L Bryce Welborn

its this simple. he’s:

fat

cute

We are 3 disabled trans men, with a bird, in a shitty apartment in bumfuck texas. I lost my job due to chronic pain, and have been looking all month and finally just got accepted at a daycare. My fiancé has been applying but is still unemployed, and my roomate cant work due to also being physically disabled.

I know i have made a lot of donation posts, but i havent gotten many donations and we are really struggling. Due to the few people who donated last time, we were able to buy groceries, meds, and pay off some bills, but we haven't gotten any more support since.

I cannot afford another overdraft fee, And this apartment is the only thing keeping all 3 of us from being homeless. Please. I at least need 50$ to be able to pay for my fingerprints to be taken, so i can go to work.

0/850$

✸ summer snowflake and frends ✸

1. i don’t like Imagine Dragons’ music and i think it is arguable that much of it’s a commercial product, but their members are, as stated above, more or less ex-Mormon.

the lead singer, Dan Reynolds, has discussed his active struggle with his faith and the cult of Mormonism. leaving a cult--especially one that practices shunning--is extremely difficult and can take years. and yet, despite this, he’s made it his mission to help combat issues affecting the LGBT+ community, including conversion therapy, LGBT+ youth suicide, and LGBT+ homelessness.

he has been a consistent and active ally to the point that he has an annual music festival called Loveloud that is dedicated to raising awareness about LGBT+ issues, featuring and promoting LGBT+ artists, and raising money for several charities. he has also donated his own money to LGBT+ organizations and gave his $1 million childhood home to Encircle, an LGBT+ advocacy group in Utah.

the guitarist, Wayne Sermon, has also given talks at conferences dedicated to assisting Mormons in leaving the cult and healing from their trauma.

2. the Lumineers have a history of holding shows solely so they can donate all profits to various charities and causes, including Planned Parenthood in Texas after Republican efforts to defund PP, Dakota Access Pipeline protestors, and LGBT+ charities in North Carolina following the passing of anti-LGBT+ legislation. a lot of their music that doesn’t make it to the radio focuses on issues like poverty, the working class, addiction, and trauma.

3. Marcus Mumford has explicitly stated that he doesn’t actually identify as a Christian, despite using Christian imagery in some of his songs. a person’s parents being Evangelical conservatives should not be an indictment on them. he and the other band members also kicked out their guitarist when he started spewing alt-right talking points and supporting Andy Ngo. i’m still not totally sure i trust his politics--he strikes me as pretty centrist--but good lord, he’s not an Evangelical.

do y’all not realize that you’re allowed to dislike music for purely surface level reasons? like that it doesn’t have to be that it’s made by terrible people--you can just seriously not like how it sounds?

In a few songs, it becomes clear that not only is he not evangelical, but the use of religious imagery is a way of processing religious trauma from having been raised in an evangelical household:

"I wrestled long with my youth / We tried so hard to live in the truth / But do not tell me all is fine / When I lose my head, I lose my spine" — Hopeless Wanderer

"And I was still / But I was under your spell / When I was told by Jesus all was well / So all must be well" — Below My Feet

"So crawl on my belly 'til the sun goes down / I'll never wear your broken crown / I took the road, and I fucked it all away / Now in this twilight, how dare you speak of grace?" — Broken Crown

1. i don’t like Imagine Dragons’ music and i think it is arguable that much of it’s a commercial product, but their members are, as stated above, more or less ex-Mormon.

the lead singer, Dan Reynolds, has discussed his active struggle with his faith and the cult of Mormonism. leaving a cult--especially one that practices shunning--is extremely difficult and can take years. and yet, despite this, he’s made it his mission to help combat issues affecting the LGBT+ community, including conversion therapy, LGBT+ youth suicide, and LGBT+ homelessness.

he has been a consistent and active ally to the point that he has an annual music festival called Loveloud that is dedicated to raising awareness about LGBT+ issues, featuring and promoting LGBT+ artists, and raising money for several charities. he has also donated his own money to LGBT+ organizations and gave his $1 million childhood home to Encircle, an LGBT+ advocacy group in Utah.

the guitarist, Wayne Sermon, has also given talks at conferences dedicated to assisting Mormons in leaving the cult and healing from their trauma.

2. the Lumineers have a history of holding shows solely so they can donate all profits to various charities and causes, including Planned Parenthood in Texas after Republican efforts to defund PP, Dakota Access Pipeline protestors, and LGBT+ charities in North Carolina following the passing of anti-LGBT+ legislation. a lot of their music that doesn’t make it to the radio focuses on issues like poverty, the working class, addiction, and trauma.

3. Marcus Mumford has explicitly stated that he doesn’t actually identify as a Christian, despite using Christian imagery in some of his songs. a person’s parents being Evangelical conservatives should not be an indictment on them. he and the other band members also kicked out their guitarist when he started spewing alt-right talking points and supporting Andy Ngo. i’m still not totally sure i trust his politics--he strikes me as pretty centrist--but good lord, he’s not an Evangelical.

do y’all not realize that you’re allowed to dislike music for purely surface level reasons? like that it doesn’t have to be that it’s made by terrible people--you can just seriously not like how it sounds?

In a few songs, it becomes clear that not only is he not evangelical, but the use of religious imagery is a way of processing religious trauma from having been raised in an evangelical household:

"I wrestled long with my youth / We tried so hard to live in the truth / But do not tell me all is fine / When I lose my head, I lose my spine" — Hopeless Wanderer

"And I was still / But I was under your spell / When I was told by Jesus all was well / So all must be well" — Below My Feet

"So crawl on my belly 'til the sun goes down / I'll never wear your broken crown / I took the road, and I fucked it all away / Now in this twilight, how dare you speak of grace?" — Broken Crown