#maintaining integrity

[thinkingonscripture]

Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves

Jesus told His disciples, “I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matt 10:16). There are times when Christians will find themselves in the midst of a pack of wolves, which is a dangerous situation. When this happens, they should maintain purity in their intentions while being shrewd in their conduct to avoid unwarranted harm.[1] Doves are…

[everestmasala]

one of my favourite ot3 dynamics is like these two people who are entangled by fate and revenge and honour and the guy who got caught up in it because of unceasing, unflinching devotion to one of them

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

forever thinking about how the long quiet embracing their full divinity involves The Voices coming back. like yeah being plural is basically the same thing as being a godi'll cosign that

[meamiiikiii]

vtuber loop !!!

[reverse entry au? the reverse isekai part of it? tangentially related to this post here, and also the last part of this post too]

[megamindsupremacy]

Idk if this is a niche headcanon or fanon or straight up confirmed but I love the idea that Annabeth’s half-siblings Matthew and Bobby are Egyptian magicians. Like they have the blood of the pharaohs on their mom’s side. Annabeth’s entire family tree is just various members of random pantheons and they’re all unaware of this until she starts digging. She thinks she hit her limit when she learned Magnus is a Norse demigod but NOPE her literal half siblings are fucking magicians. Matthew and Bobby didn’t think to tell her (they didn’t know she was a Greek demigod!) until she was visiting Brooklyn House and they all do the Spider-Man pointing meme at each other

[jamethinks]

I was trying to write a fight b/w Anya and Becky and it made me realize Becky doesn’t have shit on Anya.

Like the whole fight is bc Anya got a gift from her papa and she was showing it to Becky and Becky was like (in her head) “that shits so cheap and ugly I have much better stuff lmao” and Anya obviously hears that and is rightfully upset so she immediately starts icing Becky out and Becky gets mad bc she doesn’t know what she did to make Anya so ticked.

Eventually Anya gets tired and calls her a snob (which she canonically is) and concludes her rant by saying Becky has never owned anything of actual sentimental value because no one actually cares enough about her to go through the trouble, everything she has only has monetary value and that’s why money matters so much to her. And also despite coming from such a wealthy and influential family she only spends time with the poor nobody because she’s the only one she can always confidently feel superior to. Obviously not as eloquently stated but you get the gist.

And within my canon, Becky’s parents are divorced and her mom lives in the US so they only see each other during the vacation but now her mom just kinda cancelled on her. And then her dad is getting remarried to this bitch she doesn’t like. So Becky is just not in a good place and having Anya essentially tell her nobody gives a fuck about you fr hurts like a bitch

So naturally Becky has to combat it but it’s like what could she possibly say to get under Anya’s skin.

She’s poor? Old news. She doesn’t have any friends? Neither do you. Her house is small? Yeah cause her parents live there. Nobody likes you? My parents like me can’t say the same about you.

But even in the actual story the only leverage Becky could have is the fact that Anya is insecure but if one day she’s just not having it everybody’s getting burned. Especially because she knows all their deep dark secrets and anxieties. Like if Damian gets a bit too fresh like don’t forget your mom wanted you to die when the bus got hijacked bitch lower your fucking tone.

Like her only weakness is her own insecurities but she’s surrounded by people that love her and are invested in her happiness and well being so it’s only a matter of time before she stops caring. At that point nobody’s safe.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

(chuckles) Im so good at reading comprehension and my meat is huge

[junk-culture]

well i know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow at 8am 27.08.24. paul weller is finally going to break noel gallagher's legs

[namespara]

Unpopular opinion: Pausing in a fromsoftware game is a bad idea but not because of the difficulty

I've been a fromsoft fan for a while and i've seen the discourse for just as long and i just wanna say that besides the challenge debate, more importantly, pausing would take away from the games atmosphere and severity. Game mechanics have been part of the whole experience since forever, the fact that dying is permanent and there's no way to undo that or reload. This applies to the pause. Fromsoft games are about the atmosphere and immersion of being in a death ridden existence with no escape, a truly adrenaline pumping experience where you have to find a grace/bonfire/etc to feel truly safe. Its immersion is aided by the fact that there is no escape. It's a beautiful use of a (lack of) game mechanic to underline its story.

Elden ring or any fromsoft game would be lesser for it if you added a pause, imo.

[danlous]

I like Luke but a part of me doesn't forgive him for being an 'Armand is Alice' truther. I know he's a devil's minion ethusiast but you better not try to erase Daniel's wives on my watch!

[boimgfrog]

All my professors are super cool except the one that gave all his non-black students the n-word pass cos it's an African American Lit class and he respects historical integrity. Respectfully sir I'm not saying that. Respectfully.

[mariocki]

The Aftermath (1982)

"What happens when you die?"

"I don't know, son. No one does."

"It's sad to die."

"No. Death isn't sad. We all have to die. What's sad is having to go on without someone you love. Just as we have to go on now."

[jewishmcr]

obviously I agree with what everyone is saying about the met gala getting too much media attention every year over far more important global matters (especially this year), but I think some of the criticism I’m seeing is coming from people who don’t seem to understand that it’s literally a fundraising event. the met gala raises money for the met’s historic clothing and costume collection, which is one of the largest and most expansive in the world. there is much to be said about the willingness of celebrities to spend money on that and not on charities for Palestine, but I just feel like a lot of people genuinely do not know that that’s what the event is for and why it’s so expensive to attend

[mag200]

something something if spirit hadnt been a kids movie spirit and little creek wouldve died making that jump but it still wouldve been freedom. to be clear i’m not saying it shouldve been like that and even this is not meant to be a grimdark interpretation. i just think that spirit and little creek become some kind of folk heroes. they make it because they’re characters in a kids movie but if they were real i think on an emotional level they would’ve succeeded even in death. the jump was never as much about believing they could land on the other side as it was about not being willing to be taken alive.

[captain-noir]

been slowly making my thru the vc books and i can say now, with certainty that the show is in fact superior in almost every conceivable way. i think nostalgia was clouding my judgment but apart from iwtv and tvl and maaaybe qotd....these books are fucking ridiculous