a gentle reminder for all the believers out there: don't believe the lie that you are too far gone for God to reach you again. remember where & who you were before God. if he thought you were too much for him, if he thought you had strayed too far, then he wouldn't have reached out and saved you. what makes you believe it is any different this time around? the truth is: if you weren't too far gone without God, you aren't too far gone with God. he still loves you.

"My brothers and sisters, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back, let that person know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."

James 5:19‭-‬20

Why has God allowed this issue in my life? Could it be to turn my focus outward? What could God want with this, what could He be directing my gaze to? Sometimes we just have to get our eyes off of what our expectations are and realize what our opportunities are in the things we didn’t plan for.

—Carolyn McCulley (via source)

i'm just thinking abt how many providers i've had who heard my story abt psychiatric abuse + immediately individualized it. "oh, you're so smart + kind+ obviously sane! you didn't deserve that! i can't believe they gave you that diagnosis when you're obviously not like that! they shouldn't have treated u like that when all you did was xyz! they shouldn't have assumed you were crazy like that!"

there is always a third person haunting this interaction- the patient who does deserve that, who is "actually" that evilscary diagnosis, who did Have To be treated like that. if i want to soak up the affirmations of these providers, i must be careful to never become this third person. i must affirm myself by setting myself apart from her- i did not deserve to be treated like that because i am not like that.

i reject this. not only was i like that, she + everyone else like that deserve everything i deserve. they are my siblings + my friends + my lovers. i do not need to cut them out of me to believe i deserved better. i refuse to comfort myself through the lens of someone else's dehumanization. the tragedy is not that psychiatric violence was applied to someone who not insane enough to warrant it. the tragedy is the violence.

I don't think a lot of you guys are appreciating the fact that when I say yeah I think Jason Todd killed Felipe I'm thinking of my Robin Jason specifically and my Robin Jason looks like this:

God has endowed mankind with a conscience to choose between good and evil and the Holy Spirit to convict mankind of sin.

God’s worthiness of praise does not rely on your circumstances. 

ex-convict geto who stays home with the kids while you’re at work. no one wants to hire him after he’s released so he stays home and takes care of things while you’re earning, and for a guy who spent a good time in prison, he’s surprisingly gentle with his hands—they braid hair and make snacks and fold laundry and tuck the blanket under the chins of his daughters. he’s done a lot of bad things, but he’s turned over a new leaf. cause his girls need him—and you? you need him too

Ace Attorney girls will adopt older siblings and declare them "little" just because they entered the family last, it's just a fact of life.

I love that there's a consistent logic to it despite their actual ages. Both Edgeworth and Phoenix are 7 years older than both of them. Neither of these women are even in their 20's at this point while the lads are both 26. They are little brothers to them. Incredible.

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable (女囚��そり　けもの部屋), 1973, directed by Shunya Ito (伊藤俊也).

This is a cutout that I do not know the origin of.

do we know how old the interview with nigel at the start of the episode was? because he said he'd been keeping busy for the past 25 years, when the bonzo butcher incident happened and all bonzo-related stuff went down the gutter

because uh. if the interview was recent, you know what else happened 25 years ago?

the magnus institute burned down.

Remade this post of mine

The back of Discworld novels: wowee terry's whipped another wacky and wild adventure for us this time! there's so many silly shenanigans and witty wordplay in this book that you're sure to have a hilarious time!

Discword novels: a cynical alcoholic navigating and overcoming the pointlessness of his job, a transparent metaphor for racism and gun violence in the police system and in general, an intelligent young girl overcoming the ideas she's been taught by her culture and the media she consumes, just an entire novel made of commentary on war and gender, using talking animals as a way to explore what defines personhood and contrasting stories vs reality, an ex-convict coming to terms with the damage he's caused and fighting monopolies that are trying to do the same thing,

i think it would be funny if people occasionally arose from the dead. like if that was a real-life one-in-a-million but well-documented Thing That Sometimes Happens, and the entire legal system around death (laws on inheritance & marriage & murder etc) had to include caveats for the unlikely-but-scientifically-possible event that the dead person in question might spontaneously self-resurrect, even years or decades after death. it would raise so many inconvenient and absurd possibilities

every tumblr post about mecha

post: hey isn't it fucked up to try to achieve the idealized self through war machines that you're forced to pilot

someone whose understanding of the genre is exclusively through 4th wave armored core 6 memes: yeah and it's also sexy as hell and your mech is your perfect body that every woman strives for and you should always obey your handler like a good puppy

(Spoilers for the "A Knight Stranger" companion quest if you wanna go into it completely blind!l)

A couple of drawings inspired by the Luocha companion quest lol

i. Armchair detective March and best girl Luocha

ii. My reaction to Yassified Luocha's english voice

iii. Welt comments on March's story telling