There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.
One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Sheed's A Map of Life
Portions of Pieper's book on leisure
Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life
Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)
Therese's Story of a Soul
and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.
(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)
Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!
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Soo I was wondering if you had any hcs on the sibs reaction to the whole Artemis and Orion situation? I’m like obsessed with your hcs of the Olympians I love when people make them family
Thanks for enjoying my silly HCs of the Olympians! It's really fun doing them :3
Now on with the ask!
I imagine Orion as that one cousin nobody likes. He prides himself on being a powerful son of Poseidon and doesn't know his place. That will become his downfall.
Poseidon doesn't think Orion's arrogance a big deal, so he makes the younger Olympians get along withhis son. For some reason, Orion seemed to be infatuated with Artemis.
Artemis isn't naive of Orion's nature, she knows about Orion's attack on the daughter of his previous host (King Oinopion and his daughter Merope).
Because of this, Artemis immediately puts Orion on the blacklist and keeps him the hell away from her female companions.
We all know how Apollo is protective of his twin. Mess with Artemis and you will be greeted with an arrow in the ass. So when Orion came along, all the red flags were set up in his brain.
Persephone and Athena are highly alerted of Orion too, maybe even more protective than Apollo because they were both previously victim and almost victim of assault. No way in hell they will let their sister get in danger.
So when Orion tails behind Artemis during her hunts, either Apollo, Persephone, or Athena immediately follows along. They never let these two alone together.
When Orion almost attacked Opis, one of the virgin huntress, Artemis fatally shot him as retribution, but didn't outright kill him because of pressure from Poseidon.
After setting a the divine relevant of a restriction order on Orion, Artemis left him with a warning, "I've killed a giant before for kidnapping my mother. Don't think I will let you crawl away alive if you pull that shit again with my friends."
Ares pats Artemis on the back and says he would have killed Orion right away if he were Artemis.
Orion was mad and humiliated from Artemis' punishment, which is why he swore to become the greatest hunter ever seen and to outrank Artemis as revenge.
Orion wasn't killed by Artemis or Apollo eventually. It was Gaia who sent a scorpion to sting him after he proclaimed to kill all living animals on Earth.
When Orion died, the siblings (mostly Apollo and Persephone) suggested an eternal punishment for him. They turned him into a constellation and created the Scorpio constellation to forever chase him across the sky.
To this day, the siblings will spend time laying in an open field together and watch the chase of Orion and the scorpion.
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yeah so the fun thing i meant to share is that i was researching anglo-saxon charms for uh, inspiration for my william of lanchester wip, and i came across these four charms for finding stolen things (or cattle).
basically there are three incantations (well, more like two, one of which survives in two slightly different versions) and also this thing:
and all of these charms feature a cross in some capacity, the logic in the incantations being "may i find my stolen stuff like st. helena found the holy cross" (+ two of them also add "may the thief be exposed like judas' betrayal was exposed"), which reminded me a lot of the spell to see your enemy in jsamn.
(and on some level i do think that drawing a cross on some water to see a vision is an intuitive enough idea that susanna clarke could've just come up with it on her own, but even if that's the case, a nice parallel there)
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your top 5 favourite fan artists in the fandom. go!
so i’m gonna try and split this into gif/edit makers, then art people and then finally writers who i am NOT friends with because i am very biased in that sense and i love all my fic writing friends very much BUT i feel the need to shout others out
gif/edit -> @wendersfive @louisgayvodka / @coveredinbites (i love chris even tho im suing her) @srldesigns6277 @nouies also pls throw logan in the mix he just recently changed his url and i cannot think of what his url is now even tho he most definitely told me 💔
art -> @justanothershadeofblue @28goldens @londonfoginacup @biathecreature (who i just recently found out she has a tumblr and i love her hello kitty louis videos on tiktok 😭😭)
i feel bad but i cannot remember fifth one bc i see their art and im like thats sick and then never remember their url 😭 it has 369 in it i think i will know them when i see them
fic -> @crazyupsetter @alltheselights @falsegoodnight @soldouthaz
apparently those are the only 4 authors i know of that i’m not friends with 😭 it’s fine everything’s fine
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one day i will find the will to write the headcanon banging in my head about military man simon riley x nun!reader, and their unwitting, if not one-sided, parallels with solomon’s song of songs—
but instead of two lovers writing to each other, it’s just simon’s worship brimming from his yearning heart, all of which are unreturned, and how it overflows, unsteady and turbulent but so deceptively innocent because of his eagerness.
“by night on my bed i sought him whom my soul loveth: i sought him, but i found him not.” — a testament of how simon can never have you.
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Is this why Ark won't straight up confess?
Oh my WORD I'd forgotten I made a meme of that. Long story short, yeah! Pretty much!
There's a cut (but still canonical) scene this is based on early in The Present is a Gift where Ark, sans memories, basically says he's very fond of Twig and he's happy he met her and is able to call her a friend. Twig doesn't straight up tell him she'll slide him a fifty if he never says that again in the original scene, but she gets VERY noticeably uncomfortable and he permanently backs off on the Words of Affirmation front.
After that, he has this lingering fear that she'll react the same way if he were ever to propose a romantic relationship, and so his ex-villain brain constantly comes up with elaborate schemes that minimize emotional risks and have Twig make the first move in response to actions he takes that may or may not be interpreted as platonic or perhaps something more, therefore shifting all risks off of himself in the process.
TL;DR--- Man's scared of rejection and has masterminded a situation in which Twig is the only one to risk direct rejection, therefore guaranteeing success... If she wasn't an idiot and would pick up on his hints.
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Please share more controversial Doctor Who opinions, yours are always so refreshing
BF Eight hasn't been good since Dark Eyes; Kate Stewart is a boring nepo baby at best; JNT who is great it's just cynical when it fails, which makes it feel worse than when other eras whiff; Flux is the best thing the show's done since the 2005 reboot; Dr Who & Silurians crumhorn is unfairly maligned; Cushing should be canonical somehow; Moffat is as good at writing women as anyone short of, like, Sarah Dollard (he just never had an editor willing to reel in his plots); idk i'll get back to you if i think of more
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