#jesus posting!

[sidhewrites]

Being kink positive makes it really hard to be a hater of media rip. I used to love watching “the WORST book I’ve read this year” booktube videos but now its like I hear them ask, “Who is this werewolf smut even for?” Omegaverse fans, next question. “Why would you write this?” Because they find it sexy, can we stop focusing on the ewie yucky kink part and focus on the fact that the author used the word knot five times in a single scene? It’s bad werewolf erotica, but it’s not bad because it’s werewolf erotica like come on

[lastoneout]

"sugar is poison" sugar is your body's preferred fuel choice and if you stop eating it entirely you will die

[somethingspectral]

I'm reading On Virginity by Saint Gregory of Nyssa because one of my friends who just graduated forwarded it to me and, so far, I'm really enjoying it. He posits some points that, at first, render themselves paradoxical to one another, but ultimately that I think are very beautiful when you consider them together and not just as two separate ideas.

Of course, as the title implies, it's about virginity. I think it would be really easy to read this through a modern or secular lens that rejects it as a product and producer of a "purity mindset" that's inherently repressive, but if you strip that away, his ideas are things of considerable philosophical and theological beauty.

He makes the point that Jesus Christ was brought to the world through virginity, and not wedlock, and that the station of virginity is a sign of God. Specifically, he writes,

I don't think I could articulate this exact point better myself without butchering it. Virginity, then, is a sign of God's presence, remaining in heaven, only lending itself to the salvation of man.

He continues to characterize virginity as "the better way" and the station as being a "special beauty," which modifies and makes his later points considerably more complex.

It seems, also, that St. Gregory himself was not a virgin (admittedly I haven't so much as gone on his Wikipedia, going into this pretty blind) because of the way he characterizes it. I think it also modifies the reading if you read it as someone who is lauding the blessing of virginity without actually holding that virtue himself.

The idea that "no one can climb up to that who has once planted his foot upon the secular life" is extremely compelling, and I think I'll want to meditate on that idea further past reading. Not necessarily because I disagree with it, but I think there's broader implications about "the secular life" outside of virginity and the ways we can or cannot come back from it, especially in the face of God's offer of salvation from secular evils. Anyway.

Then, in Chapter 3, he starts to talk about marriage and that's where he really starts cooking with gas. I think his description of the mission of marriage is extremely beautiful, especially "that sweet rivalry of each wishing to surpass the other in loving." He's so deeply eloquent I could cry. But his greatest emphasis is actually on the difficulty of marriage, rather than the beauty found in it.

It seems that he characterizes an envy for those who keep virginity not because of the difficulty of that "vocation" (if you will) but rather because it is somehow easier? His reasons are somewhat compelling to me: if you don't love someone who is mortal, you don't have to fear death, and you needn't even fear your own death because it is the means by which you'd actually be united with Christ, "the undying Bridegroom" in heaven. Which, holy shit? That's a perspective I've never considered before.

He also goes onto describe the terrible conditions that marriage offers ("adulteries, dissensions, and plots," as he calls them) that continue to compound and make marriage a very difficult choice, writing, "...so when you peruse the laws and read there the strange variety of crimes in marriage to which their penalties are attached, you will have a pretty accurate idea of its properties; for the law does not provide remedies for evils which do not exist, any more than a physician has a treatment for diseases which are never known."

Of course, St. Gregory offers that virginity is the solution to remove oneself from the possibility of falling victim to these evils. He treats virtue as a boundless resource that all can take from, as opposed to things like land, that must be divided between people.

(tbc)

[wolfythewitch]

carpenter's boy

[sinverse]

finally watching supernatural (yes, in the year 2024) and god you destiel girls weren’t lying huh

they really ARE that gay

[jude-shotto]

beep boop!

*throws this at you and runs*

[grantwilson]

we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

[marciaillust]

almost blown out bsky / twt / ig

[nagitosstolenhand]

[tacc0yak1]

Merry Christmas!!! ☃️🎄 (or happy holidays to them)

i like to think younger Silver made a Malleus snowman at one point :’}

[sleepyminty]

High performing duo

Low peforming duo

Duo so powerful that the creator let them interact one time before they got scared

[destielmemenews]

source 1

source 2

source 3

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[somethingspectral]

I've been spending the last few days contemplating what Jesus had to say about forgiveness in Matthew 18:21-35 and I've been doing my best to put it into practice.

It's hard when people around me and even pieces of myself aren't wholly ready to forgive. Forgiveness is a decision you can only make for yourself, and I hold no contempt for those who aren't ready to forgive. I just don't want to live with the burden of someone else's mistakes in my heart, which weigh heavy when they needn't even be there in the first place; I also want people to want me to feel the freedom that comes from forgiveness, and not judge my decisions. I don't want to think of someone and only consider their wrongdoings, especially when I know that they have so much to offer the world. We also have only so long each other on this earth. People move, people die. I'd rather not waste the time I have with them.

I really do find it so odd that even when someone should hurt me so much I want them to be happy, and I mean that so truly. I think that's a good quality of mine when employed correctly, and at times can be a flaw. I need to understand there's a fine line between where forgiveness ends and enabling begins. I think forgiving someone and keeping them in your life are two different things, but I wish I knew exactly what Jesus meant. For now, I will work on rebuilding a couple of relationships. As for the other two, it's best that one of them is kept at arm's length and the other is out of my life. I can want them to find their happiness (and also treatment for their alcoholism... lol), but I do not need to be in the equation.

[shyjusticewarrior]

[samble-moved]

post itself

false flags

trans/adjacent tags

accessibility features

tumblr live post (thanks for the link, @problemnyatic)

flashing / strobing / lights

unblockable flashing ad

buying ad free

staff @/macmanx guilt trip

list of staff + more issues