If Y'all Could Read This Fic In My Brain You Would Be So Impressed.

"The Sins of the Father" Invalidates the Individual

I'm a woman with PCOS, which means I have an excessive amount of body hair, most noticeably on my face. This is something I struggle with a lot, and my mom once apologized to me for it. She told me a story of something she did when she was younger that could have led to this happening as a sort of "Sins of the Father" type thing.

I won't get into the details of that discussion as it was very personal, but it did get me thinking about the concept as a whole, and it's one of the many things I've been taught growing up with religion that, upon reflection, is super fucked up.

Using myself as an example, not only is it unfair that I would be punished for something I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I also don't like what this implies about my personal autonomy. My problems are my own. My struggles, my pain, are my own and not something to be used as a punishment for someone else. I know my mom didn't in any way mean to be invalidating. This is just a part of her beliefs, and I respect that, but it did make me think.

How many people open up about their pain, only to have that pain taken over by someone else?

How audacious to think that you, a person who has not experienced what I have and do not know how it affects me, feel those affects more deeply than I do. And that is what this implies, that this problem I have is somehow more your cross to bare than mine. It's insulting.

It is also so unnecessary. Religion already places so much guilt onto our shoulders, we are born in sin, we live in sin, we die in sin, and the only way to escape is to live our lives constantly apologizing for ourselves. Don't add to that weight by taking burdens that aren't yours.

so embarrassing to get obsessed with your own oc but it doesn't fuel you creatively or motivate you at all you just sort of sit there. like yeah I've been thinking a lot about blorbo from my mind. no images of them exist in the world and they have maybe 3 personality traits so far. I would rather die than attempt to write about them. I've spent the last 48 hours rotating them in my brain though

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So this may be super obvious but I just found it interesting how Shelby's default is to go full camp counselor mode when she's not comfortable in a situation

It's really shows how comfortable she is with everyone later in season 1 and especially in season 2 that she doesn't feel the need to act like that. Don't get me wrong that's definitely apart of her personality but you can see how much more genuine and relaxed she is post shoni.

I've been in a...weird mood lately

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

Brooo I'm watching the fucking Armie Hammer docuseries and this shit is WILD!

Old money is in fact terrifying and no one should be born into wealth for it breeds douchebaggery

You have not seen shit until you've been to a church revival.

The first one I can remember was when I was about 13 (a horrible age for me) and I thought the whole damn world was ending.

It's just dark enough that you can barely see the people around you.

Music is blaring from all angles.

People are sobbing.

There are people breaking out into random fits of chanting.

People are shouting. A lot.

There's a lady laying in the starfish position on the stage doing all three.

There's some guy in the back pacing in a circle with his hands in the air and muttering to himself... when he's not chanting, sobbing, or shouting.

The preacher's standing up front, eerily quiet and just sort of taking it all in... when he's not chanting, sobbing, or shouting.

People are laying in the floor and it's unclear if they're passed out or just vibing.

...they are also prone to random bursts of chanting, sobbing, or shouting as well as the occasional spasms.

This lasts for a couple of hours until the lights turn on, the music cuts off, and everyone goes back to how they were pre-revival.

There is a debate on whether the group will meet up at Applebee's or go out for tacos.

What a flex😗❤️