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“There is no better way to teach a child Christianity than to actually live it – truly and from the heart. You cannot teach what you do not live.”

- St. Silouan of Mt. Athos -

Go to Pinterest and google your name and add the word core on the end, the first six images are your aesthetic.

[thanks for the tag @cubeapples!]

tagging @jaenrang, @eleventhboi, @viridianjester, anyone else who wants to join!

awww thank you for the tag dear 🥹❤️

tagging @hawaiianpurplewolf @rbgianfar @eggxeggxegg @esolean and ofcourse anyone else who wants to join is welcome!

this is so cute, thank you for tagging me, my dear @eleventhboi 🩷

np tagging: @valyrra @localravenclaw @shanaraharlyah @sebastianswallows @ceridwenannwyl @crime-in-progress @muwitch @ephemerasnape @trulyblockedout @marketfreshfics @feuilleq @finalgirllx @fey-wanderer @f34r-xo and anyone else who'd like to join ♥️

Thank you for the tag @esolean 💙

No pressure tagging: @nyx91, @nox-ceur, @eternalremorse, @legacyshenanigans and anyone else who wants to join in

Ooo I absolutely love this

Tagging; @legacyshenanigans @yippeeism @nyx91 @indarknessilived @faeroseate @100jewels-between-teeth

And anyone else that wants to join 🖤

Cool

This is fun...

I avoid pink alot because it erratically sets off my trauma responses and sensory issues (not everytime but enough that I don't wear / buy things with the colour on purpose but apparently it thinks I need more pink in my life 😭 (red also does the same thing)) 💜💜💜 but I'll post it anyway so I'm not a killjoy 😁

@aesthetic-trash666 @sevprince-91 @nox-ceur @trulyblockedout @fox-actually @100jewels-between-teeth @dreambender96 @littlestw01f

Thanks for tagging me Nyx :)

Here are mine:

Gives very Faerie princess in the woods vibe AND I LOVE IT OMG!!!

This is so pretty

Taggging: @lorcandidlucienwill @sonics-atelier @siriuslytamlin @matrixsss @lilah-asteria @eve175 @/anyone who wants to join

Thanks for the tag, @littlestw01f 💕

My name's core...

Mh... Cool!

Now your turn: @sarawritestories @milswrites @illyrianbitch @thehighladywrites

thank you for the tag my love 🫶🏻

i fear pinterest thinks i’m cooler than i am

tagging: @itsswritten and everyone and anyone else!!!! do this everyone i love seeing the aesthetics 😌

hehe I loved this, pinterest is my favourite place in the world and I have to say they got it pretty spot on <3 I just wanna frolic in fields, have picnics with friends and read! Tagging: @daycourtofficial @fleurrreads @

Very royal core (except for the random fire lmaooo) the rest though is pretty spot on I must say

Tagging my loves: @prythianpages @stormhearty @shadowdaddies 💕

Thank you @daycourtofficial for tagging me! This looked a lot of fun!

Elegantcore with love of books and magic, and a hint of dark humor 🤣🤣.

I tag @websterss @assriels @heartless-tate @lees-chaotic-brain @kindasleepywriter @thesunloveschips

Thanks for the tag<3 it was a struggle to find a way for it to work at first because i got memes, a kpop singer and radiators (yes. radiators.). Here are the filtered results lol

No pressure tags: @sapphenaa @weasleyreidstyles @illyrian-dreamer @acourtofwhatthefuck @sleepycreativewriter @harrystylesfan2686

thanks for the tag queen!!

