#the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb
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atiny-for-life · 19 hours ago
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Jewel Box episode~
Since I'm nothing if not a nerd, I feel the need to clarify that the original saying goes "Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" - it means the bonds you choose to forge with others are more powerful than mere genetic relation
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The lore between Bumjoong and the host lmao
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Add it to the setlist!
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Emotional support sibling hugs (they're so real for this):
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Another one, thank you:
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Which one though? The First Avenger? The Winter Soldier? Do you ship Steve and Bucky? I NEED ANSWERS!
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Aww he's a year older than me! Slay! Mid-90s kids unite!
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Yooo - it's not even just y'all who are cheating on Hongjoong, it's also KQ's CEO:
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Proud big bro <3
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It's been 20 years and I still blame my gymnastics teacher for getting pregnant before she taught my class how to do this kinda stuff:
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Bumjoong wilding:
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And signing off:
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Full video:
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ramblingsfromthytruly · 7 months ago
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BLOOD RUNS THICKER THAN WATER BLOOD RUNS THICKER THAN WATER BLOOD RUNS THICKER THAN WATER BUT BOTH FEEL THE SAME WHEN YOU'RE EYES ARE CLOSED I AM THE RIVER'S DAUGHTER I AM THE RIVER'S DAUGHTER I AM THE RIVER'S DAUGHTER AND YOU'LL BE HER SON WHEN WE'RE BOTH REPOSED
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allidoishuynh · 14 hours ago
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Just to add, "blood is thicker than water" with its more known and accepted definition is an older and more consistently used version of the saying than, "blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb."
In John Moore's Zeluco (1789), a character assures another in a letter that there is little danger in him forgetting his old friends "and far less my blood relations; for surely blood is thicker than water."
The phrase is also referenced in a collection of Scots Proverbs by Allen Ramsay (1737) and states the version "blood is thicker than water" as the complete form of the proverb.
"Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb," is an interpretation that was first recorded in 1990 by author Albert Jack and rabbi Richard Pustelniac wherein they utilize a tried and true method to legitimize their interpretation by saying that it's the "original" meaning without citing any sources to support this claim.
ALL THIS TO SAY, sayings are just words. They're not universally correct and they change in meaning over years as the use of the saying changes and the morals of the time period adjust. "Blood is thicker than water" comes from a time when your family members were the only people you could generally rely upon to care about your well being and an overwhelming amount of time/effort spent was to try and improve or sustain the lifestyle of your current household (think who benefitted from all the effort of drawing water, cooking, choring, working a job, or making/washing clothes). In recent years this is less the case and a different interpretation of this saying is more valuable to modern relationships. That doesn't make the old meaning wrong, it doesn't make the new meaning the original, it just evolves.
"The customer is always right in terms of taste" was a very reasonable saying to develop in a time when individual sales are nontrivial income sources. But "the customer is always right," is far more appropriate in a world where capitalism overwhelming values repeat business and brand loyalty and where replacing a worker that won't let a customer run them over is as easy as reaching your hand out the front door and grabbing someone.
People saying, "the customer is always right" from a management perspective aren't "using the saying wrong." They're using a fundamentally different fucking saying that's adapted itself to an environment that cares more about how much money a billionaire can get from any individual customer than how much suffering it costs a worker to extract it.
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feralgirlfromatl · 2 months ago
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Y'all. I really can't stand when I see people use "blood is thicker than water" incorrectly because they don't know that the full saying is "the blood of covenant is thicker than the water of the womb".
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brionysea · 1 year ago
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they put max in mike's colour for the episode where she gets targeted by the trauma monster. max why are you in blue. why does trauma + monster = blue and blue = mike so mike = trauma + monster. even her hair looks less bright because she's depressed and both the monster and the trauma have her in their sights (max's colour is equal parts "orange" and "rainbow" To Me)
the blue (mike's colour!!!) took over max's character (like how el is pink but the blue takes over her when she's in a state of mutually assured destruction with mike) and then max dies in the bluest attic ever and ends up comatose in the bluest hospital room known to man. thinking yet again of mike vs max and el's feminism. she's her own person who's fully capable of making her own decisions so PLEASE STOP DROWNING HER IN THE BLUE, MIKE!
also the blue attic is disrupted by the red gate. between that, the roses, the spooky fog, and the mind palace, vecna is red. blue + red makes me think of blood in the water which draws sharks (the imagery used for barb's death + by nancy realising the demogorgon is drawn by blood), BUT with this imagery MIKE is the unfathomably expansive ocean and vecna is the piddly little drop of blood. the sea was calm until vecna summoned the sharks? also the possessed mike agenda of blood being IN the water
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canichangemyblogname · 1 year ago
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Watching the Netflix-made documentary on Alexander the Great and the actor playing Alexander’s father in the supplemental visual story telling of the archaeology was scripted to shake hands with Alexander and ask him for forgiveness because “blood is thicker than water.” << Those words exactly.
