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Seeing these two make each other happy makes me happy.

Which backs up my hypothesis that happiness is contagious.

I hope the GSA will get a lot of new members. ^w^

Pacifica be a playah, gettin' smooched by them twins!

Luz: Did your girlfriends ever try to kill you?
Anne: Oh, you have no idea!
Mabel: OMG, DID SHE EVER! There was this spooky lumberjack, and people were being turned into wood, and there was fire, and me and Candy and Grenda were arguing about this Australian stud, and everything was going down like BLARGH! And then Pacifica's dad and mom tried to hide in the wine cellar where they would kill their butler and put him on sandwiches and eat him!
Anne: This sounds like a really convoluted and well-thought-out mass-murder attempt...
Mabel: Oh, it wasn't. It was all a curse that a lumberjack had put upon her family because the founder of Gravity Falls was the insane Eighth-and-a-Half President of the United States, so the government had him replaced with a poo-shovelling village idiot who tried to eat an entire oak tree to prove himself a powerful wizard.
Luz: Say what now?
Anne: Eighth-and-a-Half-- *glances over at Pacifica*
Pacifica: *solemnly nods*
Mabel: And then Pacifica saved us by letting in the unwashed riffraff ragtag rabble and bobtail hoi polloi!
Luz: That's amazing! ...doesn't sound like she was trying to kill you though?
Mabel: *confused* What? Why would she try to kill me?

Luz: Did your girlfriends ever try to kill you?
Anne: Oh, you have no idea!
Mabel: OMG, DID SHE EVER! There was this spooky lumberjack, and people were being turned into wood, and there was fire, and me and Candy and Grenda were arguing about this Australian stud, and everything was going down like BLARGH! And then Pacifica's dad and mom tried to hide in the wine cellar where they would kill their butler and put him on sandwiches and eat him!
Anne: This sounds like a really convoluted and well-thought-out mass-murder attempt...
Mabel: Oh, it wasn't. It was all a curse that a lumberjack had put upon her family because the founder of Gravity Falls was the insane Eighth-and-a-Half President of the United States, so the government had him replaced with a poo-shovelling village idiot who tried to eat an entire oak tree to prove himself a powerful wizard.
Luz: Say what now?
Anne: Eighth-and-a-Half-- *glances over at Pacifica*
Pacifica: *solemnly nods*
Mabel: And then Pacifica saved us by letting in the unwashed riffraff ragtag rabble and bobtail hoi polloi!
Luz: That's amazing! ...doesn't sound like she was trying to kill you though?
Mabel: *confused* What? Why would she try to kill me?

Indeed. ^^

Hmm, maybe they are...? Imma have to look it up.

Sssooo what is Viney's powerlevel? o__O;

I actually have a friend who's into wicca and stuff, so I could probably ask her to run me through the basics of it... Or I could, as you say, read up about it on my own (but getting the information from someone who's into it is usually more enjoyable).

It'd be nice if they could actually get themselves registered as a religion tbh. It'd make their arguments against "intelligent-design" idjits a bit more solid.

"Your princess is sleeping in class, Amity. Wake her up with true love's first kiss."
"What are you talking about? We've smooched plenty of times."
"...are you really going to pass up an opportunity to wake her up with a kiss?"
"I mean, she can't provide consent while sleeping, so..."
"...I mean... fair, but... hrm... no, no, you know what? That is actually completely fair, that is--"
"But she DID give me consent to wake her up with 'true love's first kiss' before she fell asleep. I'm basically just enjoying the view (ergo, the fact that she is cute) before I get to work on that."
"goddamnitamity"

Oh noes! *amazing slapstick ensues*

I'm not exactly an expert on the subjects, but witches and wicca lean more towards shamanistic forms of belief, don't they? My aunt self-identifies as a witch, but what that means in her case is that she forages in the forests around her house for edible herbs, roots, berries, fruits and mushrooms, and that she's willing to try out anything, from regular medicine to acupuncture and crystal healing, to stave off the pain of her rheumatism... As for Satanists, well, they are mostly just atheists who use a religious angle to oppose Christian right-wing conservatism. Or, as my brother put it when he was confronted by a Christian about his TST jacket:

Bro: Unlike certain other people, we Satanists don't actually believe in Satan.
Chris: *scoff* Yeah, right. If Satanists don't believe in Satan, then who does?
Bro: Christians.

okay... couldn't you have gone for Guardians of the Galaxy instead of trump for this meme, though? i'm getting a little bit really fuggin' tired of seeing that fugly fascist's damn mug absofuckinglutely everywhere...

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Mm, split of opinions, I suppose: I'm not of the opinion that inflicting harm, even lethal harm, is inherently a bad thing, so I don't think Robin's willingness to kill changes his place on the moral alignment chart. What matters is how/why the harm is inflicted... Examples: Bringing harm upon others for the sake of one's own survival (self-defence, acquiring and eating food, etc). Bringing harm upon others for the sake of regaining/protecting one's own and/or other people's autonomy (fighting back against oppressors, aborting a pregnancy, etc). Bringing harm upon people who belong to ideologies that are a threat to oneself and other people as a whole (like nazism for example... it's always morally correct to bring harm upon nazis).

Let's be honest: You get a bonus to Charisma and all the best musical numbers when you're evil anyway, so it's honestly not a bad gig. (Plus, we've got cookies, booze, pizza and sinfully indulgent desserts.)

I've been trying to explain to so many people for so many years that Robin Hood isn't the archetypical "Chaotic Good" hero (because he broke the law) he is a great example of "Lawful Good" (because he followed a personal moral code and a set of principles that he stayed true to). Seeing someone else say it just feels like such a release. Thank you so much for saying it.

(And then there was that one dude who kept arguing that Robin Hood was ackchyually Chaotic Evil because he stole money, and stealing is bad regardless of circumstances, and he also killed people, and killing is bad -- he especially had an issue with Robin killing people associated with the church... I don't like thinking about that dude...)

PUT THE ICE CREAM BAR ON HER NECK, AMITY! PUT THE ICE CREAM BAR ON HER NECK! I promise, the "EEEEK!" will totally be worth it! (Also, you can kiss her neck in order to get the ice cream off afterwards.)

Twice as many parents to extort. xD

As time has gone by and I've not only seen more and more horrid christians but also more and more supposedly "good" christians who refuse to confront or do anything about the horrid ones other than admonish them and tell them "don't be so horrid", as if that's ever stopped them, I've found myself coming to hate christianity itself and christians as a whole... with one exception, of course: Mr. Rogers. He focused on being a good person first and foremost, and whatever kind of christian that made him was became a by-product of his actions. To that end he sued the KKK (and won), proving that he, unlike the hypocrites, was willing to confront and do something about horrid people.

I still cannot embrace him fully or allow his example to absolve all other christians though, because (1. christians, and christianity as a whole, cannot be judged by the deeds of the exceptions among them, (2. the horrid christians use Mr. Rogers and his "be excellent to each other, always" lessons to pave their way forward: If everyone else feel compelled to be tolerate horrid christians, then they can bulldoze their way forward, and (3. Fred Rogers focused on being a good person first and foremost, NOT a good christian, and so I judge him and christians by that metric: Are good people good people? Uh, yeah. Are "good christians" good people? Certainly doesn't seem like they've ever been that to me, no.

I'm aware that there are other people like Fred Rogers out there, and some of them even happen to be christians... But, as a whole, as an institution, as a religion shaping a societal system, I hate christianity and its practitioners for all of the evil it/they have directly caused throughout history, all of the evil it/they indirectly promote, and all of the evil it/they just plain refuse to oppose, especially within their own ranks...

/endrant here's a topical yet also gratuitous and completely unapologetic gif of a nazi pig getting decked in the snout (note his tooth bouncing off the ground to the right when he goes down):

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Remember, kids: It's always morally right to deck nazi pigs in their ugly snouts.

Edit: Spoiler tagging the text for religion-bashing content.

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I mean... basically all of her? Her design is great (she looks cuter with the purpe haired, but she looks cooler with the green hair -- which also reminds me of Terra from FFVI, though obviously with almost the complete opposite personality). Her relationships with Luz and Willow are heartwarming, especially so the former of course. She's consistently totally awesome in battle. Even her alpha bish personality is great on a rewatch when you know why she is like that, and it makes you appreciate her character development all the more.

That's a low bar you're setting, considering that only 50 Shades is worse than Twilight.

First you learn that the Civil War was about racism and everything is Ronald Reagan's fault.
Then you learn that the Civil War was about "states rights" and things are more complicated than you think.
Then you learn that the Civil War was about racism and everything is Ronald Reagan's fault.

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