#oasis cast 13

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New video alert!! Cast 13 has a full show, y’all!!!

(Not sure why the uploader went with a Warsaw promo pic for the thumbnail, but I promise the video is what it says it is. Also, the videographer was evidently not very secretive about their filming, so expect more kitties spiking the camera than normal.)

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I recently completed a commission for Logan Mortier, who played Munkustrap in the Cast 13 of Oasis of the Seas ٩( ᐛ )و!!! He wanted a piece that would capture the relationship he shared on stage with his fiancé, Lewis Rimmel who played Macavity! What an honour to be given the opportunity to work on this! I was very excited and I had a lot of fun working on this commission 🥰 Thank you so much to Logan!!

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i wonder if oasis cast 13 will still be there when i go watch cats on the cruise in september bc goddamn they look so good 😭

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demandrina

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I normally do not post cast announcements, but Issy Moore, Victoria in Cast 13 of the Oasis of the Seas, formally announced that she is returning to CATS to play Victoria in the upcoming International Tour in China slated to start in October.

I, for one, cannot wait to see her back!

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Misto takes a moment to play with Gus 😌

Zachary Berger as Gus and Sam Bateson as Mistoffelees; Oasis cast 13, May 2023 (X).

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Dark Shadows Remembrance Weekend - July 5 & 6, 2024

Dark Shadows reunion with original cast members David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, Roger Davis, James Storm and Lisa Richards

Plans are now complete for a very special Dark Shadows Remembrance Weekend to celebrate the life of Lara Parker, who played Angelique, and pay tribute to the 100th birthday of Jonathan Frid, who played Barnabas Collins. This rare and very special occasion reunites original Dark Shadows cast members to celebrate the lives of beloved colleagues Lara Parker and Jonathan Frid and meet devoted fans of the 1960s Gothic TV series that “kids ran home from school to watch!”

To be held at the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel, July 5th, Dark Shadows cast members, including David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, Roger Davis, James Storm and Lisa Richards, will be celebrating Lara Parker, who passed away last October at age 84.

July 6th, Dark Shadows cast members will celebrate Jonathan Frid’s centenary with a lunch, entertainment, autographs and collector gift bags. Eventbrite tickets: $60, inclusive.

Hotel accommodations at special rates: Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel PH: (888) 236-2437

To receive special Dark Shadows discount Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel sleeping room rates, call the Marriott reservation line 1-800 or book via the following link before June 13 at https://bit.ly/3PZu92v. A complimentary hotel shuttle from the Hollywood Burbank Airport (aka the Bob Hope Airport) to the nearby Marriott Hotel is available. Dark Shadows attendees receive discounted parking at the hotel.

Dark Shadows was an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a series of supernatural occurrences take place.

Dark Shadows became popular when vampire Barnabas Collins played by actor Jonathan Frid was introduced ten months into its run. It would also feature ghosts, werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small troupe of actors each played many roles; as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. The show was distinguished by its melodramatic performances, atmospheric set designs, unusual storylines, numerous plot twists, adventurous music score, broad range of characters, and heroic adventures. Dark Shadows developed a large teenage audience and a dedicated cult following. By 1969, it had become ABC’s highest-rated daytime series with viewership in the millions!

The original network run of the show amassed 1,225 episodes. The success of the series spawned a media franchise that has included two feature films (House of Dark Shadows in 1970 and Night of Dark Shadows in 1971), a 1991 TV remake, a 2012 film reboot directed by Tim Burton, and numerous spin-off novels and comics. Kathryn Leigh Scott has narrated all 27 vintage Dark Shadows novels by Marilyn Ross for Oasis Audiobooks, available on Amazon.com.

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Dramas for the first half of 2023

Now that we are six months into 2023, time to do one of these posts. I am gonna include both Korean and Chinese dramas, because why not and any drama I even checked out is on it.

DRAMAS WATCHED

29. Romance of Twin Flower  (China) - make it cease existing! My favorite het web novel got murdered and then had its grave spat on.

28. Dominator of Martial Gods  (China) - if MST3K still existed, this drama would be prime material for it.

27. Wanru’s Journey  (China) - acting. Try it!

26. Royal Rumors  (China) - they tried acting. But forgot to try having a functional screenplay on top.

25. The Last Princess  (China) - acting is nonexistent and the story is trash but it never aspired to be what it wasn’t and was kinda cute.

24. Oasis  (Korea) - great acting in a story with a screenplay that goes round and round fruitlessly like a hamster in a cage.

23. The Trust  (China) - the OTP in this one swaps bodies but it would have been better for everyone if whoever made this and an actual competent writer swapped theirs.

22. Snow Eagle Lord  (China) - yet another drama in which Xu Kai does his best to keep acting opposite a wooden costar and through a terrible screenplay. There is something seriously wrong with that man’s career choices.

