#mormon life

[cherieye]

My mom even pop some the other day and ate it................... 🤢

[cinematicvision]

His parents raised such a great man❤️

[talisidekick]

If a transgender person asks you to deadname and misgender them in front of certain people. Misgender them and deadname them in front of those people. It doesn't matter how icky or gross it may feel, it doesn't matter you'd rather be honest. It doesn't matter if there's more of you there. Certain people aren't safe, and honesty IS NOT the best policy when honesty could put them at serious risk. It doesn't matter if there's a crowd, because when there isn't shit goes down.

Be an ally, do what they ask. Understand that the trans person knows more about their situation than you do, and this includes who's safe and who's not. Some one can be "trans friendly" to other people, but not to people they know or specific people. Do as the trans person asks, yes it's uncomfortable, but it's 10 times worse if the person we don't trust finds out. 100 times worse if they have access to us when you're not around.

Respect trans peoples safety. Misgender and deadname when asked.

[fagtainsparklez]

i respect my animation professor so much because not only did he start the quarter by talking about having previously worked with marvel before elaborating thay he “probably won’t be allowed back after what he did” but he also has all his very professional comic panels/illustrations in a folder labeled “pin ups”

[technoturian]

"It's weird how Maximus is so quick to point out a cult when he's in one!" Some people haven't been raised in Christian households with strong Opinions about other denominations besides their own and it shows.

[thebunnylord]

So I am the ward librarian of our church, there’s a little whiteboard that I like to write little messages on, sometimes it’s jokes, sometimes it’s polls. Today one of the guys there came up to me and said that people have told him that those signs are the highlight of their Sunday and he always asks people if they read this week’s sign. Last week it was on Beethoven’s birthday, this week it was a poll: have you been naughty, or nice? The options were naughty, nice, and I plea the fifth.

[saturnerens]

FINALLY HERE!! i love my gay mormons so so much :) + alt pride version and close ups

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

[wa3v3y]

Musicals ABC

Help me fill this in more! It’s pinned until we finish :3

A ~ Adams Family / A Chorus Line

B ~ Be More Chill / Beetlejuice / Book of Mormon

C ~ Chicago / Come From Away*

D ~ Dear Evan Hansen / Dream Girls

E ~ Epic* / Elegies*

F ~ Funny Girl / Falsettos

G ~ Groundhog Day*

H ~ Hadestown / Hamilton / Heathers / Hairspray

I ~ In the Heights / Illinoise

J ~ Jagged Little Pill

K ~ Kinky Boots*

L ~ Little Shop of Horrors / Legally Blonde / Les Mis

M ~ Merrily We Roll Along / Matilda / Mean Girls

N ~ Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

O ~ Octect*

P ~ Parade*

Q ~ Queen of the Mist* / Avenue Q?*

R ~ Ride the Cyclone / Rocky Horror Picture Show / Rent

S ~ Sweeney Todd / Something Rotten / Singing in the Rain / Six

T ~ Tianamen / The Color Purple / The Wiz / The Prom / Tootsie

U ~ Urinetown

V ~ Victor Victoria

W ~ Waitress / Wicked / Wonderland

X ~ Xanadu*

Y ~ You're a Good Man Charlie Brown*

Z ~ Zombie Prom*

Num ~ 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee / 36 Questions / 18mm

*Thank you to other contributors: @forgthetheaterkidgthetheaterkid

@sondheim-girly

@lavaaaaaaaaaaa

@chickensoupbmc

@scarletbeast

@kaleidoscopiccc

I tagged everything cause I was bored

[cinnamontoads]

having a bom moment today. back to my ROOTS!!!

[icannotgetoverbirds]

buckle up, this one's a doozy

Idk if it's actually a doozy, but this is the story of how I deconverted from a cult and got my egg cracked at approximately the same time, all thanks to... weed.

Let's set the scene, shall we?

It is December 22nd, 2021. The pandemic has been raging for nearly two years at this point. I am, at this point, still a believing mormon. That said, my attendance to church meetings has been incredibly spotty, with the most reliable method to get me to worship being choir practice.

I am laying in my bed in the evening, and of all possible things, I am thinking about weed. Namely, the church's policy about weed, and the absolute failure that is the war on drugs, and my personal belief system (and also about whether or not I should try weed for my anxiety disorder).

