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Mudrye

It's time for Mudrye! This is quite frankly one of my favorites, to be honest. Mudrye is a bit more medieval, but since they're allied with Ubria they're anything but technologically behind. Mudrye is home to the Elves, people with little natural magical abilities but a special connection to Earth that makes learning spells through other means like wands and staffs a lot easier for them.

Mudrye's patron god is Drago, God of Beasts and creatures. They also have a Guardian, an ancient guardian dragon named Fresi, one of the first kings of Mudrye who was turned into a dragon and has been a protector of the kingdom ever since. (Not the humanoid kind of dragon, like an actual giant lizard type thing.)

Mudrye is a representative monarchy, which from my understanding or at least how Mudrye works is that there's a royal family and a group of representatives are elected every year to guide the king and queen's decisions.

Mudrye has a well known medical facility called the Phantom Corporation, known for it's ability to cure diseases both physical and mental without a trace like a Phantom. The Phantom Corps are known across the world, and even those from the Mystic countries travel there in search of healing.

Mudrye's temple to Drago is built on top of the southern mountain of the Twin Summits. Fresi sleeps curled around the temple watching over the forested town below, to be woken when in times of need.

Little hint for a future plan, I'm currently writing one of the many stories that take place in Evergreen! It's in the very early stages right now, but it'll get there eventually. But it takes place partly in Mudrye and one of the main characters is the Princess of Mudrye, so I figured I may as well mention it.

Anyway, I hope y'all have a fantastic day/night! Thanks for reading!

Ubria

It's time to get into the countries, y'all!

We're starting with Ubria, a mix of modern technology and elemental magic. Ubria is home to a variety of people, but many are Elementals; Humanoid though pure elemental energy flows through their veins, things like fire or shadow or lightning. Ubria is also home to a majority of the world's Mutants; They can be any of the other species, though sometimes magic sometimes finds a way into a person later in their lives after childhood. It's kind of like how superhero movies have their powers origin stories, just very magic related in their accidental occurrences.

Every country has a patron God, and rarely two. Ubria's patron Goddess is Gala, Goddess of logic and intelligence. I'll get more into the Gods later.

Now, Ubria is a democracy with a President voted on every 5 years. I'm not an expert on how government works so none of them are currently all that planned out really, you've been warned. Overall, Ubria is similar to America if it was slightly less of a capitalistic nightmare. It is a little bit tho

Ubria's police and military force is a privately owned company called Sentinel, which I'll go into more detail on later, but the general rundown is that Sentinel is owned by one of the original mutants, Reagan Cole. Long story short, he's immortal so he's still in charge. There's multiple teams stationed around Ubria, one in each city and maybe in enemy countries-

Ubria has a mountain that the capital (Platinum city) is built near, and at the top is where the temple dedicated to Gala is. Mountains in Evergreen are important magical conduits, so mountaintops are the best places to be connected to magic and the Gods.

I dunno what else to add here, but I'm sure there's probably more I'll think of at some point. If anybody sees this and feels like it, feel free to send me an ask, it'd be awesome.

Anyway, byee

How The Evergreen Havens works

Explaining for myself and whoever stumbles upon my account. Also so I can just send a link to whoever I want so they can understand what the hell I'm going on about :)

So, Evergreen is a modern-ish fantasy realm I've based on books I've read, movies I've watched, games I've played, and just vibes I thought would be cool.

Here's the map of Evergreen that I am currently working with. (It's a topography map I've made for Minecraft bc I'm building the entire thing in Minecraft lately, will probably post updates on that sometimes, just expect slow progress.)

I'm gonna make every country a separate post because they all have a lot to go on about, but I'll link each of them at the end of this post for convenience.

Here's the worldwide lore: Evergreen is currently in the aftermath of a recent world war, called the Executioner's war. Basically, there was two sides: The Mystic Union, and The Golden Nations. Plus the countries that stayed the hell out of it, but they each had their reasons.

The Mystic Union were upset with the Golden Nations for their unfair treatment of Dragons and Arachnids, whom the Golden Nations view as violent, and tried to seek an agreement to stop the violent treatment towards them. The Golden Nations were upset with the Mystic Union for their use of Soul Energy as their primary energy source, seeing it as primitive and barbaric to use residual energy of once living souls as power, and thus refused to grant them safety on Golden Nations land. After decades of this tension building, Mudrye declared war against Hados and a hundred year war began. There was a lot of death and assassinations, and many prisoners of war were executed, hence the name.

