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although I find both institutions detestable I think they should force the vatican to compete in the Olympics. let's see what those priests can do
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heroingirl1995
Guys
I immediately snapped a pic of the placard when i went to the mopop i was just. stunned they actually fucking used it
how on earth is this a “gesture of respect.” to people who are not addicted to tiktok, it comes across as trivializing, cutesy, and just bizarre. i understand people want to avoid the phrase “committed suicide,” but there are many tasteful alternatives that did not emerge from social media content restriction rules.
As someone who attempted suicide multiple times, talked their friends out of suicide, and had family members commit suicide, this is fucking disrespectful. It’s not a “gesture of respect”. It is trivializing the horror of suicide.
Kurt Cobain MURDERED HIMSELF.
He decided to end his life in a very, very violent way, leaving his daughter without a father and Courtney Love without a partner (I don’t remember if they were married or not). He managed to traumatize the poor handyman who found him. He hurt his family and bandmates deeply. This was a decision that caused massive amounts of pain. Courtney Love is still getting blamed for his death despite zero evidence that she killed him. How is his daughter supposed to grow up healthy knowing that her dad decided life was so painful, he had to die and she wasn’t worth staying around for? How do you explain that to a child? And how does a child cope with her mother being blamed for killing her father? I’m going to be honest, I don’t think I could grow up sane if I were Frances Bean.
Suicide isn’t cute. It isn’t “unaliving.” It is a deeply violent, terrible act that hurts your loved ones. Sometimes that hurt is intentional and sometimes it’s not, but it still exists.
We deserve to talk about our struggles without having to resort to cutesy euphemisms. We deserve to use real terms, like suicide, murder, killed, died, etc.
I cannot tell you how incredibly disrespectful I find this.
Since we're getting into "did you know that Santa's eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin's steed?" season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe'en, or Easter, or...) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:
- Our earliest known records of the cited pre-Christian practices were written down by some random Christian monk centuries after the fact, and we genuinely have no idea how accurate this account is, to what extent the apparent similarities with Christian practice are due to the author deliberately or unwittingly putting a Christian spin on it, or indeed, whether they were just making shit up.
- The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Christian writers who were bent for prefiguration theology (i.e., the idea that the Bible echoes backwards in time and pre-Christian religious practices were unwittingly imitating future Christian practices).
- The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Protestant writers who believe that all Pagan deities are Satan in disguise, so they think that if they can prove that Catholic practices are secretly Pagan in origin, that proves that Catholics are secretly Satanists.
- The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by overzealous mythographers trying to prove that all mythology and religion throughout all of human history is secretly a single unified monomyth; if it's pre-Victorian, expect shades of prefiguration theology, while if it's post-Victorian, expect a lot of stuff about the Collective Unconscious.
- A bunch of 19th Century proto-Fascists were trying to construct a pre-Jewish cultural identity (and considered Christianity to be tainted by association), but didn't want to give up any of the fun rituals, so they made some shit up about how it was still okay to do Christmas because something something Odin, or whatever.
- A bunch of early 20th Century Pagan reconstructionists filled in the gaps in their understanding of pre-Christian ritual with culturally Christian assumptions, then turned around and pointed at their own accidentally Christianised reconstructions as evidence that Christian practices are derived from them.
- A bunch of late 20th Century self-help manual authors tried to break into the occult bookstore market by uncritically repeating any or all of the above.
- Someone on the Internet just made it up.
#Also: modern neopagans feeling guilty about christian cultural hegemony eating up point no 5 #while obfuscating / willfully ignoring just who is feeding that narrative and why #your legitimate beef with institutional christianity does not justify leaning into anti-christianism that is rooted in antisemitismmmmmm (via @screambirdscreaming)
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hold on sorry you're telling me the name of the boat was "the terror"?? i always assumed that was a retroactive name! did they WANT things to go horrifically awry???
obsessed with the implication that nominative determinism could have saved them
renaming my ships to HMS We Won't Die in the Arctic and HMS No Scurvy before successfully navigating the northwest passage
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what kind of car does Paul Atreides drive
wrong it's the Nissan al Gaib
>find new Sherlock Holmes adaptation >ask the receptionist whether this one has realistic autism or Sheldon Cooper autism >she doesn't understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is realistic autism and what is Sheldon Cooper autism >she laughs and says "it's a good adaptation sir >look inside
>it's Sheldon Cooper autism
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why didn’t pompey, the largest triumvir, not simply eat the other two
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studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday
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just saw a fanfic on ao3 have a dedication for chatgpt... that section is meant for your horny perverted mutual who proofread your work, you violated sacred law and you will be torn apart and laid bare btw
anyways, if you feel the need to use ai to do your work for you, consider this: get a new hobby because this one isn't for you
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That’s this
Goes to show how little I know
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go white boy goooo
no white boy not like that
white boy i've never seen anyone fuck it up like that
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they can try all they want but AI speed paints/art process videos will never capture the intensely human artistic endeavor of drawing and undoing and redrawing the same simple shape or line 400 times rapidfire in a drawing thats pushing you closer to the edge with every lift of the pen
AI art will suck forever because robots cant want to kill themselves
LeVar Burton Vs. Jeremy Brett
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LeVar Burton - (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roots) - as well as his wonderful performance as geordi laforge in next generation, levar burton had his breakout role starring as kunta kinte in the 1977 miniseries roots which set records for television viewership (its finale was estimated to have been watched by 130 million+ viewers, more than half the U.S. population at the time). he also directed numerous episodes of tng, ds9 (including the one where rom unionizes quark's), voyager and enterprise, and promoted literacy with his beloved pbs show reading rainbow, which he hosted for 23 years!
Jeremy Brett - (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers, BBC Play of the Month) - "Listen, I fell in love with One Man when I was 16 and have never regretted it. Jeremy Brett is Everything. Handsome, charming, sweet, amazing voice, delightfully eccentric. Shakespearean actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 80s, he is widely considered the definitive Holmes and for good reason. Bisexual and bipolar, devoted husband, he was known to serenade friends at restraunts and hold scavenger hunts in his home, where he hid the plunger in a chandelier. Often pigeonholed into period pieces, he owned them. He was a pretty young man who became not just handsome but arresting. He was one of those people who walked into a room and instantly commanded attention, and I for one have never regretted giving him my attention." Full text propaganda included below the cut
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