Punny Bone

Dani is trying to raise money to fix her teeth. For a long while she’s suffered from pain caused by teeth problems.

She’s a wonderful person and a real joy in my life. One of my longest held friends. She’s the one who has been helping me beta and outline Chained to You for the last couple chapters. I love her so.

I’ll do what I can to help her raise money for this, I’ll be donating too. But if anyone else out there would like to help out, both her and I would be so grateful.

Thanks for your consideration. Here’s a link to her go fund me.

It’s okay to grieve for time spent surviving instead of living.

It’s okay to wish you could go back and change the past.

I could have sworn I posted this but I guess I dreamed it ;;

More redraws! Though I really only fixed their faces and recolored. This was from 2016 when I hit 1,000+ followers on Tumblr.

I am sad. Things are rough. Look at these old Sphinx Yugi sketches that my friend cleaned up for me and made all pretty.

Sphinx Yugi AU

Rated: E

Puzzleshipping

Summary: A sudden and mysterious sandstorm separates Pharaoh Atem from his priests and soldiers during a skirmish. After wandering blindly, he takes refuge in an oasis, where he wakes up the next morning quite literally on top of a Sphinx.

I left after a couple months, I stayed just long enough to see that they explicitly believe women are inferior to men, and of course, that homosexuality is a sin on par with murder.

The whole missionary door to door thing is NOT how Jehovah's Witnesses recruit. That is how they convince their members that the world is out to get them. One of the first things they teach is that Jesus requires you to try to convert non Christians to the faith. (They say non Christian but mean non JW.)

Then they say, "look how people treat us, just for the crime of wanting to save their soul"

They have long time church members tutor the incoming members to smooth the process over. They're trained to smooth away any doubts you may have about the church.

Here’s why you should not try to scare Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses that come knocking on your door:

It might be funny, in the moment, to say, “oh, sorry, I can’t go to church on Sundays, that’s when I sacrifice aborted fetuses to Beelzebub.” But it can be damaging in the long run to anyone who is thinking about escaping their cult. People who are in cults are told that the outside world is evil, and while they may not like conditions of the cult they’re in, they’re guaranteed that the outside world is ten times worse; and you trying to scare them away can reinforce those beliefs.

What’s recommended by cult experts (and cult escapees) is that you take the time and listen to them if you have the time. Then you can politely deny, and say “sorry, I’m not interested”, or “sorry, I’m [this other religion]”. I like to give snacks or bottled water to anyone. If it’s Jehovah’s Witness kids, I like to ask if they watch Caleb and Sophia, which is a popular Jehovah’s Witnesses cartoon.

The idea is to plant the seed in their mind that the outside world isn’t so bad and that they can leave if they want to.