Wedge: Here’s the truth: I kill the enemy so someone, somewhere - probably someone I’ve never met and never will meet - will be happy.

Cheriss: That doesn’t make sense.

Wedge: Yes, it does. I told you how I lost my parents. Nothing I ever do can make up for that loss. But if I put myself in the way of people just as bad as the ones who killed my family, if I burn them down, then someone else they would have hurt gets to stay happy. That’s the only honorable thing about my profession. It’s not the killing. It’s making the galaxy a little better.

PSA: SAID IS NOT DEAD. Said is not an overused word you need to cull out of your drafts. Said is not the devil. Said is a dialogue tag that your reader's eyes glaze over, barely noticed, allowing your dialogue to shine. Allowing your characters to speak without the narration overshadowing them. Said is doing a wonderful, thankless job! Said is not dead, you take that back—

also I love the relationship between Lune & the Pevensies. 

it’s so easy to imagine that dynamic, and what must have existed between his wife and the girls. like, suddenly the winter is over and archenland can breathe again (side note: was the witch limited to narnia? c.s. lewis isn’t clear –surprise, surprise) but there are four tiny children crowned as kings and queens.

and lune is a young man himself, but he was trained to be king, and they weren’t. they are young and parentless and in need of guidance, and lune is happy to do everything he can to help them. and archenland is narnia’s fondest friend and dearest ally, and I’m getting overwhelmed imagining what that relationship must have been like. The fondness and trust and friendship between the monarchs of these two countries is so deep (after all, Lune trusts Edmund with his only son, after his firstborn was stolen, trusts him to protect him in a foreign country and bring him home again)…and lune & edmund respect each other’s guidance; edmund himself is tempered by lune’s wisdom and that must be the dynamic that was established when the pevensies first arrived in narnia. 

it’s just really great, and I’m really feeling the Lune feels.

you are 23  and your hands hold steady the block of wood you are shaping and the sweet aromatic smell of sawdust is curling around you  maybe your mother’s voice floats through an open door to tell you a meal is ready maybe you still have something to learn about carpentry as you work alongside Joseph 30 years is a long time to spend waiting quietly faithful, caring for your mother and your father, for your sisters and your brothers working with your hands ‘til the hands of God are calloused going to the synagogue to hear your words read week upon week you are 23 you are patient  building a whole life of not my will but yours, Father

maybe you pick up a nail from the workbench look at it and know 10 years from now rough hands will hold you down and drive a spike through your wrist  spilling blood onto rough wood  maybe you are already making that sacrifice now quietly faithful maybe you can teach me how to be 23 waiting, quietly faithful caring for my mother and my father, my sisters and my brothers working with the hands God gave me hearing your words week upon week

build in me a whole life of not my will but yours, Jesus

Tumblr is where girls go to be alone with other girls who are being alone and that's why I've been using this site for so long

What makes my heart flutter about this scene is that Peeta doesn't care that he just died. He cares that Katniss cares that he just died. He's husband material-ing all over the place.

The way I would actually die for Faramir and Eowyn.

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But what if I like the time loop because it means I have infinite chances to get it right

Through Death, Life

Romans 8:13/Elizabeth Elliot, A Path Through Suffering/Thomas Austin, Dry/Romans 6:4/Thomas Austin, Spring/Thomas Austin, Evergreen/Phylicia Masonheimer/John 12:24/Elizabeth Elliot, A Path Though Suffering/Andrew Peterson, The Rain Keeps Falling/Thomas Austin, Someday/Matthew 16:25/Elizabeth Elliot, A Path Through Suffering/Andrew Peterson, Adorning The Dark

South Carolina followers: free green beans on I-95!

my firstborn child is going to be named JSTOR Zotero, after the two tools that saved its mother's life 😌

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talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

Sometimes, Amazon Music glitches, and it decides to put the explicit label on random songs. I’ve had it do it to worship songs, and even an instrumental piece.

Now, it has decided that our first dance song is explicit:

Beware, Andrew Peterson has changed his style.

Undersong, ‘Equinox’ (1969) by Audre Lorde

[iD: we must be very strong / and love each other / in order to go on living.]