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[jrich103]

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

—Rumi

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[its-a-queer-thing]

In Case You Missed It Pt 3--1x07

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The first thing that occurs in 1x07 is Ian walks into the Kash And Grab to find Kash roughed up by Mickey.

 It also turns out that Mickey stole the gun. Now, before anyone complains about this let’s keep in mind–this kid has grown up with firearms and learning to defend himself against any adversary, armed or otherwise. Mickey was raised to not only survive Southside, but to run it as his father and his father’s friends seem to.

 Kash is a pansy who honestly has no business owning or using a gun (at least not until he gathers more courage and practices more to handle it well). Can we realistically expect Mickey to handle the situation differently? 

Imagine this, Mickey’s packing up his usual box of treats when Kash warns him to put it back. Mickey of course ignores him, maybe even laughs like the punk he is, and Kash pulls out his gun, releases the safety. Mickey sees this. What does he do? Act like the frightened little pussies Terry taught him he could take from, or take the gun and teach said pussy to never pull a firearm on him again? And if we’re being honest, we’re lucky(?) he didn’t full-out kill him. He just as easily could have shot Kash in the head. 

This development does a couple of things things: continues to establish Mickey’s reputation as a hardened thug, shows he knows his way around firearms and is not afraid of someone (who is inexperienced) with a gun, and that he does show some restraint. Let’s be honest, if someone pulls a gun on you, regardless of whether or not you’ve done something wrong, you’re probably going to fight for your life. Mickey, knowing that Kash isn’t actually going to do anything with his piece just gives him a black eye and takes the gun before he hurts himself.

Moving on, Ian promises to get the gun back and rushes over to the Milkovich place to do just that. He ransacks Mickey’s bedroom while Mickey is away picking up his father from prison, freaking out Mandy.

And tells her that Mickey needs to give the gun back so this feud can be over. Obviously, Mandy is not convinced that Ian can actually do anything to change her brother’s mind. These teeny details are important because it shows what kind of a man raised the Milkovich kids (a jailbird) and that Mandy feels she has true reason to be afraid for Ian’s safety should Mickey find out he was in his room.

Next time we see Ian and Mickey interact is their big fight/sex scene. I’ve heard a few things about this scene and people are just so bewildered by how they can go from trying to kill each other to fucking… And they aren’t wrong, this is definitely puzzling! But this is also Shameless so…. need I say more?

Now, I’ve heard that some people felt they should have stopped seeing each other after that first time because of the violent nature of their meeting, but let’s examine this a little closer, shall we?

So, some people, when blaming Mickey for all of the fucked-upness of the more unsavory parts of their relationship seem to forget that it was Ian who waltzed into the Milkovich house with a fucking tire iron ready to fuck someone up, walked up behind a sleeping Mickey and tapped him between the shoulder blades with said weapon. 

So for Mickey haters, that’s one strike on Ian that tends to be ignored. But let’s also look into why Ian may do something like this before Ian haters get too excited.

Mickey has just assaulted his boyfriend (ugh!) and stolen a gun, the only means of protection that Kash had against people like Mickey. Mickey’s thug status has been well established so with Ian doing what he is doing right now, we are also establishing that Ian is brave and willing to stand up for himself and others. This is clearly a trait Mickey can respect as he does end up giving the gun back…

This also starts to set up my counterargument for something else Mickey haters say a lot; that Mickey doesn’t actually care for Ian or that Ian cares for him more.

Let’s look at what just happened here, though. Mickey, a thug, not only just outed himself to someone (a risky move regardless of who you are if you aren’t ready to come out yet) but is trusting that he won’t say anything. He also gives Ian what he wants. Why? Because they had sex? That doesn’t seem like a strong enough reason to someone like Mickey to cave in. If the writers wanted to, they could have just as easily had Mickey keep the gun just to make a point, but they gave him an open moment to show a bitty smidge of his vulnerable, even tender side.

Then, I guess it may have rubbed some people the wrong way when he refused to allow Ian to kiss him?

Why? Why should that bother you? It didn’t seem to bother Ian…

Confused, maybe… but not particularly hung up on it. 

Well, I understand why Mickey refuses to kiss him. Because that would make him officially gay in his eyes. Of course, we all know that Mickey is gay, but remember that Mickey was raised by a homophobic father who taught him to beat up gays, and probably made it abundantly clear that if any of his children turned out gay they would be dead and buried before anyone knew. To Mickey, I argue, this is just a kink and hooking up with Ian is just for satisfying his kink but does not make him gay. As long as it’s just sex, then that’s all it is because afterall, being gay (Mickey believes) means holding hands with men, kissing men, being intimate with men, maybe immersing yourself in gay culture… So to Mickey as long as the intimacy and any “gay” behavior is absent, he’s not gay. Obviously, we know this is untrue, but can we all appreciate for just a second how fucking sad it is that there are people out there who honestly believe this? There are people out there who absolutely refuse to accept themselves for who they are even if they “indulge” in their sexual preference every once in a while. Can we also take a moment to keep in mind that on top of the angry, abusive, and backwards childhood he’s had and the backwards things he has learned from his father, he’s also had to keep this part of himself buried so deep that even he didn’t recognize it? Can you imagine how angry he would be? How confused and scared and resentful? Noel Fisher explained it best, I think…

              “I think everybody can relate to that experience of needing to feel hidden or [having] some part of them they have to hide, and I just really try to imagine myself in that situation-in those circumstances, and I’m thinking if I had to do that for like the duration of my life I would probably be really angry and would probably have a lot of rage and frustration. I mean just think about how much frustration happens when you’re just driving in a lot of traffic! So if that’s just the taste and then there’s a lifetime of something much more important and integral to who you are as a person that would build up a lot!…”

                              -Noel Fisher, AfterBuzz Interview 

For the Mickey haters this time, just think for a while about everything on Mickey’s shoulders and imagine yourself in that position. I am fairly certain I would grow up resentful and angry and be very cautious, even defensive, about who I bring into my life. So this is where Mickey is at this point: allowing him to indulge in his “kink” for the time being while keeping Ian at arm’s length so no one gets confused that Mickey is not gay. This way his father won’t kill him and everything continues on generally unaffected. And on top of that, he gets to have satisfying sex!

That’s it for 1x07! Feel free to submit to my Request or my Ask if I missed anything or even if you want to counter argue. Next week I’ll move on to 1x08!

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[queenjchel]

class

So im attending online course at Cerritos college. I dont mind it, it just pisses me off how come professor are, they think they know everything. Honestly they dont, they went to school, just like we did. That’s how they know things, and also how they teach us. So if I’m talking about a different subject that isnt what were learning, but the subject matter was what we were learning? Don’t shut me down, to be honest with you, so thing we were learning is that toxin can affect the brain and body. So I was explaining what i found out about the pandemic. because it had to do with the pandemic, and i got shot down! like wtf the fuck professor, the pandemic is a toxin, and were living it in everyday. whether you like it or not, its here to stay! this #pandemic isnt going away anything soon! #professor need to be educated a little more. If your teaching a class, and one topic is about toxin, even though its for a class, it can mean so much other things as well. Im not afraid to share what i learn in class or anything. The professors should be more understand?! instead of shutting the conversations down..

[bri-loves-sunflowers]

together

me: i'm trying to be ever present and woke knowing i come from a position of privilege, I want to gain your respect and create a safe place but sometimes ignorance gets the better of us all and i make human mistakes that can hurt others and i don't want anyone being hurt. Please call me out on thing you don't agree with so we can together 1) gain a better understanding of each other and 2) avoid those mistakes from happening here again.

you: .... okay you didn't have to make a 5 paragraph essay, we understand your human and will help you out when you don't understand or know a situation fully. you're good we all are good as long as we are trying.

Me: wow. thanks you're the best.

