#holy shit the others are a CULT cult

[simptasia]

so like, watching season 6 and richard says something like "what do you mean they're a candidate?" and im just. blown away. holy shit, jacob is a fucking prick. richard didn't fucking know

#i'm sitting here like ''what do you mean richard doesn't know about the candidate thing????'' #holy shit the others are a CULT cult #the sad realisation that ben and richard have no idea what they're doing anything for #and at least they find out #people like tom and ethan and goodwin and countless others fucking died without knowing #what any of this is for #thats insane to me #ben fucking calls jacob out on this and jacob is like. whatever #these people have killed people. and kidnapped children. and they had no idea why!!! #see it'd been a while since i watched lost and i assumed richard knew about the candidates #nope! he truly does not know a damn thing!!!

[miallurk]

Hiiiiiii hi hi. Hello @megsiepoo. I did this thing so. Have it.

A GIRL!!!!!!!

Shes so pretty i couldn't not draw her

#:3 #thank you for being so nice and thank you for giving us all such cute and simple desighs!! #i need to draw your lamb with the earring also methinks #anyway!! #i had a fun time drawing it #<- literally almost had a panic attack before doing it to procrastinate #my art #heh heh heh #cotl lamb #cotl #cult of the lamb #fem!lamb #holy shit. i actually like this one drawing amidst the 5 others i tried to make but gave up on so quick

[gxlden-angels]

^ Bearer of the curse (Had to be the one to tell my therapist that some southern christians say "Daddy god" unironically)

#We've realized why I've been feeling so weird about my family being pentecostal #essentially I always joked about my family being a cult/part of a cult #it's my fun fact about myself! I escaped a cult! #makes people curious cause holy shit a cult but also wow! ur so cool! you escaped! #but it's a lot easier to make that joke when it's 'haha my family is quirky' #versus 'my family openly identifies with a group considered an extremist cult by mainstream standards' #its not a bit anymore #it's not a fun fact its like #A Real Recognized Cult #that preys on vulnerable people like my family and makes them think they're nothing without it #they get that high during the praise breaks and give a bunch of their already limited income #then go back to being miserable but saying they're joyful because the lord loves a cheerful giver #its fucked up #and it's not a bit anymore #I make it a bit with jokes like that but it's just Not #My therapist said he never met someone who grew up in that #but had seen it a couple times and thought it was Weird #So I make the same old joke about speaking in tongues sounding like gibberish #and it hits different because he doesn't get it #I made that joke with other family members who experienced it #but it's different sitting in a therapist's office walking back and forth back and forth #doing the little [ba dum ba dum badum HA] rhythm they all speak with #before the piano kicks up and people are crying screaming falling on the floor #stomping and shouting and singing #the emotional tension suffocated you and you don't know why you're crying but you are #and here I am #in my therapist's office #as he stares at me in horror and it all falls together #ex christian #religious trauma

[cult-of-the-rizz]

I've been cooking today (15% chance of followers shitting themselves immediately)

Follower!Kallamar/Ushant content cuz uh uuuuh brain worms???

#i calculated kali's height based on that other drawing i posted and #hes like 6'8“. in ushant's universe. holy shit. #anyway this is shockingly tender and exactly how i imagined it in my head but auugh #ushant is just so fucking. cream colored? hes a white ushant and i made him so vanilla puddinf colored #my lmab #ushant lamb #cult of the lamb #cotl kallamar #aye who allowed them to be gay in the temple‼���🗣️🗣️

[iolitemoth]

this current run is insane oh my god

like look at this: vampiric blunderbuss (7.7 damage), divine blizzard, ala’s teeth (lightning attack), rabbit’s foot, immune to poison, drop a bomb when hit, 20% more damage during the day, overall weapon damage increase by 1.2x, all enemies dealt 2 damage at 1/2 heart, fire projectile, extra heart, 20% chance of blue heart, double healing, fervour replenishes, relics charge 1.25x faster, and 10% chance to negate damage

that’s 13 tarot cards. what the fuck

#cult of the lamb #game talk #moth speaks #i can just keep going holy shit #it feels like every other room i get a new card #sometimes from clauneck sometimes from a chest

