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mind if I come over and behave somewhat like a scared animal before I adjust

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mai little one weird tip lemon demon ena edit….

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Genres of Twenty One Pilots songs:

Depression and anxiety suck

Suicidal thoughts/ideation suck

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my wife?

Josh Dun exists and that's awesome

L O R E™️

I cope by externalizing my mental illness and personifying it

This one's just a meme

My family is important to me

The music industry and being famous are weird

My fans and the community I've built mean so much to me

Many people relate to my experiences with mental illness and I feel the weight and responsibility of that acutely

I have a complicated relationship with my religious upbringing

Yes it's the car motif again

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my radical belief is that the disabled and the elderly should be paid at least the average cost of living, regardless of the life they lived. regardless if they ever worked or what work they did or if they were responsible with their choices in life or not

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consuming mass amounts of media related to my hyperfixation isnt enough i need to eat it

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the friar from much ado about nothing after his faking a death scheme actually works: wow, I can't wait to tell my friend in verona about this one weird trick!

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Part of the reason that the ending of Ella Enchanted works so well is that the final command she resists is the voice of temptation. A voice tells her to do something she wants to do more than anything in the world, but that she knows the long run would cause immense harm. Her fight against this is difficult and heroic because she has to fight her own inclinations.

Ella's endured a million commands that force her to do something she doesn't want to do. We see the injustice in that. We don't want her to have to blindly obey. But if the curse was broken by resisting one of those commands, it wouldn't feel nearly as powerful. It would merely be an escalation of what she's already done. She would rebel against authority and do what she wanted to do, which could be good or bad depending on what it is she wants, but it is ultimately self-serving.

Ella's resisting a command that offers her the greatest desire of her heart is heroic because it is self-sacrificial. She is called to obey a voice that is greater than her own desires. This resolution rings so true because it points to ultimate truth. The curse of obedience is broken when she obeys--not the voice of authority, or the voice of temptation, or the voice of her own desires, but the voice of virtue. She breaks the bonds of obedience by choosing to take on the bonds of love.

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Hilarious to see people try to project secular politics onto the Papal election. Catholic social teaching is long established and extends far beyond the Catholic Church, generally aligning with the basic socio-political doctrine of most of Christendom.

“He’s anti-abortion, but also pro-environment?”

Yes; that’s basic Catholic (and the consensus in wider Christian) social teaching. Opposing killing babies being “conservative” and supporting conserving the environment being “liberal” is not some fundamental preordained thing. Supporting human rights for unborn children and immigrants and the poor is entirely coherent with opposing the unjust economic structures and the wide ideology of liberal materialism.

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only people who are not Catholic think that women being able to become priests is like a big issue that most Catholics are really concerned about. How can you tell these people ... it's literally impossible.

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I don't think people now days understand what forgiveness is or how it works. It's not something that is deserved, it's not something good innocent people need, it's only something you can give to the guilty.

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My hot take as a new fan of Disco Elysium: If Judit Minot were a man, the whole fandom would be obsessed with her.

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One quiet day on the farm, the Little Red Hen found some wheat seeds and decided to make bread.

"Who will help me plant these seeds?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Horse "But I'm a workhorse, and I'm too busy moving carts around."

And so the Little Red Hen planted the seeds by herself. And they grew into bountiful golden crops.

"Who will help me harvest the wheat?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Dog "But I'm a guarddog, and I'm too busy keeping away burglars and predators."

And so the Little Red Hen harvested the wheat herself and made it into flour.

"Who will help me bake the flour?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Pig "But I'm a mother of 5 newborn piglets, and I'm too busy taking care of my young."

And so the Little Red Hen baked the bread herself into twenty beautiful loaves.

"Who will help me eat the bread?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"We would." said the Farm Animals. "But we're ashamed, for we didn't do anything to make the bread."

"Nonsense!" said the Little Red Hen. "You, Horse, helped move around the stones that built my oven. You, Dog, kept me safe while I worked. And you, Pig, are raising a new generation of Farm Animals, who will too contribute to our Farm one day. You've all helped me so much by simply being you."

"Besides," the Little Red Hen added. "I couldn't possibly eat all the loaves on my own, most of them would go to waste. Come, eat with me."

And so the Little Red Hen and the Farm Animals ate the bread together. And all saw their own, and each other's, worth.

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how do i forgive myself if i did something horrible in the past? (actually horrible)

look at yourself a bit more objectively. you not only know that what you did was actually horrible, but you haven't forgotten about it. you live with it even now and the fact that you haven't forgiven yourself means that you haven't even let yourself entertain the idea of letting go.

i promise you that that's punishment enough.

time has passed and you have carried the weight. letting go of it now does not mean that you're denying how serious it was, or that you somehow believe that what you've done has been undone or that it doesn't matter anymore. it just means that you have learned from what you did, and that is the ultimate goal after doing something horrible; not living with the hurt forever. you can let yourself put it down now. redirect negative self-talk to the fact that you've learned and released; remember what this guilt is telling you about yourself and this thing you've done; and honour and return to the promise that you'll never do it again.

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cant believe im a real person what the hell. the good lord will just make anybbody

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If your specific mischaracterization isn't here feel free to add in the notes.

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you aren’t supposed to want anybody to go to hell, ever, no matter how much they hurt you, you are supposed to want them to come to the Church, repent, and spend eternity with God, and this is probably the hardest part of being Christian - the idea of anybody spending eternity separated from God is supposed to break your heart

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Danny Phantom, The Show:

geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!

Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:

a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!