My country is here but I'm lonely for Home

A travel-weary daughter of the Lion. Often a lot of Star Wars content here, but be warned, this blog can get quite random. Occasionally post original art and writing. Heavily influenced by Rich Mullins and C. S. Lewis.

[leahberman]

chasing sunset; alabama hills, california

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[ivytea]

false lanternberry

[bloomingsalma]

our home should have colours and flowers. daisy sims hilditch / christine atkins / stephen darbishire / marie-louise roosevelt pierrepont

[mayhaps-a-blog]

Rewatching A New Hope and guys. Guys.

We have all fallen for Han's propaganda.

Look, Han might think he's a suave, smooth-talking pilot-slash-smuggler who can outsmart a whole ship of Imperials, and that Luke's a naive little farmboy who's never seen hyperspace before, but honestly?

The whole time on the Death Star, it was Luke calling the shots. Luke bluffed an officer into thinking he was a stormtrooper with a bad comm unit; Han started shooting as soon as the door was open. Luke spent about 2 seconds on the altruistic argument - "but they'll kill her!" - before figuring out Han's angle and swapping to the argument that would win. Luke pulled out a cell block number as soon as the guard asked; Han famously fumbled the first comm call.

We give Luke a bad rap for being an idealistic farm kid, but he's not stupid. He knows when he's being scammed, although he might be a bit loud about calling it out; he's ready for trouble and pretty on the ball with coming up with cover stories. He might expect the best of people - but you know what? It works! People want to live up to those expectations - so they do. Han comes back. His father turns from the Dark Side. People listen.

Han might think he's an idiot, but when you look at everything Han gets up to himself...

[idratherdreamofjune]

The five solae of the Reformation:

By grace alone; Through faith alone; In Christ alone; On the authority of Scripture alone; To the glory of God alone!

[pmamtraveller]

"Sunflowers" by artist Lisbet Schultz.

[fravery]

The Geranium Porch. Jeff Bourgeau

[elle-thereafter]

These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.

Characters must make choices.

Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.

Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.

If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.

Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.

[lmwrenwrites]

Clone trooper names be like

-Ryan

-Baseball

-Explosive

-Shotgun

-Bill

-Chernobyl

-Oats

-Hamster

-Hellfire

-Liam

-Corduroy

-Plutonium

[classicalcanvas]

Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

[peachyhoolagan]

I miss lothal

[lostflickr]

car full of apples in azerbaijan by david fielke

[hold-fast-to-hope]

#how many doctors are chasing this man

^@theamiableanachronism there is no way you're leaving that in the tags

[clawedandcute]

they took one of those math problems on the road

[wolfythewitch]

Constantly obsessed with the concept of a man forced to be a myth. What do you do when every step you take is embedded into the text. Every word you say prose to read. You're part of something bigger than yourself. The narrative tugs you along like water currents. There is no time to rest, to be human. You must be great, you must be legend

[japaneseaesthetics]

Artist: Kawase Hasui Title: Omiya in Rain (Ame no Omiya) Date: 1930 Medium: Color woodblock print; oban Credit Line: Gift of Oliver Statler

[thelegendofsqam]

So ridiculously upset right now. I’m in my car and get to the drive thru and get to the speaker. No greeting. I wait and wait and can hear someone like they forgot they’re wiring a mic. I tell her I’d like a cheeseburger and I might like a milkshake as well.

Know what she says to me?

“I can’t give you either.”

[margindoodles2407]

Well, I don't know. Did you make sure you were in the right place? I once pulled up to a Taco King thinking it was a Burger Bell

[thelegendofsqam]

I did! I asked, “Isn’t this Burger Bell?” And you know what she said? She said, “Yes it is but we’re closed now, but we open tomorrow at ten.” Well, I wasn’t sure what to do so finally I said, “I am extremely hungry, but I guess I can wait until then.”

[thelegendofsqam]

An update: I stayed at the drive through til sunrise, and I may have dozed off once or twice. And you’ll never guess what I spotted.

[petalsonfacesnovinesthough]

I dunno. A Denny's billboard?

[thelegendofsqam]

Yes! I spotted a billboard for Denny’s, and the deal it promoted was astounding: bacon and eggs for half price? Well, how could I resist such an offer? I really needed something to munch. I hoped they wouldn’t be angry and decided to eat and go back there for lunch.

[kingdomreigns]

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.

— C.S. Lewis

God has set eternity in the human heart.

—Ecclesiastes 3:11

[lud-lo]

Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, 1890

Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam