bird

please be patient I have awesome

[redstonedust]

love wearing all black in public i hope no large gaseous heat emitting orb in the sky comes along and makes my day worse

[substandard-intuition]

The Pentagon's top scientists are working on an even wetter baby carrot to sell in supermarkets

[synth3xanh]

A Kaguya-sama reference? Love is war?? In MY school diaries???

[yokelfelonking]

Something that has recently occurred to me is how people interpret scripture is influenced largely by how they imagine God's voice - specifically, His tone - when He speaks.

The Bible talks a lot about how loving and patient and kind God is, but I'll confess that, in the back of my mind, I had trouble squaring that with how He always talked to people - angry, irritated, yelling, scolding, berating. But it occurred to me: is that actually what He's doing, or is that just how I'm imagining His voice?

Example: in the book of Joshua, they've just suffered their first defeat because someone stole something they weren't supposed to and broken the covenant God made with them. And, to be fair in this part, it says that God is angry, that "His anger burned against Israel". Joshua falls on his face before God and starts wailing, asking why God led them out there if He's just going to let their enemies destroy them.

"The Lord responded to Joshua, 'Get up! Why are you falling on your face? Israel has sinned: they have violated the covenant I have commanded for them. They have taken something that was to be destroyed, stolen it and hidden it among their possessions. I will no longer be with the people until they remove what was set apart for destruction from their midst.

"'Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: 'What was set apart for destruction is in your midst, O Israel! You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what was set apart for destruction.''"

How did you hear that in your head? When God says "Get up! Why are you falling on your face?" is He yelling at Joshua like a drill instructor, or is He someone speaking calmly to let Joshua know he's overreacting? When God is telling them that He won't be with them as long as they're in breach of covenant, is He yelling and being petulant, or is He calmly laying out what happened and what they need to do to remedy the situation?

When God says "What have you done?" after He confronts Adam and Eve for eating the fruit, are you hearing the voice of an angry parent who just caught their kid stealing cookies from the cookie jar, or of a shocked and horrified parent who just found that their kid got into the medicine cabinet and downed a whole bottle of pills?

[darkspaceboytoy]

Oh also you do have to read real books. Like you have to read the books. You can’t just read fanfic, those are not books. You can if you just want to write fanfic, but if you want to write books, you kinda gotta read books. No, posts do not count.

[mamoru]

haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.

[violsva]

#follow for more workout tips from Pliny the Elder (via @elucubrare)

[lesbxdyke]

Motherfucker.

"oh let me just casually make marble!"

Bloody chocolate guy

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

I have no qualms about killing iron golems. Get in the lava

[kirkendauhl-v2]

They merc villagers who turn into zombies so they get what comes to them imo

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

You're the guy in zombie movies who keeps a horde of zombies trapped in a barn because "they're still people!" and "we might find a cure!", but guess what happens in the third act?

[monarcho-mysticism]

I mean it's not like Elon Musk is "evil", it's just that his socioeconomic factors are making him act a certain way

[fairycosmos]

"sorry for spam liking" sorry for redirecting the asteroid from planet earth thats what you sound like. thats literally what you sound like

[correctopinionhaver]

"may be for fun"

sadistic little fucks

[berdyayeva]

being an executioner used to be an inherited job. imagine dealing with teen angst and also job shadowing your dad the town’s torturer

[nightbringer24]

I was actually going to have an "Umm actually" moment, and I had to check: executioners did double as torturers in the Middle Ages, more often than not.

You also had to remember that being the town executioner and torturer meant you were the town outcast as well, leaving you with nice side jobs as removing animal carcasses or cleaning latrine pits. Throw that on top the teen angst too!

[da-boy-o-kultur]

And think of the dating prospects, did they just marry the daughters of other outcasts?

[nightbringer24]

Yeah, pretty much. They were that perfect "everyone hates them but they do the job no-one else will do" group.

[beaked-whales-in-exile]

I recently read an article about executioners in feudal Japan. They were under the same sort of societal discrimination as in the west, with designated families plying the trade.

But because Japan transitioned from a feudal society to a modern nation state comparatively late (the second half of the nineteenth century), these families are still known and their members still face discrimination in things like hiring and dating.

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

As of European executioners there were three options regarding marriage:

Members of other "undesirable" professions. The executioners usually had close ties with undertakers, for obvious reasons.

Executioner families from various cities married between each other. Some of those marriages were quite international.

Less often, people ended up in the profession due to various circumstances. For example Charles Sanson (1658–1695), the first "Monsieur de Paris" of the Sanson line, that held the office for seven generations until 1847, and great-grandfather of Charles-Henri Sanson (1739-1806), the man who executed Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and Robespierre; was a military man, who for some reason ended up marrying the daughter of the then executioner of Paris, and took over his trade.

Speaking of the Parisian Sansons, there's a beautifully illustrated (at times a little bit psychedelic) and very interesting manga titled Innocent, which follows the family's fictionalised history, especially during the final years of the Bourbon Monarchy and the French Revolution.

Gotta love the usage of social media and other anachronisms to showcase Marie Antoinette's isolation in the chapter, when she comes to Versailles

[beaked-whales-in-exile]

So that's what the well dressed skeleton picture is from. Dammit man....I might just have to pick this up now. I've not seen anything so utterly up my alley in a while...

[lady-larklight]

@irishironclad

[irishironclad]

Gunna once again shout out a favourite historical piece of literature. Although Franz seems specifically well suited to this job so he should be seen as an outlier. You don't get much of internal thoughts from him except when it counts

[jimbles-archive]

[heidelbro]

Many people have a noble savage view of prison

[heidelbro]

Like pretending there is violence because of a rules-based honor driven culture, and not because prison is full of emotionally unregulated mental retards

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Can you imagine being Anna in the temple, spending your whole life devoted to God but watching the men go closer to God than you can, and the priests go closer to God than the men can, and the high priest go closer to God than the priests can, and then suddenly God is right there?

[scarabesque-returns]

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[shaeeldera]

I had to draw this beautiful lady