Eventually, around 40 years ago in current times of Evergreen, thanks to changes in leadership over that century, a ceasefire was negotiated and the world has started attempting to heal, despite ever present disdain between the two sides.

Now, a lot has happened in each country as effects of the Executioner's war, so I'll go into that on each country's own post. Speaking of those, I'm going to link them all here. (And by that I mean I'll list them and edit it to be a link when I get around to making those posts lol)

The Golden Nations

Ubria

Mudrye

Myrefall

The Mystic Union

Aquatica

Hados

Taranta

Wyca

Uninvolved countries

Sagos

Gleftith

Kalterburg

Sky whale

Here's one of those creatures I said I'd post! I may make a post explaining how Evergreen works and stuff, bc I realize that may help and also I'd get to talk about it so win-win. Anyway, whale in the sky.

Hello

I'm going to start posting my art bc I can and I feel like it. If you're interested in a fantasy universe that I've spent ages making in my head, that I swear I'm gonna write into a story one day (It's in progress this time so there's something!) then feel free to follow along.

I've been drawing creatures from my universe while sitting in a church I don't wanna be in every Sunday, and I try to finish it at some point through the week so I'll post them then. (The universe is called Evergreen Havens btw so if I say Evergreen that's why.)

Also! I have so many characters so I'm also gonna post drawings of them too! Some of them will be goofy and plot irrelevant, some will be plot relevant, and some will just be cute lil kisses because fuck it this is my account I'll draw women kissing if I feel like it.

If you're someone I know IRL, either pretend you never saw this account or get really chill with a lot of things real quickly. (Unless you're the Discord server, y'all're fantastic I'm chill with y'all finding my account lmao)

Anyway yeah. I don't expect anything to come of this, but the point is really just so I have a place where all my art is, and possibly just ramble about Evergreen bc I love it so much it's probably a problem.

K, that's it, byeeeee

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we should make old man tragic yaoi about Mumbo's OCs

Odysseus in Epic: the musical

if god exists like christians say he does then good god (pun intended) hes the most massive sadistic cunt ive ever heard of. dude canonically made an entire universe for the sole purpose of having billions of people worship him. like supposedly our entire life purpose is to please this fuckin guy because he says he'll give us eternal life if we say yes and eternal torment if we say no? what kinda sick fuck lmfaoo

"love of god" my ass youre being held at gunpoint here

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

If anyone's wondering how the mormon church states they view queer people, here's their own words

So you can be gay but you can't be gay. If you experience "same sex attraction" (or are "same sex challenged" as they've been calling it lately) you just need to crush those thoughts and be absolutely miserable for your entire life. Marry someone of the opposite gender, have kids. Constantly starving for freedom just out of reach and feeling like you're one day away from tying a noose around your neck.

Such a loving and accepting church. Elohim truly is a god of love. /s

Of course the truth is a bit different. They want us all dead, they just know they can't say that.

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Dysphoria and Euphoria in Nimona

Honestly I think that Nimona such a raw and simple explanation of dysphoria and euphoria in the movie. It really moved me (both times now haha) when I watched it.

Firstly she talks about the discomfort and how to get rid of it:

But she doesn’t just stop there, she actually talks about the freedom of being herself!

Transness is so often limited to this horrible condition which afflicts you. This idea that you are a sufferer of dysphoria and nothing more. Transition, whatever that means to each person, is only done to treat this condition, alleviate the symptoms, mitigate the pain. The best you can hope for is a life without “itchy insides”.

But the way she talks about the freedom of the “sneeze” is more than just relief of the discomfort. It is a positive experience in it’s own right! Transition is not just some treatment, it is a joy. Pure joy. Euphoric.

To transition or to just be able to BE trans, is to be happier and freer than ever before. To be trans is a gift perhaps.

Then we get into the “option” of repression:

This one hit especially close to home for me. Maybe I could have survived without transition, that thought often caused me doubts in the early days. If I was even worthy of the “treatment” if my “illness” wasn’t severe enough.

Maybe, maybe.

But god it’s made me so very alive.

Our joy isn’t a crime. Our lives are not unworthy of happiness. It is not wrong to want real, beautiful, vibrant, chaotic, messy, unpredictable, stupendous, unashamed, overwhelming LIFE!

