HELLO! PRE-ORDER INFORMATION FOR TRULY DEVIOUS IS HERE! If you pre-order Truly Devious from Books Of WonderorBlue Willow Books, you’ll get a SIGNED COPY and a DETECTION CLUB sticker! Books of Wonder is my NYC local independent store, and Blue Willow Books is a Houston store I love. I wanted to do something with Houston. Just ORDER and IT WILL COME TO YOU. Release date: January 16, 2018.
I requested this book for my birthday (I always give my mom a small list to choose from: that way she knows she is getting me something I want, and I still don’t know which one(s) I’m getting). This year, she asked me if she was getting the correct book, because she had read the description and it seemed a little out of character for me. That’s true, I usually give her fantasy titles. I rarely…
So I’m a little pissed because my Big Moe save file on Dashingdon is corrupted so I haven’t played Blood Moon by @barbwritesstuff recently but I really missed it so I started drawing and it turned into a whole sketch dump
Big Moe isn’t weak enough to dislike pickles but the meme really fits them lmao
The little photoset is a throwback to a pair of asks; one that said MC would be lucky to get a candy ring from Carrie and another where she’d asked MC to marry her very casually. This oneandthis one.
After learning that the wolves can shift different parts of their bodies, I figured I’d draw to their strengths or what they would favor. Biyu has no qualms going for the throat so she’d probably shift her head the most. Big Moe is built like an oak so I figure she’d rely mostly on her arms and upper body strength. It was also a chance to figure out what color their wolves would be!
Marco is both Biyu and Big Moe’s best friend (poor guy lol) so I wanted to do some best friend photo sketches. Maybe I’ll do one of Ed on Big Moe’s back and one of Carrie in Big Moe’s lap. There already exists a pic of Biyu straddling Vicky’s waist ;D
Decided to polish off those WIPS and boi, when I tell you I’m in love with all these women @barbwritesstuff has blessed us with
Ended up splitting Biyu’s affection into two routes so in one, she’s in love with Vicky and in the other, she’s a big flirt but primarily focused on Shawnie. I also wanted to get Shawnie down on “paper” so I could visualize her more damn she’s fine
As for Big Moe, she’s busy fretting over Carrie calling her sexy because she’s got a few body issues (despite being a big, bara, beefcake) but she also dreams of cuddling Carrie some day without being bitten lol
Ty for the tag @masonsfangs I have been workin on this for a lil while buttt it’s also a longer comic so, I will just share my favorite Adam face XD
I am not sure who has been tagged and who hasn’t so, if u have (or u just dont want to) feel free to ignore me loll @lxdy-starfury@toyhenoctus@sosolenoo@theo-oface and um, thats all i can think of atm lmao i am v sorry if i missed you
I can finally participate in one of these because I actually have a WIP that I’ve been working on lmao
Just some gals being pals from Blood Moon. We’ve got Biyu topping Vicky she’s such a bottom don’t let her fool you, a sketch I’m working on of Shawnie, and the start of something with Big Moe in the corner (probably gonna be in her feelings about Carrie)
Idk how people feel about being tagged but if you pass by and wanna share, It’d be cool to see. Maybe @molliartsie@cpt-indigo@nukeyyy man I don’t know, ignore me
Here I am at 3 in the morning watching Rent, thinking to myself “god, I hope Angel doesn’t die” like he doesn’t every time I watch it. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna cry any less tho.
”What you lack in any investigation is time. With every passing hour, evidence slips away. Crime scenes are compromised by people and the elements. Things are moved, altered, smeared, shifted. Organisms rot. Wind blows dust and contaminants. Memories change and fade. As you move away from the event, you move away from the solution.”
Hey y’all! I’m still feeling under weather but I still dragged myself out of bed to take this photo! I’m proud of myself I also tried out my new felt board. I love getting new props!
Anyways, since it is now spring here, that also means I’m bringing back out all of my colorful flower props and playing around with new filters! We’ll see which one I actually wind up using for the rest of the season . What’s your opinion on this one?
I received these awesome gifts as a prize from the @epicreads Vanishing Stair sweepstakes and I’m so excited! Truly Devious was one of my favorite reads last year and I can’t wait to read The Vanishing Stair! I’m obsessed with mysteries and the first book of this epic murder mystery trilogy left me wanting so much more.
Items included: • Paperback of Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson • Hardcover of The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson • 2 custom clues (newspaper article & a postcard) • Journal to write down clues and suspicions • Magnifying glass necklace
Huge thank you to @epicreads and @maureenjohnsonbooks ❤️
His comments about gays are offensive, but his vision of the Jim Crow South is shocking—and his conservative defenders and liberal assailants are mostly ignoring it.
So, after a long day of exciting news (Harry Potter West End Play, Richard Simmons having a Twitter) and horrible finals (sentence diagramming, really??), I logged on to Facebook before getting ready to go to bed. BIG mistake. My extended family (all of whom grew up (and many of which stayed living) in an extremely rural area) decided to voice their opinions on the recent remarks made by Phil Robertson. If you do not know what I am talking about, you can read the full interview here, but here are some of the more jaw-dropping quotes:
- “It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”
- “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men, don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”
- “For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it,” Phil tells me. “All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.”
And that’s not even getting into the racist remarks he made about the happiness of pre-civil rights African Americans. Shocked? So was I, as well as sickened, ashamed, and downright disgusted. So when I saw the following status update by a family member (which has been liked 44 times so far), I became upset. Revision: I was incensed.
