#Idol destruction

[dapper-lil-arts]

I'm not the kind of person that's like "Here let me fix the canon" usually but like holy crap gen 5 implied a lot of messed up shit about our hero Twilight Sparkle lmao

[s-o-a-p-ing]

DEUTERONOMY S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 7

Wednesday, 4/5/23

SCRIPTURE:

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.   ...  This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession.   ~ Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 5-6

OBSERVATION:

The same holds true in my life - for the sin in my life...

...though He is the One doing the defeating, not me...

Still, I am to "...make no treaty with them and show them no mercy..."

What are the altars, sacred stones, Asherah poles, and idols - that I take for granted or ignore - in my life?

I am (supposed to be) "...holy to the Lord... chosen... to be His... His treasured possession..."

APPLICATION:

For the sin and disobedience in my life:

Destroy totally - show no mercy - make no excuses -

Break down, smash, cut down, and burn the things that serve to distract and lead to disobedience

Remember He has delivered me from them - through Jesus...

PRAYER:

Great and awesome loving Lord Father God - I ask forgiveness for my failure to remove all temptations I know I should be rid of, that allowing myself to look away from Your will for even a brief second is admitting I've not destroyed, deleted, thrown away those idols and sinful desires Your Son came to rescue me from... Thank You that Your Spirit continues to point out ways to better serve You, to remind me of how and what You have done to the enemy - the Pharaoh - in my life...  May I not be terrified of my failures, but rejoice in Your Presence and have patience with Your timing... In Jesus's Name, Father, and for Your praiseful, worshipful glory in all things...

One last thought, if I may... the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites - what about the Websites?

For Him... for you... for yours...

g

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[rocketqueen1989x]

i need them inside of me

[sakuyumo]

Oh, behold your one and only perfect idol! 🕊️🫧

[penguinkyun]

STOP GUILT TRIPPING HIM

[idol--hands]

🤖 Oh, do all androids look the same?

Is THAT what you’re trying to say?! A rare VHS copy of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode featuring “DataLore”, where the back image shows Brent Spiner’s stunt double (this Tumblr post includes snippets of Wil Wheaton explaining how he got fired for being annoying).

⚡️ Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/n9apf3/the_datalore_vhs_from_the_80s_clearly_showed/

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Everyone arguing about Stannis, JonCon, Jaime, god forbid Jorah being the 1000th commander of the NW….when it will be Jon again 🌚

[starshine-valley]

Random ships to consider (i like their dynamics in my mix n’ match au :DD and doesn’t really have to be considered “romantic” per say could be a friendship type thing!!)

RuiEna

Mafusaki

Akihona

Shizukasa

Shihoan

These ships in my au are not necessarily canon? But they have the most interactions that are interesting and ship worthy. 

[stimming-puppet]

"my haters will perish" 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9

[throwaway-yandere]

Classical Conditioning is finished but I have zero fricking clue if I'm making sense I feel like a mad scientist and I am blaming Dottore for my current mental state LMAO

[surrogate-gaia-art]

Once the most populated district within RatTown, Rubble City is a massive crater in the middle of the ruined city. Thousand of great-houses lie toppled and crumbling, while the wind echoes through empty brickhouses and collapsing tunnels.

Whoever lived in this vast expanse is long gone; the Ratkin scattered underground or into the mountains centuries ago. What does remain is a great concentration of Nest Idols swarming the area like ghosts.

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Made 25th of April 2022

Part of my Fantasy setting - Warmonster

[usermoon]

character/story/oc inspiration tag

rules: write up a blurb or make a visual collage of the people or characters (from books, TV shows, movies, etc.) that inspired your story and/or OC, either visually, personality wise, or just a general vibe

i just had to do it again for my girl terri

[rocketqueen1989x]

fr

[always-a-joyful-note]

How do I explain this? (Spoilers for Enstars Sanctuary story)

Sanctuary is the story of a guy who woke up in a strange world with weird looking monsters and empty streets with a guy who was his former theatre club president. Except the theatre club president (implied to be a bit of a cryptid except this world definitely has no magic) had somehow mentally regressed back to his five-year-old self, which is fine because he's a genius, and now the guy and his former club president have to deal with this strange place together. But the side story is that two of his friends are being shown around what is basically a cult disguised as an amusement park to indoctrinate people into believing they can become idols and apply to work in that industry. And there's also another side story in which the guy's other friend is being harassed by a middle aged man who's kidnapped their goddess, basically, and is also the mastermind behind the overarching plot in the villainous sense. Also, the former theatre club president's new team, specifically that team's leader, is perpetuating the idol cult because he's got a twisted obsession with idols and believes that to farm them is the only way they won't be discouraged by those with exceptional talent and skill.