no pressure tags: @finalgirllx @benwadsworthsgf @florencemtrash @weirdowithnobeardo @angelfrombeneth @doremimosasol

thank you for the tag @weasleyreidstyles and @esolean i live for moodboards + collages of any kind 💕💕

alyssa + core

np tags - @ashisgreedy @pizzaapeteer @thatdammchickennugget @musingsofahufflepuff @slytherinboysappreciation @jayybugg @suugarbabe @amongemeraldclouds @acourtofchaos @doremimosasol

thank you for the tag bby girl @finalgirllx

jaylen + core

npt: @thatdammchickennugget @mrsriddles-blog @pizzaapeteer @slytherinslut0 @theeslutintheroom @theostrophywife @doremimosasol @suugarbabe @ashisgreedy

thank you to all the lovies that tagged me♥️

em + core

np tags: @doremimosasol @acourtofchaos @pinklittleflower @pizzaapeteer @thatdammchickennugget @alygatorcow @slytherinboysappreciation @jetblackpayne @localravenclaw @cuffmeinblack @mspegasus17 @jeniffler

Thank you @slytherinslut0 for tagging me, Babe ❤️

Here's Dani-Core

@lescahiersdesable @princess-sallow @slytherinravebabe 🥰

Thanks @mspegasus17 dear 🥰

Here this is my core eheh

Tagging @duchesspeggy @queengurako ❤️

Thank you @lescahiersdesable <333

I find my core really accurate concerning a part of my behaviour. Tagging @thestateofardadreaming, @sabraeal, @noriko04, @margridarnauds, @ladyhedoniste, @fierce-little-miana and @virgichuu

Thanks @queengurako for the tag!

I got a beautiful kitty, so I'm not gonna complain *_*

I tag: @eternal-echoes (no pressure).

thanks for the tag! (I had saved it on my drafts to do when I found the time but forgot and I just noticed it now)

I feel like everyone who has my name may be emo lol

talking to certain trans people is so sad sometimes, it's almost like talking to an addict. all they care about is the next hrt shot, or the next surgery, or how they look or how they present, and they don't care at all how they're affecting other people in their life, and how they're hurting them.

i've heard multiple trans-identified females say that their parents told them "you killed my daughter." and it's heart-wrenching, and I used to really feel for this woman. but now, I can't help but feel for the parents. Imagine having a daughter who's perfectly normal until her life is overtaken by heroin. Imagine having a daughter who was fine until she joined a new religious group that turned out to be a cult, and now she's not the same anymore and has been completely brainwashed and there's nothing you can do or say to snap her out of it. Imagine begging her to get help but she's so deep in the addiction that she can't.

I'm not joking when I say that transgender identity should be understood first and foremost as an addiction. There is a literal chemical element to this that I think is underdiscussed. Testosterone and estrogen are both mind-altering substances after all. But the real high is the feeling of disassociation, or what trans people euphemistically refer to as "gender euphoria." A lot of addiction is about disassociation, it's not just that the focus of the addiction makes you feel good, it's that it makes you forget about the things about yourself that make you feel bad.

This is why trans identified people get mad when you say things like "what's wrong with just being a non gender conforming woman?" or "what's wrong with just being an effeminate man?" They need to believe that they have become a different person because they need that hit of disassociation. It's also why they rely on sexist stereotypes so heavily, they need to believe that the opposite sex are basically a different species. If they admit that their sources of gender euphoria are just things that a person of their birth sex could do anyway without changing their identity, then they are admitting that they are still just themselves. It's also why they get so irrationally angry at "misgendering", no other marginalised group loses their cool this much at not having their identity recognised. No other group goes out of their way to police language the way the trans community does. But when you misgender a trans person, you are doing the equivalent of giving a shot of narcan to an opiod addict. You are bringing them back down to Earth and reminding them that they are still themselves. No wonder they fight so hard to not let people do this.

This also explains the escalating nature of trans identity. Addiction by its very nature tends to escalate. You get accustomed to your current state of addiction, and it no longer gives the same high it once did, so you need to intensify it. You might just start out cutting your hair short and wearing a binder and that might satisfy you in the short term. But sooner or later that's not enough, soon you will need hormones, then top surgery, then facial masculinization surgery and then eventually bottom surgery. Then the many revisions of those surgeries. But you're chasing a dragon, you're never going to catch it. You can't satisfy an addict, it's just not possible. No matter how much they have, they will always want a little bit more.

The frustrating thing is that like most addicts they tend to be very good at subjective rationalization. Addicts are often very intelligent people, and they are very good at explaining to themselves and to others why their addiction is actually rational and healthy. This makes it very difficult to reason with them. Addicts don't perceive their next fix as a want but as a need. It can be very frustrating hearing trans people act is if you are literally trying to murder them, when all you want is to get them to admit that they are still just their birth sex. But in their eyes these two things might as well be the same thing. The ego death of not being able to disassociate is just as scary to them as an actual literal death.

Heads Up

Winter Landscape, 1871, Aleksey Savrasov

thinking about those parent/child mittens where you can both wear them and hold hands….. hold on a second man hold on

like……

“Those clashes with the world’s selfishness will make you appreciate much more the fraternal charity of your brother-apostles.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Charity” from The Way, #458

@ briesoldo

@lisxdumbr excuse me as I borrow your tag for a moment, cause we’re onto something.

Rent-lowering gunshots aside, I think this highlights a pretty fundamental quality to tumblr memes, which is they’re meant to be fun, not funny.

Most Goncharov content aren’t funny. They don’t make you laugh as an audience. In fact, there’s some serious and awe inspiring quality fanarts, music, fanfics, and analysis on a non-existing flim. It’s not about making the funniest joke, it’s about having fun making the joke.

Tumblr memes aren’t meant to entertain a passive audience. The entertainment value is in the participation. And this quality is present in a lot of long-form tumblr memes. Colour theory, urban gothic (short lived but glorious), hawkeye initiative (short lived but glorious), making shitpost arguments into shakespeare, @theshitpostcalligrapher (excuse the tag) and other shitpost calligraphy. A lot of these memes are about taking silly things seriously. And even passively reblogging these memes are about participation. “I can take this seriously too.” Or, in Goncharov’s case, “yeah I’ll help collectively gaslight the internet”.

Another big part about sharing it isn’t about how funny the joke is, but how impress you are with the effort. As an audience you can feel the love artists/musicians/writers put into their Goncharov fanwork, and can’t help but have respect.

This same logic goes for how coffeeshop fics are fun to write, but they aren’t funny. The charm for the reader is that someone loved these characters as much as you did.

In contrast, when you look at viral tweets, they’re often one-shots. They’re very funny and witty but you don’t tend to get the same degree of repetition and variations. Because twitter is built for consumption and snappier participation, and the increasingly algorithm-driven navigation makes content more competitive, which means quality lies in individual tweets, and not in the whole phenomenon.

tldr; Tumblr memes/jokes are about how fun they are to make/share. Twitter jokes are about how fun they are to consume.

Tumblr humor is about being involved in something stupid. Otherwise we wouldn’t enjoy reblogging Color of the Sky, Color Theory, Out of Touch Thursday, Had to Do it To ‘Em, or any of the plethora of “no you mean [initial incorrect thing]. [ initial topic] is [also incorrect thing].” jokes.

They’re not meant to be funny, they’re meant to be silly and engaging.

Tumblr actually has memes is what it is. Like classical definition memes. Twitter has quips that are forced on the rest of the internet by botnets creating artificial virality. They aren’t memes because there’s no in-group knowledge. They’re just ten-cent comedy you’d get from walking down a busy street long enough to over hear from random strangers.

We make our fun interactive here, it’s why so many of us get annoyed at things like ‘prev tags’ just screenshot it ffs, get involved in the joke.

*✧ ancient weapon appreciation ･ﾟ✧

Once again I am asking Tumblr Christians to pray for my bad health so I don't die

“Who are you to judge the rightness of a superior’s decision? Don’t you see that he has more basis for judging than you? He has more experience; he has more upright, experienced and impartial advisers; and above all, he has more grace, a special grace, the grace of his state, which is the light and powerful aid of God.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Charity” from The Way, #457

St Mary Magdalen, 1587, Tintoretto

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/tintoretto/st-mary-magdalen-1587