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Finally gotten around to finishing this commission request for cailen
This is our pokemon trainer characters Tobias, Annie, and Annie’s sewaddle cooling off in the sun
One thing I really enjoyed was painting the splashes
Splashes are fun
yes they are
Mediums: Photoshop and Paint tool Sai
Gratuitous reblog
DEFINETLY the Worst Birthday Gift Ever by *cailencrow
A SLIGHT edit of Mali’s picture for Oni’s birthday.
I think I look pretty swanky
So work has decided to try to call me in EVERY SINGLE DAY this week that I have had off. They have effectively robbed me of a weekend.
Nine-year-old stages a one-man anti-Westboro protest
Meet Josef Miles: While walking around the Washburn University campus with his mother, Josef noticed a group of protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church . After reading the group’s signs, Miles asked his mother if he could create his own sign. A sign featuring his thoughts on God’s worldview. With the approval of his mother, Patty , Josef wrote “God Hates No One” on a notepad, crossed the street, and proceeded to spend a few minutes staging a protest of his own. (Photo via Morris News Service) source
When a 9-year-old is schooling you on the scope of God’s love, you have a problem.
-Jess
When I taught this year’s catechism class on evangelization and spreading the faith, the worksheet I made included a section where I asked the students (12 to 14 year olds) to evaluate a list of methods and decide how effective they thought they would be. I deliberately included “protest at the funeral of people whose lives you disagreed with” to spark a discussion on the Westboro Baptist Church. I expected my teens to be violently opposed to this (they’re good kids) and though I knew most of them wouldn’t be able to name WBC, I figured they’d have heard of them and their signs. Nothing could have prepared me for their reaction.
Every single kid, when they read that, LAUGHED. It set off a chain reaction of giggles. Why? Because none of them could FATHOM the idea that someone might think that that was a way to talk about faith. To them, it was not just morally wrong or repulsive - it was absurd to the point of being funny. They asked me how I came up with such an insane idea.
When I explained that there were real people who really did that, absolute, stunned silence fell. I told the story of Matthew Shepard, of his violent death and the protest at his funeral. And then I told them about Matthew’s friends, who designed and wore angel costumes to block the protestors out. And I told them that it was pretty obvious to me who was doing God’s work, and I hoped they agreed.
TL;DR TALK ABOUT THIS. Talk about how wrong it is. Make sure everyone knows it’s happening and it’s disgusting. Because people don’t know, and they should. These people can only be defeated by a show of love for love.
WBC might be the most ironically hilarious group of individuals I’ve ever come across. Don’t get me wrong, they are VILE. They are horrible, disgusting creatures. They are the definition of Amoral.
However, if there is ANY single crumb of GOOD you could scrape off the WBC, it is that EVERYONE ELSE in the world becomes SO MUCH BETTER in comparison. For every tale of an evil deed that these blithering idiots have committed, it is counteracted and sometimes PREVENTED by the good deed of someone else. People band together and converge for the SINGULAR SAKE of fucking over, peacefully, this hateful group of slimeballs.
And that is what we can take away from this. That the Westboro Baptist Church can only fail miserably in their goals, and their distasteful actions only cause other people to not only show how awful WBC is, but also prove how wonderful someone who actually has compassion and a BRAIN can be.
Look what’s getting maaadeee! I just got to do a bit of formatting jiggling but overall a good success! I just wish my printer would do darker blacks but that makes it sketchier I guess…
