gremlin mode out in the forest

Orin (he/they) / 30s / witch, writer, artist, bard / @orinthebard on tiktok

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[sharpenededgess]

[arcusxx]

[ymutate]

📷 Irina Sevriuk

Blue triggerfish (Pseudobalistes fuscus)

Red Sea, Egypt

[wilted-scenes]

[sforzzz]

copper ii sulfate has no reason to be this blue. this shade of blue looks like it should only be a digital invention

[overwelmd]

cocorrina

[muse]

[xanaxfarts]

[vyvilha]

in folklore depictions of rusalky, their fatness is sometimes a trait that is emphasized. fatness is, of course, associated with richness and abundance of the earth, something which rusalky are welcomed to share with mortal folk during the green week

[greenthey]

Every few months I remember I'm slowly working my way through Dream Work by Mary Oliver, and whatever poem I'm on feels super resonant. (Full text below)

The Moths by Mary Oliver

There’s a kind of white moth, I don’t know

what kind, that glimmers

by mid-May

in the forest, just

as the pink mocassin flowers

are rising.

If you notice anything,

it leads you to notice

more

and more.

And anyway

I was so full of energy.

I was always running around, looking

at this and that.

If I stopped

the pain

was unbearable.

If I stopped and thought, maybe

the world

can’t be saved,

the pain

was unbearable.

Finally, I noticed enough.

All around me in the forest

the white moths floated.

How long do they live, fluttering

in and out of the shadows?

You aren’t much, I said

one day to my reflection

in a green pond,

and grinned.

The wings of the moths catch the sunlight

and burn

so brightly.

At night, sometimes,

they slip between the pink lobes

of the moccasin flowers and lie there until dawn,

motionless

in those dark halls of honey.

[weirdreindeer]

[lydiardbell]

[robbie-is-a-bug]

“Are you saying that Jesus isn’t fully man” he’s literally not. He’s half deity. Why did you word it like that?

[creature-wizard]

“Jesus was fully human and fully divine” is conventionally accepted doctrine. It’s called the hypostatic union. It’s in the Athanasian creed.

[mcgravin]

Sounds like wormnoodless is recapitulating Eutychianism (Christ exists in one nature and of two), which was rejected by the Fourth Ecumenical Council in 451, instead adopting Dyophysitism (Jesus Christ is one person of one substance and one hypostasis, with two distinct, inseparable natures: divine and human), which is still the main belief of most major denominations.

Sorry, wormnoodless, you’re a heretic.

@apocrypals, do I have it (mostly) right?

[apocrypals]

Correct

Anything other than “fully God, fully man” is heretical

[squidspawn]

#sometimes the nature of tumblr is that someone accidentally reinvents the great schism (1054) all over again

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[herpsandbirds]

Mt. Kenya Dwarf Chameleon (Trioceros schubotzi), family Chamaeleonidae, endemic to Mt. Kenya, Kenya

photograph by Halvard Aas Midtun

[nemfrog]

Canis major. “Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, is in this constellation.”  Trees, stars and birds. 1919. 

[ppaarraassaauurroolloopphhuuss]

[shelovesplants]

Fuzzy Bee and Russian Sage 💜🐝🌿