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@ambe-r

they/them // A bunch of nonsense I find relatable/pretty, ramblings, and original art // Etsy - ashencanvas
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Truly pushing the limits of the special skyrim edition with this stupid sexy goblin i’ve been handcrafting from scratch with an untoddly amount of mods

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ive done things with the character sliders that would make todd howartd tremble and throw up. this is gobrielle. shes built like midna on purpose and it fucks up any outfit she wears so badly. she dies in one hit to everything

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this is the butterface base default model for this character mod btw. this is what i transgoblified her from

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you made me accidentally say the sentence 'i unethically bred this goblin' to my gf irl. these are the real life consequences of the internet

Reblog if you would unethically breed this gobin

Con sonido! 🔈🔉🔊

The face of a woman regretting the music lessons.

This is fairly close to the relationship I had with my mom.

i love those little moments where her face lights up because the joy of the joke far outweighs how sick of it she is. like the moment with the star wars music? *chef’s kiss*

They are both clearly having SO much fun, I love this

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

  • It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups
  • It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.
  • It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

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It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.