21. Heartbeat  (Korea) - the good: it’s harmless. The bad: it’s harmless.

20. Back from the Brink  (China) - ummm the people are pretty? And if I were 10 I’d be all about this show but as is...

19. Joseon Attorney  (Korea) - slightly less fun than reading a legal treatise.

18. The Starry Love  (China) - the definition of a xianxia playing it safe and pastel; I did love the secondary couple a lot but it was not enough to save that snoozefest of a drama.

17. Chong Zi  (China) - badly acted and a screenplay that somehow manages to be both repetitive and disjointed. But I am a sucker for the shizunfucker trope so here we are.

16. Island  (Korea) - a mess but Kim Nam Gil is hot with a sword.

15. Circle of Love  (China) - rationally, a hot mess. But so entertaining and addicting and fall of make outs of epicness!

14. Lady Durian  (Korea) - makjang from the Queen of Makjang and with that scrumptious cast! This is gonna be GOOD!

13. The Forbidden Marriage  (Korea) - sweet and oddly charming despite nobody in it bothering to act much.

12. Pledge of Allegiance  (China) - the way they had to edit it likely due to censorship made it less than it what could have been but still more than most dramas this year.

11. Choice Husband (China) - delicious cliches and tropes and angst in the rain!

10. Hidden Love  (China) - to make ME of all people to care about a fluffy modern is a bona fide miracle but the two mains are chemistry machines who portray longing so well.

9. Gone with the Rain  (China) - wildly uneven but our heroine and the sexy general she eventually chooses are pure gold!

8. The Secret Romantic Guest House (Korea) - how to do youth sageuk right. Everything about this just works!

7. Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow  (Korea) - it has flaws but is so gorgeous and full of longing and grief and everything good!

6. Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938  (Korea) - a sequel/prequel that is almost as good as the original, how often does that happen?

5. See You In My 19th Life  (Korea) - wacky and grieving, delicate and odd, this is everything I ever want in a kdrama.

4. Call It Love  (Korea) - a truly exquisite story of trauma and loneliness and healing and love.

3. Till the End of the Moon  (China) - gloriously messy in every way this is just MORE. The ending is enraging and there are issues but when it hits, it hits so hard the rest of it does not matter - the dark characters, the dysfunctional love story, the battles, the insane visuals, the EVERYTHING of it. This is what fantasy should be like.

2. Chang Feng Du/Destined  (China) - came out of nowhere to own my heart via its story of growing up and finding love and slow organic relationship building and keeping your soul in a world of horrors.

1. The Ingenuous One  (China) - the best one, so I am gonna talk about it below.

FAVORITE DRAMA

The Ingenuous One - so impossibly solid, from acting to visuals to screenplay to EVERYTHING! Adult characters with adult issues and choices, both moral dilemmas and battles equally compelling. The love stories, the friendships, the shades of grey. This is utterly and completely adult.

WORST DRAMA

Romance of the Twin Flower - if I could make one drama cease to exist, this would be it.

FAVORITE MALE CHARACTER

Tantai Jin, Till The End of the Moon - the best character this year hands down - by turns (and timelines) unhinged monster, a contained saint, a victim of abuse trying to attain being viewed as human, a schemer, a ruler, grief personified, curiosity and monstrosity and nobility all mingled.

Runner up: Jang Uk, Alchemy of Souls - sunshine boy gone dark and grieving, but still with that same core of steel.

FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTER

Shim Woo Joo, Call It Love - she’s damaged and impulsive and relationship-phobic and revenge driven and glorious!

Runner Up:  Shu Ya Nan (The Ingenuous One) - allowed to be tough and dark and with her own agenda and not a member of a good sect and just so cool.

NEEDS TO BE MURDERED

Han Dong Jin’s Mom, Call It Love - that woman was horrifying and the source of so much of his trauma; a real realistic monster petty in all ways except for the damage she inflicted.

FAVORITE SHIP

Gu Jiusi/Liu Yuru, Chang Feng Du - wholesome and helping each other grow and talking it out but also there is blood feeding and midnight rescues and everything. They are good but not in the least boring.

Runner Up: Woo Joo/Dong Jin, Call It Love - two wounded souls finding such slow but such amazing healing with each other.

FAVORITE SECONDARY OTP

Su Ming Yu/Ke Menglan, The Ingenuous One - there’s actually been a lot of good secondary OTPs this year (General x Fox in TTEOTM, Investigator x Princess, TIO, Rang/Mermaid, TOTNT1938) but these two owned my heart - gentleman merchant x gambling hostess ftw.

NOTP

Romance of Twin Flower - they took my favorite het novel OTP, smart and coldblooded and forces of nature and turned them into THAT?

SHIRTLESSNESS AWARD

Xiao Hong Ye, Circle of Love - guy was a terrible abuser but those pecs were the real sin!

CRAZIEST FUNFEST

Circle of Love - screenplay written by rabid monkeys and populated by a bunch of psychos but such ridiculous, irresistible fun!

