pureintonation

in the fetal position and

because she's stupid and deserves

wait oh my god i thought i was responding to the word game!! now im dying thinking how a yardstick could "beat" therapy T_T

the cake but forgot to

Jasnah

Yardstick

Considered

delivery

Pondered

rationalized

Eggplant

Brandon Sanderson

Take any word in Hebrew and just tweak it and then u get a nice Veden name... Gerev (sock) -> Gerev, Gereven, Gerevan, Gereval Bet sefer (school) -> Batsef Shoresh (root) -> Ioresh, Ioreshar, Moresh, Toresh... add -ar or -an for good measure Anan (cloud) -> Ananat, Ashnan sometimes words on their own work too: Anan (cloud), Beten (tummy), Delet (door), Devash (honey), Hodesh (month)

Duolingo

עברית מודרנית

Totally. As soon as it becomes about imposing your beliefs on others, it is absolutely toxic. Which like admittedly and unfortunately, is often the case… at least with Abrahamic religions. I mean Jews don’t really proselytize but if you’re culturally Jewish and not religious, getting lectured aggressively by religious ppl and made to feel inferior to them just bc u don’t keep Shabbat is absolutely not fun either. also to be clear my parents are both christians but my grandma was jewish so i have jewish family members and im ethnically jewish, so my experience is all over the place also that’s such a good quote. I remember thinking the same as a kid. Like actually the best way to save people would be to completely bury all knowledge of Christianity. Then everyone’d be safe lol

Mishnah

Procreate is amazing!! I’ve seen so much insane stuff done with it… i mostly just use it to sketch tho :,) i make paintings and stuff too (non fan art) and i use it to plan out my paintings. it feels more non committal since I dont have to waste paint or paper to figure things out and some of the paint brushes are so realistic

Yep, I use Procreate on an iPad! I almost exclusively use the Gloaming brush or the HB pencil to give it a sketchy feel. there’s a few drawings there that started as physical sketches which i then took a photo of and drew over again on the ipad

Thank you! haha if its not in color my brain says it’s a doodle

I was sick for a few days and spent the whole time drawing these outfits. OC sporting Rosharan fashions. Some are based loosely off official art and fanart. Lots of weird Pinterest fashion influence. Also my imaginings of Herdazian and Bavland styles. Above clothes are relevant to the narrative I’m writing, bottom are… mostly for fun. Used a base because I wanted go focus on the clothes and not poses or anything.

I’d rather just shoot the dart than confess my sins to a guy in a closet or actually keep Shabbat properly or do first communion or kneel on a prayer mat. Or read the same thousand year old text year after year to find a new interpretation of it. Or whatever else there is. The outcome will be the same probably. Unless the thing in question depends on my actions haha which also confused me as a kid… sometimes my family would pray that I get a good grade on a test. Like I think that’s on me, guys..

My parents are clergy members so I quite literally grew up in a church, wandering between pews and sneaking into bell towers. I’ve never felt anything in particular towards religion, though. Not a pull, but also no anger or resentment. When I found out about other religions as a kid, I was super fascinated. And it just seemed logical to me that Christianity wasn’t “correct.” How can half the world be condemned for not believing or sometimes even knowing about Jesus? And I know there’s a ton of theological answers to that particular train of thought… but it’s just so inconsistent. Also, by growing up in a church, I saw people reframing their lives through religious lenses in really confusing ways. Like, if someone is sick, we pray for them. If they get better, we thank god. If they die, it was meant to happen. You got a promotion? Thank the Lord, you deserved it! You got hit by a bus? God is testing you? For what? A single mom of 4 is being tested for what exactly? It just wasn’t consistent enough, so I never paid much attention to it in a personal way. 
 In college, I took a bunch of anthropology/religion courses because ritual and belief fascinate me. 
It sounds a little crass but religion and theology occupy the very same part of my brain as fantasy does. If I were to, like, group concepts in my head the two would just completely overlap. I really like devout people. I’m happy for them! I don’t wish I was like them or anything, but I like it. I love when my parents have the ash on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday. I love lighting candles with my aunt on Shabbat. Boy oh boy do I love seeing a nun or imam on the street. That life is just not for me. Like seafood. Ya know? Yeah, I’ll light a candle when I visit the Catholic church with one side of my family, and of course I’ll say Hamotzi over the challah. I love ritual, action, movement, belief, humanity. But I could never commit. All the religions are right, and they’re all completely wrong. I’m not as scientific as many of you. I don’t need an equation to believe in (or not believe in) God. No one does because ultimately religions center around faith and the unseen. Hope, devotion. It’s so deliciously human! An animal could never build a place of worship, would never prostrate themselves to an unseen force that they’ve gaslit themselves into believing in, or deny their own instincts for an abstract concept like repentance or purity. I don’t believe, but I think belief is beautiful. In the same way I think Dune is cool. And Stormlight. And Harry Potter… Wait and I guess what I mean to is that I don’t need proof that god exists I recognize that that isn’t the point lf religion. But why would I rearrange my whole life… my lifestyle, the way my brain works, for a single system of belief that is as inconsistent as the others? If praying to a tree or shooting a dart at a dartboard and telling myself “If I get a bullseye, x will happen!” is just as consistent as prayer… I just don’t get the point.