Land Of The Living

“And I’m going to raise my voice with the song of the Redeemed, because all this darkness is a small and passing thing.” Audrey | Christ follower | Wife | Mama | Goodness, truth, and beauty | And plenty of books, tea, plants, and chickens|

[magpie-trove]

I really desperately need a story to occupy my mind with at all times huh. Like glasses. Everything is dull and blurry without one

[ilovecharts]

This is my new favorite design fail.

[audreythevaliant]

Whoever invented grout will be punished for this grievous crime.

[rinthecap]

Shieldmaiden of Rohan

[beginnerblueglass]

Tagged by @rantsramblesandrandomthougts to type “(your name) vibes” into Pinterest/image search site, choose six pictures, and tag six people to do the same :)

Pinterest seems to think my name is kind of witchy, and these were the least witchy pics I could find lol. I am definitely a brunette through and through.

Tagging: @the-song-not-sung-in-vain @swinging-stars-from-satellites @ohifonlyx33 @sunkissedliterarylightofchrist @professor-cold-ramen @anothersomesillyname

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

this is making me want to get back into making digital collages askfkgjskgh

@creating-by-starlight @januarydivide @legitimately @siena-sevenwits @faroffsong @bluesidedown no pressure tags!

[faroffsong]

Thanks @swinging-stars-from-satellites, this was very interesting. (ALSO YOURS IS SO PRETTY.)

No pressure tags for (I think) most of my mutuals:

@muse-write @nightskylonging @sunflowergardens-world @palatablepain @lady-merian @lady-stormbraver @lady-stormbraver @lem0njuicepapercut @ladyphlogiston @brb-on-a-quest @awwyeah-rambles @paranormal-taters @audreythevaliant @glass-expanse @cardboard-houses-swaying @rosie-cotton @sweetcardamom @onewingedsparrow @sweetmetalmemories @hold-fast-to-hope @naharie @two-microscopes @the-prairies-calling-out

[audreythevaliant]

My problem is I always get a bunch of Audrey Hepburn pictures, but these are somewhat accurate!

Tagging anyone who wants to do this!

[stuckinapril]

Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

[stuckinapril]

So tempting to keep embarking on the same self destructive cycle over & over & over again . But at some point you have to put ur foot down w ur own behaviors & be the thing that truly saves u

[sicsicthewolves]

#this is unfortunately true#it’s not easy to tell yourself Hey Drop It#like you’re your own dog furtively eating pinecones and rocks#but you gotta#sometimes it’s a Hey We’re Not Doing That#you gotta though

[gailyinthedark]

I'm the March girls playing at Pilgrim's Progress. I'm a penitent en route to St James. I'm Robin Hood about to be dunked in a river. I'm Len under the stars and I don't understand. I'm going to Rome with my Little Brothers. I'm crossing the fields of Rohan to find my friends. I'm persistence hunting joy in worn-out boots and I'm gaining with every step.

[siena-sevenwits]

I'm persistence hunting joy in worn-out boots and I'm gaining with every step.

This should be one of tumblr's great, well-known lines.

[superohclair]

what's so devastating about having Young Sherlock focus on Sherlock before he's a consulting detective and James before he's, well, an evil genius out to destroy Sherlock even if it will kill them both, is that James and Sherlock meet at their lowest emotional and professional points in the series. they see each other at their most abandoned and vulnerable, but it's actually Sherlock who is the most vulnerably open, because James very rarely gives anything away about himself or his history.

Sherlock, meanwhile, brings James everywhere and invites him to the most inner circle of his life. he even trusts him with his own mother. it makes the pit of my stomach churn watching it, because you can just see James filing away all of this information in the way he files away everything he learns about everyone -- it's how James has survived, by remembering everything about a person's situation and what their weaknesses are, because he's a person who has had to work upon weaknesses to get what he's owed.

at the same time, James is so devoted to Sherlock that we know his efforts to help him all the time is genuine. and yet...he's going to remember all of this, and he's going to use all of this one day, too.

[tenderlywicked]

Mycroft Holmes and his social life.

[audreythevaliant]

“so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭1‬:‭10‬-‭14‬ ‭

[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...

[audreythevaliant]

Not my cousin asking me to review her Ai generated coloring book on Amazon so more people see it. :/

[autumnal-thunder]

It’s dinner, not supper. Jesus had the last supper. There are no more of them. 

[bigbluefishi]

Eowyn 🐴

[thenegoteator]

ANYWAY

[urgetocreate]

John Michael Carter (American b,1950), Summer Reading, 1986, Oil on linen

[farewell-to-lorien]

once there were four children, by Liridi.