#Kristin Lewis

[youngfcs]

[ FEMALE FCS OF CHINESE DESCENT ] - Part 1

Anna Cathcart (2003) - Born in Canada | Chinese and Irish descent

Brianne Tju (1998) - Born in USA | Chinese and Indonesian descent

Chase Sui Wonders (1996) - Born in USA | Chinese (father's side) and European (mother's side)

Elkie Chong (1998) -  Born in Hong Kong | Chinese descent

Fernanda Ly (1995) -  Born in Australia | Chinese, and possibly, Vietnamese descent

Genevieve Kang (1992) - Born in Canada | Chinese (father's side) and Portuguese (mother's side) descent

Jessica Sula (1994) - Born in Wales | Chinese, Afro-Trinidadian (mother's side), Estonian and German (father's side) descent

Kristin Kreuk (1982) - Born in Canada | Chinese [Born in Indonesia] (mothe's side), Chinese-Jamaican (maternal grandmother's side) and Dutch (father's side) descent

Leah Lewis (1996) - Born in China | Chinese descent

[pasturelamb]

None Shall Sleep Halloween Costumes!!

It's that time of year again y'all.

Emma and Travis dressed as Sherlock and Watson. Or Travis dressed as a mailman and Emma dressed as a love letter. OMG Travis and Emma as Wesley and Buttercup from the princess bride.

Emma and Kristin matching... Emma as Gomez and Kristin as Morticia.

Simon and Travis dressed as Jack and Ennis from brokeback mountain... no I will not elaborate.

Simon and Kristin dressed as Dexter and Debra Morgan. Simon in Dexter's murder getup. Kristin would absolutely be slaying in Debra's police uniform. Or Kristin dressed as Bo Peep and Simon as the lamb lol.

Group costumes... Alice in wonderland. Emma as Alice of course. Travis as the white rabbit. Kristin as the Queen of Hearts. Simon as, who else, the Mad Hatter.

Supernatural group costume save me... Simon as Dean, Kristin as Sam, Travis as Castiel and Emma as Crowley.

SALTBURN. Emma as Oliver, Travis as Farleigh, Simon as Felix and Kristin as Venetia.

SCOOBY GANG. Not sure who would be who tho.

Barbie movie group costume. Again not sure who would be who.

@dumbleb33 Happy Halloween!

[churchblogmatics-blog]

Books for spiritual formation

Books that have left an indelible mark on my understanding of God or the Christian faith in some way. My spiritual development is unfinished, so this list is unfinished - I'm always open to suggestions

Soren Kierkegaard

The Sickness Unto Death - Explained how sin works psychologically, illustrates how it can be its own punishment

Works of Love - What it means to love, what it costs, what it gives us

Fear and Trembling - What faith means, its miraculous nature

Karl Barth

Evangelical Theology - What theology actually means, how the gospel is good news

The Epistle to the Romans - Shows the need for continual reformation of thought within the church, introduced (to me) the idea of God's freedom in communication to man

Church Dogmatics II.2 - Election is good news! It is God willing to choose humanity despite sin - universal reconciliation can and should be hoped for

The Journal of John Woolman

What undying commitment to justice means, what it looks like

Martin Luther King Jr

Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Made me understand how Romans 13:1 can be integrated into radical politics

A Gift of Love - Brought to life 1 John 4:20

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

A narrative illustration of unwavering faith

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas Kempis

What we're saved to, salvation has a telos

Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood - Life without Christ, the perils of sola scriptura

A Good Man is Hard to Find - Shows grace as an intrusive lived experience

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead novels (Gilead, Home, Lila) - Rich illustration of Imago Dei

When I Was a Child I Read Books - Bolstered my understanding of the 8th commandment (reading with charitable intent, in interactions with others in life and on the page)

What Are We Doing Here? - Illustrates what the glory of God means in daily experience

Garry Wills

What Paul Meant - Paul and Jesus were of a unified mind, stop reading Paul as a bible thumper, start reading him as a man who loved dearly and wrote with urgency on live issues

Religio Medici, Thomas Browne

Ecumenism is a beautiful thing and should be strived for in all Christian communities

