M E R R Y  C H R I S T M A S 

Holy, I haven’t been to church in years, so I don’t know much about what happens after you turn 18, but I know about the Missionaries, for two whole years, I had no contact nor had any family really say how my cousin was doing during his mission.

From ages 3-11 your in Primary, once 12-18 you are separated into Young Men’s or Young Woman’s, then once 18 you’re put into the Aaronic priesthood if male and the Relief Society if female. There was also Seminary, from ages 14-18 where you got up at the crack of dawn every weekday during the school year to go to a church or seminary building, a religious educational program.

There’s also Baptism, which happens when you’re 8, you’re dressed in white and you and a man who has the priesthood, recites a prayer to the T, and then you are submerged completely in water (limbs, hair and clothing) to receive the Holy Ghost, (some people I had known said they say they felt the Holy Ghost), if there are any mistakes in the prayer or your not completely submerged, the baptism is repeated till preformed correctly. In addition to the baptizer, two other members witness the baptism to ensure that it is performed properly. And you get your first bible. (Or at least that happened with my siblings and I.) There’s also baptism for the dead, where a living person receives the rite on behalf of a deceased person, who weren’t baptized in life.

mormon kids under the age of 18 being told their church is a cult

mormons 18-24 after they go through their endowment ceremony and receive their new name and secret clothing and learn the secret handshakes and passwords and realize everyone around them has been secretly doing this the whole time and now theyre going to be sent away from their family for 2 years where they will literally not be allowed to be alone for 1 second of the day except to go to the bathroom and they have no idea how to get out of what they just got into

How the fuck do you draw?! Artists, lend me your wisdom!

I don’t know how anyone could think that is subtext.

I need the gay beronica subtext please, it’s for science. The science of entertainment.

I can’t believe it’s been 6 years now.

“You’re our hero, Stanley.”

Hard to believe it’s been a whole year since the GF finale… Couldn’t resist to draw the ultimate heartbreaking moment of the show. What really gets me in this scene is the contrast between visual and emotional mood: the sunny, peaceful landscape makes the sorrow of the Pines family even more tangible.

One of them will have to get finished eventually, right???

Reactionaries are malding so hard over the blues clues pride parade that they had to make up that the MAP flag was secretly put in there.

This float represents the gender questioning flag

You can even see the distinction between the green and yellow.

I pointed this out to them, but they said it was a pedophile dogwhistle anyways. They don’t give a fuck.

Anyways, if you see posts like this going around, make sure to correct it.  because its really shitty that this is circulating.

Marvel movies have completely eliminated the concept of practical effects from the movie-watching public’s consciousness

as true as the jokes about “everyone wants to rewrite ninjago” are i feel like smthn people forget when complaining about the inconsistencies of the show is that…. it wasn’t planned? it’s not like most other animated shows lately - it didn’t start with a deeply fleshed out world or a meticulously designed pitch bible with grandiose plans for a long-term story or character arcs. the ninja don’t originally get their powers from heredity because they weren’t hereditary powers yet. the magic system doesn’t make sense bc they literally just made it up as they went! they go back and forth on stuff like whether non-elementals can learn spinjitzu bc it’s a collaborative piece of media made by people with vastly different levels of control over the story, the animation, the sets, etc. that varied over the course of the series. it’s totally understandable and exciting to see so many people reworking the early stuff with the lore and logic later seasons introduced but i personally feel that… if you’re doing that. you need to understand why the show is like that instead of writing it off as being bad and shitty. it was working with what it had. it’s only what it is now because of that awkward troubleshooting phase, not in spite of it