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(Judas by Lady Gaga playing ominously in the distance)

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hahahaha Elan and Belkar going on about how being immortal but unable to experience life (e.g. taste ice cream) is pointless

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my favorite dnd joke remains "paladin replaces stick up butt with immovable rod, obtains ultimate power" from an old gitp adventure seed thread

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Oh! Maybe you haven't been to the GITP Forum? Possibly the most batshit fandom ever, from those who 100% exonerate Hilgya for political reasons, those who 100% exonerate Miko for basically the opposite politics, those who refuse to entertain that Vaarsuvius could ever be in ANY way redeemable, to those who refuse to acknowledge that the goblins are an obvious allegory of rw bigotry

Still not as insane as Steven Universe hatedom tho lol

hey so we put your morally grey character in a fandom. yeah half the fanbase makes them into a perfect angel who did nothing wrong and the other half depicts them as a cartoonishly evil villain who hurts people for fun. no we dont know how to explain that people can do bad things for good reasons or good things for bad reasons. sorry man

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Christian Financial Consulting: Guiding Your Finances with Faith 

In today’s complex financial world, many believers are seeking guidance that aligns with both their economic goals and their faith. This is where Christian financial consulting becomes essential. At GITP Ministries, we understand that managing money isn't just about numbers—it's about honoring God with every dollar.

What Is Christian Financial Consulting?

Christian financial consulting is the process of helping individuals, families, and churches manage their finances based on Biblical principles. It covers everything from budgeting and debt management to investing and giving. The goal isn’t just financial success, but faithful stewardship—using money in a way that pleases God.

Why GITP Ministries?

At GITP Ministries, we offer personalized financial consulting that integrates spiritual wisdom with practical planning. We believe that true financial freedom comes when you align your financial choices with God’s Word.

Here’s what sets GITP Ministries apart:

Biblical Approach: We rely on scriptures like Proverbs 21:5 (“The plans of the diligent lead to profit...”) and Luke 14:28 (on planning and counting the cost) to guide our clients.

Customized Plans: Everyone's financial situation is unique. We create tailored strategies that respect your faith, lifestyle, and long-term vision.

Giving and Generosity: We help you structure your finances so you can give joyfully and consistently—supporting churches, missions, and communities in need.

Services We Offer

GITP Ministries provides a variety of Christian financial consulting services:

Budget creation and money management

Debt reduction and credit counseling

Financial planning for families and individuals

Church financial health evaluations

Generosity coaching and tithing plans

Retirement and investment education (faith-friendly)

Who Can Benefit?

Our services are for:

Individuals and families wanting to align their money with their faith

Churches needing help with stewardship, transparency, and budgeting

Small businesses and ministries looking for ethical, Christ-centered financial advice

Final Thoughts

Money is a tool—not a goal. With the right guidance, it can be used to build a better life and bless others. GITP Ministries is here to walk with you on your financial journey, helping you live a life of faith, purpose, and financial peace.

Ready to take the next step in your financial faith walk? Connect with GITP Ministries today. Let’s manage money God’s way—together.

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Grants for Church Ministries to Support Growth and Community Outreach

Securing grants for church ministries helps religious organizations expand outreach, fund community programs, and support infrastructure needs. These grants assist in building renovation, missionary work, education, and charitable projects.

GITP Ministries provides guidance to churches looking for financial support through various grant programs. Many grants focus on faith-based initiatives, offering churches the resources needed to make a greater impact. Proper planning and a well-structured application increase the chances of approval.

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hey. i’m koris - they/he, 20+

NEW TAGGING SYSTEM

bc it makes me sad i can’t find shit

fandom tags

fgen - the general experience of being in a fandom

haikyuu, saiki k and yoi!! are mostly on sideblogs

dungeon meshi - split into laios, marcille (inc. farcille), chilchuck, senshi (inc. chilshi), izutsumi (inc. izutade), dmgen and dmother. dmtp for text posts

ace attorney - plus character names, aatp for text posts

genshin impact - plus character names, g.i. if no surname, gitp for text posts

death’s door - this for everything

dnd - for any and all things dnd related, or even vaguely fantasy related. the evil wizard blog? that’s dnd ig

babel - just this, no character names

dishonoured - with the U

glee - often w chara names

classics - classical literature. originally meant to be greek specifically but now pretty much anything

ohshc - gave up on writing all of ouran high school host club a while ago lol

xmen - just that. gotta go backtag a lot

poirot, yes (prime) minister, bbc ghosts, peep show, drop the dead donkey

fother - other fandom stuff, fandoms i’m not really in like star wars, etc. this is for text posts and memes really, art goes in aartother

