#AND LIKE! none of this is ADDRESSED

[bekkathyst]

I have now gotten two mysterious Amazon packages delivered to me with my name and address on them that I never ordered.

The first was some kid bunny ears and a small set of Minecraft legos, so I automatically assumed that someone sent that to us for the kiddo for Easter. There was no gift message included, so we didn't know who.

But then after asking all our friends and relatives, we realized that no one had ordered them. Weird.

Then, today, I hear a truck pull up and I jokingly said to Antonio "hey, maybe it's another mysterious package!"

So I looked out the window, and it was indeed an Amazon delivery driver. He dropped a package at our front door and left. No way.

I picked it up. Printed on the outside of the box was a picture of a toilet seat, and that was exactly what was inside. I felt absolute disbelief at this point. Our toilet seat had just started getting wonky like a week ago and I was thinking that I should replace it soon. The only person I said this to was Antonio. Neither of us ordered it, and if we had, we wouldn't have used Amazon anyway. Wtf. Not only that, but it perfectly fit our toilet?? Which, okay, there can't be that many sizes that exist so that's probably just a coincidence.

And again, no gift message or anything like that. Not that I wouldn't expect there to be, but I searched the package multiple times for some kind of explanation. Nothing.

It would be funny if it wasn't so weird. Idk what to make of any of this. Everyone in our lives swears they haven't sent us anything and I mean I believe them because it's such a random assortment of items.

I contacted amazon and they basically said "we can't tell you who purchased it because you didn't, but don't worry you can keep the items. If you don't want them, just give them away"

This is definitely the weirdest thing to happen so far this year lol

[bumblingbabooshka]

I know the most common fanon for Tuvok post Voyager is that he's mostly fine and one of more stable ones but I personally think it'd be funny if he cracked like a goddamn egg and went off the deep end for a few years before finding his way back to semi-normalcy. Janeway's like "Where's Tuvok?" and the answer is that he quit Starfleet, joined a temple, left the temple in the middle of the night to go wander around the desert, almost died but was taken in by a kindly old woman, lived with her for two months before she died, left the desert hut to alert her family and upon completing that task hopped on the first freighter off Vulcan, got stranded on a deserted asteroid after being the sole survivor of the crash, was rescued, mind melded with an alien who can see the future but died in the process and can't remember anything about it except for the vague feeling that he spoke with Kes, was brought back to life by Chakotay who told him that Janeway was looking for him [at which point he pointed out that Chakotay is also not in contact with Janeway and then ran away again], returned to Vulcan but only to find and climb to the top of a holy mountain which took several months and upon reaching the top he feels a sense of enlightenment which permeates his familial bonds as the first sign in almost a year that he's alive at all. Upon finishing his climb down the mountain he stays in a nearby village and serves in their temple for several more months until it's attacked by aliens because of some artifact hidden deep within the temple walls and he puts his tactical strategy to good use, fending off the attack. Harry Kim [first guy to essentially skip lieutenant class and go right to commander] appears and is like "You need to go home, man. People think you're dead." Then he goes home and joins Starfleet again and he's literally only allowed back in because of Janeway and Janeway accepts him out of her love for her crew and also because she's kind of worried that he'll join an ice fishing expedition or cult if she doesn't. This only adds to the lore of Voyager as a cursed ship and her Crew as all-in-the-family maniacs.

[jowithavianwings]

Meme

(The eighth amendment and habeus corpus for example)

[always-a-joyful-note]

Huntrix and Lucky Cyan would get along so well

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

HEY! FIFTEENTH DOCTOR! MR. THICK THICKETY THICK HEAD FROM THICKTOWN THICKANIA

JUST GO BACK TO THE DAY BEFORE THE DATE YOU CAN'T GET TO AND HANG OUT AWAY FROM YOUR OTHER SELVES FOR 24 HOURS

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

[dykedvonte]

Jimmy killing himself because he knows he is incapable of living an life without Curly and knows that in the miracle chance they were found and saved they would not let him have contact with Curly and he hates the idea he'd actually have to take responsibility.

Even if he lied, its only a matter of time before Curly is capable of showing or telling what a monster he really is, no matter what delusions tell Jimmy Curly would never do that to him.

He understands that he was the monster in everyone's worse moments but refused to accept that at the end. So he made sure that he died without the possibility of it being actualized as he's the only one that saw death as an escape rather than a release. Jimmy truly didn't believe Curly had anything to escape from even after everything and let him have what he perceived as glory as the sole survivor and thus Captain of the Tulpar.