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

The gospel brings peace of mind and soul, searching for peace is a valid epistemology

Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

Wickedness is not inevitable, it arises from moral and intellectual sluggardliness

The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn to love the church, it is the arms of Christ; great exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount; great companion to the book of James

White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by racism at the root

Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes du Mez

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by misogyny at the root

C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce - Eternity begins now, sin is its own punishment and grace is its own reward

Till We Have Faces - God has compassion and patience for those who wrestle with him, to summon the boldness to contend with God can be a blessed thing

The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich

The dynamics of Christian faith explained in the abstract

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The thinness of intellectual assent, the richness of faith

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker

Explanation of the existential need faith meets in the language of continental philosophy

Confessions, St. Augustine

The most theologically and philosophically rich testimony besides that of St. Paul

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity, Jonathan Edwards

What is the trinity, why is it important

John Milton

Areopagitica - Enforced virtue means nothing

Paradise Lost - Human beings are worth saving even if they aren't deserving of God's favor

Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud

Illustrates the necessity of grace by exploring a world through the assumption of its absence (excellent foil to A Gift of Love)

[dumbleb33]

thinking about Emma, Travis, and Kristin at the bar in the beginning of some shall break. Kristin saying she could go for a long island iced tea and Travis replying that they don't serve tea at a bar. the cops buying Emma a drink and her chugging it in front of them despite being 19. the EmmaTravis argument outside the bar.

God it’s all so good it’s actually insane like. Such power moves from those three all the time it’s wild I love them

[elsie-talisman]

i need everyone to understand i’m having a legit breakdown

because this man right here

who i have been having very conflicting feelings towards because for the seven episodes of criminal minds he’s been in i’ve hated him, loathed him, hoped he would never be in a ship with emily, become a bemily stan, felt sorry for him and now after episode seven i’m really starting to like him (dupe hotch)

he (apparently-i’m still in a state of disbelief) stars in one of my most favourite sitcoms ever!!!!

(yes that is him with kristin chenoweth and jayma mays aka miss pillsbury watch the show the cast is elite)

trial and error was funny and irreverent and generally just an amazing mockumentary style sitcom that got cancelled WAY too soon! but i have watched this show … probably a dozen times and he looked the EXACT same and i in no way made the connection!

either i was blinded by rage when we met bailey or i’m just blind, but it’s now completely impacted how i see douglas bailey and i can’t even hate him now!!!

[briefcupcakealpaca]

THE GATHERING. Sasnak City. 2-5 November 2023. Kansas City, USA.

www.sasnakcity.com

[camyfilms]

REBECCA 2020

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. 

[ruleof3bobby]

APOSTLE (2018) Grade: C- 

Could've been better. The script was muddled with too much getting explain in a short time. A lot was happening. Wasn't a horror, more like a fantasy thriller.  

[shafershouse]

Books Read: 2018

January 

Carrie (Stephen King) 

reread

The Shunning (Beverly Lewis)

February

The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo)

reread

March

The Shining (Stephen King)

reread

April

Survive! (Les Stroud)

May

Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King)

reread

June

11/22/63 (Stephen King)

reread

July

5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman)

Four Past Midnight (Stephen King)

Catherine, Called Birdy (Karen Cushman)

reread

August

Insomnia (Stephen King)

September

Alice In Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

October

so much creepypasta

The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

November

The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)

December

Different Seasons (Stephen King)

reread

The Green Mile (Stephen King)

reread

An Anonymous Girl (Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen)

The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)

The Last Time I Lied (Riley Sager)

[graciehart]

Emily’s Follower Appreciation Event 🌷 ⤷ 💝 I GOT YOU: a f.r.i.e.n.d.s playlist

when colors turn to shades of grey with the weight of the world at the end of the day, oh, what would I do without you?

for @userlaylivia ♡ playlist / songs ↘

Friends is a show about friends who become your family, so this is a playlist of songs for those people; songs I hope would bring comfort, reassurance, and strength.