[gold-tcm]

Sent in to scope out the city

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 2:2 The king of Jericho received this report: “Note well! Israelite men have come here tonight to spy on the land.” 2:3

 I know that some may not believe this But God will send his people into territories and in that process he will want you to take it over like Joshua

 Numbers 13New Life Version (NLV)

Men Sent to Spy out the Land

13 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan which I am going to give to the people of Israel. Send a man from each of their fathers’ families, every one a leader among them.” 3 So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran, as the Lord had told him. All of the men were heads of the people of Israel. 4 These were their names. There was Shammua the son of Zaccur from the family of Reuben, 5 Shaphat the son of Hori from the family of Simeon, 6 Caleb the son of Jephunneh from the family of Judah, 7 and Igal the son of Joseph from the family of Issachar. 8 There was Hoshea the son of Nun from the family of Ephraim, 9 Palti the son of Raphu from the family of Benjamin, 10 Gaddiel the son of Sodi from the family of Zebulun, 11 and Gaddi the son of Susi from the family of Joseph, from the family of Manasseh. 12 There was Ammiel the son of Gemalli from the family of Dan, 13 Sethur the son of Michael from the family of Asher, 14 Nahbi the son of Vophsi from the family of Naphtali, 15 and Geuel the son of Machi from the family of Gad. 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. But Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan. He said to them, “Go up there into the Negev. Then go up into the hill country. 18 See what the land is like. See if the people who live in it are strong or weak, and if they are few or many. 19 Find out if the land they live in is good or bad. See if the cities they live in are open or if they have walls. 20 Find out if the land is rich or poor, and if there are trees in it or not. Then try to get some of the fruit of the land.” Now this was the gathering time of the first grown grapes.

21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Desert of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath. 22 When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron. Anak’s sons Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

23 Then they came to the valley of Eshcol. They cut down a branch from there with some grapes on it. And they carried it on a long piece of wood between two men, with some pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of much fruit the men of Israel cut down from there.

25 They returned from looking over the land after forty days. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the people of Israel in the desert of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought news to them and to all the people, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It does flow with milk and honey. This is its fruit. 28 But the people who live in the land are strong. The cities have walls and are very large. And we saw the children of Anak there. 29 Amalek is living in the land of the Negev. The Hittites and Jebusites and Amorites are living in the hill country. And the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

30 Then Caleb told the people in front of Moses to be quiet. And he said, “Let us go up at once and take the land. For we are well able to take it in battle.” 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go against the people. They are too strong for us.” 32 So they brought the people of Israel bad news about the land they had spied out, saying, “The land we have gone to spy out is a land that destroys those who go there to live. All the people we saw in it are very large. 33 We saw the Nephilim there. (The sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim.) We looked like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

 God will send his people into the land where you get to see the land but you can’t touch it, it will cover you but you can’t go into it and really freely do it. Why because you are in the “Outer courts”

 You’re on the outside you’re in the side of the city that is outside you can view what is in the city see touch smell but you don’t have full Access.

  In Joshua God told them

  4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

4:10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly, 4:11 and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on. 4:12 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them. 4:13 About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho. 4:14 That day the Lord brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected him all his life, just as they had respected Moses.

4:15 The Lord told Joshua, 4:16 “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.” 4:17 So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!” 4:18 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.

4:19 The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. 4:20 Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. 4:21 He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’ 4:22 explain to your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’ 4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. 4:24 He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the Lord’s power and so you might always obey the Lord your God.”

Because you haven’t finished the process you have to make a monument first then your must be circumcised

 He has to circumcised your heart

Circumcision and Passover at Gilgal

2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcisethe Israelites again.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.[a]

4 Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of military age—died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt. 5 All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness during the journey from Egypt had not.6 The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 7 So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way. 8 And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed.

9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal[b] to this day.

10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. 12 The manna stopped the day after[c] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

 This means that you have to go through the Growing process where god will break you once you GET to the promise land

 As I said in the October 3 post

 You have to GROW…. And he likes to do so in the most unlikely places, the pit… ALL chosen has a pit.

 Have you ever noticed those with the most godly favor went through the worst level of Poverty. Before they became famous. As long as they stay in gods will they stayed in god Favor.

 But you have to be willing to walk in you walk in the outer courts you do the work gods sent you to do in the outer courts through the observation of the territory. Just so you know the bases of your assignment and WHY you were sent there.

 So did god give you an assignment?

Have you just moved and are you… sent to scope out the land  

[tento64]

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