun. No. im not #ok rant time #DUDE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #dude. they chiaki’d him. this sint funy #second time this has happened to me. why can my favs never be happy!!!! (and real) #THE FUNNY THING IS LIKE #ME AND MY FRIEND WERE JOKING ABOUT HIM BEING CHAKI #BC I NAMED JOKER NAGTO KMAEDA. and akechi killed him #like lol dnganronap reference #AND THEN #FEBRUARY 2ND. #i was so sad when he died then when he came back on dec 24 i literally screamed my friend was like Yam u should unmute #i was at peace. #anyways royal content activating so many of my neurons like Ur reminding me of gnsn mobsai dgrp gravity falls somehow like HELLO? #akechi would be sucha great fatui harbinger (<- crazy) #he reminds me of scr chlde and arle so like. Hrm #also human morgana made me want to die #Bryce Papenbrook GET AWAY FROM ME NOW.

[socialistexan]

If leftists and anti-imperialists inside Israel were so nonexistent (or just small and insignificant) like some of y'all on this website like to pretend they are, then why does the Israeli government and its officials work so hard to counteract them and act like they can singlehandedly bring down the entire government.

Sometimes you have allies on the inside, we have to learn how to have solidarity and not act like every single person in the illegitimate state of Israel is a Likudist ethnonationalist.

#some people are just born into a colonialist ethnostate and dont like it and actively work against it #just like y'know american leftists #we need to work on maybe working with two staters for the time being #because yeah eventually there will be (peaceful) conflict on two states vs Palestine one state #but the Zionist one staters want one state where every Palestinian is dead

[serenanymph]

Heads Up Seven Up

Tagged by @faytelumos um.*looks at smudged notes* a while ago. Find his post over here. Gently tagging uhhh @space-writes, @macabremoons and @scribbling-stardust, pulling from Beast book 2, Witch's Book:

It’s later in the night – when they’ve brought out the cake and sang ‘Happy Birthday’, and Zephyr has blown out all six candles (one of them larger-sized) – that Madge wanders out of the kitchen where mama and baba are divvying up the cake to track down Zephyr and Kas, who’ve somehow vanished in that short amount of time. The backyard feels quieter than before: peaceful, now, as if all the world is fast asleep. Madge inhales, again, the same way she did earlier with the cake, breathing in the scent of spring – stretching her arms out to the side, her fingertips straining, her head tipping back to look up at the sky. The longer she looks, the more stars seem to appear, spreading out and multiplying, thousands of tiny glittering diamonds spilling across the black. The breath she takes in morphs into a yawn. Murmuring, from up on the roof. She spins towards the ladder leaning against the side of the house, and ah – they must be up there, then.

taglist (lmk if you want to be +/-): @deer-in-headlights-stare, @allianaavelinjackson, @arctic-oceans, @space-writes, @reneesbooks

#writeblr #writeblr community #my posts #tag game #ser writes stuff #beast #wip: beast #char: rhyme #char: zephyr #char: kas #anyway guess who's alive??? #wow I vanished off the surface of tumblr for so long when I checked my notifs about a month of missed tag games had alr disappeared ahahaha #okay yeah I have no excuse I was just off hyperfixating on genshin and also running away from my responsibilities #but I have been writing!!!... a little but at least it's consistent #anyway I've genuinely forgotten how my tagging system works and I don't even know who's active anymore #but I'm gonna try my best to go through the backlog of tag games and asks before they disappear #so hopefully I'll be back to active in the next few weeks or so #anyway that's all i think??? surprisingly little to address but oh well #peace out ig

[victorie552]

You know, I wonder how Fingolfin's people were holding on while on Ice, like, spiritually. (not the royal family, their people) I think that, after few years, at least some of them were treating the Ice as a Valar punishment for Alqualonde.

When they came to Beleriand, the Moon rised for the first time, not to mention the Sun. They could see it as being forgiven. And of course there was Fingon rescuing Maedhros with eagle's help, which solidified the belief for them.

it suprisingly didn't make things between Feanorian and Fingolfin's people worse during Long Peace. It absolutely broke the Noldor after Nirnaeth, when everyone blamed Feanorians lack of repenting to the Valar for losing the battle.

#silm #silmarillion #not my best post but I think it's an interesting worldbuiding concept #there would be a lot of 'why me?' and 'why did it happen to us?" on the Ice #and sure the main problem is always Feanor #but unless you're Fingolfin you can't plan to personally beat him up to make you feel better about your situation #and there would be a lot of guilt about Alqualonde at least in Fingon's group who actively helped with kinslaying #a lot of rationalizations and redirections would happen #I'm just saying it's a potent ground for some religious feelings to emerge #tolkien didn't put religion as an institution in his works #one of his best ideas #but everyone seems to agree that religion as in spirit of catholicism is very much there #so. one more difference between Noldor fractions that was hush hush hushed during the Long Peace #but exploded in everyone's faces when Morgoth attacked for real this time #anyway #have a nice day everyone

[marthashlyn3]

#active psalms #spicy links #forward march to peace #work #who cares we’re cursed #WCWC

[slowtumbling]

