Being in a cult is like having this huge plant take root in your mind, and the longer it’s inner the bigger and more complex the root system.
Finally realizing it’s all a lie and getting out is like yanking the entire plant out of your brain, it’s tough and annoying until you take one massive tug and it’s out. And it fucking hurts.
And now there are holes where the roots used to be. But if you leave them empty the structural integrity of your mind will be damaged. You have to find something else to fill them with. Preferably something healthy.
And if the roots were complex enough, the one tug that pulled the plant out won’t have been enough to free all the roots. A lot of them are still in there, that’s all the toxic internalized ideas you still have stuck in your head. Unlearning them is like pulling those root fragments out, it’s slow and complicated and painful.
I'm a woman only in an occupational sense. Like a class in a video game. Sure I've studied the role and experienced the day to day, but it's not what I am as a person. I'm just a little guy. A dude perhaps. I don't understand why everyone is so insistent on making this random accumulation of expectations part of their very essence.
I just watched infinity train season two, and the main character is amazing! When you leave you a cult you don't just have to rebuild how you view the world, but also yourself. You have to stop trying to change yourself. You have unlearn the teachings that condemned individualality. You have to loudly scream that "I exist!" The character's whole arc revolves around these ideas making her extremely relatable.
Characters that I hold close to my heart as an ex-cult kid
The entire cast of The Path (Hulu) • Venus, Jupiter and Neptune of We Know The Devil (PC game) • Rapunzel (fairy tale) • Lapis Lazuli of Steven Universe • Aziraphale and Crowley of Good Omens (Gaiman & Prachett) • Lake of Infinity Train • Bucky Barnes of Marvel • Mark Grayson of Invincible (Kirkman) • Abigail Hobbs of Hannibal (NBC)
gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem
Black history month art for y'all.
This goes for
Black LGBTQIA ( my trans brothers my trans sisters too I ain't forgetting y'all)
Black artists
BLM ally's
People in general whether what race celebrating this month with us.
Black singers
Black writers
Black actors
Black furries
Black anime fans
Everybody!!
I'm very happy this month.
The weird thing about moving out and building a life where it’s okay to go hang out in the living room is that sometimes you still spend all your time in your room
Enemies to lovers but it's two people who go from being mormon and jw to exmormon and exjw
This is so good! I love the quirk's connections to his appearance and nickname.
Thought id share one of my other bnha au’s, my Deku themed qurik au.
THE WOODEN DOLL HERO: DEKU!
The idea was inspired but mr conpress’ and the meatball kids quirk as well as Legend of zeldas majora’s mask!
I'm a queer nerd with religous trauma, let's be friends! Icon by @haxxydraws
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