#Stand as a Witness

[mindfulldsliving]

Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Insights: Mosiah 11-17 - "A Light … That Can Never Be Darkened"

This week, we turn our focus to Mosiah chapters 11-17, where the powerful theme "A Light ... That Can Never Be Darkened" resonates strongly.

Abinadi before King Noah. Created by Andrew Bosley. Having embarked on the Come Follow Me Book of Mormon study, you’re probably eager for new insights and deeper understanding. This week, we turn our focus to Mosiah chapters 11-17, where the powerful theme “A Light … That Can Never Be Darkened” resonates strongly. These chapters provide a compelling narrative of faith, resilience, and divine…

[pitviperofdoom]

It's kind of fucked how the original Scandal in Bohemia is essentially about a woman being harassed by her wealthy and politically powerful ex when all she wants to do is mind her business and move on with her life, and every single adaptation that isn't a line-by-line recreation of the short story turns her into a self-serving Femme Fatale con artist criminal, like fuck the only crime she committed was being poorer than her boyfriend.

She doesn't want to fuck sherlock and sherlock doesn't want to fuck her either.

[chaos0pikachu]

sorry but I so don't care that venom might not be in the mcu cause where the fuck would he and eddie even fit in the mcu? there's no chaotic sexy energy in the mcu i'm so sorry like the mcu's idea of sex is two dry pumps on a beach with ppl so pretty they might as well be ai generated the horniest thing they've done in their films is had steve rogers in a boob shirt and then they finished his story by becoming joe biden Venom would eat some cop's skull and the avengers would literally shit themselves they'd be like "OMG EDDIE YOU CAN'T GO AROUND EATING COPS" and Eddie would be like "I didn't that was my husband" and then John Watson would show up and be like "I'm an ally so I totally understand but also we don't allow the eating of law enforcement here" and Venom would try to eat John Watson while eddie calls the avengers neolibs in his head like THEY DON'T FIT IN THE MCU

[thetenthsunrise]

you will be warm again is one of those lines that just hits like a sucker punch to my gut every time i think about it. partly because for kaladin its a perfect reminder in the perfect moment but also because its somehting that is so applicable to my life, at points. you will be warm again--this storm will pass. life goes on. or something like that

[alenachelk]

Outcast

[seance]

— from George Rexstrew instagram story (x)

[tiramissyoucake]

(Fem reader this is wlw) I feel like this has been done before but hear me out;

Mark and Eve are together but then sth sth happens and they break up, Mark gets with you but here's the twist: You and Eve have history. Like "the one that got away" level history.

You tried to reach out to Eve before, but she was with Rex during that time, and you were convinced she moved on. It hurt like hell but you didn't say anything, you cried a little, sure but you reminded yourself that you weren't in town that much anyway so it wouldn't matter, and you leave again.

When she sees you again, you're on a rooftop with... Invincible? And he quickly explains everything, how you two met before you left town, exchanged numbers, caught up when you moved, and now you're together. She's supportive but were you two really that serious? That you know his secret identity too?

Mark's oblivious to the tense atmosphere between you two, the lingering touches, the long staring, the kind gestures. the relationship is going well in his eyes and he loves you, and Eve tries to be a supportive friend to you, even when you two announce that you tied the knot with a band around your and his finger practically spitting on whatever promises you and Eve made when you were together before.

She berates herself for confronting you at the worst time, in the privacy of a room were you got ready to be wedded, away from guests, your bridesmaids and groom. She had to steel herself, you looked stunning draped in glittery white, embroided with designs that only made you look more intricate, like a doll. Eve makes her stance; she knows you still love her, citing that everytime you're with him you look at her, you think of her before you think of him, you loved her before you loved him and you still do.

But it's too late now, the hurt from when she 'moved on' was mirrored onto you as you insisted you have as well, you were going through with this wedding, even if it meant betraying how you really felt.

[zhouxiangs]

This time, I can't tell if the feelings that I have belong to this body… or the old body. But no matter what, I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

MY STAND-IN (2024) | Episode 8

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[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

But, this could be a very cool piece.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[peach-petrichor]

steven was bawling waterfalls when they told him about it

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

Maybe it’s my experiences with my culture and having relatives who are immigrants, but the conflict between humanity and the eliksni reads more to me than just a message on xenophobia.

To me, it’s also about how groups who have experienced oppression are often pitted against each other by the circumstances created by their oppressors to keep them stuck in a cycle of violence and mistrust with one other. This cycle keeps groups who share similar pain and plights from extending mercy to each other and joining forces to fight against the systemic forces that brought them both into a hostile state, which is exactly what those forces want as it keeps those groups powerless and unstable.

[aka-indulgence]

Someone: [Character] wouldn’t like you. He’s too X and Y to like someone like you

Me, aka Indulgence: bet

[suchasurfriend]

jimmy being three apples tall is real important to me