#and I didn't put this in there earlier

[secretariatess]

I don’t think Christians should be teaching gender roles of the home to be God-ordained.

Now let make me this clear- I am not saying Christians shouldn’t teach the nuclear family.  The nuclear family is good and important.

I am speaking to the idea of the man provides, and the woman homemakes.

I know I’ve spoken about it before, but in this case, Christians teaching that this is God-ordained may find themselves preventing Christians from actually following what God wants them to do.  By teaching this, we say that we already know what God’s plan is for everyone’s life, so we go about searching for a spouse so we can follow God’s plan of providing for a family (for men) or making the home (for women).

And while God certainly calls people to those positions, I’ve often seen and heard Him do more than that.  He’s called people to uncomfortable positions, or positions that challenge them.  Gender roles of the family are no exception.

If the church teaches men that their purpose in a family is to be the provider, what then is a man to do when he feels God calling him to a position where he’s not the breadwinner?  What if God calls him to a position where he and his family have to rely on God providing for them, and not the man? Does the man ignore this calling, because he has to be conscious of the mouths to feed?  Do we set him up for struggle of self worth, because he’s not doing as he was taught, which was to provide his family instead of putting God first?  Or do we teach him that God might not call him to be the provider, the breadwinner?  That his first and foremost duty is to God and follow what God calls him to do, even if it means going against the norm?

For the women, if the church teaches them that their purpose is to be the homemaker, what then is a woman to do when she feels God calling her to a position that would earn her more than her husband?  Takes her out of the home, and possibly put her and her husband in a situation where he’s spending more time at home?  Can she trust that God has intended her for a purpose that’s more than being a mother to her kids? Does the woman ignore this calling, knowing that her first and foremost goal is to take care of her children, and put aside working outside of the home?  Do we set her up for struggle, splitting her between wanting to follow the call and wanting to be the dutiful, good, God-fearing wife?  Or do we teach her that God might call her to places that are not just her home, and instead put her in the workforce?  That her first and foremost duty is to God and follow what God calls her to do, even if it means going against the norm?

It’s not that being parents is unimportant -it is, and God -GOD- knows being a parent is important.  He wouldn’t have you abandon your kids.  But He may not have you work your family in the traditional sense.  By claiming traditional gender roles as the “God-ordained” model of family dynamics, we as the church can end up putting an obstacle to couples where there didn’t need to be an obstacle.

Now we can certainly use anything to prevent us from following God’s calling for our lives, but I question the wisdom of the church to preaching this message, when the message first is to go to the ends of the earth to be His witnesses.  He created us as individuals with our own strengths, which He can use to further His purpose if we are obedient.  God can and does use housewives to further His will.  But He didn’t create every woman -nor even every mother- to be a housewife.  God can and does use providing men to further His will.  But He didn’t create every man to be provider/breadwinner of his family.

Are we encouraging families -husbands and wives- to first be obedient to God?  Or are we teaching husbands and wives that following gender roles is obedience to God?

If we teach the first, we should trust that God has the best interests of the family at heart, even when the calling gets tough, difficult, and challenging.

If we teach the second, we can end up setting up Christians to dismiss the calling of God.

[justvea18]

Was doing homework but then my playlist played something that made me feel emotional to the point I need to draw something

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

[utilitycaster]

I think the two most obvious foils for Ludinus Da'leth across all of Critical Role are Essek and Keyleth, which is both fascinating given how different those two characters are from each other (Essek being a foil in terms of isolation, single-mindedness, harm in the name of ambition, knowledge, and other such wizard themes; Keyleth being a foil in terms of people who have lost something at a young age to the gods and bear resentment for it, political leadership, belief that the world belongs to mortalkind, and longevity) but also it's extremely funny that they both are the partners of Liam's character.

[ohitslen]

Living together.

The snail video if you are interested :)

[clownowo]

i think people don't think hard enough about the state of the ace attorney family tree

bonus worse version with fanon in it and looser definitions of "dubiously canon" because i think its fun:

[j0ly0n]

[somegrumpynerd]

Killer is the only one Nightmare can't track down easily, since he can feel the others by emotion but can't usually sense Killer's unless he's in stage 1.

