#but it's pretty good

[tanadrin]

the guest on dan mcclellan's podcast this week, david burnett, argues pretty interestingly that, if you understand the way the promise to abraham that his descendants will be "like the stars" correctly (crucially, the original text says just "like the stars," and "numbered like the stars" is an editorial amendment introduced by many translations), then the actual dynamic paul has in mind when discussing the resurrection in 1 corinthians 15 is that god will one day overthrow all the other beings in heaven, including the literal stars and planets, and the followers of jesus will replace them: that is, the "heavenly bodies" promised to those resurrected are literal heavenly bodies, and the reason that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom god is (among others) that, well, you would need a literally heavenly body in order to supplant the stars in the sky.

this is all based on athe way the original greek phrasing was employed in the period and in the centuries immediately prior, and connections to the development of the role of other gods and divine beings throughout the development of the bible (and part of a longer discussion about how "monotheism" is not really the right lens to view any of the spiritual practices of the eastern mediterranean at this point), but all i can think is man. that sounds cool as hell. you mean at the end of time me and the gang are gonna get together and help god overthrow the stars? i'm into it.

[airyairyaucontraire]

New favourite sound effect caption noted during Derry Girls rewatch:

[literary great clatters on the floor]

[maulfucker]

Reread Maul Fucks Some Guy today and. man. It's not even everything I wanted to write but it's so fucking good. I was so right for this.

[michameinmicha]

Stumbled upon this random ship (in a fandom im not active in myself) that has like 150 works on ao3 which are all from just two people gifting each other fics about this pairing back and forth and theyve been doing it for 3 years... i think thats true love probably

[yourmajestybee]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[bodygirls]

GIRL IN SEXY LINGERIE

[blorbopolis]

im cooking

[sexygaywizard]

new yuri image for desperate lesbians just dropped

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[todaysbird]

just found out that users of r/stupiddovenests heavily praise doves when they do the bare minimum

[thisshadowwrites]

i have seen gay porn less homoerotically charged than whatever the fuck they were doing in that hyundai civic

[bandzboy]

i just wanna say i like ice on my teeth

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

[littlemsterious]

i was thinking about that post comparing Jessica Rabbit as an asexual to Barbie and an asexual and then i thought of the Neil Gaiman post (was it a post?) about Crowley and Aziraphale being asexual sexless and then this happened.

anyways. thoughts?

sorry it took so long I meant to do this a week ago but my brain is full of rocks.

[Image ID a three sided venn diagram. the big circles show Margot Robbie's Barbie sitting in front of a mirror, Jessica and Roger Rabbit from the poster of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens standing back to back. Between Barbie and Jessica Rabbit it says "sexualised by society". Between Jessica Rabbit and Aziraphale and Crowley it says "Knows what sex is". Between Aziraphale and Crowley and Barbie it says "no reproductive system(?)". the center is the asexual flag. End ID]

Also i haven't seen the Barbie movie as of this edit so at least please tag your spoilers.