FAVORITE SCENE

Tantai Jin confronting Li Susu in jail, Till the End of the Moon - the energy, the intensity, the darkness the EVERYTHING.

BIGGEST CRUSH

Li Gong Quan, The Ingenuous One - yeah whatever, I realize he’s a minor character but I loved him so much! The whole having to bring down your benefactor who’s gone evil tho you are in love with his daughter should have been a whole other drama!

BEST SCENE STEALER CHARACTER

Chen Wende, Gone with the Rain - most of this drama is not that exciting but whenever his King of Trolls hot general shows up, I sit up and pay attention. I am 35 eps deep because of him.

NEEDS A SEQUEL

The Ingenuous One - I am dying to see what happens to royal investigator and supposedly dead princess, how our OTP will travel the world, the merchant and his lady, Ten Taels and his orphans and his girl and just everything. I loved these people so!

NEEDS A DIRECTOR’S CUT

Till the End of the Moon - it was clear they cut a BUNCH in the last third to fit the ridiculous new “40 eps or bust” rule and it would flow so much more smoothly if it was allowed to breathe.

NEEDS SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Romance of Twin Flower - it should have been shredded into nonexistence sorry not sorry.

TOO MANY SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Pledge of Allegiance - this drama was good but had gaping lacunae where too many scissors were taken to it for censorship reasons; I am surprised even what’s left was allowed to air tbh but still...

TROPE THAT NEEDS TO DIE

Shrill = cute - I see it every year, I hate it every year.

FAVORITE TROPE WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF

Hot Men Whump - come one, TTEOTM alone would fill the quota but we also had CFD, Call It Love, See You in my 19th life etc etc.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Back from the Brink - it’s based on a novel by an author whose other novels (Zhao Yao, Blue Whispers, Mulberry Song) I adore and the novelist was the screenwriter so I was so excited. But it was a juvenile, flat mess that de-powered the heroine and taught me that yeah, sometimes the writer should not adopt their work.

BIGGEST GOOD SURPRISE

Chang Feng Du - I loved the novel but the trailers were a fluffy bland disaster and I checked it out with zero expectations. However, this is a glorious adaptation, a lesson in how to transport a massive novel on screen into slim 40 eps and to account for changes in medium and stricter censorship restrictions for dramas versus books while keeping the essential vibe of the original.

BEST NON-2023 DRAMA I’VE WATCHED IN 2023

The Imperial Doctress (China) - the pining the pining by the Hot Emperor! This is like all my web novel dreams come true!

MOST ANTICIPATED

A Journey to Love/Prisoner of Beauty/My Journey to You/Kunning Palace - maybe one of them will air before the world ends.

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Nature Healers season 1 episodes ideas

Hey, everyone. I wanted to say that I'm happy to announce my full list of Nature Healers season 1 I've been thinking up with a few help of my friends in a past. So, here's what my season 1 episode would look like.

Episode 1. "A New Healer is Born” – 14-year-old Reina awakens a great power inside herself when she meets a mysterious creature that is being chased by evil monsters known as the Predatrons.

Episode 2. "Courage of the Silver Rabbit" - After promising Tilii that she should not reveal her secret as a Nature Healer, Reina tried her best to act her natural self. But her best friend, Ricky, suspects her strange behavior.

Episode 3. "Rumaldo's Burning Strike" - When Crotalus arrives to reek havoc while hunting Tilii down, Reina and Ricky tried to stop him but were outmatched. After getting himself involved, Rumaldo decided to help out.

Episode 4. "Graceful as a Moth"  - Transferred from Paris, a beautiful yet shy Sophia had trouble making friends. But then, Reina decided to step in and offered her friendship.

Episode 5.  "The Wise Frog's Trust" - With 4 of the Healers gathered together, Reina and her friends were trying to find the 5th Healer. When Reina saw the school's vice president, Eugene, she wanted him to join the team for she believes he's the 5th Healer they're looking for.

Episode 6. "Healing Downunder" - Now with all 5 Nature Healers team completed, Tilii foretold Reina and her group of how she was sent to Earth by Mother Nature and their mission of saving the flourishing lands from the evil Predatrons. But their crests have alarmed that Ustura has returned to claim territory in Australia.

Episode 7. "Rainforest Mayhem" - Crotalus has started claiming parts of the Amazon Rainforest by taking away its flourishing life energy. Now, Reina and her friends must travel with a special teleportation spell being cast by Tilii to stop the slithering fiend and save the rainforest.

Episode 8. "Lost in Santa Cruz" - Wanting to explore parts of Bolivia, Reina invites her friends and convinced Tilii to use her special crystal that allows them to teleport them into the largest city in Bolivia: Santa Cruz. However, during their fun and exploration, Tilii ended up getting herself lost in the city and now, Reina and her group must fight her before another Predatron General named Gyps does.

Episode 9. "Egyptian Heatwave" - During a hottest summer of the year, Reina and her friends were trying to find a way to cool themselves down while on summer break. But Gyps attacks in Egypt to drain away the remaining Oasis and it's up to the Nature Healers to stop him.

Episode 10. "Vice President Blues" - Struggling to keep up with his role as a school's vice president and his duty as part of the Nature Healers team, Eugene tries to find his solution and ease away his worries of keeping his lifestyle in balance.

Episode 11. "Tilii's Bug Rescue" - When Tilii wishes she could play with the butterflies, her enchanted crystal suddenly glowed and got her and the Nature Healers shrunk into bug size. Now, Reina and her friends must find that crystal to grow back to their normal size while exploring the world of insects.

Episode 12. "Total Beached!" - After traveling down to Hawaii, the Nature Healers must find a way to save the tropical habitat from Crotalus, Gyps, and Ustura from claiming both land and sea, which would threaten the lives of every sea creatures.

Episode 13. "Greenland Rodeo" - Tilii wanted to make friends with the farm animals, so Reina decided to take her along as she went off to her uncle's farm for a visit. But danger arrives when Crotalus strikes the grassland parts of Texas and terrorizes innocent people with his bull Sabaku he has summoned.

Episode 14. "Rainbow Animal Burst!" - To take matters into serious action of defeating the Nature Healers, the imprisoned Lord Draconis has enhanced the Sabaku Orbs with the remaining trance of his evil power for his generals to use. When their hometown is attacked by Ustura, Crotalus, and Gyps, Reina and her friends must do everything they can to save their city. (This episode is going to be where Reina and her team will awaken their new group attack)

Episode 15. "Arach Attack!" - Reina has been acting strange lately, when it came to facing spiders but kept her fear from her friends, much to their worry for her. After witnessing this, Ustura has plotted an opportunity to destroy Reina by summoning a Spider Sabaku to strike.

Episode 16. "Ricky's Ghostly Challenge!" - On a day before Halloween, Ricky refuses to participate in the school's event called Haunted House Cafe due to his fear of ghosts. When Gyps invades the land parts of Japan, the Nature Healers must stop him while helping Ricky overcome his fears.

Episode 17. "Runaway Trejo" - Getting tired of his parents heated arguments and shocked that they would decide for a divorce, Rumaldo ran away from home, stole the teleportation crystal from Tilii's backpack, and transported himself away randomly into Italy. Now, Reina, Ricky, Sophia, Eugene, and Tilii must find their troubled and saddened friend and help him resolve his issue he's having.

Episode 18. "Sophia's Goodbye?!" - Shocked after overhearing about her parents' discussion about moving back to Paris, Sophia has gotten so worried that she believes she may never see Reina or the others again. And to make matters worse, Crotalus attacks Paris to claim territory."

Episode 19. "Father Issues" - His estranged father returns home from his monthly business trip and Eugene has tried his effort to show him how much he has grown while he's been away. (This is the episode where Eugene's father will be the first witness of seeing his son's transformation)

Episode 20. "Artic Split" -Ramuldo, Eugene, Sophia, and Ricky were planning a surprise birthday party for Reina, but their different opinions and tastes costs them to argue. Just then, Gyps attacks the land of Antarctica to turn it into a desert landscape.

Episode 21. "The Mystery of the Black Wolf" - During the fight to protect Cibola National Forest, New Mexico, Reina and her friends were nearly defeated by the Predatrons' attack. Until a mysterious stranger with the black Healer powers saves the day? Is she a friend or a foe?

Episode 22. "Global Battle part 1" - While the Nature Healers were trying to find out who the mysterious wolf warrior is, Tilii informs them that the ruler of Emerald Floratina named Mother Nature is nearly regaining her strange. But unfortunately, so is the Predatrons' fearful leader as we speak.

Episode 23. "Global Battle part 2" - Turns out with all the stolen life energy from each lands that the Predatron Generals have collected, their plot is to corrupt such energy source and give it to their master, Lord Draconis, to revive his strength. Will the Nature Healers team be able to stop them in time?

Episode 24. "Global Battle part 3" - With the entire Earth being dominated and turned into a desert territory by the Predatrons alongside their newly revived master, it's up to Reina and her team to do whatever they can to save their planet. (This is where the Nature Healers will awaken their super form with the help of Mother Nature herself)

While I'm very proud of how it turns out to be, please let me know what you guys think of these episode summaries I've thought up for my Nature Healers series.

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Devotional Hours Within the Bible

by James Russell Miller

The Giving of Manna (Exodus 16, Numbers 11)

The people of Israel had now entered upon their forty years of discipline. Daring this period they were to be made into a nation. This wider purpose should be kept in mind in all our studies of the incidents of the wandering in the wilderness. The people were to be trained to trust God and to obey Him.

The first experience recorded was at MARAH. There, in great thirst, after three days of desert journey, they came upon springs to which they eagerly rushed, only to find the water bitter, unfit to drink. A tree growing close by was cut down and cast into the waters, at once sweetening them. Thus a lesson in trust was taught God was leading them and He would not fail to provide for their needs.

Often in life, God’s children come to bitter springs. What promised to be experiences of refreshing, prove to be disappointing. Human lives have many sorrows. But always close by the bitter spring grows the tree which will sweeten it. Many interpret the tree of Marah to mean the cross of Christ. The gospel has comfort for all in any trouble. Dr. Fairbairn speaks of the words of Christ as a handful of spices cast into the world’s bitter streams and sweetening them.

After leaving Marah, the people journeyed to ELIM, where they found an oasis with twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. Life is not all disappointment and bitterness. Troubles pass away. Joy comes after sorrow.

Moving farther into the inhospitable wilderness, the people soon found themselves needing bread. They had already forgotten the lesson of Marah the kindness of God in providing for their needs and began to murmur! Again God’s answer to their ungrateful complaining was love a new mercy. “I will rain bread from heaven for you.”

“In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. When the layer of dew evaporated, there on the desert surface were fine flakes, as fine as frost on the ground. When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, ‘What is it?’ because they didn’t know what it was. Moses told them, ‘It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.’” Exodus 16:13-15

MANNA was a substance which fell with the dew. For forty years, manna was rained about the camps of the Hebrews, until they reached Canaan and had the natural products of the fields for food. It fell in small grains, like white frost flakes; and in taste like thin flour-cakes with honey. It was gathered every morning, except on the Sabbath, and in place of this a double portion fell on Friday morning. If kept over-night, it became corrupt except on the Sabbath. Manna was the principal part of the food of the people all the forty years. As a perpetual memorial of this miracle, a golden pot of it was laid up in the ark.

God always has some way to provide for the needs of His people. He is not limited to ordinary means. He never works needless miracles. He did not send manna while the people were in Goshen, because there was no need for it then. But here in the wilderness, where food could not be gotten in any ordinary way, He supplied it supernaturally .

“Yes,” someone says, “ that was the age of miracles but we cannot expect God to provide for us in these days as He did then for Israel.” The answer is that God’s love is just as watchful and as faithful now as it was in the days of miracles. We may always with perfect confidence depend on our Father to provide for us in some way when we are following His guidance. Indeed, it is God who feeds us every day just as really as it was God who gave the people the manna each morning. We do not call it a miracle when our daily morning meal is spread for us yet it is no less God who gives it to us than if a separate miracle were wrought each morning to feed us.

‘Give us this day our dally bread.’ Back of the loaf is the snowy flour, And back of the flour the mill; And back of the mill is the wheat, and the shower , And the sun, and the Father’s will.

Something was given to the people to do even when the bread was supplied supernaturally. “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day.” Exodus 16:4

They were not to lay up in store but were taught to live simply by the day. When night came, they did not have a supply of food left over for the next day but were entirely dependent upon God’s new supply to come in the morning.

In this method of providing, God was teaching all future generations a lesson. When the Master gave the disciples the Lord’s Prayer, He put this same thought of life into it, for He taught us to say: “Give us this day our daily bread.”

This is a most valuable lesson for every Christian to learn. We should make a little fence of trust around each day, and never allow any care or any anxiety to break in. God does not provide in advance for our needs. We cannot get grace today for tomorrow’s duties; and if we try to bear tomorrow’s cares and burdens today we shall break down in the attempt.

TIME comes to us, not in years, not even in weeks but in little days. We have nothing to do with ‘life in the aggregate’ that great bulk of duties, anxieties, struggles, trials and needs, which belong to a year or even to a month. We really have nothing to do even with tomorrow.

Our sole business is with the one little day now passing, and the one day’s burdens will never crush us; we can easily carry them until the sun goes down. We can always get along for one short day and that is really, all we ever have.

The Divine purpose in all this experience comes out here, “In this way I will test them, to see whether or not they will follow My instructions.” God is always testing us. Trials test us whether or not we will submit with humility and obedience to the experiences that are sore and painful. Life’s needs test us whether we will trust God in the time of extremity or not.

None the less, do the gifts and favors of God test us. They test our gratitude. Joy tests us as well as sorrow. Some people forget God, when all things go well and they have only prosperity. Do we remember God always as the Giver of each new blessing? Are we grateful to Him for all that we receive? These favors also test our faith. Do we still lean on Him while we have plenty? Ofttimes one who turns to God when help is needed fails to look to Him when the hand is full. The Divine mercies also test our obedience. Do we obey God as carefully and follow Him as closely and trustingly, when our tables are full as when the pressure of poverty or need drives us to Him? Every day is a probation for us.

In the midst of this great mercy of manna, God taught the people to remember the Sabbath. On the sixth day they were to gather and prepare twice as much food as on other days. The reason was that on the Sabbath no work was allowed. No manna fell on that day. There are several interesting things to notice here. While on other days, any manna stored up would rot; the extra day’s portion gathered on the sixth day remained fresh and pure for use on the Sabbath. Still further, on the morning of the Sabbath, no manna fell as on other days. Thus God taught the sacredness of His own day .

