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“But what to say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. “ - Romans 10:8-10 ESV
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HATE this "Christian" take "It doesn't matter what we do to the earth, it's here to use up because the apocalypse is nigh". HELLO? Jesus is COMING BACK, and what do you think he's going to do when he finds you DESTROYING HIS STUFF?
We need to talk about "Dominion" for a second too. Like you know this means divinely appointed rulership. Yes: Humankind are the divinely appointed rulers of creation.
But what does this MEAN? Given what we know about the character of biblical leadership do you really think this means God appointed man to subjugate the earth into whatever it is we like in our own image and destroy whatever we don't like and make sure whatever is there exists to serve us and nothing that doesn't? To be maximally extractive?
No way, we are there to make sure the creation is flourishing in accordance with God's design!
I even heard preachers who had the nerve to say animals were created for man's enjoyment. No?? They were created to give glory to God, of course, like everything in the universe.
We have a unique responsibility to them as their rulers, not some kind of mandate to take whatever we can.
god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies
Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year
Yesterday my nemesis (woman I’ve never met and whose face I’ve never seen) sent my office an email so rude, basically saying we had fucked up every project she ever ordered from us, one of the worst emails I’ve ever read in my life.
And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.
This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.
I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.
After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.
It was the most satisfying workday I’ve had since I got hired.
Flavours of unreliable narrator:
Lying to the reader
Lying to themselves
Simply misinformed
Not paying attention
Has weird priorities
Assumed you knew
Hates you personally
Bad at communicating
Easily sidetracked
Will believe anything
Has weird prejudices
Just kind of dumb
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i'm not aro but i find it so annoying whenever i see a well-written, tight-knit friendship & people immediately jump to "they're dating/poly/qpr" like NO. they are FRIENDS. are we familiar with that concept? and it's getting to the point where i am genuinely afraid to write complex friendships because i don't want people to be like "oh this relationship is Too Meaningful to just be platonic" like no??? it's meaningful because it's platonic. ugh
Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.
And you’re gonna just leave us there
I mean, if you guys wanna hear the story, it is a pretty fun one
Okay, so this is what happened,
Some years ago (6? 7 years ago, I think?) there was a pirate exhibit at the state museum. We had actual artifacts from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, creepy wax dummies, historical costumes etc, it was awesome.
I was really into Pirates of the Caribbean at the time, because I played the mmorpg with some high school friends of mine (and some of their parents sometimes, who also got addicted to it), so of course when they announced “Pirate Night at the Museum”, in which visitors were encouraged to dress up, I was over the moon. So I’m there with my friends, my parents, and my sisters, running around the exhibits after the museum is technically closed.
They replaced the creepy wax dummies with people in costume at this point, and it was pretty epic.
The highlight of the night would be a showing of The Princess Bride. The movie would play on the big screen while actors would be on a stage below, acting the whole thing out word for word and shot for shot as it happened. Any audience members who knew lines were encouraged to shout them out as they heard them.
Here’s the thing. My parents love that movie. Like you don’t understand they were quoting it to us in its entirety when we were still in highchairs. I could reenact the battle of wits scene before I ever actually watched it. So my family sits in the front row, behind the railing, quoting everything right along with the actors and film.
And then comes the part in the Pit of Despair with the Albino. And the cast didn’t have anyone on the stage with Wesley. I don’t know if the Albino couldn’t make it that night, or if they’d never cast him, but it was really weird to see Wesley just lying on the stage awkwardly while the Albino is supposed to be treating his injuries.
I started twitching. My mom and sister look at me and they’re like “do it.” And one of the ushers is like “you know the part? do it”
So I launch over the railing, run up onto the stage, and take over from there, doing my best impression of the character. Being that I was a 5′2″ blonde girl in a corset and puffy sleeves, Wesley had some trouble keeping a straight face.
Then they got to the scene with Humperdink telling the guard to clear out the Thieves’ Forest, and…they didn’t have the guard either. So my twin sister up in the audience is like “hang on, I got this” and then she launches over the railing to make sure Humperdink isn’t just sitting awkwardly talking to thin air.
This meant that yes, I got bopped on the noggin by Fezzik, and yes, my sister got to do the “Give us the key.” “What key?” “Fezzik, tear his arms off.” “Oh, you mean this key!”
They made up stay on stage and take a bow with the cast when it was over, it was hilarious. Then the next year, since they still had the exhibit, the museum called my sister and was like, “So….that was super fun last year. Do you and your sister want to be audience plants and do it again this year?”
The answer, naturally, was heck yes. Since we had new volunteers playing Count Rugen and Inigo this time, this also led to my sister actually choreographing their fight scene herself. Which was awesome.
My favorite part is that this is entirely in tone for Princess Bride.
Here's another thing I think about a lot, especially in regards to redemption arcs: When God made us good, I believe He did so in a wide variety of ways. He is a very creative creator. And while Original Sin has been largely unoriginal ever since (as we fall into a dreadful yet short and predictable list of vices), the virtues of the redeemed and renewed are many. “How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints" as Lewis (you will suffer him) said! Sin is reductive. Christ died to give us life more abundant. So, I tend to look at redemption arcs as opportunities for characters to become more, not less, themselves. Weed out sin, and they will grow, and that growth will flower into positive change. But their unique, God-given traits will remain—healthily instead of unhealthily expressed. For example, Lizzy Bennet, observant and witty to a fault (jumping to conclusions and judgments) doesn't grow by tossing her powers of perception to the wayside. Rather she extends them to the point of self-examination, self-awareness, and the humility thereof, so that by factoring her own limitations into her calculations, she gets better at coming to the right conclusions. That's why we love and relate to her, cheer for her and cringe along with her as she realizes her mistakes. That's the stuff of character progression.
there's no chill way to be like, "yeah, I think generative AI is a crime against God and man."
I don't care if you need to have a song to relate to sermon and the attribute of God (His Holiness---!) But then have songs that are by folks who have perverted the Gospel and have brought reproach to Christ.
Yes, this is about Bethel and I'll forever be mad about.
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A while ago I made a post asking for advice as a Christian fic writer, and I wanted to give back some of the few things I’ve learned now that I’ve finished something myself:
Fic writing is an act of listening and thus of love. You get to call attention to small details, go looking for the underlying philosophy of the thing the way people do when they write essays; and then, like essay-writers, you get to elaborate and question and resist and make connections to the world outside the story you’re starting from.
What is prev to you?
the smell of woodsmoke in the dark
sunlight glittering on drifts of snow
opening chords to a classic song after an ad break on the radio
daisies in a mason jar
the curve in the road you always take a bit too fast
blank notebook with a leather cover
a stone church with carvings and spires and stained-glass
a cool pillow and a warm blanket at midnight
playlist that makes sense to no one else
yellow leaf floating down a clear cold river
silver fog over green hills and warm hands in raincoat pockets
a strain of violin music floating through a crowded subway
Brainstorming session to figure out what we're gonna do because the king likes Daniel more than me and you
(we gotta get him out of here)
We could throw him in the dungeon. We could let him rot in jail.
We could drag him to the ocean—have him eaten by a whale.
3. We could throw him in the Tigris, let him float a while, then we'll all sit back and watch him meet a hungry crocodile
4. We could put him on a camel's back and send him off to Ur with a cowboy hat without a brim, a boot without a spur
5. We could give him jelly doughnuts, take em all away
6 We could fill his ears with cheese balls and his nostrils with sorbet
7. We could use him as a footstool
Or a table to play Scrabble on
And tie him up and beat him up and throw him out of Babylon.
*Whisper whisper whisper*
I like it!
It’s sneaky!
And it just...
Might!
Work!