But in reality, this is just the story of a lonely teenager who could only find a little bit of freedom to express his abandoned child self in a messed up system that another teenager (who is very smart but just doesn't understand human relationships) created because he cares about nothing but in reality cares about everything and perpetuates a cycle of constant destruction to keep his one obsession alive.

But even further than that, Sanctuary and the whole SS ARC is just a story of a bunch of high schoolers/recent high school graduates who want to sing getting tangled up in a very dangerous mafia-esque world and sometimes realizing that they should call the police or some law reinforcement but forgetting to do so every. single. time.

[projectmayhem-stims]

A NEW MEMBER ARRIVES

💫 💫 💫

🎀 🎀 🎀

🎤 🎤 🎤

[nerdynikki94]

Honestly? Did I want more from DTAMHD? Yes, I did. I wanted something signifying actual progression for Dennis' character (even just a crumb of genuine growth) , and I sincerely don't think we got that. However... we did get a fascinating insight into the process of his mind. Dennis' level of self-denial is so ironic and profound. He can't acknowledge the inevitability that he's middle-aged.

(I swear this episode honestly has given me an alt hc, that the show is based in his mind; because logistically, a man of his lifestyle and malnourishment could not commit the feats he is constantly sailing through. TGGB & DTAMHD... back-to-back? What happened to his hand? Did he even sprain it? Or is he just the most dramatic brat in the gang - clearly the latter.)

It is important to note that he didn’t fix the actual problem. He momentarily masked the symptoms, but ignore long-term help with blood pressure medicine is not going to fix the issue, nor is it going to protect him from fucking keeling over in a stressful situation (when he's not in a contained and quiet Doctor's exam room) and his blood pressure spikes.

I'm honestly a little jaded at this point (16 Fucking Seasons of crumbs, y'all), but if one were to continue 'trusting the structure' this episode conveyed a lot.

The B Plot: The pressure cooker. The metaphor parallels the building pressure Dennis quick-tempered bouts of rage. So, to toss out a little 'cat-in-the-wall' conjecture here: The pressure cooker is Dennis, but we all saw him eat that bloody diamond in the end and we all heard Mac's speech about coal turning into diamonds under massive pressure. Dennis' experience is a theory of pressure, he daydreams it all in the span of a minute or so. He's roleplaying with hypothetical obstacles. There's no risk. Maybe Dennis, isn't the pressure cooker, but the coal.

If I were to try and take anything hopeful out of this episode, it would be the way the narrative is showing us that this episode acknowledged that Dennis isn't ready yet. It's not his turn to break. It's going to take real, substantial pressure to get that diamond.

It was a hell of a misdirect (and honestly a little bit of a slap in the face), but if these characters live in the real world, where people are bound by the laws of mortality, then Dennis should have his time.

Genuinely, who fucking knows?

I'm not hating on the episode. We all know this is the trashy dick joke sitcom. I just thought that if Mac & Charlie could have moments of genuine heartbreak, culminating in deep catharsis, that maybe Dennis could have that too.... but no.

Can't wait to see the sunny dudebros miss the point & proclaim Dennis Reynolds - SA victim, traumatized individual with an emotionally tumultuous personality disorder - the new Andrew Tate.

I'm sorry, but yeah. I'm a little miffed. It was all a dream, and everything goes Dennis' way. Y'all I'm fucking tired. This was a great episode for Glenn, but a fucking frustrating episode for Dennis. I may have wanted a little macden, but all I cared about was seeing Dennis face the limitations of his mortality, to see that he's failing his body and his brain. He didn't have to actually take the medicine (I wouldn't expect him to), but Goddammit, everything seems to work out in his delusional favor. So, of course he's going to continue being delusional, and probably only change for the worse.

I'll say it: I wanted a broken Dennis, and we did not get that. He didn't even crack, the unbearble and apparently now canonical Golden God. That episode's title was intended to tease sunnyblr.

Excuse the plethora of tags. I just kept getting more irritated.