#the ministry is evil

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Microfic: Bones

100 words written for the @drarrymicrofic prompt 'Bones' by Imagine Dragons.

The piece of Voldemort’s soul had been a dampener. 

No one had realized the sheer amount of power that resided in Harry’s body, ‘I can feel it in my bones,’ he'd confessed to Draco when he was wrapped around him in bed one night. 

And power like that was meant to burn iniquity from the world.

Draco stood in awe, watching raw magic crackling around Harry as he gave an impassioned speech on the Ministry’s front steps. Watching as the aurors who’d come to kill him were disarmed with a flick of the wrist. 

Harry was saving the world. Again.

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[zef-zef]

Album Art for:

Lingua Ignota - Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (Perpetual Flame Ministries, 2023)

Originally (self) released in 2017 as cdr & digital

[chexala]

fave books of 2024

I didn't read as many books in 2024 as I usually do (because I got utterly derailed by Baldur's Gate 3) but of the books I did read, so many of them were absolute bangers.

So, without further ado, in no particular order, these were my favorite reads of the year, below the cut

The Ministry of Time, by Kalianne Bradley I know nothing about Arctic Exploration, I've never seen The Terror, and honestly still don't really know or care anything about any of that; I came this this one for the time-travel forced-proximity man-out-of-time romance with critiques of the Empire, and it absolutely delivered. I've read/listened to this book 3 times already.

Moonbound, by Robin Sloan Far-future post-apocalyptic epic science-fantasy like I've never seen before; this one is a fun romp with lots of humor and cheeky winks, but it also takes it's optimism seriously. And the beavers, omg, I am obsessed with the beavers.

The Fox Wife, by Yangsze Choo Historical fiction, a detective murder mystery, and magical folklore all rolled into one. Deals with heavy themes of loss with a sensitive hand, but/and the fox folk are such lively chaos gremlins, making trouble wherever they go, that the novel doesn't collapse under that weight. The author reads the audiobook beautifully.

Long Live Evil, by Sarah Rees Brennan Uuugh, so good, so fun, this one kept me on my toes. Come for the villainess isekai, stay for the full cast of morally grey, lovable idiots. (They are all treasures, and I love them.) Buckle up for a series, book two is coming sometime in 2025.

A Magical Girl Retires, by Park Seolyeon A short, dark comedy for all of us millennial girlies (gender inclusive) who are still waiting for our magical powers to kick in while trying to survive the late-capitalism hellscape. Get this one in hardcover if you like to collect pretty books!

Someone You Can Build A Nest In, by John Wiswell Do you feel like a shapeshifting people-eating blob monster, and/or would you like to date one? This one is for you. It's fantasy, it's body horror, it's romance, it's queer, it's unrelentingly gory, and also, somehow, cozy (for me anyway).

The Wild Huntress, by Emily Lloyd-Jones This is a shameless plug of a friend's work, but/and Emily is sincerely one of my favorite YA authors. Wild Huntress is the latest in her series of stand-alone Welsh-inspired fantasy novels. The stakes were high, the plotting was tight, the third act was a punch in the face, and the ending was bittersweet.

The Deep Dark, by Molly Knox Ostertag I’ve loved everything of Ostertag's that I’ve read so far, and this was no exception. Messy teens figuring out their stuff, coming of age, and embracing the whole of your self, even the parts that seem scary or bad. Such feels, A+, no notes.

Anyway, that's it. Thanks for reading!

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spider what the fuck is your problem man

[biblebloodhound]

Victory Over the Power of Evil (Luke 4:31-37)

Even though our thinking is important and critical, there is more to it than that: Orthodoxy (right belief) requires orthopraxy (right actions).

He went down to Capernaum, a village in Galilee. He was teaching the people on the Sabbath. They were surprised and impressed—his teaching was so forthright, so confident, so authoritative, not the quibbling and quoting they were used to. In the meeting place that day there was a man demonically disturbed. He screamed, “Stop! What business do you have here with us, Jesus? Nazarene! I know what…

[victorluvsalice]

What about au where smiler was partially marmalised and works for the ministry and is trying to manipulate Victor and Alice into getting marmalised and becoming advocates

*waggles hand* So, not opposed to such an AU, but it would have to end with Alice and Victor getting Smiler out of the Ministry instead of Smiler successfully getting them to become Advocates. Reason being is, well, a Smiler working for the Ministry and trying to manipulate Victor and Alice is an unethical mind controller! And we know what Alice does to unethical mind controllers:

[ID: Animated gif by thedestinysunknown of the moment in A:MR when Alice, in her Wonderland form, shoves Bumby off the platform of the Underground station and into the path of an oncoming train]

Yeaaah, if you've ever thought my Smiler seems a little nice when compared to the coaster's actual theme, that's the reason. I had to give them ethics, otherwise they were going to get stabbed. So yeah, an AU like that would have to be along the lines of Smiler trying to get Victor and Alice to join up, only for Victor and Alice to instead show THEM how the Ministry is actually not really interested in happiness and is pretty evil honestly and get them out of there. (Which is actually not dissimilar to what happens in my Londerland Bloodlines AU (after the events of the game), where Smiler THINKS they've joined a group interested in making people happy and helping them through rough patches in their lives, but in fact the Ministry they've fallen in with is Ministry as in "Formerly The Followers of Set," and THEY'RE more interested in corrupting people with false joy...awful shame that they end up targeting Victor...)

[thedeafprophet]

I found someone else's echo on what is believed to be referencing Marx's work.

I dont personally think it confirms death, but it does confirm censorship at the minimum

[sleepdeprivedweeblol]

SHOULD I START THE PERCY JACKSON BOOKS???

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But mama i'm in love with a criminal😩

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

How do we account for the existence of evil, since God is the good Creator of all things? From our 2022 National Conference, Michael Reeves provides a biblical illustration to answer this important question.

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Proverbs Daily Reflection – January 25, 2025

Bless the Lord, O' my soul and all that is within me! Praise his holy name! #josephmekaelpageministries

Proverbs 25:21-22 (KJV) “If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.” Heaping Coals of Fire: A Deeper Understanding The phrase “heap coals of fire upon his head” is a beautiful metaphor that many may not fully understand. It refers to bringing about conviction,…

[biblebloodhound]

Confronting the Evil in Front of Us (Mark 6:14-29)

Unfortunately, there are individuals in this world incapable of doing good.

St. John the Baptist rebuking Herod, by Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908) King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’s name had become known. Some were saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers are at work in him.” But others said, “It is Elijah.” And others said, “It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John,…

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White House's Grey Cardinal of Color Revolts: What is “Evil Witch Victoria Nuland's Legacy?”

She Will Be Remembered For "Taking Ukraine To The Precipice of Disappearing Into An Abyss, Passing Out Cookies," Along With "The Use of The F-Word... The European Union, She Said, Could Go Fuck Themselves. So That's Her Legacy."

Evil Witch Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey R. Pyatt at the Maidan Square in Kiev — Sputnik International, © Sputnik/Petr Zadorozhny

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that Victoria Nuland will step down in the coming weeks as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. What legacy will the leave?

Victoria Nuland — the architect of the 2014 Euromaidan coup in Kiev — has quit just as her pet project collapses.

Nuland's decision to retire came like a bolt from the blue, given her active role in Ukraine's affairs under presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson told Sputnik.

"If it's not for health reasons, she's not resigning to take a better job. That's for sure," Johnson said, "Her only reason for being in that job was because of Ukraine. She was not a factor or force at the State Department in all the other areas such as China, Middle East, those are all back burner issues. Her thing was Ukraine."

He said Nuland's departure was a sign that the US policy in Ukraine was "unravelling" and was "not a political winner."

"It's like an albatross hanging around their neck as they go into the election season," Johnson said. "Her leaving is probably going to cause more consternation in Kiev and particularly with Zelensky."

Who Is Nuland?

In his press statement on Tuesday, Blinken said "Toria" had served in various capacities under six American presidents and ten secretaries of state and had been "indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine" — just as Washington's proxy front with Moscow was collapsing in Donetsk.

Nuland is the wife of American ardent neoconservative strategist Robert Kagan, a leading voice for US overseas interventions and regime-change operations.

Nuland served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser (2003 – 2005) to Vice President Dick Cheney, the mastermind of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Between 2005 and 2008, she served as US ambassador to NATO in Brussels, focusing on mobilizing European support for the alliance's military campaign in Afghanistan and sabre-rattling with Russia.

Under the Obama administration, then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton picked Nuland as her spokeswoman. Clinton's successor, John Kerry, appointed her as his assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Sworn in September 2013, Nuland immediately took charge of what quickly morphed under her watch into a color revolution in Ukraine.

