#Summer 2022

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[amelia-mariee]

There’s such a sense of community that comes with (fill-in-the-blank movie) summers. I feel like Top Gun Maverick summer and Twisters summer are so iconic and kind of go hand in hand and they should be the blueprint. We need more summers like these. I think that each summer from here on out, we need to have a big summer blockbuster with a relatively big cast and attractive people and high stakes and at least one new song in it. Also Glen Powell needs to be in it. Glen Powell does not have to the main character or even your favorite character. He just needs to be in it. I don’t know why

[rabbitcruiser]

Forest (No. 77)

Wilkerson Pass, CO

[digitalfountains]

Paloma Elsesser

- Victoria's Secret, Summer 2022

[boydholbrook-fan]

Boyd at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2022 in an Collider interview for The Sandman

He's cute. He's adorable. He's lovely. He's wonderful. He's incredible. He's handsome. He's a phenomenal and an exceptional talent. He's just simply THE BEST! And I love him and admire him so much! ❤️

BOYD HOLBROOK IS A LEGEND!

And here's a little clip from the interview:

[philomena-famulok]

©Philomena Famulok

summer

[adam-trademark]

Sycamore Station

(July 28, 2022)

[prettyboybyers]

I miss summer 2022. We were a tad delusional but we were free. I miss being on tumblr so much that i knew my mutuals names and had a bond with them, i miss when you could refresh the byler tag and like 100 more posts would pop up each time. I miss the cults we started, i miss all the inside jokes, i miss the scripts being posted like once a week, i miss the strange roleplays we did, i miss all the fresh fanfics right after s4, i miss the stranger things discord server i was in. I miss it all so much.

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

[majestativa]

Clinging to the dark, our masks wear us.

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2 summers ago in the driveway of the old house

[a-queer-seminarian]

A queer look at the sacrifice of Isaac

content warning: political & religious transphobia, family rejection.

Detail from "Abrahams Opfer" by Adi Holzer Werksverzeichnis.

Genesis 22:1-14 is one of scripture’s most disturbing stories. In it, God seems to command Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac. 

Abraham exhibits an unquestioning obedience, even to this most cruel command. 

If this is a test of faith, did Abraham pass?

…Or did God want Abraham to ask questions, to demand to know how such an atrocity would glorify the Divine? 

After all, this is the God whose heart will be won some generations later by Jacob the god-wrestler; who will inspire psalmists to bring all their naked, honest anger and hurt and fear into their worship-songs — as in this Sunday’s Psalm 13: “How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?”

Let’s look at God’s response once Abraham has done as commanded, taking Isaac up to the mountaintop, tying him to the altar, readying the blade — God now cries out, “STOP! Do not lay your hand on the boy! Don’t do a single thing to him!”

We find that God does not thirst for children’s blood. God does not trade human lives for blessings.

God makes it very clear here: You may not sacrifice your children on the altar of your religion.

How does this relate to the LGBTQIA+ community today?

In their sermon titled "No More Sacrifices," Kate Davoli connects Abraham's belief that God wills his son's death to the treatment of LGBT children in our own era. The rest of this post is drawn from their sermon.

Anti-LGBT preachers and politicians have been offering up our lives as sacrifice for decades now.

They convince parents that their children are doomed to hell if they turn out to be queer. The kind and holy thing to do, they say, is to try to make your child cis and straight  — in spite of study after study proving that conversion therapies and lack of acceptance kill.

In spite of a God who says, “Do not lay a hand on the boy! Don’t do a single thing to him!”

If a child persists in being anything but cis and straight, the "Christian" thing to do is disown them, kick them out — sacrifice family ties to a hateful God.

They only preach the first half of the story: God’s command to sacrifice a child — and expect unquestioning obedience from parents.

Some go even further, offering up the suffering of transgender children as a sacrifice for national security:

 “For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely… National decline is not inevitable…for a moral and religious people.”     — CPAC speaker Michael Knowles, March 2023

The growing wave of anti-trans bills that deny children spirit-saving medical care, attempt to wrest them from supportive parents, and lead to depression and even suicide, is an attempt at cultural purification in the name of God.

“Come,” they are saying, “Let us take your children, your precious children, whom you love — they are already doomed to hell, so we will sacrifice them on the mountain God has shown us and it will mean prosperity for the Land; it will turn the nation back around to receive all the wealth and security God promised us.”

That, friends, is blasphemy: it’s a lie about who God is and what God wants.

God makes known throughout scripture that Their will is abundant life for all, and particularly for the most vulnerable. Anything that harms children — that leaves them feeling broken and unheard, that puts their physical or mental health at risk — is not of God.

Call to action: 

What will you do to fight against the sacrifice of these little ones? 

How will you ensure that our fellow Christians who counsel “sacrifice,” and who call sinful what God has declared good, are not the only Christians speaking about “what God wants”?

How can you and your faith community show up for transgender children, and the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole?

[rabbitcruiser]

Modern neon lighting was first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show on December 3, 1910.

[digitalfountains]

Paloma Elsesser

- Victoria's Secret, Summer 2022

[boydholbrook-fan]

Boyd at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022 in an TV Insider interview for The Sandman

He's cute. He's adorable. He's lovely. He's wonderful. He's incredible. He's handsome. He's a phenomenal and an exceptional talent. He's just simply THE BEST! And I love him and admire him so much!

Notice Boyd's tiny wave in the first gif. Also the last gif. ❤️ Aaand the Clement Mansell look of course.

Also the 48sec clip is my favorite part of the interview. ❤️

I know I'm repeating myself but that's just how it is.

I love Boyd Holbrook! ❤️

[joraszinhaz]