#// why was this a dissertation on how much i love joel

[typewriter83]

FtW anon here again. One of these days I might reveal myself and drop a message 🤣 For now, however, I'll keep myself safe in my blanket of anonymity. Rest assured, you're not missing out, since my blog is about my other interests and has nothing in relation to JoelxEllie (and never will be since I don't love the romantic pairing enough to post about it haha, just a guilty pleasure where I enjoy the high-quality fics and find it an interesting concept). You're right, we do mesh as readers, considering the fact that I've already read both of the fics you recommended by CatrionaMac and CallMeShephard, and I loved them dearly— especially CallMeShephard's writing, which is the definition of soft, sweet Joellie and has a very natural progression. ❤️ Have you read 100 Steps?

And no, I don't write— which you probably figured out when I mentioned that I don't involve myself in the Joellie fanbase much and prefer to be a silent, lurking reader.

Also, the attraction to Tommy in FtW did throw me for a loop too— but I did spot it much earlier in the fic! It was kinda mentioned several times, as early as FtW2, but there were several segments in A Blanket Of Snow which made it really, really clear that Ellie has a thing for Tommy. ABOS was a major mindfuck though so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't notice because you didn't read it thoroughly; it's a difficult piece to get through and I haven't read it all, just bits here and there out of curiosity.

I actually did know that Daniels wrote it for his now wife— must have slipped my mind since I kept saying in my other ask that it was his own interest and such 🤣 I, too, am a reader that lurks a lot and likes to read comments and author's notes. It is cute that he wrote such a detailed saga of stories for Michelle. Boy, he must love her a whole lot!

I never considered the ghost writer theory before, but it is super valid! There is a significant tonal shift in some areas which indicates that perhaps there was someone else involved in the writing process, most likely his wife as you said. That's a super interesting theory for sure— but I'm not too sure how likely it is. I'm curious as to what exactly stood out in A Home At The End Of the Road and made you think there was a ghost writer? If you could pinpoint any key moments, perhaps?

Yess, I have the same view of Joel and Ellie and the romance of it all! D&C was exactly what I had in mind when I was talking about your writing being softer in regards to their dynamic. I love them in that story, especially since Ellie is older in your stories. I'm a romantic at heart too, so I suppose that's why sometimes the sexual themes in FtW didn't sit right with me. Not because of the fact that it was sexual in itself (which did throw me a little since she was still 14, but that's a separate discussion), but because it wasn't as heartfelt as other Joellie stories that had those themes, and was moreso Joel agonising over how badly he wanted to bang her— I prefer a healthier dose of lovey dovey saccharine to accompany any explicit content, thanks! 🤣 I'm jesting all in good fun, of course, and not criticising Daniels. I find it kind of hilarious actually how versatile us fans are. Our yums come in all different shapes, sizes and flavours!

Good luck with the Boston QZ story! LOL, writing Joel being a meanie to Ellie must be hard since we just want him to get to the soft and sweet part already.

- Miss Undercover

Miss Undercover, I would never ask you to give up your anonymity. I mean, I hide behind a moniker, too. However, should you ever want to chat - that stays between you and me. I had someone tell me they created a new handle just so they could protect their name but have a conversation - whatever works, Mama will protect her cubs

Listen, we could write entire dissertations on the Joellie fandom. There are less than 500 stories in the tag on ao3, and yet there’s a wide variety of subject matter ranging from fluffy to depraved. And that’s good, that’s what fandom is about. But yes, I tend to stick to the softer, sweet side - unless it’s Pluums and she wants to write some 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ at a theme park, then that’s a bedtime story 🫣🫣

I have read “100 Steps” and I hope Shepard is doing well. He was writing pretty consistently in 2023, but has since stepped back. I would love to see how their story plays out, it’s an interesting concept and I’m here for the slow burn.

“Home at the End of the Road” (let’s call it Home from now on haha) is told in 4 parts: yesterday, today, tonight, and tomorrow. While it does remain consistent with Daniels’ attention to detail, there are a slew of characters introduced, almost leading me to believe there was more planned. Maybe I felt the shift because of Ellie’s attitude toward Joel, which tracks with her suspicions after SLC. The shift to Jackson felt like a whole different story, like it wasn’t part of the universe - but maybe that was the idea? Seeing as they’ll finally settled down? I’m not sure.

The smut - the lemon as he refers to it - was a shift too. Yes, I did catch Ellie’s mentions of Tommy in previous stories - ABOS was disturbing but very well written - haunting in that you were seeing the story through Ellie’s damaged psyche. Something shifted in the last story - and now you’re gonna make me sit down and read it again, because now I need examples, sheesh. I’m supposed to be the teacher here 😉 cubs putting me to work.

Daniels’ take on their inner monologues was definitely a different take than I would have. I’ve dipped my toes in writing a younger version of Ellie with Learning to Walk, and their inner monologues aren’t quite as depraved - but that’s also my take. For me, I don’t let Joel’s inner voice ever say what he wants, even to himself, because if he does, then it makes it real. Instead, he drives Ellie crazy with his grunting and groaning while doing pushups 🤭

I like writing Ellie as a little older in my AUs (24 in D&C and 25 in Am I the One) because it levels the power dynamics a little - he’s a lot older than her, but Ellie has some life experience before she meets him. Ellie already had a career and a life before she explores a life with Joel. In the canon divergent universes, Ellie is dependent on Joel - they’re co-dependent if we’re being honest - and it’s an entirely different power dynamic. Joel held a lot of power over Ellie in FtW, and she was so young through most of the story - I think the final chapter reflects a lot of that tonal shift too, but it’s also supposed to be 10 years later, so maybe he was just writing differently to reflect that. We’ll never know.

