Amen - Blog Posts

I'm not in charge because I'm bigger and stronger than you (sure, it helps) and I'm not in charge because I'm smarter than you (sure, it helps) It's because you're just totally fucking helpless around me. Sometimes I'm pretty sure I could make you fall to your knees with nothing but a slightly stern look. If I whisper the right words--with the right tone of voice--in your ear I'm pretty sure I could convince you to do anything.

I WOULD GO TO BURGER KING IF THIS WAS THE W[H]OP[PE]R.

need to dye my hair and get a few piercings and be cooler this year

Długo nic nie pisałam, więc wracam i dzielę się wrażeniami z ostatnich dni❤️

Dzisiaj będzie mało o ed, ponieważ dostałam okresu i binguje praktycznie cały czas, ale wierzę, że będzie lepiej!!!

Pisałam egzaminy, no i muszę przyznać, że poszły mi całkiem nieźle. Polskiego nie pisałam, z góry mam 100%, matematyka (jak na mnie) poszła naprawdę spoko, no a na angielskim zrobiłam tylko jeden błąd💔

TW: wiara (chrześcijaństwo). Jeżeli gardzisz wiara chrześcijańską lub nie lubisz słuchać historii innych na ten temat, to radzę nie czytać dalej, ponieważ chce się podzielić tym, co mnie spotkało na rekolekcjach.

Historia mojej wiary jest bardzo zakręcona, może kiedyś o tym napiszę, jeśli będziecie chcieli. Dziś wróciłam z trzydniowych rekolekcji, zrobiłam kilka głupich akcji, z których nie jestem specjalnie dumna, ale też poznałam kilka fajnych osób i pogłębiłam moją więź z Panem Bogiem.

Chciałabym się z wami podzielić moimi odczuciami odnośnie adoracji, na której byłam w sobotę, ponieważ spędziłam tam cudowny czas i któryś już raz doswiadczylam uczucia, że Jezus jest obecny, że nie jestem sama.

Adoracja była wieczorem, kościół był ciemny, jedynym źródłem światła były fioletowobłękitne lampy, które nadawały temu wszystkiemu klimatu. Na adoracji głównie śpiewaliśmy, każdy dostał kartkę z tekstami pieśni, a osoby odpowiedzialne za muzykę były bardzo utalentowane i profesjonalne (zamiast organów była gitara i chyba pianino jeśli się nie mylę, śpiewał cały kościół + chłopak grający na pianinie śpiewał do mikrofonu, muszę przyznać, że miał cudowny głos)Całą godzinę klęczałam, ale uważam, że późniejszy ból kolan był tego warty. Śpiewałam każdą piosenkę, mimo że zazwyczaj się wstydzę, bo nie potrafię śpiewać.

Przez całe wydarzenie i jeszcze po nim czułam motylki w brzuchu, nieznaną emocje, która ciężko opisać słowami. Poczułam obecność Jezusa i zapragnęłam ją jeszcze bardziej pogłębić, w tym momencie nie myślałam o niczym innym, byłam szczęśliwa, czułam się błogo i beztrosko. Poczułam, że Bóg jest ze mną, że nie muszę się niczego lękać, że nie jestem sama, że ktoś zawsze będzie mnie kochał. Jestem pewna, że nigdy nie zapomnę tej szczególnej adoracji❤️❤️❤️ Gorąco zachęcam do brania udziału w takich wydarzeniach kościelnych i mam nadzieję, że również doświadczycie tej Bożej miłości🤞Będę się o was wszystkich modlić, z Bogiem!!! (Przepraszam za błędy, nie mam siły już sprawdzać i poprawiać tego wpisu!😭💔)

Lecz ci, co zaufali Panu, odzyskują siły, otrzymują skrzydła jak orły: biegną bez zmęczenia, bez znużenia idą. (Iz 40, 31)

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGmVg7E/

i hate the sexualization of hobie brown, aka spiderpunk.

people find him attractive, which is fair and i don't care if you find a character attractive (there's limits, obviously), but i look at art of him which is beautiful and shows so many parts of him and uses his art style and i go to the comments to see what everyone else thinks.... and its just basically smut in a pinterest comment section.

like this is a more tame example, but come on...

