"i'm burdened with glorious purpose" and "i never wanted the throne, i only ever wanted to be your equal" and "i remember a shadow. living in the shade of your greatness" and "your birthright was to die as a child" and "you were born to cause pain and suffering and death" and "do you think what makes a loki a loki is the fact that we're destined to lose?" and "you are alone and you always will be" and "my life was a waste of time" and "most purpose is more burden than glory" and "how do you live with [the burden]?" "scar tissue" and "no, there's no comfort, you just choose your burden" and "i know what i want, i know what kind of god i need to be, for you" and

my haunches are magnificent

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i think it’s a good thing that the actors can choose what they’re comfortable with and also say when they want to experiment more

but i am also cackling about joongdunk being excited on twitter about joong sneaking tongue into their first kiss and one day later that only friends trailer drops

When the tag is dry af so you can only despair with the Snowbaird discord besties

^this is irl footage of me and @crazyexshiper btw

(blabla send me a DM if you want an invite to the discord)

Some off-the-cuff thoughts on overspiritualizing patterns in science

I remember watching a talk in middle school youth group about laminin, the "molecule that holds your whole body together" which was supposedly shaped like a cross. The suggestion, basically, was that the cross's image was integral to our molecular makeup and that this was part of God's design in a very Significant way. I was a burgeoning STEM girl, so I taped a diagram of a laminin up next to my bed for a while.

(As I would later find out, the whole laminin thing had/has some reach among Christians. There are T-shirts and everything)

Fast forever to spring of my freshman year as a microbiology student. I take my first course in cell bio, and I learn that laminins are actually one of many families of ECM glycoproteins. They aren't really any more significant in "holding the body together" than collagens, elastins, or fibronectins. They're very important, yes, but ultimately just one type of adhesive protein among many. And! They also do a bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than just. Adhesive.

While some laminins do bear resemblance to a cross when diagramed, it's really only because they have three subchains. Some are t-shaped, but others are y-shaped, and those don't look anything like a cross. Also, when they're in situ rather than in a nice, neat diagram, they tend to be all floppy and then they look even less cross-like.

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And when I learned about this I was oddly relieved. It felt like I was right about something that I couldn't even put into words, and that somehow the field of what I could call glorious had grown wider.

Christians are called to see and marvel at the presence of God in creation. I love doing that! I see God left and right through my scientific studies. Yet I also know that the human brain is pattern-seeking and that we are prone to pareidolia. I honestly don't know that there's a substantive difference between seeing the cross in some laminins and seeing Jesus on a piece of toast. It's all just seeing patterns that arise from something else (in the case of laminins, being able to bind three different molecules at once) and attributing spiritual significance. God is sovereign and maybe in the grand scope of his vision for creation it means something, but in terms of seeing God's hand in science I just find it so... small?

You could spin so many four-chain or four-domain proteins or goodness knows how many other molecules into images of the cross if you pick the right diagram. You could take every pattern of three in nature (and there are many!) as an image of the Trinity. If you really, really wanted to, you could take every six in organic chemistry as a sign of the beast, which would be hilarious in its misguidedness. It just becomes so literalistic and dull so very fast.

Look! Wouldn't you rather talk about the fact that laminins begin to appear along the edge of a developing lung at just ten weeks of human embryonic development, suggesting that they play a role in alveolar morphogenesis? That they're present in the neural stem-cell niche, which makes them an attractive candidate for helping to treat degenerative neurological conditions? I want to go back to whoever gave that talk that I watched in youth group and shake him and say, "God did that, and you're still hung up on the fact that laminins have three subchains?"

PDXen

And the concepts i got lazy to turn into cards, we got Keres and Ophelia

Teller Bank$ & Ed Glorious - Serial Numbers

Alice Perrers as Icarus and the sun

David Tennant in Glorious 39

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

Came back from the Trolls movie! Happy to report that Bruce is now my designated favorite

i wanna draw my fursona but I'm still debating on if i wanna change her design....

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I may or may not have been awake all night trying to do Art Fight attacks and drank some g fuel. Then I decided to watch some YouTube videos to go to sleep to.... Then I saw something... SOMEONE'S PLAYTHROUGH OF THE RUIN DLC AND I HADN'T JUMP ON TO A VIDEO THAT FAST BEFORE NOR SQUEAL SO DAMN HARD AT 7 AM!!!

I'M GOING FUCKING FERAL AND SCREAMING RN!!!!

waiting for the rule of three parallels to finish roy giving up his career to tackle jamie One Last Time / the heatbutt and hug / royjamie celebrations as richmond win the cup

@sercphs sent: “It’s not over.” Kevin to elysia

Questions/Comments to be sent anonymously!

ㅤㅤㅤElysia looked away sadly from the man she called her friend, her ears drooping a little to coincide with the sadness visible upon her face.ㅤ❝ ...I know it's not, Kevin. It's far from over, this long war. ❞ㅤSo much has happened, but even so, this battle against the Honkai still isn't anywhere near its conclusion. It's tiring, it's saddening, it's frustrating- but despite this, Elysia soon lifts her head, and looks back to Kevin with a much more hopeful look.

ㅤㅤㅤ❝ But I have faith it'll be over one day. Someday, we'll win this fight. I believe we will. Humanity will prevail against the Honkai. It may take a long time, and it may take a lot of effort, but I believe in humanity's resolve. With all of my heart, with all of my being, I believe in humanity. ❞ㅤThis is what Elysia always has believed, so wholeheartedly. That humanity is strong, that they can succeed against any obstacle that comes their way. Her greatest wish was for humanity to succeed, and her most steadfast belief was in humanity's capabilities.

ㅤㅤㅤShe loved humanity and the world so dearly. And she believed that they would one day finally grasp victory against the Honkai which threatened to snuff out their ever-burning flame. One day, there will be an end to this. Even if the chance was small...clinging to that hope gives way to allow for miracles in her mind. If you believe enough...if you have enough faith...you can perform even things some deem 'impossible'.

ㅤㅤㅤThis is the beautiful ego that which Elysia believes in. The beautiful, everlasting faith in humanity she has always possessed since time immemorial. Her never-ending, all-encompassing, unconditional love for humanity. A love that is so great as to where she would give her everything for its sake.

ㅤㅤㅤThis is what Elysia has, and will always believe in.