#So I'm sharing it here

[arttsuka]

A little something I made a few months ago

[eljeebee]

Meditating...

Taken prior the glasses update; you can see how the eyes aren't entirely closed in the third picture, and I had to angle the camera to make it subtle. The eyes-not-closed-properly bug is still there in the latest patch, unfortunately.

[congregamus]

On Good Friday

Today confirms: everything is lost. The absolute worst we imagined has happened. It is catastrophic. Numbing grief. 

We follow the stations of the Cross at an emotional and psychological distance that relates to how much we can handle of this day, so saturated in tragedy. The Mystery regularly asks a lot of us, but today? Today broke even Jesus.

Today asks a lot of us because it asks more questions than it answers. Maybe the biggest question — at least to me — might just be WHY? 

WHY WAS THIS ALLOWED?

Well, first of all, it was allowed because we allow it. We’re allowing it right now. It is easy to blame the crowd in the story. But we’re still the same crowd. And the exact same thing is happening again. Right. Now. And we’re allowing it.

It starts small. We just turn away and pretend not to notice something we know is wrong. If we do that enough times, it ends up with innocent people dead. Today will not allow us our usual habit of looking away. 

 It demands we gaze upon the end result of what we will allow.

O all you who pass by, look and see If there be any sorrow like my sorrow?

It is ugly. It is bloody. It is barely human, but if we say that it’s not, we know that we are still lying to ourselves, and looking away from the truth, which is none other than Christ crucified.

What a sad, sad story. 

Jesus’s story. Our story. Our stories. One of the saddest stories that we tell ourselves is that it had to happen this way.  No, it didn’t. 

No, it didn’t.

It did happen, though. It did happen in all its horror and blood.

BUT. (This turning is the entirety of Christian understanding, so listen up.)

But somehow, God was still able to communicate through one of the absolute worst ways of killing we as a human race have been able to invent that we are loved beyond understanding and to transform OUR WORST into absolute inestimable beauty and the pinnacle of our own humanity. 

Because violence is one of the deepest languages we speak, violence was the language God (the Word) used to unveil Godself to us. This revelation of Godself is to us exquisitely beautiful and horrifically ugly at the same time.

Monstrare — the latin verb “to show”, and the source of our word “demonstrate" — contains a verbal breadcrumb of this unveiled terror. A monstrance is the contraption used to contain the sacred host so that it can be shown (revealed) to the devoted. Hence also the word ‘monstra’, or monster. What is revealed is monstrous. (This is just verbal redundancy at one level, but it is sonar-depth theology at another.)

What the Cross reveals is monstrous. Are we able to bear how much God is trying to show us of Godself? It seems we would rather turn away. 

No wonder then God’s cry of abandonment, which is ours, which we insist on, and which he bore, as we, in our unable-to-be-roused passivity insisted, even unto death.

O all you who pass by, look and see: If there be any sorrow like my sorrow?

[lesbiantenets]

October 13, 2024

Displaced Palestinians were burned alive after the occupation bombed their tents at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza.

نازحون يحترقون أحياءا بعد قصف طيران الاحتلال لخيامهم في مستشفى الاقصى في دير البلح

[morningdraws]

Can't help but share this thing I drew a few weeks ago (when I could still draw) for a Latin thing.

[wanderingmind867]

Wait. Percy and Annabeth were cleaning while wearing asbestos in the sea of monsters. I just read that paragraph recently. But isn't that bad for you? I thought asbestos was toxic for humans. Or is asbestos only bad for the lungs. Now I'm unsure...

[hansoeii]

*holds them gently and pretends nothing bad ever happened*

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[night-orchids]

the fact that you can see the exact moment tears appear in his eyes

[atissi]

hadn't seen anyone post the full comic about laios + falin's family on tumblr yet so. here you go source is from the reddit

[purrassicjet]

Thinking about the Bad Parents this episode because like, imagine your child, who's constantly burdened with the fate of the world, comes to you after school and says it's not enough. That they have to take the Last Stand exam and it's tomorrow. You have no time to take time off work to be with them, to be able to wait for them when they get home.

And then the next day you say goodbye in the morning, you kiss them on the head and tell them you love them. But you know that the next time you see them they will have died. You know that all the day you're at work, your child is fighting for their life in a drastic last stand. How do you focus with that knowledge? How do you move on, wondering if your child is already dead? That while your working or doing chores, your child could be lying on a sandy flood, dead, while all their friends fight for their lives?

How do you move past it? How do you live out that day?

[ryescapades-archived]

꒰ ooc ? suggestive ꒱ doing this trend with your lads bf and seeing that split second of him faltering when he feels you squeezing your thighs around his hips mid-pull.

you'd almost think zayne was unaffected by it, but the slight pinch on his forehead and the faint grunt under his breath tell you otherwise. he finishes the workout and gently sets you down before turning away and adjusting himself lest you notice the tent growing in his pants.

you would've felt bad for disrupting the workout but the way xavier's chest stutters, clumsily fixing his grip on the horizontal bar above you had you bursting out a mini fit of giggles. though that doesn't go on for long, for the almost begging look on his face results in you nearly tripping over your own movement.

rafayel narrows his eyes as the two of you finish your pull-ups, his brain already thinking of ways to get back at you. there's lot of... methods, of course. one of them ends with you squeezing your thighs around him in a whole other scenario but for now, he'd have to settle with tickling you to oblivion, or something. he'll eventually get to that part of squeezing sooner or later anyway.

sylus raises a challenging brow at you. he returns his feet to the ground before engulfing your waist between his palms, legs still hooked over his tapered waist and deliberately adjusting you in his hold. you freeze, core brushing against his pelvis in a not-so-innocent way which earns you an amused glint in his crimson gaze.

caleb lets out a sudden laugh, raspy and breathless and half in disbelief. his biceps strain as he does another pull, with you following his motion. you expect him to do the next one as well, so you pull. but then he didn't. which causes you to unintentionally press harder against him, sliding along his hips in a salacious grind as he smirks victoriously at your flushed face.

[souphamsters]

I've been hopelessly fixated on drawing one (1) sweetheart butchfemme couple ... they're all I think abt ... HELP !!!

(silly lesbian ocs that I love , chae🍓and lucky🍋!!!)

[pseudophan]

anthony is dead: the funeral roast (paid content)

[ichiro-artosaki]

more sirenzel au doodles!!

-guppy'zel with bbyheart

-what if we mashed wereheart and sirenzel au's together 🥺

[asharaks]

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.