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But .. but.. but I harassed and abused so many cubs to stop this from happening. Why is my face being eaten . I took the face eating policies as permission to be an absolute horrible person to people who haven't hurt me at all I should not have my face eaten . I did so much of their work for them

the continuing censorship of sexual content on the internet while the elite class still gets to use banks and credit cards when doing horrible things to children makes it obvious it’s about who has the money, power, and control, and not protecting anyone.

Is there a charity that helped anyone as an LGBTQ child facing abuse? I'd like to see if there are organizations that could be supported today helping kids make it through times like this. Please let me know.

6/6 The church made bad people who are hypocrites feel more comfortable than people who are good, just different. I've never looked back, and I never will.

5/6 The church opposed stem cell research which could've cured my Diabetes and promoted discrimination. It wasn't the church's place to do that. Then I realized the church never followed Jesus' teachings. They were hypocrites who failed to consider us, and we were better off without them.

4/6 I felt God leave the building. After a week I began seeing my friends in a more positive light. The church taught me to cast doubt over people who are LGBTQ. A friend helped me overturn my self-hatred, and I was able to see the world, and homophobia/sexphobia with significantly more clarity.

3/6 Then the Archdiocese posted a statement saying Homosexuals are degenerate. The bullying got worse. When I stood up to them I got resistance from the priest and nothing was done to eliminate the bullying. I was no longer able to read the Epistle, and people had desecrated all our traditions.

2/6 But bullies were everywhere. I was harassed by the other altar boys. Some people opposed my presence. Wealthy people who believed I wasn't Greek enough and despised Middle-Easterners. I was given the chores no one else wanted to do and did them kindly because I was serving Christ.

1/6 I had always been raised true Greek Orthodox Christian. Attended church every Sunday, or at least every Sunday I was able. Stuck with the altar boys, read the epistle, volunteered, and cared deeply for the church and the words of Jesus Christ and Apostle Paul.

2/2 Similar tactics kept misogyny, racism, and homophobia in this country for centuries. But the only power bullies have is what's given to them. Kotowing to bullies results in the erasuse of acceptance, perspectives, and representation. I twiddle my thumbs waiting for big fools to learn history.

1/2 Youth LGBTQ+ suicidal ideation is ~40% in America, cut in half among kids in accepting communities.

Bullies are encouraged to use harassment to destroy acceptance. An LGBTQ+ POV in a Pixar movie would've granted acceptance and help the world understand our lives. But bullies shut our voices.

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

I now understand why racism and misogyny were allowed to persist for centuries.

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

This "difficult conversation" took my dad 1 fuckin minute to make 8 year old me understand that gay people exist and are normal

I think these people are actually just whiny babies that are easily offended, so they pretend these things are way bigger a deal than it is

Just saw Pixar's Hoppers yesterday. It touches so many fascinating topics surrounding leadership, I felt compelled to write about it. I'd like to posit a few questions: Is George a good leader? Does neutrality encourage manipulation? And what should we do when we feel powerless?

4/4 Then, there's the Breguet No 160. Handcrafted for Antoinette over 19 years, finishing 9 years after her death, the maker sent to prison for 7, raw materials came to over $360,000 today. Made with every watch feature imaginable in materials fit for a queen, Antoinette's opulence was unrivaled.

Marie Antoinette's Wedding Dress

3/4 Marie Antoinette's wedding gown was laced with silver and sparkling gems. While the original gown is lost, depictions and existing royal dresses and materials display the lavishness of the era. Through this and other pieces, Antoinette became a veritable symbol of the lavish wealth of royals.

2/4 The scam involved Jeanne de Saint-Remy Valouis dismantling the necklace and selling the gems on the black market while posing as Marie Antoinette herself seeking payment from others. It clouds the affair, but didn't change that the king ordered it and Marie could, but refused payment.

1/4 King Louis XV commissioned it, but died, and the new King Louis XVI offered to Marie, but she refused to pay. There was a scam at play as well (more on that later), but jewelers spent 2 years on the necklace without pay. Marie's rejection represented royal wealth opposing the working class.

4/4 The revolution is formally considered to have lasted only 10 years, but the period of unrest over class issues

3/3 While King Louis XV enacted reforms, the reforms were breadcrumbs enforcing people beneath him. He was held responsible for conspiring to reestablish the monarchy with foreign powers. The revolution is considered to have lasted about 10 years, but civil unrest over class is everlasting.

2/3 Taxes were constantly being levied on the poor to fund the rich and nobility who displayed their wealth lavishly through Rococco architecture, elaborate clothing, priceless jewelry, and great political power. The vast overwhelming majority of people in France were starving peasants.

1/3 How long there was civil unrest over great inequality in France? And how bad did it get? Famine enraptured 90% of the nation's people due to a combination of poor harvests and taxes. At the same time, Marie Antoinette refused to pay for a diamond necklace worth over $17,500,000 in today's USD.

Half a billion covers insulin for all Diabetics in the US for one year. But it's more important to Republicans that Trump and his friends get jets, war is instigated in Iran, peaceful civilians are detained, and billionaires get tax cuts.

Republicans love making excuses why they can't help us.

Half a billion covers the annual expense of insulin for all Diabetics in the country. But every day Republicans prefer to spend our tax dollars on a pointless war than helping its own citizens.

I hope Republicans do something to help Americans in the next couple years. But that'd be new for them.

When that box arrives, you'll smash it with a hammer.

Please take care of yourself, Tau. I hope you're able to recover and live without pain. Wishing you all the best.

Cradle of Colors drawn for my friend, completed in crayon #furryart #waxpastels #crayon #drawing @sotalo.bsky.social this took me 3 hours and 46 minutes to complete.

A lovely drawing of Tyler as a babe! First one ever! Beautiful colors, and lovely expression.

This song played in my head again:

Babe with the power.
The power of voodoo!
Dance magic dance!