#but I thank you

[skywarpie]

☆ put this star into the inbox of your favourite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity 🌼🌼

#sorry idk how to properly respond to compliments #but i thank you

[anarchistettin]

Yours is a perspective I've never encountered before now. I'm interested in hearing your take on groups (I would call them cults as a neutral descriptor but I'm asking in good faith here and idk if that would come off badly) like Heavens Gate, The Peoples Temple, NXIVM, Aum Shinrikyo, etc.

Not surprising that it's new for you! If you let on that you don't hate the out-group, people hate you & assume all the worst. That doesn't change. Nobody wants you to find out they don't hate the people they're supposed to hate.

Heaven's Gate, the Jim Jones tragedy, & Branch Davidians come to most people's minds, because the term CULT CULT CULT was hammered in at those times. Before that it was Manson, but the door was opened before that by scary-lookin people spanging for Hare Krishna temples in the airports, and ISKCON.

By that time, in the 1960s, it was no longer okay to keep saying BLACK BLACK BLACK. You had to find a new enemy.

I'd love to talk about my experiences in communicating with CoG members fleeing the implosion of their scene, but it would muddy the waters I guess. Some folks in those days were very upset with me for not being cruel to the CoGs. Oh well! One of the things about hate-buzz like CULT CULT CULT is how it muddies the waters. Fortunately for me, I don't give a shit how y'all "see" me, & don't have anything to gain from you. I don't even think you'll agree, so I might tend to leave off trying to be persuasive.

I've already judged, is the thing ^_^ harshly it's not permanent or specific - I just don't believe in the quality of mind. Really smart seeming people are still in the grip of this sexy allowed-to-hate-them vibe and there's no talking anyone out of it. I know.

But the vast majority of cults are people you haven't heard of, mainly because they're not exciting, but also because they've worked to keep it that way. They don't want other people coming around; that's why they culted up.

They were cults! Heaven's Gate & all'em. And I don't get riled when people are using the terminology in good faith. It's just that they never are. They always (always) mean the Bad Kind of People. What baffles me about that, still, is that so many of you have now seen how that's a tactic, and how it threatens your violent horrible death.

Maybe say "good cult" every now and then, if you're interested in earning my respect (or overturning my judgement. good luck)

The fuck of it for me is that I've had to see the death. I made a post about it somewhere, that deaths by violence outnumbered deaths by AIDS in my life. Stunning to realize. Cops #1, jilted exes #2, and Random Awful Bullshit #3. Watching traumatized loved ones get hauled off to jail for the crime of not having been murdered was a defining moment in my feelings about this particular habit.

Cults are no different than other groups of people except for being natural. The other models for not killing each other are built on the skeleton of the cult (& that other similar natural model y'all love to hate: the tribe) because that's how culture is made, that's how ways of life come into being.

& that's why you've been conditioned to think Heaven's Gate or Aum Shinrikyo instead of Homegrown Veggies or A Healthful Indigenous Lifestyle. Simply refraining from slandering people you don't know fails to serve your true master, your true charismatic leader & spiritual center: God's White Father.

One unsupportable belief that life in a cult has given me: they're better than you. I'm not - I'm like y'all, basically - but they, the others in that family, are so much better. Unlike me they aren't willing to engage & don't believe there's any point to trying to get people to stop being murdering assholes in the service of their various churches & state officials. But they'd never think about you the way I do - they'd never be angry or hurt by it. They're better than that.

#except for Dev he's a bitch #it is really hard for me not to be angry #but I thank you #fwiw

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

#greek mythology #ares #athena #greek gods #dont get me wrong it aint athena slander but it sure is ares praise #on some level at least #man justly accused of bad things deserves some mid praise more at 11 #thank you romi for helping me with words though i duly noted you insisted on ares not being cautious rather than him not being careful #romi be like “i want him to care” and honestly good you should say it #also EPIC led to this and i just..... i want to draw some animatics man i just need infinite time now #my long lost love for greek myths just will never stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming #i want some vulture design in here for ares but not sure about this one #kochei doodles

[chiisana-lion]

#duck rants about something #im so fecked #thank u @iwantmorelife for the image id !!! #edit before you tell me ''this isnt even relatable'' its not meant to be. i made this to complain about sleeping in before class and ending #up late every time. peace and love

