Hello, I’m Raven or Gengar/Gengi- whichever you prefer~
I’m 31 and I identify as Nonbinary/Transmasc and I’m also Aroace! I also use He/They pronouns. -And in case you can’t tell, I kin the funky lil’ purple dude in the gif!
sex is swaggy and all but i wish certain things weren’t sexualized by default. like i wish i could wear booty shorts without people being like umm i thought you were ace or whatever or why are you upset that i sexualized you. brother i am wearing these because it’s 102 degrees outside and booty sweat sucks total ass. and also because they look rad as hell
Their cult teaches them that the world is full of scary monster people who hate them for being so good and loved by god. If you swear at them and call them names or get in their face you’re just doing the cults work for it.
I’m not saying you have to listen to their presentation or try to debate them (and really getting into a debate without thoroughly understanding what they’re being taught will just make things worse)… I am just saying to be polite and say no thank you like if they were trying to hand you a flyer for something you don’t care about.
It’s easier for them to see the world outside their bubble as less scary if they see everyday people just going about their business and being as nice to them as you are to everyone else. This goes doubly for anyone who happens to dress modestly, not swear, and not drink or smoke because whatever you believe, they’ll see you as a “good” person who happens to strangely have no interest in their “message”, and that might be enough to get some curious about the possibility of themselves living in the real world.
It’s sometimes hard to be nice to people who seem to represent something you dislike. Just remember these “elders” are sheltered young men, some of which are getting their first real contact with people of other/no faiths.
They are not your enemy. They are victims.
They aren’t being sent out to actually convert people, they are being sent out hoping that they will be harassed and treated poorly so they view those outside the cult as dangerous and evil and stick to the safety of the familiar group.
You being mean to some teenager isn’t sticking it to anyone, you’re doing exactly what their church elders want to happen.
PLEASE READ THIS.
Please read this.
Don’t do the church’s work for them.
yeah as an ex-mormon and former missionary i can confirm, the whole premise of the cult thing is to isolate people and convince them that the outside world is big and scary and mean, and make them feel like the only place they’re safe and accepted and can relate to anyone is within social spaces controlled by the cult.
full-time missionaries (the young folks in office clothes wandering the streets trying to talk to people) are like the extreme level of that. all mormons are constantly expected to be trying to convert people around them (and getting rejected because nobody else wants to join their incredibly oppressive and unappealing church). but with missionaries, it’s literally just non-stop high-intensity no-breaks indoctrination and self-torture, all day every day for 2 years straight. (again, take it from me, i’ve been through it firsthand.)
the whole point is to drill it into them SO THOROUGHLY that the world hates them, that they carry that trauma for the rest of their lives, and ideally pass it on to their children too (since the way the organization ACTUALLY increases its numbers is by encouraging members to have a ton of kids and raise them within the church).
you don’t have to listen to their talking points. you don’t have to indulge their weird off-the-cuff personal questions. you definitely don’t have to agree to sit down with them for “lessons” about their religion. but you SHOULD try to be kind to them. sooner or later they WILL figure out that people can be kind and good without being mormons, and it’ll happen a lot faster if you don’t reinforce their notion that anyone who lacks “the gospel” is a grouchy rude asshole who hates them.
obviously circumstances may vary! avoid them entirely if you’re the type who worries about saying no to people, or getting roped into things, or you don’t feel safe doing/saying anything that might encourage a stranger to engage with you in conversation. i get it! i know the kinds of tactics we were taught for approaching people and i also know how it feels to be on the receiving end. but if you CAN help them in this small way, just by setting an example of a good polite non-mormon person? please do. at the end of the day, they’re just scared kids in a very bad situation and under absurd amounts of pressure, and they need all the help they can get.
hello this is my favorite post ever and also life goals
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Not scene but reblogging anyway cuz this is my blog and I think it’s SO FUCKING IMPORTANT as a young trans person to see older trans people that are still happy and alive and in a good place in life with people that love them. We all deserve this <3
algiz rune - this was used in postwar germany as a symbol of the neo-nazi movement in place of the actual nazi symbols that were banned
88/HH - code for Heil Hitler a phrase used in the nazi salute. also used as a reference to the 88 precept, a manifesto written by white supremacist david lane
the black sun - this symbol originates in nazi germany and later utilized by neo-nazis and other far right movements.
celtic cross - it was used by nazis in norway in the 30s and 40s, and more recently it has been used by neo-nazis, klansmen, and other white supremacist groups. white nationalists use a version of the symbol with a square cross as opposed to the elongated cross
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging - an afrikaner nationalist, neo-nazi, and white supremacist political party in south africa
i believe this one stands for völkisch equality (if im wrong correct me) - a concept within nazism which ascribed racial equality and full legal rights to people of german or related blood but deliberately excluded people outside this definition
odal rune - was the badge of the SS race and settlement main office, which was responsible for maintaining the racial purity. it was also the emblem of ethnic Germans and neo-nazis in nazi germany occupied territories and other neo-fascist groups
14 - from the fourteen words coined by david lane: “we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”
Wolfsangel - a heraldic charge from germany and eastern france, which was inspired by medieval european wolf traps. widely adopted in nazi symbolism
Atomwaffen - Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi group that emerged in 2016
92 - not too sure about this but it could refer to the 92nd Infantry Division, correct me if im wrong
Totenkopf/SS death head - julius schreck, the leader of the stabswache (hitler’s bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the totenkopf as the unit’s insignia. this unit grew into the schutzstaffel (SS) which continued to use the totenkopf as insignia throughout its history
iron cross - a military decoration in the kingdom of prussia, and later in the german empire and nazi germany
Identity Evropa - an american neo-nazi and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In November 2020, the group disbanded.
18 - code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1 H = 8
iron guard - a romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927
arrow cross - the symbol of a far-right hungarist fascist political party the arrow cross party, led by ferenc szálasi,
unable to find any information regarding the rest of symbols, if anyone knows them please feel free to add
small addition: the Algiz rune was not a post war alternative to nazi symbols, it was very much a popular nazi symbol during the war also, associated with health and life. See, for example, the nazi Health ministry’s logo:
the sanitation services of the Hitler Youth:
the badge of the nazi association ‘German Women’s Work’:
As with all these symbols: this symbol also has non-nazi uses and context is key. If you see this thing on a random person, maybe do a double take and look for other signs that they’re a nazi. If you see this thing on a person at a white lives matter demo? you don’t need to wonder what it means.
This one is Patriot Front, a neo-nazi hate group that split from another group, Vanguard America, in 2017.
This is the symbol of the Iron Guard which combined fascism, nationalism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and antisemitism. The hate movement was wiped out during WWII but it was resurrected as a neo-nazi symbol and spread to the US in the 2010s
I couldn’t find the upward arrows one but it’s similar to the anarchist chaos symbol, I think that’s unrelated tho. I did find a couple other labeled references:
