#subject: new directions

[mckinleypowerhour]

if you got to assign a future occupation to each member of the new directions, what would they be?

addison harris - belly dancer

adelaide devereaux - odur judge

adrian cruz-dumont - sports mascot

ali vogel - singing waitress

blaine anderson - consierge

catrina clark - soccer mom

david karofsky - truck driver

finn hudson - magician

freddie merrick - drag queen

hunter clarington - pole vaulter

jake puckerman - mime artist

jesse st. james - professional high school student

keke akana - mystery shopper

kc - zumba instructor

lizzie jules - background actor

mason mccarthy  - yeti researcher

marley rose - fortune teller

max moore - bodyguard

puck - firefighter

quinn fabray - fireworks designer

rachel berry - professional yodeler

ryder lynn - live art model

sam evans - porn star

sebastian smythe - nanny

spencer porter - stunt double for children

sugar motta - sugar baby

taylor lincoln - undercover agent

tina cohen-chang - professional bridesmaid

[lorebird]

In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.

[mollysunder]

Sinco as a ship are such boring middle aged men together, and I think that's beautiful. When they're together all their ruthlessness and banal violence almost cancels out, almost. Silco and Singed aren't after the same goal, but they're both just on the same wavelength that there's no real argument or manipulation, it's just two men in agreement to spend over a decade of their lives working together.

Almost nothing seems like an argument between them, they're just on the same page. Silco and Singed are completely independent of eachother and it makes their relationship all the more intentional. They're both set in their ways in what they want and who they have to be to get it, but the two have carved a space for each other in their lives.

Singed is so sparing with his empathy, but is willing to extend it to Silco, while Silco is willing to trust Singed with Jinx. Except in the case of their children, there's not much further these men go in forms vulnerability for anyone else but eachother.

[pigeon-butch]

I certainly have my own concerns about the treatment of moo deng but um. well i think some of you may just be racist

[tinylittlecubby]

Romance is often very dehumanizing,personally.

Being hyper dependent on someone (as if you have no autonomy)

The idea that it is what 'makes you human' which is dangerous for all kinds of reasons and is the most literal display of the dehumanization.

I am not someone's purpose as I am 1 person. No more, no less. Sure I cant be replaced, but that kind of pressure literally leads to people losing their lives due to abuse. A purpose can not be a person inherently.

The idea that my whole world exists in my lovers arms sounds like a cage with 2 bars.

[sskk-manifesto]

Next time we should just skip over ep 3 and do a chapters 84-87 reread

[didhewinkback]

often thinking about how all harrys incel character in dwd wanted was to be a british businessman who goes down on his wife. like babe u can do that without holding her against her will? just get a 9-5????

it truly cracks me up like what incel is like ugh alll i want to do is please my wife sexually. i just need time, a middling office job and a nice haircut

[queenlucythevaliant]

Here's what I'll say regarding choice of worship music (and I'm not 100% sure where I'm going with this, so bear with me): I think it's very easy to get burned out on specific kinds of worship, no matter what they are. And that kind of burn-out is hard.

I grew up at a church that did 95% CCM for worship, and after a while it either (a) exhausted me emotionally or (b) bored me. By the time I hit high school, I really really struggled with corporate worship because it felt as though I wasn't responding as I was supposed to. Getting to sing mostly hymns at the church I attended at college was a huge breath of fresh air, and it helped me immensely in terms of re-orienting my heart towards Christ-centered worship (as opposed to me-centered worship.) For the first time in my life, I found myself listening to Christian music on my own time during the week.

I watched the recent Jesus Revolution movie with mom over the summer. Her family started attending Calvary Chapel (then-nascent hippy church in Orange County) midway through her childhood, and she got really excited talking about the difference between the hymns she remembered from early elementary school ("we sang the whole hymnal rather than selecting for the really good ones like they do at your church") and the much more dynamic music that came out of Maranatha and other early "contemporary" Christian groups. She actually played me a whole bunch of the songs she grew up with the next morning. They sounded horrifically cheesy to me, but she got real joy out of it and even ended up texting a few songs to my aunt.

And yet, my mom has remarked a whole bunch of times to me that she really can't stand current CCM; that she desperately misses singing the old hymns. I look at myself and my own experience and I can totally see myself coming back to some of the CCM songs I grew up with and encountering Christ through them all new again. As recently as last month, I had a really beautiful experience driving back from a concert crazy late at night with my sister and listening to some of the old Chris Tomlin and Hillsong stuff that I hadn't heard in a while. It brought me back to a sense of incredible comfort and safety nestled up against God like a baby chick. Do I want to worship with that sort of music every week right now? No, definitely not. But it has its place.

