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Hey, it’s that time of year again when I get annoyingly Mormon. You can block the “tumblrstake” tag if that bugs you.

”I find hope in striving to be whole.”

Oh I’m gonna need every line of this talk printed on my wall I can already tell. Go Sister Johnson, go.

"we are made in god's image and are stewards of the world" and "we are animals that evolved from a common ancestor" are facts that can and do coexist.

The narrative is sentient and it is coming to GET you

chart of my age over time

Hoping to actually start annotating the Book of Mormon today and looking at some of the resources you guys sent me!

While I do that, I thought it’d be kinda fun to ask what the biggest myths about Mormonism are. This can range anywhere from dumb things you’ve heard people say to actual misconceptions/misinformation.

I wanna like- clear any of the junk I’ve heard about the religion from my head. Trying to avoid falling into a gross echo chamber.

1x01 // 1x09

"I'm not Magda. I'm the Devil." "No. No, you're not. You're really not."

Supernatural S12E04 American Nightmare

dean punching sam after exorcising him of meg just pisses me off. imagine being disoriented and in pain and instead of comforting you, your brother just rocks your shit for no reason. evil

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

lately ive been bedridden with a terrible case of i dont wanna

adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting

i love destiel but i wish the other ships were as popular. like yes cas and dean are my favs but what abt samandy?? sastiel?? dean and lisa?? sam and jess?? saileen?? hello, where’s their representation??

If Supernatural was my fun little comics project, aka Dean is a grunge punk and Sam is a grunge emo. Cas stays the same tho

I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

"I can't believe there are Mormons on Tumblr, they seem so antithetical to Tumblr culture"

Girl we are Space Christians. We are known for our Bible fanfic. We have so much discourse. Tumblr was practically made for us. Me and the 60 other Mormon bloggers on here are having a fantastic time together.

Mormonism makes me NOT want to kill myself. It gives you me a purpose in life, even a purpose within my religion. It’s a very interactive church.

Re: my last post

THANK YOU! Your statement actually aligns with current averages. Religion has a protective factor against youth suicidal ideation, even in LGBTQ+ youth. Here's a fun little graph:

In this survey, Latter-Day Saints were shown to have a rate of suicidal ideation of about half compared to their non-religious peers.

I made a very angry post about this in September, and you can check it out here if you'd like. It talks about mostly the same information. I love my data and information, especially when it implies the opposite of what anti-Mormons claim :)

maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth

Thinking about early days on the road before John started leaving Sam with Dean and was still going around and talking to hunters trying to learn everything he could. Imagine you’re some hunter and you get a call that the new guy in town wants to meet at the roadhouse and talk demons or werewolves or witches or whatever, then he shows up with a 4-year-old and a baby. He’s real serious and writes down everything you say in his journal but he also has to get up halfway through to sing and bounce a cranky baby to sleep on his shoulder while the kid stares at you with a mouth full of French fries. No wonder every hunter in John’s generation seems to remember Dean and Sam whether Dean and Sam know them or not.

is this a safe space. I have something to say about john winchester

the whole "dean knew it was the demon cuz john would never say he's proud of dean" fanon idea bothers me

for one, that's not what dean says in the scene. he says that john would be mad wasting a bullet and not be proud of him for that specific thing, not that he wouldn't be proud of him ever. secondly, john goes on to say that he really is proud of him when he's back to himself.

fanon likes to villianize john and I just can't get on board with it :/ like john at his core LOVES his family, would and has killed and died for them.

and besides, isn't it much more delicious to think that the reason dean thinks john wouldn't be proud of him is because they leave it unspoken? that instead of telling their love for each other, they show it, and assume that the others would also kill and die for them. all that tension and miscommunication..... yummm

i just think he’s neat.

no one can take that much pain and not break. no one.

BYU Gothic

You know the MARB. You’ve had religion, math, physics, CS classes, and church in the MARB. There are many classrooms. But you only have been to 206. Or was it 207? It doesn’t matter there all the same, and you can’t leave.

You’re free at 11 on Tuesdays. But you can’t do anything. You can’t go to your professor. You can’t go to the Cougar Eat. You must go to the devotional. Wasn’t that a good devotional?

There’s a building on your schedule that you’ve never heard of. You found it on the first day from an online map. After the semester is over, that building doesn’t exist. You ask others about it and no one knows what you’re talking about. 

Everyone wants a ROC pass. You don’t know what a ROC pass is. Everyone asks you if they can borrow a ROC pass. The sports season ended last month, but there’s another game next week. Well parking is going to suck this weekend.

The talmage has 1 floor. It has 2 floors. It has 3 floors. There’s also a basement. There’s only 1 floor.

You see someone new. The chanting begins. What’s your name. Where are you from. What’s your major. What was your name again. What was your name again. 

You want to make friends. Sorry he’s engaged, he can’t give you his number. Someone else asks you out, and yet they get offended because you want to be friends. I can’t hang out with you, I have midterms. Better luck next semester.

You notice the desks were bigger last time. And last class your paper kept falling off. They keep getting smaller. You just decide to keep your computer on your lap. 

There is nowhere you can sit in the testing center where the sun will not be in your eyes at some point during your test. 

There’s one person that has been in more than 3 of your classes before. You don’t know their name but you’ve seen them and have made eye contact multiple times. You will see them again. 

I also found this series of books by Carver Edlund. Did those books really happen? Wow, that is some meta madness. Thanks for saving the world and stuff.

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you want to know why salt lake city was founded??? its bcs everywhere else the early saints tried to settle they were violently driven out of. the state of missouri had a fucking death warrant on them and other states were only marginally better. they were assaulted, tarred and feathered, their houses burned down. there's a reason utah exists and it's because ever other fucking state wanted my ancestors DEAD for their religion

this sucks. i’m going to - (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) REJOICE IN THE DAY OF SALVATION, NO LONGER AS STRANGERS ON EARTH NEED WE ROAM

[through gritted teeth, with fists clenched]

When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed, when you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS, NAME THEM ONE BY ONE, AND IT WILL SURPRISE YOU WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE-