#Disciples of the Land

[autumnslance]

"When you and your fellows launched the Ragnarok and took to the heavens, you…placed your faith in our work. Maybe you didn't have a choice. Maybe that was truly the last option left to mankind. But you─and the rest of the Scions onboard that ship─meant everything to us. Your safe return…meant everything to us. We all gave the Ragnarok strict instructions, you see. We told her to spare nothing in bringing you back. Even if it meant falling apart in the process. …And the old girl listened. Belated though the fanfare may be, allow us to officially welcome you home, [WoL]. You are and always will be the pride of Labyrinthos."

"...We made it home alive, thanks to you."

-"The Pride of Labyrinthos", Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Patch 6.5 "Growing Light"

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4: Deranged Bedfellows

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.5)

[whatsthatmagiccard]

One day, I want to play Manaless Dredge just to see what it's like. I won't let the power consume me.

[fauvester]

XJ nearly gets expelled from bai zhan peak in his second year for his truly astonishing lack of respect for authority (which in and of itself is impressive, nobody has ever gotten bureaucratically kicked off of bai zhan peak, although many have been physically) and is only saved by SQQ's quick thinking in ostentatiously offering to bring him into qing jing peak as a disciple ("If Bai Zhan has proven itself unequal to forging a fine sword from first-rate material, then it would be my pleasure to show them how it's done") and offending LQG's sense of pride. like LQG has never seen this kid but shidi thinks he's good enough to steal away? no THANK you that is HIS disciple.

SQQ on the inside is so big mad at his godson. like for REAL. YOU DID NOT LEARN THIS BEHAVIOR FROM ME.

[trickster666]

i love posting dark disciples with little to no context

[p1tstop]

Charles Leclerc wins in Monaco ©️ Getty

[asmeeneh]

[aethernoise]

Plants and rocks, wahoo! Finally finished my Lodestar tools for BTN & MIN.

This feels good because I started both of these relics many patches ago and stalled out HARD. I think my down to the wire procrastination style gave me the attention span I needed to finish them up lol

(...I don't think I'm going to finish the fishing rod before DT but that's alright. I have the Crystalline one which is still very pretty)

[albertfinch]

April 16, 2024 - Exhortation

"He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag." (Deuteronomy 32:13)

Where the sting of hope deferred, heartbreak, and devastation has struck your life, He is now striking the rock on your behalf. From the rock will flow honey as a healing balm, to restore and repair the ruin caused from the pain and trauma of the onslaught of enemy attack. He will nourish you with honey and oil from the rock, for He is your Rock. His honey will bring deep, nourishing, and lasting healing to your soul. (Proverbs 16:24).

Where life has stung you and left you rejected, robbed, and wounded, Jesus was wounded for all our transgressions. We are invited to exchange our hurts and pain to live empowered in the ascended life that He modled for us as co-heirs, adopted into the Kingdom of God, and authorized citizens of Heaven. God is pouring out His healing balm into your every wound and healing and restoring you from all their effects. Receive it!

Even those that you thought would be impossible to reach will now become as the land where milk and honey will flow.

This speaks of the river of living water you have been hoping for that is now flowing from you into the lives of the other new believers you are discipling into their Christ identity. These things are now being touched by the miracle-working God of the impossible to manifest in and through your life, and your "land" – your Christ calling.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[cave-monkey]

I think one of my favorite thinks about LMK is that Sun Wukong genuinely feels stupid old sometimes in the sense I am genuinely unsure if he knows the difference between a 2yo, a 12yo, and a 20yo. All the characters are fully grown adults, but Sun Wukong is over here treating it like a wacky preteen adventure show because he has no clue. MK probably told him his age once and Mr. Great Sage straight blue-screened for a second doing mental calculus trying to remember what that means for mortals and he still hasn't figured it out. Old enough to be away from his parents some of the time, sure, obviously, but like...only two decades? That's not very many. How many of those do humans usually get?

When he's not tossing it on the mental pile of 'probably not important' he's trying to figure it out from context like a name you don't want to admit you forgot. This has cleared up exactly nothing.

[softly-and-suddenly]

When I found out that in his Waste Land endnotes T.S. Eliot said that the stanza “Who is the third who walks always beside you? / When I count, there are only you and I together / But when I look ahead up the white road / There is always another one walking beside you / Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded / I do not know whether a man or a woman / —But who is that on the other side of you?” was inspired by Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition when the explorers fell under the delusion that there was always one more person there with them than there actually was, my brain shattered into a million pieces and I never recovered.

