stop saying "gideon nav" in the tags i don't know who that is you're scaring me
like page 14 of gideon the ninth btw
BDSM is fine, except for binding people which is fucked up, and dominating people which is fucked up, and sadism which is- lets be real- pretty fucked up, and masochism which is honestly lowkey pathetic
this is what gays under 20 sound like when they talk about kink at pride
of all Riccardo Estli's compositions, I think his "Katya's Waltz" from the Goncharov score is one of his most beautiful
OH YOU SNEAKY—
The way I was like “oh that’s a pretty composition what’s the joke?” And didn’t even recognise it
i see the shadow of the homeschooling/public school debate passing in the night, too close to my waters
as someone who was homeschooled for years as an only child & trapped in the house alone with an abusive mother, and was involved in multiple homeschool co-ops:
who then went to a private school -
who then taught in private and public schools -
i have many thoughts and they mostly boil down to
- It's Complicated
- You Cannot Make Generalizations
- Everyone Stop Thinking In Black and White
- Demonizing Either One Is Bad
I mean, thoughts and prayers to this person because I don’t wish suffering on internet randos but…
God’s brilliant design??? The aspect of basic human existence that all essentially all anthropologists and obstetricians have to admit is one of the worst designed? The bodily function that is the shitty compromise between ‘bipedal locomotion’ and ‘live births’? Blocking pain receptors? That’s an epidural honey. Those are drugs. Human-created drugs.
Brilliant? Design?
Also, if we’re being biblical here, isn’t God’s design that childbirth is awful? Like that’s the whole punishment for the forbidden fruit of knowledge thing. God’s design is for you to suffer. Horribly.
(in which case the design is pretty good. Other animals don’t have to corkscrew their fucking infants out because of their comically small pelvises)
The pain of childbirth is literally explained in the Bible as punishment for Eve eating the apple, this is like the first page these people aren’t even trying anymore
The reason Adventuring Party episodes need to be an hour long is because I do want to hear them talk about the episode for half an hour, I also need them to talk about sandwiches and weird foods and British vs American culture. I need the whole package.
This and last week's Adventuring Party episodes were so good because they managed to balance both, even in the sadly short amount of time.
I hate it so much that they cut them to like 25 minutes. Why. I would literally watch these nerds hang out and talk about whatever for 2 hours, but the hour long format it used to have back in the days was good, it worked. Bring it back.
I don't know that I've ever seen someone make the Aardman Grimace in real life.
Truly a masterclass in harrowingly strained enthusiasm!
i need everyone to hear the story of colman domingo meeting his husband bc it's just the most beautiful thing i've ever heard
"The YouTuber patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family, Arend Feenstra, decided that he’d had just about enough of the gay people existing in his country. So he decided to take his family to Russia instead.
“We didn’t feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” said avowedly Christian dad of eight Arend Feenstra on Russian state TV. “There’s a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ+, trans, just a lot of things that we don’t agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children.”
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Would it have been a good idea for them to learn Russian before they went? Yes, yes it would. Did they do that? No, they did not. “We were naive on that,” said Anneesa Feenstra, matriarch and former beet farmer. “I needed to use the washroom, and on the doors said male and female, but I didn’t know which was which!”
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In a YouTube episode titled “our first week in Russia”, Arend Feenstra showcases the hospitality that the local people living in their district had shown to the clueless family, who hadn’t brought enough cold-weather clothes. The locals donated snow suits for the children, and even helped them with their language issues.
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Unfortunately, no amount of kindness from strangers can make up for significant financial problems: something the Feenstras encountered because – who knew?! – Visa or MasterCard don’t work there, and authorities closed the Russian account they moved their money to due to it being a suspiciously high sum with no explanation of where it came from. Similar anti-money laundering laws exist in the UK and US.
Arguing for their money proved incredibly challenging since Russia doesn’t require any bank, or any business, to hire English translators.
This caused a fairly significant tantrum, posted on YouTube by Anneesa Feenstra and then deleted. “I’m very disappointed in this country at this point,” she said – about a snag that could have easily been solved in advance with a quick Google search. “I’m ready to jump on a plane and get out of here”."
Read the full article here: https://t.co/t1b3Y7xFce
"An Indiana family of missionaries that fled to the Caribbean over COVID-19 is now facing mounting legal woes and financial ruin since investigators found an unlicensed firearm and a trove of ammunition in their possessions.
Jason and Jennifer Grogg and their two teen daughters were taken into custody on April 17 when authorities on the island of Dominica found the gun and ammunition inside the 40-foot shipping container the family used to store their belongings, the Indianapolis Star reported.
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The Groggs’ legal woes came two years after Jason and Jennifer – who describe themselves as Christian missionaries – moved their family to Dominica from Logansport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Even before the family decided to decamp to the East Caribbean, they had written in a newsletter to friends and family that they felt the expansion of LGBTQ+ rights meant that the US had rejected God.
“We were feeling like God was leading us out of the country to go somewhere else. He led us to the Commonwealth of Dominica,” Jason told the IndyStar.
The Groggs decided to decamp to the Dominica based on a recommendation from an associate in Florida, and their own research that connected them with Feed My Sheep, a faith-based nonprofit that supports youth in crisis on the island.
Feed My Sheep severed ties with Jason Grogg on April 11 – just a few days before the authorities raided the family’s belongings – due to “his recent abusive & fraudulent behavior,” the organization said in a statement."
https://nypost.com/2023/12/30/news/indiana-family-that-fled-to-caribbean-over-covid-caught-with-gun-ammo/
"Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: "I'll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don't know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don't get everything they want.""
it’s always “poor little meow meow” or “evil bastard” or “I could make him worse” what about men who are normal 🙄what about men who pay taxes and are well adjusted individuals and not at all insane
don’t know if I can defend myself here