#soberly

[byrdstrolls]

Wtf man why do I keep scheduling myself like this I should be at the club

[leynaeithnea]

Vocabulary Captive Prince taught me

#56

soberly

with moderation or self-restraint; temperately

p. 34

[tom4jc]

July 26, 2024 Memory Verse

[preacherpollard]

Your True Self Is False

Dale Pollard “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age..” (Titus 2:11-12). Paul records and reminds us of some profound truths in the second chapter of Titus. He says that the greatest gift ever given to mankind, salvation, was…

[kingdomassociate]

Looking

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special…

[paper-rips]

i hate mcyt. they all suck and have been harassing me since 2016. i hate mcyt but the worms,,,, the brainworms want mcyt,,,,,,

anyways spamming cringetober cs i'm behind i mean not behind just super cool or whatever

[mikimeiko]

Fantaghirò (Lamberto Bava, 1991)

[gwendolynnderolo]

vax and kash is an incredibly underrated dynamic. both of them had a crush on keyleth and that could’ve gone very cliche men fighting over a woman but it doesn’t at all because vax is at his core an equal opportunity bisexual who is attracted to people who could kick his ass and kash is a human disaster with zero people skills so instead of them fighting over keyleth it’s just vax lowkey flirting with kash and kash having absolutely no idea what to do with that so he just makes snarky comments and stabs him and brings his sister back from the dead. unparalleled dynamic truly

[the-ghost-bird]

Rant over Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer:

Note: I wrote this while drunk months ago and my drunk self accidentally saved this as a draft instead of posting it. Against my better judgement, here's how bad I was obsessing over Annihilation, with the correction of the horrenous whiskey induced spelling mistakes. Spoilers ahead (obviously)

I was thinking back to the book, trying to figure out what about it hit me like a damn train, even after years and multiple rereads.

And i think part of it is just.... idk, there's something about the calmness of the biologist when she realizes she's contaminated from the spore inhalation. There's something about how she accepts it and the changes after it that just speaks to me. It's not a morbid acceptance, it doesn't come across as just her choosing to accept it for the saking of keeping her emotions in control. This acceptance of hers is less morbid and more like a... relief.

She just accepts it, and as she and nature merges, there's this feeling that Area X is not as dangerous to her as it is to everyone else because she's meant to be there. She is this reminder that nature and human are not separate, and we see it from the way she's always been so deeply connected to nature, more than anything else society could provide to her.

Her career choice isn't just an interest to her but an excuse to be connected to nature as much as she can, like a person who chooses to become a surgeon not because they want to help people but because it gives them an excuse to cut them open. I mean for fuck sakes, she kept getting removed from any research projects she would work on because she would just hyperfixate on the environment surrounding her and get lost instead of doing her actual job.

The biologist has always belonged to Area X. She's always felt like an entity that transcended humanity and connected to the lifecycles around her. That's why the husband highlights in his journal that he would've understood her better when he volunteered for the 11th expedition.

So when she inhales those spores, and remains calm, and accepts her changes all so easily, it gives the impression that now that feeling of hers, that feeling that she's meant to be in the remote, in the wild- all of that isn't a feeling anymore, it's physical, it's real, it's irreversible and you can't ignore it or brush it off or undermine it.

She transcends and becomes Area X, and it's what she always wanted, what she was always meant to become, what she's always been.

[scuffler]

i need my ribs to be cracked open like in the angel trap

[darwinquark]

genuinely is this country just beyond repair at this point

[indigosfindings]

going to the theatre is crazy because people will just laugh at things that arent funny (& arent even, like, jokes)

[lafcadiosadventures]

Passolini’s Medea is 100% worth watching. I didn’t love it* but I appreciate passolini enormously for making it about colonialism, jason a total jerk(not only individually but bc he can socially get away with it, it’s what any noble in his position would have done, forge a better marriage alliance), and the drama about a person being completely culturally uprooted/denied civil rights and status, rather than exclusively about sexual jealousy. It’s important to remember that jason is the one who is in the wrong (legally), and he feels he can get away with all of that because medea is a barbarian.

*i needed more medea monologues.

[jimmyspades]

Feeling so extremely not normal about his hair thinning. Why is that the sexiest thing in the world

[anghraine]

I have a lot of gripes with the Jackson films, obviously, but "turning Denethor into a one-note irrational laughingstock and his downfall into a vaguely comedic event, ensuring twenty years of snide jokes about suicide" is near the top.

[sister-lucifer]

https://open.spotify.com/track/4MO41ebvl5DLmHNjJHtsbG?si=3UO3iHoOSRys1Vub5ZLgdw

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