#amy phillips

[wildsummerrose]

Reminds me of Fated (Written by Jasmine Walls, Illustrated by Amy Phillips)

https://mythjae.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/fated-3/

*stumbles in through the door* I-I took on 5 orcs.

What do I get?

REWARDS: 86 Gold, 94 EXP, Orc Phone Number (x5)

[evilmark999]

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana is a sanctimonious blowhard who loves the sound of his own voice. He's a Republican, so he operates under the delusion that he's always punching down at everyone who enters his orbit; yet, very clearly most times, he's definitely punching up...

His debate form and arguments are almost exclusively theoretical whataboutism and gaudy theatre, and typically conclude with a batty leading question that conjures up grimaces and WTFs. He's Tucker Carlson in insufferable dotage, complete with a punchable face, expressions of head trauma, and a base that thinks he's "smart"...

Are you still reading this? Watch how he handles himself with the witnesses and experts in this video, THEN try to tell me that I'm wrong about him:

For what it's worth: Allie Phillips made me tear up! John Kennedy made me want to freeze him like an embryo and drop him on the floor...

[amywinehousequeen]

Amy photographed in her bedroom by Valerie Phillips, 2003

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Amy Winehouse by Valerie Phillips, 2003

[sirgawainofgalifrey]

Okay don't come at me for this but I 100% judge any and all Les Mis adaptations almost completely by their design and characterization of Javert.

Like if he's not on point then I'm sorry, I'm done, I can't.

[charliecanchill]

From the 31st century

[neosprites]

Hi! I like your work! is posible request some Zapp/Fry stamps?? If you aren't comfortable then some Fem!Fry ones (from Neutopia episode), thank you so much! Have a lovely day ;;

[FUTURAMA - FEM FRY: STAMPS] + 1 Zapp/Fry

pls credit if you use

best seen on dark mode

Thanks so much! I got pretty much every shot of fem Fry from the episode, but she was really treated like a background character so not all the shots are that great. I'd also be happy to make more of Zapp/Fry I just couldn't find much. If you have a reference to an episode with some good stuff feel free to request some more and I'll see what I can do.

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the fall of Saint Merrys” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw some marksmen on the rooftops

My buddy Philippe pacing: the scout is lying to us

[moondust-artz]

Friday Night funkin Smackdown

So I went to my grandma's and download fnf. I played around with the assets and look what I made 😭

[magicspellsworld]

Amy Winehouse, Frank 🩷

Fotos: Valerie Phillips

[libingan]

i wish phillip graves was real so i could make him my bitch

[cinemagal]

10 Frames

Doubt (2008) dir. John Patrick Shanley DoP Roger Deakins

[honorarypines]

I’ve noticed my comfort characters are either incredibly smart nerds or empty-headed little dumbasses :))

[amywinehousequeen]

amy winehouse, 2003

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kiera Butler at Mother Jones (06.11.2024):

During the contentious confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, a self-appointed Christian apostle named Dutch Sheets issued an urgent call for prayer on his website. Sheets is a leader in an enigmatic charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which calls the faithful to fight a spiritual war for Christian control of the United States government. He urged his readers to ask God to grant them “a majority of Justices who are Constitutionalists, literalists (meaning they believe the Constitution is to be taken literally, exactly as it is written) and who are pro-life.” He added, “Let’s also boldly ask Him for another vacancy on the Court soon—I feel strongly in my spirit another is coming quickly. We should be offensive in our prayers, not just defensive and reactionary.”

Apostles, prayer offensives, spiritual messages—by most standards, Sheets’ approach to politics would be considered highly eccentric, to put it mildly. Yet among adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation, the idea that God was involved in anointing justices had already gained traction. Another influential apostle, a Texas-based, self-described “strategist, futurist, and compelling communicator” named Lance Wallnau, declared in a 2018 broadcast that the accusations of rape against Kavanaugh were a ��spiritual attack.” The previous year in a YouTube video, apostle and Trump campaign adviser Frank Amedia recounted how, “at 3:30 in the morning, the Lord showed me a broom going up and down the pillars of the Supreme Court building.” The message was clear: God wanted to sweep out the old justices—especially the liberal ones—to make room for new Christian ones. In the midst of the chaos surrounding Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination, the apostles’ visions of a Christian Supreme Court didn’t get much mainstream attention—until they did. Over the last few years, the Christian nationalist movement has gained political prominence, as its influential members have sought to make the case for an explicitly Christian society in public schools, social policy, and even in Congress, led by the ultraconservative and devout House speaker Mike Johnson.

Against this cultural backdrop, calls for a godly Supreme Court have moved beyond the echo chamber of the far-right fringe. Last month, the New York Times broke a series of stories about flags displayed at the homes of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Outside of Alito’s main residence was an upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. At his vacation home in New Jersey, the Times’ Jodi Kantor later reported, was an “Appeal to Heaven” flag showing a lone pine tree, an old icon that had been revived by none other than Dutch Sheets. (As it turned out, the flag belonged to Alito’s wife, Martha Ann.) Leonard Leo, the deep-pocketed conservative kingmaker who has extended his largesse to several Supreme Court justices and their families, has also flown the “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside his home in Maine, Rolling Stone recently reported. Perhaps more troubling than the flags, though, is that the idea of promoting a Christian nation seems to be seeping into some of the justices’ legal arguments. Elliot Mincberg, an attorney and Supreme Court researcher at the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, has documented ways in which some members of the Court espouse the popular evangelical belief that Christians are being persecuted and therefore must be defended. “The far-right majority of Court is very much in the same view as the New Apostolic Reformation folks about religion, about government,” he says. “And, frankly, about the hostility of government to religion.”

