Dandy Apologist

I am tired of defensiveness and weird, mixed signals. Let's just get to the truth here, okay?

"Ummmm well im just kinda uncomfy with organised religion"

Ok. Well. You should be more uncomfortable with state-supported genocide and cultural suppression than with those swarthy folks and their silly hats believing in God and reading holy books. Just saying.

"Oh but homophobia and--"

Jews and Muslims have been doing far more interesting faggotry than you for literally thousands of years. My boy David was getting it daily and nightly. Discussions of multiple intersex genders in the talmud. Numerous works of Muslim poetry about gay love

And that's just Jews and Muslims. Like are you normal about non-Christian religions that aren't the vaguely Nazi-ish nouveau vikings you watch thirst vids of?

Hindus? Jains? Sikhs? Druhz? Buddhists? Shinto? A billion indigenous religions? Are you normal about shamanism? Vodou? Ancestor worship?

Pedestrian traffic lights

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

This wolf in British Columbia took a break from eating herring roe to investigate a half-submerged object: the photographer’s camera