He teaches us also here that in order to keep the day as it ought to be kept, we should prepare for it the day before. The people were to gather the Sabbath’s portion on the sixth day. There would seem to be in this provision and preparation in advance, a suggestion of the way we may best observe our Christian Sabbath. Some of us remember certain old-fashioned times in the country, when on Saturday evening careful preparations were made for the Sabbath, so that there would be no needless work done on the Lord’s Day. Wood was cut and carried in, all the implements of worldly labor were put away, boots and shoes were cleaned and blackened, coffee was ground and food cooked, so far as possible in a word, everything was done that could be done beforehand to insure the most restful Sabbath possible. This old-fashioned custom is a good one to keep in vogue always. Very much of Sabbath enjoyment and profit, will always depend upon the measure of preparation we make for it in advance.

The Lord spoke of this manna miracle as an exhibition of His glory. “At evening, then you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Egypt; and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the Lord!” The supply of food was an exhibition of God’s glory. We may see the same glory in every evening’s and morning’s blessings, which a thoughtful Providence brings to us. We think only of the unusual, or the supernatural, as manifesting the glory of God. We forget that this Divine glory is shown just as really and as wonderfully in every day’s new blessings. The miracle of God’s daily Providence is infinitely more stupendous, than the feeding of a prophet for a few months from an inexhaustible handful of meal; the feeding of five thousand in Galilee with a few loaves and fishes; or even the feeding of a nation with manna for forty years. If the single special miracle shows glory, what does the great continuous miracle of each day’s common blessings, year after year, and century after century, show?

Let us learn to see the glory of God in every piece of bread which comes to our table, in every drop of water which glistens on a leaf in the morning sun, in every blade of grass and bursting bud and blooming flower in field or garden.

One special lesson that God wished the people to learn was trust. So He rebuked their complainings and murmurings when they found fault, and became afraid when they had hardships to meet. “The Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him!” Exodus 16:8. This is startling! Does God really hear every discontented word we speak? Does He hear when we grumble about the weather, about the hard winter, about the late spring, about the dry summer, about the wet harvest? Does He hear when we fret and murmur about the drought, about the high winds, about the storms? Does He hear when we complain about our circumstances, about the hardness of our lot, about our losses and disappointments?

If we could get into our hearts and keep there continually, the consciousness that every word we speak is heard in heaven, and falls upon God’s ears before it falls upon any other ear would we murmur as we now do? We are always on our guard when we think anyone we love and honor is within hearing, and speak only proper words then. Are we as careful what we say in the hearing of our Father? We are careful, too, never to speak words which would give pain to the hearts of those we love dearly. Are we as careful not to say anything that will give pain to Christ?

There are many interesting points of analogy, between the manna and Christ.

The manna is called “bread from heaven.” “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever!” John 6:51

The manna was indispensable without it the people would have perished. Without Christ our souls must perish.

The manna was a free gift from God there was nothing to pay for it. Christ is God’s gift, coming to us without money and without price.

Yet the manna had to be gathered by the people, Christ must be received and appropriated by personal faith. “Take, eat,” runs the formula of the holy communion. The bread is offered to us but we must take it and we must eat it. So must we take Christ when He is offered to us.

The manna came in great abundance, enough for all. Just so, there is such abundance in Christ that He can supply all the needs of my soul, and of every soul who will feed upon Him. No one ever came hungry to Him and found no bread.

Manna had to be gathered each day, a supply for that one day. We must feed upon Christ daily. We cannot lay up supplies of grace for any future. We cannot feed tomorrow, on today’s bread.

The manna had to be gathered early, before the heat of the sun melted it. We should seek the blessings of Christ’s grace in life’s early morning before the hot suns of care and trial beat upon us.

[jelliclekay]

Bombalurina performer of the day: Emily Ormiston

Oasis - 11/2016 (Cast 5)

Oasis - 02/2023 (Cast 13) (Cover Grizabella)

[cryptidvoidwritings]

Emma Brynn Cooper (Jennyanydots of Oasis cast 13) did a turn in cast 14 as Jellylorum!

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[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Hey 😅 sorry to bother but tumblr ate my account and I’ve been going crazy trying to find a tiktok of three of the cats actors (a girl and two guys) dancing to “made you look” I forget which ones exactly but I remember at least one of the guys was in a black and white cat costume 😅 if you know where to find it do you mind telling me so I can reblog it? Thanks

Not a bother, anon! Sorry your account got eaten.

You're looking for this video here from Luke Stone and the 12th Oasis Cast:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYy26uHU/

Ft. Alonzo (Luke Stone), Bombalurina (Lucy Rice) and Plato (Charlie Bishop)

And then here's another one with the same song from Taila Halford, Cast 13:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYy2MXX8/

May I also recommend these videos for shits and giggles:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYyYqYYu/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYy223ux/

[limowlee7389]

CURRENTLY WATCHING: March.