… fother is quickly becoming everything i don’t have a tag for :// ttmb isn’t the same detachment as what this was intended for.

ok! ttmb/tgl/etc - to the manor born, the good life, etc. basically old tv shows w next to nothing in the tags

more serious tags

politics - political commentary, awareness, etc

palestine - related to the genocide in gaza, general commentary on lots of international concerns and the failings of the un world order etc

representation - stuff concerning marginalised groups, desc/subst rep, awareness boosting

hist - general historical facts, humour, etc

lgbtq - about being queer, ideas, politics, humour, etc

ukbrit - british stuff, jokes abt the uk, uk-specific politics

hmfat - posts about being fat, fat-exclusionary examples, representation for fat ppl

“aart” tags

for various art (double a so as not to block other tags)

aartpol - political art

aartnice - really pretty, scenic art and photography etc

aartcute - awww cute art, puppies and stuff

aartperform - performing arts, theatre, music, set design etc

aartwow - unconventional art forms and performances, ppl doing backflips and stunts, that chocolate guy, idk like if someone drew a face out of clothespegs

aartdark - spooky or sad art

aartother - non-categorised/art from other fandoms

my products/creativity tags

a few of my ocs have their own tags

4ks - has its own post, stuff abt several of my faves or generally abt having a fav character

ocs - making ocs, that i relate to my ocs, etc

writing - pains of writing, motivation, ao3 stuff, etc

my posts

me narrating this annoying ass blog like, mntaabl, me narrating

basically tumblr fucking sucks and stopped autofilling tags so i shortened it

the mortifying ordeal of being online

tmblr - tumblr-specific memes, eg spiders georg, crab rave, that supernatural news meme

rcomp - reading comprehension issues, logical fallacies, general stupidity but also encouraging thought, reconsidering views etc - ie also how to avoid pissing on the poor

internet - stuff abt being on the internet, ppl getting cancelled, celebrity stuff, youtubers etc

twt - screenshots from twitter that don’t really fit anywhere else

ughyh - relatable stuff from tumblr eg sweet treat, being tired, etc

tlol- humour but that’s very specifically tumblr humour but not a direct reference? idk like out of context reblog additions to posts and stuff

event specific/niche tags

queen elizabeth - stuff abt her death mostly oop

irevents - international (relations) events, eg the olympics

other tags

keyinfo - important things i really want to save and come back to, replacement for “!!!” bc i learnt too late that that was unsearchable

eurovision - all posts abt eurovision, including general stuff

esc20[XX] - specific years of esc, and surrounding controversy

aesthetic - anything reblogged primarily for aesthetic purposes

sosdnd - specifically cyberpunk/outrun aesthetics and some politics, etc

lol - generally amusing stuff

hols - holidays and celebrations, nice warm cosy stuff, winder vibes idk

cute - cute stuff! animals, ppl being nice, whatever. positive vibes

university - academia, uni stuff, the mortifying ordeal of being a student. also for school-related stuff

misc - i cannot categorise this rn

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Do you guys want to see the scariest forum thread I've ever seen (/j)?

Behold! A GITP thread where OP says there is no way to make a class break 3.5 by RAW no matter what you do with it.

Oh, Truenamer.

Some stupid rules/gameplay highlights, but the tone is really what gets me XD

Well, pg. 200 lists it as untyped, pg. 196 says it's a competence bonus, and pg. 233 says its a circumstance bonus.

WotC literally forgot to include the DC to speak these utterances and had to include it in the errata. No, I'm not joking. That should give you an idea of just how much effort went into this section. (Whether "this section" refers to the LPM section or the Truenamer section is left as an exercise for the reader.)