[sawvhs]

loool hi you dont have to respond to this but i just wanted to answer ur questions in ur tags ^_^ i like to think its a small world and daniel and adam have bumped into each other kinda like amanda and he promoted wotg to daniel. so he checks it out but he kinda just goes for adam cuz i think they kinda become buddies after that. he was prob forced into getting merch by one of scotts bandmates tbh LOL. just fun to think about and then it makes it possible to think of apprentice adam and daniel interactions <delusionalism. but yeah loool i love making shit up about daniel hes so fun(heart hands emoji)

AH yeah thats totally the train of thought i was going down thinking daniel must have found out about them from a flier or soemthing.. Daniel being an honorary ‘sorry we killed your bastard cop dad’ member of the jigsaw squad is so fun to me esp in silly adam lives scenarios so i love that..

(sorry about the tag dump oops)

#amanda collecting emos 2 recruit because the other 2 accomplice guys there suck and are stuffy #daniel pov is so funny #daniel is nervous but the grungy dude who clocked him and gave him a flier seemed on the level so he sneaks out of his house and goes #2 the show w a friend. the music sucks but daniel thinks its sooo cool being around a bunch of degenerate young adults #maybe the dude (cough cough adam) who gave him the flier is in the corner not having any fun and when daniel goes to say hi he gives him #a shirt off the merch table #(queue adam getting yelled at and having to pay for the shirt or whatever) #all this and then months later he gets put in a jigsaw trap and his dad gets killed but the girl who probably killed him was kind of his #only friend in the jigsaw trap. and looked out for him the whole time and had her life ruined hardcore by his now dead dad #so hes pals w amanda even tho he probably feels super fucked up abt everything #he goes to the jigsaw lair w her because amanda is psuedo trying to recruit him but is making it more than obvious shes fucked up abt #doing any of this and is being super manipulated by the head serial killer guy but ehatever hes 17 and traumatized and wants to stick around #and holy shit the flier guy is there and apparently he was also in a jigsaw trap and is also very aware this is a cult #but he set up a wii so daniel takes turns playing guitar hero w adam and amanda #click #daniel

[ao3screenshotss]

holy shit i’m never going to the city again

i was trying to get home (my friends were going a different way so i was alone) and i asked this woman for directions (for the tram) and instead this man answered and i was like okay thanks and walked away

and then he kept on talking to me and talking about his lunch and stuff and i was just giving one word answers and then he gave up and then tried to take a selfie

and then i realised i was in the photo so i moved away and then he moved his phone to include me in the photo again so then i turned my head around and he stopped using the camera

AND THEN he called someone and was like ‘boss when are you getting here’ and maybe it was cause he was lost or something cause he said he had only arrived in the city a day ago but i freaked the fuck out and immediately called my mum and asked her to stay on the phone with me

after that he leaves me alone but we end up getting on the same tram and i immediately move to the other side to get away from him and stayed on call with my mum the entire time

i didn’t see him after that but god i was so scared i’m so glad i’m alive honestly

anyways if you end up getting to the end of this watch out for random people and if they seem sketchy listen and watch what they’re doing if something seems wrong get the fuck out of there

#still staving off an anxiety attack though or whatever they’re called #not to mention he was talking about dumplings and i saw some other girls talking about how these guys go up to you and ask you about #dumplings but they’re cult recruiters #not sure if my anxiety’s just acting up but oh my god #holy shit #it’s been 7 hours and i’m still scared #me :) #i wish i was smiling

[llatimeria]

Just finished The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert (my dad likes to play audiobooks in the car on trips) and I didn't like it much (and there's quite a bit of Yikes in it, because frank herbert and the 1960s in general,) but the aspect I found most interesting was the concept of like. A world's subconscious desire to kill The Other.

In the book an investigator visits a small cultish town in order to investigate it for a market study after a few other researchers mysteriously died. he gets into a frightening number of "accidents" while he's there (like the former investigators) and starts believing that there was a conspiracy among the townsfolk and all of them were intentionally trying to murder him.

tl;dr, it turns out it actually was a subconscious yet intense phobia/hatred they had of The Outside they had as part of their personal traumas, childhood indoctrination into their local cult, and the LSD-like drug they were constantly on. They didn't mean the investigator any harm, if anything they were extremely welcoming, kind, well-meaning people, but this background radiation of fear and rage kept making them accidentally do things to kill him - mixing up insecticide and spices in his food, gas fumes being pumped in his hotel room after a botched maintenance job, a torn carpet tripping him off the railing of the balcony, and Many Other subtle attempts on his life that he just happened to avoid by sheer chance.