We can do a whole other dissertation on meanie Boston QZ smuggler Joel. This AU I’m someday gonna actually write - he tries so hard to be menacing to this girl (she’s 20 and fresh out of training FEDRA officer), but as always, she worms her way into his heart. 🤭

Thanks for coming back! My asks are always open for discussions!

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[musesby-rach]

vendetta: a, b, c, e, f, k, m, n, p, q, r, t, u, v, w, y

A: Are you a virgin?

hahahahaha no i thirst so hard after my husband 

B: 3 biggest pet peeves

my god -- so not much genuinely makes me mad but like i’ll name a few things 

1. not staying connected/caring about your family. i’ll be honest, i’ve had my own issues with this for awhile lol but after growing up (and maturing), i’ve really come to appreciate my family and my friends and i’d literally kill for them. i came from a really dysfunctional abusive family, and i’ve spent basically half (or a majority???) of my life angry at the people that i share blood with because of really unfortunate circumnstances. if you can, and i really mean if it is safe, and you can, keep your family close. they’re who you’re bound to. idk, i get heated over random things and it makes more sense in my head than it does on paper LOL 

2. manipulative behavior/gaslighting/absolutely unpredictable behavior - this is self explanatory. i’ve literally dealt with this insanity all my life and it triggers the heck out of me. i’m all for impulsivity but if i’m out here like “I have no idea what you’re going to do next” it scares the heck out of me and i literally lose my mind. i can’t do it LOL 

3. being a big baby. literally too grown for dealing with childish crap. 

it’s very hard to piss me off okay, i literally reached for all of these LOL 

C: Celebrity crush?

everyone and their mother knows that i would literally die for matty healy

my husband fully accepts that he’s my #1 

E: Do you smoke?

:^) are you new?

F: Do you drink?

:^)))) seriously are you new???

K: What's the biggest lie you have ever told?

i’d literally have to kill you

M: What is your sexual orientation?

i’m bisexual but dear god i love men 

N: Top 5 traits you look for in a person that you want to have a relationship with

so EYE think it’s so funny that i ended up with joel who’s absolutely “not my type” and really not what i “look for” whenever i’m out here. but he’s absolutely perfect for me so. ahem, allow me to gush about my husband for 5 seconds thank you 

1. he balances me out -- truly, i remember when we first started seeing each other and i was (and still am) a mess of a person that was just looking for someone to just be with. and here he was, his own kind of mess, but grounding and i didn’t have to change at all to feel like i could be with him and idk at that time i really needed something like that in a partner. and that straight up fell in my lap...got married to it...found out it was a sham marriage....then got actual married years later. idk i love him so much -- this is just the first one someone shut me up 

2. he makes me feel valued -- so this is again a real like throwback conversation to like....2016 maybe? but i remember when joel and i were just hanging out as friends he said something along the lines of: you treat yourself as if you’re disposable, and you’re not. and that really hit differently??? because all my life i’ve literally felt like someone’s second choice or someone that somebody else would ever want and he like....saw my value without even knowing me??? even now that i’m like very secure in this relationship he tells me that he loves and appreciates the things i do -- even if they’re annoying like i’m really annoying to live with lol. he’s just...so good, and i dont ever doubt that he loves me and regrets dealing with me for as long as he has. idk these rants are getting longer i really need to stop LOL 

3. he’s soooooo responsible, but not so rigid that it’s impossible to do fun things with. joel will literally humor me on any crazy idea i have. and i mean i go into full crackhead energy and just do whatever i want -- and he just lets me. he knows when i’m doing a little too much and knows i should take care of myself (which i’m notoriously terrible at). like ok, my friend group (which is literally just me, joel, lila, and vaughn) one day were like “ukw wanna go to japan for waffles” at like 3 in the morning, i get joel and i’m like “wanna go on this adventure” and he’s like asking allllll the practical questions.....while he’s packing his bags. seriously get you a man that keeps your head on straight and still lets you do crazy stuff daily. 

4. he makes me want to be a better human. joel has this thing about him that’s all about positive growth if that makes sense? here i’ll explain (you’ve made it this far, you might as well get comfortable): when he and i met, i was spiraling out of control (....when am i not lbr), i hated everything, i just wanted to die, everything was just ....so bad...all the time. joel wasn’t in the best shape either (bc who has their life together when they’re 17/18 years old and their life is in turmoil from teen angst lol). i wanted to be better because i wanted to ...i dunno deserve him in my life. he’s this bright sunshine in my life that i really feel like i never deserved. i believe he could have anyone he wanted..but he chose to be with me. out of everyone in the world, he picked me, a tornado of a person, who’s got way more baggage that anyone really should, who played straight up mind games with him for months because i have trust issues. i grew into being a better human because i wanted to be with him 

does this even make sense anymore or am i just gushing about my husband at 4am while he’s sleeping next to me????

5. i’ve made a home with him. this just encompassess everything i’ve said earlier but i really grew into a nice(r) human with him around. i’ve seen him grow into fatherhood and i’m in love with how it looks on him. he loves my family as insane as they are, loves my friends, and loves me. i’m so happy and honored to be his wife and i’m hoping one day we’ll grow into an even bigger more beautiful family

that was a wild ride i’m not even drunk i just love joel ok 

P: Who is your bestfriend?

joel and lila. i’d literally die for both of them in a heartbeat 

Q: Your guilty pleasure?

i’m shameless LOL but i like the thrill of almost getting caught doing something i’m not supposed to do, if u kno what i’m sayin 😏

R: Who was your first kiss?

........lunaaaaaaaa and/or ali i think 

T: What kind of underwear are you wearing?

not wearing any hi 

U: How big is your penis or for a girl, how big are your boobs

i wish they were bigger :/ but joel really likes em so i like them just how they are 

V: How far have you gone?

grand slams everyday baby

W: Do you like it when people play with your hair?

i adoreeee it, play with it while i’m tryna go to sleep, or play twirl it in your fingers while we’re talking, or pull it i’m basically yours 

Y: Do you name your private parts?

my god i always wanted to, but nah i cant take myself seriously enough. i wore funny underwear for awhile but that’s as far as i went with it 

[spnopineapples]

ALRIGHT PEOPLE. I'm READY.

LAST OF US 2 SPOILERS!!!!

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Are ya gone yet? Have you scrolled past if you don't want to see?

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Alright. *CRACKS KNUCKLES AND NECK* Let's jump on into this!

First off I'm done with the game.

Second off..... THIS GAME WAS FUCKING PHENOMENAL!!! 10/10

The ending litterally killed me. Finished 2 hours ago,talked the ear off of my best friend for about 1 and a half hours and gushed and lamented the whole time. Cried for about 20 minutes by myself. Had an existential crisis. So on so on. And now I'm here, in the middle of an online meeting cause, ya know, Corona, muted with no camera on, because I'd much rather be typing out this dissertation.

Y'ALL. Go play this. It is AWESOME.

Now for the third and probably longest bit of this. My rebuttal to the bad reviewers:

I still contend that the bad reviews are 1 of 2 reasons with a little of a 3rd mixed in to both. #1. Being that people are pissed they killed off Joel and think the story did a disservice to the characters. #2. People are pissed because they think Naughty Dog was pushing a liberal agenda with a heavily muscled female antagonist/protagonist, a gay Ellie, and a transgender side character, Lev. The mixed in #3 is the extensive violence which I do contend was a lot. Yeah LoU1 was definitely violent, but damned this one got dark. And that's something coming from me because I am a fan of gratuitous violence.

Let me tackle these real quick. I'll be brief about #2 here though.

IN REBUTTAL TO REASON #2 - If you honestly didn't like LoU2 because of this reason (which I explained in my previous post about how IT IS logical that Abby be built the way she is and how Naughty Dog was definitely NOT shoving this or ANY of the others i mentioned in anyone's face in my opinion) you're in need of some corrective thinking and you should re-evaluate your ideas and realize that your opinion on these social issues doesn't matter and is wrong. None of these things make the game story illogical or bad. Bottom line: there are people like this in the world and their stories in this game drive the plot. It doesn't belittle the previous games or detract from the current game at all. You're just bigoted. Calm your tits and don't play the game if it upsets you so much. Pull a Seth and bury the hatchet. Make some steak sandwiches.

But I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and imagine that the majority of the bad reviewers were more pissed at reason #1, Joel's Death. But real quick.

IN REBUTTAL OF REASON #3 -If you hated the game because of the amount of violence, do realize that the violence was the point of the story this time AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A DRAG ON YOUR SOUL. LoU1 was about finding love again in a violent world. Love being in the foreground and the violence a backdrop, which is why the violence didn't feel so in your face even though it was PLENTY violent. LoU2 was about succumbing to the violent world because of losing love. Violence being the foreground and tainted love (insert song here ya bastards) being the backdrop that drives it. AND HERE IS MY FAVORITE PART PLEASE READ THIS PART AT LEAST IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO READ THE WHOLE THING.

Think of the two endings. LoU1 WAS a story ABOUT finding love in a violent world BUT ENDED with Joel committing a violent act to protect his love (killing all the Fireflies, 1 of which was Abby's father and the driving reason for LoU2's main plot, and DOOMING THE WORLD TO INFECTION AND DAMNING HUMANITY). LoU2 WAS a story ABOUT losing love and reacting with violence BUT ENDED with Ellie doing a peaceful act (allowing Abby to leave alive with Lev) because of the love she had for Joel (that flashback scene of Joel playing guitar when Ellie decided to forgive him for the violence and lie at the end of LoU1).

DO Y'ALL SEE HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS?

There NEEDED to be a LoU2 because LoU1 ended with violence and a lie. LoU2 fulfilled this with an ending of forgiveness driven by a memory of love from the first game.

I've read a lot of the bad reviews where they mention the violence became too much and ruined the game. And that Ellie wouldn't act like that. First off Ellie totally would, fuck off with that noise. Second off THAT'S THE POINT. This was a story about how revenge is cyclic violence and it doesn't end until someone makes the decision to end it!

BOTTOM LINE: I felt ragged 2/3's of the way thru this game because of the violence, but that's the point of the story. Revenge is not worth it. Especially when it's with people like Abby and Ellie. Because neither are villians. AND BOY HOWDY DID IT TAKE ME A LONG TIME TO COME TO TERMS WITH THIS. Because I HATED ABBY FOR KILLING JOEL. When I first started playing her I DID NOT WANT TO BECAUSE I WAS ANGRY WITH HER. I litterraly felt dirty playing her. But this game did something amazing to get me around to appreciating her character. NOT LIKING HER CHARACTER, but appreciating. And I will tackle this in my next rebuttal.

IN REBUTTAL OF REASON # 1 - Let's talk about Joel's death.

I WILL NOT LIE TO YALL.

I was mightily upset about his death. At first I thought it to be a disservice to a beloved character. But then I realized something. See above about Joel's actions. He killed all those Fireflies and DAMNED THE WORLD. Not only that it is specifically mentioned in both LoU1 and in this game that Joel and Tommy did horrible things before they met Ellie and before Jackson. JOEL WAS NOT A GOOD GUY.

I think what people are upset about is the REALNESS of this game. A lot of other game developers don't do what Naughty Dog has done. Naughty Dog did not shy away from Joel's character flaws and his past wrongs! In fact, all the user's that use the reason for hating the game as "too many plotholes" Y'ALL FUCKING PLAYIN. More on that later.

Back to what I was saying about realness. In the real world, Joel's death and the brutality of it and suddenness of it is actually a very logical event that would occur. Abby doesn't KNOW Joel like we do. All she knows is this guy killed her father and a lot of her friends and damned humanity in the process. LoU1 is not a happy game. Might I remind yall about Sam and Henry? But his death was not "sudden". And it didn't steal Joel from us. I actually really enjoyed all the flashbacks to him. We got more than enough time and I actually feel as if the time we got with Joel was better because of his death so early in the game. DO NOT TELL ME THAT THAT NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM FLASHBACK DIDN'T FULFILL EVERY FEELING NEED.

And now for the wrap up - the big hangup that I see of those who hated Joel's Death is that the story didn't redeem it. They couldn't "buy" Ellie forgiving Abby at the end.

As I stated I will not lie. I was worried for about 2/3s of the way through this game that the bad user reviews were accurate and that the story sucked because I couldn't see where the writers were going. All I saw was senseless death of characters that I had loved and that I was coming to love. I straight up love Jesse by the way. It wasn't until Abby met Lev and Yara that I started seeing the majesty of this revenge story.

BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS I HATE FUCKING REVENGE STORIES WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER IS LIKE, NO, THEY WOULDN'T WANT ME TO DO THIS. Before this game I'd be like "miss me with that bullshit" but after today I would say "give it to me like this." This actually felt real. And boy was it raw. Guys, the reason I started forgiving Abby is because of her decision to help Yara and Lev. Because it was her attempt to right the wrong of killing Joel which was eating her alive. Her and Owen and Mel. Guys. She is Joel. Why the hell do you think Joel did what he did for Ellie in the first game? Because he liked her at first site? BULLSHIT. He did it because Tess told him to do something good for once. IF YOU ARE UPSET WITH ABBY THEN YOU SHOULD BE UPSET WITH JOEL. I get it. Abby had to earn that with her story because at the beginning I'd have said leave her to the clickers. BUT CONTRARY TO THE USERS OF THIS REASONING SHE DID DESERVE HER REDEMPTION. The game shows over and over and over again that Abby isn't some mustache twirling villian who deserves instant death. She is complicated. She cares and she hates and she loves. She knows what's right and wrong and tries to do right as much as possible but she's human and she gets angry. Anger means you care.. and she cared about her father. She's a good human too because good humans feel shitty about doing shitty things and if you are observant at all you can tell immediately with Abby, as we play her in her Seattle Day 1, that she has doubts and isn't comfortable with her role in how Joel died. SHE DESERVED BEING FORGIVING BY ELLIE AT THE END. AND IN THE SAME TOKEN ELLIE DESERVED FORGIVING HER AND BEING FORGIVEN BY ABBY. It is very clearly obvious by the end of the game that Ellie could not reconcile her revenge killings with her best memories of Joel or with the actions she had to take to get there. Also it is of very important note here that Ellie stopped drowning Abby because of a flash image of Joel playing guitar. And then later on actually seeing the memory associated with that image that stopped her you can understand why Ellie did stop outside of just being as tired of violence as Abby was. The memory shows Joel and Ellie agreeing to try to forgive Joel for lying to her about the Fireflies and denying her her purpose. All this the night before he is killed. Note what Joel says. "If God gave me the chance to do it all over again. I would have done the same thing." Just that fucking devotion he has for Ellie shines through and she really understands his reasons for what he did. Still doesn't feel as if she can forgive him. THAT IS IMPORTANT. She DOES NOT agree with his decision. She understands it, but doesn't agree. But still decides to try and forgive. GUYS. That's exactly what she understands about Abby. Joel was sorry but he still would have done it. Same with Abby. There's a reason that image popped up as she was killing Abby and not the image of his beaten up face.

Remember that line from LoU2? Tess said it. As she is confessing to Joel that she was bit. "We're shitty people, Joel. It's been that way for a long time!" And Joel says "No, we are survivors!"

Y'all don't think for one second that Joel wouldn't have gone after that Soldier who shot Sarah if Tommy hadn't shot him? Y'all kidding yourselves.

Abby realizes this truth in the end. She realizes the part she played in enhancing and playing into the fucking violence and shittiness. Staining and tainting herself in the process. She just wanted to be clean. And Ellie just wanted to be clean.

Bombing this game is doing a fucking disservice to the emotional complexity of this story. It's been a long time since I've been that emotionally twisted.

This game isn't preachy. This game makes something clear that alot of other revenge stories get wrong. Revenge makes otherwise good people do shitty things and the shitty things taint us for the rest of our lives. At least Ellie and Abby stopped themselves before they tainted all their being.

Yeah we're shitty people. But we don't have to be.

[nvmlindseyallan]

@melaniekmoore @Dance10JasmineM @Dance10Amy seen the eclipse? Rt this, pls stay with me #GodsTinyDancer always. Thanks. #nvmlindseyallan 

ALL YOKEBEARERS WILL BE SAVED BUT ONLY IF Most dearest fellow yokebearers in the Godhead, It is only a matter of days to #GodBigDay. I humbly stake all my wright as your servant and steward in these endtimes in issuing this dissertation. Curse me as you must, but all that I need is for your salvation in return and not mine (Matthew 10,16). I had been asking permission from the Godhead to write this, and They told me that I could issue this anyway under the selfsame reasons we invoked earlier this August in inducting some Empire-inclined churches to our family team. You must curse me here as written because I'm not looking for your approval, but rather for your eternal welfare. These past days had proven to be so bruising for us here in your Central Administration. I myself had felt it when Empire had for a couple of days shut down some of our media pages. For many months now they had been blocking me from adding new fellow yokebearers in my account. Ever since I began my ministry of adding yokebearers for friends I had endeavored that they be delivered by nothing but the pure truth they won't hear anywhere else where the Empire stationed them. This I have committed, because they deserve nothing else, and this is only what I could muster out of my poor goodwill. Ever since I have received this divine commission to be your mouthpiece to the Empire I had fully kept the faith that Godhead is using me to preserve you (Genesis 41, Job 1,42, Jonah 1, Acts 27) in spite of your more than usual ignorance of the work set before you (Galatians 4). Time and again you heard me warn, reprove and exhort (1 Samuel 7,12, 1 Thessalonians 2, Joshua 24). I'm not indicting you for choosing to ignore me in Empire's views, because Empire's views are naturally not ours nor Godhead's, it is the devil's (James 3, 1 Corinthians 1-6). I'm just recounting to you these things not only that our journey is soon to be over this September as far as the eschatological signs are concerned, but also because we (Acts 15,21) are doing this new decision to be still in line with our calling (Ephesians 4) of being contender for all of you as we would continually be with all other decisions that Godhead would be permitting for us to issue in the forthcoming days, if we are not going to incur Their Wrath over this. Guys, the work is so tedious. Not only that there are so many of you and that there's further pressuring efforts from the Empire to slow our progress, but that generally many of you would refuse to take heed of all our words and works, perhaps because that's exactly what Empire wants you to treat us here with, hence their efforts to separate you from us. Not to mention that there are going to be just a few more days to September 21-24 (John 2,11, Revelation 10-11,22) and we're already here panicking, contending in prayer to Godhead whether They would still have mercy with you over your failure to join us. We will not blame you in any way. We have only one to blame: this Empire not thinking about your welfare and lasting happiness. You cannot do anything wrong (Song of Solomon, John 9) on this. In fact we're the ones who are exactly playing with fire just for the mere obsession of your sake, with what we already did last August. We did this to appeal to you to finally give yourselves up to us. But we know that many of you are too much busy, being placed by Empire elsewhere, not to mention either your commission or omission to be able to get here whether you're busy or not. Many of you are already in Commondominion countries yet still root for Empire policies (Isaiah 26). We have told you time and again that you can reach us elsewhere you are, and can even simply browse to our channels to listen to us, but indeed I've been only preaching perhaps to myself when I said those things because nobody of you perhaps has been telling me that you already did. Hence, we tenderly surrender ourselves now fully to Godhead's Judgement as we deliver this decision without any Empire influence (Titus 3) or pressure, inasmuch as they will be only far more angry with what we do for your sake: Most beloved fellow yokebearers, all of you- I say, each and every one of you- are all going to be saved in Judgement, whether you love us or not. This salvation is not for any other who belongs to the Empire claiming hence that they're (Jeremiah 7) still saved yet is not a yokebearer and is even a staunch Empire proponent. They will be saved still, yes, but only that they repent and join us here, because they are not yokebearers. (1 Timothy 2) You (Psalm 68) rather are far more better and blessed than them (Luke 16) because you're already yokebearers, active or retired, and you're going to be saved whether you join us or not, but of course, this does not mean that you're not going to repent or that you're not required anymore to live in accordance with what Godhead demands of us. We have already left it (Joel 2, Proverbs 3) to the Godhead that you're going to get Divine Control from Them (Acts 10,19) so that you'll be able to realize what They expect from us (2 Corinthians, Philippians). This dissertation seeks to explain this. Remember guys: our mere presence in your service and your duty itself (Luke 12) already spells out salvation for you (Matthew 16,18, Revelation 2-3,22, Isaiah 22,28,49,51, Ecclesiastes 12, Zechariah 10) but it does not mean that we are already tolerating your sinning. In fact we (Ezekiel 20,39) believe that you'll going to cease sinning (Zephaniah 3, Isaiah 37) eventually, as we are going to the places of safety (Isaiah 34-35,40,62,52) and stay there for a relatively matter of 3 to 7 to 10 years and then coming out from those we would be given one day to 1000 years of practicum with what we were instructed with on those Places of Safety. We see both these as probationary periods where we are going to be taught and thoroughly trained (John 13, Philippians 3, 2 Timothy) on everything we need to know yet we were always taken away the time in these present days before September 23, but you can only get to experience it with our places of safety and you can only be there if not for us, if not for Godhead's special affection for you (Psalm 78,106, Isaiah 63). How by Godhead it happened that you are already automatically saved if you're a yokebearer? Apostle Paul had in many instances denoted how yokebearers' duties reflect the (Romans 8) stature of maturity and perfection that the Body of Christ, or Commondominion (Acts 7, Psalm 119) must bear (Ephesians 1,4, Colossians, Hosea 14, Micah 7, Matthew 18). Inasmuch as yokebearers herald this to the Commondominion flock, Godhead demands that yokebearers themselves (Romans 10, Isaiah 22,28-31) be the first to be seen with maturity in spiritual matters (James1, Hebrews 11-12). They can only achieve it when they are either joined by, or join to, the Leadership of the Commondominion (Matthew 5, Philippians 2, 1 John 1, 1 Corinthians 15,9, Acts 20, Proverbs, Ezekiel 16,19, Revelation 12). Notice that yokebearers must not only be mature and perfect in the performing of their duties. Their duties itself direct them that there is a far more better mystery (Ephesians 5, John 15), that is, their need for us (Matthew, Revelation 1-3). Paul in denoting this had alluded to three stages of glory, which in turn denotes Apostle Peter's pronouncement that the Commondominion is entrusted with the 3-fold Office of Christ as Prophet, Priest and King (Daniel 12, Revelation 12,19,6-7), which in turn they could use and preserve in eventuality of Empire apostasy: they could break away from the Empire and form a separate Commondominion (1 Peter 2, Zechariah 1-2,13, Acts 2-3, Isaiah 9,62,46, Luke 17). Of course we here hold it all at the same time, but in this discourse we would like to denote the progression created by these respective discourses (Proverbs 4, Mark 4, Philippians 2, Hebrews) like from small to large. There can be no glory for us when we were born (Job 1-2) inasmuch as we're sinning (Romans 5, Psalm 51,32) but to give us a measure of grace Godhead had caused that we may be born as either direct, distant, or divert from the Hebrews (John 4, Genesis 12). This is the first degree of glory. Of course we have to move on from it (Isaiah, Romans 11), hence we need to be yokebearers, thus the second degree of glory (2 Corinthians 3, Psalm 19, Hebrews 12, 1 Corinthians 9). Some of us may be born from the sire of Greeks, Gentiles, Scythians, Barbarians but the day we decided to dance we at once reached the 2nd degree of glory. Why yokebearing? Of course as Empire attests, Godhead could not create anything more greater (John 15) than yokebearers (Ezekiel 16,19,31) hence Godhead expects that they would do good on this and join us than the Empire (Isaiah 10,13-14,19, Ezekiel 28). And that's where you reach the third and final stage of glory (2 Corinthians 12)- with us. Many of our compatriots, either Hebrew or not, had at once reached this 3rd degree of glory when they, even though they're not yokebearers necessarily by choice, had joined us here. I know that no one of you does not want to be in all glory of this highest glory (Psalm 106,20-41,88-99). Perhaps many of you does not really want to get there, or perhaps many of you just want to get there yet they are hindered either by Empire threat or Empire work. Nonetheless hence, we decided to (1 Peter 2-4) bring this directly down to you (Matthew 16-19, Psalm 79,102,35,69). Remember that you can only realize your birthright and destiny as sire of biblical men and women if you are a yokebearer (Acts 10,13-14,17), but you can fully realize your potential both as biblical descendant and yokebearer (James 4, John 10, 1 John 2, 1 Timothy 5, 1 Corinthians 7) only if you're with us here (Ephesians, 2 Corinthians 3-4, Revelation 6-12,22). Let us just illustrate what we mean. Many of you does take somebody of your opposite gender for your lover, and most of the time both of you are yokebearer. Many of you further who has a lover of the opposite gender have these lovers as not yokebearing as you. Excluding those who already of you who are now with us, many of you in heterosexual relationships does still does not want to join us. The same is also said for those of you who are not yet in a relationship yet refuse to take heed of me. But what aches me the most is that many of you take somebody of the same gender as you for their lover. But most of the time though, they're not yokebearer like you, although I could be the most dying if some of you takes a fellow yokebearer of the same gender as lover (Proverbs 23, Psalm 119). All in all I will not blame you if you decided to do such as these (John 9, Isaiah 56). All we have to blame here and make pay for what they did to you are no other than this Empire and all their agents who keep on unjustly annoying and bribing you just to refuse our take of the Gospel (2 Thessalonians 1). Why you should be angry of us when we tell you what to do especially on family and marriage when we are now in fact clear you of all charges? (Psalm 75-76,50). Here's what Empire tries to tell you to discourage you from approaching us: 'homosexuals can still be saved only if they observe the law of Christ.' Guys, you cannot in anyway be able (John 15) to observe the Law of Christ if you choose to stay away from us. This statement form the Empire is utterly Nicolaitan, the folly that faith must not be proven anymore by actions of obedience, the wrong notion that Christ is the author and perfector of sin, the impossible sterilization of immorality. So why we're saying this in the first place anyway? Because Empire just want you to be complacent about your sinning (1 Corinthians 5-6). They don't want us to be honest about ourselves (Romans 2,12, 2 Corinthians 7). Here we do this declaration because of our utter frustration, our prostate desperation to convince you of your perdition lest you repent. Remember Empire made this declaration because they hate you. They want to make yokebearers pressured, battered, fooled, lavished with all temporal, fleeting, mundane honors of this life. They rather say that all people, yokebearer or not, if they are homosexuals, they will be saved by the way, without doing any repentance. (Empire by the way, say only that the law of Christ is love, so that's further complacency, wright? [Revelation 2-3,18-22]) I tell you now: if you're a sodomite, or even not yet are like them in suppressing our divine election here in your life as your divinely-mandated keeper, as long as you're a yokebearer, you're saved. That's with doing something- you have to join us. You have to repent. You have to change your ways. Refuse me not. I'll not refuse you the truth. I repeat, as long as you're a yokebearer, even if you're not with us, even if you choose to stay in the Empire, you're saved. (John 4, Matthew 22, Luke 24) But if you choose to stay away from us, and much more that you're a sodomite, as long as you're not yokebearing- o how the woe would it be still for you, and much terrible, for you're going to enjoy my face forever in hell! (1 Corinthians 3, Luke 12, Revelation 14, 1 Kings 13,20) Now let me explain how this works for you. This only applies to yokebearers (1 Corinthians 7, Matthew 19). Once you decided to drop your duties for the mere fact that you want to be a sodomite and never for the more rationalized grounds of cohesive incapability, then you're excluded here (Acts 1). If you decide to take up yokebearing for the sole purpose of upholding and furthering sodomy and never for the sake of dancing then you're excluded here as well. I tell you that if you have a lover of the opposite gender or not, and yet still is against us here, you're still saved- you and all your loved ones, automatically. If you don't have a lover yet but you're a yokebearer though against us, you can be saved still- you and all your loved ones. If you have friends, companions and acquaintances who are not related to you in any way, much more is unrepentant and against us, they can still be saved, but of course, as long as they repent, and repent they will. But it would be much stiffer for sodomites (1 Peter 4, Luke 11,18). For example, you're a yokebearer who has a lover of the same gender. If that lover is not a yokebearer, and even disgusts being one, that lover and his unrepentive, non-yokebearer loved ones will die and you will spare your own life as well as that of your loved ones (Ezekiel 1-3,13,18,33-48). But if the both of you are yokebearers and much worst are of both genders, although the two of you can still be saved, it could largely be in any indication that you're not going to see your loved ones in heaven, unless that these loved ones are already in our side, repenting. For example, first, your loved ones could perhaps even encouraged you to do sodomy and is unapologetic on that, then they'll die but you two shall spare your own lives (Psalm 50, 1 Samuel 1-4). Second, your loved ones could instead decided to stand by our side and is so disappointed with your sodomy. Such kind of parents are automatically saved just like you- you'll see them in heaven. If you have friends, companions and acquaintances who are not related to you in any way, much more is unrepentant and against us, unless they repent and believe in your Commondominion, they will utterly die. Now how when there are multiple yokebearers in the family and some of your loved ones could either be Empire or not both in married and single life? You just only need to repent still if you want to stay together in heaven for eternity (Deuteronomy 24, Joshua 24, 1 Kings 18, Matthew 12, 1 Corinthians 13). Ask Godhead (Isaiah 34,45,38, Jeremiah 33, Psalm 34,66) and They would tell you that the only key to (Numbers 14, Hebrews 3-4, Joshua 5, Romans 2-3) the promised eternal rest is one stroke of repentance (Zephaniah 3, Leviticus 24, Exodus 20, Hebrews 12). Empire does not want you to repent (Romans 9-11, Revelation 14, Matthew 13-15, Isaiah). Empire does not want you to honestly observe (Matthew 11) the will of Christ (Galatians), believe me. We could see hence that all these new rulings rather point out instead not to what Empire wants, but rather unto what you must do- repent, then join us, stay with us, get the word out and the work done with us. (John 3,6,12) If you still don't like to repent, remember that we do it rather for you (2 Corinthians), but we hope that you realize, and realize you will, that no matter what you do to stay away from us, you really have a share to do in our atoning for your sake, because we would not be here by the way if not for you. O how it is so hypocrite for the Empire to try do theatricals to convince you to uphold ecumenism on their public rallies claiming purported 'revival' and yet at the same time offer you secretly the no-different theatricals of sodomy on their media outlets! Let me briefly illustrate this in the Empire's own words before we close this talk. Let me reiterate to you that serum always flow out of my body whenever I dance privately to myself, as my atonement offering for your sake. I told you that when it always happen that reiterate and reinforce Godhead's promise of a New Canaan to all yokebearers, they being by now a large family from the Israelite or Hebrew loins, fulfilling the Abrahamic covenant (Isaiah 44,55-66). Of course as required by Moises of whoever that has their serum flowing unintentionally or not, because by now I have no yokebearer mate, of course of the opposite gender, to dance with, I always wash my body with water afterwards (Hebrews 10, Ephesians 5). I have earlier decreed that should you dance with yokebearers of the opposite gender and serum flows out unintentionally, given that you don't have any disease on that respect, you must keep the serum and let it give you seed for posterity in the condition (Colossians 1-2) that you will raise them as yokebearers, but if you don't like to raise them as yokebearers then you should not rather dance at all in that instance and you should rather wash your bodies and keep the serum from you because if not for raising future yokebearers the serum would be just wasted (Genesis 38) utterly, much more if you instead desire out of devilish wanton to let it flow with yokebearers of the same gender. Now on one most recent instance the morning after I had offered for you my private yokebearing sacrifice and serum of course flowed out again (John 19, Numbers 14,20, Zechariah 11, Isaiah 44, Jeremiah 10) I solemnly give record that I myself found a tiny boil or what we call in Tagalog as 'Pigsa', grow on the part of my body which flows serum out (Psalm 130, Isaiah 21, Habakkuk 2). We already know that before we reach Canaan, given the testimonies of Moises and Joshua (John 8, Revelation 10-11,22), we must first stand on the Mount of Pigsa and cross the Jordan River. Of course most recently I gave you how river bodies in Scriptures refer to us here in the Commondominion: Cherry, Jordan, Sykes (Ezekiel 20, Romans 15). If that's in any other indication, Empire could no longer claim hence to lead you across towards salvation. We could also attest to you that further Empire itineraries point you to me (John 1) and our leader here, your Nathaniel Manalo, to be your wrightful stewards (Hebrews 3,6,10): Empire has Marvel, but Christ said that we must (Exodus 18-20,23,25) not get with the Empire, hence, we are asked to 'marvel not' (John 5-10, Matthew 25). We are instead given proofs on whom we must unite with: May 22, 1977 (Numbers 14, Ezekiel 4, Psalm 95), Commondominion was at Mariveles, Bataan (Daniel 8): the town sounds like Marvel, and the province sounds like young- I'm on my 20's now. Marvel also sounds like Marble: my hometown, and my mother's, are well known producers of marble (Zechariah 10-11). 