#are not incompatible

[gay-jewish-bucky]

One thing I wish more people understood is that being religious and believing in science are not mutually exclusive. Throughout all of recorded human history, including over the course the last century all the way to today, some of the most important scientific advancements came from religious people and religiously funded institutions, mostly Jews and Muslims, but also Christians, that right, the Medieval church heavily funded scientific research because they were pretty much the only people who had that kind of money.

The idea they are two things that cannot coexist comes from the "enlightenment", and then later Victorian era, which sought to frame people in that past as inherently stupid and inferior, and then more recently the movement towards fundamentalist Christianity which is incredibly anti-science.

Atheism is not more compatible with science than theistic belief is.

[aussie-bookworm]

I don’t mind too much if the Twitter users immigrate to tumblr.

However I will start Biting if tumblr becomes the standard social media site everyone uses.

My employers don’t need to know that I am a clown and this is the circus I frequent. They don’t need to learn about the chainsaws I juggle or the jokes I yell while entering a tiny car with a bunch of other clowns.

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

[leather-field]

Town-on-gorkhon’s most tortured artists

[cemeterything]

anyway while i'm thinking about it i will never understand people who are like "why would you ever watch a movie/read a book/play the same game/etc. more than one when there are always new media to experience, it's just a waste of time" because like. how else are you supposed to fully appreciate the themes and narratives, the artistic choices made, your personal feelings and interpretations and the creator's intentions, the nuances of the story and the characters? every time i revisit a story i already know, i realize there's something i missed last time. i always discover there's more to learn if i'm willing to keep looking for it. there's nothing more exciting to me than searching the same cave for more hidden treasure.

[egophiliac]

event filler is my favorite, because sometimes it's characters walking around for three hours reciting wikipedia entries about local dishes, and sometimes it's pillow fights and Leona getting mad at everyone for trying to call shotgun.

(also lore dumps)

[witchstone]

was bemoaning the state of lesbian tinder in this town and my cousin's bf said he knew a lesbian i might like if i was 'into tradwife lesbians.' bestie, absolutely fucking not.

[squishydem0ns]

"They say the family you choose is better-"

Okay but THE FACT THAT HE'S THE ONE WHO SAID THIS? I know he was just trying to fuck with Lucifer but... found family monkey brain has been activated... admit it Al you're starting to get attached...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I was *not* longing, I swear.

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[bildads-shoes]

nooo don't turn out to be an aziraphale hater you're so sexy aha

[a-jar-of-beetles]

I want to put all the people Sandra Lynn has slept with in one room to see what happens, specifically to see who would punch Bobby first

[lunaviathan]

My little. hatchling ?

[upinyourcortex]

I was having thoughts about yellowjackets and taissa, specifically her relationship with jackie, and how the jackie-shauna-tai triangle was mostly projection on jackie's part (and within the fandom), in my humble opinion. I'll even go as far as to say taissa was more respectful of jackie than shauna (and the other girls) ever were in the wilderness.

I mean obviously we can't deny that tai didn't respect jackie's status as team captain at the beginning of s1 with what happened to allie, but I wanna talk about what happened in the few eps before jackie's death.

First of all we have tai breaking up a fight between jackie and natalie, and putting herself in between them, in an obviously protective stance in front of jackie

Then, during dinner before the final argument with Shauna, when Jackie refuses to say grace, who tries to defend her and says she doesn't have to ? Taissa.

When Jackie takes her stuff to sleep outside, who tells her not to, and then immediatly gets insulted ? Taissa. She even looks confused when Jackie goes "don't pretend this isn't what you wanted the whole time", like girl where did that come from ?

Who is the only one trying to get Shauna to talk to Jackie while she's outside ? Taissa.

Taissa was even more respectful towards Jackie's dead body than Shauna was. Taissa was the one who barged in the shed and saw the makeup on Jackie's corpse. She's the one who told everyone that they should burn it, cuz let's be real, Shauna would have continued to play with it like a Barbie doll until it was completely rotten guys. She was also the only one who was viscerally disgusted after realizing she ate her, throwing up when Van told her she ate Jackie's face.

Taissa is a perfect example of a character whose actions contradict her words entirely. In my opinion, she was more of a friend to Jackie in her last days and after her death than Shauna ever was in what we've been shown.

[ohhamlet-art]

tearing your guts out. can anyone hear me.

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

kabru & laois have such a Fascinating relationship because kabru is doing his evil advisor bit every day but he's the only one who's ever told laois that he wants to befriend him. like to me, laois rolling his eyes and going "come on. give me a break. even i know you don't believe that" while kabru is doing his best to be genuine for the first time in AGES is what sold them to me as a dynamic. laois is genuinely unable to tell toshiro doesn't like him, he fondly looks back & calls toshiro his first friend, & then when kabru asks to actually be friends, so soon after toshiro admitted to disliking him, laois immediately shuts him down

SO many people think of laois as a happy go lucky idiot but he still has his pride, and his hatred of humanity. just like toshiro kabru thinks laois is foolhardy and loud, that his interests are strange and unusual and when laois points that out kabru doesn't deny it! instead he's just like. well yeah. of course you're weird. that's exactly why i need to be your friend

[thequantumranger]

Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) | Platform: PC