But all the townsfolk don't really think anything of it - the town doctor, especially skeptical, "diagnoses" him as "accident-prone" until the investigator begs and pleads with him for days after several brutal accidents in a row, and only then does the doctor start believing him but even then only comes up with the theory that all of this supposed malice towards the investigator is "subconscious" - later shown to likely be correct when the investigator himself, after overdosing on their special drug, "accidentally" shoves his colleague off a roof, killing him, but the investigator physically cannot see it as anything but an accident anymore. it simply doesn't reach his mind that he killed a former friend of his. it was just an accident. he just fell, all on his own.

the idea of A Town That Wants To Kill You, But It's Nothing Personal resonated with me from the perspective of being a disabled person, especially one in a generally welcoming, accepting environment. when you're disabled, not a lot of people will come to you bearing their ableism between their teeth. They'll be nice, insensitive maybe, but nice, and are often outwardly willing to accomodate you. But they also stick out their leg as you're walking along to trip you. They'll apologize, and you'll maybe even believe it, even though to you, from your perspective, it was obviously an attempt to harm you. You excuse it once, maybe twice, but after a point, you realize that this world, this community you have entered, is actively hostile towards you and everyone like you. so you start screaming it to the rooftops. you tell authorities that the world wants to hurt you, but they begin affixing labels to you like "paranoid" or "anxious". they know no one actually has it out for you, personally, after all. that would be ridiculous.

but you still keep getting tripped down the stairs. the rat poison and the sugar at your favorite coffee shop still keep getting mixed up, but only when it's your order. in the hospital, recovering from your previous "accidents", a nurse will still accidentally pump you full of saline instead of medicine.

after a point, doesn't the fact that all of these are "accidents", and that no one WANTS to kill you, just... stop mattering a little bit? Yeah, no one wants to hurt you, but they just keep doing it. They keep making stupid little mistakes. They know everyone like you who has visited their community has died or been seriously injured under suspicious circumstances, but the idea that they, themselves, could be a little bit at fault just doesn't even register to them. they don't even consider that they might have to change their ways in order to protect people like you. After all, you can't prepare for every "freak accident". Even when the solution could be as simple as "stop putting rat poison next to the sugar", every time it happens to you, or a person like you, it's just an "accident", that no one "meant" any harm, and "nothing could be done".

it doesn't cross their mind that a string of unfortunate accidents ceases to be accidents, but serious negligence. it can't cross their mind, because they're not the victims here. they only even begin to acknowledge something might be wrong when the victims are screaming in their face, day after day. even then, they come to the conclusion that even if you're right, and the community does want to kill you because you are Other, they won't immediately see anything wrong with that. To Them, the answer is clear as day: just become one of Them, and you'll be safe. They take care of their own.

#this isn't even really what the santaroga barrier is even about i just found this to be a useful structure for talking about disability #It's not... NOT what it's about?? #it's definitely got themes of Otherness #but it's more about like. #My dad put it as 'how much of your individuality would you give up to live in paradise' #which is also interesting to think about but . imo if i have to give up parts of myself it would no longer be paradise #But also a lot of what the cult-town tries to get you to 'give up' is. like. Believing in capitalism #And to me it definitely feels like Herbert was on the santarogan's side with that part at least but it's still interesting that that's like #it's still interesting that That of all things is what you have to give up in order to Become Santarogan. #Like. Personally i'd have to change very little to become a santarogan. the trade off for me is not that huge #which makes the protagonist actually seem a little unhinged and unnecessarily hostile #Does daesin just want to believe in capitalism That Badly even when he doesn't understand that that's what this is about #Is it like the scene from They Live where the protagonist tries to get his friend to wear the Anticapitalism Sunglasses but the friend #just refuses point blank even though he has no reason to? #idk. it's definitely an interesting premise. but the racisms. and the misogynies. it's really hard to look past that #especially the part where one black character describes himself like #'before [santaroga] i was an ignorant [n slur hard r]. now i am an educated n-gro“ #which was just. holy fucking shit. that is unspeakably awful. shut the fuck up frank #Also a part where a woman disrobes herself to prove herself to be no harm to the investigator [her fiancee] #and he says something like. 'you're so beautiful i just might rape you' and shes just like teehee thats sweet :) #Which. Bad. Very nasty. Don't say that. #And the general concept of potentially using that woman to lure the investigator into the cult. it's unclear how much of that was #on purpose on the part of santarogans but it does have this slimy Women Are Evil Temptresses That Trap Men In Bad Situations miasma to it #anyways. sorry for blabbing on and on about a 50 year old book by the same guy who wrote dune which is clearly an unquestionable masterpiece #/s. #I just had no choice in listening to this story while sitting in the back of a car on Very Empty Montana And Wyoming Highways #so I might as well rotate it just a little I guess. nothing better to do

[therulerofallpotatos]

I wonder how often Klaus saw his siblings in the 60s. He started a nationwide cult and did nothing to hide from his siblings. Not one of them saw him on the news before Five showed up? Luther never saw him on the news, tracked him down, and then just went back to work? Did any of them consider just chilling with him for a while and just watching in horrified amazement as his cult worshipped Klaus?

#the umbrella academy #if my brother used his magic to get a cult and just told them to love each other through song lyrics #I'd stick around at least for a day and just watch because holy shit he actually did start a cult like he joked about as kids #klaus hargreeves #luther hargreeves

[genderfluidgothwitch]

Also, I made a realization today. Today was the first time EVER where I have officially been too stoned to watch a horror film

#I love the horror genre and many of my comfort movies are actually horror #namely midsommar bc I grew up in a cult #and it's cathartic in a weird way #anyhow today I had on American horror stories on bc I didn't realize that was a thing until today #and I realized I wanted to watch AHS but I didn't want to commit to a full season when the new one is coming out soon #now I need y'all reading this to understand #I was having that exact thought before I even opened Hulu to hit play #so it felt like Hulu was reading my mind when I saw that in my recommended #started watching from the beginning #and oh my fucking god that two part premiere fucking GOT ME #the nostalgia of revisiting Murder House? Grown up Sierra McCormic (who I hadn't seen on tv since I was a child and ant farm was on) #which of course was it's own wave of nostalgia #all the queerness in it #just literally EVERYTHING ABOUT IT #just like holy fuck I loved it so much #anyways I kept it on for the next two episodes as wel #and after the very end of the third episode I was just like hooooooly shit #and I 100% was like Lex you should stop there you're too high for this #I shouldn't have started the next episode but I did anyways cuz I'm high and lazy (actually lazy this time bc I'm having fun) #(other side note being lazy is literally my treat to myself and I cannot wait to tell my therapist I gave myself a whole day of down time) #(he's gonna be really fucking thrilled tbh)(you like all my parenthetical statements don't y'all) #(it's all the fun of the adhd side train of thought and I bet it's relatable af) #anyways I hope everyone who reads my tags today appreciates them

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

ivan has Immense adhd, and i think a great many problems would have been solved or prevented if he had been given literally anything to hyperfixate on ever that WASN'T bloody combat

#lorien legacies #ivanick shu-ra #this kid is adhd as all get out and had precisely 200% of that channeled directly into murder and nowhere else #it's also why the way adam and the narrative talk about/treat/portray him gets my hackles right the fck up #adam: sneers about him needing to read by running his finger along the words #adam: 'keeps [his] words insultingly slow' to explain something seemingly obvious that ivan missed; and asked a question about #adam: calls him 'slow on the uptake' for this #me: you have always been one of my faves and i love you but holy shit we are three seconds from a bar brawl #and all of that is from /one/ two-page scene #just.... the books try really hard to demonize ivan and make him just Particularly Evil and Bloodthirsty Because He's Just Bad #when like. pretty much /everything/ about his shit is explained by #a) being an orphan in an unstable living situation for a large chunk of his childhood #b) having low empathy and therefore not the shortcut past the indoctrination that adam was lucky enough to have #c) being raised in a controlling abusive military cult as an adhd/autistic kid with Nothing to hyperfixate on/have a special interest in #except All That #literally they are not allowed /games or toys/ and he's not good at paying attention to other channels like engineering/tactics/science #/imagine being an adhd kid and growing up like that/ #and d) reacting in messy fcked up ways to the ping pong between his brother and father's radically different types of abuse #and the results are gut-wrenchingly horrible #for the love of god montressor introduce this kid to sports or sit him down to watch avatar or SOMETHING #LL crit tag #ableism cw #abuse cw #dyn: so glad you're awake #lorien legacies tag #the crit files

