how to build a soul

a project in growing into a vessel of joy Em | 23 | sun lesbian | she/her in public, any in private love the Lord my God with all my heart and all my mind and all my soul and all my strength

[lastoftheicelords]

i know that i keep going on about this but. there's just something about being queer and having faith that is utterly divine.

you get to subvert all of the shallow imagery of your religion, the surface-layer stuff that people on the outside see and misinterpret, and dive straight into the heart of your faith. the world around you is a hurricane and you sit back inside yourself, take rest in your God, and take utter joy in knowing exactly how God forged you before anyone ever knew you were going to exist.

you get to avoid all the traps and pitfalls of people trying to use your religion to justify their atrocities, because you know exactly what those traps look like. you know what a modern-day Pharisee looks like and you know how to shine love through them.

i thank God continually for my queerness. for my love. for my faith and for my heart and for my joy.

i love being able to break down barriers with my existence. doing so feels like hope incarnate.

[magpie-trove]

Was anyone going to tell me this Christian maiden was thrown to a brothel for her confession of faith and refusal of marriage but the first guy that burst into the door was a soldier who believed and who disguised her in his uniform so she could get out then was taken to be martyred himself and when he got there was met by the maiden who refused to let him be martyred alone, or was I just supposed to read a reference to it in a medieval text on friendship and follow the footnotes to another medieval text which records it as a well-known tale to use it as an example of courageous virgin martyrs myself?

[apenitentialprayer]

#we are born into death but in the meantime we can love

[funnytwittertweets]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Brockway Record, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1933

[ponyoisms]

t shirt that says YOU DONT UNDERSTAND MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD and the back says NEITHER DO I

[girlballs-archive]

btw shout out to transgender boobies. one of the most of all time

[fruitpilled-peachcel]

[you-have-to-use-your-imagination]

anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them

[finn-shitposts]

Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick are adamant in their mutual dislike, while Claudio and Hero are deep in love, and the two s

Ah here we go! Free full play for anyone who needs it, i watched it last week so i still had the link in my history heh :D enjoy!

[nymph1e]

God I love this version

[v-ahavta]

This version also does something I very much like and haven’t seen in other adaptations; it implies that Benedick and Beatrice were into each other the whole time they’ve known each other, but were too busy bullying each other to talk about their feelings until they thought the other person was actually interested. Also it has David Tennant in drag and Catherine Tate in a suit.

[jaubaius]

This is so beautiful and took a lot of patience!!! ✊

[sunrisetune]

Source video here (link), it got lost in the notes The artist is David M. Bird and the project is ‘Becorns’!

[eileenleahy-deactivated20241003]

girls be like im fighting demons and the demons be tummy aches

[wheeloffortune-design]

The true deadly sins

Lust

Not a sin- feeling sexual attraction, sex with consenting partners, masturbation, consuming pornographic media, having several sexual partners, sex before mariage. IT’S A SIN WHEN- the person projects lust onto an unwilling recipient person and does not take into account their wants or consent. Rape, harassment, sexual assault, catcalling, dick pics.

Gluttony

Not a sin- food, enjoying food, cooking, eating sweets, eating meat. In the larger sense, accumulating material things you enjoy, like books or collectibles or whatever.  IT’S A SIN WHEN- It deprives other people of what they need.

Envy

Not a sin: Wanting things you see other people have, like money, power, fame. IT’S A SIN WHEN: This is how you define people, and stop respecting them as humans. It’s a sin when you use them for what they have and what they can bring you.

Greed

Not a sin: Wanting financial security, working hard for the things you want.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Your own financial growth depends on keeping other people impoverished and suffering.

Pride

Not a sin: Being proud of your accomplishments, liking your looks, dressing up IT’S A SIN WHEN: It stops you from accepting your faults and seeing how you can be wrong, not admitting that you can better yourself. 

Wrath

Not a sin: Righteous anger at situations, being mistreated, seeing other people suffer, at the injustice of the world. Self-defense. Revolution.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Violence towards defenceless people, hitting your partner or your kids,.  Violence fuelled by intolerance and bigotry. 

Sloth

Not a sin: Resting. Sleeping. Taking a day or a year off. Being unproductive. Playing videogames. IT’S A SIN WHEN: You stay inactive when action is required. When people need you and you’d rather do nothing.

[madammuffins]

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND GIVES POWER BACK TO SO MANY PEOPLE

[violenceenthusiast]

gay sex is holy actually

[violenceenthusiast]

just wait until you guys hear about trans sex

[cidnangarlond]

reblog for a soup blessing in 2022

[cidnangarlond]

everyone saying "please" in the tags we're gonna get through 2022 together and by god we're gonna do it with bowls of our favorite soup to keep us company and happy

[jonbutter]

reblog this to have a Happy Wildcat New Year™

[jonbutter]

not enough people reblogged this last year we gotta really try this time to have a Happy Wildcat New Year™

[gemmacorrell]

[dazaiaiko]

Truly the blessings I needed. My kitty still never thinks my lap is the best place to nap tho

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[givemearmstopraywith]

you know that florence + the machine song that goes and it’s peaceful in the deep cause either way you cannot breathe no need to pray no need to speak now i am under and it’s breaking over me a thousand miles out to the sea bed found the place to rest my head never let me go never let me go and the arms of the ocean are carrying me and all this devotion was rushing over me and the questions i have for a sinner like me but the arms of the ocean deliver me? that’s what God feels like