KOREAN.

+ Call It Love (2023)(26 Feb-) ~ Airing. ★★★★☆

I am liking Call It Love way more than I expected from the initial trailer. This drama is quite pretty. It certainly isn't as depressing as the trailer made it out to be. I'm intrigued by our lead couple and how this love story might unfold. It's nice to see Lee Sung Kyung in a more serious and down-to-earth role.

+ Crash Course in Romance (2023)(14 Jan-) ~ Airing. ★★☆☆☆ tvN. Netflix

I am in love with the lead couple and most of the cast, yet here I am absolutely flabbergasted by the murder mystery plot that has finally been revealed. To be blunt, this part of the story falls very short and makes little sense to the rest of the drama. It's trying to balance too many genres at once. The murder mystery is distracting and absurd. I mostly resent these pieces of this drama since it takes away from the cute romance-y and found family moments. Last week's episodes were sorely disappointing.

+ Our Blooming Youth (2023)(7 Feb-) ~ Airing. ★★★☆☆

I am always down for a historical gender bender. Parts of it give me some Love in the Moonlight vibes. It's a bit more serious in tone, and our Prince is super broody. Though I haven't seen much from Jeon So Na before, I appreciate the energy and spunk she brings to her role.

+ Taxi Driver (2023)(s2)(17 Feb-) ~ Airing. ★★★☆☆

Based on the drama with the screenwriter for season 1, I am concerned about season 2. It's nice to see Lee Je Hoon back on television again. The first week offers a bright, colorful opening for the season with amps up its larger-than-life tone.

Plan to Watch.

Oasis (6 Mar)

The Glory (pt 2)(10 Mar)

Soulmate (15 Mar)

COMPLETED.

Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san (2023)(29 Jan-10 Feb)(7/10)

Into the Ring (2020)(8 Jan-11 Feb)(6/10)

The Interest of Love (2022)(21 Dec-)(8/10) ♥   ~ Airing. ★★★★☆ jTBC, Netflix

Love to Hate You (2023)(12 Feb-13 Feb)(7/10) ♥ 

MIU 404 (2020)(24 Jan-19 Feb)(7/10)

Unlocked (2023)(19 Feb)(9/10) ♥ 

Strangers Again (2023)(20 Jan-23 Feb)(5/10) ~ ENA

Ore no Ie no Hanashi (2021)(25 Feb-27 Feb)(9/10) ♥ 

Western Things I Watched.

Aggretsuko (2023)(s5)(16 Feb-18 Feb)(7/10)

Recovery of an MMO Junkie (2017)(8/10) ♥ 

Recovery of an MMO Junkie special (2017)(6/10)

Your Place or Mine (2023)(19 Feb)(7/10)

Tough As Nails (2023)(s4)(4 Jan-22 Feb)(5/10)

[white-cat-of-doom]

In a race between two Queens, the longer legs help to run faster.

Zoe Hartley as Cassandra and Dani Ciaramitaro as Rumpleteazer.

Cast 15 of the Oasis of the Seas, 13 July 2024.

[toulousewayne]

Green Lantern:Carnage : Vol. 2

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This is a concept for a second installment in the Green Lantern Franchise. This film is meant to be released theatrically.

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Synopsis:Sometime has passed and Hal is on the brink of snapping. Most of the Guardians have lost hope in him, two of his follow lanterns have fallen to the more sinister crops and his ex has become his greatest foe. The Guardian have seek out someone to aid him in his quest to restore balance.

Release:June 2, 2028

Runtime: 2 Hour, 15 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

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Cast:

Hal Jordan/Green Lantern……..Brant Daugherty

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Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire…..Alexa Demie

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John Stewart/Green Lantern……..Aaron Pierre

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Atrocitus…………Jonn Hamm

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Guy Gardener/Red Lantern……….Cam Gigandet

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Cameos:

Kyle Rayner…….Felix Mallard

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Concept Art:All artwork belongs to the original artist‼️‼️‼️‼️

Green Lantern(John):

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Star Sapphire:

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Atrocitus:

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Red Lantern (Guy Gardner):

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Plot:

The film opens with an overwhelmed Hal taking on two Red Lanterns. One of them being Guy a former GL.

Guy is able to get into Hal’s head and taunts him. He asks him to leave the Guardians and to join him. Hal declines and Atrocitus delivers a near fatal strike. Several other prominent red lanterns are approaching when Hal has to flee immediately. He uses his ring to take him from the part of space he’s in to Earth.

He collapsed at an Airspace field and is gravely wounded. A truck stops just short of his body and out pops an rookie architect who was doing work for Ferris Air.

He approached Hal who was not moving and quickly helped him into the truck.

Hal woke up the next morning with the small of coffee and the sounds of heavy metal music. He makes it out the room of the small apartment and meet John.

Hal ask why he’s here and who he is and the only thing John tells him,” He’s the man that saved his ass from death last night.”

