#father abraham

[offendedteaspoon]

“average person has 3 sons a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has 0 sons per year. Father Abraham, who has many sons (I am one of them and so are you), is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[fantasychica37]

Why not the original lyrics though?

Crown Prince Fëanor had many sons

Many sons had Father Fëanor

And they never laughed, and they never cried,

All they did was go like this:

(insert yelling about Silmarils or pretending to go on a rampage and stab people or making brutish noises or just the “th” sound)

forget Silmarils. I want to know what the gossip was like in Aman when Fëanor and Nerdanel kept having kids. Because you know that if Tolkien says something mild like it "was unusual" and this is a document written by an in-universe historian who was presumably trying not to offend their surviving family - the reaction of the other elves might well have been Not Mild.

So, I wanna know what the gossip was like because I'm sure those rumors were vicious. Did they have printing presses? Are there Noldorin gossip rags? Did people make up bawdy drinking songs about this?

[1-jar-of-stars]

Biblical Parents 002.

[biblebloodhound]

The Blessing (Genesis 17:15-22)

Genuine belief results in decisive action.

By American artist Julie Lonneman God said to Abraham, “Don’t call your wife by the name Sarai anymore. Instead, her name is Sarah [Princess]. I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become a mother of nations, and kings will come from her.” Immediately, Abraham bowed with his face touching the ground. He laughed as he thought to himself, “Can a…

[emiliefitch]

Gerhard Wilhelm von Reutern, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac (1849) | Cain, José Saramago (tr. Margaret Jull Costa) | Carvaggio, The Sacrifice of Isaac (1602) | "Sun-bleached Flies", Ethel Cain | Carvaggio, The Flagellation of Christ (1607) | @tojisun | Adam Abram, Gethsemane

[wickershells]

during the harkonnen siege, as paul wakes in the ornithopter with jessica, he cannot find the right pitch for the voice; that is, until the drop-door is opened, and the howls of the desert are heard -- that is paul's pitch: his voice, from the outer world

[hamishlinklaters]

HAMISH LINKLATER and his obnoxious "hip roll sit 'n spread"

[immediatebreakfast]

This entry is really good in exemplifying the gothic themes around Lucy, and the men that now surround her because of her illness. It's not only the gift of the medicine flowers and the promise of silence, it's how Van Helsing has been acting in a more so paternal like way towards Lucy up to today that she now has enough information to put on the correct act once again.

"These are for you, Miss Lucy," he said. "For me? Oh, Dr. Van Helsing!" "Yes, my dear, but not for you to play with. These are medicines." Here Lucy made a wry face. 

Van Helsing, and Lucy's dynamic it's both simple, and complicated once one is aware of what kind of power he can have over her, even without meaning it. Our professor is a very much older, wiser, and a little bit intimidating man while Lucy is the perfect picture of a victorian young lady. So, it's not really a surprise that Lucy immediatly shapes her attitude to play in a social dynamic in which Van Helsing has the benefit.

If Van Helsing unintentionally wants to act like a father towards Lucy, then her only cards to play is act like a daughter. I say unintentionally because Van Helsing never overstep from his role of doctor in the more practical sense, but sentiments and human emotion don't have lines cut in steel. I think this is also amplified with the absence of a literary father figure in the Westenra household.

"No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do; and I warn you that you do not thwart me. Take care, for the sake of others if not for your own." Then seeing poor Lucy scared, as she might well be, he went on more gently: "Oh, little miss, my dear, do not fear me. I only do for your good; but there is much virtue to you in those so common flowers. 

Van Helsing telling Lucy what the garlic flowers are for, but also including that she cannot "play" with them, mentioning how he could tell Arthur about her scrunching her nose, downright scolding her for questioning the flowers then comforting her when he noticed Lucy's fear. All of these acts let us see how Van Helsing is infatilizing Lucy which extends in how the gothic criticizes the social roles that allow Van Helsing to do this in the first place.

In the gothic genre, masculinity is presented as a threatening power depending on who wields it. Is It a father, a villain, a lover, a suitor? No matter who, all of them represent an anxiety, a fear, or a reflection of the attitudes of the victorian era that the Gothic aims to show.

Lucy is a gothic damsel whose age, gender, and illness makes her extremely vulnerable to the social expectations of the time, so in response, she uses her social wits to make the best out of a situation when she finds herself in front of someone who can put power over her. This is why Lucy acts more childish towards Van Helsing as he lectures her on (specifically) obedience. It's almost the picture of a father teaching his daughter to both obey, and listen.

[gael-garcia]

"People are touched, and then what?" 

No Other Land (2024 🇵🇸), directed by Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor

[orionshounds]

I make alot of jokes about abraham towers but I actually really do appreciate him as a character....but he's one I don't see talked about much and it's such a shame

like, he's probably the one other character still alive who is almost as personally connected to maria's death as shadow is

how he now fills the role of the person who ordered the attack on the ark, and how heavily that legacy must weigh on him

how he still has to grapple with his own fear of shadow, despite what maria saw in him, despite how towers has seen him save the world

how he's had to look the demon from his childhood in the face, and realize his own pain was reflected in it's eyes

he is a man built on pride, but who has to put it aside for the greater good. a man who wants all this power to try and protect the earth, but who has to constantly realize it's not enough

he is a man who, above all else, is trying to not make the same mistake twice

[verseno]

Abe

[minnow-doodle-doo]

have to ask, how’d you come up with the idea for that piece for the gotham horror zine with bruce and dick?? the idea is just as insanely cool as the art itself, genuinely

What's more scary than becoming just like your father lol

On a more serious note. Bruce didn't to bring Dick into vigilantism, but Batman in the end swept him under his wing. The inner demons become a real demon and all that.

I also think so much of horror is the price of actions. Bruce pays the price of being Batman by that the people he loves are harmed by his actions.

This curse is forever laid on Dick and now they are even more mirrors of each other. (You are loved by your father, this isn't a comfort it's a life sentence.)

[1-jar-of-stars]

Biblical Parents

unknown ( if anybody knows the source please tell me!!!), Rabbi Hyim Shafner, Amatullah Bourdon

[spacefinch]

Cody: Father Jango

Rex: had many sons

Kix: And many sons had Father Jango

Echo: I am one of them

Fives, pointing at Echo: And so are you

Jesse: So let’s all praise the Force!

[sallyrooneygf]

Caravaggio, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1602 // José Saramago: Cain, A Novel // Caravaggio, The Flagellation of Christ, 1607

[gxlden-angels]

DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW ABOUT THAT ONE SONG THATS P MUCH A CHRISTIAN VERSION OF THE HOKEY POKEY CAUSE ITS STUCK IN MY HEAD SEND HELP