“It doesn’t bother me if a man loves man or a women loves a women. I’m ok with. However it is so ridiculous if someone disagrees with that idea they are scrutinized and ridiculed for just saying what they believe in. People use to have the right to there opinion. Remember this: The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.”
There are a few things wrong with this statement (not including grammatical issues). First of all, Phil Robertson was representing A&E, a network with a revenue of $1250M+ and a reputation to uphold. In private, Robertson can hold on to his opinions, but in the media he is contractually obliged to represent A&E in a positive way. A&E was supportive and showcased the Robertson family’s religion on air, but drew the line at offensive comments. Gay-bashing is clearly not an image the cable network wishes to have.
Now let’s look at the following statement: “the politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.” The “politically correct crowd”? And by that you mean the crowd who refuses to accept gay-bashing, correct?
I read a Tweet by Maureen Johnson earlier today linking to a post she made on the topic. In her entry, she said,
“To all those who are saying, “Tolerance goes both ways…” …this isn’t tolerance. If you think this looks like tolerance, you do not know what tolerance looks like. You have confused tolerance with non-tolerance and that is actually a pretty big mistake. When you call any group of people the root of sin, you’re not being tolerant. You’re being a bigot. You assume moral authority where you have none. You would FREAK OUT if someone did this to you, but you expect the people you are addressing (and make no mistake, you address some of your friends and loved ones) to roll over and take it. Take the blow to their pride and personhood and psychological state. Tolerance! No. This is not tolerance, so stop throwing the word around like a boomerang, because that thing is headed back to you and is about to hit you square between the eyes.”
I was immediately thrown by the response Maureen got from her followers. Several people replied saying that they would unfollow her because of the statements she made in her post, yet her article was completely well-spoken and not at all offensive. Did she stick up for the LGBTQ community? Of course, but did she do it in a way that also encompassed religion? I believe she did.
So after reading a stream of comments on my family member’s post (and becoming increasingly upset), I decided that instead of saying something directly, I would link to Maureen’s post. Do you think anyone read it?
That would be a no. In fact, several minutes after I linked the blog post, another family member contributed this lovely remark to the conversation:
"It seems as though Christians are surely getting discriminated against…but people such as Miley Cyrus can do perverse and ugly things and become more famous for it. UGH! I guess I did not consider anything [Robertson] said to be "HATE SPEECH.” To each their own. But I as a Christian, am deeply offended anytime we are unable to voice our Christian opinion or quote the Bible. EVERYONE is entitled to their opinions and Freedom of Speech. So many of our rights are being taken from us. America is sadly declining…and whether you agree with me or not…Christians are constantly losing their rights.“
This is when I truly lost it. To hear my family, albeit my extended family, talk like this made me feel so disheartened. I don’t believe in generation gaps. I believe in knowledge and empathy gaps. I decided I could not remain quiet. Hoping I would not overload the comment system, I wrote a lengthy reply:
"I really did not want to get into this, but what Phil Robertson said was not appropriate for the setting. He was representing A&E, which is why they chose to let him go. Now, I do think religion is extremely important and those who practice or believe have valid thoughts and opinions, but we also need to consider that the Bible says a lot of things that are no longer valid or are outright ridiculous because it the text was written over a vast amount of time, starting approximately 3500 years ago, by innumerable parties. Consider these eleven outdated/ridiculous things that do not apply to modern society:
Round haircuts. (so I guess that means no Beatles?): Leviticus 19:27 reads “You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.”
Classic football, bacon, etc: Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads “You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.”
Fortune telling: Leviticus 19:31 reads “Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.” The penalty for that? Check Leviticus 20:6: “As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.”
Birth control: Genesis 38:9-10: “Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also.”
Tattoos. Leviticus 19:28 reads, “You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.”
Polyester, or any other fabric blends: Leviticus 19:19 reads, “You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together.”
Divorce, because when you marry someone, according to Mark 10:8, you “are no longer two, but one flesh.” And: Mark 10:9 reads, “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” Mark 10:11-12, “And He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.’”
Lacking testicles: Deuteronomy 23:1 reads “A man whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off may never join the assembly of the Lord.”
Babies out of wedlock: Deuteronomy 23:2 reads, “No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.”
Wearing gold: 1 Timothy 2:9 : “Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments.”
The majority of food: Leviticus 11:10 reads, “But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you.” Leviticus 11 bans a TON of animals from being eaten (it’s THE basis for Kosher law); beyond shellfish and pig, it also says you can’t eat camel, rock badger, rabbit, eagle, vulture, buzzard, falcon, raven, crow, ostrich, owl, seagull, hawk, pelican, stork, heron, bat, winged insects that walk on four legs unless they have joints to jump with like grasshoppers (?), bear, mole, mouse, lizard, gecko, crocodile, chameleon and snail.
Your wife defending your life in a fight by grabbing your attacker’s genitals: Deuteronomy 25:11-12. “If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.”
So yes, everyone is prone to have an opinion, but if those opinions are voiced aloud and bash another’s lifestyle or belief system, then should they be welcomed? no matter what the Bible says, hate is hate and love is love. It really upsets me when I hear people say incredibly cruel remarks, and what Phil Robertson said (on television, no less) was cruel and hurtful to hundreds of thousands of people.”
My families response? Zip. Nada. Nothing. I got one reply restating what had already been said, and was written off. The best part of the whole experience? NOT ONE OF THEM HAD ACTUALLY WATCHED THE SHOW OR READ THE ORIGINAL INTERVIEW. How is that for an informed opinion?
And this is why I will no longer be checking my Facebook before bed.
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