SATELLITE CALL by Sara Bareilles / "this is so you'll know the sound / of someone who loves you from the ground / tonight you're not alone at all / this is me sending out my satellite call." Starting this playlist with a reminder that no matter where you are, you're not alone—I'm reaching out with my heart, sending out a satellite call to you anywhere you are, reminding you I'm here.

PLEASE STAY by Lucy Dacus / One of my favorite parts of this song is when she sings "call me if you need a friend or never talk to me again, but please stay." It feels like such pure, unselfish love—if you need me I'm here, or if you choose to never talk to me again, that's okay as long as you stay.

CALL YOUR MOM by Noah Kahan & Lizzy McAlpine / "Don't let this darkness fool you / all lights turned off can be turned on / I'll drive, I'll drive all night / I'll call your mom." Whatever you need, I'll do it, as long as you get through this with me.

BE STILL by the Fray / This was sent to me by someone when I was having a really hard time, and I remember crying on my bed, listening to this song as though it could surround me in a hug. To me, it's a hug in song form.

SURROUND YOU by Echosmith / "Wherever you are / whenever you need me / just crawl in my arms / oh, and I'll hold you beside me / I want my love to surround you."

HAS ANYONE EVER WRITTEN ANYTHING FOR YOU by Stevie Nicks / This is another song that was sent to me by someone and I'm so glad; I probably never would've heard it otherwise. The lyrics are so beautiful. My favorites are: "so if not for me then do it for yourself / if not for me then do it for the world." Find a reason to keep going... no matter what it is, it's enough.

YOU MATTER TO ME by Jessie Mueller & Drew Gehling / Even though this song has some romantic undertones, it doesn't necessarily have to be romantic. And it's one of my favorites because the message is so simple and so profound: you matter to me. What you say matters, your very existence matters to me.

FOR GOOD by Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth / Nothing I could say could ever do this song justice, and the lyrics really say it all.

WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU by Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors / The featured lyrics in this gifset are from this song, and it has such a beautifully simple message: what would I do without you?

LET YOUR HEART HOLD FAST by Fort Atlantic / "This too shall pass" in song form.

CALL ME ON YOUR WAY HOME by Emily James / There are so many was to say "I love you," including "text me when you wake up" and "call me on your way home."

SOMEONE WHO LOVES ME by Sara Bareilles / Some of the most beautiful lyrics I've ever heard and what I hope all of my friends feel with someone in their lives, whether it be me or someone else.

I GOT YOU by Leona Lewis / "For better, for worse / I got you."

FEELS LIKE by Gracie Abrams / One of my favorite songs to begin with and all the more so when I found out it was written about her best friend. I love the feeling of wonder it describes—"met you at the right time / this is what it feels like."

I'M ONLY ME WHEN I'M WITH YOU by Taylor Swift / Such a beautiful way of describing friendship and a beautiful type of friendship to experience, one I hope all my friends experience.

WITH YOU by Colorfire / This song always reminds me of friendship because when I graduated middle school, one of the friends in my friend group made a video of us to this song. I like how it says "keep turning, turning;" there's a feeling of time passing in the song, but that friendship and relationship stays constant.

SWEETER THAN FICTION by Taylor Swift / "I'll be one of the many saying look at you now, look at you now / I'll be one of the many saying you made us proud, you made us proud."

RAINBOW by Kacey Musgraves / A final hope for this playlist: hope that you'll make your way to the other side, that you'll be able to see the rainbow that's been there, maybe hidden out of view. A promise that when you can't have hope, I'll have enough hope for the both of us until that hope—that rainbow—is once again visible.

[margaretthotcher]

Queer Book Recommendations

It's pride season in Wellington, New Zealand and my local library has published its second "Teen Staff Picks" zine! In that spirit, I bring you, a collection of lesser-known queer books featured in the two that have been released so far! I've narrowed the lists down to books that have 1000 or fewer reviews on Goodreads as of posting (though I actually use Storygraph personally). I haven't read most of these, they're new to me as well but looking forward to getting into them.

