#thoughts before going back home

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[a-simple-journey]

Goals

Recently, I was reflecting on how much I have improved regarding my confidence about expressing myself and my beliefs. Given that I want to be a university professor and work in the public sphere, I realized that I still have to go a step further.

Continuing with my education (master's degree and soon-to-begin course) is a first step, but if I'm not brave enought to SHARE those ideas, with clarity, charity and confidence, then what's the point, right?

May I not get it right at the beginning? Maybe. But, as I recently read on a wonderful IG post, in order for God to help you find your vocation, you must also act. I have to start speaking, even if I don't feel 100% ready. Because, let's be honest, I'm SO perfectionist that I probably will never feel ready (even if I kinda am) 😂 #impostersyndrome

So here are some things I want to do in the following months (after going back home):

Writing articles for the media I want to colaborate with.

Sharing each and one of those articles on my SNS (IG, X, Facebook AND Linkedin).

Prticipating in a podcast or live — I want to be comfortable speaking in public, but also outside a classroom, in a more public space. Think of Lila Rose or Louise Perry.

Start talking about topics which are normally more controversial (not for the sake of it, but because they actually matter to me). I want to learn to feel okay if people don't agree, because it's part of life and human freedom. Engage with polite disagreement. If people are rude or aggressive, I shouldn't pay attention to them.

Share my faith more openly. It happened before that I judged people who appeared more 'pious' than me, because I thought they were judging me (see the contradiction?) So, I'm afraid people will do the same to me 😅 but that shouldn't be an excuse not to share the best thing of my life (God and His love) with everyone, so they can experience it too 🤍

Basically: if I want to continue this vocation journey (which is nothing more than trying to do God's will), I have to step up and ACT. Be courageous. Not perfect. Perfect doesn't exist. And it's time I get rid of that idea which has always been in my head 🙈

PEACE OUT 🫡

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

[gemharvest]

projecting my ADHD experiences onto this idiot part 1 of a potential one million

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

happy mother's day lmfao

bonus (the girls are fightiiing):

[bizarrelovesquare]

Avatar: The Last Airbender

s3 ep 09, Nightmares and Daydreams

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Something interesting I've noticed about conversion stories is many people seem to have both a rebellious streak and a deep-seated, insatiable desire to learn everything.

One of my shul's well-respected members (who runs the hebrew/judaism class that will start soon) talked about how, when he lived in my town, he would sneak out of the house just to go to shul. That's what I'm doing now, and it's funny (I'm not sneaking out per se, but I am also not telling anybody I'm going to shul). There's an aspect of free-spiritedness that I notice in many converts, and it's fascinating to hear each of their stories. And you know the funniest part? They sound like my story.

[book-lover85]

Stay at home dad and artist on commission Keefe

[spaciebabie]

this picture isnt real its all happening in twilights head and she's listening ta this as she's having her bi horse fantasies

un blurred below the cut as well as the lineart with flats cuz i want ta show it off sue me

edit: ignore that the images changed slightly i noticed a shading error i missed and it was bothering me 💀

[michyeosseo]

I am determined to take Shen Li home.

[panharmonium]

funniest and most heartwarming thing i rediscovered on my rewatch is when karin roasts sakura about poisoning naruto and then kakashi, who loves all of his kids very much and understands their behavior and isn’t upset with them about their choices but has also been under ABSURD amounts of stress for all of season 10, just bursts out laughing ❤️

[backpackingspace]

Do we think odysseus's thoughts are almost stuck in quick thought from how often Athena popped up into his head? Because I absolutely do

[stealingyourbones]

Submitted Prompts #106

So everyone knows about Bruce Wayne's spontaneous adoption tendencies, right? So when the media catches sight of a white haired kid hanging out with the Wayne's at a restaurant (Bat Burger perhaps?) everyone assumes that this must be the latest Wayne adoptee. Sure, no one could get a clear picture of him, and some reporters claimed he was a bit glowy, but Bruce Wayne's children have always been a bit strange.

However, things get interesting when a white haired meta is spotted out and about at night, even more so when Batman of all people takes the meta under his wing.

Basically, this random child is spotted with the two biggest chronic adopters in Gotham and everyone automatically assumes that a custody battle is going on.

In this Danny is either stuck in Phantom form or his white hair starts to show up in his human form (side effects of vivisection?) or honestly any reason it just has to be obvious that its the same kid.

Danny's in Gotham for reasons (dimension travel, reveal gone wrong, whatever) and he's been living on the streets and laying low (with some light vigilantes to satiate his obsession) until he saves the Wayne kids from something and they offer to buy him food for helping them (but really its bc they see a kid fighting crime and clearly isn't getting enough food and are like we need to keep him)

I think it'd be funny if Danny ran away from them when he found out that they were Wayne kids (Billionaires with adoptive instincts? MAJOR RED FLAG) and then somehow ends up working with Batman. Meanwhile, the media is badgering Bruce about how he feels about Batman stealing away a potential son.

[skeletoninthemelonland]

never lay down in bed right after eating. don't think about staying on your phone for nearly two hours in that position. don't sleep either. acid reflux is real and i hate that guy

[megamindsupremacy]

love the idea that stan, pre-realisation, would just put any “my brother-“ thoughts that popped up into the ‘shermie’ category into his head

my brother… the genius … always won the spelling bee… we were so close… i learnt to fight because i was uh. protecting my…. (much??) older brother? damn was he a wimp or something

stan, calling shermie up post everything: do you happen to remember like. a flying dinosaur from our childhood or is this another ‘wrong brother’ situation

shermie, who was very much not there: what.

aksdjfhsd yeah!! also I imagine there being a ton of angst potential because Stan remembers ("remembers" my ass, he doesn't remember shit) himself and Shermie as being fairly close as kids, because everything involving "my brother" is conflated with Shermie, until the Mystery Incident got him kicked out. But Shermie wasn't super close with either of his brothers because of the age difference, and also because I hc him as not being home very often and getting the hell outta dodge as soon as he was old enough. So poor Stan has an imagined closer brotherly dynamic with Shermie, who isn't maintaining this dynamic into adulthood because to him Stan is his younger brother who dropped off the face of the earth (sad) at age 17, popped up a few times in newspapers to get arrested and/or scam people, and then dropped off the face of the earth again at 27.

[posallys]

they uhh have an awful lot of redeeming-the-gods to do (poseidon & athena specifically) in the next 4 episodes if they want people to actually believe percy doesn't side with luke at the end of the season...like you can't dial percy's anger up to a fucking 17 and then make it make sense when he doesn't go with luke if you don't make the gods (poseidon) more likable. the neraid scene in ep 4 did a bit of poseidon redeeming but the convo percy and poseidon have in ep 7/8 better be fucking INTENSE and have a lot of poseidon blabbering on abt sally and percy if they want percy's choice to be believable