[...] One common misconception about the New Apostolic Reformation is that it is a Protestant denomination, like Baptists or Presbyterians. When I first started researching this movement, I googled “New Apostolic Reformation church near me,” naively thinking that I could pop into a service and perhaps ask a pastor to explain the sect. What I quickly discovered, though, is that there is no single leader of the New Apostolic Reformation, no annual conference, nor any website with its statements of belief. Rather, the movement is vast and amorphous, a network of various individual prophets and apostles overseeing their own ministries and issuing prophetic declarations as they go along. It’s safe to say that many people who attend a church whose leaders dabble in the theology promoted by the New Apostolic Reformation have never heard of it. The movement came out of the older and more well-known tradition of Pentecostalism, whose adherents believe that God grants some believers the ability to perform miracles and speak in tongues. The term “New Apostolic Reformation” was coined in the 1990s by an influential evangelical writer named C. Peter Wagner, though the term didn’t get much national attention until a few decades later.

In 2011, National Public Radio’s Terry Gross interviewed a scholar of religion about the movement and referred to Wagner as its “leading architect.” In a rebuttal piece for the Christian publisher Charismatic News, Wagner emphasized that he was not the movement’s leader—because it had none. Rather, he said, it was a coming together of several sects that shared a belief that God appointed apostles and prophets. He noted that it was the duty of Christians to engage in spiritual warfare to establish “kingdom-minded people in every one of the Seven Mountains: Religion, Family, Education, Government, Media, Arts & Entertainment, and Business so that they can use their influence to create an environment in which the blessings and prosperity of the Kingdom of God can permeate all areas of society.”  This doctrine—sometimes known as the Seven-Mountain Mandate—is a central tenet in the New Apostolic Reformation. Many of the most prominent apostles today—Texas business consultant Lance Wallnau, for instance, as well as Korean-American Pastor Ché Ahn of Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California—regularly preach about its importance. Today, estimates of the number of people whose churches are influenced by the New Apostolic Reformation vary widely, from 3 million to 33 million. Because of the movement’s laser focus on starting a spiritual war to Christianize America, the Southern Poverty Law Center recently called the New Apostolic Reformation “the greatest threat to US democracy that you have never heard of.”

One other distinguishing feature of the New Apostolic Reformation is the belief that God is still communicating directly with people through modern-day prophets, who preach about the messages directly from God that they receive, often in dreams. Since 2016, many of the most publicized prophesies have concerned former president Trump, whom they see as chosen by God. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag that Dutch Sheets popularized was flown by many attendees at the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021; a few months before, Sheets told his followers that the results of the presidential election were “going to be overturned and President Trump is going to be put back in office for four years.” In 2022, Sheets said that Trump had told him in a dream that he would be a “political martyr” because, he had said, loosely quoting the Bible, “‘God has put the tools in me to tear down, root up, and confront the system.’”

[...] In March, Jauregui instructed his followers to “[p]ray that the Lord would be glorified through the remainder of the Supreme Court session and accompanying decisions.” Some Christian groups are doing more than praying; they’re filing amicus briefs— documents submitted by people outside of a given case who believe their expertise may help the justices in their deliberations. The briefs can be influential. In a landmark ruling last year on affirmative action in higher education, for example, legal scholars noted that a brief from the US military strongly influenced the justices to exempt military academies from the new rules. Previously, those who wanted to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court had to obtain permission from lawyers on either side of the case in question. That requirement was dropped in early 2023; now anyone can file, as long as their lawyer is a member of the US Supreme Court bar. The amicus floodgates then opened, and included in the onslaught of briefs for the current roster of cases were some whose authors had explicitly Christian Nationalist ties. Condemned USA submitted a brief in support of President Trump in the immunity case. Describing its mission as “preserving your rights and freedoms by defending against a weaponized system of justice for all American citizens and future generations,” it is led by January 6th insurrectionist Treniss Evans, who has appeared at live and virtual events with New Apostolic Reformation prophets. Another brief in support of Trump came from the Christian Family Coalition, a Florida nonprofit that says it is “intensely involved in the political process to secure its goals in the public interest.” Among its current projects is advocating for chaplains in Florida’s public schools.

The Mother Jones piece on SCOTUS and Christian Nationalism’s harmful influence on the court is a must-read.

[confessions-heartland]

"I love heartland It's been a great show, I just wished they stick to the storyline. For fans that watch, we keep up. Example, one minute there's a pic of their late mom and it doesn't look like the actress who played her. Then one minute Lou couldn't waitress and got fired and the next she owns it and knows what customers want. Then there's Lisa who is rich but is in jeopardy of losing her horse breeding ranch. There's many tiny loopholes, like Ty's mother, she raised him but didn't? The inconsistency of Ashley's character is funny, one minute she's Amy's arch enemy ("Ashley just drives me insane" ) the next their lifelong friends. I just wish they'd keep up with the storyline. Like Val was a villain in the beginning but she's Jack's friend? Bailing out Caleb for the Bartlett family sake. I sorta can't believe no one else has pointed this out. I do love the show though, and Amber Marshall has made it become the hit it is! She absolutely gorgeous with the horses. I think the worst is the Ty episodes, anybody ever think boy this boy, fell off a cliff, had a motorcycle wreck, had a plane wreck, etc and the boy is still alive but partly klutz?? I just know the stories could have been a bit better. Heck I could have written some things in there for a laugh here and there! And Tim please stay with one woman if you're worried about your girls and the dynamics of your relationship with them! Remember the Callie thingy?? Then it's full force to Janice, Casey, Miranda, Jessica like wow!! Womanizers ok??

Jack is great grandpa though!"