[autumnslance]

Anden: Whenever you come to visit me, [WoL], I can't help but think of Ardbert. Anden: It was winter's end, the snow melting in the valley… “Back to our journey,” said he. “But sooner than you think, we'll meet again.” …And that was the last I saw of him! Anden: As far as I'm concerned, the only real villainy he's guilty of is keeping me waiting here so long! No matter what the rumors claimed, I always hoped to see them all crossing the valley again someday, hale and whole. Laughing together, as once we did… Anden: Oooh, you didn't come to hear my sorrowful musings! Still, whenever I look at you, I feel as though something of Ardbert is there in your eyes… Heh, what a silly thing to say. My apologies. Anden: Promise me something, though, won't you? Go and visit your old friends from time to time. They miss you more than you could ever imagine.

One of the weekly post-custom delivery turn-in conversation options with Anden.

[apparentlyautistick]

The red ink has possessed me so

[falseandrealultravival]

A Priest and His Disciples (by Hyakuzo Kurata): Book review

Shinran(親鸞）

The play consists of six acts, and the two characters, Shinran, the founder of the Jodo Shinshu sect, and Yuien, who served him well, appear throughout the play. The age difference is just 50 years old, and it feels like the relationship between a grandfather and a grandson. Shinran will live to be 90 years old, but Yuien will die when he is 40 years old and will be reborn in the Pure Land. It seems that the process up to that point was a very difficult road.

In the first place, the teachings of Honen (Shinran) are based on Amida Nyorai's wish that ``If you do not realize that you are an evil person and save all the ``villains'' who seek your salvation, you will not become a Buddha. And since Amida Nyorai has already attained Buddhahood, even the wicked are saved.” There is no such thing as a perfect human being, and from the perspective of a perfect Tathagata, everyone is the same villain. Here lies the secret of the “absolute power of others” of the Jodo sect and the Jodo Shin sect.

By the way, even if Shinran and Yuien entered the path of faith, their worldly desires would never go away.

In the case of Yuien, when he was 25 years old and in his prime, he had an unforgiving love affair with a 16-year-old courtesan, Kaede. When the senior monks notice this, they accuse Yuien of saying that love is forbidden and ask Shinran to banish him from the temple. This attitude was as ruthless as the Pharisees of Christianity.

Shinran's answer to this was, ``It is true that Yuien may be a bad person. It is because he is a bad person that he is here.” Although it violated the general precepts of Buddhism, it was a reasonable judgment in terms of the doctrine of the Pure Land Gate.

Time passes further, and Shinran is 90 years old and is on his deathbed. Yuien is also 40 years old, married to him "Kaede" named "Katsunobu", and she has two cute children. For Shinran, the last worldly desire in this world was Zenran, the child he had when he was in exile. Zenran liked debauchery and was a do-it-yourself son, so Shinran severed the relationship between parent and child. However, after meeting him at the end of his life, Shinran will leave this world and go to the Pure Land.

[chibisatou]

New Adventurer Portraits Let’s Goooooo!

This is my main, Satou Saothru, my first FFXIV character and the most played, with the perfect green and yellow hair that I remain obsessed with.

Adventurer plate and my warrior images were carried over so they are the same, but all of the new quick portraits are under the cut!

Disciples of War and Magic:

I have not picked up Sage yet.

Disciples of the Land:

Disciples of the Hand:

Other glamour oriented gearsets:

I tried to make dynamic portraits that captured some movement. I’m pleased with how little repetition there was in poses, even with the DoL and DoH sharing some poses with paladins. 

I had a lot of fun making these and look forward to seeing other player’s portraits!

[reverendpastor]

One of my fellow Churchgoers just informed me that the Holy Land Experience in Florida is permanently closed. I am filled with both rage and sadness at this news. The Lord had called me there, but there were worldly circumstances which prevented me. I thought I’d share other places the Lord is leading me to:

- Ark Encounter

- Creation Museum

- Dollywood

- Ebenezer Baptist Church

- Holy Land USA Waterbury

I pray that whether or not it is God’s plan to bring me to these Holy places, whoever sees this might be so inclined as to go there, and feel closer to Him. Amen.