this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

fucking staff, what are you even

Well, heck, I was feeling kind of burned-out about Tumblr anyway, but now that there’s a deadline…

Tumblr users have been almost exactly where we are now four years ago. Or maybe I should say “where THEY are,” because this is my first post in two years. And I’ll probably be leaving Tumblr soon but not (or not just) for the obvious reasons. More on this once I decide.

IT’S THE LAST DAY

IT’S THE LAST DAY

I’VE BEEN PHOTOSHOPPING AND POSTING SO MUCH A BOUT ITN SIBVMECECSCD

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Seriously, how can you resist an appeal like this? We’ve been building to this sale a very long time and how well it does will mean big things not only for Guilded Age, but for our future careers. So if you wondered when was a good time to signal that you enjoyed our work (or just pick up something of ours at a deep discount!), well, that time is now.

Here’s what gets me.  Look at how “Christians” and “SJWs” are positioned as enemies, as counter-arguments to each other.  SJWs are apparently the nemesis of the Christian and vice versa.  

Jesus is the most famous Social Justice Warrior of all time.  

He was a poor, marginalized man who preached for the literal upheaval of society, pushing for a world where the first are last and the last are first.  Where the rich and powerful are unfit for paradise, and the meek shall inherit the earth.  He wanted honest-to-god wealth redistribution, and personally demanded the rich sell all they have and give the money to the poor.  A literal thought policeman, claiming having sinful thoughts is just as bad as enacting them.  And all of this was aimed at Jesus’ own religion, the dominant force in his area at the time.  The ruling class, the status quo.  

Two thousand years later, someone on the Internet casts this exact same behavior as antithetical to Jesus’ own movement.

Gonna drop some relevant C.S. Lewis quotes to dispel this nonsense:

“Christianity has not, and does not profess to have, a detailed political programme for applying “Do as you would be done by” to a particular society at a particular moment. It could not have. It is meant for all men at all times, and the particular programme which suited one place or time would not suit another. And, anyhow, that is not how Christianity works. When it tells you to feed the hungry it does not give you lessons in cookery. When it tells you to read the Scriptures it does not give you lessons in Hebrew and Greek, or even in English grammar. It was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences; it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.“ - Mere Christianity.

“About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our position is more delicate. Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just society would be a major disaster. On the other hand we do want, and want very much, to make men treat Christianity as a means; preferably, of course, as a means to their own advancement, but, failing that, as a means to anything—even to social justice. The thing to do is to get a man at first to value social justice as a thing which the Enemy demands, and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice. For the Enemy will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist’s shop. ” - Screwtape Letters.

Do you have any actual quotes from Jesus here, or is this just all some white dude from the 20th century?

I bet you’ve read these passages a dozen more times than the actual New Testament because it has the right keywords and seems to have the political stance you desire.  Which, amusingly, is exactly the behavior C.S. Lewis was speaking out against here.  You’re using the superficial trappings of the Bible to support a personal political position – wait, no.  You’re using the superficial trappings of C.S. Lewis’s writings to support a personal political position.  Not even the Bible.  This is helping you plant up a convenient border wall in your mind so you don’t have to consider anything Jesus actually said about feeding the poor.  You’ve quarantined Jesus’ teachings of mercy and empathy because you’ve decided those are political ideas.  These C.S. Lewis passages are your idol, your altar of worship in lieu of the teachings of the actual Savior.

Your tumblr bio says “Christian. Libertarian. Brony,” in that order.  But when you have to quote somebody else to refute the life of Jesus in order to salve your religious cognitive dissonance, I think maybe you should start putting “Libertarian” up front.  

It might be worth adding that The Screwtape Letters is a novel of letters written by Screwtape, who is an actual demon from Hell, and that passage is about how to tempt Christians to do evil. When the quote says “ the establishment of anything like a really just society would be a major disaster,” that’s not C.S. Lewis citing his own beliefs, that’s C.S. Lewis writing dialogue for a character who is capital-E evil.

“Most of us are not really approaching. the subject in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.”--C.S. Lewis,  Mere Christianity 

i paused it at the perfect moment and im going to make this one of my desktop wallpapers

what even is the promotion for this movie anymore

Amazingly, Marvel seems to consider it good publicity to show its actors doing goofy things as if they just enjoy each other’s company.

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I love this comic. I love it so much.

Excuse me while I also talk a bit about Family Guy here.

I used to enjoy Family Guy. Yeah, it was crude and crass but the writing was clever. Some of the jokes were extremely funny. But as time went on, the more they started to care less. Or at least that is how I feel. And the more feminist I became and the more I learned how harmful certain ‘jokes’ are, the more I began to hate. Especially when it comes to Meg.

Meg is not a terrible charecter. She isn’t evil, she’s not a villian. Yet she gets treated like complete and utter crap because….honestly, I don’t know why! The writers say they don’t know how to write teenaged girls but I call bullcrap on that. Meg has been abused by not just Peter but her mother and brother too. Her mother, who should be trying protect her daughter, demeans her in every possible way and that is suppose to be funny. That’s the joke. Meg in pain is the joke.

And isn’t funny.

People say, “It’s just a cartoon” but we know that media influences how people think and having Meg being hurt physically and emotionally is dangerous because there are going to be people who see that and think that is okay. And the way Chris is portrayed also shows how children learn from their parents and can end up being abusers.

This comic really is fantastic 

I feel like this is the spiritual sequel to Boy’s Night that none of us knew we needed but we absolutely did

Also, I feel like this brings up a pretty interesting point: Even though Hank Hill is often confused and disappointed with Bobby, he is never physically abusive towards him or anyone in the family, and is willing to show his son he loves him. Bobby may be a constant source of confusion for him, but he’s not below learning to accept his son for who he is, and given that Hank takes a lot of pride in being a red-blooded american man, when american media is so obsessed with the ideal of “comically” abusive and negligent fathers, that’s pretty damn important.

Meet Japanese Grumpy Cat, Who Is Even Grumpier Than The Original One

Meet Koyuki, the Scottish fold cat that is angrier than Grumpy Cat, and with whom Koyuki will no doubt battle one day for Internet supremacy. She has been hiding out for nine years in Yokohama, and now, as the hour for battle draws near, the only thing you need to remember is: “There can be only one!”

Photos by ©Koyuki - Via Bored Panda

Santa Claus by Bill Sienkiewicz

I made some gifs.

From Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.