Euromaidan, which started in November 2013 as a protest against then-President Viktor Yanukovich's refusal to sign an EU association agreement, turned violent in December 2013.

Nuland called for "taking Ukraine into the future it deserves," boasting that the US had invested over $5 billion into Ukraine achieving "its European aspirations." She travelled to Kiev and handed out bread and cookies to protesters at Kiev's Independence Square ("Maidan Nezalezhnosti") reassuring rioters of US support.

U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Evil Witch Victoria Nuland and Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, offering cookies and (behind the scenes) political advice to Ukraine's Maidan activists and their leaders. © AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool

Coup Plotter On Steroids

In early February 2014, a conversation between Victoria Nuland and then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing the shape of the provisional Kiev regime was leaked online. Nuland was heard to dismiss European partners with the phrase "F**k the EU."

The plans they came to fruition the same month after Yanukovich was ousted by a violent nationalist mob in violation of the Ukrainian Constitution, forcing him flee the country chased by neo-Nazi militant groups.

Servicemen from the Azov volunteer battalion read a prayer during a ceremony before being sent to eastern Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, August 17, 2015. © AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

In May 2014 Nuland was grilled by congress representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Brad Sherman over her denial of the role armed neo-Nazis played in the Euromaidan coup during her congressional testimony.

"There were pictures of people running around with these that we were told were neo-Nazis. Were there neo-Nazis in those efforts – street violence that led to Mr. Yanukovych’s removal?" asked Rohrabacher.

Nuland insisted that "the vast majority of those who participated on the Maidan were peaceful protesters," but eventually admitted that "almost every color of Ukraine was represented, including some – including some ugly colors."

Minsk Agreements, Ukrainian Biolabs And Kiev's Retreat

Eight years later she was forced to admit that the US had maintained a secretive network of bio-labs in Ukraine. Documents obtained by the Russian Ministry of Defense in the course of the special military operation showed these facilities were conducting biowarfare research.

On March 8, 2022 Nuland testified that "Ukraine has biological research facilities," hastily adding: "We are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of them."

Nuland also tried to undermine the two Minsk accords between Kiev and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in 2014 and 2015. She blamed breakdowns in the truce on Russia, one of the three countries that brokered the deals, while turning a blind eye to Ukraine's attacks on the Donbass republics and the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) network of torture chambers.

Then-German chancellor Angela Merkel later admitted that the accords were just a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine for NATO's proxy conflict with Russia.

The last time Nuland was seen in Kiev was early February 2024, during the rift between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and then-commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhny. Zelensky sacked Zaluzhny on February 8, and on On February 17, the Russian army liberated Avdeyevka in the Donetsk region — where it continues to advance.

Evil Witch Nuland’s Resignation Related to Failure of US’ Anti-Russian Policy — Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova! © AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky! “Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press statement. Nuland’s tenure at the position lasted three and a half decades, when she served under six presidents and ten secretaries of state.

Nuland Resigns As Anti-Russia Plot Fails

Commenting on the news of Nuland's retirement, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated: "They will not tell you the reason. But it is simple — the failure of the anti-Russian policy of [US President Joe] Biden’s administration."

"Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone," she added.

Johnson believes Zakharova is right:

"[Nuland] has certainly been the central figure in the US government going back a decade. This was her thing in 2014, when the Maidan occurred," he said. "She was the one on the phone with the ambassador, trying to figure out who the United States was going to put it in as president of Ukraine."

"So, she's been one of the puppet mistresses behind the scenes, pulling the strings," Johnson added. "The fact that she's now resigning at a time when continued aid for Ukraine is uncertain, as well as growing opposition in Congress, particularly among Republicans, about continuing to pour bad money after good in Ukraine, and with the presidential election looming on the horizon."

The Biden White House has already signalled a shift on several issues, including Ukraine, the CIA veteran said. "I think her resignation may in part reflect some frustration, as a protest against that policy."

Johnson said Nuland's legacy was nothing to boast about.

She will be remembered for "taking Ukraine to the precipice of disappearing into an abyss, passing out cookies," along with "the use of the F-word... The European Union, she said, could go f*** themselves. So that's her legacy."

— Sputnik International | Tuesday March 5, 2024 | Ekaterina Blinova