PeaceGrooves

PeaceGrooves was originally founded as an incubator for the creation of games and other story-telling venues that would educate players in peaceful ways to affect positive change. My graduate theory paper “Video Games as Change Agents for Peace” presented this idea over ten years ago. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, PeaceGrooves was never able to fully realize its full potential and so…

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[shivology]

standing together is literally just liberal zionism ofc bds was gonna call them out on normalization lol

#not to discredit the palestinians working within that movement #but “calling for peace and togetherness” without bringing forth any material demands (save for calling for a ceasefire) #is not meaningful activism

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

So yeah avoiding my phone didn't work and also meant I sat on the kitchen floor staring into space for about 3 hours before Alfie woke up but hey at least I didn't break anything

Them being around is helping a little but they're also struggling and it fuckin sucks bc I know we're both just. Rotating money stress in our minds

#like. i went out earlier to get bread #just bread bc we cant afford anything else #got just enough in the bank to cover the work thing but since management stjll hasnt gotten back to me on HOW to pay it its like #our electricity is already in debt lol it has a thing where you can go £10 into debt before it switches off #and it usually wont switch off over weekends #presumably bc all but 1 places nearby thst we can top it up at are shut on weekends but anyway #so we're like. okay. it MIGHT last today and if it does thst SHOULD mean itll last till monday. #but then itll be at least a tenner in debt #then we only have to last till thursday but its. do we keep this money thats for The Thing that is once again unclear on how urgent it is #or do we spend it on the Soon To Be Immdiately Urgent thing #and thats not even CONSIDERING food lmao we. i got 2 loaves of bread so we can at least survive on toast for a few days #we got 3 maybe 4 meals worth of stuff still in the kitchen #like...at this point i dont even care if i have to go a few days without eating at all to make it to thursday but its. #its so fucked up those are the terms im thinking in #and this isnt asking for more donations i really cannot take that today im at the fuckin bottom of my barrel #and already feel hopeless and useless and an active drain to everything around me #but its. like. how. why. why is it still like this. why is it looking extremely unlikely its ever gonna change. #whats the point if its all for a few scattered handful hours of actual peace and comfort never mind happiness #tldr yes i am once again suicidal but small s #like in the sense of i would feel immense relief if a truck came at me on my way to work tomorrow and would not step out of the way but #dont have it in me to actually consciously act upon

[bunnihearted]

maybe if we lived in a society that valued individual needs and nurtured and cared for ppl who are different i wouldnt "wish" death upon ppl ._.

#my proposal is: #communities specifically made for noise sensitive ppl #like apartment building made w materials that isolate noise #and where for example on some floors kids arent allowed to live. some floors arent allowed to take in dogs etc etc #no loud music is allowed to be played #and outside of the buildings loud noise isnt allowed such as no playgrounds or dog parks etc etc #and this housing area could be fenced so it's rlly just the ppl who have chosen to live there that can be there #then ONLY ppl who wanted peace and quiet could live here and have a safe haven in the world #if u choose to live there then u will want and choose to respect the rules and be mindful abt others and be quiet #and if u want a 'normal' living situation u choose to NOT live there #if things like this existed i'd be so fkn happy #we all should be able to CHOOSE how we want to live #there are other groups of ppl who want to live in other ways and they should also be able to choose #there r many of us who are different but we are still a minority #and we are forced to live in a wild messy jungle that we arent naturals in. we survive not thrive #we are forced to be in mental agaony every day bc we dont fit into society's regulations and boxes #no one should live like that. society should be built for ALL of us and all out different special needs #but the thing is that ok even if society doesnt care and give us it for free or without fight #ppl actively work to HINDER and prohibit ppl to create new ways of living #when ppl try to make new exclusive spaces that fit their own needs #here comes a sudden influx of normal ppl being angry and upset that theyre excluded from smth #if i tried to suggest building these communities and even succeeded in gathering support for it #ppl in the state and normal ppl in society would be AGAINST me #theyd be angry that i wanted to create a space that excluded them #why cant i live there??????? I ME ME ME ME who is normal is all that matters #everything should aaaaaalways be made for normal people #if any other of us who wants to make their own space dares to even suggest it normies get mad #hell if ppl w wheelchairs wanted to create a walled community where only they were allowed i'd be supporting them #bc i think every single one of us deserves to live in a safe space that calms us #and it isnt your right to encroach on someone else's safe space. everyone are entitled to safe spaces no matter who that excludes

[katebihshop]

"you can't be mad at people for not knowing" i'm not! i'm mad that you haven't made any effort to learn while you spread harmful bullshit and claim you're a poor innocent baby who can't be expected to know any better whenever you're called on it!

#text #'people just care so much they can't help being antisemitic by accident ://// why are you being so mean' #well the rhetoric you're repeating has literally gotten my people killed so there's that! #if you want to help instead of hurt you have a responsibility to know what the fuck you're talking about #if that's too hard you can always shut the fuck up! that's always an option! #like you can actually you know. listen to organizations that have been working towards peace for decades? figure out tangible steps to take #posting is not activism. posting misinformation isn't activism. spreading antisemitic rhetoric definitely isn't activism #unless the goal of your activism is to kill jews i guess. then i suppose it's helpful to your cause #ilana says stuff #i/p #antisemitism