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BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups

It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

Not all high-control groups are religious. Secular cults exist.

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Our game includes:

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13 creeds

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These are some of the individuals featured in my “Flee with E to the DSLC” short fic (which is a sequel to Guilt StRicken, definitely read that first, I also just really like that one) Basically, some of my favorite OC Mortys.

Don’t know what the MPS is? Meet Eez— AKA Rick E-28 AKA Mama Rick— and learn about the DSLC (Displaced Safety and Living Center) and the MPS (Morty Protective Services). All of that is here.

Why did I suddenly draw these guys after 8000 years? I was inspired by a lovely MPS Rick OC made by @hheckkingart (can’t thank you enough bro it’s fantastic)

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"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.

You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.

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1. Favorite season

2. Favorite colour

3. Favourite land animal

4. Favourite sea animal

5. Favourite sky animal

Autumn/Fall!!!

Purple (specifically Lavender/light purple, but I like all purples)

bunnies and/or koalas!!!

bioluminescent jellyfish

oooh doves probably!

1. Favorite season: autumn/fall

2. Favorite colour: red. dark red if we're getting specific. around hex #730505 if we're getting super specific.

3. Favourite land animal: if i had to say one.. either cassowaries or kiwis. both birds in the ratite group

4. Favourite sea animal: dolphins, though my friend has an affinity for octopuses so im pretty biased toward them

5. Favourite sky animal: moths!! anything of lepidoptera, honestly... but moths.

Favorite season: autumn

2. Favorite colour: sage green or purple

3. Favourite land animal: highland cow

4. Favourite sea animal: Manta ray or oceanic whitetip shark

5. Favourite sky animal: moths or bats

Thank you for the tag, Kai! 🖤🎀

Favourite season: autumn

Favourite colours: baby pink, baby blue, black, dark red, and white

Favourite land animal: a deer, bunny, most small spiders, or a wolf

Favourite sea animal: a jellyfish

Favourite sky animal: a bat, raven, or moth

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1. Favourite season: autumn

2. Favourite colour: Green (like the green Frodo wears)

3. Cats

4. Whales

5. Cockatiels

1. Favorite season: well, I live in the land of eternal summer, but I enjoyed spring when I got to see it.

2. Favorite color: wine red

3. Favorite land animal: bunnies I guess?

4. Favorite sea animal: manatees

5. Favorite sky animal: hummingbirds

2. Favorite color: I love all colors, but esp blue and lilac and green

3. Favorite land animal: all felines, wolves, and horses

4. Favorite sea animal: otters I think?

5. Favorite sky animal: owls (but hummingbirds are so cool too! 😭)

2. Favorite color: green

3. Favorite land animal: red fox

4. Favorite sea animal: humpack whale - most whales really. something about these crazy huge animals

5. Favorite sky animal: bluejays

2. Favorite color: Blue!

3. Favorite land animal: Dogs, horses, donkeys and giraffes.

4. Favorite sea animal: Do penguins count? They’re sea-ish? I’m not big on sea creatures tbh.

5. Favorite sky animal: Tbh birds scare the crap out of me, but we had these little finches at home many years ago that had the most interesting song.

Favorite season: Winter. Other seasons are okay. Summer is hot, but I make some fun out of it.

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite land animal: SNAKES!

Favorite sea creature: Whales

Favorite sky animal: Hmmmm. Owls are cool. I like bats as well.

2. Favorite colour - maroon, you can take that from my cold dead hands

3. Favourite land animal - hoarsie he he

4. Favourite sea animal - sea tortle : )

5. Favourite sky animal - red shoulder hawk

And yes, anyone who wants to is welcome to take this and run with it, write with this OC, do as you please. Seeing the idea around could only make me happy!

Also, don’t judge, I drew this over a year ago and have gotten better at drawing since— not amazing, but better.

Pink coat, red sweater, ID badge. That’s the important stuff. And he’s very friendly and kind. And the DSLC is just a big box with hangout space and probably a dorm-like area somewhere idk whatever.

My Rick OC!

This Rick is part of @chanceofwhat 's fanon organization, the Morty Protective Services (CPS but for Morties). He's essentially the guy MPS calls when a Rick is being particularly violent and refuses to let their Morty leave. The goal of those particular Morty extractions is to incapacitate the Rick long enough for the Morty to flee with MPS, but there are times when lethal force against said Rick is necessary or the Rick escapes with their Morty and Rick Hunter Rick (or RH, as I like to call him) has to track them down and bring Morty to safety.

Despite being part of the MPS, RH isn't the most warm of Ricks. He used to be an abusive Rick and drove his own Morty to suicide, leaving him to promise to never let a Rick hurt another Morty ever again (including himself). Because of this, he does his best to keep emotional distance from the Morties housed at MPS. Despite his best efforts, the Morties he's saved have given him the moniker "Big Brother Rick". Other Ricks call him RH or Hunter.

In his spare time he goes to therapy (not in his home universe, he's promised never to step foot back in SM-4515 ever again because he doesnt want to risk hurting the rest of the family) and attends AA. He sometimes still struggles with alcohol and on the days he wants to drink he tends to go out on his own to check up on Ricks high on MPS's priority list just to beat the shit out of them (he makes sure their Morties aren't present, he doesn't want to risk their safety). On days he does relapse he holes himself up far away from the MPS (sometimes a bar, sometimes a particularly fucked up part of the multiverse (sometimes he hopes to get beaten up), he's a very sad drunk).

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell 

heheh thanks for the ask *spreads rikard propaganda*

And after a moment of obligatory 90s-era wtf, Riker would go ! for ! it ! with such a face. Like

Riker: "Data, you have the bridge, I have to go marry the captain."

Picard: "The aliens have left, Number one, you can stop the act."

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vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell 

heheh thanks for the ask *spreads rikard propaganda*

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.