talk is cheap

we used to post about swan queen

in 2012 a fan asked adam horowitz & edward kitsis during comic con if emma and regina are gay for real and emilie de ravin looked like someone just told her seven days. the rest of the cast & crew didn’t even know what gay people were and maintained that position for the next ten years EXCEPT for lana parrilla who read swan queen fanfiction at some point and we don’t even know which ones.

emma and regina once sat on two different benches ten feet apart and fic writers are writing fanfiction about it until THIS DAY. they’re the second most popular femslash ship on ao3. one time emma sacrificed her soul for regina’s happiness and jennifer morrison spent two years fervently saying no homo until emma’s wardrobe consisted entirely of nordstrom’s

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i REALLY want a weight bench for the house. but we have no space for one. but also we have a little entryway area and we want a little place to sit down and put shoes on. I BELIEVE. if i get the right weight bench. and sew some kind of cover for it with a skirt. it will be sufficiently attractive for the entryway. and then i can have my weight bench.

im often astonished at how conservative christians fall for certain kinds of conspiracy theories. where some kind of human group of people is organizing and orchestrating all kinds of evil acts. bro u r christian u believe in satan. there doesn't need to be a group of living people to orchestrate harmonized global evil. the devil does that. how r u gonna demonize groups of people when there are literal demons to blame. i don't get it

a similar failure to acknowledge the devil is when christians act offended when liberals or whoever suggest that everyone needs to constantly fight against internalized racism or unintentional sexual bias or whatever. if you're christian and you know that the devil is constantly tempting you, and you know that Jesus loves everyone infinitely and expects you to try to do the same, it's completely obvious that you should agree with those kinds of statements, and that you've both observed the same symptoms and are communicating about them differently. obviously if the devil is real he would be constantly trying to tempt you to hate or be prejudiced or be unfair or accidentally hurt people for all kinds of ridiculous reasons. so you do know that you need to make a constant effort against that. why would you be mad or disagree.

i think it's basically because in the same way they claim to believe in God, but make God after their own image and name whatever is familiar and convenient God, they make Satan after their own image and name whatever makes them afraid or uncomfortable Satan. they don't actually truly deeply believe that either of these forces exist independent of themselves or humanity as a whole, they just use divine language to describe the rather mundane and tangible and comprehensible aspects and sensibilities of their lives and culture. without much imagination or humility

this is even more controversial but i have a similar dim view of sola scriptura and i think it's a symptom of the same error. it's blasphemy to say that anyone but Jesus was perfect, and he never wrote a word of the Bible. the Christian Bible specifically states that Jesus is the Word. it never calls itself infallible. it says never to rely on the arm of flesh. there is one Perfect Exemplar of righteousness and we can know him through the flawed and incomplete records of human beings, through the Holy Ghost, through the Eucharist, through the opportunities we're given to be an instrument in his hands, etc it's absolutely insaneeeeeeeeee to me to think everything important about an Infinite Divine God is contained in a book that was written by human beings and subsequently translated and edited countless times. that's frankly ridiculous. and the most ridiculous part is that sola scriptura texts don't even seem to make a particular effort to closely imitate the life of Christ as it's recorded in the Bible. and if you Knew Jesus you'd know how impossible it is to communicate your experiences in stupid human words. come on man

im often astonished at how conservative christians fall for certain kinds of conspiracy theories. where some kind of human group of people is organizing and orchestrating all kinds of evil acts. bro u r christian u believe in satan. there doesn't need to be a group of living people to orchestrate harmonized global evil. the devil does that. how r u gonna demonize groups of people when there are literal demons to blame. i don't get it

a similar failure to acknowledge the devil is when christians act offended when liberals or whoever suggest that everyone needs to constantly fight against internalized racism or unintentional sexual bias or whatever. if you're christian and you know that the devil is constantly tempting you, and you know that Jesus loves everyone infinitely and expects you to try to do the same, it's completely obvious that you should agree with those kinds of statements, and that you've both observed the same symptoms and are communicating about them differently. obviously if the devil is real he would be constantly trying to tempt you to hate or be prejudiced or be unfair or accidentally hurt people for all kinds of ridiculous reasons. so you do know that you need to make a constant effort against that. why would you be mad or disagree.

i think it's basically because in the same way they claim to believe in God, but make God after their own image and name whatever is familiar and convenient God, they make Satan after their own image and name whatever makes them afraid or uncomfortable Satan. they don't actually truly deeply believe that either of these forces exist independent of themselves or humanity as a whole, they just use divine language to describe the rather mundane and tangible and comprehensible aspects and sensibilities of their lives and culture. without much imagination or humility

im often astonished at how conservative christians fall for certain kinds of conspiracy theories. where some kind of human group of people is organizing and orchestrating all kinds of evil acts. bro u r christian u believe in satan. there doesn't need to be a group of living people to orchestrate harmonized global evil. the devil does that. how r u gonna demonize groups of people when there are literal demons to blame. i don't get it

a similar failure to acknowledge the devil is when christians act offended when liberals or whoever suggest that everyone needs to constantly fight against internalized racism or unintentional sexual bias or whatever. if you're christian and you know that the devil is constantly tempting you, and you know that Jesus loves everyone infinitely and expects you to try to do the same, it's completely obvious that you should agree with those kinds of statements, and that you've both observed the same symptoms and are communicating about them differently. obviously if the devil is real he would be constantly trying to tempt you to hate or be prejudiced or be unfair or accidentally hurt people for all kinds of ridiculous reasons. so you do know that you need to make a constant effort against that. why would you be mad or disagree.

The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband