#(reliance

[amatullaaaah]

[eternal-gardens]

[chaosnojutsu]

the lovely @banbansparkly made this fantastic Reliance artwork, and (with permission to post) i thought today would be the perfect time to share it since one of the illustrated scenes from chapter 12 fits a nejiten month prompt! thank you so much again for making this <3

Nejiten Month 2024, Day 14: Déjà Vu

Then Tenten walks toward her bedroom — toward him first; Neji’s heart can hardly handle it — and she stops in front of him. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

If she only knew. She’s one to be asking; she’s giving him a peculiar look, too, so Neji returns the question. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Tenten stares for a beat longer, then shakes her head. “Fucking weirdo.”

She rises to her tiptoes, her hands landing on his shoulders to brace herself, and before Neji can process what’s about to happen, Tenten presses a tender kiss right in the center of his forehead.

“G’night,” she says, lowering back to her feet in full.

Neji does not move from that spot for quite some time, reveling in the ghost of her lips on his skin. He can’t decide whether he wants her to remember this in the morning or not.

[…]

Her expression pitches into something even stranger when she rounds the bar and approaches Neji due to him being in her path. She stops and meets his eyes, perplexed.

Neji humors himself. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Tenten stares for a second longer, and Neji thinks she might remember after all. He’ll know she does if she returns the question like he did last night. And then…

And then what? He’ll kiss her forehead in turn?

It’s out of the question. Isn’t it? People don’t kiss other people without a specific reason in mind. Is simply wanting to kiss Tenten a valid reason to do so? Has it been all along?

Oh no. Neji does want to kiss Tenten.

Then Tenten shakes her head as if to clear her thoughts. “Déjà vu,” she says, and she walks right past him again.

[fieriframes]

[We, beloved of the springtime. Our reliance to the light. All the night. Well, I always must remember. How we called our kisses bright. Will I make this right?]

[massexecutions]

[bitchnojutsu]

“tenten could punt that brat to the moon” is one of my favorite sentences i’ve ever written. idk why it makes me laugh so much

[abeauutifulpatience]

We are not promised a pain-free life. We are not promised a journey without waves. We are promised that if we hold onto the rope of Allah, and stay within the lifeboat of His nearness and mercy, the waves will come. But they will never, ever drown us.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Give Thanks to God

1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever!

2 Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures for ever.”

3 Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures for ever.”

4 Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures for ever.”

5 Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.

6 With the Lord on my side I do not fear. What can man do to me?

7 The Lord is on my side to help me; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.

8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.

10 All nations surrounded me; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

11 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

12 They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

13 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.

14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

15 Hark, glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,

16 the right hand of the Lord is exalted, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”

17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.

18 The Lord has chastened me sorely, but he has not given me over to death.

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.

20 This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.

21 I thank thee that thou hast answered me and hast become my salvation.

22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

23 This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

24 This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

25 Save us, we beseech thee, O Lord! O Lord, we beseech thee, give us success!

26 Blessed be he who enters in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.

27 The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar!

28 Thou art my God, and I will give thanks to thee; thou art my God, I will extol thee.

29 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever! — Psalm 118 | Revised Standard Version Bible: Old Tradition 1952 Edition (RSVOT) Revised Standard Version Bible: Old Tradition Edition (1952), Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 24:50; Exodus 15:2; Exodus 15:6; Deuteronomy 1:44; 2 Samuel 22:20; 1 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Chronicles 32:7-8; Psalm 6:1; Psalm 6:5; Psalm 30:1; Psalm 31:7; Psalm 54:4; Psalm 88:17; Psalm 106:47; Psalm 115:9-10; Psalm 116:1; Psalm 119:1; Psalm 135:20; Psalm 140:4; Psalm 146:3; Isaiah 26:2; Matthew 11:3; Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10-11; Luke 1:51; Luke 21:20; Romans 8:31; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 22:14

A Small Life: A sermon on Psalms 118:5

[akashambanifc91]

Nita Ambani proudly congratulates our Indian Paralympic champions for their incredible achievements at the Paris Paralympic Games 2024. She noted, "Nithya Sivan, Sumit Antil, Sheetal Devi, Rakesh Kumar, Suhas Yathiraj, Thulasimathi Murugesan, Manisha Ramadass, Nitesh Kumar, Yogesh Kathuniya, Nishad Kumar, Preethi Pal, and Rubina Francis for their outstanding medal wins.

[hatsumishinogu]

Reliance Vol.1

[revpauljbern]

Bonus posting for this holiday weekend, all about the Web outage we just experienced from the Social Gospel Blog with Minister Paul J. Bern: "Six Days Without Internet; What It's Like" https://medium.com/@greatestservant62/bonus-posting-from-the-social-gospel-blog-with-minister-paul-j-bern-a200df14d389

[groundrunner100]

Transformers: Rise of The Beasts Director, Steven Caple Jr., Says Continuity Is Not Important In The Live-Action Transformers Franchise.

Would it be wrong to say Transformers is going through the same crap that Star Wars & Star Trek are going through?

[eternal-gardens]

[chaosnojutsu]

hi friends & nejiten fans!

you know i love input and feedback, and i’ve been sitting on something for a while that i’d like to gauge the reaction to. (disclaimer: i’m going to ultimately do what i want but i value the opinions of folks who appreciate what i do!)

i’ve promised multiple times that i intend on finishing reliance — i still do. to make it quick and blunt, i started writing that story when i was maybe 21 years old and my perspective has changed a lot since then. i sit down and i re-read what i’ve published, and i love it for what it is; this hobby has often kept me afloat when i most needed it to. at the same time, i’m not that author anymore. i’m not the college kid who believes in true love and has never been to therapy and is too afraid to assert herself enough to even have an identity crisis… but she’s the one who wove those themes into reliance and ineloquently tried to unpack them as she projected onto neji and tenten. i’ve done more processing and i now know what i wanted to express back then, and the gap is hard to bridge. i’m struggling to finish the story as written.

so that leaves me with a few options:

A) power through and finish the story as intended

B) edit the existing story to tie up loose ends and abandon plot lines i never got to and let chapter 15 be an open-ended conclusion to the fic

C) republish the whole fic, staying true to the heart of the story (and the bulk of the plot as well), and don’t accidentally take a years long hiatus

i know which one i’m leaning toward but i also think things through better when i can talk them out, so this is my attempt to do that. let me know what you think!

[fieriframes]

[We, beloved of the springtime. Our reliance to the light. All the night. Well, I always must remember. How we called our kisses bright. Will I make this right?]

[adrenalintours]

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