#The One Who gave me life

[faithisthekey-23]

Hi, I wanted to share with you another poem of mine. Writing it reminded me of why I started to write poems with true passion — I just wanted to worship God. Lately, I kept on writing just like it was the thing that I have to do, but today God reminded me that I started to simply show Him my love. I wrote this poem today, on 17th May 2023.

For the sake of love

I put all of my trust in You without any doubts coming to my head

You have never failed me to help me, so I know that it can be laid on You — my faith

You are here and never stop guarding a heart of mine

No matter how many mistakes I make, You are right by my side

No matter how my sins hurt Your Precious heart, You don't even think of forsaking me

Instead of doing such things, You come to my rescue and when my eyes are closed, You help me see

You come to comfort me and show me the way

And which direction is the best to take

With You not a step is too hard to take for Your words always bring me hope

There's not a single moment I forget that my life makes sense and has its worth

For the way You speak to me and let me stick to You proves me that I am loved

Even though I don't see You and have never heard Your voice out loud

I don't think it is needed to make me realize that You're with me all the time

Every single day of mine I can feel Your presence

And know that You listen to what I have to say

If You didn't, I would never be able to know Your answers

But You always respond to me, sometimes right away, sometimes it's hours later

But You answer is never too late for You let me know what I need to know at the very moment you respond

I am really grateful for letting me to be with You and bond with You, Lord

It feels impossible that I can actually talk to You

Even though, in the past I kept on hurting You

You still keep on saying that I am worthy of Your presence

Not because of my good or bad deeds but because how Christ was excellent

Jesus was the One Who came to earth and saved me from the devil

Who wanted to destroy me and steal from me, but my Savior was luckily here

He took the blame of mine and let me escape hell

Even though He knew that He will get hurt, He didn't run away

He could have saved His life but He thought that my life is worthy of getting crucified

He was scared, but chose to do this while thinking of me — giving up His life

He was the Word from the beginning, even before the world was made

He has already won everything: every single battle that has been created

I just keep on wondering, He could have had it all

He's already been King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and yet He chose my love

In such a brutal way, He was mocked and whipped, then He died on the cross

These things and many more — He suffered it all

Why? He did all of it for the sake of love

[bruciemilf]

“I am who I am because of Crime Alley”

[hychlorions]

a what-if i've been thinking about for forever... trucy knowing the truth before anyone could tell her

[prahacat]

when the horrors catch up and you take an evening off to batch-process

[varilien]

@oobbbear i hope i've done them justice..... i just really like them hehehe

[drenched-in-sunlight]

you know I’ve been wondering why the phrase “Have mercy, for the spirited away shamans.” in Elden Ring sounds familiar. I remember where that phrase is from now.

Fromsoft also used that to refer to all the children being kidnapped and died from the Senpou monks immortality experiment in Sekiro.

There’s only one child who survived…

That girl later on also ate two Great Serpent hearts so she could become a Divine Cradle… essentially another vessel for the Divine Heir, a vessel for Divinity…

I wonder if that parallel is the reason why the Miko used to refer to Marika’s ppl is written as 巫子 / Sekiro divine child is 御子 (both pronounced as Miko / with 子 literally means children)

It’s like the more i think about it, the more Marika becomes the sum of all the Fromsoft girlies i have been mourning for for the past 4 years.

Enough. They can’t keep doing this to me 😭😭😭

[souenkun]

Takashi living the warm, full-of-love life that reiko couldn't have (as far as we know in the current canon) feels very much like the grief that dawns for children when they finally realized how much sacrifice their parents didn't always tell them just to give birth and raise them.

Like, technically speaking, reiko only gave takashi a world of problems by passing down the sight and the book of friends decades after her death, but takashi also grasped the wholesome and the awful parts of interacting with both humans and youkai from the memories she had left behind, scattered among all these eternal monsters she had defeated, leaving in them unintentional, but important life lessons for him to find later on in the future. If it weren't for all those societal rejections that reiko received from humans and the hardships from youkai that led her to start the book of friends, takashi wouldn't be able to avoid repeating her mistakes (and, consequently, could be just as comfortable with isolation like reiko was), let alone make the precious balance we now see him have in the present time, where he can make genuine connections with humans and youkai while also maintaining a balance to them. Do you get what I'm saying 💔

[spiderthread]

why don't you let yourself be gently peeled off the ground and tossed across the back of a horse like a sack of potatoes by the most handsome man in china, then maybe you'll calm down

(+ bonus:)

[idrawvocaloid]

art that im not too proud of but its ok i guess

[autumn-may]

I get why the 358/2 bonus missons exist from a gameplay perspective but from an immersion perspective i feel so bad for roxas.

[madou-dilou]

he wants to matter, he wants you to see the blood he's spilling

[cozylittleartblog]

my ACEN tip gimmick has been fulfilled, aaand i got a little carried away with it. I haven't had time to draw for myself (or at all, really??) in like two weeks, i needed to Doodle and Have Fun. ... also, i did not think he would get so many donuts. people understand the value of giving treats to fictional characters :) its what he deserves

also shoutout to snazzyskeletons who had the same Tip Theme i did. we took pictures with our tip jars together. they are adorable v

i'm glad their vash got some donut money too :) 🍩 please check them out if you want some cute trigun stuff

[lovehours]

i don’t even fucking care

[lunarharp]

shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

[phalangemedes]

I kept this in my drafts cause I was gunna expand on it, but I dunno if I need to. Either way, I thought it was interesting that the refugee trio from Canaan are all just different aspects of Grief represented through the kaleidoscope of their personhood. Because mourning is a spectrum, no more or less vivid for the death being metaphorical or literal, and there’s been some weird hot takes that more or less emotive grieving is ‘strange’ or whatever, so, onward!

Judith is unable to feel her own emotions (or at least with any depth) because she's made herself an emotional void, due to training (Cohort AND Second expectations), repression and losing Marta. She was already constipated and that tipped her over to cutting her own throat so she’d emotionally starve.

The last emotive thing she had was oh captain my captain levels of obsession for the woman that rejected her romantically, DUTY, and with equal verve the self loathing for wanting that.

(Also she was being medically maltreated by BoE and then used as a Duracell so y'know, you can not like the woman for being an unsympathetic hypocrite but also, rough ol' time for Jodypops)

Corona has used the flamboyance of her emotions as a manipulation tactic since she was like.. 5 and oops it suddenly stopped working! The tits, the smiles and the twinkly eyes have no effect in camo land, if anything, they are tired of her shit and only “warm up” to her when she starts submitting to them in ways they understand (Re: BoE are a hierarchy and she is Not the top rung). She's also grieving Ianthe not wanting her (worse, choosing BABS) and failing to throw her Pretty Girl weight around as much as she used to, whilst cosplaying a Cav to feel worth something (habitual, comforting).

On top of that, she’s bouncing from pillar to post in an attempt to be desired because her worth is locked up in other’s perception of her. (She fails so hard to connect with anyone she starts chatting up G2deon's corpse like.. It's SAD even if she's Tridentarii heinous (affectionate insult))

And Camilla is forcing herself not to feel because she doesn't have time for a breakdown. She's tick listing how to “make things right” through torture (shock bracelet) being used as a means of coercion for Judith (also torture) having what was left of Pal taken away from her (I mean this literally and figuratively, because his skull, then hand, are hope AND HIM) ((likewise the BETRAYAL from a necro and a cav about it)) and being denied doing GOOD (denial of treatment of Judith). I think honestly she reacts the most MUNDANELY, by just... powering through, keeping busy, not thinking about it because then it'll be real.

And she doesn't let herself break until Paul, because she’s still trying to fix everything until the very moment it’s un-fixable. (And in some ways Palamedes takes the burden of it for her, by giving her the choice, the "it's okay, now, you can feel". All that time, bottling the HURT because she has to be useful because if she's not useful what's left? It's the vice of grief as you excuse yourself from the young woman you're caring for, it's locking the bathroom door, sitting in the bath and your body betraying you with the mother and fucker of a panic attacks. It's getting punched in the solar plexus because you turned around to make a comment and not only is that person gone, but they aren’t coming back.

None of them are any more or less tragic, but they are all acceptable and staggeringly normal forms of grieving.

[backpackingspace]

Wait going off the idea that Athena keeps things from her favorite people:

What does diomedes give her?