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
It its once again time for READ SI LAND IT HAS THE COOLEST FURRY DESIGNS OUT THERE Every time theres a new character I spend 10 minutes admiring their design and then have to reread the chapter to actually process whats going on in the (very good) story. Capcom im telling you get Sumiyoshi back and let them design the entire cast for a new Breath of Fire and I would spend way too much money on that
Keep forgetting to add read Si Land here: https://kmanga.kodansha.com/title/10652/episode/360652 coolest manga out there hell yeah
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"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!
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“Just as people's motives vary as to why they choose to transition and to what degree they alter their bodies, those who detransition do so for a variety of reasons. It is often said that the majority do so because of persecution and the lack of support. However, surveys of detransitioners show that "[the three most commonly cited reasons for detransition among trans activists-financial concerns, lack of social support, and institutional discrimination were among the lowest, at 18%, 17%, and 7%—in fact, institutional discrimination was the lowest scoring category."(16)
On the other hand, one of the most common themes expressed by detransitioners is that the process never resolved their deeper issues. One woman explained:
"Being trans" on Tumblr was a fun distraction from the misery of my daily life. I still had next to no friends at my new school, I still had a bad relationship with my parents, I still hated my fat, but at least I could enter this alternate universe where I was a cool guy with lots of followers. It started being a lot less fun when I began pursuing transition in real life.(17)
Others shared similar sentiments:
It's become really clear in recent years that any sort of big problems that I thought I would fix by transitioning weren't really fixed.(18)
It was a waste of my money. It was a waste of my time. It was more time that I didn't do what I needed, which was [to] address my dissociative symptoms.(19)
Some realized after transitioning that their original motives were misguided attempts to grapple with their sexuality. One remarked, "My dysphoria was hatred of my body due to internalized misogyny.(20) In Newcastle, England, hundreds of young women have come forward, seeking help to detransition. What most of the women have in common is that they are either autistic or identify as lesbian.(21) Through a painful process of self-experimentation, they realized that they did not cease to be female just because they didn't fit the feminine mold. On the contrary, by attempting to pass as male, they were conforming to male stereotypes and reinforcing them.(22)
Meanwhile, others choose to detransition because they are dissatisfied with the results. One woman admitted, "Identifying as a male really made my dysphoria worse.”(23) Another remarked that she knew if she continued trying to be a man, "I was going to give myself gender dysphoria eventually ... which is really ironic."(24) Even after receiving chemical and surgical alterations to their bodies, many gaze into their mirrors each day with sorrow at a body that still disagrees with them.”
-Jason Evert, Male, Female, or Other: A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender
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Work cited:
16) Cari Stella, "Female Detransition and Reidentification: Survey Results and Interpretation" Post), Tumblr, September 3, 2016,, https://guideonragingstars.tumblr.com/post/149877706175/female-detransition-and- reidentification-survey; Cf. Elie Vandenbussche, "Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey," Journal of Homosexuality 69/9 (2022), 1602-1620; Lisa Littman, "Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners," Archives of Sexual Behavior 50:8 (2021), 3353-3369.
17) Soh, The End of Gender, 184.
18) "Growing Up Trans (full documentary)." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuS-48tSpE&t=5s&ab_channel=FRONTLINEPBS%7COfficial
19) "Reversing a Gender Transition," https://youtu.be/V6V0p3_bd6w?si=pw2P7Ok_QEQFdDn2
20) "Detransition TikToks compilation-June & July 2021," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG5rOpNc8t0&ab_channel=CatCattinson
21) Cf. S. Lockwood, "Hundreds" of Young Trans People Seeking Help to Return to Original Sex," Sky News, October 5, 2019.
22) "Detransition TikToks compilation-June & July 2021.". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG5rOpNc8t0&ab_channel=CatCattinson
23) "Coercion & Abuse in the Gender ID Community | with ⚢ GNC-Centric ⚢" https://youtu.be/QAMar22S0ck?si=K2DQhSejkvUiQ06T
24) "DETRANSITION: How My Voice Has Changed," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvqwOm3dD0&ab_channel=Kshipa
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For more recommended resources on gender dysphoria, click here.
