I didn't intend this to be a Christian blog. A long time ago, it was meant to be a fandom blog with long and delicious meta posts about Star Wars, Merlin and . . . other fandoms, which I won't mention here.
That didn't happen. The fellowship-seeking life in me sought out lots of lots of other Christian blogs, curated my dash so that's all I would see, and.
I hardly even see Star Wars anymore!
(I mean I like Star Wars for its Christian overtones. Of course).
Now, in a way, I still don't mean for this to be 'a Christian blog'. I don't want to sit on my high horse here dispensing Infallible Advice to you all, or pretend that I'm Perfect, or anything like that, because such a thing would be a lie, and I would be exposed for the fraud I was sooner or later, if only in my own heart and in my own conscience.
(How God has mercy on me, to convict me of sins in my own conscience! If He didn't, I'd go on sinning, and I don't want to do that).
See, I want this to be a Jesusly human blog. I will be my imperfect and human self, and trust the indwelling Christ to be imperfectly expressed down here. I don't want to be a Christian Blog in a tryhard way, because in the end that would be fundamentally dishonest, and no lie can glorify God.
The Gospel
For just as in Adam all die, in Christ all shall be made alive.
The wages of sin is death.
Sin is an illness. It is a terminal illness that kills us inch by inch. That death is the righteousness of God. It's His condemnation and also His way of salvation, because sin cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. It has to run its course out the end, and we humans can't even palliate it. Oh, sure, we can try to be good, but that doesn't last. It's like trying to treat terminal Stage 4 cancer with vegetables. Sure, it might buy a few weeks and get you more comfortable, but you'll still die.
Enter Jesus. He entered into sinful humanity, and took death to its end. He let it run its natural course and He died as a man. So now that sin is judged and death is therefore dead, what was there to do for Him but to resurrect?
If we follow Him to His death, and are baptized - a prefigure and symbol of our being put into Christ's death - we shall be with Him in the likeness of His resurrection. We are born of Him and grow up into our Father's image as sons. One day this sonship will come to fullness; our bodies will be redeemed, we will all be changed in a twinkling of an eye (likely that twinkling is when God looks at us, or when we behold Him), and we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.
Behold the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and shall be their God.
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Being against the sexual degradation of women in terms of pornography/prostitution and just everyday life, used to be a very normal and valid opinion in feminism 30-40+ years ago.
But in the present day merely complaining about the hyper-sexualization of women, will get you called an ‘internalized misogynist’ ‘prude’ ‘frigid’ ‘anti-feminist’ ‘facist’ and the upsetting thing about it, is that it’s women saying it to each other.
This post is very confused since the earliest configurations of feminism explicitly wanted women to be able to sexualize themselves and break free from the ‘oppressive’ structure of modest dress
you can disagree with it all you want, and you should, but the interlocutors mentioned in the second half are more consistent and the True Heirs to the feminist movement
Catholicapothecary, I admire and respect you (and I'm not just saying that to butter you up), but while modern feminism arguably was all about jettisoning 'those oppressive rules' (which makes it more of a 20th-century phenomenon than a purely female one), the earliest configurations of feminism, to be pedantic, were all those late-18-to-early-19th century movements about women as rational creatures and moral equals with the rest of mankind. Early feminists like, say, the Bronte sisters, were appalled no end about things like adultery and women who spent too much time adorning themselves.
how do you figure out color schemes? it takes me so much time to just play around with things that MAY work, but your art is always so seamless and has really beautiful combos
Colors are such a weird topic in art because it's either as complicated as astrophysics or it's ✨vibes✨
But usually what I do is pick a color I want to stand out, make everything else around less saturated or far away from it in the color wheel or not as dark. Or all of the above fjfbf
Example 1, Aayla's blue is the only blue in this drawing. The only color that's close in "temperature" is Quinlan's green robe which is placed on the other side of the composition to bring some balance to the drawing. But also this green is still rather "warm". So the blue stands out no matter what
In this one it's Ahsoka's orange skin. Everything else is cold. Except her head pice which is less saturated. And I added red accents to really make the orange more vibrant
This one is even more obvious. The orange is the only warm color. Even the yellow is yellow-green so it's cold. And the purple you see in the background is warm but it's also mixed in her orange.