I immediately paused the show and walked into the other room to stand there like this:
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reccord-raccoon · 2 years ago
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Fire Emblem Siblings week 2023 day 2: fears/books
the Fraldarius siblings protect one of the Gautier siblings from the other
drabble under the cut
Felix ran a hand over the weathered leather of the old diary. His husband's, from long before the thought of marriage crossed either of their minds.
The pages in Felix's hands held all of what was left of the true nature of his brother. Of Both their brothers. No one else close enough to know them had kept a diary as faithfully as Sylvain had.
"Speak of the devil," Felix whispered when he heard the door open behind him.
"Whatcha lookin' at?" Sylvain's voice sounded cheerful, but Felix had known him for much too long to truly believe he was.
He didn't answer. Instead he let his husband brush aside midnight hair and rest his chin on his shoulder.
Sylvain hummed, "That old thing? What about it caught your attention, love?"
Felix opened it to the page his thumb hand been saving and let their eyes scan it before speaking.
"...the well…"
"I remember this," he whispered.
"…Glenn and Felix saved me…"
He felt Sylvain shrug. "Kinda hard to forget. My brother was a pretty big dick."
"…I'm still pretty cold, but Glenn let me borrow some of his clothes while mine dry off…"
"That was the day Glenn and I realized just how bad Miklan actually was. Glenn vowed to stop him however he could. I vowed to protect you."
Sylvain stilled. Too afraid of his emotions breaking through to dare to move.
"I remember how I felt that day," Felix continued, "but I don't think I ever…"
knew how you felt.
The unspoken words hung in the air and young Sylvain's loopy handwriting burned in front of them.
"…Miklan tried to yell at me again later. But Felix and Glenn were there so he didn't. Felix was hugging me and Glenn's hand was on my shoulder and even though I was still scared, having them by my side made me feel like I could conquer the world…"
"Maybe with them I could even fight Miklan."
@fireemblemsiblingsweek
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space-station-collective · 2 years ago
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I have acquired Several Children /lh
anyway yeah I now have two children in other systems, it's great, I love my sons /fam
found family between systems and headmates in the same brain is so lovely, we are bonding over things and forging our own paths, with the people we want
(some thoughts on chosen family after the cut)
the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. that means that chosen family will always be stronger than blood relations, if you so choose
there are people in the world who will try and say that you should remain loyal to your "real family" no matter what, but those people are wrong. blood relation holds no value beyond what people prove they deserve
so remember that, your chosen family is yours, and anyone who tries to say otherwise is plain wrong
love your family, whoever that may be. find your own path if the one you were born on fails you. you will find your way eventually, I promise
in case nobody has told you today: you are loved. you are cared for. I see you
-the host (he/they)
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fluffernuterfiller · 1 year ago
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my personal favorite version of the “humans are special because…” is the idea that humans don’t just pack bond with other species we make other species pack bond with us
the idea that a human will pack bond with something/one and after a period of time that thing/person will begin to care about the human too, even if the species doesn’t typically form pack bonds or are exclusively solitary or only brought the human aboard for its usefulness (only thought of us as a tool to be used and discarded if no longer of use)
the idea that by caring for someone/thing we can make them go against their own nature and care for us too
I like the idea that once the alien’s figure out that it’s a thing™️ they try to study it and the results are frustratingly inconclusive, it’s not some sort of telepathic manipulation, it’s not pheromones, it’s not psychological conditioning, it’s not a method of training. it just is
Humans are Weirdos (ft.  animals)
I know a popular ‘humans are weird to aliens’ topic is how easily humans can bond to animals. But then think the opposite.
We humans are so weird because we are practically bonding magnets to animals.