There is no obligation to hold ourselves back for the comfort of others. To not only inflict pain on ourselves, but deprive ourselves of joy because perhaps we could survive without the “cure”.

We are not defined by our suffering. It is not our pain that shapes us, It merely attempts to break us. We are defined by who we are in spite of it all, by the joy we us to build ourselves up, brick by beautiful brick.

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

Sorry to bother you. I'm a transmasc exmo and my brother is inactive but intends to leave someday. He brought something to my attention, but so far I've only seen a reddit post about it, allegedly a story about a transgirl was affected by this already is on facebook, but I can not find it. It's being said that a new policy has gone to affect, that "Any one who has socially transitioned, is now excluded from baptism." In other words, transgender children can not be baptized, and neither can any other transgender individual, unless they detransition. People are confirming that this policy is going into the Handbook within the next few weeks. I don't have a big exmo support system, has anyone heard of this policy? Are they going to announce this change or are they literally just trying to slip this in and hope it goes unnoticed?

You’re not bothering me at all. Yes, I’ve heard of this. I don’t know any more than you do, I’m afraid.

I think the surface reason is this way they just don’t have to deal with transgender people. Just like they don’t have to deal with gays. Either group will still be “welcome”—as long as we don’t “act on it.” “We love you, but only if you stay in the closet and don’t make problems for us.”

I think the underlying reason is the church has elected to try and ingratiate itself with mainstream American Christianity. (I mean, it’s been doing this since it got rid of polygamy, but it’s accelerated in recent years.) That is why they’ve emphasized the church’s full name instead of “Mormon,” that’s why they’ve quietly backed off more outlandish beliefs (Kolob, exalted people getting their own planets, etc). That’s why they got rid of the various pageants showing parts of 1800s church history—and kept the Easter pageant in Arizona, redoing the soundtrack and script to be more appealing to Christians in general. And that is why they’ve dug in their heels when it comes to accepting LGBTQ people. Genuinely, I believe that this policy is meant to play out like the first Policy of Exclusion, which banned the children of gay parents from baptism until they turned 18 and could disavow gay marriage. That policy was reversed after a few years, but not before flushing out a lot of people who—up until then—had been trying to stay in the church but advocated loudly for LGBTQ acceptance. A lot of undesirables, in the church’s view. A wave of those people left when the original PoX was instituted. Another wave will leave with this one. That will leave the church with a membership that skews even more strongly conservative, that is even more acceptable to American evangelicals. They do not want gay and trans members. They want to be respectable to American Republican Christians.

(Most evangelicals are never going to accept Mormons as Christians, imho, but that isn’t going to stop the church from trying.)

My feelings on this are torn. I think it is actually better for LGBTQ people to leave/not join the church, and perhaps this will protect some trans people from the harm the church does. On the other hand, I know queer people who consider the church their spiritual home. I think everyone should have spiritual autonomy—but in Mormonism, you really don’t. Your access to every covenant necessary for salvation and exaltation is locked behind a gate that is only opened if a priesthood leader decides you are worthy. Trans people who transition are being deemed unworthy en masse and that seems like spiritual abuse to me.

We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. Even among Mormons I know who are relatively accepting of gay people, few are as welcoming of trans people, so I doubt they’ll get much pushback from the majority of members.

mormon parents signing you out of sex ed in school because “that’s something parents should teach you”:

mormon parents when it comes to teaching you about sex: 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 sex = bad 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♂️🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

I think it's obvious that god views some of his children (that he supposedly loves) as completely disposable and it's really upsetting to me that more xtians don't seem to have a problem with it

everything is black and white in mormonism, and there is no encouragement for individuals to govern their own thoughts.

i think maybe it stems from the book of mormon beginnings, and how it was and continues to be studied — the words from there are gospel and should never be questioned, never analyzed alongside outside sources. what’s said is literal and true and final. anything you question, even in your own private thoughts is blasphemy.

another cause may be how there is only good and there is only evil, combined with the infantilization of members. grown men are proud to say they’ve never used a curse word, not even in their most extreme pain. grown women proclaiming they’ve never witness an R rated movie, even when all their non-member friends give it praise. we don’t partake in that, because we’re holy, we’re pure. be in the world, not of the world. we’re different, we’re better.

but god won’t smite you for saying “fuck” when you break a finger, and god won’t smite you for hearing “fuck” in a movie. i think personal boundaries and limitations are great, i support it completely, but there’s a difference between abstaining from things because you, personally, do not like it, and abstaining from things with an air of superiority and the name of god as justification. what makes it worse is turning around to point at and judging others, even as god commanded not to judge.

growing up mormon is getting sick and wondering what sinful thing i did that makes me deserving of gods punishment.