[arrowpunk]

It is so Incredibly freeing to let myself draw whatever the fuck I want to draw without letting other people's expectations/desires/standards hold me back, like gosh I'm having so much more fun with it than I used to

#ramblings of an arrow #like it does kinda suck because I can't show a lot of the new stuff I'm drawing to my mom #who is wonderfully supportive of my art career #but also would blanch at seeing the art of a tattooed man with painted nails in a crop top who's definitely wearing some makeup #so my mom just gets to think I draw less than I do #but it's so FUN to draw these things because I know there's nothing morally wrong with them #and it's really freeing to let myself be 'scandalous' even though it's not actually scandalous purity culture just sucks #I like my art more #and I'm happier and more satisfied with my art #because I'm not trying to sanitize it for other people #not trying to sanitize it for my parents #not trying to sanitize it for the old cult #it's fantastic #gosh I remember the first time I drew Astro flipping the bird #and the cult found out about it and made a whole Thing out of it #and I like specifically made a separate version without that so I could post it online w/o being told off #like holy shit that's not even that bad #anyways I'm having fun with art now lol

[afarthestarsarewaiting]

One day I will stop looking up triggering things on the internet I promise

#it was jkr this time folksssss #she has got so much louder and more vitriolic #I think my most unpopular opinion is that the whole ‘you should die’ and ‘violence upon ye’ stuff made things worse #not saying she deserved to have her views supported bc holy shit. even that first essay was full of inconsistencies and false info #plus it was pretty infantilising about ftm trans people #who I notice she rarely discusses #the whole thing was a mess but written prettily enough to appeal to some people but that is a topic that’s been covered #anyway my point is that I can see that a natural conclusion to seeing people baying for blood is to run in the other direction #and I just bet all the terms were rubbing their little terf hands together in glee #you know that post about cults and cult adjacent religions and churches? #the one that talked about how these people send new recruits to knock on doors to make them feel othered and alienated #and how that sets them up perfectly to put themselves in the position of protector and comforter etc #yeah I think about that in relation to terfs and jkr A Lot #of course jkr has a fuck ton of privileges due to the whole money thing #but she didn’t always have that and she is pretty clearly not worked through the trauma she’s experienced at the hands of men #so yeah #I may be wrong but I sure do wonder about it #also I hope this doesn’t come off as being a jkr apologist bc Ew. #whether or not it was avoidable doesn’t matter when the reality is that she’s consistently causing harm #having free will means that when you’re being a dick it’s your responsibility #and if it’s your responsibility then you need to work on that and make a genuine apology tour instead of digging your heels in #or blaming it entirely on your circumstances for that matter #if jkr were to get out of the terf cult now and cited the same reasons I think things got this bad she’d still have to make big steps #towards fixing what she broke and apologising for her behaviour #and also she would need to learn to be okay with not being forgiven by everyone #I doubt it’ll happen though. she’s in pretty feckin deep

[katyspersonal]

Also I had a dream that I was sort of an apprentice/underling of Djura and even had a small room of workshop on my own! I was creating some guns but I was working on a huge static one that'd work automatically even in my absence? It used both actual mechanics and Arcane stuff, like eyes of Kin used in it would automatically spot an enemy and determine what to shoot them with more or less, and besides normal bullets and big explosive bullets there were also parts of phantasms such as Call Beyond parasite to cause shooting of small projectiles, and lasers (I presume Kin eyes included were Amygdala's then..... rip)

I haven't finished working on that thing before alarm clock worked but dammit combining engine and Arcane was such a cool idea hahaha; I GOTTA use it somewhere

#personal #dreams #yet again i should just make side blog to share dreams in #every other night it is some cool stuff #one of the recent ones was also like #a woman named Ivy that was captain of the ship luring Gehrman to go travel with her and- #-he ended up trapped in the infinity lake not unlike Rom's trap fgjhjgghgk #holy shit her name was IVY!! like how much you wanna bet that was humanoid reflection of Flora sort of #GOs are weird #but dammit Flora cant leave him alone even in alternative timeline! #creepy fhgjfvjkkk #or like a dream from longer ago about how Mensis had 11 other members besides Damian and Micolash #so they were 13 creepy dudes which is very fitting for a cult like this #mfw I think about BB so much that my imagination is CHEATING by writing stuff on its own through dreams #...wait does that count as AI generated fanfic since I do not have free will on my dreams? #oh fucking dAMMIT

[r3ynah]

To be with you three

The justice league was in critical condition, a unknown entity had breached the universe's protection, and was now creating havoc everywhere.

