once more around the sun!! :3

cast out of paradise

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

-C.S. Lewis

FRIENDLY REMINDER TO NEVER EVER GIVE IN TO DESPAIR

God doesn’t tolerate you, He loves you.

There goes Antigone, off to pray

Tomorrow will worry about itself; today has enough trouble of it's own.

i think tim should go to college but i also think he should bounce to a new one every semester because things keep happening and he keeps dropping out.

yo can we actually talk about harrow's blood face paint and veil at the beginning of htn for a sec. i know a lot of people poke fun at it but for me as someone who grew up in a veiling religion with the constant threat of that veil being taken away it's like... not being able to wear that veil IN FRONT OF PEOPLE? that's like being naked before god. it is terrifying and traumatic to not be able to wear a veil or other religious garments. at the end of the day it's not even about god specifically, like i could meet god and even if he said to take off the veil i wouldn't, because it's for me. it's for her before it's for god. i felt for harrow so hard at that part of the book and i get that she's just a scrungle but i would love if we could portray occasionally the nauseating forced vulnerability and sense of injustice you would feel at your religion being stripped from you.

Okay. So a lot of Catholics seem to think that gay sex is a sin because it is performed without the intent of procreation. Thus I give you the worst theological conversation starter of all time: is gay sex still a sin in the omegaverse equivalent of the Catholic church?

the catholic rejection of it all

Praying is beautiful, like i’m really talking to the CREATOR of all?? and He’s LISTENING? wow

no thoughts, just "where is duty, where is sacrifice" and the way that alicent clings to abstract constructs like religion, honor, duty and sacrifice because her material life is so concretely terrible and empty. to have loved someone so dearly, and watch them be what you perceive as free while your entire personhood is reduced to a womb and made to serve the realm, a vessel for the rotting king to use and abuse. to not exist as a person for yourself but in only in service to others as you are ordered by your father under a patriarchal structure..........and then the contrast of that quote, which summarizes all of alicent's anguish and agony, to the classic, "what is honor compared to a woman's love? what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms...we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love.".................but alicent doesn't have love, not anymore. duty, honor, these concepts - they're all she's got, and the lack of the very elements that make them meaningful has corroded her inside and out. so: honor, duty, sacrifice, all without love. and here we are.