Small Cat

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

A few months ago at the tail end of winter I was having a terrible depressive episode. I did everything I could think of to relieve it (walk in the woods, do my daily rituals, eat food, drink water, speak with my lovely husband), none of it worked. I've also been learning about Kashmiri Shaivite Tantrism (specifically the Tantraloka). In that tradition there is a saying "Manifestation is Shiva at play". This got me thinking about if this existence is the game that God plays then he is a weird gamer. He is not a meta-chasing optimizer, he is the kind of guy playing "level 1 consumables-only" Elden Ring runs. My own struggles are part of the challenge that makes this diversity of experience interesting, the variety that keeps the game worth playing. This realization at the joyful absurdity of existence made me laugh and broke me from the depression's thrall. I am quite happy to be one of God's off-meta builds.

by Bhaal...

what did they do

What they had to do.

i love the phrase "cruel and unusual." not only is what you're doing mean but it's also quite frankly fucking bizarre

Item: Orb of Prestige secretly containing a guy

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.