Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@fluffy@queer.party as one spoonie in much the same boat to another, pls have my sympathies and also these capybara to help you through the day!!

scientific FACT: you become 300% better at video games while listening to Night Tempo's Pure Baby Maker. https://youtu.be/DZ0JO09iewo

@Lumb omg!!! what a cutie!!! pls boop his nose for me, those little fangies are so cute!!

now time to go ice down my shoulder and make soothing noises at it like one would to an overstressed race horse

what are people calling these? #pokesona ...? #pokemon #fusona maybe? i got no idea. anyway, it's me, the #wigglytuff

@extinct@redroo.ml as the prophecy foretold... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05CXzjS8HX4

@sky this is the first time i've heard about such a place but that... that sounds utterly terrifying. i think actually they may have invented a new circle of hell, which is "no muting, filtering, and so on - just a constant stream of fandom wank all the time"

so obviously when you play two games on your switch, you imagine your player characters immediately interacting, right? have a very dumb joke of the meeting between my #warframe ember and my squidkid from #Splatoon2 . with the joke straight up ripped from b99 because i'm a dearth of creativity

holy shit warframes are hard as balls to draw

@Bashabez (not that i think the medieval mindset was totally right, but y'know, sometimes you study people so you can figure out why they were wrong, LMAO. and the american protestant rejection of church history and intellectual thought means they don't even stick around to go "i disagree with these people because...", they just pretend the entire thing never existed.) (so in summary, my thoughts on that attitude -)

@Bashabez but instead of respecting the thought put in before them, or even ACKNOWLEDGING that there WAS any, your usual young earther breezes right on past this stuff. it's entirely symptomatic of american anti-intellectualism and it drives me absolutely bonkers. american protestantism is too concerned with being exceptional, so everyone wants to ignore that ANYONE thought about ANY of these things EVER BEFORE. ...when some of them had some pretty ok ideas actually.

@Bashabez and ultimately they came up with what i think is the right answer - which was "the text just doesn't give us that many details, so we're going to have to respect that god made the world, and gave us clues in the formation of it, and use our brains as we take in new data". again, medieval scholars! after INTENSE debate! this is what they came up with. which i agree with, and i think is the best answer they could have found. >

@Bashabez fact of the matter is that in church history, there had already been a lot of thought about this. medieval scholars around the time of thomas aquinas were coming at the same problem from a different angle - instead of "what if the length of a day in genesis was really long, thus supported by rock formation etc", it was "what if these things all happened near-instantly? what if the length of a day was really really short?" >

@Bashabez my perfect example for this is young earthers. they're not supported by the text. they're supported only by a bad translation of that text *and* by the idea that *whatever you imagined reading those verses the first time must be right*... AND, even worse, by the idea that NOBODY HAS THOUGHT ABOUT THOSE VERSES BEFORE YOU, AT ALL. (i know you're at your keyboard all 'oh god, why me, so much text' but 🐻 with me a moment here) >

@Bashabez to be honest, as someone who is on the other side of the whole atheism question but don't know as much church history as she should - it's even worse than that in some ways. the actual text often ends up remarkably well preserved, and then fighting begins with the translation of it - however, american anti-intellectualism has really meant that the whole idea of thinking of the bible *as an intellectual endeavor* has been rebuked entirely. >

the real purpose of marshmallows and whipped cream on hot chocolate: insulating my warm drink for when i remember 'oh wait i have a warm drink and i should drink it' a good 15 mins after acquiring said drink

@Bashabez honestly there are quite a lot of ways to cut that one particular verse and you will find quite a lot of discussion on it, so it might be more ambiguous than you would initially think. tbh if you REALLY want to get into picking it apart hebrew letter by letter, jewish scholars are miles ahead of christians in that regard lmao, and have largely come to the conclusion that the talmud is ok with queer folks (from what i have seen of jewish friends discussing this).