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Thoughts on Lent?
god said he was going out to the desert for a few weeks and i'd hate for him to go alone

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"Reminiscent of the servant-lamb of Isaiah 53, who is 'led to the slaughter, and like a sheep to the shearer is silent,' the Lamb of Revelation became the victor not by militaristic power and slaughter but rather by being slaughtered. From beginning to end, Revelation's vision of the Lamb teaches a 'theology of the cross,' of God's power made manifest in weakness, similar to Paul's theology of the cross in First Corinthians. Lamb theology is the whole message of Revelation. Evil is defeated not by overwhelming force or violence but by the Lamb's suffering love on the cross. The victim becomes the victor.
Lamb theology is what the true victory or true nike is. For we, too, are 'victors' or followers of the Lamb on whom the term nike or conquering is bestowed. This is one of the amazing features of the book. Much of Revelation can sound so violent, but we have to look at the subversive heart of the book—the redefinition of victory and 'conquering'—to understand how Revelation subverts violence itself. Just like the Lamb, God's people are called to conquer not by fighting but by remaining faithful, by testifying to God's victory in self-giving love. This subversive power of Lamb theology throughout the book of Revelation is what Left Behind and the dispensationalists completely miss."
—Barbara R. Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (2004), pg. 111
never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long
And now it must be said, as many numerous things often must be, in great volume and variance breaching topics that are near enough to innumerable and certainly beyond the measure of counting, that just as anyone lucky enough to find themselves in posession of thoughts miraculously appearing in their waking mind fully-formed upon conception, both clear and concise, blessed as they are with a mastery of their language sufficient to express oneself with brevity, it is so that with equal frequency I find that I am cursed with a wholly opposing nature: to take that which is brief and succinct, simple and straightforward, and somehow find it within myself instinctive to stretch those very same thoughts and words so remarkably thin across the page that the length of any given sentence may very well rival that of a modest novel, taking any poor and pitiable reader several deep breaths to recite out loud- or, perhaps in the case of one equally blessed to be of great, strong lungs and a determined air- merely the rather long and arduous effort of enduring it.
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Getting a sign that says "LOOK OUT FOR SILENT DOG - guard dog on premises is an ambush predator. If you can read this, they already know you are here" and putting it on the entrance of my home. We don't have a dog.

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at this point I don’t even tell people that the two wolves joke is anti-indigenous anymore because so many people have proven that even when they know they don’t care and I’d rather be able to tell myself people are doing it out of ignorance than grapple with the fact that anti-native racism just isn’t that important to people
Has anyone else noticed how at the end Andy tells Nile "when you ditch the car, ditch the weapons" EXCEPT her battleaxe was in the car? Was Andy planning on coning back for the car or, 100% sadder and more likely, was she planning on dying and not being able to rescue the rest of the team? 🥺
#The Old Guard#oh she 1000% expected to die rescuing Joe and Nicky#she was already Done™️ and this was just the Almost Certainly Doomed Mission to cap things off#which makes Nile bringing the labrys with her that much more striking and meaningful#not just so they could have a plot-convenient symbol of eventual transfer of leadership#but that was also Nile carrying Andy’s metaphorical mantle back to her#that axe was Andy’s responsibility to the world okay#god there was so. much. packed into the moment Nile gets out of the busted car and gives Andy the axe (via @hauntedfalcon)
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Do you think, considering how many chemicals Wylan has been exposed to throughout his entire life (tonics as a kid, the tannery, and then building bombs for Kaz), that maybe all his exposure slowly started messing with not only his lungs, but also his brain? Maybe as he gets older the effect of the chemicals really start to get to him, his memory gets worse, he can focus like he used to, can't communicate the way he could before? Do you think maybe it eventually leads to him developing dementia years earlier than he should have? Maybe he slowly starts to forget things that happened, especially from the times he was around chemicals the most. His first memory with Jesper, the work he did with Kaz, the Ice Court, his friends, finding his mum, falling in love?
In honour of Anthony Head, I'm uploading my favourite Merlin blooper.

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Rereading all systems red and the first 2 chapters are strong contenders for funniest intro to a book series. Jumping straight to action, and mb is giving us absolutely no info about anything. Who are those people? Some weird hippies it's not important. Why are they here? Mb does not give a shit. What is this planet? Fuck if it knows. Here is a small paragraph that fucking states everyone's relationship status like a wiki article that we are never gonna get back to. Ugh there are hostiles that keep us away from our media #our media.
#murderbot didn't read the info packet to know that one of the hippies is President of a planet#there is zero chance it knows their first names
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the eva stratt in my mind is a conglomeration of movie stratt and book stratt because god fucking bless sandra huller put her entire pussy into that performance, but while weir is bad at character writing (women especially) he IS disconcertingly good at coming up with plots that generate interesting character concepts through circumstances... which due to story cuts the movie sadly missed out on.
it's really interesting looking back at both iterations of the story and how stratt and grace's rapport hinges on unrequitedness. there's obviously the karaoke scene in the movie acting as grace's bid for human connection vs stratt's necessary refusal in order to do her job. the book rarely if ever interrogates stratt's interpersonal relationships in the project and how her sense of duty and utilitarianism extends to them (well, aside from grace. more on that in a sec). She's a History major and an administrator and She Loves Humanity, but it's a characteristic that when analyzed deeper rings pretty hollow (possibly because the author thinks social analysis/critique in science fiction is stupid and thus doesn't exactly have much to say about People like someone in the humanities would. SAD!) so that's an addition to her character from the movie that i'm deeply pleased about. what i don't like as much is that the bid for connection starts from grace.
because book stratt and grace? the one sidedness of their rapport is the driving emotional conflict of the entire pre-launch plotline—and of grace's character development throughout the whole book.
like most scientists on the team, grace was brought onto the project by force, but he's the only one who fulfilled his purpose, was allowed to return to his own life, and then came back of his own volition, out of a sense of personal duty and responsibility. which is the reason stratt takes him back on! and why she begins to rely on him more and more, as an administrator, as a mediator, as a scientist, as an advisor. she has all the more reason to do that when she discovers he's coma resistant, but she was already doing all that baby!
grace spends the rest of their relationship half-assing that sense of responsibility. one thing i adore about book phm is how merciless it is with grace's "modesty" "insecurity" and "social anxiety". children are easy to dote on. they're not stupid, obviously, but on an interpersonal level they're not your equal, they have no way to actually demand accountability from you and call your ass out. he doesn't actually think he's a failure, he's not blind he should know damn well he's not like the other scientists. "science lapdog", "ooo i'm just a little guy cmonnnn i'm just a middle school teacher", he downplays his own importance because if he genuinely grappled with the level of responsibility she holds him to towards the people in the project he'd run like a fucking dog.
he is a good man AND he is a coward. stratt's relationship with him verges on the tension between those coexisting truths. he is both someone she wants to respect but can't, someone she can rely on but has to act behind his back least he realizes. she WANTS them to be equals, she WANTS him to understand. on the day the hail mary is scheduled for launch she paces HIS prison cell like SHE'S the caged animal, trying to get through to the glimpse of the man she saw that day, the one who barged into an FBI guarded facility, looked atlas in the eye and told her scoot over, i'm carrying this with you. she cares about him. she wouldn't feel so betrayed if she didn't. please understand why i'm doing this to you. please understand why i need you to be that fundamentally good man. i am tied to the tracks right next to you. and as far as she is concerned, ryland grace dies on earth saying "no".
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Thinking about what the meaning of "You believe in God?" "It's better than the alternative" becomes when specifically Eva Stratt says it. Better than the alternative, which is that there is no power in all of this that is higher than me

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truly dads with new born babies v dads with children are two completely different people this man used to strap this child to his chest with a double chest wrap because he was terrified of giving her shaken baby syndrome and now he just kinda hucks her , I'll be sitting on the bed and all of a sudden my child just comes soaring towards me
Husband when child was newborn: you are my beautiful soft amazing little creature and I will be so gentle and lightly clean you softly and sing you sweet songs
Husband now that child is 4 years old: carries feral child upside down into the bathroom telling her she is a smelly little beast and she has to wash her butt while she sings him songs about spraying him with the shower head
Husband when child was newborn: "bath time and bed time is my special one on one time with my sweet baby angel where I tell her how special and soft and sweet she is and spend much needed time relaxing and getting her to relax and snuggling"
Husband now that child is 4 and "sturdy" (his words not mine): "bath time is my special time for hand to hand combat with my warrior princess where I teach her how to throw a punch and try to exhaust her enough that she passes out until tomorrow, and if that doesn't work I just start making deals like she's a mob boss and I am a desperate flunkie"
Husband when child was newborn: here is your hypoallergenic formula heated to the exact temperature that you need to have the thickening agent activate in a ulta double sterilized bottle my miracle NICU baby, it takes 25 -35 minutes to make but it is what we must do to keep you safe and healthy.
Husband now that child is 4: "I had to make her a breakfast snack of two eggs and toast before we go out to brunch because she was gnawing on the bars of her enclosure and I am frankly terrified of the small piranha she becomes when hangry."
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