#but I am Thinking About It

[maxwelljacobfriedman]

"To fall in love is to fall to one's knees." -Les Misérables

[ex0rin]

Lori? Lori Grimes? Rick sent me. You got to come now. There's been an accident. Carl's been shot.

The Walking Dead | S02E02: Bloodletting Maggie Greene in every episode (1/144)

[woof-verine]

ngllll i was working on an origins!wade getting shared by victor and logan fic months ago and now im having so many thoughts about finishing it 👀the victor/wade era might become real

I need more victor/wade fics soooo badly genuinely … and if I have to write them myself. well. so be it.

[freakoutgirl]

sometimes i don't know whether people just worded something awkwardly or if it was a passive aggressive remark that i should be offended by

[pagesofkenna]

also i do have another halfhearted new years resolution-adjacent thing, which is that i've been thinking about replaying the entirety of the Legend of Zelda franchise since last summer. and i knew this last autumn wouldn't be the time to start since i was doing a complicated move, and i'm going to be doing a complicated move this year as well,

but the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda is going to be next February and i do think it would be cool if i replayed every (major) game in the franchise before then

[alltid-og-for-evig]

I wonder if the Legacies cast (or I guess any actor really) reads fanfic and goes 'oh, my character would totally do that' or the author describes a way they sound or a facial expression they do a lot and they go 'hey! I do do that thing!'

[lover-of-mine]

I keep thinking about another wip (I keep telling myself to not start elaborate stories but they won't stop appearing in my head) that I'm blaming an anon who sent me an ask a while back about Eddie blowing up at Buck for putting himself in danger and my brain is mixing this idea up with another to create a divorced era Buddie thing and they are fighting but there's a call to Chris' school (no children will be harmed in this idea) and shit gets real and I don't wanna start another fic, but I cannot stop thinking about it.

[adhd-merlin]

"and is this 'golden era of peace' in the room with us right now?"

[zahra-hydris]

me: deep within a ts4 rabbit hole

me: also very slowly doing my daewen re-play of inquisition

also me: so i've been thinking about making a new dragon age world state, starting from origins--

[morgenlich]

one thing that would be nice about owning a house is that i could like, have a designated Art Room where i wouldn't need to care too much about paint getting on the floor lol

[seabreezeraincloud]

Strongly considering making a Hatchetfield side blog centered around my OC. I have so many thoughts and it might be nice to have a dedicated outlet for them

[wereshrew-admirer]

marrow creek

[crybaby-writings]

my mother's cousin: you're very quiet and patient

me, thinking about tacobell for the last 7 hours (including during a nap): i try

[euphoricfilter]

miles and og spiderman looks so cute can i have one😭😭😭

i wish i could give everyone that follows me one 😭 we could be a spider-man hat wearing army it would be so cool. i wanna make all my friends one too

[cogentranting]

My New Testament professor told us that he thinks that Romans 3:23 is more appropriately translated as "For all have sinned and lack the glory of God" in reference to the glory that he gave us at creation by making us in him image, and that now after having sinned that glory is lacking and the Image is present but marred. And he drove home the point saying that we are not who we were meant to be. We were meant to be more and better.

And my mind jumped to Beauty and the Beast, because I'd just read a post on here about how some people have the take that Beast shouldn't have turned human again in the end, and how that's a bad take because the Beast form is not his true self, it's a curse. Beast is not who he was meant to be.

Add on to that something else that my professor said-- we are both the perpetrator of sin, and the victim of sin. Beast is the perpetrator and the victim-- he brings the curse upon himself but it is truly a curse and he needs to be saved from it. And whatever the ultimate lesson of Beauty and the Beast is that Beast needed to learn (to look past appearances, or to value kindness and gentleness and generosity, or to love the unlovable) Beast is not the one able to enact that. Even though Beast is the one who caused the problem by failing to do that, he is not able to change his ways and lift his own curse. He cannot do so until someone else comes and loves him first with the curse still fully present and his heart unchanged. Only by Belle first sacrificing and beginning to love him is he able to change first internally, and then externally. Belle has no lesson to learn in the story but SHE is the one who lifts the curse. Beast as perpetrator and victim of his own sin is unable to save himself. And when Belle does show that grace and love him, she takes on the burden she did nothing to create, lifts the curse and restores Beast to glory, to the better self he was always meant to be.

So: Belle as Christ figure, and Beast as fallen humanity.

[achillvs]

if cmbyn was a wholly acceptable movie to have as one of your top 5 i would have been insufferable from april to october but i have been nerfed