#prayers up for the family

[beccawise7]

Huge Shout-out to all our Firefighter family & friends battling the LA County fires.

Prayers up! Stay safe! 🙏✌️

#firefamily

[sukibenders]

Is it just me or does the way Hera is portrayed in the PJO/HOO series feel out of touch? By that I mean, while it plays into the idea of Hera's relationship with her husband's children and ideals of family, it seems like Rick just took that and ran with it without actually wanting to dive into those aspects and develop them more (ngl, his writing for his female characters, especially the goddesses, could use some work even if I do enjoy them). The reason Hera is the way she is with her husband's children is because she can't punish him [Zeus] directly due to him being more powerful (and the last time she turned against didn't he literally hang her from the sky)? And even while I'm not justifying her actions, there's a method to them, so why would she go after other random demigods like Percy and Annabeth? Or at least in a way that was written better than her falling into a trope (I enjoy this series with my heart, but the criticism about how the gods are written holds some value that shouldn't just be ignored either). Like, I don't know, it just feels like there was more that could've been done with her character instead of just immediately writing her off as the cruel, cold-hearted, evil stepmother (a trope that's overplayed, especially when not even bothering to give them any depth). I could write ideas, but then we'd be here all day.

[apoptoses]

do you ever think about how the 80s was the heyday of department store portrait studio shoots, and how inevitably there's a box on night island overflowing with pictures of armand and daniel in weird matching outfits doing awkward poses with a vaseline lens on the camera like

[batwynn]

Dealing with the crushing duality of human beings, as usual.

Some people really do just walk into the fire to help others, and some will point and laugh at them, the fire, and the dead. Some people will house and feed you in your time of need, and some will take the last scrap of clothing off your back. Some people will travel thousands of miles to bring bread to the starving, and have their corpses mocked by the person who shot them for fun.

That’s it. That’s us. That’s humanity.

[cheerfullycatholic]

My great aunt Jane is in the hospital and my town's famous old man, Mr. Dill, died. Please pray for both of them, thank you

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

that Arab Christian post reminded me:

my dad is living a year in Saudi Arabia for work and we’re requesting prayer that he’ll be able to get in touch with our denomination’s missionaries over there (whose locations/identities are secret for obvious reasons)

[funeralprocessor]

God I wish my brain didn't shut down the moment I try to actually write down anything about my OCs/ideas/etc. I've got some freaks knocking around in here y'all would go wild for.

[mrsoharaa]

Hurricane Milton update; alive and well! Had some minor damages and floods amongst certain parts of my city (my apartment got slightly flooded but not too bad….not looking forward to cleaning that up! 😭) but otherwise, got through the hurricane without any severe injuries or death! 😅🙏🏼

[cultivating-wildflowers]

"it goes without saying" not to me it doesn't. spell it out.

[liahleeh]

Mais um Natal sem você, mãe. A saudade aperta ainda mais nesta época, porque tudo me lembra do seu sorriso, do seu carinho e das nossas tradições juntas. Apesar da dor da sua ausência, tento manter vivo o que você sempre me ensinou: o valor do amor, da união e da gratidão... Hoje, em meio às luzes e ao silêncio da saudade, agradeço por ter tido você como minha mãe, pelo amor que você deixou em meu coração e pelas memórias que aquecem minha alma. Você continua viva em tudo que faço e em cada prece... Feliz Natal aí no céu, mãe. Te amo para sempre!!!💚✨🎄🌟🪴💫🥀⭐🍀🙌🙏🌻🤍

[what-even-is-thiss]

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[medinaquirin]

I hate letting shitty people take up real estate in my brain, but sometimes the bastards refuse to leave.

[healerqueen]

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[quietwingsinthesky]

(For the game) I think the doctor should have more diverse companions. Give them more non human alien companions! Give them a companion is who fundamentally bad, who they have realize they can’t fix

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

yeah!!!!! oh and can i add to that! one thing i'd love to see? just like. a companion who is religious. in a way that is taken account into in the narrative and that is like. discussed? you know, how does going on time travel universe hopping adventures effect one's religious ideas. that would be fascinating to me. i think we've gotten like blanket statement things about future humans adjusting their religious beliefs or whatever but that's not what im interested in exactly. i want like. what does it do, to a modern human with modern religious ideas, to have to adjust that to aliens and shit. and how does their way of incorporating this life with the doctor reflect their character!

i think that'd be fascinating!!! and someone definitely smarter than me out there could probably write an incredible buddhist companion for the doctor and draw on the obvious cultural influences borrowed about cycles of reincarnation in constructing the doctor's whole regeneration thing to discuss shit. maybe one day. i'd love to see it.

[cheerfullycatholic]

please ask God to give me strength!

I’m an early childhood education major on a gap year because all of my professors argued FOR reading books to children (ages newborn - 4) about homosexuality, children medically transitioning, non-binary, drag queens, and other completely inappropriate things in the classroom. When I asked one of my professors on this, she yelled in front of the entire class that “we should not let Christian values influence our teaching”, and said I was homophobic. That’s not true at all, one of my students (4y.o.) is a literal angel and he has two moms!

Queer indoctrination in early childhood education is 100% real, at least in liberal states, and it looks mandatory at this point. I’m scared for my future daughter because I don’t want to send her to a school where she learns about puberty blockers before her ABCs. I can’t homeschool her either, I don’t have the financial luxury :(

I hope other teachers find courage and speak out about this mandated indoctrination, because it breaks my heart

Of course 🖤 and yeah, all of this is scary. And it's so dumb for them to say that they "can't let Christian values" influence education when I've seen so many nonchristian and LGBT people say they don't want this either. Not teaching toddlers about sexuality is not a Christian value, it's common sense

[ssruis]

I wanted to go for t1000 but I have this gay ass thing called a life. Pain and suffering on planet earth.