#quote that really really resonated with me

[therlkings]

The following day I burned the notebook in the woodstove. Winter was over and we weren’t making fires anymore, but I used the stove to hold the pages as they were consumed by the flames. I remember I set about it as a sort of ritual. I was bidding farewell that day, and for the rest of my life, to my journal, not only the one on those sheets of paper but the very concept of a private journal. I couldn’t allow myself to create an object that made me so easily accessible, that might put me even more at the mercy of any person who wanted to spy on me or hurt me.

Sad Tiger; Neige Sinno

[tsarofnohr]

[reluctantlyanimating]

httyding my sketchbook cover

[artfullyplacedsemicolon]

Maybe it's the multishipper in me, maybe it's because I've never met a couple who's been married more than ten years who didn't hate each other a little but the way the show's been set up makes me feel like any happy monogamous endgame relationship feels disingenuous to me.

Lestat is unable to stay faithful to the love of his life for Normal Human Marriage Years, never mind eternity! Every relationship Armand is in he deliberately turns into a de facto throuple with the ghost of his dad and flips his lid when his partners (who are at best semi aware of this) don't do exactly what he scripted for them in his head! Daniel is canonically unable to keep a marriage intact because of his personality! Granted, I reckon Louis could theoretically hack monogamy for eternity if he was mentally stable and seeing a therapist, but he's not receiving treatment as of the end of S2, he only ever vents to Daniel Molloy, and we know whenever he crashes out he tries to capture a lost carefree youth he never had by fucking younger men, so

[funfig23]

"You can be whoever you want. As long as you know who that is." -Abed Nadir

[reclaiming-god]

The people who are poor and disenfranchised now perceive themselves on the basis of their deep, inner encounter with the gospel; in this perspective, they are affirming their dignity as persons before God. At the same time, they are actively engaging in the life of their ecclesial community and thus fulfilling the church’s mission as the sacrament of the world’s salvation.

Given this new self-understanding, there is also arising a new understanding of theology. Theologians are no longer presenting themselves as religious experts separate from the faithful or the nonspecialists. Rather, they understand themselves as disciples, hearing and learning from God’s one Teacher and Word, namely, Christ. They are engaging in the communal experience of faith and in the people’s living religiosity, that is, in the community of those who confess that Jesus is the Christ and who venture on the way of Christ’s discipleship of being-for-others. In this way of life, they are participating in Christ’s sufferings and hopes. Thus liberation theology, in the best sense of the word, is contextual theology that is growing out of the believing community.

— “On The Side of The Poor: The Theology of Liberation” by Gustavo Gutiėrrez & Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller

[ikuneko]

"Have you ever tried to write? It's the saddest, hardest, worst thing in the world." -Brennan Lee Mulligan

[chanth-thara]

i was trying to find the source of that one James Baldwin quote - u know the one about how white gays feel betrayed by the system and all that and i found it!! it’s in a book about black masculinity so i asked the library to grab it for me 👀 im also thinking about grabbing Audrey lordes biography bc she also discusses that similar experience of racism in the queer community