What's mormonism's policy on weed, you ask? Well, it's surprisingly liberal for a whole-ass cult, but still has enough nonsense for the events of this story to play out. To put it simply, you can absolutely use weed for medicinal purposes, but recreational purposes is a big no-no.

This, of course, presents a dilemma: where do you draw the line between recreational and medicinal use, especially in the case of, say, using it to medicate an anxiety disorder? I'm sure that the Church-Approved™ conclusion is "That's between you and The Lord, figure it out yourself, good luck!" I don't remember if I came to that conclusion or not, but I know for a fact that my "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt before you make an important decision based off of Feelings Supposedly From God Or The Holy Spirit" ass would not have been satisfied with that answer.

So I think about it in terms of politics, and logic, and science. After all, science is just our frail and minuscule way of comprehending all that Our Father Who Art In Heaven has created, right? So if Our Father Who Art In Heaven can't give me a straight answer, science surely can.

I come to a few conclusions. First of all, there are very few people, if any, who are qualified to draw that line. I am not included in that group of people. Secondly, nobody in their right goddamned mind would so much as try to draw that line unless they have some serious qualifications in the variety of fields that it applies to. Third of all, and this is where shit starts to unravel very fucking quickly: who in the goddamned fuck are a bunch of old white men who've probably never seen a gram of weed in their entire lives to think themselves qualified to draw that line?

The shelf cracks. The prophets are fallible, even in this day and age. Not only are they fallible, but whoever made this decision is a FUCKING DUMBASS. God must be looking down at them and shaking his head disapprovingly, huh?

So I think to myself, yknow what, this is a stupid fucking rule. And my autistic-disregard-for-stupid-fucking-rules-having-ass was not about to tolerate it. So what do I do? Metaphorically speaking, I chuck it out the window. Who cares? I'm gonna do weed for my anxiety, and if anybody tells me that I'm disobeying god, I can tell them that god doesn't fucking give a shit about weed if he's as kind and loving as the prophets say he is.

A moment passes.

Now wait just a goddamned second! If I'm chucking this rule out the window, isn't there something else I should re-examine? If I'm disregarding what the prophets have said for my own pleasure and recreation, isn't there something regarding the lives, livelihoods, and joie de vivre of countless other people, myself included, that I should be looking at?

Suddenly, the years of (pent-up and suppressed) sheer fucking indignation of the way queer people have been othered by the church hits me all at once, full fucking force. I am angry, angrier than I have ever been. Abso-fucking-lutely not. No. If the prophets are wrong about weed, then they're DEFINITELY wrong about queer people.

And in this moment, I make a decision. "Until the mormon leaders get their shit together, I'm out! I'm fucking done! I'm gonna go live it up and get blazed out of my gourd for shits and giggles, and maybe I'll try a tiny sip of beer, and by god I am going to transition-"

"HEY WAIT JUST A GODDAMNED SECOND"

[Plain text ID: Text in a large, bold, italicized red font that reads "HEY WAIT JUST A GODDAMNED SECOND"]

Shelf shattered, omelette made of my egg, life ruined for the better.

The next morning, I come out to my mom and sister. I still believe in god and mormonism and yadda yadda, I just think the leadership needs to get their heads out of their asses.

Not long after, I decide to finally check out exmormon spaces. Yknow, get the full experience.

I am bombarded with "HOLY FUCK IT'S A CULT. IT RUINED MY LIFE. IT RUINED YOUR LIFE. IT TORE MY FAMILY APART. IT'S NOT EVEN REAL. READ THE CES LETTER, CHECK MORMONISM AGAINST THE BITE MODEL. THINK FOR YOUR GODDAMNED SELF FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE."

I check the sources provided. Well, I'll be damned. They weren't kidding, that mormonism sure can cult started by a con man. At this point, I am now beyond the point of no return. There's no going back. I have seen the light. I want out forever, I want my records removed, mom pick me up I'm scared.

My family never looks at me the same way again :>

[pens-personal]

Me at 12: I'm gonna grow up and marry a returned missionary in the temple and have kids and go to the Celestial Kingdom! 😊

Me now, 18, trans, stoned af, sitting naked on my partner's bed: Yuh huh. Good luck with that.

[lesbiansandco]

I “understood” the concept of death at such a young age and I think that’s where my troubles began

[heathersdesk]

The Love of God, Sabrina Squires

[palettesofrenaissance]

My muse