#church announcements

[juice-ccfinds]

the week of the 4th my job gave us the entire week off for reasons™ so during that week i’m going to be updating this blog’s theme and work on that tagging system i mentioned a while back lol

[asreadbyaj]

i think i’m gonna make 2 more filtering tags and add them to posts this weekend.

i’m finding that because i “tbr” so many fics, the Black writers and queer stories get lost in the mix 😭

they’ll probably be along the lines of “Black ink” and “rainbow ink” and be added as additional tags

[sweetestflow3rs]

would you believe this is a face of a man who only got worse in his new enriched environment?

[christliche-kunstwerke]

Verkündigung an Maria by Sandro Botticelli (1489, Gemälde)

[sparkyscissorhands]

FOUND MY RING LETS GOOO heh,, imagine getting proposed to with a ring from hot topic 😼 but hey.. thats just the life i live, heh,, ignore pete on the ground i totally didnt do that edward pushed him

MY URL WILL SOON BE REAL 💪‼️

[thedrowsydoormouse]

So I’ve been doing a little bit of thinkin’ after the two new episodes of Who about Susan Twist and I had a lightbulb moment I haven’t really seen anyone else talking about just yet.

Spoilers ahead for Wild Blue Yonder, Church on Ruby Road, Space Babies, and the Devil’s Chord. Ok, onto the theory!

We all know Susan Twist is going to be more than just an Easter Egg, but I think everyone is taking the actress’s name too literally. She’s not playing Susan.

She’s The One Who Waits.

She’s there. Always in the background. On the periphery. Watching. Waiting. Because everything leads back to her.

And the first time we see her is in the scene that has the first major world shift in the episode that set up this entire plotline about invoking superstition at the edge of the universe and letting something through.

And who do we encounter pretty much immediately after? The embodyment of Play (Toymaker). And then a little later in we meet the embodyment of Music (Maestro).

Which raises the next part of my theory: What is The One Who Waits the embodyment of?

Death

Death just sits, and waits, and watches, biding their time because everything has its time and Death comes for everything in the end.

And every time we’ve seen her, things start going really wrong. In WBY, she was one of the last people we saw before the Tardis landed on the spaceship, Donna almost died, and the Doctor almost let a NotWe loose on the universe. In Ruby Road, she’s watching Ruby and her friends perform the same night they nearly get crushed by the giant snowman head. She was one of the crew in Space Babies who were forced to leave the station and abandon all those babies to die. And in Devil’s Chord she was in the cafeteria when Paul and John are talking to the Doctor and Ruby about music before getting angry and leaving which, had the Doctor not intervened, would’ve lead to literal nuclear winter.

I feel like too many people are focusing on just the previous lore from the past 60 years which, for any other context makes sense. But this isn’t your granny’s Doctor Who anymore. The tone shift started in WBY means we need to think outside the Blue Box (that’s bigger on the inside) to figure it all out and for once, I think being into SuperWhoLock may have finally paid off! The NotWes are shapeshifters. The Bogeyman was basically a thought form (tulpa). The literal baby eating, musical goblins. The Toymaker and Maestro are both functionally gods. And which god waits patiently in the background?

Death.

It’s not a perfect 1 to 1 with Supernatural but if you find the midpoint between the two everything starts to click into place.

The final Big Bad of the season is The One Who Waits which is Death and not even the Doctor can fully cheat death, they can just keep running. So in the end the Doctor doesn’t actually defeat Death. He just traps them or delays them enough to get away so he can just keep running.

(Also Mrs. Flood is just a normal human who’s past was changed by the Doctor. In the start of the episode, before the Doctor properly meets Ruby (I don’t count the encounter at the club) she has no clue what the Tardis is. But as soon as the thing happens on the roof her past changed to include an encounter with the Doctor when she was younger (I think it’s going to be the episode with the slug things we’ve seen in the trailers because there’s a girl with blonde bangs in a season where coincidence is the driving force behind everything so it has to mean something) which is why her entire personality shifts by the end and she becomes nicer and suddenly knows about the Tardis and knows that Ruby has to go with the Doctor. She’s not Susan or Ruby’s mom. She’s just someone they save along the way.) 

[prophetofthemuse]

For the record: “Church of Our Muse” and “Lovers of The Muse” are both correct titles for the congregation; the former is simply based more around the organization itself, and the latter around the followers within it.

[aswrittenbyaj]

this is coming this weekend (:

i promise this time 😭😭

a lil sneak peek at what's coming soon

majorette!riri x Black!reader

was inspired by the videos of dominique getting ready for carnival that @axailslink posted. i know it's a carnival fit buuuut hbcu shuri and riri have been on my mind as of late so i went with majorette!riri.

"looks like i ain't gonna be the only one scared tonight," she said, swapping the setting spray for a black and white circular hand fan, viv flicking her wrist back and forth, the gentle flow of air speeding up the makeup application's drying time.

"whatchu mean?" riri asked, her head tilting slightly, perfectly scuplted brow quirking in interest.

"'cause with the way your girlfriend is lookin' atchu right now, anybody try to step to you tonight finna be scared for a whole 'nother reason."

[the-whimsigoth-witch]

The beef between me and my ultra-religious coworker is so silly to me because once again, she finds ways to throw religion into everything and again I’m being victimized by my workplace’s Question of the Day.

Today’s question: “what book do you recommend”

My answer: “The Humans by Matt Haig” (this book follows an alien as he learns about humans and what makes humanity so complex and yet beautiful. It involves a lot of math and scientific concepts while still remaining science fiction)

My coworker’s answer: “The Bible by God”

[born-to-lose]

Bands don't break up on stage anymore like they used to

[bootyschurchblog]

this is my first genconf with no one to watch it with and it's really sad ):

[causalityparadoxes]

I'm so excited for potential Explosion of Doctor Who Novelisations. I know we've been getting more over the years. But all of the 60th Specials getting novelisations within a week or so of airing?

Church on Ruby Road still being 10 days off and already having an announcement of its upcoming novelisation!?

In a world where scripts are published and advertised like they're real adaptations. Its so cool that we're getting so many honest to god novelisations 😭

I hope this isnt a one off for the 60th. I hope they make one for every episode going forward, or at least series finales! Cause i need more new and fun doctor who books damn it!!

[xxghost-bloodxx]

bro... the drag show near my house got canceled because the theater used to be a church. the actors guild doesn't have the money to fight the catholic diocese in court... wtf...

[aphverse-confessions]

Honestly this ask blog is like a Church of Irene and you’re the one manning the confessional booth, hearing about all of the Aarmau/Aaron complaints (the matrons sent her strongest warrior)

Love that in this church I have a billboard with everyone's confessions to broadcast

[aswrittenbyaj]

bringing this back around because i am hopefully going to get that riri loveeeeeee song challenge fic or that bucky springo bingo challenge fic up this week.

also going to try to get up something for the alternate june-iverse challenge (bucky-focused event hosted by @buckybarnesevents) up by the weekend as well 🤞🏾

it’s been quiet on the fic writer front, but my hands have been moving!

hoping to post something that’ll catch yall’s eye this weekend (:

currently writing

riri williams x f!reader (loveeeeeee song writing challenge)

emerald haywood x f!reader (bingo - c1)

bucky barnes x f!reader (bingo - c3)

currently outlining

ransom x f!reader (aphrodite's manor challenge)

tommy miller x f!reader (bingo - n1 or g1…can’t decide which it’ll fall under or if it’ll be a two-parter that can stand alone and go for 2 squares…tbd)

bucky barnes x f!reader (alternate june-iverse c2)

[moonmoonthecrabking]

would it work to bribe the youth with fanfiction