#go farther in hope

[reallylilyreally]

the sound of a soul in tune - ch8/8

It's a war story. It's a love story. It's something.

OR

Skip Muck, Alex Penkala and Don Malarkey, Bastogne and beyond.

When Winters comes to tell them about Victory in Europe, Alex cries. It takes him by surprise, though he knows he’s not the only man tearing up, because Johnny is looking at the ceiling and Babe is staring at the floor, but he hasn’t cried since he was a kid. He gets it under control pretty fucking fast, but he ducks his head down to Skip’s shoulder and reaches out to grip Don by the wrist and gives himself ten seconds to cry, because

Well.

Just because.

Now complete! A huge thank you to everyone who has engaged with and read and commented on this, and as always my whole heart to @escrivoir for this universe we have built together. I am so grateful to you, and everything you are.

[aceinthefreakinspace]

Pride Month Aspec (Head)canons Day 15

Gwenpool - Marvel Comics - Aroace

Okay this one isn't a headcanon but that's because Gwenpool is canoncially aroace!! Whatta queen.

Tbh I'm not completely up to date on this. I do remember a few posts about how even though the comic said aroace, there was more emphasis on the ace part than the aro part. So here's some lovely aroace flags with her to hopefully help bridge any gaps there are existing between those.

I remember reading a Young Avengers comic a bit ago that had her in a relationship. I also remember just being like "what" the entire time because it did Not seem like it was supposed to be happening. I guess even then, without knowing much about her, I had picked up on the aroace vibes before they made it canon. Interesting how that worked out.

Anyway, gotta love a canon aroace character. Especially one as cool as her!

[radarsteddybear]

🤪

(I'll probably have to go back and punch up the preceding scene tomorrow, but in the meantime, we're working on making it to the finish line.)

[justsomespiders]

yknow, there's something Wild to us that the best part of our life so far (the present babeyyyyy) still involves tracing our scars. it still involves sleeping on ashes and soot and smoke. it still involves feeling out the edges of gifts given by people who never loved us. We are not separate from our past, and "it gets better" coexists with "not all at once"

To be clear! This is not angst! (Entirely at least lol)

This is us finding both joy and sadness in knowing that life does get better. And that we've got so much more to grow with. I just... Really wanna throw so much love yknow

T-T <3 hours

[sysig]

Just take things at your own pace, there’s no need to rush (Patreon)

[papus-clown-enclosure]

Thinking about the email my German 101 teacher said about possibly switching to her other 101 class. Like that would mean having 2 classes and a lab on one day. Which could free up my other days for when I get an internship

(I hope I get one bc I have yet to find out if it's needed for my 1st major, or else I'm straight up getting a job if not. )

(Something something self sabotage and something of running away of New possibilities/opportunities even though it's not expect3d but sure would have helped me in the long run)

[meringuejellyfish]

this november i was made aware that manyland will be going down sometime in january. very much saddening to hear ! quite the special little experience this game was, heres some screenshots ive taken from recent wandering around elsewhere

heres a screens-worth of random stuff i made when i was 11

and heres an area ive been messing around with creating in my recent playing :-) in collaboration with my sibling

i believe manyland is free on steam now (and simply on manyland . com) for any who want to see it for yourself :-)

[dinosaurwithablog]

I'm happy about the game because I got to see Giancarlo Stanton do his thang. When he's on, he's phenomenal. He hits a baseball harder and farther than anyone else in the show. I love Giancarlo!! ❤️ The Yankees tried their best. If pitching didn't give away so many runs, we could've won, but Aaron Boone and his bad, idiotic decisions prevented that from happening. My boys played very, very well, and I'm proud of all of them. They gave it a valiant effort. They played well. You can't win them all. Congratulations to the Rangers. See you tomorrow. Let's go Yankees!!!!!

Look at those muscles in his arms!! It's no wonder that the ball travels so far and so fast. Holy guacamole!! 😊😍⚾️

[vialism]

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[valaratminaforaldrar]

couldnt sleep went on a walk found thus random frog just sitting in the middle of the road???

[reallylilyreally]

Last line tags

Been tagged in this a lot recently and been LAZY so thank you @whirlpool-blogs, @swifty-fox, @almost-a-class-act and @london-cowboy (you're right babe this is a circle-jerk, and i'm Not Mad)

Back on my BoB bullshit, so have a little bit of the as-yet untitled BabeRoe section of the go farther in hope universe

Bit o' Babe...

It’s not like he didn’t know the company suffered heavy losses on D-Day and the campaign that followed. Every company suffered heavy losses, and all the men not there sat about feeling fucking useless for not being in France. But Babe doesn’t quite understand the weight of it, and of his role in it, or lack of role in it, until Easy gets back to England and these men start using the word replacements.

There’s so many things wrong with it. With all of it.

They start off kinda mad about it, him and Hashey and Garcia and Miller - they’d joined up only a handful of weeks behind these guys, most of them - it’s not their fuckin’ fault the Army hadn’t thought they were required for D-Day. They’d have been there if they’d had a choice, and the way the company look at them like they’re useless kids is irritating.

And a bit o' Gene...

He prays a lot, since Normandy. More than he ever did before, back when he believed God might be listening. These days, Gene’s more of the mind that the man upstairs is probably far too busy for prayers. It doesn’t stop him doing it, though, in his head.

Gene prays in French. He struggles to think of God as speaking English as his first language, there’s something crude and straightforward about the idea that makes him uncertain. God is a cajun, if he’s there at all.

He mentions this in passing to Spina once, who laughs and tells him that Guarnere says God’s an Italian.

And i'm taggingggggg the usuals, because this IS a circle jerk! @joeyalohadream @itstheheebiejeebies @anachilles and @escrivoir

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[suashii]

hi hi friends~ i am wishing everyone the most amazing saturday ! ! have fun and stay hydrated :3 also, here’s an otter just bc — think of it as me sending u so so much love ᡣ𐭩

[burying-brightness]

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[nicollekidman]

alina becoming the darkling is like okay. three meaningful reforms for each killing. that seems fair. then a hundred years down the line ravka’s grisha are thriving and she has a trail of bodies behind her and she’s like wow looks like i was stronger and better after all 😇 and then eternity stretches before her

[v-tired-queer]

Hi!! I'm a Christian, and while I've encountered people who combine witchcraft with their Christian faith, I've never understood it. I saw in your pinned post that this is something you do. If you're willing/interested/have the energy, would you be willing to share more about that? Or point me in the direction of some more information on it?

I know really little about this, and I really want to understand more. I'm not coming here to be critical, just super curious. :D Hope you're well!

Hello there! 😃👋 I hope that you're doing well, too, and sure, I'd love to share a little more about combining witchcraft with my Christian faith!

I think, for starters, that it's important to remember that, like for everything else in life, how I've experienced this might not be how another Christian witch experiences it, views it, or even came about it. But I think that as Christians we can also understand that fairly easily, as that's just how a lot of us experience Christianity in and of itself. How one person came to Christ won't always be the same way that another person has come to Christ, and how we worship won't always look the same, either. It's just like that for Christian witches, too.

In an attempt to make a very long story short (spoiler alert: I failed), I feel like I am very lucky and blessed to have grown up with a Methodist mom, Southern Baptist father, aunts who were Catholic, cousins who became atheist and agnostic and friends at school who were Muslim and Jewish. I was surrounded by all sorts of different paths to take, and my mom had always encouraged my brother and I to choose our faiths for ourselves when we were old enough to understand what having faith really means, which is why we weren't baptized when we were babies, but raised in church nonetheless. I grew up very faithful. Sunday School was my favorite part of the week, and I loved to learn more about God and Jesus and say my prayers at meals and at night. God always made me feel loved. Still does 🩷

When I was in middle school, I was very, very traditional. I was open minded to others, but I was always hesitant to let myself explore more things for myself. I think I was afraid that exploring meant that I was a bad Christian, that I was questioning God, and I didn't want to make Him angry or upset with me. But I eventually met a friend who was a Wiccan, worshiping a god and goddess, living by the cycles of the moon and seasons, doing spells and rituals and worshiping at home or in nature. I loved things like that growing up, but always thought that it was just something from Hollywood or the mideavel period at best. I didn't think people actually did it, though I had always wished that they did. Little middle schooler me thought that maybe this was God's way of giving me permission to explore more, so I asked questions, watched spells and rituals, learned correspondences, and eventually asked, "Is there a Christian faith that's like this, too?"

Turns out there wasn't really one specific faith in Christianity that I could find, but rather, a practice instead. Google led me down so many different paths of people who were both Christians and witches and I decided I wanted to give it a try, too. And honestly? It felt like my faith was renewed. I felt like by choosing how I specifically worship and "do Christianity", I was making a relationship with God and Jesus and even the Holy Spirit that was closer than ever before because I was letting myself actually feel my faith instead of just going through motions at church, which was a rut than even middle school me was stuck in. I wasn't just doing what I thought I had to, I was doing what I wanted to do to show God my love and faith, and it really empowered me to form my own path in life, one that was and still is Christ centered, even if not in a way that tends to be expected for Christians.

So, the witchcraft itself: personally, I don't know if I view my spells an rituals the same way that other witches do. I don't really do a spell and think of it as me bending the wills that be to my desire, but rather, I view it as a really intense prayer. I see it as me using visual representations of my goals, needs and wants as a way to show God what it is I feel like I need (or just really, really want lol), but I always still leave it up to Him and His plans at the end of the day. I can do a thousand spells for the same thing over and over again, but if God says no, than the answer is no, ya know? My rituals are just ways to show my love, devotion, and gratitude. I pay special attention to seasons because the world God made is beautiful in all of its many ways, and personally, when I take the time to rest in the winter or come alive in the summer, I feel like I'm using the natural patterns of the Earth to further build my relationship with God, and Jesus, too. I feel like God made so many things in a natural rhythm and pattern--I just try to live by those things to strengthen the relationship between us.

I'm sure you can tell by how many times I've said it, but at the end of the day, it's all about my relationship with God and our Savior, just like for other Christians. I'm just doing things a bit differently. I'm 1000% that there are people who don't believe that this is a "valid" thing to do or that I'm sinning or that I'm going to Hell for all of this, but their opinions don't matter to me. My relationship with the Lord, His Son, and His Spirit matters to me, and when I do the things that make me feel the closest to Him, that make me feel His love and grace, then I feel like I'm doing fine.

Allllllll of that being said, there's lot of different ways that other Christian witches worship or practice witchcraft, which I think is really cool! There are some that have Mother Mary as a huge focus in their worship, or the Saints, or even the Disciples! I especially like witchcraft that involves the angels (Gabriel, my beloved 🤍). Personally, I steer clear of anything that involves demons or dark spirits and the like, but I'm always on the lookout for signs that angels are near or that the Lord is with me (which He always is, like he's always with you).

Unfortunately, I can't think of any sources or materials off the top of my head that would be good for further research. But maybe there are some other blogs on here that would have some good starting points, or would share their own views, too! You could search by denomination and then put witch after, like "Catholic witch" or Methodist witch", things like that. There are some books about Christian witchcraft, too, but personally I haven't read any of them. I think there might be come Christian witches on YouTube, too.

I hope this post made sense! If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask! 😊

God bless! 🕊