As to why I combine the rest of the colors with each other it's less of a system and more of me being a psycho and having what I call fun dhdhdh
Which is usually trying to use as many weird combinations of colors as humanly possible
Don't know if this made any sense, feel free to ask more questions!
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You hail from a great empire, which sent you on a war of conquest promising riches and glory and land holdings. But when the war was over and the land conquered, the empire failed to deliver on their promises and now you're left alone in a lawless country with low population density, far from the capital with its system of rules, and the only people you will encounter in this vast wilderness are small enclaves. You have nothing with which to make your living except your horse and your weapons. Your three career choices are: agriculture, vigilante law enforcement according to a personal code of honor, or highway robbery. Are you in:
always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal
I HC that Sidious put him in upper management specifically to make that hate flow. He looked at Jedi Anakin and thought to himself: what does this guy like? Jumping out of moving vehicles at 30,000 feet? Well, we won’t be doing *gestures at all of Anakin* that. Put this guy in an office.
The truest thing I have ever known is how God does literally every possible thing to change our narratives from death to life, including coming to earth as a human (Jesus the Son) as the fulfillment of his promise to Abraham in the Hebrew Scriptures. Because he died for our wrongs and God the Father raised him from death, death has lost its power and Jesus now has all authority. (Jesus, not the people trying to misuse his name to get themselves authority instead.) We are loved without earning it and all that remains is to accept it. When we do so, we receive God's own self in the Holy Spirit, who gives us the power to share in God's life the way a branch shares the life of a tree.
The sure hope of God's total restoration of all things, including his eventual undoing of death for us (just as he undid it for his Son) is the hope that I hold onto and on which I want to base my life. By saying yes to him, we will share his life forever, together with all those who do the same.
“Can I use your arm to try out make up pigments in store?” “I mean, yeah, but not sure it’s going to actually help you figure out what suits you.”
“I thought you said he is your cousin.” “I honestly don’t even know how he is related. We might not be related by blood at all, but… Yeah, he’s my cousin.”
“Babe, I heard a noise in the basement.” “Yup, got it.”
whispering “I’m full.” “My mom is not going to let you leave without trying dessert, so suck it up.”
“You smell good. Did you steal my products?” “Steal them? I sampled, in great detail, every single one.” “I’m just glad you’re off the 5 in one.”
“Why did you kiss me so aggressively out of nowhere?” “The waiter thought we were siblings.” “Frankly, that raises more questions than it answers them.”
“So, what are we gonna do for dinner.” “… This is dinner.” “It’s 5.30.” “Yeah…?” “This is not dinner.”
". . . darling, this is a bit spicy for me." "Put some yoghurt in."
*sitting there politely, not understanding a word bc it's all Chinese* *explaining what's going on in English*
*opens the sermon in English* *translates it into Chinese*
"Wouldn't you prefer a fork?" "I know how to use chopsticks!"
" . . . for this rushed, slapdash dinner I am making eggs, tomato and rice." "For lunch I am making gorgeous fried rice with soy sauce, sping onions, peas, egg, sausage and bacon with a fried egg on top."
"I'm making a roast for dinner." "Oh, I'm looking forward to it, honey!"
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What BBCM needed was more corrupt knights who weren’t reliant on magic to indicate their cruelty. So not Valiant or Dagr (who was only pretending to be a knight), but nobles who are villains because of their classism, their anti-magic stance, their general lack of compassion that contradicts their own code. Camelot knights or fighters from other anti-magic kingdoms, like Amata, who have nothing to do with magic because they believe it is an inherent evil.
They’re not trying to assassinate Arthur or anything like that. They’re antagonistic villains because of how their unethical values hurt the people they’re sworn to protect. They’re villains because of the very qualities that Uther’s reign encourages in them, that Arthur’s reign continues but must end. Perhaps Arthur is able to ignore their flaws that are so blatant to those suffering the abuse, up until it affects him personally. And he realizes he was warned, he just minimized the issue because he doesn’t care about those with magic, or because it’s considered “normal” to treat servants as tools instead of people.
Let this be a lead into Arthur’s own character development, where he fully realizes the effects of the laws he’s upheld, how they don’t really benefit the people at all. Bring Arthur the understanding that the real enemy isn’t just anyone who undermines his authority, but is instead something he himself has perpetuated, something he will put an end to (especially since his romance with Gwen relies on it).
Make Arthur a great king instead of just calling him one. Or if he is not meant to show this growth until the very end, then don’t justify it and minimize its effects in the meantime. Emphasize Merlin, Gwen, Morgana, and other oppressed people’s stakes in the magic ban being overturned and the working class becoming equal, because this is just as important as any Arthur assassination plot, if not more so.
No more dependency on magical means for villains. The plots-of-the-week lose meaning when they forget that people don’t become evil because they’re “corrupted” by magic, but because of their own inability to value and respect other people as their equals, whether they have magic or just the weapons Arthur provides them. And yes, involving the conflict between Merlin and his magical kin is compelling! He has to choose between Arthur—who is conflated with the greater good of his people—and another individual victim of Uther’s Purge sometimes! And he will try to resolve this by some compromise that benefits both parties, or he’ll see no way to escape the ultimatum! But that story does not rely on the “someone is trying to assassinate Arthur… with magic!” formula that is found in nearly every episode.
Show us that the reason a character is a villain is not because they’re, by default, suspicious for lying about their associations with magic or for disapproving of Arthur’s laws, but because they are doing harm to the people we’re rooting for: the magical communities that Uther traumatized, the working class who have as much worth as any noble, or even the personal life of an individual that has nothing to do with the way Camelot is ruled (without neglecting to show how this intersects with their status). Show us the distinct ways in which the core four and the round table are impacted by this. Show us just how an attack on Arthur can be construed as an attack on the people Merlin is trying to protect.
Return the life and depth to the story. Expand on the world-building. Make the individuals throughout Camelot and Albion as significant as their kings are. Create villains that are consistent with the underlying themes. Remember what each character, including the villains and antagonists, is fighting for.
Yesterday, ICE announced its plans to reopen a detention facility that has been closed since 2010.
Please join me in praying for everyone involved with this and similar projects. This particular one is uncomfortably close to my area, and neither the city nor the newspapers have received any detailed communication about it. It looks sort of inevitable, but that is of course just what these tottering tyrannies want people to think.
And let us pray for all who are or have been or will be prisoners, to know Christ their fellow-prisoner and the one who bursts the prison doors.
The wicked man plots against the just
and gnashes his teeth against him;
but the Lord laughs at the wicked
for he sees that his day is at hand.
(Psalm 37)
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chat should I post the mini essay on why wildehopps is everything popular writers on booktok get wrong with their romances I just spent an hour writing or should I be normal for once
In the vein of teaching mindsets being re-oriented, one of mine was re-oriented today. I taught a lesson about calculating the amount of change you'd get in a shop - no fancy powerpoints, just a flipchart and a board; and no worksheets, just scrap paper and mini-whiteboards to work out the answers on. I didn't spend ages preparing. I did most of it on the fly and responded to the class needs in realtime.
The kids loved it. ("Miss, can we do more practical maths lessons please?"). They got it done, or most of them did.
Maybe a great lesson doesn't need to be fancy or mind-blowing. Maybe it can just be slow-paced and chill and they know more by the end than the beginning. Maybe they can just learn one simple thing and learn it properly instead of doing a load of complex things (although come to think of it, we did do a load of complex things in that lesson, they just seemed simpler than usual).
