#and on the other hand

[liam-summers]

Bonus:

Buffy and Darla + Bargaining for Angel's Soul

[solomiracle]

mc dies and everyone's sad and stuff meanwhile solomon is looking absolutely giddy. everyone's like "solomon wtf is wrong with you" but he's just like "nah it'll be fineee just give me like 3 hours" and giggles as he wipes away the dust on his necromancy books

[bumfuzzled-bee]

Just some lil guys getting ready for the day.

[veyronvenus]

those two twinks from the orange team want me dead

[queenlucythevaliant]

How do you believe Theistic Evolution interacts with other aspects of Christian morality and tradition? I mean, obviously the commands of God are the commands of God - but what new perspective do you think a Theistic Evolutionary viewpoint gives?

Oh my goodness, so many things! Broadly, though, I'd divide the implications into two groups: God's character and the unity of creation.

God's character

Theistic evolution is (I contend) the only framework for understanding creation that has an equally high regard for both Scripture and scientific empiricism; thus, it makes a very profound statement about God's trustworthiness, and about our confidence in him as the arbiter of Truth.

Seeing God's fingerprints in the creative process over the course of millions of years gives us a real sense of his patience and tirelessness. As Chesterton might say, he never gets tired of saying to the replicating cell, "do it again."

We also get a beautiful picture of God's sovereignty over creation: he is the God that knew, from the first time two organic molecules crashed together, that he was creating Man to glorify and enjoy him forever.

In the story of creation through evolution, we see a God who transcends time, but also works within it to bring about his sovereign will; who is endlessly patient, who is clever and inventive, who has an eye for beauty and a love for tangents and (ostensible) dead ends. What does it tell you about God that he spent millions of years creating the platypus? That he created dinosaurs at all? Through theistic evolution, we see a creator who plays across the vast landscape of time, creating endless forms most beautiful. Most importantly, we see a God whose wonderful works are faithfully recounted not just in the pages of Scripture, but in the very substance of the world he created.

Unity of creation

Knowledge of evolutionary history pushes us to think about our own embodied nature, our creatureliness, and our place within creation/the biosphere. We are united in lineage with all other creatures, both living and dead. We are embodied in the same carbon as every other living thing, deliberately, beautifully. This pushes back hard against the strains of "flesh bad" gnostic dualism that have run through our faith for pretty much its whole history. Heaven is not our "real home"; our destiny is the New Earth. God has woven us into its fabric.

Jesus stepped not just into the human lineage, but the lineage of the whole earth! In becoming flesh, he took on our place in the tree of life. Jesus shared DNA with Mary and her family, yes, but also with bacteria and brachiosaurs and banana slugs. While Christ died for the sins of humanity in particular, His stepping into the unity of life points to a future in which all living things are to be redeemed.

We must take the Biblical call to environmental stewardship very seriously then, if the rest of the biosphere is not merely our dominion but something of which we are an inextricable part. Evolutionary theory calls us to reconnect our theology and the created universe. In the same way that Scripture calls us to care for the world God created, evolution tells us of our direct relationship with the rest of creation, which implies a duty of care.

[revenantghost]

*slams hands on table* S2 Tristamp Knives needing to drink his silly little drinks he has in every other iteration again because Vash fucked him and his gate up so much.

[transgenderism-horror]

Sceo is the best match ever because "guy who struggled as hell to accept being a monster" + "guy who shameless and unabashedly pushes himself through monsterhood" is ship tier

[shepherds-of-haven]

Listening to the final draft of Riel's theme song and it's the most dramatic intense ambiguously-evil genius mastermind music ever and I'm so hyped

[murdleandmarot]

The dichotomy of listening to moments of happiness really is just “Oh, I want to live forever” directly followed by “I am going to fucking kill myself.”

[waitingforsecretsouls]

Always love the reminder in the leithian that Sauron knew about Celegorm in particular bc it fuels my little hc that in their Nargothrond years they had a little ‘and fuck that guy in particular’ rivalry. Celegorm with his hounds going out to hunt Saurons wolves, as demonstrated in the story, as soon as they begin to gather in greater numbers, would probably have been a fairly regular occurance, in particular keeping in mind Celegorm (and Curufins) more proactive and expansionist attitude regarding the war against Morgoth. Enhanced by the version of the story where on their retreat south Celegorm and Curufin arrive just in time to intervene in Saurons assault against Orodreth and buying the latter the time to escape. (Also remembering that it was Celegorm leading the second feanorian host in the Battle under the Stars and that the forcing of Aglon is specifically mentioned as only coming ‘at great cost to the host of Morgoth’ puts into retrospective just how big of a pain Celegorm has been up to that point)

[theia-eos]

If I had a nickel for every time Aimee saw a 17 year-old boy and started hitting on him in her first in-game convo with him, I would have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but holy mother of God is it fucking creepy that it's happened twice.

[ceaselesscontempt]

i have a complicated realationship with horses

[halcyon-autumn]

Me when the wheel of time show is different from the books: adaptation requires changes be made to the source material to fit a different medium, and it’s possible to capture - or even enhance - the spirit of the original text while making significant changes

Me when the Seanchan don’t have a Texan drawl: boooooo they changed it

[always-a-joyful-note]

I don't think words can express how I absolutely love it when Riku yells at Tenn about something but also how much pain and suffering that gives me

[therighthandofvengeance]

Poor Sheridan. He keeps sending Ivanova on missions with someone who’s madly in love with her, and she just keeps interrupting every single romantic endeavor of which he ever finds himself to be a part.

[devilish-parrot]

would you rather be able to hear peoples thoughts or see peoples thoughts?