Hal who John is he remembers meeting him when he first started working at Ferris Air several years ago. John offers him coffee. He told him found him on the ground last night and Hal tells him he doesn’t know how that happened.

John calls him on his bluff and asks him then did he have ring just like Green Lantern, specifically just like the one he got a few nights ago.

Hal is taken aback and ask him how get got a ring. And briefly John tells him about a white alien (Martian) that landed a few minutes after the ring did.

Hal gets up and tells him he needs to go back to space. And John offers to go with him. And Hal shoots this idea down. But John tells him obviously the ring was sent to him for a reason and Hal’s mind goes to a couple of places.

The two men leave John’s hotel and head to Hal’s apartment. When they arrive the place is in need of a deep cleaning which John reiterates to Hal who tells him he’s been busy the last few months.

After looking in several different places Hal finds his Lantern battery. He tells John they need to charge his ring. He has John reside the path and his ring is now charged.

John ask him what now and Hal tells him they need to go to Oa.

Meanwhile Carol awakes in a beautiful pink garden and his drawn to a voice. Several beings watch her enter a cave. Where a pink crystals are overgrown and a small oasis in the center. She cross to the center where the same ring from before is on top of a pedestal. Still draw to it as she gets closer the ring glows and fly towards her. With several voices telling her to take it she places it on her finger.

The room is engulfed in a pink light before Carol is transformed into the Star Sapphire. Several Zamarons appear before her. She looks at the crystal ring and grins. She tells them to come out where they are as their Queen as returned to them. She smirks and tells them it’s time to pay the Hal and his friends a visit.

Hal brings John to the Oa where he brings him to meet the Guardians. Who are surprised Hal’s alive and told him the reason they John was chosen was to be Hal’s replacement. Hal is angry and tells them they can’t just throw him away, especially since he’s the one who had fight his friends, and have his life completely ruined by being a Lantern. He storms off and John asks the Guardians why him.

They tell him that while yes Hal has the will do be a Lantern, John can do things that others could never think of. He can be one of the greatest Lanterns in history.

He tells them if it means he as be deprived of a real life they can forget it. He tells them he will only do on two conditions.

Hal is about to leave when John stops him he tells him they need to talk but Hal overflows with anger and jealousy and he doesn’t want to listen. John can tell that he’s not in the right mindset and tells him to claim down and let him explain.

Before Hal can say anything red blood is sprayed over him. The Red Lanterns have arrived and are attacking Oa.

Kyle spots John and immediately charges for him. They two engage in intense battle. Hal is able to recover and fight Atrocitus.

The Guardians gather and chat the path in order to make the large battery stronger. They are also summoning other Lanterns to help.

A war between Red and Green erupts throughout Oa. Hal is enraged and Atrocitus is mocking him the entire time.

Guy and John fly around the battery now shielded by the Guardians to preserve the Lanterns.

John call Guy a coward. He tells him he swore to protect people, to help them, be a symbol for them to believe in, and not be a beacon of rage. Guy tells him he’s just a rookie and when the Guardians want someone new they toss him aside.

John tells him he’s not to late to stop this and help them end this war. Guy chuckles and tells him he’s gonna lose and he that he’s never felt better than being a Red Lantern it’s his purpose. And he strikes John who quickly shields from the attack but is still flung away.

Hal is even more deranged then before and he’s not hold back and he ends us killing Atrocitus. Most of the nearby fighting census and Hal is shocked at what he’s done. John strikes Guy knocking him to the ground and rushes to Hal.

Hal is horrified that he’s killer someone and he can believe what he’s done. Atrocitus with his dying breath tells him he finally did it. And dies before them. All the remaining red lanterns flee with Guy telling the Lanterns and Oa they have made a grave mistake and that they will return. He leaves with Atrocitus’s body.

One of the guardians approach and asks Hal what happened. He tells them he’s a monster and he’s a killer something he never wanted to be but being a Lantern was not what he thought it was. He looks down and tells John and the Guardian they were right to replace him.

John tries to tell that’s not true but the Guardian tells him that if these is how Hal feels then it’s not their place to undermine him. Hal removes his ring and tells them he’s not fit to be a Lantern. He tells John to be a better Lantern than he was. And he ask the Guardian to send him back to Earth. Against John’s protest Hal leaves. And his ring glows before flying off Oa.

The Guardian tells John he’s the new Lantern of Earth.

The ring that was once Hal’s crashes through an apartment window and a young man pokes his head outside the kitchen to look for the sound. He swears about the broken window but is shocked about the glowing green ring in his apartment. His eyes begin to glow green and the movie cuts to black.

Post Credit Scene:

We see Superman arriving at a crime scene in Metropolis. They head detectives lead him inside to a destroyed laboratory and a body with a sheet. He asks them what happened and he’s informed the janitor found him. We he turns to the desk with the name plate Ivo. And they all turn when a officer asks about the wall that’s been destroyed. And Superman tells them it’s only the start of whatever Ivo kept heading.