#taking up

[freesidexjunkie]

"stop trying to make yourself palatable for people who will never accept you anyways" applies to your asexuality too. btw.

[koredzas]

Antonio Vázquez - Vision of Saint John the Evangelist. 1530

[wiirocku]

Ephesians 6:16 (NASB) -   in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

[angstmongertina]

I'm listening to the episode where Vox Machina meet Kynan again and they're all just so ready to add someone new to their group there. Like "oh, let's just send him on missions because he's a fan." Or even Vax being all "I'll train you when I get back and then you can join." Like, are they prepared to do that for every young man and woman who wants to join them? If not, maybe that isn't the best idea. They'll only give (at least) others false hope and really, Vax is right in that it's not safe. I don't know. I think their emotions (they didn't seem to really react until the tears started, after all) are completely blinding them to the fact that bringing on a green kid is a pretty terrible fucking idea, especially since then every kid will think they have a chance to join up (let's face it: they have to have more fans than just Kynan) and it's not fair that Kynan can join when they can't. And, like, look at what happened when Tary tried to join. Admittedly, I don't know how much of that was because Scanlan left and they were mad at Sam but still. Just random ramblings. Ignore me.

[angstmongertina]

Lmao after seeing that post where someone said that P&P isn’t written as a resistance against the patriarchy, I regret describing it the other day as “two idiots falling in love” because that’s what it is on the broadest level but it misses all of the intricacy that makes Elizabeth a memorable heroine and the book a true classic.

I really really love Jane Austen novels, okay? And it’s just like… context for a novel is important. Yeah, Elizabeth’s attitude is nothing particularly unusual today but man, in that time period? Her attitude is almost unheard of. Especially when she had no brothers and her estate was entailed. Like, she was literally flirting with the possibility of becoming a burden upon her family.

I don’t know. I just have a lot of thoughts.

[prayersifind]

Lent: Not Just About Giving Things Up | UCC Express

Lent starts this week on Ash Wednesday and many people, myself included, may inadvertently get flashbacks to years gone by with having to give up sweets, chocolate or crisps (while in school anyway) and collecting for Trócaire Boxes. But is this really how we should be remembering Lent? Just as a period of self-denial? Or should we be looking at it differently? I think we should. This year Lent runs for the “40 days” (not in actuality, it’s really more like 43) between Ash Wednesday on March 1st to Holy (or Maundy) Thursday on April 13th and culminates with Easter Sunday on April 16th. While many Christians use Lent to try and imitate Jesus Christ when, according to Matthew 4:2, He “fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished” (NRSVA). While giving things up for Lent works for some people, it doesn’t work for everyone. Over the past few years for Lent I have tried taking something up for Lent, so in effect, I have given up giving up for Lent. This could be

Latest piece in the UCC Express on #Lent

[diyahartt]

HELLO from your KH Secret Santa! I'm wishing you a happy December and scouring your blog for ideas. : ) I was told you like SoKai and NamiKu - do you like any AUs or do you like canon? Do you have headcanons?

Hello!!! Thank you, and I wish you a happy December as well!!

And as for that, I’m putting it under a readmore because a. embarrassment and b. its probably going to get very long.

For the first bit- I like both equally!! Though I go mostly by canon, and I don’t really have many. AUs or anything because I just vaguely like the aesthetic of AUs?? Like, Royalty AUs/Studio Ghibli AUs and such look really nice when you draw them. That probably makes no sense, haha… So um, typical Modern AU where they have Phones and Technology and such is fun, and then there’s an AU I’ve spent too long developing that I call Talented Spies AU~ If you want to actually. read more about it, I’d be happy to say more, but this paragraph is already very long already so I’ll stop here.

As for the second question- I have many headcanons that I’ve just accepted into my mind as canon but I’ll try to list them to the best of my ability.

NamiKu - I like to imagine it as a really soft and fluffy ship, just dominantly romantic and not really. sexual. at all. They don’t really argue much, and are just super sappy and sweet and Riku usually initiates a lot of the things and they both just?? help the other through whenever they need it?? Also, Riku blushes a lot. And they both are generally within the vicinity of the other and they just like to stick close to each other. and they’re also very protective and care for each other over every little thing no matter how mundane or tiny of an issue it is like “hOW did you get that small, miniscule, almost indiscernable scratch on your finger wait ill get you a bandaid” “im fine its just a papercu–” “im bac k” and y e ah

riku shares his dream eaters with nami and takes her to a bunch of different worlds and they travel literally everywhere and no one knows how to track them

they would very willingly die for each other. or anyone they care about, for that matter

SoKai - haha I honestly don’t really have many headcanons for sokai,, I shipped it hardcore a year or two ago when I had only recently gotten into KH but now I just follow most peoples headcanons,,,, but they’re both very sporadic and outbursty, and have really vague and random overlapping interests and are just naturally very comfortable w/each other?? like. even if they weren’t dating, they would still lie on top of eachother playing animal crossing on 3DSs. also, battle couple