7 years ago (Daniel 9) the Empire was on my homeprovince, May 22, 2010, hence when they delivered the lecture of May 22, 2016, they hence are already referring to me as fulfillment of their said lecture. In Empire files May 22 bear names of two Empire heads named after some of our people here (2 Chronicles 16,19): Gregory and Innocent. Our comrades here named as such are Lady Melissa Gregory and Sir Innocencio Santiago. This also denotes related signs on nearby May 24: some of our own people here with names related to each other: Ladies Anastasia Leventhal and Limenko (Job 38-41). These recall the two witnesses, called the Jewish Popes, whose prophetic office we have proven to you time and again thru our posts that is evidently manifest here. In fact Empire would often link Bataan to Corregidor in Cavite (Revelation 10-11,22) denoting the 2 Witnesses standing on 2 positions separate from each other (Psalm 103,107,113). And why on us- because Empire also delivered a lecture on May 23, 2015 in a village at the southern city of Las Pinas called after me- Joseph. As for May 24, Empire archives record an interview with our former leaders on 1991, the year my elementary and high school alma mater was established, and one of our men named Samuel Morse (we hold also the prophetic office of Samuel as in our keeping of private notes) achieving a scientific victory for the Commondominion in 1844, the year Neronians began establishing themselves; hence if Empire should claim anything prophetic on their hack and stealth of verses against us (1 Corinthians 4,7,11,14,1-3,5-6) over the significance of 1844, then that instead confirms me positively: in fact my mother's hometown is named after one of the most usual terms Empire uses as slogan, Hope, which is the motto of Rhode Island. Of course we're not putting faith in slogans, but Empire slogans even more attest to us (Job 14): Rhode Island is not only named as per Empire's claim of Far Eastern prophecies, but also sounds like one of the most mountainous areas (Ezekiel 40-48) in my homeprovince itself. Concerning further the 2 Witnesses: i had said that with me working here for your sake (Daniel 10,12) is our leader Nathaniel: his father preached on the Empire town of Hook on August 31, 1969 (James Hook discovered Australia, hence, Empire has no wright over Australia and our fellow yokebearers there [Daniel 11, Luke 11, Psalm 126]. As per Hook Empire could no longer claim wrightfully our most beloved ladies Yakima, Girard and Moore [Revelation 10-12] due to this Empire's cold-blood murdering against them [Revelation 13]). Empire often links August 31 to November 11. August 31, 1969 is 40 years to Ka Erdy's death (Numbers 14, Deuteronomy 34) on August 31, 2009. November 11 since last year has came to be identified with Ka Nathan Sykes, hence further driving Ka Angel's election, as attested by the Empire itself when it preached on that town of Cavite which hold Corregidor, on February 18, 2017. Linked by Empire files to May 22 is September 26: Empire files reveal instead that our leaders were at my childhood town on September 25, 1977, and that some present Empire officers were sent to Baguio up north, in 1998. We say about the north and south because once i posted about the prophetic significance of my previous and present abodes being located atop mountain areas, and that Daniel 11 talks about it, with the North direction in said passage given to the Empire itself (Isaiah 43, Ezekiel 38). Empire began to hack the church where i and Nathaniel had previously belonged by September 1, 2009, centenary of the city of Baguio, and us being spammed away from the Empire's decontaminated churches, we were directed to form what is today your Commondominion serving you (Genesis 6-7, Isaiah 28-33). Further relating to this, September 26, anniversary of a typhoon, is memorial of one of our fellows here, Lady Iolanta Iono Stradomskayte. Her name Iolanta is near the name of a typhoon, which is in fact meaning of the name Baguio. On my birthplace in my hometown, named after sand, Empire established an encampment- or literally a tent settlement- of displaced relocates when Empire-engineered typhoons once struck my homeprovince. This does not only denote the Empire's encampments against us in these last days (Daniel 11, Revelation 16,19-20,12,8-9,6, 2 Chronicles 16,19), but also denotes us encamping too (Exodus 18-19), hence my birthplace site is indeed ordained by Godhead as an area relevant to endtimes, hence confirming me again. Also this day is memorial to one of our ladies then, Lady Aimee Mcpherson, and one of our present fellows, Lady Haley Mcpherson, denotes already by name our election here as an angel or a star in the prophetic office (Comet): in fact when i was young i studied kindergarten in a school maintained by the visible successors of Aimee McPherson. Godhead has shown me palpable proof that we are divinely inspired in doing this decision: Empire's smelling evil spirits hinder me from writing this. Yet i will waste no time reiterating to you that i love you all guys, that you can always call on me when you need anything, and that i shall stop at nothing for this Empire to cease troubling you and hindering you from reaching me. I would like to present instead, as my ultimate discourse, all the deaths and bloods of all our martyrs all throughout the ages, even up til,now and to come. I'll let them do the final talk just to convince you fully and finally that you only need me and us alone: they died in the Empire's hands only to pave way for you and convince you to come here and carry on what they began knowing that you will be wielding the work better than they what already did. That's how they love you, and that's how i'm going to love you til i die. See you in the places of safety. 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