#but first

[soft--dogs]

my goal is to try and post one oc thing a week, even if it's just a wip or doodle my other goal this year is to start learning how to sew? i've always wanted to make my own plushies or art dolls, once i get caught up on comms and get my taxes sorted out and everything i want to start messing around sewing lil guys... :3c

[contact-guy]

i sure hope everyone is enjoying my thousand page long thesis in webcomic format about how sherlock holmes would be a bad boyfriend

[crabsnpersimmons]

it's my birthday! come join me for pin the ribbon on the sunman, piñata party with moon, and playing other party games with eclipse!

also happy birthday to all my birthday buddies today!

@rinzydings @librarian-computer @voidhasfallen @chimera-that-does-stuff @canofveggiesoup

[smovs]

my clothes are boring, can I borrow yours?

spiritual successor to the destiny trio swap, 3 years later. courtesy of my Deciders Club on kofi & patreon 🧡

[bamsara]

might stream finishing the COTL doctrine book bag / cosplay prop in a bit and then art afterwards (or working on the narinder backpack if chat prefers)

[i-am-a-fan]

be nice to your game masters/ dungeon masters

[starmocha]

His nose. His jawline. His lips. 🫦

[aipurjopa]

it’s gonna be so nice

[miriammctroi]

my favourite ao3 tag for Blood of the Brother is

Murder Husbands

and, my darlings, we're getting there. It will be awesome.

(and very bloody)

(but hot)

(my second favourite tag is "stabbing as coping mechanism" bc it's so Regulus)

[mcshizzle-the-fire-boy]

fun fact in 1876 in Kentucky meat randomly fell from the sky and some people just picked it up and ate it 🤠🤠

Are you for real what the fuck

[moe-broey]

GOD I would HATE to be stuck at a family dinner with them 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I would NOT fucking survive, the vibes alone would do 1000 points poison damage to me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Also JUST. JUST.

THE VIBES. ARE RANCID. SHARENA DARLING YOU DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS (ALFPNSE TOO BUT DEAR LORD. Sharena LITERALLY was just told to Don't Speak Unless Spoken To RANCID. RANCID FUCKING FAMILY)

[itsnotmourn]

i find it very cute when people mention something about winifred's cheek either in fanart or comments

like YES it is very squishy. she has perfect round cheeks on her face. a lil rodent with seeds in its moufh <3

[the-woods-between-the-worlds]

[momentsbeforemass]

But first

Have you ever wanted to be frustrated with God?

Have you ever wanted to feel like your prayers are a waste of time?

Of course not. No one does. And yet, just about all of us set ourselves up to be frustrated with God.

It happens when we set preconditions on God. When we tell God how He has to do things. When we do, we’re not changing God one bit.

What we are doing is changing ourselves. Locking ourselves into our wisdom, what we think is best, our ideas. Getting our vanity tied up with how things must be done.

Meaning that if God does anything other than exactly how we see things happening? We’re not able to receive it. Even if it’s better. Because it’s not how we’ve decided that it must happen.

And you’re thinking, “That ridiculous, no one does that.”

You’re right. Because just about no one sets out to put preconditions on God.

And yet, this is still a problem. Because just about all of us do put preconditions on God. We just do it in much more subtle ways.

Like what we see in today’s Gospel.

Where the response to Jesus isn’t an outright “no.” But it isn’t exactly a “yes” either.

It’s more of “let me take care of this other thing, then I’ll get to you Jesus.”

Where, maybe without really meaning to, Jesus gets put in second place. Or maybe third or fourth.

Because they’re just so caught up in themselves and what they’re doing. That Jesus has to take a number. And wait His turn.

A point that’s so beautifully captured in the first two words of one man’s response to Jesus – “But first…”

Once we’re at that point, it’s a very short step (really, more of an unavoidable slide). From expecting someone who we (in our own minds) have already made wait on us. To do things our way.

Which is a great way to set ourselves up not only to be disappointed in God. When God doesn’t do things our way.

And we also to miss God’s best for our lives. Because we’re so stuck in our own ideas about how things must be, that we miss it when God gives us better than we could ever imagine.

Today’s Readings

[holographic-mars]

mars. hands held out in begging. do you have any comfort hcs/thoughts for soundwave and ravage with soundwave caring for ravage? i am cradling them so sweetly in my hands

I prepare to slumber and then you send me an ask and I’m like I WAKE.

I DOOO I DOOOOO HAVE HCS FOR SOUNDWAVE CARING FOR THE RAV

As mentioned eighty billion times before, I hc that Soundwave mimics purring my winding and unwinding his tape deck (he does it subconsciously when he’s happy/comfortable) and he utilizes that was a way of calming Ravage down and/or helping her sleep. Ravage always helped soundwave calm down and ground him by purring, so naturally Soundwave does the same for her. He’ll hold her against his chassis and purr and it calms her down quick.

Soundwave, being blessed with opposable thumbs, does a lot of grooming and frame maintenance for ravage (and the avians). He loves being able to pamper his cassettes, so when he gets his hands on some good polish, wax, and oil he will spend hours making sure ravage is clean and shiny and well oiled.

Ravage doesn’t sleep very well because she is normally paranoid and on high alert over the safety of her pack as well as general insomnia and nightmares. If she sleeps fitfully, Soundwave wakes up to calm her down and stay awake with her until she can doze off again.

EEEHEHEHEE THATS ALL I GOT OFF THE TOP OF MY TIRED HEAD I’m always happy when you come into my inbox and ask me stuff EEHEHEHEHEHE THANK YOU BLIGGHHTTTT ❤️❤️❤️❤️🛸🛸🛸