#Grief and Praise

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[lesbianmaxevans]

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 2024 ⤷ Day 1: Brandon Lee as Eric Draven in The Crow (1994)

[firstfullmoon]

What’s left now / to praise? Everything.

Kevin Young, from “Elegy for Heaney”

[yamperzzz]

I just watched "bridge mankind collapse" and I swear to god that shit just altered my brain chemistry forever regarding MadCom animations

[syncogon]

— Cheng Xiaoshi, you were amazing.

Link Click Live Action (2024)

[spurgie-cousin]

i would watch so many more movies and shows based on Jesus Times but i have the disease where too many historical inaccuries gives me actual hives. like i watched the trailers for that show all the fundies like about Jesus, and why the fuck are Christian production companies so allergic to brown people THERE WOULD'VE BEEN SO MANY MORE BROWN PEOPLE Jesus himself was almost certainly not light skinned it makes me feel crazy

my mom was like "do you wanna watch the chosen this Easter" so i was like sure, let me check it out real quick. and now i know for a fact she's going to hate watching it with me bc i won't shut up about the white people

[chi-the-idiot]

Started reading Waverider.

Dropped it immediately because its bad.

My disappointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined.

[not-so-daily-slug-cat]

draw ur oc maybe even his sister i just want to see the silly

Day 39

[permanentreverie]

MY PARENTS ARE GETTING DIVORCED 🎉🥳🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🥳🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🥳🎉🎊🎉🥳

[feedmysheepministry]

Thursday , December 5, 2024

LIFE AND PRIORITIES

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.--------James 4:14

​INSPRITATION

We face the issue of time management each day. We manage our work schedule, daily routine, and a monthly list of events. What do we consider priorities; work, family, entertainment, or education? We often place worldly business over worship, prayer, and Bible Study. As we think about tomorrow, next week, or the month ahead, we must remember that we have devoted our lives to the LORD, and He always comes first. We will include Him in our planning for His blessing and direction.

​PRAYER

Dear Lord, We want You involved in every moment. As we make plans for days ahead, You come first! Please teach us to manage our time accordingly. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

By: Daily Devotion

​Join us for Virtual Worship- Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM Central Time. Click on the link below to join:

https://meet.google.com/agt-baav-ipw?authuser=0

[townofcadence]

💐 :3c

Send 💐to receive a bouquet

His heart thumps hard as he holds out the flowers to Butch, as if he might--- know. Still, it keeps from his face, as he passes him the bouquet to him. "Um.....here. For you."

It's a bit of a mixture of flowers. Berries are mixed throughout the flowers, round and a dark purple, almost black in small bunches. A large red flower sticks out like a devil's tail right from the center, tapered to a point with small pointed petals all the way to the tip. It is surrounded by yellow and reds. The yellows are dapples of small orchid shaped flowers, and clusters of honeysuckle and fennel cut short. The red and purples are bright, both four petaled flowers in small patches that pop amongst the yellows. Coin-shaped leaves tie the flowers together.

[klugpuuo]

anyway can we please thank telltale for indirectly confirming my drunk sam hcs in poker night 2. thank you telltale

[aitogi]

[戦国無双] ~四国遠征の章~ [Sengoku Musou] ~Shikoku Ensei no Shou~

[manwalksintobar]

Prayer  // Carol Ann Duffy

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth enters our hearts, that small familiar pain; then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales console the lodger looking out across a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer - Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.