That means that in order to have any chance at all of succeeding at a Quickened utterance, you had to have had a greater than 100% chance of success before you Quickened it. Think about that for a minute. They printed this feat being fully aware that you needed to have that kind of Truespeak mod. That says something about this whole mess, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Anyway,

Yes, this means that the typical DC goes up by 2 every level, while you can only add 1 rank every level. This is just as annoying as it sounds, and it means that you'll be spending a disproportionate amount of time trying to boost this check . . . then trying to figure out what to do with the check once you've boosted it.

If you're willing to take up the pom-poms and make the party members who were already more awesome than you even more awesome than they already are, the Truenamer can do that,

I'm not actually recommending this feat. I'm just pointing out something stupid, because we clearly haven't seen enough of that yet. I believe that this is intended to be similar to Spell Focus or Utterance Focus, but as written, what it does is make the Truespeak DCs harder, not the save DCs.

The first Law of WotC Hates Truenamers, this is an annoying little rule that makes Truenaming harder as the day goes on. All those utterance DCs I gave you above are just for the first time you use any given utterance during the day. Each time you succeed, the DC of that particular utterance increases by 2, though (in a rare display of mercy) failing doesn't increase the DC.

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Oh that’s a good point. There was definitely a push to make everything “d20 system” at the time. I even have a d20 Call of Cthulhu book from that era, and I think we played a d20 Star Wars TTRPG back in like 2010.

I think I wasn’t sufficiently Online to see people arguing in favor of it though — between about 2005 and 2020, my only contact with online TTRPG discourse was very occasionally browsing the GitP forums, so I have little to no idea what the wider community thought. I mostly remembered it as kind of a failed top-down push on the part of WotC.

But yeah, now that you mention it, there was kind of an attitude of “the d20 version might not be as good as the other version, but we’re going to use it because it’s more familiar and we won’t have to put in the effort of learning a whole new system.”

I'm actually thinking about something kinda funny. There are very few RPGs that I couldn't see myself playing. Like, aside from the ones that are downright hateful or made by some variety of fascist I can't think of a game that I would flat-out refuse to play. And given that there's a lot of talk about getting people to try out new games and how hard it supposedly is it just makes me wonder... am I weird for my willingness and enthusiasm for playing other games? Because if so add that to my ever-growing list of "reasons the normies are weird, actually."

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so I got my hands on a copy of the oots board game

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What Is Webcomics?

The obvious answer is “comics on the internet”, but...

Sooooo... like this?

...No, not like that.

When some comics are distributed via the internet, we call them “digital” comics, but others are “webcomics”. Even if we aren’t sure how to explain the distinction, we can tell the difference!

And this is despite the fact that some of the creators of successful long-running webcomics, like Ryan North and Chris Hastings, have moved very successfully into the world of comic books, and at least one creator of a popular long-running webcomic (Phil Foglio) came from that world, without this ever really blurring that line. So we can conclude that the difference isn’t just in who makes them

Webcomics Is Free

An obvious difference is in the business model. There are comics that fall on the “digital” side of that imaginary line that use a “pay what you choose” type of model, but generally there is some expectation that each member of the audience pay for the content directly

Contrariwise, the usual business model of webcomics is for the content itself to be available free, while the artist is supported by ad revenue, or by selling merch, or by the generosity of fans.

In many ways, it’s similar to the distinction between movies and television

Webcomics Is Crude

Another common distinction between webcomics and comics that happen to be on the web is an obsession going back to the early roots of the form with using shortcuts to allow a visual story to be told without, in many cases, much in the way of drawing ability. This ranges from pixel sprites, to clip art, to stick figures.

Previously mentioned webcomic superstar, Ryan North, took this tendency to the formalist limit by creating a single page of simplistic pixel art for his Dinosaur Comics and then, for going-on 20 years and 4000 pages, only changing the words every day. Below is my favorite page of Dinosaur Comics, but they’re all the same. Except for having different words.

