#stop crucifying them

[renarots]

Me sitting here while I see posts about how drivers react on radios like I don’t say worse in lobbies that aren’t even ranked

[kittyslashers]

this is my roman empire.

[evermoredeluxe]

seeing people comment that taylor looks pregnant on eras photo when that woman works out like 15+ hours a week and is literally all muscle and looks tiny literally makes me wanna 🤮

[demodraws0606]

All I'm gonna post today is that I have very strong feelings about the fact that the dude who literally almost has never showed up on the server has more animatics than the man who has spent everyday constructing an intricate and fascinate plotline full of mysteries and cool moments <3

[lesbianfakir]

Fakir's theme (Beethoven's Coriolan Overture) always struck me as funny because it stands apart from the other character's themes. Mytho has the delicate Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Rue the somber Gymnopedie No 1, Duck the cheerful Nutcracker Oveture etc... while Fakir's theme is well... LOUD.

It characterizes his most aggressive moments, mainly playing in scenes where he antagonizes Mytho and Duck.

This always sat a little weird with me as it is a very surface-level character theme for such a complex character. In contrast, Rue's theme tells us something about her motivations under the Kraehe persona. Fakir's on the other hand tells us that he's mean and aggressive... something any viewer who's gotten to a scene where the song plays already knows.

On one of my rewatches, though, I noticed that he has another song that functions as a sort of secondary theme: an excerpt from Scheherazade.

This song plays most notably throughout most of episode 12, while he is bonding with Duck. It shows up a few times later in season 2, mainly in scenes concerning Fakir's struggle to write. As such, I view it as a complementary theme to the Coriolan Overture.

Listening to the song, it feels much more in line with Fakir we've come to know him. The song can be a little delicate and a little sad with gentle wind solos that lead into loud, grand orchestral sections. The repetitiveness, tempo, and use of dramatic brass and strings give these louder sections a gallant, almost desperate tone. It's super fitting that this is the song that plays throughout the episode where we get the best sense of Fakir's natural personality when he isn't putting on the cold persona.

I don't really have a deeper analysis here I just think it's really fun that as his character develops he gets an additional theme. If you think about it the music in Tutu functions as a sort of jukebox musical--the world and characters are built around the songs. Once we start to get to know who Fakir really is, the music that represents him changes to reflect him better.

[ask-itager]

who's taking whose last name when you get married?

But really it doesnt matter since we'll still be called "mister germany" and "mister italy" anyways

[solarwynd]

armys are now saying that scooter is the one bringing in sofia to work with jimin. like we all know jimin is not working with scooter but armys want to pat themselves on the back for calling it out and saying he's working with scooter because they know they did not give a fuck about boycotting golden with scooter's paws all over it. it's ridiculous.

So any god damn way

[kai-atlantis]

Ngl everytime I hop on tumblr, it's just people criticising other people as if they are perfect themselves; it's criticizing people's personalities and their communication styles and leaving zero room for situational mistakes or issues and simply labeling them "bad"; it's being okay with several topics but then going on several rants on why you *don't actually like them* and it leaves you feeling confused whiplash; it's people making posts on how other people are wrong or all the flaws one can have, and leaving zero room for the entire human being on the other side of your rant, being told the way they feel and their side are not relevant because they have other flaws at fault.

The reason we're all anxious and weren't decades ago? It's not just the internet. It's that everyone is constantly, constantly judging and criticising each other online. Constant. Criticism. No wonder we're all fucking anxious. If you hate someone online and crucify them for literally making any sort of mistake or saying something off or odd you don't understand (yet you claim to love and support neurodivergents), you cannot refuse that you may have some part in the toxic online critical culture. You're not an exception. I understand this post is critical as well, but holy hell, tumblr is not a fun place for me anymore.

[pulchrasilva]

Sigh I need to rant about certain people and how there is a background noise of discomfort with every interaction after particular incidents that made me go "bitch you live like this???" but all my typical vent spaces are ones where they might see it and the only ones that they wouldn't see it in are like discord channels that are not for this topic of vent or friends who would be uncomfortable with the topic etc like,,, what do I even do? Stew in it?

[attila-werther]

like, despite the absolute brainrot that I have about crassus, I do spend a lot of time thinking about all the other players in a scene. like you can't NOT think about slavery when you fuck around with crassus, because his stance on what obligation a head of a household has to his slaves when placed next to say. fucking cato's thoughts on slaves is just. wrugh. when germanicus was raging at his fate and talking about bodies in the walls, like no shit buddy, youre a roman aristocrat. if you have heated baths in like, your house, you have bodies under your floor already. you ever think about how educated slaves from roman aristocrat families who were able to buy their freedom were viewed with a certain degree of mistrust from both sides. that's so fucking lonely. I cannot stop thinking about the scholar from the spartacus documentary saying the worst thing about becoming enslaved was to get used to it.

