I'm Greta, 24 years old, and always between too much going on and absolute boredom. I am, as the kids call it, the webmaster of this site (or the mayor of Sparkle Town)! The idea to make this website came from my recent disillusionment with social media and the internet. Don't get me wrong, I basically grew up online and citing the ancient texts of 2010s internet brings me so much joy (please talk to me about dramageddon), but it no longer feels fun or rewarding... So here were are! I plan to put anything and everthing that I like or want to share on here. I hope navigating Sparkle Town is relatively intuitive and you won't get lost, but I guess you're on your own path and you might need the detour. Who knows??

Name: Greta
Job: unemployed cognitive neuroscientist
Likes: animal crossing (new leaf and new horizons), crafting, kpop, pixelart, dnd, sanrio, strawberries as a concept, gym, ghibli, chinese scallion pancakes, bouldering, pigeons, underground rap, whimsy, lasagna, zines, vietnamese iced latte, collecting dvds, and probably more
Dislikes: being confused, plastic bristle brushes, horror movies, mushrooms

Below you can find a collection of beliefs or facts about the LDS doctrine. The fanart on the right shows the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, and his old buddy Jesus.

• Jesus arose from the dead and appeared to people in ancient America
• Mormons don't drink coffee, because of a revelation that "hot drinks" are not to be consumed. This means that many don't drink any coffee (including iced), but they do drink hot chocolate, soda, and energy drinks.
• Many mormons cope with life through sugar, with especially Utah having many soda and ice cream shops. For example, the soda chain Swig is known for its popular "dirty sodas", soft drinks mixed with add-ins such as cream and flavored syrups. Swig also sells non-soda beverages and energy drinks fortified with extra caffeine (??????). The viral crumbl cookie brand was founded by mormons in Utah, and refuses to sell coffee-flavored cookies.
• Mormons believe the Garden of Eden is located in Missouri
• The Earth is said to be just one of many inhabited worlds, and there are many governing heavenly bodies, including the planet or star Kolob, which is said to be nearest the throne of God.
• God once lived on a planet with his own higher god
• According to Mormon cosmology, there was a pre-existence, or a pre-mortal life, in which human spirits were literal children of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. Earth life is viewed as a necessary step in which spirit children receive physical bodies and are tested, with the goal of eventually becoming like their Heavenly Parents. Obvious ties to anti-abrotion arguments hereeee
• After the resurrection, all men and women (except the spirits that followed Lucifer) will be assigned one of three degrees of glory. Within the highest degree, the celestial kingdom, there are three further divisions, and those in the highest of these celestial divisions would become gods and goddesses.
• There are several univiersities that enforce the standards of the church: Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Brigham Young University–Idaho, Brigham Young University–Pathway and Ensign College in Salt Lake City.
• The early Saints believed that all Native Americans shared a heritage connecting them to ancient Israel. They often held the same prejudices toward them shared by other European Americans, but Latter-day Saints believed Native Americans were heirs to God’s promises even though they now suffered for once having rejected the gospel.
• Many view baptism as an essential requirement to enter the Kingdom of God, and therefore practice baptism for the dead to offer it by proxy to those who died without the opportunity to receive it. The LDS Church teaches that those who have died may choose to accept or reject the baptisms done on their behalf.
• Altough church leadership denies it now, the early church leader Brigham Young preached that the only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. This resulted in lovely situations like Young saying that Emma, Joseph Smith’s first wife, would go to hell because she rejected the revelation of polygamy.
• Endowment is a two-part temple ceremony designed for participants to become kings, queens, priests, and priestesses in the afterlife. The ceremony includes a symbolic washing and anointing, and receipt of a "new name" which they are not to reveal to others except at a certain part in the ceremony, and the receipt of the temple garment, which Mormons then are expected to wear under their clothing day and night throughout their life (lovingly called magical underwear by some ex-mormons).
• Both church founder Joseph Smith, and his successor Brigham Young taught that Black people were under the curse of Ham, and the curse of Cain. Smith and Young both referred to the curses as a cause for slavery. They also taught that dark skin marked people of African ancestry as cursed by God.
• Although black people have been members of Mormon congregations since Joseph Smith's time, before 1978, black membership was small. From 1852 to 1978, the LDS Church enforced a policy restricting men of black African descent from being ordained to the church's lay priesthood.

"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.

no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.

they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."

every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.

your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing.

"live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom

"i need to clean my room / do the dishes / do the laundry" = boring, horrific, makes it seem like a burden.

"i'm tending to my realm / the magic tower needs maintenance / i'm restoring the kingdom to what it was" = beautiful, amazing, spetacular, joyful, full of childlike wonder, actually describes what the task feels like as opposed to what it is