Partook in a FAITH art contest held on the fan server and got second place! Thought I’d post my entry!
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Johnson Tsang: Lucid Dream II (2018)
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im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers
don't forget
grossly inappropriate copy of animal farm that is on my nightstand at this very moment
...When you're getting ready to design a book cover and you're not sure what you do is going to be good enough.. it's always reassuring to see something like [all of the above].
the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line
criminal profiling is just astrology for cops
taking a forensics class and watching the professor explain one by one how criminal profiling, hair microscopy, and bite mark analysis are all pseudoscience responsible for ruining innocent lives, and how on top of that, fingerprint analysis, despite being significantly more reliable, is subjective and prone to contextual bias. and also bullet striation analysis has the same issues. and also bullet lead analysis doesn’t work. and also handwriting analysis has an error rate high enough to render it useless
damn i'm almost starting to think the entire criminal justice system only exists to provide the illusion of protection while justifying state violence idk
literally my third time posting an iteration of this, but some people need to get this inside their thick skulls that a fantasy universe being queer-normative isn't automatically morally superior and doesn't convey a more radical message of emancipation than the one where people are oppressed for their marginalized identity. different authors have different stories to tell, especially with fantasy allegories of race and sexuality. you cannot go around calling samantha shannon the wokest queen to ever exist because gay marriage and neopronouns exists in her world while bashing shelley parker chan or seth dickinson because their protagonists have sexual crises, and face homophobia. I for one love to see my suffering as a queer brown person reflected in the universe I'm reading in. what's not clicking.
i hate how many times someone will say some dumb shit about horror and then people will proceed to say more dumb shit about horror in retaliation. stop trying to reduce the genre to just being one thing. a horror story can be fun and another horror story can feel like a gut punch. this isn't hard to understand at all
as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.
every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.
until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.
imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet
WHAT
I said this a couple years ago (one year ago?) and most of the comments on tumblr actually did not know this, so to reiterate what you’re up against: a VERY mainstream belief among American Christian fundamentalists is that they are the only ones who experience love. They raise their kids to think that everyone “living in sin” (all other faiths, atheists, and LGBT people) goes through life sad and empty, falsely believing they know what love feels like, and will never know until they’re “saved.” It’s not as simple as them diminishing the humanity of others out of hate, but being deeply brainwashed to believe others are automatically mentally less human.
They are also very good at convincing new converts that they really are experiencing this “real” love for the “first time;” the same way members of all cults can become wholeheartedly convinced that they’re receiving psychic alien messages or communing with spirits. Cult conditioning is simply that powerful.
The flip side of the redefinition of “love” is also that Christians genuinely believe they can “love” someone by calling them to repentance for their sinful lifestyle. They genuinely “love” their gay kids by not supporting their ~homosexual lifestyle~. They genuinely “love” people in foreign countries by continuing to send missionaries to colonize “spread the gospel.” “Loving other people” gets twisted into “doing what you think is best for other people,” regardless of if it’s actually good for that person or if that person wants you to do that.
Happiness get redefined too. As a child I was taught that while “people without the gospel” may claim to be happy, they couldn’t experience true happiness, because “true and lasting happiness” only came from the gospel. Other people could only experience temporary worldly pleasure, like the kind you get from buying something cool or riding a roller coaster (yes that was an actual thing that was said) or “indulging in sin,” but it would ultimately make them unhappy in the long run.
I was told that, since those people had never known the true happiness of the gospel, they mistook worldly pleasures as happiness, but in reality their lives were empty and less meaningful and deep down, they could sense something was “missing.” Also, apostates were all depressed and angry alcoholics who couldn’t be truly happy bc they’d rejected the gospel.
One of the techniques cults and high control groups use is redefining words to make the definitions suit their purposes. Love and happiness are just two words that get redefined this way.
there’s no hate like Christian love, but it also seems like there’s no missery like christian joy