Please note: “everyone who works retail, admin, or labor” is pretty much everyone. I can’t remember the last time I worked somewhere without “security” cameras that monitored employees.
I’m having a good laugh right now because our associates just got collectively reprimanded for leaning on the counters during 8 hour shifts on their feet, because it isn’t “professional” looking. So apparently they can put up with a camera over their shoulder to make sure they do their jobs correctly, but a cop with a gun cant?
There is only one reason a cop would resist having a bodycam, and it’s the same reason they try to scare you away from filming them and it’s the same reason they’d tape over their badges and it’s the same reason racists love the Anon feature and it’s the same reason the KKK wears hoods.
Cullenmance Inquisitor receiving a Mabari puppy after defeating Corypheus, Cullen stammering on about how important they are in Fereldan culture, representing loyalty and undying love. It slowly dawns on the Inquisitor this is an Engagement Puppy.
Bullmance inquisitor obtaining a kennel of Mabari for the war-force and having one bond to them. They craft it a helmet with little horns on it and show it to Bull, introducing it as “The Iron Bark”. Bull is silent for a while and then says, clearly choked up “It’s great, boss. Really great.”
Cole being so happy when Mabari are introduced to Skyhold, because “They are so happy, all the time! And if they’re not it’s so so simple, simply smile. And they like me, even if they have no hurt to heal for them!”
Dorian is a cat person. If a Mabari is a companion to a romanced Dorian queue dialogs such as “Amatus do we REALLY HAVE TO have this flea covered gas monster in our tent?” “He likes you!” “No, he does not. He sat on my face and broke wind for a full minute last night before I could shift his bulk, I nearly died and he PLANNED it. He doesn’t like to share!”
Josie being polite as ever when the Inquisitor is followed everywhere by their new smelly friend, stashing scented handkerchiefs in her sleeves and feigning sniffles when the smell is too overbearing. Eventually she breaks and demands the Inquisitor bathes their Mabari, and everyone is surprised to hear Leliana’s sudden laughter. It’s laughter that sounds ten years younger and ten years more innocent than she is.
Leliana sitting with Dog late at night, talking to them about how she had a dear, dear friend who had a Mabari, just like you. How she was going to write them into a song, but never did. What happened to those days?
My 13 yearold sister got asked out as a joke today. She’s now locked herself in her room crying. I swear to god this is the most fucked up thing ever. She won’t speak to me or my mom and she’s blasting Taylor Swift but you can still hear her crying.
If you ask someone out as a joke, fuck you, you are literally the scum of the earth.
All through middle school it was a game to see if anyone could ask me out and make me believe they meant it but I had such a low opinion of myself that I knew it was always a joke. It’s still hard to trust people are being sincere with this shit. It’s not a prank or a joke it’s cruel, heartless, and can have lasting negative impacts on a person.
I feel this is important as to how she views humans.
i feel like that’s pretty important to how she VIEWED humans. like clearly at first she’s thinking of greg like a fling but like. they’re together 20?? ish years before they have steven. amethyst mentions she spends most of her time with greg after meeting him. she gives up her physical form b/c she wants to have a human kid. she may be creepy “oh hoo hoo humans as toys” at first but she sure grows to adore humans like. more than gems even lolol.
that said i want more spooky dead alien mom. like rose the ruthless general.
and also at the time Greg was probably in his early 20s, and Rose Quartz is ????-thousand years old. this is kind of like a kindergartener asking you to be his gf in her eyes lmao.
"If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also"
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Matt 5:39
This specifically refers to a hand striking the side of a person’s face, tells quite a different story when placed in it’s proper historical context. In Jesus’s time, striking someone of a lower class ( a servant) with the back of the hand was used to assert authority and dominance. If the persecuted person “turned the other cheek,” the discipliner was faced with a dilemma. The left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be performed. Another alternative would be a slap with the open hand as a challenge or to punch the person, but this was seen as a statement of equality. Thus, by turning the other cheek the persecuted was in effect putting an end to the behavior or if the slapping continued the person would lawfully be deemed equal and have to be released as a servant/slave.
I can attest to the original poster’s comments. A few years back I took an intensive seminar on faith-based progressive activism, and we spent an entire unit discussing how many of Jesus’ instructions and stories were performative protests designed to shed light on and ridicule the oppressions of that time period as a way to emphasize the absurdity of the social hierarchy and give people the will and motivation to make changes for a more free and equal society.
For example, the next verse (Matthew 5:40) states “And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.” In that time period, men traditionally wore a shirt and a coat-like garment as their daily wear. To sue someone for their shirt was to put them in their place - suing was generally only performed to take care of outstanding debts, and to be sued for one’s shirt meant that the person was so destitute the only valuable thing they could repay with was their own clothing. However, many cultures at that time (including Hebrew peoples) had prohibitions bordering on taboo against public nudity, so for a sued man to surrender both his shirt and his coat was to turn the system on its head and symbolically state, in a very public forum, that “I have no money with which to repay this person, but they are so insistent on taking advantage of my poverty that I am leaving this hearing buck-ass naked. His greed is the cause of a shameful public spectacle.”
All of a sudden an action of power (suing someone for their shirt) becomes a powerful symbol of subversion and mockery, as the suing patron either accepts the coat (and therefore full responsibility as the cause of the other man’s shameful display) or desperately chases the protester around trying to return his clothes to him, making a fool of himself in front of his peers and the entire gathered community.
Additionally, the next verse (Matthew 5:41; “If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.”) was a big middle finger to the Romans who had taken over Judea and were not seen as legitimate authority by the majority of the population there. Roman law stated that a centurion on the march could require a Jew (and possibly other civilians as well, although I don’t remember explicitly) to carry his pack at any time and for any reason for one mile along the road (and because of the importance of the Roman highway system in maintaining rule over the expansive empire, the roads tended to be very well ordered and marked), however hecould not require any service beyond the next mile marker. For a Jewish civilian to carry a centurion’s pack for an entire second mile was a way to subvert the authority of the occupying forces. If the civilian wouldn’t give the pack back at the end of the first mile, the centurion would either have to forcibly take it back or report the civilian to his commanding officer (both of which would result in discipline being taken against the soldier for breaking Roman law) or wait until the civilian volunteered to return the pack, giving the Judean native implicit power over the occupying Roman and completely subverting the power structure of the Empire. Can you imagine how demoralizing that must have been for the highly ordered Roman armies that patrolled the region?
Jesus was a pacifist, but his teachings were in no way passive. There’s a reason he was practically considered a terrorist by the reigning powers, and it wasn’t because he healed the sick and fed the hungry.
Yes, and isn’t it telling that the state ultimately adopted Christianity and started teaching everyone that Jesus said to obey your parents and to just do what you’re told…else he’d send you to hell?