This is a small part of why he and Color got off on the wrong foot, because the first time Color and Killer met was when he was helping Dream fight them and he managed to pull Killer away from the main fight to try and reason with him. While they were doing that, Nightmare decided to retreat but couldn't see Killer around and couldn't find him using emotions, so he had to leave without him. (He did return later to scour the place and found Killer waiting for him, since he'd refused Color's offer to go with them.)

This became a running theme, where sometimes after a battle Killer would be gone without a trace because he was off fighting/talking with Color and Nightmare would have to come back for him later. It's also what makes Nightmare a little uneasy in present day about Killer running off to hang out with Color sometimes, because if Color succeeds in convincing Killer not to return, Nightmare has no way of tracking him down anymore. He just has to trust that Killer will return at some point, and wait.

[22ratonthestreet]

👍 well

[jkriordanverse]

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[scalpho]

The great and terrible catch of joining the Society of Shadows - the paragraph that makes you hesitate, pen in hand, over the dotted line of your contract - is this: you leave behind the world as you know it, and it, in turn, ceases to know you. Your loved ones forget you; you're supposed to forget them. Riz remembers anyway. (Or: several years after the Bad Kids fall to pieces midway through their Junior Year, an agent of the shadows keeps tabs on them in the prelude to Solstice.)

my solstice gift to d20fandom is a jumbled (kind of) epistolary glimpse into a world where the bad kids failed out of junior year and riz joined the society of shadows. enjoy <3

[grogumaximus]

[arttsuka]

I wonder if Jedediah and octavius ever celebrated the 4th of July together? (also your leftover veggie dish looks like it would make Gordon Ramsay cry with joy :) )

They probably, most definitely did celebrate together I think

Featuring my failed attempt at drawing fireworks 🎆

If Gordon Ramsey were to see that dish he'd cry in general I think, given the fact that I forgot to put enough salt :')

[cosmic-walkers]

there was something so intense about stephen staring at thomas during the whole interrogation scene, as if he was attempting to find this "evil" man he had conjured up in his mind. the lies stephen has fed himself over the years about thomas all amounted to this moment, and toward the end, not only did he realize he was wrong about thomas but you can tell he knew they had made a mistake but he regretted it.

the part where he and thomas were alone together, and thomas spoke to him in a calm, casual manner, as if they were friends also showed that. stephen didn't bite back, or reply to him coldly because he knew he'd messed up. and honestly i think stephen would've rather thomas have been cold and cruel to him in their last conversation, over being friendly. because at least there would be some little justification for what Stephen is doing. but nope, it wasn't there. just thomas talking casually, as if they were still working under wolsey.

aside from knowing that thomas was right - without him all things will fall apart, and they do - from a personal level, you can see how stephen realized that this was a mistake. that last part thomas said, about history judging them, and stephen turned it and said that they all would be judged for what they did - specifically for what they did with thomas. oh, he knew, and he knew he fucked up, he knew they all did. he knew it was a mistake, and that they were essentially putting an innocent man to death.

more importantly, as the episode went on, this was a small dick move from norfolk and i think stephen was starting to realize that. just how ridiculous it was, and how he was roped into it as well.

[muirmarie]

Me: I joke about writing the same McCoy centric story over and over again in different ways

Me: and like. I love doing it and imma keep doing it because it makes me happy.

Me: but also. I do sometimes wonder if it's like. A little Much.

Me: like maybe I should branch out or something

Me: [reads another fundamental and extremely insulting misread of McCoy's character by someone who is clearly making a Choice to cast McCoy as the villain, because they have to get him out of the way of spirk, because they're too???? idk immature??? to realize that even when you're in a relationship with one person, other ppl can and SHOULD still be important to you]

Me: lmao I hope I AM too much actually!!!! I hope it is 100% obnoxious how much I love that doctor!!!!! Time to write more versions of the same story of McCoy being forced to realize that he is loved and cared for!!!!!!

Me: I KNOW MY NICHE AND IMMA DIE IN THAT NICHE, THANKS

[theultimateultimateweapon]

A bunch of friends out for a weekend trip! I think they all deserve weekend outfits

Edit: I'm turning off reblogs because of Tumblrs new AI partnership.