(WIP) Just Keep Swinging
Added 2024-08-10 16:29:41 +0000 UTCAm I doomed? Are you doomed? Are we all doomed?
I’ve been meaning to work on my Toffee and Don sketch dump but Topher has run up and snagged my attention instead for the moment. Particularly as he came to realize what exactly it meant to be a girl within a dogmatic patriarchal religious community….or what it simply means to be a girl, period.
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PS: I'm telling you my horror stories. The vast majority of my relatives and coworkers are very accepting and loving towards me.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-11 13:55:53 +0000 UTCComparison to animals is pretty common. My marriage has been likened to a dog wedding, by relatives who allegedly like me.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-11 13:55:00 +0000 UTCIdk wtf these pastors are smoking in their free time but boy I’d like a sample
Heather
2024-08-10 22:05:24 +0000 UTCWhen my grandmother passed away, the pastor at the funeral kicked off his sermon discussing a documentary he'd seen the night before about Pearl Harbor, then segued into how we must channel all our American patriotism into fighting the country's newest enemy....homosexuality. All in all he talked about my grandma for maybe twenty seconds total. My grandma, who was laying in her casket about two feet from him. It was so dang surreal it woke everybody up out of our mourning, if only for a bit. Faces that'd been crying moments before now all turning to each other with a look of "what the fuck??" I'm certain he was a bit senile, or at least incredibly unable to read a room
Lopoddity
2024-08-10 21:11:00 +0000 UTCWhen I was 11 I asked my pastor why being gay was wrong He clasped his hands together and looked down at them for a moment in deep thought, and then looked up and locked eyes with me, and asked a question that has been branded in my brain since that day….it was……“Heather….would it be ok if my wife and I brought a monkey into our relationship?” And uhhh….yeah. I think that says it all with my experience with that
Heather
2024-08-10 20:42:14 +0000 UTCI remember my pastor saying something similar and I think that's the moment I decided to leave the church
forthehonor-ofgayskull
2024-08-10 19:20:52 +0000 UTCI was once told that my purpose was to be a pastor's wife. It's like saying that my purpose is to someday be a plastic Kroger bag, it's so bizarre. Yes, the person who said it to me is all better now and I'm not mad at them...we laugh about it...BUT STILL
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-10 18:47:23 +0000 UTC;) You caught it!
Lopoddity
2024-08-10 18:45:05 +0000 UTC'...or what it simply means to be a girl, period' is that a pun pffff
Murkydepths
2024-08-10 18:39:27 +0000 UTCKid Topher: Dad, what's my purpose? Merry: Aw, baby girl. ❤️ When you grow up, you'll care for your husband and nurture your children. There's no holier a purpose~ Topher: *waiting for more* Merry: :) Topher: ........... Topher: ...............oh my god
Lopoddity
2024-08-10 18:32:51 +0000 UTCThat's ruff buddy 🐶😟🐶
Bigsmile
2024-08-10 17:33:02 +0000 UTCKnowing the children of Merry eventually go on to lead happy, fulfilling lives is my only comfort for these pups. They all deserve better!
Emily Lemur
2024-08-10 17:28:07 +0000 UTCThis reminds me when a priest say that maybe if religion&culture weren't so sexist and hurtful with certain people, that maybe our youth won't need to feel and I quote "change their gender for hate to the one they born with, choose a lustful hurtful lifestyle or visit an expensive fancy therapy for their mental problem when they can be solve their own problems with enough self power and praying the pain away" .... Yeah that sounds pretty bad and very ignorant in my opinion 😬 Is sad because this type of communities actually think they helping but THEY make the problems worse and even are the cause of it. I mean there's a reason why people don't feel safe in certain places right? Is true that if people didn't use religion& culture to hurt and make others lives miserable the world would be a better place, but ignoring the real center of the problem only make people more confuse, scare and guilty of things they won't have to feel ashame in the first place. I can't even imagine the type of struggle Toph have to endure in such close minded environment 😢
MiyaTheGoldenFlower
2024-08-10 16:59:04 +0000 UTCAh yes, the 100 yard stare that one gets when the realisation finally hits… The only comfort I find here is that he’ll eventually be alright, I hope
Angsty Ram
2024-08-10 16:48:10 +0000 UTCListen, I trust you implicitly with these characters...... And aslong as our boy finds his happiness it all works it's way out 😭🫶
L
2024-08-10 16:33:47 +0000 UTCOh I'm here for this. I feel you Toph, growing up as a "girl" and knowing the entire time I wasn't was HARD. Learning about intersex people and intersex identity has helped me SO much, I have my own OC (Jamie) who explores this herself (identifies as an NB/intersex lesbian), it's been such a joy to learn I was never wrong to believe I wasn't a girl or a boy. I know it's different for Topher but this is the kind of story that's deeply personal to me, so I'm really excited to see the topics you explore and how 😤💕
mirarevias
2024-08-10 16:32:55 +0000 UTCWell he sure looks traumatised Can't wait to see what horrors await us
Doxiedreg
2024-08-10 16:31:35 +0000 UTC
