Your church-going, God-worshipping sister adopted a small child and you’re excited to see them. But when you do, the child is a menace. They’re throwing things everywhere, setting furniture on fire with seemingly nothing, chanting in Latin to summon demons, but the weirdest thing is that your sister doesn’t seem to mind.
“You literally adopted the antichrist, Anne. What the fuck.”
“Yeah, I knew when I saw him at the orphanage. I figured if the kid had some decent fucking parenting that we could avoid the whole ‘Revelations’ shite. Nasty business, that.”
George, who’s name has been kindly changed from Damien, approaches his new mother with a huge spider in his hands. It promptly bursts into flames.
“Good job, love. Now go find the rest.” George’s face makes no expression, but his eyes shine when he recieves a pat on the head for his efforts.
As the months go by, George seems to settle down. He adjusts to school, friends, and the positive reinforcement Anne gives him. She encourages the good he does, even though the powers he uses aren’t “good”. When she gets calls from the school, it’s about a rambunctious boy that won’t sit still. Not a destroyer of the world and innocence.
It’s at Christmas dinner, that you let slip your amazement to your mother. How good Anne is for him and how he’s improved a lot. Still summoning hellhounds for games of fetch, though.
“Oh, he’ll forget how to do that when he falls in love the first time,” Your mother laughs, smiling wide.
“How do you know that,” you ask bewildered.
“Because, you did.”
okay so someone please write the story of the family of super-low-key holy warriors who have made it their mission to locate the antichrist in every generation (because when one gets spoiled they try AGAIN) and adopt them and love them into not being the antichrist anymore, thus perpetually delaying the apocalypse
delaying the apocalypse via good parenting I love this
Hey if vines exist in the MCU does that mean the “how did you take down captain America” “we shot him in ze legz bc his shield is the size of a dinner plate and he’s an idiot” vine also exist and has Steve seen it
not only has steve seen it its his favorite vine and his ringtone
Here’s another question, did Tony really tell Peter to go for Steve’s legs during the airport battle or did Peter just think of the vine?
Y’all are asking all the real questions here. You deserve a Pulitzer
#you fools #in their reality peter is the one who made the vine
artist needed money for college, people from tumblr/dA told them their prices were too expensive and that no one would commission them.
artist was desperate and logged on to their old Furaffinity account to take commissions
artist got a shitton of commissions and everyone was supportive and encouraging
people ended up tipping the artist 10-20$ per commission because they thought the artist was undercharging
tl;dr – furries supported artist and treated them better than the “pro-artist” sides of dA and tumblr.
so when’s cringe culture gonna wake up and realize that this weird baseless hatred of furries is largely rooted in the fact that it’s a community of 95% openly queer & sex-positive folk…
After his release from prison, Wright obtained his undergraduate degree in 2002, entering law school in 2004 and graduating from St. Thomas University School of Law in 2007. Passing the New Jersey Bar in 2008, he spent the next nine years being investigated by the New Jersey Bar’s Committee on Character before being granted admission to the bar by the New Jersey Supreme Court on September 27, 2017.
On September 27, 2017, Wright became the only person in U.S. history to be condemned to life in prison, secure his own release and exoneration and then be granted a license to practice law by the very court that condemned him.
Wright got his 1991 conviction overturned by exposing the gross corruption and misconduct within the court that convicted him, the prosecutors office and the police force. This allowed Wright to successfully get rid of his life sentence but he remained in prison on numerous other convictions with sentences totaling over 70 years. Wright’s ultimate release came as a result of his cross-examination of veteran police detective, James Dugan. Dugan’s confession opened revelations of wide and systematic misconduct and cover-up in Wright’s case. Then Somerset County Prosecutor, Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr., who tried Wright’s case personally was fingered as being the orchestrator of that misconduct, directing police officers to falsify their police reports while he personally dictated the false testimony of witnesses against Wright and made secret deals with defense attorneys to have their clients lie to the jury that Wright was their drug boss and that they had plead guilty and were going to prison, when in-fact, they were never going to spend a day in jail.
Dugan pled guilty to official misconduct in order to escape prison. Wright’s trial judge, Michael Imbriani, was removed from the bench and sent to prison on theft charges and Bissell, after learning of Dugan’s confession on TV news, took flight with federal authorities in pursuit. As police were kicking in the door of his Las Vegas hotel room, Bissell put a revolver to his head and pulled the trigger, committing suicide. Wright’s remaining convictions were vacated and he was immediately released from prison. The charges were dropped and the case against him dismissed.
Wright now works at the Law Firm Hunt, Hamlin & Ridley located in Newark, New Jersey, and is to have said “I went to law school for one reason and one reason only, To slay giants for a price. And if the giant is big enough and the cause is important enough, I’ll do it for free, especially when it involves helping those who cannot help themselves.”
ultimate power move: law your way out of jail and convict the people who wrongly convicted you
empathy isnt what makes you a good person, and relying solely on empathy as the basis of your moral code will inevitably dehumanize somebody and then where are you
I think empathy in the immediate, emotional sense, is secondary to something you might call global empathy, or compassion. I think the basis of any moral code should be that we are beholden to each other and that our actions should work towards the long term goal of making a better world for everyone. I don’t need a personal, empathetic connection to someone to understand that they deserve to live and thrive
conflating empathy (an instinctive emotional reaction) with altruism (a conscious decision in interaction) demonizes people with aspd & npd and many people with bpd, szpd, dpd and other dissociative disorders, autism, and schizophrenia.
when you refer to ethical, altruistic, or kind actions as “empathic”, whether you intend to or not, what you’re doing is continuing to promote popular belief that because we don’t interact with the world the same way most people do, because we don’t have empathy, we’re unable to be anything but selfish.
i don’t know why assassination nation’s entire campaign on tumblr isn’t just “hari nef is one of the main actresses!! theres a trans woman in this movie whose plot is not ‘there’s a trans woman in this movie’!!!” because im gonna be honest thats what got me interested and its the only thing that got me interested
listen. im saying this totally earnestly: while anger has its place, and all of us will be frustrated with people and get in fights on the internet, there is no positive use for a discourse blog. none. absolutely zero.
no matter what you’re discoursing about and no matter how right i think you are about it, literally all you’re doing is making yourself miserable and trying to make other people miserable. you’re not improving your life by positioning yourself on the front lines of dysphoria discourse. you’re sure as hell not improving anyone else’s. and most likely you’re not changing anyone’s mind.
instead of running a discourse blog, try taking up a hobby! i spin my own thread and carve wood and bone tools, but maybe you’d want to get a pocket watercolor set, or take up quilting, or ceramics! don’t engage with things that stress you out or make you angry, and find positive things in life instead! focus on your community, focus on your relationships with others, focus on fostering your own personal growth instead of tearing others down.
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