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For anyone who might be interested, I now have a sideblog for my writing. For now it's all fanfiction, but who knows what the future may hold?

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#i'm bad at self-promotion #can you tell?#but that's where my writing goes if you want to read it

rock-fight

ROCKFIGHT ROUND 3

Brackets 1

ADRIAN VS. THINGS

ROCKFIGHT!

ADRIAN

THINGS

Remaining time: 1 day 15 hours

Adrian by the collective fandom, Things by @sleepingreader

#VOTE FOR THINGS!

novelmonger

So, uh...yeah. This just in, James Islington is a Calvinist?!?!?!

Or a Christian, at the very least. Or at the very very least, was raised in the church even if he's not currently practicing. Because I'm sorry, you don't come up with that in your fantasy world on your own without having been steeped in Christianity.

novelmonger

Further proof, as if you needed more:

"I didn't say He was responsible, I said it runs according to His purpose. Shammaeloth has his influences over this world, too. he fights, but it's simply that he is in a war he cannot win, because every move he makes has already been accounted for by El."

"The point is, he's not losing--he's already lost. What you see are his death throes. Shammaeloth was bound to this world in the Genesis War, and thus bound by time. He was trapped here, and now all he fights for is souls to serve him in his prison."

"At the end of time, El will leave this world, taking those who gave Him their faith. When He does, what protection this world has will vanish, and it will fall to Shammaeloth to rule what remains--and only what remains--for eternity. Any who do not leave with El will be left here and serve him, like it or not."

"Just because El knows each choice I'm going to make--even if He created me knowing it's the choice I would make--doesn't mean it's not mine. ... But perhaps it's still not free will as you would think of it. That's the natural arrogance of man, sadly. We want to believe that free will means complete independence from the plans of our creator."

"Since the Augurs fell...how can you still have faith?" "Because my faith is in El. It was never in the Augurs or what they were once capable of. ... You can put your trust in something that's obvious, that's measurable or predictable--but that's not faith. Nor is believing in something that gives you no pause for doubt, no reason or desire to question. Faith is something more than that. By definition, it cannot have proof as its foundation."

#yeah...reading back over that...i no longer believe it's possible james islington is NOT a practicing christian XD

So, uh...yeah. This just in, James Islington is a Calvinist?!?!?!

#the shadow of what was lost #james islington #christianity #like...there is basically nothing about his personal beliefs in his website bio or wiki or anything but...yeah #i was already invested in and enjoying this book but now my appreciation has just shot through the roof

e-louise-bates

I've been on a murder mystery/English middlebrow fiction reading kick these last couple of months (with the occasional sci-fi thrown in as a treat), but they're starting to get repetitive. What fantasy books have you all been reading and enjoying this summer?

#the shadow of what was lost by james islington #it's a big chonker and i've had to send it back to the library and put it on hold again already before i could finish it #(i like to think it's the same person and we're just passing the book back and forth and taking turns until we can both finish it :3)#i think that's the only one from this summer so far that i can call fantasy #it's pretty good!#i'm only maybe a third of the way through it so far but it's captured my interest pretty effectively #an interesting world with interesting magic and lots of different factions vying for control #the author's blurb mentions brandon sanderson and i can see the influence :D #it's pretty clean and very easy to read despite the length

kelseyfun

Reblog if you say "Y'all"

#i intentionally added it to my vocabulary after going to school in the south

alexadelphia-official

Jesus: does a miracle

The disciples: 😮😮😮😮😮😮

*bad thing happens again*

The disciples: 😭😭😭 Oh nooooo whatever will we do it's so over 😭😭😭

Jesus: does a miracle

The disciples: 😮😮😮😮😮😮

Repeat for the entirety of the Gospels

Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 look at them how easy they lose faith despite so much evidence 🫵

Also me when bad things happen even knowing how Jesus provided miraculously in the past: 😭😭😭 Oh no whatever will I do, it's so over 😭😭😭

#so true #christianity

inthetags

Reblog and write in the tags what's on your wallpaper

#bucky steve and jake :3

misscrazyfangirl321

Tragic that I cannot be reading hundreds of books all at the exact same moment. What do you mean I have to pick one at a time? Stop this nonsense.

#it me #currently in the middle of 40 books at once not counting manga and the bible ^^'

stormsouls

Used bookstores have me so spoiled that the idea of spending over $7 on a paperback is unheard of. What do you mean this paperback is almost $20? Insane.

#right???

greater-than-the-sword

Hear me out but if boys need to learn how to wash dishes and do laundry then girls need to be able to mow the lawn and use a weed whacker

greater-than-the-sword

Women only: Have you ever mowed a lawn?

Yes

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

greater-than-the-sword

Men only: Have you ever mowed a lawn?

Yes

Secret button just for me don't push >:(

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

#i only learned how to mow a couple years ago but that's because before that we didn't have a lawn XD

coldswarkids

you are a woman in a fantasy book written by a man. choose your personality trait

PETITE but super strong (defeats men easily 3x your size)

crosses arms across breasts / yanks braid in irritation

has giant sexy bazongers (that are sooooo inconvenient for archery)

"ugh, MEN" (acts in completely irrational manner)

only female character among cast of 3,000 men

see male protagonist > i must bone him immediately

written to "defeat sexist tropes" but is just written as a man instead

not like the OTHER girls (tucks hair behind ears)

damsel in distress (faints dramatically) ooohhhhh

Remaining time: 3 days 52 minutes

#it's either gonna be not like other girls or damsel in distress #but i guess since i like reading i'll probably be one of those 'not like other girls' that means i read books x.x

cal3ris

is this gonna get me fired you think

#anti ai #literally the other day i was telling somebody at church about my work #and she was like 'do you use ai much?'#and i told her 'it exists but i do a much better job than it anyway' 😌

do-you-have-a-flag

love a song that tells a story

#lol #wholesome #this whole thing just had me grinning from the first second :D

hell-on-sticks

Today in australia they started senate hearings on the bill the government hopes will make enough disabled people die or disappear to make us all less irritatingly expensive for them. We had two weeks to submit feedback on over 400 pages of complicated legal terms. They don't care what we have to say and they don’t care that this will kill people and disenfranchise disabled people across the country.

There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.

The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.

The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare. Oh, and it includes chemical restraint, too. The government has directly refused to exclude chemical restraint from the required process, calling it "trialling medication".

If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.

I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.

Sorry we're too expensive to have rights, I guess.

#signal boost