i know it's the internet and i should probably just ignore it and move on, but it pisses me off when i'm just trying to look at nice fanart and see what others think about the art or the character or the relationship between them... and then i'm hit with people describing how they want him to fuck them

Weaponzing being German against my anxiety because I can‘t take it seriously when I just go „tja“ after a nasty thought

If you don't vote for Victor Hugo/City of Paris, then what are you doing with your life

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i need gary getting his bald ass head slapped. Full on "I like your cut G"

On D&D vs TTRPG

I got my start in RPGs when an elementary school friend brought his older brother's 3rd edition dnd book to play pretend with when we had indoor recess. That holiday season I asked my mom & grandma to get me my own to imagine with, and began running games for friends in middle school. Since then, from 3e, 3.5, to Pathfinder, to 5e, I've enjoyed playing D&D with friends. I'm currently lucky enough to be playing in multiple D&D campaigns.

We also have played games like Mörk Borg, Death in Space, Dungeon World, Blades in the Dark, and smaller things like Lasers & Feelings, Honeyheist, Tunnel Goons, etc. And personally I've played/tested more experimental stuff with folks online, and have been floating around the indie rpg design scene for years as I tinker on my own ultralight indie rpg.. which several of my groups have offered to playtest with me.

What I mean to say is not only, for us, is there no split between d&d and other ttrpgs, but that I have never once in decades of playing encountered a d&d group that was unwilling to try other games.

People in online ttrpg spaces, including very young people, often make quite condescending posts saying all kinds of things about d&d 5e players, all of which completely disconnect with the reality i've experienced in my years of play. Some of which are self-contradictory, such as saying 5e doesn't provide mechanical scaffolding for social roleplay outside of dungeon crawls and combat (and that people who want roleplaying in their roleplaying game should play something else), while also praising quite rules-light, on-the-fly, trust-based systems, with even less structural meat for all of these, as elegant. (And personally, i think all of these game styles can be fun as hell with the right group.)

"Begging 5e players to try literally any other game" is a meme that, again, seems to me to be an entirely fictional problem (and, I would guess, based on my own past attitude, a sort of defensive dnd-is-too-mainstream posturing outsider-elitism. My head spun around the other day when I saw a 20 year-old call themself a grognard.)... But I want to grant the possibility that this is a specifically generational phenomenon for Gen Z dnd players. (The first generation to grow up with nerd culture as mainstream.) Though, honestly I find it hard to believe something so condescending about them.. I hear of "D&D" as consumer content/lifestyle brand and [bracketing out WotC entirely, all my homies hate WotC] I can't help but think... yeah I watch a lot of fun rpg&dnd content on youtube, and everyone I know loves Dimension 20. Yet somehow this doesn't stop us from enjoying indie, osr, nsr, and ultralight rpgs. And, yes, D&D is what most people play for a lot of reasons, including the social momentum and visibility factors, and the fact that its a pretty fun and flexible fantasy game that is good enough to get a group of people together to play (which, when it comes down to it, the fact that you're playing together with a fun group will always be more important than which game you decide to play.)

I've thought about writing some version of this many times over the past couple of years. I usually ignore it but these types of posts online seem to have risen to a new degree of condescension and absurdity recently (though it may simply be i've run into it more often despite my efforts to avoid it). Obviously, this is not a 'callout' post for any individual. It's a trend that you know what i'm talking about if you have been anywhere near the ttrpg scene for the past several years. Though i am absolutely sure much of this post will be actively disinterpreted, projected upon, argued with a-guy-they-made-up-to-get-mad-at instead of what I actually said, I know that I am not the only one who has been saying this for years. I also know that many D&D players who WANT to get into indie and osr rpgs are often actively turned away by the vitriol and condescension they encounter. So if you want the ttrpg space to be more ecologically diverse and creative, indeed, if you want to encourage people to try new types of games.. DON'T MAKE US ALL LOOK LIKE SNOBBISH ASSHOLES.

With Love,

Ultra

prayer circle for episode 7: may we be fed delicious limoreau scenes, may the episode last longer than 40 minutes, and may no-one beloved to us be touched by the evil nastiness of Shetty.

All my veiling styles so far!

(Please ignore the second one it was a failed attempt)

Gender Nonconforming Jesus: A look at art history. CW: religion, transphobia, artistic nudity, depictions of open wounds (Long post)