(When I was thinking about this tendency of webcomics, it reminded me of a comic I loved back in the early 2000s, that I was going to describe as a “webcomic except in print”. But upon further investigation, I discovered that Get Your War On had been a webcomic all along, just one that happened to also be printed in a few US cities’ leftist newspapers. Below is an early one, probably the first that I saw, and a perfect representation of why it was such a vital outlet for those few of us not caught up in the war fever in those dark Bush years...)

Even those webcartoonists not trying to avoid drawing don’t necessarily have the patience to actually learn to draw before beginning to publish. Webcomics are well known for sometimes stark evolution in their art, and possibly none moreso than my personal favorite webcomic, El Goonish Shive:

There are definitely major exceptions to this tendency. Many webcomics are gorgeously, lushly illustrated (even from the beginning.) Below is half of a particularly lovely page of a webcomic ode to transhumanism titled Dresden Codak:

The thing that ties these disparate works together, from those with art that’s crudely sketched, to cleverly sidestepped, to beautifully fully realized, is each has a singular creative vision. In stark contrast with their big bro the comic books, webcomics are distinguished by relatively little collaboration and practically zero editorial meddling. These are the works of passionate amateurs who (sometimes) gradually found ways to make a livelihood from their passion

Webcomics Is Bite-Sized

But beyond the business side of it, and even the low entry barriers and amateurist zeal, the thing that really sets webcomics apart from the comic books to the point of seeming almost a different medium and linking them more closely to even-older sibling the newspaper comics, is the different pacing and structure caused by being released in tiny, tiny chunks

But that’s enough for now, we can talk about the impact on the form of coming out in bite-size installments.... next time!

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so so much about that

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Fueling the Vision: Church Start-Up Grants and How GITP Ministries Can Help

Starting a church is a calling that demands more than just passion — it takes strategy, community support, and yes, financial resources. Whether you’re planting a church in an underserved community, launching a home-based fellowship, or expanding a ministry initiative, the early stages often present a significant challenge: funding.

That’s where church start-up grants come in — and where GITP Ministries steps in to walk alongside you.

What Are Church Start-Up Grants?

Church start-up grants are funds awarded to new or growing ministries to help with initial costs. These grants can cover everything from:

Rental space for worship

Audio/visual equipment

Marketing and outreach

Leadership development

Community service initiatives

Unlike loans, grants typically don’t need to be repaid, making them an attractive option for ministries looking to steward their finances wisely.

Who Offers These Grants?

Church start-up grants can come from a variety of sources:

Denominational Bodies: Many church networks and denominations offer grants to affiliated church plants.

Faith-Based Foundations: Organizations like the Lilly Endowment or Mustard Seed Foundation support mission-driven church initiatives.

Private Donors & Philanthropists: Generous individuals often support new ministries aligned with their values.

Community Development Grants: In some areas, local governments offer grants to nonprofits — including churches — that serve their communities.

How GITP Ministries Supports New Church Plants

At GITP Ministries, our mission is to Grow In The Purpose — and that includes empowering others to walk boldly in their calling.

Here’s how we help church planters like you secure start-up funding:

1. Grant Research & Guidance

We help you identify the grants best suited for your vision, whether you’re planting a traditional church or launching a new form of outreach.

2. Application Support

Grant writing can be overwhelming. GITP Ministries provides coaching, templates, and editing support to help you present your mission with clarity and conviction.

3. Ministry Strategy Consulting

Beyond funding, we help you build a strategic plan that funders can trust — from mission statements to measurable impact goals.

4. Connections to Partner Ministries

We connect you to networks, donors, and foundations aligned with your vision.

3 Tips to Prepare for a Grant Application

Define Your Mission Clearly: Be able to state your church’s purpose, core values, and community impact in one sentence.

Create a Detailed Budget: Show potential funders exactly how their money will be used.

Collect Support Letters: Ask mentors, community leaders, or denominational reps to vouch for your character and mission.

Final Thoughts

Church planting isn’t easy — but with the right vision, community, and resources, it is possible. Church start-up grants can give your ministry the boost it needs to thrive, and GITP Ministries is here to guide you every step of the way.

Whether you’re just beginning to dream or already gathering your launch team, let us help you Grow In The Purpose God has for your ministry.