#Who ever receives

[stanthonywalnuttree]

Homily for Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - 2024

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Carver MA “He began to ask them, “‘What were you arguing about on the way?’ They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.” (Mark 9: 30). Every time I have read that sentence from the Gospel of Mark, I find myself wishing I could change a small part of that sentence. I have to believe that they were not “discussing” anything …..they were…

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

[clowndensation]

thinking about connor in prague saying "dad's theory was you got two fighting dogs, you send the weak one away, you punish the weak one." in relation to this episode, and the way the siblings view abuse inside their own family.

shiv and kendall and their belief that connor and roman are the weak dogs that got the brunt of logan's worst behavior, because abuse is reserved for the kids who can't behave - the ones who aren't smart and mature enough to make it in the world. abuse evokes pity, because abuse is what happens when you expect too much from people who obviously aren't capable of more.

and then they go forward in life, believing that they're just naturally more intelligent and more capable than connor and roman, as if being raised seeing what happens to you if you aren't a perfect child wasn't the entire point of the "punish the weak dog" mentality that logan instilled in them. the looming threat implied behind any praise they do receive that tacitly tells them "you're not like roman and connor" because everyone knows what happens to roman and connor.

the absolute height of the rich capitalist mindset. "we're succeeding because of our own merit, and other people fail because they don't have what it takes" when in reality they're succeeding because of arbitrary rules made up by someone who knows that infighting makes meaner dogs.

[zarvasace]

TAG NO TAG-BACKS

[bruciemilf]

@the spider verse crew BEGGING for a felicia hardy adaptation but like this strictly

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 132

no regular art today bc i am feeling a lil sick BUT!! i can finally show off the completed ren faire aradia fit!! it's all finished and i finally got to put it together for the first time. i am really pleased with how all of it turned out, and it felt really nice wearing an outfit comprised only of stuff that i had made myself.

[queerprayers]

i want to say first of all that i fully respect a community's/denomination's/culture's right to have closed practices. i am not entitled to other people's traditions, and when i am a guest in a space i understand that everything is not automatically for me. and i know i do not have to understand to respect.

and also! when i go to a catholic church and can't receive communion i want to fall on the floor weeping. what do you mean i can't have him he's right there. sorry my baptism was the wrong kind of baptism. i'm hungry and you want me to become someone else before being fed.

[kaftan]

just dumping thoughts here but one of the most fascinating (to me) implications we get about the tai/fugue tai duality is in season one where tai wakes up in the tree as an adult for the first time — this stood out to me the very first time I watched it, and still does; her panic, her shakenness, the terrible job she does of scrubbing herself clean. the contrast is not explicitly spelled out for us, but we know it from context: fugue tai does this gracefully. she covers her tracks. she’s seen by sammy but not simone because she chooses to show herself to one and not the other. tai would like to have everyone believe it’s her fugue self who’s erratic, unpredictable, out of control — but it’s the other way around. fugue tai acts deliberately and intentionally. fugue tai has the patience for 1000-piece puzzles where tai wants to snap her fingers and have everything fall into place. tai is the one who barely keeps it together, who slips in the spilled blood when all is said and done. who can never determine when and how she’s seen. there isn’t a hidden part of herself that can’t control her actions; there’s just her.

[thatrandomblogsays]

I’ve got a story that’ll make you percabeth girlies go feral:

My closest friend has an anxious/avoidant attachment style. So constant fear that people don’t really love her. I once asked her if she ever doubted that I cared about her. Her response?

“No, you’ve always been so open and aggressive in expressing your love that I can never doubt it.” 🥹

& that’s how I see Annabeth & Percy’s friendship going. Congrats to Annabeth for making a friend that’ll love you unconditionally, warts and all, you deserve it.

[kevinsdsy]

yk how tragic it is for me to think “omg i love shawn anderson i wonder if there are any new thoughts/headcanons under his tag!” just to realise that he hasn’t said a single line in the book and it’s ME who is providing the silly fanon thoughts………

[dontheckinswear]

Shoutout to my white-haired short blorbos who have scissors and star motifs, whose names start with S, who have a difficult time reading social queues, and die all the time :) read Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle and play In Stars and Time

[ikram1909]

Gavi and Bernal ❤️❤️

[wizzard890]

And I saw another beast come up out of the earth...and he spake as a dragon. (Revelation 13:11)

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The Coronation of His Majesty King Bastian I - The Hour of Wolves

When he was born he was a small thing. A screaming infant, a second son, destined perhaps for military greatness, but never dukedom. Never inheritance. Never conquest.

But at the inception of the light, the birth of the world, the moment between silence and splendor when The Glory breathed across the scope of creation: he was no small thing then.

Even then, he was coming.

His rise runs with blood: knives in the back, poison, betrayal, kidnapping and vengeance.

His rise burns with greatness: glory, family, rescue, love and ferocity.

The secret world recognized him before he knew himself. A fairy witch marked his passing and offered her slender wrist for his talons. A dead sun opens its mouth for him, a vanished Christ is his counterpart, a death knight worships before him, a raven-haired little girl holds the hand of her doting and beloved father.

The world we know calls him king of France, the monarch of a seized throne, a general who has promised the great lords England on its knees.

The Devil, in his own tongue, may call him son. The Glory has said nothing.

Would you know him if you saw him? Would you recognize what he is?

Bow, while you consider, and kiss his ring. There is a crown of flame upon his brow.

[flying-cat]

People don't want character redemption they want a revenge plot from a story that was never supposed to be about revenge

[indigosabyss]

I was rewatching the Kakashi ANBU arc of Naruto Shippuden and there's a moment near the end where Hiruzen Sarutobi explains the logic behind putting a very talented rookie and a genin who's lagging behind on the same team. Bc it's a trend that happens so much it'd be crazy to not have some sort of system behind it.

And I kid you not. The explanation was that it was meant to push the deadlast genin to work harder. AND. To also build a situation where that genin is seeking to be validated by the more talented one, who will theoretically grow to become more appreciative of hard work.

Y'all this is just straight up psychological warfare.

In the scene where this is happening, Kakashi immediately thinks back to Obito and then blames himself for never acknowledging him, since that meant Kakashi broke the system and caused Obito's death.

Genuinely everyone in this goddamn village needs help.

[starleska]

i reckon it's this moment which endeared us all so much to Nordic Bunny right away (besides his banging design of course)...the poor guy's lonely 🥺 he wants to take over the Earth not just to add to his empire, but because he wants to have friends!!! and so he'll never be alone again!!! 😭😭😭