#they just understand that tears has been on wack steroids

[wayfayrr]

I got off of work (my last shifts have been good and so has this one! Just tiring since it’s vvv labor intensive at times) and I had a thought

In Linked Universe, iirc, Twilight is supposed to be the physically strongest Link, but then we have TOTK Link, who can canonically parry a charging Lynel with a pot lid, and can fuse a whole ass piece of ruin rubble to his blades and shield and carry it around like it weighs nothing.

So I was wondering, what’s your thoughts on this and would Twilight still be considered physically strongest when considering the feats Tears can do?

~🍀 anon

I'm glad it's been treating you well even if it's a bit exhausting <3 I hope you're going to rest now though!!

as for your question- I think it depends on whether tears shows it off or not, unless he's using a boulder fuse then I don't think he's exactly the type to go around showing it off without reason. So it could take a while if never for the chain to find out about his strength. in the case that they did though I think there would be a question of - is his strength like that because he's the hero or because he spent time in the sheika juice and got a decked out arm. Which means there's the potential to have the title split into two halves, naturally physically strongest and then the one who got enhanced :3

I think twi is still respected for his natural strength but if people were going to be asking for a hand lifting things they slowly gravitate more and more to tears for it. it really helps that he's still got ultrahand so he doesn't really have to lift anything. not that twi's really all that bothered by it, gives him more downtime <3

Twilight however does kinda want to see who's better at wrangling goats though. He's fine with losing the weight behind his title but he will not be out done when it comes to his goats. He also appreciates there's a difference in their strengths - he's a rancher while tears is a trained fighter, there are simply things that one can do easily that the other struggles with

[nerdragenewvegas]

So I watched Secret Life of Mormon Wives

I know this isn't like, Fallout, but I guess Mormon stuff is kinda adjacent and I have ex-mo and Joshua graham-fuckers following so what the fuck ever.

I want to preface this by making it clear that I don't actually have a problem with any of the women on this show (except Whitney. Get some fucking therapy, Whitney, jesus chriiiist.) I actually quite like the cast and I really enjoyed watching them! They're funny and interesting and well spoken and intelligent, and I think that when a lot of them inevitably deconstruct in the future, they're going to be really great sources of guidance for others looking to deconstruct. I'm excited for them.

But I gotta say, as an exmo, I am so fucking offended by the double standards. Am I saying I want these women to be excommunicated? Absolutely fucking not. But am I saying that there's clear 'relaxed' versions of rules for notable or rich mormons that other mormons don't get to enjoy? Yes, and it's frustrating as fuck.

I cannot possibly imagine what it's like to be a married mother in the church who has spent however long suffering the shame and guilt of not being a 'perfect' mother and wife (and god, if you thought the general societal pressure on women was bad, in the LDS church it's on steroids because being a perfect mother and wife is a religious expectation according to doctrine) watching these women not wear garments and fuck around on the sabbath and drink and wear bikinis and not face any kind of discipline from the church.

I cannot even begin to fathom what it must be like to be someone in the church who has been shamed or isolated or even cut off from family and friends for breaking a covenant by doing something like having a sexual encounter before marriage or drinking a beer at a party, and watching these women drink vodka in hot-tubs and go to chippendales and talk about swapping partners on television and get away with it. These are all normal things for a human being to do, but in the Mormon church? No. You end up in a meeting with your bishop about that.

When I converted, as part of my baptism process, I had to make a few extra covenants with God based on things I had done before finding the church. I made a covenant with god that I would not live with any men I wasn't married or related to in the future (unless my Bishop approved of it because even the Church understands the economy is wack, I guess, but boyfriends were a hard no.) I made a covenant to god that I would adhere to the word of wisdom from then on (which means no more alcohol, smoking, coffee etc.) Because I had tattoos, I made a covenant with god that I would not get any more of them in the future.

Let me tell you how fucking pissed I was to see one of the women in this show get a fucking tattoo while wearing her young women's medallion. Are you fucking kidding me?!

When I met the man who became my husband, I was still in a weird position where I was drifting from the church but still believed in the core doctrine and would still practice parts of it and visit chapel for special occasions, when friends gave testimony etc. It's a long story but my husband was in a polycule at the time (we are no longer in a polycule for the record) and the church's stance on that is super clear: polyamory, even without marriage, is considered just as bad as polygamy and is an auto excommunication if you're discovered. I had to hide my relationship from my family for a very long time, even after I moved in with him, because I knew I would be excommunicated if my mormon side of the family found out. I ended up moving in with him because that's just how the economy went and we needed somewhere to live -- and I would lay awake in tears having a spiritual fucking crisis because not only was I basically doing polygamy in God's eyes, but I was living with him outside of marriage. And fucking. That too. That was also bad in god's eyes. But anyway.

During one of these episodes, a couple of the women re-enact someone else's piss-play story. I am not joking. They straight up talk about pissplay. One of the women gets a labiaplasty and straight up pulls her pants down to show her coochie off to her friends during recovery. One of the cast members is pregnant outside of marriage and living with her partner and refuses to marry him, which is a point of contention between them.

As of yet, there's been no indication that any of the cast has faced excommunication or any disciplinary action. And, again, I don't want them to, but at the same time? This is so incredibly unfair to so many people. One set of rules for notable mormons who are handing over fat tithing envelopes, another for everyone else.

This is going to cause so many more deconstructions. If I were still in, this would fucking break me.