We have our social hierarchies, so it makes sense that we can fit in with certain groups like dogs and even gorillas if we can understand them enough. We get ourselves acquainted with dogs who have been domesticated and these dogs will leap into our laps and constantly bother us for pets and treats and licking us as a way to show affection. People who can get certain animals to open up to us are super cool. Aliens are in awe of how our understanding of them can get us into a pack so readily that humans who are super close to normally protective dog mothers are allowed to hold their precious babies.
We can even manage to bond with animals like cats, known to be mostly solitary. We care for these cats and when they’re comfortable they will break their isolation and seek us out for affection.
Imagine an alien seeing a dog or cat go to an upset human and try to nuzzle them or snuggle into their lap to let themselves be held for our emotional comfort. These animals which, though currently domesticated, were descended from predators streamlined towards a goal of becoming efficient hunters. Willingly coming to our emotional aid and comforting us because they’ve bonded with us so closely.
Aliens see dogs act as protectors and bark away intruders on the human territory, but instantly turn happy when they know it’s their owner and friend. They see cats utilizing inborn maternal instincts to hunt down and leave ‘gifts’ of dead things in an effort to feed and teach their humans to take care of them since we’re such worthless hunters in their eyes. They’ll even know if something is wrong with humans medically before we do, or know about disturbances in the home like fires or gas leaks, and will uncharacteristically jump us to get us out of danger.
And when humans are in danger by others, and an animal senses it before we do, these animals will immediately jump on the defensive and snarl and warn against any potential enemies  and try to alert us.
You’ve got dogs who will literally jump on intruders and bite them when they’re trying to attack their human owners. Throwing themselves and and intimidating animals many times larger than themselves for our sake. Even cats, the ones people might think aren’t very interested in their humans, will throw themselves into the fray and claw the hell out of something that’s a danger to a precious human of theirs.
And, for an added bonus, imagine if we can get this to apply to bigger, deadlier animals with similar capacity for pack bonding.
After months and months of talking, mimicking, feeding, and caring for a giant predator the rest of the crew refuses to near, it’s sort of relaxed to the human. A sense of loyalty that 'yes, this creature cares for me’. Then, one day, pirates invade the vessel and somehow the animal gets loose. Cue the crew panicking when it comes ambling out of its’ holding bay at the time when a pirate is about to bring a knife or something down on the human. Two seconds later this pirate is running and screaming for its life when it sees it. The creature takes a running start, LEAPS over the human (which was closest to it and already injured) and takes off after it. When that pirate is either captured or dead, the creature returns to the human, nuzzling them and making sounds to see if they’re okay.
The human is smiling and mimicking the sounds back, or just talking to it to say what a 'good boy’ it is.
The aliens of the crew are in shock.  The rest of the humans just smile knowingly.
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muontron · 1 month ago
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parents who claim they will unconditionally love their child when the child in question is LGBT:
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how-what-why-huh · 2 years ago
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i'm all the people i've ever loved
loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake
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bones-of-old · 1 year ago
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poetry dump x11
thicker than water
Family is a choice
Not something you are stuck with
They are yours to choose
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twinklingstrawberries · 2 years ago
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Growing up with two homophobic, racist, misogynistic, conservative and overall just shitty older brothers really is an experience when you are a queer woman that is working on moving abroad.
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mabsolgirl · 12 days ago
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Took a break from requests to bring to y'all one of the AUs infecting my mind as of late. The tldr is that with the help of some human urban explorers, the Twisteds have been cured and the Toons live on the surface.
Glis was the first to be cured primarily since even as a Twisted he still managed to hold onto bits of his humanity and was the safest to be around. It was through him they were able to find a cure.
I'll try to get to the other toons later
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co-opmode · 2 years ago
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imo "thinking of eachother as siblings/parent/child/whatever" means the love we have is just an obligation based on living circumstances, which makes it feel cheap and meaningless. Finding a family is soooooo much different and DEEPER than just "well they're blood" and has nothing to do with whether or not sex is involved, its 100% just about if these people are your home and make you feel safe.
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exactly
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hadesgirl015 · 23 days ago
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Blood is Thicker than Water Chapter 12/14
Chapter 12: The Mistake
A certain pompous cambion offers a deal, but surely no one would take it....right?
Chapter 1: The Crash
Everyone has secrets, some bigger than others. Velvari does her best to keep hers hidden but that can be hard, especially when the secret interconnects her to two of her new companions. What were the odds?
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