The Plot Hole

A writer, usually medical, sometimes fictional. Also a weaver, a spinner and a housewife. A Friend by conviction and a friend when I can be. (Yes, my PFP is a Space Marine. Teenage me thought 40K was cool, and I still like the art too much to change it)

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

“Are you a man or a woman?”

“I’m the Public Universal Friend.”

“What gender are you?”

“Christian.”

“Yeah, but what’s in your pants?”

“The Inner Light.”

[pitbolshevik]

bored border collie: im going to perform psychological experiments on every human member of my household

bored pit bull: i bet i could eat a rock if i tried hard enough

[pitbolshevik]

some of my favorite tags

[kiki-or-bouba]

This post is: Bouba

[qualityrachni]

Bored jack russells will also destroy doors and flooring because you committed the crime of going to work and not taking her with you.

[carpecake]

Bored labradoodle: What if I raided the bin and then projectile vomited all over the kitchen cabinets?

[carpecake]

Again with the TERF nonsense, tumblr...

[anxietyproblem]

[postoctobrist]

I knew you were some flavour of private school posho but now you're telling me you're an honest-to-god public school posho? No wonder you're transgender now

I went to the same school as Nigel Farage, which I mention only to demonstrate that it could have been so much worse

[carpecake]

Sadly, one is not usually afforded the luxury of choice when privately educated.

I don't think I got to make a single decision about my education until I was at uni. Mum was footing the bill, and by all things holy, she was going to get her money's worth...

[millenniallust4death]

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

[millenniallust4death]

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

[xn3city]

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

[leavescrown]

Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going

[millenniallust4death]

@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.

[millenniallust4death]

@sseanettles

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

Reading your tag made me laugh out loud. It’s like two old friends unexpectedly stopped by your porch for a quick visit. XD

[petermorwood]

I’ll always reblog Martin and Bosco when they splash across my dash, because of Reasons.

What’s loved, lives.

[destielmemenews]

"What's led to him being arrested is information in the Epstein files around activities while he was a trade envoy.

Although we don't know specifics, there has to be an assumption that part of this is going to be the sharing of documents within the Epstein files - between Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein himself. That's when Thames Valley Police got involved."

BBC

AP News

USA Today

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Living for the way he was described in the official police statement:

[carpecake]

Given that the Andrew-formerly-known-as-prince successfully dodged Consequences for as long as his mother was Queen, I suspect this happened with the assent of the King.

Rarely do I develop much respect for Charles (less the environmentalism); he seems to oscillate between a bit wet and far too interfering for a constitutional monarch.

Anyway, rare British win. Shouldn't have taken this long.

[sedesapostolica]

[carpecake]

Not intended as evangelism etc. (people believe what they do, and maybe I'm wrong in my faith, but I'm not here to be popular, merely to splatter my thoughts across a convenient canvas).

Merely that, doing this - engaging in the sort of conscious surrender faith requires - has always been something I've found incredibly difficult. I'm the daughter of an emotionally abusive mother and a violent alcoholic father (a lapsed anglican and a militant atheist, ironically); I cannot imagine, as much as my heart wants it, that anyone, even God, could love me entirely as myself.

A part of me doesn't expect to be caught when I let go; it expects to be mocked for being naïve enough to have trusted in the first place.

A part of me always expects to find my best efforts condemned as lacking, my obedience returned with exploitation. Because that's been the pattern of my life.

So, when I say to God "your will be done, not mine," a little voice in my head always whispers "but". And when I sit in still silence, listening for the Inner Light, some small fragment of my self winds tight, waiting for a blow that, in all likelihood, isn't coming.

I'm probably going to spend the rest of my life wrestling with this problem. I suspect heaven doesn't do 'points for effort', but I may well damned either way, so what's the harm in trying? Or maybe I'll get to the end and it will be the oblivion physics promises, in which case, eh, well, at least I'll have spent some of my life intentionally.

Hm. Rambling.

Enough of that, I think.

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

jim caviezal is still the type of catholic loony tunes I saw in 18 years of catholic school so that's bad enough but remember when he went full qanon and was like "rich people eat babies"

and then he had the audacity to be right. Not about the catholicism tho

[carpecake]

I'll give the man precisely this much: he appears to have the courage of his convictions.

Goodness, though, what a choice of convictions...

[natalieironside]

The kind of courtroom etiquette imposed by most legal systems sounds like it was made up for a fictional court in a LARP. I find it baffling and I don't know how anyone has sufficient patience to take it seriously. Your life and actions will be adjudicated by the Special Boy (you'll recognize him because he wears Special Boy robes and sits in the Special Boy chair) and when you talk to the Special Boy you have to stand up and say "Special Boy" or he can wave his hands at the attending knight and have you thrown in the dungeon.

[natalieironside]

And if the Special Boy doesn't like your shirt he can say "Sorry, no lawing today, back to the dungeon" and ppl just let him

[natalieironside]

I don't like knowing that if I'm ever charged with crimes a major part of it will involve putting on a clown outfit and being pressganged into joining the fucking circus

[carpecake]

Come to Britain! We do the all above with the addition of string wigs, egregious Latin, and a thousand years of accreted legal bullshit.

This is still somehow better than the Code Napoleon option, which dispenses with the jury entirely and has judges act as criminal investigators as well as...well...judges.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"I can note your interest in that feature for future development."

[carpecake]

"The manuscript is presently over word limit; as such, we have suggested some revisions."

"Please note that we cannot proceed to publication without the requested data."

"While we understand the reasoning behind your proposed next steps, we must note that they are in contravention of Good Publication Practice. May we instead suggest..."

"This is a kind reminder to please provide your review of the attached manuscript at your earliest convenience."

[thatliberalchristian]

[carpecake]

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are those who suffer persecution for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

[carpecake]

*sigh*

Of all the people to get a crush on...

Apparently my subconscious continues to like old men with too much nose and distinctive voices.

In other news, Person of Interest is very good and more people should watch it.

[carpecake]

It's amusing how many of the reblogs seem to have drawn a highly-specific conclusion about who I'm crushing on...

How do y'all know I haven't got the hots for Jim Caviezel?

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Okay. Fine. It's Michael Emerson. He's so...shaped...and...dapper?

*Puts the drowned-rat man (affectionate) on the 'age-inappropriate crushes' shelf, between Charles Dance and Hugo Weaving*

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[carpecake]

*Grins in Medical Writer*

[carpecake]

The TERF nonsense on my dash appears to have been replaced by tankie nonsense.

This is not an improvement.

[enchantedbook]

'Bats in the Belfry' from 'Cassell's natural history' by Duncan, P. Martin, 1896

[thesweetiepienovels]

Don’t forget that you are human. You’re going to make mistakes. Do cringy things. Say the wrong thing. Lose people. Lose yourself for a while, even. You have emotions. You have needs. You have wants. You have to take up space. You don’t have to perform anything, you don’t have to sacrifice yourself for the sake of society’s MADE UP idea of you. Life is going to be full of moments you wish you could undo, forget and ones you wish to relive and remember forever. Please don’t forget you’re human, and being human is messy, and messy is where the real parts of us can breathe.

[carpecake]

👆This.