Sapphic

Trouble Girls - Julia Lynn Rubin

Planning Perfect - Haley Neil

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches - Kate Scelsa

The Meadows - Stephanie Oakes

Never Trust a Gemini - Freja Nicole Woolf

This Is All Your Fault - Aminah Mae Safi

The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet - Jake Maia Arlow

Youngblood - Sasha Laurens

In the Role of Brie Hutchens - Nicole Melleby

Achillean

We Are Totally Normal - Rahul Kanakia

Two Can Play That Game - Leanne Yong

Blaine for the Win - Robbie Couch

I Like Me Better - Robby Weber

The Language of Seabirds - Will Taylor

The Feeling of Falling in Love - Mason Deaver

Charming Young Man - Eliot Schrefer

Emmett - L. C. Rosen

Pages I Never Wrote - Marco Donati

Trans Characters

Across a Field of Starlight - Blue Delliquanti

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure - Lewis Hancox

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club - Page Powars

If I Can Give You That - Michael Gray Bulla

Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic - G. Haron Davis

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity - Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Magical Boy - The Kao

Kisses For Jet: A Coming-of-Gender Story - Joris Bas Backer

Between Perfect and Real - Ray Stoeve

Featuring Queer People of Colour

Ander & Santi Were Here - Jonny Garza Villa

The Loophole - Naz Kutub

Spell Bound - F. T. Lukens

Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues - H. S. Valley

Rise to the Sun - Leah Johnson

Never Kiss Your Roommate - Philline Harms

Rainbow! - Bloom & Sunny

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales - Melanie Gillman

Anne of Greenville - Mariko Tamaki

[pasturelamb]

Grenier: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “Simon Gutmunsson” 🥀😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯🤣

Emma: yeah whatever. I've smoked this strain before.

5 minutes later: dude it turns out Simon and countless others have seen the videos of the most traumatic thing to ever happen to me and i think the college killer wants me personally and i feel weirdly sad about the idea of letting Simon die also my therapist is in the hospital and i might be bisexual

Her buddy Travis pacing: Kristin is hiding something from us

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in July 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy July! Pride Month may be over, but remember: Read Queer ALL Year. Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Earth to Alis - Lex Carlow 🧡 Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts - Adam Sass 💛 The Sky on Fire - Jenn Lyons 💚 The Meaning of Liberty - Sage Donnell 💙 Making It - Laura Kay 💜 The Black Bird of Chernobyl - Ann McMan ❤️ A Map of My Want - Faylita Hicks 🧡 The Devil You Know - Ali Vali 💛 The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power - Various 💙 The Second Son - Adrienne Tooley 💜 Cursed Under London - Gabby Hutchinson Crouch 🌈 Forbidden Girl - Kristen Zimmer

❤️ Rise - Freya Finch 🧡 Undercurrent - Patricia Evans 💛 Online Rebellion - Blue Matt Jeff 💚 Wolf Gift - T.J. Nichols 💙 Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream - Tehlor Kay Mejia 💜 Miller: Origin - Starr Z. Davies ❤️ The Shadows Beyond - T.J. Rose 🧡 The Ones Who Come Back Hungry - Amelinda Bérubé 💛 Their Viscountess - Jess Michaels 💙 Fast Holiday - Kerry Lockhart 💜 The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky - Josh Galarza 🌈 The West Passage - Jared Pechaček

❤️ The Hades Calculus - Maria Ying 🧡 Misrecognition - Madison Newbound 💛 One Last Summer - Kristin Keppler 💚 Waypoint Seven - Xan van Rooyen 💙 Hiding Him - Adam Hattan 💜 Thousand Autumns - Meng Xi Shi, Me.Mimo ❤️ The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game - Various 🧡 Rowan & Aldred - Lucie Fleury 💛 Yoke of Stars - R.B. Lemberg 💙 Casting Vows - Ariella Talix 💜 Count Felford's Vessel - S. Rodman

❤️ The Actor and His Secret - Ben Alderson, Laura R. Samotin 🧡 How To Die Famous - Benjamin Dean 💛 So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 💚 The Amazing Alpha Tau Romeo and Juliet Project - Lisa Henry, Sarah Honey 💙 The Noble’s Merman - S.S. Genesee 💜 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford ❤️ Life is Strange - Brittney Morris 🧡 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 💛 I Will Never Leave You - Kara A. Kennedy 💙 The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington 💜 Under the Lupine Moon - A. Knightley

❤️ Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf - Deke Moulton 🧡 Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher - Katie Siegel 💛 The Ghostkeeper - Johanna Taylor 💚 Trespass Against Us - Leon Kemp 💙 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 💜 The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl - Bart Yates ❤️ Unbound - J.A. Vodvarka 🧡 StreamLine - Lauren Melissa Ellzey 💛 Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield 💙 No Road Home - John Fram 💜 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌈 A Darker Mischief - Derek Milman

❤️ Beautiful & Terrible Things - S.M. Stevens 🧡 Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back Time - Elle Beaumont, Lou Wilham 💛 About Last Night - Laura Henry 💚 You Had Me at Happy Hour - Timothy Janovsky 💙 Moonbane - Jamie Jennings 💜 Between Fate & Failure - Amber D. Lewis ❤️ Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System - Robin Jo Margaret 🧡 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💛 Twisted Magic - Barbara J. Webb 💙 Rare Birds - L.B. Hazelthorn 💜 At the End of the River Styx - Michelle Kulwicki 🌈 Origin Story - Jendi Reiter

❤️ Eras of Us - Shannon O'Connor 🧡 Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema - Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner 💛 A Wolf in Stone - Jane Fletcher 💚 Toward Eternity - Anton Hur 💙 Portrait of a Shadow - Meriam Metoui 💜 Anyone's Ghost - August Thompson ❤️ Home Ice Advantage - Ari Baran 🧡 Unbelievable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💛 Incorrect Eyes - Andromeda Ruins

[dumbleb33]

feeling sad about Kristin... she'll never stop living in the shadow of what Simon has done... she'll never be more than a killer's sister... I honestly don't think she can be her own person while Simon is still alive... she's too codependent with him... Kristin is so special and tragic to me I love her.

I love her so much. She is so everything to me and it does make me so sad that that is all people will ever see her as and it’s almost just what she has let herself become. Like she’s just accepted that’s what people see her for and has said okay fine I’m just a killers sister. It’s so tragic. Emma too. She is just forever seen as a huxton victim and they are both so much more. Sobbing for my girlies

[theinquisitxor]

Series Countdown Tag

I had an idea for a new bookish tag game (not sure if something like this already exists, if it does, please let me know).

What is it: sharing your favorite book series by the number of books in the series. Your favorite 10 book series, 9 book series, etc. Feel free to start from a different number if you want.

Rules: #10 is for series of either 10 books or more. #1 is your all time favorite series. Everything else just corresponds to the number.

10 (+). The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

9. The Expanse series by James SA Corey

8. The Throne of Glass series by SJM

7. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

6. The Queen's Thief series by Meghan Whalen Turner

5. The Graceling Realms by Kristin Cashore

4. The Books of Pellinor by Allison Croggin

3. The Daevabad Trilogy by SA Chakraborty

2. The Texicalaan duology by Arkady Martine

1. (all around favorite series) The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Tagging: @the-forest-library @bookworm-of-camelot @e-b-reads @friendly-neighbourhood-librarian + anyone else who wants to!

[broadwaydivastournament]

2024 Chita Rivera Awards

This year marks the first one we have without Chita with us. Hosted by Jared Grimes, the Chita Rivera Awards recognizes and uplifts dancers on stage and on screen. All proceeds benefit the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation College Scholarship Program.

This year, Bernadette Peters was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to her by David Hyde Pierce.

Performances included: The Who's Tommy, The Heart of Rock and Roll, Kristin Chenoweth, Norm Lewis, The Radio City Rockettes, and Lea Salonga, among several others.

Please enjoy Lea Salonga singing a medley of Sondheim's "Move On/Not While I'm Around" to honor Bernadette.

As well as Kristin Chenoweth's "I Could Have Danced All Night."

Please note: this performance has converted me. I am now a little in love with Kristin Chenoweth too. After almost two decades of being generally apathetic about her, all it took was one live performance in her legit voice.