Obviously worship transcends something as incidental as music genre. It's an expression of why we were created: glorifying God and enjoying him forever --- and yet, because of the fall, it's really easy to get burned out on specific expressions of worship. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing so much as just a symptom of the fall. I also think that people who are really burned out on a particular kind of worship can be really, really obnoxious about it. I know I was for a while, and I still definitely have my hangups with CCM.

But like- I don't think it's so much about judgement or superiority towards the kind of worship music that you're burnt out on as it is just the overwhelming sense that that kind of worship music felt exhausting and this kind of music actually feels like I'm able to worship again. I know when I started singing hymns at church, it just felt like I'd found the Rosetta Stone. I was suddenly so much less in my own head on Sunday mornings and oh my goodness singing to God was a joy again and I can't remember but I don't think it's ever been a joy like this before has it?? It was almost like my head was spinning with some great new revelation and when I was obnoxious about it it was mostly a manifestation of my being like Why didn't anyone ever tell me it could be like this? Why isn't everyone singing hymns? It's just so much better this way!

Mostly, it just feels like saying "don't be overly critical of how other Christians like to worship" kind of. Misses the trees for the forest, if that makes sense? Like, it's accurate to the big picture, it's absolutely a true and worthwhile thing to say. But at the same time it kind of rankles for me because it misses how it feels to be truly and deeply alienated by the kind of worship you're exposed to.

For better and for worse, worship is (I think) the spiritual discipline that engages the emotions most directly. The feeling of being in a group of people all worshipping together, and your heart just isn't responding right no matter how you try to re-focus and orient it? It's one of the loneliest feelings I know.

[medicinemane]

Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy

You have... very very very very very very very very smart people you know, and they're say something that not only isn't true, but literally is as opposite of the truth as it's possible to be... and you'll... gently inform them "hey, it's actually a bit more like this" and then they just kinda... go on saying literally the exact same thing

I'm not sure if it's just that... I often feel like I must be very bad at communicating, or people must just not notice/ignore a lot of what I say, but... I don't know

Like dearest friend, you've said something as absurd as... I don't know, it's hard to say without saying it, but honest to god about as absurd as saying the United States was a part of the USSR, that level of completely getting it backwards

...and it just doesn't seem to matter when I try to explain it... I legit don't even know if you read what I said

Really end up feeling like I'm going nuts sometimes

[street-corner-felines]

Zero Day Director commentary - With actor Andre Keuck

[takingtheacademicscenicroute]

Well that was not supposed to happen

After a few weeks I came upon a realisation which I was not exactly expecting: I have decided against astrophysics altogether.

This was a shock to me as well.

There are a few reasons for this, some of which are a little personal and I would rather not go into. Other than the personal reasons, I found it more close to my skillset, as esoteric as it might sound, it called to me. I think that really I was always going to go towards some form of biological or earth sciences and in reality, that 6 was the best thing to ever happen to me because without it I would never have given geology a chance, not properly.

This does mean that the blog url will be changed in the coming days to reflect more closely the new direction, and for anyone who was here for this specifically, sorry. I am still looking at doing some interviews relating to education from the perspectives of a range of people in my area.

Written: 28/09/2024

Posted: 28/09/2024

[rinbylin]

watching the first episode of the 2017 webdrama and then skimming through the sanitised 2021 remake (starring whr - fun fact) is the same bewildering and depressing experience of watching addicted 2016 then moving on to what SWM 2023 did to the story in the process of what it believed to be "fixing" the problematics of its canon

[femmefaggot]

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[intern-seraph]

honestly if you seriously think jews have only recently started living in fear of antisemitic violence, you are either

a. a willfully ignorant idiot who hasn't been listening

b. living under a fucking rock

c. literally just being an asshole because it's cool to shit on jews again

and i have no sympathy for you or your loss of career. fuck you.

[peachpitss]

always wild to see the usual fandom/shipping discourseTM happening in the locked tomb fan base. ………the locked tomb? the series with canon cannibalism and necrophilia?? the one with canon power imbalanced hate-polycules?? the one where someone gave themself a lobotomy? that series????

[andromedasummer]

one thing i love about my uni is even when the subject we are studying is about far away country or ultra specific phenomenon theres always a book in the syllabus, published by the university, by a member of that country and/or culture, by an expert on that special subject, who happened to attend my university too. who's lived in the same cities i have.