[physicsgoblin]

I think one thing that some people don't realize is that emotion is not necessary for virtue. You do not have to feel as though you enjoy prayer or get some deep experience out of it every time. Do it anyway. You do not often feel grateful. Practice thanking God anyway even though it does not feel authentic. Denounce pride even though you do not feel a bit humble. By this I do not mean "go through the motions and slop through ritual" but acknowledge the way you feel (bored, numb, ungrateful--what point is there in hiding and pretending? God knows anyway) and order your will toward doing as you have been commanded, by quite literally thinking (or saying, provided you are in private) "I am practicing gratefulness even though I do not feel grateful, Lord, and I am sorry that I do not feel it."

I also do not mean to make light of sin, but sometimes rolling your eyes at those ridiculous prideful thoughts really is the best response. "Lord I'm sorry, it's a very foolish, arrogant thought." Then leave it. Give it no more attention. You might even have to tell it "I am giving you no more attentions." Humility is often about placing all things in their proper place and unbidden (and therefore, not sinful) thoughts should not be overly grieved as sin. And likewise, confessed nasty thoughts of pride and wrath should be consciously thrown back in the trash heap and forgotten. Don't try to suffer more than neccessary because you worry you aren't feeling sorry enough. Worry about conviction, which is often not an emotion at all.

The fruits of the spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control) are all actions. Emotions are an important part of us but they often overwhelm the will. I think for some people especially who are either deeply emotional or deeply numb (or both at once) it is a comfort to know that they can tuck them in the back seat with worry of being sinful.

Likewise, you don't have to feel anything to pray for people. I see things all the time that I know intellectually are tragic but I just don't have much emotion for because it isn't connected to me in any way. That's fine. I can pray for them anyway. I don't have to like evil people to pray for them. I can say "Lord I'm angry and I want justice done and I want this evil person stopped and I pray for their soul even though I'm angry." And then you know, confess the sin that I don't want to pray for their soul because I don't feel they deserve it. God knows anyway. I can't fake piety with Him or pretend I feel differently. But I can acknowledge it openly and intellectually acknowledge its wrongness.

[commsroom]

minkowski and hera (indirectly; to herself) are the only ones who call eiffel "doug", eiffel is the only one who calls minkowski "renée", hilbert is the only one who calls lovelace "isabel", and no one calls hilbert by (any of) his first names. kepler calls jacobi "daniel" and maxwell "alana", and maxwell and jacobi use each other's first names too, but neither of them ever calls him "warren" - the only person who does is rachel, while he calls her "miss young." pryce and cutter are the only people who use each other's first names (though cutter's habit of almost always only using first names is a whole other thing.)

[diazmaximoff]

Deck Nine The Cash-Grab Company on their way to erase LIS2's timeline from their games and pretend that none of the politically significant events, like Esteban's death or the border wall getting destroyed by two kids, ever happened:

[youareheaven]

Apple TV: no Slow Horses merch for u

me: ok

[softpine]

i like how we all collectively agreed that covid does not exist in any of our sims stories

[ruegarding]

I find it weird that Hera was willing to let Nico be sold to the Titan Army. Why did she think it was a good idea for their enemies to have a powerful demigod on their side? Especially one who would have been the Prophecy child if anything had happened to Percy. I mean, she could have just asked Geryon to kill him.

honestly i don't think rick put that much thought into it, considering it resolves before it becomes a big issue.

that being said, i think it could work.

in ttc, it's established that the gods are out of touch w the mortal world and have a hard time knowing when things are important enough to intervene (big reason rescuing artemis was so important).

so it could be that it didn't occur to her that nico could be that important of a player. percy has made a big name for himself already, while nico was barely a footnote at the time.

[purpurussy]

this merch situation really has cemented I need to delete this fkin blog bro some of u are so embarrassing it's been such a long time since I was able to log in here without getting pissed off. i fear some of u genuinely think dnp are your friends and it's making you stupid

[rragnaroks]

hello. it is i, your friendly neighbourhood goblin that pops up every now and then to scream about something new.

i love damien haas.

this has been a psa.

[idiotsonlyevent]

trying to determine everyone's ages has me feeling like i'm on an archeological digsite

[birdleaves]

i've been considering going by a different name for an absurdly long time now. no one told me how humiliating choosing one would be