#this is a late response

[religious-extremist]

I really don't want to be mean, but I'm a converted Catholic and the people around me don't really follow it and you seem to be holy so I wanted to say that there's this thing that has been bothering me a lot about Christianity. In Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot, who's called a righteous man, offers up his daughters to be raped "Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof" And it's just always bothered me, since I read this story because, y'know, he's a good person and even though he's trying to save angels, but he's basically willing to sacrifice his daughters to be gangraped. I checked through a few versions to make sure I read that There are other weird things like in Timothy there's a thing about women being saved through childbirth and I don't know. Maybe I'm just not used to this bible stuff, but I don't really want children and thinking I'll go to hell if I choose not to, because I don't think I'm infertile, scares me

I know this is a really weird question to just spring on you, but I've been questioning things and it scares me. I took you randomly showing up on my dash as a sign or something. Praying to believe and trying to stay positive

You can read this article written by John Sanidopoulos, an Orthodox layman who studied at a few seminaries: Why Is Lot Called “Righteous” If He Offered His Daughters To Be Raped? LINK

Lot wasn’t perfect, but he knew God and that’s what made him righteous. It seems he already knew that his guests were angels, and therefore would be able to protect his family if they so wished; that’s why when the Sodomites rushed in, they were blinded by the angels. That was going to happen either way, the blinding, just like God didn’t allow Abraham to slay Isaac, but still, Lot’s love for God was tested.

The topic of childbirth and almsgiving, the latter which you sent in a second anon, is something that should be discussed with an Orthodox spiritual father. If you live in North America, I recommend visiting an Orthodox monastery and talking to a priest if you want the best answer possible. You can also write a letter to an Orthodox priest at a monastery, or go to a local Orthodox Church and speak to a priest there. There is a path for women who don’t want to have a family. You can PM me if you want me to give you more information about it.

It’s good to have this zeal and fear in your heart, but know that this is also a test of faith. God is merciful and wise above all.

I forgot which saint said it, maybe St. John Climacus, but he said that Christians walk a narrow path with the danger of falling down either side. The demonic attacks come from both the left and the right. Demons from the left attack us with the temptation to sin, to be lazy, to be careless, to be greedy. From the right comes the temptation to quickly acquire virtues like asceticism, almsgiving, to be righteous… but you’ll see that those seemingly good virtues are trickeries that can quickly make you fall into the sin of pride, pride in your ability to fast, give alms, and criticism of other seemingly less righteous people. That is the trick of the devil. That is why it is said: narrow is the way that leads to eternal life.

Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

You are new wine, the virtues of almsgiving and asceticism are old wineskins. If you try immediately to pour yourself into the virtues, you will likely just break and spill and fumble everything. You have to put new wine into new wineskins, so everything in the spiritual life must be done with great care.

Most importantly, you need a spiritual guide, that is, a spiritual father. I am Orthodox so I would recommend an Orthodox guide, although some people will tell you that it is all the same. In my experience, having been on both sides, there are many differences in the life of prayer and relationship with God. Let that be your decision.

And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’

[dearweirdme]

https://www.tumblr.com/dearweirdme/737881632367869952/for-the-mole-anon-tae-also-pointed-out-jks-moles

Thank you and to DWM for giving me the vid 🤗 I gotta admit, even after getting that first video and watching it again, I was still on my train of denial and went looking to see if anyone had a counter for it or a platonic explanation and the reason for that is, we'll im a stubborn bish 😭 and I really don't want to be a delulu shipper but while I was looking for a non gay explanation for the coded mole shit, I watched some other videos and managed to stumble my ass across the hand signals shit 🙃 and THEN I found my way to that timeline that @dearweirdme mentioned in your response and yeah, just bury me now and roast my ass if you want because I am SIDE eyeing Vkook harrrd right now. Side eyeing them from multiple directions at this point. Seeing all of it together in one timeline was a trip.

Maybe I'm just delulu, i don't know but secret hand signals is really just pushing the boundaries of platonicness of a situation to me and charting each others freckles and moles is like classic romantic love shit. I don't know a single friend of mine I can tell you where their damn moles are place. Hell i couldn't tell you were my siblings moles and shit are of the top of my head like that but I remember doing that shit with boyfriends for the first time.

I mean I'm still not gonna a read fanfic or fight bitches on twitter over them but I do think ya'll might be onto something and I'll be looking at them a whole new way from now.

Hi anon!

😂 well, we’re not making stuff up anon. It’s all things Tea and Jk themselves do. It’s just often a matter of interpretation, and I think (if you do venture further into this) you’ll be finding a lot of stuff does get exaggerated and overanalyzed, but still.. there is a lot that does actually point to there being more between Jk and Tae.

[annotated-catastrophe]

from the soft asks, favorite piece of clothing?

Hm. It's a really baggy dark green t-shirt! It's really comfortable and warm. I wear it as bedclothes.

[twinliches]

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

[ssalballoon]

rot and ruin

this was heavily inspired by thatkorka's lovely fic! please check it out, it's such a good take on Gale's arc :')

[artilite]

chúc mừng năm mới !!! happy new year !!!

[swoncest]

pretty sure its the moth from silence of the lambs!!

I was going to draw some swoncest shitpost, but. HOW DID YOU DRAW THAT BUTTERFLY ON HIS SHIRT? It's from a band? Where it is from💀

[anbaisai]

What's this? Jamil doesn't want to play the Pocky game with you? (and clearly denying his feelings...) That's alright! Jamil tsum is here to play with you, carrying a box of Pocky on his back ♡

... Oh! Looks like Jamil is willing to play now, competing with his tsum for your attention ♡ (and forgetting in his jealousy that tsums... don't have mouths...)

Happy Pocky Day ♡♡♡

Jamil: Please excuse me. I thought I saw a... rather large insect causing you trouble. Mayu: (Ehh... I don't think you'd be grabbing it like that if you really did...💦) Jamil tsum: 💢

(Reference to this previous post!)

Most jealous man alive won't play the game with her but also won't let anyone else play the game with her, what are you supposed to even do, sigh...

[edorazzi]

Page 46 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which the last four years of Felix's life come to a single realisation... 💓🌹

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[savebylou]

Zayn is gonna make me cry man😭

https://x.com/ZJMCRAVE/status/1860686333775151484?t=tcXfSqh3k5LywOmkiATNKQ&s=19

Hi anon, gosh is heartbreaking.

x x

What I would give to go back in time, I keep saying this but they deserved to grow old together, is devastating this reality. Thank you for letting me know anon.

I hope you have a lovely day/afternoon/night. Sending you a big hug.

[deliasmoothie]

Can I give twisted sun and moon a kiss? :3 or a hug? either or is fine!

bold of you to think they'd just give u a hug

also get this very lazy aftermath HJUYHJUYASHJUYDHSUY moon is reading a book lol

[sanguchito-farm]

Save me Sam_Winter.png

[chalkrub]

putting my response to the palette challenge from oc-tober on da main blog because it accidentally became a full illustration. whoops. but this palette is like a brother to me and it fit mendel so well...what was i to do

[actuallyitsstar]

NINE PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER

OMG TYSM FOR TAGGING ME @liass-21 !!!!! i am so sorry i drafted this tag and i thought i queue'd it and i didnt so 😭😭😭 its only like a month late. its fine everythings fine. aaaaaa 😭

LAST SONG? - "photograph" by the midnight! it is on my writing-for-top-gun playlist bc it has huge maverick vibes lol.

FAVORITE COLOR? - pink!!!! also lighter purples and blues and most pastel shades <3 and black

CURRENTLY WATCHING? - a streamer i have never watched before playing the remaster of of tomb raider i-iii bc i am excited about the remaster!! and those games are my childhood <3 not to be a million years old or anything sakfhfjfhg

LAST MOVIE? - unfortunately it was 'oz the great and powerful' 😭 if any of y'all enjoyed that movie i respect it, but i had to see it on tv at a friend's house and we were having a great time laughing at the very unexpected writing and acting choices being made lol

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? - aaaaaaaa i guess savory ?????? but sweet has a special place in my heart ajdhfjfhfjg

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? - committed long term relationship to ~my person~ <3<3

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? - well this is gonna be obvious but top gun primarily !!!! additionally, dan and phil !! mission impossible !!! fall out boy!! and even if the current obsession level is not as high as other things, i am always at least partially obsessed with a hundred other things and people that i am probably posting about at the same time lol

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? - “oz the great and powerful reviews” bc i wanted to make sure that im not crazy and that other ppl also felt that movie was an insane fever dream (apparently due to the 44% on metacritic i guess they did lol)😭

tagging: aaaaaa @brambleberrycottage @daffodilstark @tellhound @torchflies @melancholydandelion @goosefilms @driftershunt @downthegenderriver @callsignstingray

[abyssaldyke]

Control freaks of the world unite no not like that no just give it to me you're doing it wr

[milesgmorales]

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE + Art of the Movie excerpts ↳ for @tulipfarm ♡ happy (belated) birthday char!!