He called himself, Skulker. he already had captured half of the justice league. and was only interested in fighting Red hood. Something about being a Halfa or something.

Red hood was not having fun, nor was Batman. Everything was in shambles. Even the most powerful cannot defeat the floating entity. the JLD was trying the best they could but to no avail they couldn't contain it, The entity aimed his weapon at Red hood and took fire.

When all hope seemed lost, Vines sprouted up the ground and saved Red hood in the last minute. The other vines also grabbed the other heroes and made a protective barrier between the entity and the JL.

confused the heroes looked at the rogue who was floating, his expression was now with fear and nervousness, he frantically looked at his surrounding seemingly expecting something.

"Are you all alright?" A voice asked, making all heads turn towards to a woman that looked like she's in early adulthood, with long black hair cascading down to hair waists, she looked like someone that can fit into Gotham's aesthetic with her thick eyeliner and her gothic style and a couple of vines that wrapped around her body.

"Who are you?" Batman asked his guard not wavering a single bit.

"My name is Foliahàrà, And we're here to take care of that Ghost." Sam pointed towards Skulker who was looking at her nervously.

"We're?" Superman asked

"Me and my partners. speaking of them here they are right now." Sam said in a tone that no one could specify if she's bored or it's just her personality.

A loud bang shook the city, when they looked back were the entity named Skulker was now gone, In his place was a man? woman? with white hair and green eyes, he had a cloak that shrieks royalty and a black pointy crown floating above their head, Skulker was now on the ground, a crater was formed below him, he was down. he was down. and all it took was a punch from the person

Another man came to the scene he was holding a thermos of some sort. he looked normal, normal clothes and all to the very least if you ignored all the gadgets and sand that followed him, he walked up to Skulker who was most likely knocked out, he opened the thermos and it turned the entity into a liquid before trapping it inside.

"Well that's taken care of." Foliahàrà said, as she retracted her vines that was protecting everyone, she froze then turned her surprised gaze towards Red Hood and eyed him making him uncomfortable, she floated to his direction making the man take a step back, Batman tried to hit her with his batarang keyword:tried, it just went through her.

for the first time she arrived she smiled at hood then with the outmost gentle voice she said. "you're a baby ghost." She cooed as she placed both of her hands at the side of Red hood's head, which he stared at her confused more confused when the pits became quiet all the sudden.

"I've got to tell Phantom and Codelith." she stated and took flight with the crime lord in her arms, she carried him towards her partners in the sky like a newborn baby, protests from the heroes below was ignored by Sam, as she continued to fly up, when superman tried to get her, she shot out a few of her vines that successfully trapped the hero, he tried to escape but her vines was stronger, and why was this power making him weak? like it doesn't hurt but it makes him really tired .

Red hood stayed quiet, trying to comprehend what happened did he get kidnapped or something? holy shit he did get kidnapped.

"Phantom, Codelith! I got a baby!" Sam stated as she finally catched up to them.

"Holy shit, Foliahàrà you can't just kidnap someone else's child" The one with glasses exclaimed with panicked hands, as he teleported near them.

"Cool new kid, More members for our cult" Phantom said as he floated towards red hood who still held onto the Photalis, because when i tell you he was afraid to fall 30 meters from the ground is an understatement.

#dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc fanfic #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp #dpxdc fanart #dpxdc #Danny is nonbinary #Sam welcomed herself as the daughter of undergrowth #tucker became a pharaoh and a hacker #regular ghosts from the realms like skulker are very powerful #amity park is just built different

[ambagelbraindump]

g o d I know this has been out for 2 years now but this song still kills me every fuckin time

#cloud cult isn’t expressely queer but like #I literally cannot interpret this any other wat #holy shit