Going over the LDS church with the BITE model because I'm bored

If I skip over any bulletpoints, it's because I didn't feel they applied to the church

Promote dependence and obedience- you need to follow specific doctrine if you want to get into the Celestial Kingdom

Modify behavior with rewards or punishments- wearing garments 24/7 will protect you from harm, paying tithing and following the word of wisdom etc will let you into the temple

Restrict or control sexuality- not even going to touch on the blatant homophobia, the church has a massive sexual purity culture problem. No porn, no masterbation, no sex before marriage. (Ever heard of Soaking? Not normal behavior)

Control clothing- modesty is expected. Much more in adults than kids because of garments, but no sleeveless shirts or crop tops or shorts that go above the knee etc

Regulate food and drink intake- monthly fasting, fasting as a valid way to get closer to God if you need help with something, word of wisdom

Exploit you financially- tithing. 10% of all income to get to the Celestial Kingdom.

Require you to seek permission for major decisions- not "required" per se but it is expected that you meet with a bishop or pray thoroughly before making big decisions

Deliberately withhold and distort information- hiding billions of dollars from members, changing church history

Forbid you from speaking with ex-members and critics- label exmos as apostates. Taught that anyone who left the church left purely to engage in sinful behavior and therefore cannot be trusted

Discourage access to non cult sources of information- taught to only go to the official church website for any questions we have about the church. Any information that criticizes the church is seen as hate and Satan trying to lure members away

Use information gained in confession sessions against you- if you go to the bishop about anything that contradicts the church teachings, you aren't allowed to take sacrament and you can't go to the temple, which are public acts of shame.

Gaslight to make you doubt your own memory- constant changing of church doctrine "God lives on a planet near Kolab, except no he doesn't" "joseph Smith translated the bom using the urim and thummem except no he actually stuck his head in a hat" "if you make it to the Celestial Kingdom you get your own planet except no you don't"

Require you to report thoughts and feelings to superiors- if you have any thoughts that contradict the church teachings you are expected to tell your bishop. Talking about sexual thoughts with an old man while 11 because I was scared I was going to hell is not fun

Encourage you to spy and report others misconduct- you're expected to tell your bishop if someone is acting against what the church teaches. Someone's drinking coffee? Tell the bishop. Someone is dating while being 15? Tell the bishop

Instill Black vs White Us vs Them Good vs Evil thinking- there's a right and a wrong way to do things. There's no arguing or bargening your way out of sin. Don't really know how to describe it

Change your identity- you're a mormon first, yourself second. Taught that God comes before literally everything else.

Reject doubt- taught to "doubt your doubts"

Instill fears of leaving the church- you're taught that if you leave, you lose your community, your shot at eternal happiness and mortal wellbeing.

Label some emotions as evil, worldly, sinful, or wrong- you feel anything sexual in any context other than towards a spouse? Sinful. You have any doubts about the church? Sinful.

Shun you if you don't believe or want to leave- I've lost all of my close friends when I left. I don't even want to mention the way my parents reacted to the idea that their child will have "Excommunicated" on their church record. Stuff of nightmares I'll say that much

Teach that there is no happiness or peace outside the group- taught that people only leave to sin. To live a worldly life. Sinning and living a worldly life is taught to result in sorrow.

please I need the unwanteds to win

Round 1, Poll 3: Matilda vs The Unwanteds

Both are stories about the outcasts of society discovering amazing powers, but which will prevail? It's up to you!

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Hey lgbts!! Rb this with your sexuality and height let’s see how many of y’all are really short ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m Bi and 5’4

Oh wow I see why you wouldn’t want that, thanks for explaining

I'm finally getting things moving

Motivation matters less than outcome.

Being kind to someone because you want them to like you still means you were kind.

Doing a charitable act because it gives you ‘selfish’ personal satisfaction means you helped someone.

Being cruel to someone because you want to ‘protect them’ from going to hell still means your were cruel.

Killing in the name of god is still murder.