Angelbornaltruist - Certified Tweaker

I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

"Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred."

- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. Some of yall really should read this.

Could you personally forgive someone who had a neo-Nazi “phase” as an adult? Assuming they’re trying to make amends for their past behavior/beliefs

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize,  snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. 

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

me and the homies on the way to euthanize a demigod (this is the most hype moment of our lives):

The Radahn Festival is such a bizarre way of handling that situation. Claim glory! Celebration of War! Whooo!

My guy, you've gathered a bunch of badasses together to try and euthanise a demigod. Nothing about this is celebratory.

how could I forget!? Here you are:

go forth with this gift

the funniest part of the whole elden ring dlc discourse is that everyone unequivocally forgave mohg. I love how basically everyone straight up said:

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

I don’t vote left or right. Perhaps I deserve to be beaten for that, at least according to some. But in my experience neither side makes me feel welcomed. However one side has made me feel more welcome than the other. Let me explain.

I don’t lean heavily either way. I would consider myself biblical conservative who thinks both sides have a few good ideas and a lot of horrible ideas. Of course, because I am conservative I’m accused of being a republican or right winger all the time.

My experience with the right: I’ve lost alot of friends, even within the church, over the political struggles. My old weekly group literally became so obsessed with Trump that they don’t accept anyone who doesn’t wear his merch and call themselves trumpettes(they are all women, their husbands all agree but it was the women who ran things in that group). They left the church for a more far right leaning church that celebrates Trump and America over Jesus. My parents are so far right that they can’t even stand to hear James and I discuss how right leaning policies of the past have actually hurt us. My mother called me a “dumb liberal” on her Facebook page because she thought I voted Harris instead of Trump. (I didn’t vote either). My uncle is horribly racist and a Trump supporter so extreme that every word from his mouth is praise for him and then mocking the left or wanting leftists to be gotten rid of. However this is only a few of the right leaning people in my life. Maybe 15 people at most. The rest of the right leaning people in my life have discussed politics with me and expressed their love for the other side. They make me feel welcomed and their love of Christ is so massive. They don’t care about where you fall on the political spectrum, they just want you to know you are loved. Their lives aren’t a shrine to Trump, but a banner for Jesus and His love and salvation.

My experience with the left: this is a tricky one because it’s been the opposite of the top. Where as the top there was only maybe 15 or so bad actors, with the left side I have only had 15 or so good encounters and hundreds of bad ones. In the left if you don’t think like the masses you are not allowed to have opinions. My religion has been targeted, and I’ve been told many horrid things because I choose to follow the Jesus of the Bible and not the Jesus people make up in progressive churches. I’ve been attacked for leaving conservative on my beliefs, which I base around the very words of God Himself. I’ve been attacked for not voting for Kamala Harris. I’ve been called racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, terf, nazi, bigot, and every fowl word you can think of. All because I don’t agree with the left ideas of gender politics, abortion, critical race theory, and other fast activism movements they subscribe to. I’ve been told to kill myself almost daily, get raped, and had people hoping I get drawn and quartered slowly by cars. (A real thing I was told btw). I’ve had people celebrate my brain tumor, telling me they hope I suffer and die from it slowly. They have celebrated my infertility. They celebrate my depression, anxiety and other mental disorders. They have been extremely ableist towards me as an autistic person. They tell me they hope my husband leaves me and I die alone. They have told me they want me to get cancer and die. They have told me I’m a waste of oxygen and they wish nothing but anguish on my life. They have called me every word for stupid, every word for retarded, every word for useless. They refuse to even hear me out 99% of the time, and if I do give an opinion it’s usually followed by dog piled death threats. Even had a few people tell me they fantasize about someone stabbing or shooting me in between my legs.

So all this to be said, I do lean a certain way. And it’s because of the way I’ve been treated. Left leaning people, take a look at yourselves and ask yourselves why you lost. I just listed every reason for you. If you ever want a seat of power again, maybe work on how you treat others. Because the tyranny you claim to fight you really seem to love.

Right leaning people also need to focus on the way Christ is represented. Because if people’s idea of Jesus is just Donald Trump- because that’s all church going people want to talk about- that’s not good at all. Jesus is not a politician, so stop trying to force him into the White House.

how in the heck was Jane austen so good at writing dialogue. she's literally the best. I've seen no one better

G/t writing is rough when you're a character-focused writer who specializes in dialogue and exposition bc you'll be three quarters done with a story before you realize that you've made maybe one allusion to the fact that one of the characters is 100 feet tall and it's done nothing to affect the story 🥲

I used to read dictionaries as a kid. And as a child who would casually leave social events to go read the books in a stranger's library, it was probably really funny to see me with the thickest, oldest looking dictionary I could find, so heavy I barely could even hold it, sitting with it in my lap as I read it from cover to cover

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore