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I wanna know what people assume about me because of my tumblr.

Put an assumption in my ask. I’ll confirm or dispute it. I’m not gonna be mean or anything, I’m just very interested.

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Oh? You're unlovable and God will never forgive you? Wrong. DIVINE MERCY ATTACK ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

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My heart aches every time I see photos from Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza and they are praying next to the little memorial they built for Pope Francis or coming together to watch streams of services dedicated to him. He meant so much to them, and I hope that the next Pope continues to call them and make them feel heard and cared about.

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"The core virtue of a fairy tale is not pride, but humility" really changed my brain chemistry.

Those "modern fairy tales where the princess saves herself" types of books not only misrepresent the gender roles in fairy tales (there are tons of stories where girls get to save the day), but they fundamentally misunderstand the entire genre.

Fairy tales aren't about saving yourself.

These aren't epic myths or heroic legends about the great warriors who slay every monster in their path because they're so awesome. Fairy tales are almost always about ordinary, even incompetent, people who get thrown into strange situations where they only succeed because of the help of others.

It's not a gendered thing. The boy who goes off to seek his fortune is usually the dim-witted third son whose older brothers are the strong, smart ones. The third son succeeds because he is kind to the magical helpers who then complete the tasks for him--and the exact same thing happens when a girl is the main character.

The characters in a fairy tale rarely succeed because they embrace their own strength and take their own path. Much more often, they are told step-by-step what to do, and they succeed because they obey--respecting the wisdom of others.

The core virtue of a fairy tale is not pride, but humility. It's not a story about the strong, but those who are weak, small, helpless. The people who can't do it all on their own, but can recognize the worth and wisdom of others.

Turning this story into a "girl power" (or even a "boy power") story warps it into something that is fundamentally the opposite of a fairy tale, and it has nothing to do with the gender of the main character.

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Remember, oh most gracious Virgin Mary….. that sometimes I’m an idiot and need your help

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today i overheard a girl say "no, f*ck that. i will be lovely to everyone. maybe some people will remember they have a heart."

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“I don’t want to be seen as a woman, I just want to be seen as a person!”

Believe it or not, women are in fact people.

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Hey. Hey.

We all understand that Lucy Carlyle is bitingly critical and immediately suspicious of most other girls because that was the treatment she experienced from her mother and possibly some of her sisters for her entire childhood, right? We understand that that's a learned behavior stemming from years of abuse? We're not just repeating that exact behavior in our Lucy Carlyle opinions by sneering at her "internalized misogyny" and refusing to understand her/holding her to a weirdly high standard for a displaced teenage girl with a long history of emotional/physical abuse? We're not doing that, right?

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sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

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once a king or queen of narnia, always a king or queen of narnia. may your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.

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XD that would be my sweet, sweet @lilaccatholic

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✨ DESIGNING CHARACTERS IN NARNIA: The Magician's Nephew✨ (scroll for a breakdown of the design)

I bet there's going to be a bunch of people who'd hate me if I reveal who the face claim was, but I'd love 'till the end of time whoever guesses it.

One of my headcanons in Narnia is that Polly Plummer's family is rich. She was described to be living in a terrace house in London and for some reason, I've associated that with being rich (maybe because of Annie in The Parent Trap). And that was the design that I aimed for in this one.

Here's the complete breakdown of Polly's design. It contains the explanation to some of the changes I did to her book design.

And to everyone who's been wondering how the exam went: IT WENT WELL! I PASSED THE EXAM! I am now a licensed architect and I want to thank you all for helping me pay for the review. You were all a part of this journey! ❤

Coming soon: The Magician's Nephew Characters

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there is a strange number of people who are suddenly morally fine with third world slave labor

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thinking about this little smile lockwood gives lucy after george tells them to behave in the library (they don’t)

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Im sick of people trashing the 'damsel in distress. That simply means a girl who can't save herself. If you want to write a story about a girl who saves the day do so, but don't stomp on those who can't help themselves that's not what heroes do.

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Tags from @catkin-morgs-kookaburralover

Okay, so I am by no means a scientist or a sociologist, but I do have a few friends who live in areas with "bad" water, so I will explain the best I can! It's not that all water in America is bad, most of it is safe, but there are regulations that make it required for water to be tested every so often for chemicals and toxins and things, and if a certain water source is considered unsafe after it's been checked, then people drink bottled water. I can think of two reasons I know of for water to be unsafe. #1 is the water in Flint, MI. If I remember correctly, all of the pipes underneath the city are lead pipes, and they have been corroding for years and getting in the water. Due to (I think) governing neglect, nothing was ever done about it, to the point that the water is very unsafe to drink, and not even good to bathe small children in. So that's one example.

Another example I personally know of is when a well is too close to an old septic lagoon, which, if I understand correctly, can contaminate the ground water. This is the case at my grandmother's very rural home, so we drink bottled water there.

All of that to say, I grew up on well water that was always safe. Eventually, we got a filter out of taste preference, but it has never been dangerous or "bad." It completely depends on the environment the water is coming from.

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I love when fanfic authors are freakishly unhinged. "Yes, hello, I am here to write a heart wrenching story about relationships and mortality. My medium is Ducktales (2017)"