[xignis]

tears of the kingdom has been out for less than a week and people have already put those little koroks in so many fucked up situations

[gouinisme]

this just in: local girl wants them titties oBLITERATED

[cainite-bite]

sometimes i just look at someone’s ignorant postings where they go “why isnt it common knowledge that -blank-” and just... deeply fuckin sigh because they clearly lived under a rock so damn badly that they have pretended it was normal, when in fact what they are talking about is such fucking common knowledge (that they still don’t even understand the half of yet even) and it was them that was the fuckin dumbass this entire time

[just-bible-musings]

I recently learned that in Ancient Judea (like, during Jesus' time on Earth), a disciple was supposed to follow his rabbi so closely that the dust that the rabbi kicked up while walking would get on the disciple's feet.

This got me thinking about the foot-washing scene (John 13:1-17), which is something I never fully understood. The usual interpretation is that, since Jesus acted as a servant to His disciples, we should act as servants to our fellow Christians (or fellow man). And this is true! Jesus says as much: "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet." (vs. 14)

But now I'm thinking, there was a lot more to it than that.

Imagine you're one of the 12. Maybe you're Peter, the disciple who always tried so hard and got rebuked so often (and uplifted, too, but if I was Peter, the rebukes would stick in my memory more). You've been following Jesus this closely and calling Him "rabbi." One night, after you and the other 11 have dinner with Jesus, your Master suddenly gets up, fills a bowl with water, wraps a towel around His waist, and starts washing everyone's feet. He gets to you (remember, you're Peter), and starts washing your feet. Washing off the dust that is symbolically supposed to cover your feet. What would you be thinking?

I'd probably be thinking Jesus was sick of me and trying to get rid of me.

Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?... Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. John 13:6, 8a

I always thought Peter sounded scared here, but never understood why until now.

Jesus goes on to explain that He needs to wash them to make them clean. Following Jesus is supposed to make you clean, not dirty. Peter wants Jesus to wash his head and hands, too. Jesus replies, "...He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit..." (vs 10). I understand this to mean that Jesus is saying He only needs to wash what is dirty. I've sometimes heard it said that Jesus doesn't get rid of everything that you think is wrong with you- just the stuff that He can't use. I wonder sometimes if that's what He meant in verse 10.

But what I find most interesting about this passage is that Jesus washed their feet the night before His crucifixion. A disciple is supposed to follow a rabbi everywhere and get as dirty as the rabbi gets. So if self-sacrifice is a requirement for Christian living, why would Jesus wash their feet the night before His own sacrifice?

I think Jesus was saying, "This is the one thing I do that you cannot."

A Christian may or may not have to die for their faith one day, but only Jesus could die for our sins.

[queenimmadolla]

AND THIS TOO.

there’s a really good Eddie x reader fic that I have a love/hate relationship with, for some fucking reason, out of all the dudes in ST4 (including the behemoth who tackled a little black girl) Patrick was written as the creepy villain.

Patrick, who doesn’t harm anyone, literally isn’t depicted doing anything wrong, tells one of his drunk ass friends to stop saying stupid shit, seems genuinely concerned about everything going on, is being abused by his father, is trying to help his best friend find who they believe murdered his girlfriend and is only seen swimming after Jason (there was no way this man planned on harming a single hair on Eddie’s head, he was just following Jason and if anything I think he would have stopped him from fighting Eddie) when he was killed.

now what about him screams creepy villain of the story? hmn? I know everyone thinks the basketball team is some street gang—when really only like what, four players participated in the events in ST4–but please, please stop demonizing the very few black people on this show. especially when they aren’t portrayed to be bad in the first place. they’re all we got. and he’s a sweetheart.

Can y’all yt stranger things fans stop paint Patrick as creep in y’all’s fanfics use Andy instead

Like look at Andy and tell me he doesn’t give creepy vibes(he literally made a gross comment about Chrissy also tell me he wouldn’t be a sleaze ball)

But look at how nice Patrick is (also Rip my nigga Patrick you didn’t deserve to die like that😔 and so quick too we never saw his Vecna vision🤨)

Like yeah Patrick was apart of the basketball team but he was defending Chrissy when Andy made a gross comment about her.

[davestriderascend]

first, aradia and dave r rlly cute. second, this is hilarious. third, rip the shippers