#ephiphany

[profesors]

"Swimming for the Holy Cross" 🇷🇸

◾Serbian Orthodox Epiphany, known as Богојављење (lat. Bogojavljenje) , is a significant religious observance celebrated on January 19th (January 6th in the Julian calendar). On this day, the Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. One of the distinctive customs during Богојављање is the ritual of „Пливање за часни крст“ or swimming for the Holy Cross.

◾In this ritual, young men dive into icy waters to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest. The one who successfully retrieves the cross is believed to receive a special blessing and good fortune throughout the year.

◾This tradition symbolizes the baptism of Jesus and emphasizes the importance of spiritual cleansing and renewal. The act of swimming in cold waters represents a commitment to faith and a willingness to endure challenges for the sake of religious devotion.

[brenninthetaylorverse]

FOLKWHORE IS MY NAME TAYLOR SWIFT TRIVIA IS MY GAME

[savageswift13]

EPIPHANY SHE SANG EPIPHANY AND I WASNT THERE TAYLORRRRR

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

OH FUCK I FORGOT KING CAKE INGREDIENTS OH FIVL

[yeezyree]

Today I realized that I’m the problem after all. I come into people’s lives equipped with qualities that they don’t deserve, never experienced & aren’t ready to adapt to. I’m literally the peace disturbing their trauma &I end up threatening changed behavior with just my presence.

[gianlodi]

Day on the snow!!! Giornatina sulla neve!!!! #snow #holiday #ephiphany #festa #neve #igers #instagram #instagrammers (presso Rifugio Palafavera) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnExh-0rRpE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dntdlmtn666]

if thanos didn't lose at the end of marvel movie he would have WONM???

[dreamy-conceit]

I felt in perfect control and knew the thrill of seeing the ropes from my waist curl down through empty space. I was as light as the air around me, as if I were dancing on tip-toes, relaxed, measuring every movement and seeking a complete economy of effort. Speak with your eyes, speak with your hands, let it all flow from your heart. True communication, true communion, is silent.

— Mountaineer Pete Boardman, quoted by Henry Wismayer in 'The Unending Allure Of High Mountains' (Noema, June 6, 2024)

[faithaoibh]

I create what I feel, what is important to me and what is it that I want to know more of

[orangejynx]

Fuuuuuuuuck did this hit.

[mishalogic]

There will be NO HAMAS TERRORITSTS!!!

In,

HEAVEN

"PARADISE"

or,

WALK IN THE GARDEN WITH GOD!

When the EVIL ONES DIE!

They will know NOTHING!!!

The good will be with GOD!

VENGEANCE NOT NEEDED!!! ... Misha

[imjusthereforeternity]

That's why all of it turned out the way it did. Why my backstory spiraled into all the worst possible endings.

Kamari was always there to clip off the broken branches before they became too morbid.

As myself, with all my dark stories, antagonist underlings, and plot dismantling, of course it would result in broken tethers and shattered windchimes and Kamari's lost happy ending.

Because Kamari wasn't there.

Fae isn't here now either.

Which may pose a threat to my dear audience.

That is, until @osbob-the-existent devised a solution.

Outlines could keep all the plot threads contained. Outlines would denote all the awful ways I could express my 'fallen fairy-ness' and keep the villain from dismantling the story.

With the outlines, Kamari could be in the reality plotline with faer happy ending. The pixies were free to offer me any instructions they wished and I could follow along. I could tell stories and hum with the pixie songs - perhaps even remembering Kamari's lullaby one day - and I could theorize over all of the pixie archives and in all senses, I could be a fully rewritten character.

Villainy. Fallen fairies. Leaving. The tether and my tree and the place of tethers and...

... and Kamari and the stars and sunflowers and every wonderous thing with a dark ending it didn't deserve.

In all senses, none of it would exist.

And it would be wonderous.

[all-eyes-no-dragon]

I remember when I felt cool for knowing Tails' real name cuz it was like I had secret insider information

I also remember that I had been reading his name wrong for a significant amount of time and that it was not, in fact, Miles Prowler but instead Miles Prower

TELL ME IT WOULDNT MAKE SENSE FOR THE FOX TO HAVE PROWLER AS HIS SURNAME 😭

[bagelman]

Beautiful drinks, live jazz, I'm LIVING BITCHES

[pascalishere]

In hindsight, this should’ve been obvious. But I’m only now realizing that everybody struggles to communicate. We’re all only just operating off of assumptions and inferences when we try to understand how someone feels. Furthermore, lots of people don’t articulate what they actually want to express properly, totally unintentionally! Up until recently, I thought that unless someone was lying, under the influence, or in an emotionally heightened state, everyone perfectly said what they meant 100% of the time. But in day-to-day conversation, people leave gaps between what they mean and what they say! All the time! It’s both relieving and terrifying to think about.

[bubbl3cheek]

my fingers are tingling, my breath is heavy, i’m ever so slightly shaking.

moments ago i was smoking a cigarette and ever since i saw you earlier today the idea of sH has been on my mind, which stilll feels fuzzy b†w, while holding this cancer stick in my fingers i want to burn myself, it’s been my favorite technique ever since that dreadful dead at the health center, and while this thought grows in my mind I start to get real excited, i’m having an epiphany about how much i love the thrill, my breath is heavy and my hands are shaking, i’ve never felt so alive as i do now with this lit cigarette threathing to burn my skin, why does this feel so good? this is the most alive i’ve felt in moths, i want to chase this thrill, i want it back