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

#Crunchyroll #piracy #funimation #money hungry ass streaming service #rambling #I’ve never paid for a streaming service in my life thank god #I appreciated using others accounts but I personally cannot see myself paying this much for a service if I had the funds 😭! #get back to pirating kings!!! #anime has always been one of the easiest forms of media to pirate anyway so y’all got this #CR is definitely not worth paying for though #CR is certainly not worth paying this much for even if it’s a yearly one time fee #capitalism #the fact that CR has always had pretty bad quality as a streaming service anyway #it buffers every time you pause or rewind anything

[pedro-pascal]

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019)

#bill murray #zombieland: double tap #zombieland #zombieland 2 #filmedit #horroredit #zombieedit #classichorrorblog #cinematv #dailyflicks #junkfooddaily #horrorgifs #userqueen #usergiles #userlex #useranimusvox #nero-neptune #* #this is the funniest trivia i have ever read thank you reddit user tealitall

[i23kazu]

how i feel when someone reblogs my stuff with a really really nice tag

#[📍regular broadcast!] #the sillies #thank you to everyone who has interacted with me over the past few days HEHEHE #asks will be put off until tonight ; i have 2 more meetings hehe

[qirongmycancelledwife]

god bless

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #farcille #thank you for the meal for i have been FED

[littlelightfish]

Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:

Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.

(You can hear it here)

In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.

#i love replaying certain scenes (usually screams) to see how they nailed it in other dubs #ive done it with Chilchuck & Mickbell screams because they're the funniest ones #give it a shot if you can #its really funny to hear certain character voices in other languages #for example. brazilian portuguesse gave both mickbell and chilchuck un-childlike voices (in japaneese both sound like little childs) #and they reused Chilchuck's japaneese screams for most of the other languages because he is so high-pitched and full of terror that it work #dungeon meshi #chilchuck #chilchuck tims #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #senshi #senshi of izganda #senshi dungeon meshi #idk how do you people screen record the episodes #if i knew how to i would put the shots here #my shit #thanks to the one that made the clip on Chil's scream im in love here <3

[prawnlegs]

I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig

#your art! is not! a brand!!! #i mean unless you want it to be but personally no thanks

[dameronalone]

oh gee discord should I try adding numbers? should I try that???? should I try adding numbers to the end of my username so that it's individualized and only mine???? should I try adding numbers??????????

#discord #I hate this #congratulations you played yourself #we're at the exact place we were before only worse #thanks. go fuck urself

[goldiipond]

if there's anything i've learned from the current state of social media it's that this is one of the worst possible notifications you can receive upon opening an app

#skye's ramblings #i thought you guys were exaggerating how ass-ugly the discord update is. why isn't this optional. what if we all died #big thanks to discord and tumblr for both making bad layout changes to their apps in the same week. i love complaining <3

[retquits]

1.6 is coming—see you march 19th!!! 🥹🌱

#stardew valley #can you imagine pouring blood sweat & tears into a game #releasing it for like $15 #and then working for 8 more years to add more content without asking for a cent more #for what could have easily been several dlc packs #i love you stardew valley i love you concernedape i love you indie games thank you for being my home all these years #EDIT: added image ID in the alt!!

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

#beebfreeb art tag #comic #ms paint #artists on tumblr #art #I slept for two hours and then couldn't fall back asleep so I made this. Thank you comic ideas in my phone notes for giving me things to do #my ocs #<- sorry I've been really into one-off robot OCs lately #an interview with dot #robot

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

#when the date went so wonderful that you don't even mind that you forgot your umbrella at home #crowley is doing his best and aziraphale appreciates it very much #aziraphale's very special version of pride and prejudice can't get wet #so you gotta use the four year old newspaper you found in your bentley #I am not mentally ready for season 2 #it will change me in a way that I cannot even explain #thank you neil gaiman love of my life fr #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #aziracrow fanart #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tenannt #micheal sheen #neil gaiman #digital art

[kvothes]

poetry and musical theater get similar accusations leveled at them in terms of not being realistic, i.e. “no one fucking talks like that” or “people don’t randomly burst into song in real life” and sometimes i just want to take people by the shoulders and say. there are forms of art that are not aiming for perfect realism. are you capable of handling that

#‘i actually do sing in real life—‘ not the point of this post. thanks. #can you engage with art for what it is trying to do. and not what you think it SHOULD do. #mine