Hey, it’s the Anon obsessed with “Where the lovelight gleams” again! Just wanted to say I cackled at your recent post about being a dirty liar because “Love came back to me” updated instead! A note of appreciation for that chapter though, when Anthony said “Consider me”, I held my breath, my heart stopped, and I wanted him to tell her so badly that he loved her! Great work, thank you so much.

In the spirit of my usual preoccupation with “Where the lovelight gleams”, any word or snippet you could share with us about the next update? This AU has been such a saving grace, such comfort food and I look forward to it so much. For some reason I really want to see Kate and Anthony cooking in the cabin. Just like Beckett does for Evie! Btw hope your bf’s Super Bowl party went well- not sure if his team ending up winning! ❤️

hello!!!!

it's so nice to hear from you again! i'm glad it made you laugh, i felt so bad. i had all the intentions of updating love light next but... ah, yeah my mind focused in on the aftermath of chapter 17 since i've had it plotted for soooo long. i'm so happy it's been well received!

but i SWEAR love light it next. i'm actually working on it now ;)

bk borison recently re-released her lovelight series under her new publishing company (yay we love her continued success!) and mixed signals came with a snippet of the next book for charlie x nova and lets say..... it's made me feral. i want to re-read all the books again. they are my comfort. i can't wait for business casual to release.

i love this au i keep coming up with stories for basically all of the bridgerton siblings, and for kanthony once i finish this one. i really want to make this a large on-going series, so i'm glad someone else is enjoying as much as i do!

and if have asked, so you will receive! coincidently, i have a food orientated scene for this chapter lmao:

& thank you! he had a good bday even though they lost! i made a powerpoint of trivia about him for our friends and everyone enjoyed that along with the baby pictures — he was (happily) mortified

being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)

Physically, I am getting through it.

Mentally, I am laying on the ground kicking my feet and screaming that it isn't fair.

why did he do this (rhetorical) (profoundly affected)

also also I know everyone likes to talk about how good of an archon Venti is because he left mondstadt to do its own thing and hey look Zhongli's doing the same now with his retirement but I also like how the story shows it isn't without flaws, with so much freedom in the city it's all too easy to take control with power, Mondstadt's people may be free but they also don't have a god to actually uphold the ideal they stand for and how personal freedoms conflict, discrimination(eg. against Eula and her clan) is allowed because the people are free to do whatever they want, the fatui really wormed their way into mondstadt during the webtoon + nearly did with Davalin bc the people of mondstadt do whatever they want so Jean is overworked and the knights are ineffective(according to Diluc), and how mondstadt might have been the least free place for the common people during the Lawrences rule despite being the region governed by the archon of freedom

Zhongli at least first tested his people were ready before retiring, Venti kinda acended, organized a bunch of celebrations for his people, then left them to have fun with their newfound freedom only interveining when things get really bad

Sure dancing with Wyll is sweet. But having Wyll fall for someone who literally can't dance to save their life ... its just amazing. He's so concerned she's gonna hurt herself 🤣

i don’t think all yokai in rottmnt live for centuries. there was that one cat lady in the stands who visibly aged at a pace similar to splinter’s after the last twenty years. she was young in his flashback, and wrinkled during the episode’s present day.

so maybe it’s the really powerful yokai lineages that live a long time.

need more fics ab steve having some super traumatic thing happen in his childhood which is the reason he’s so ‘unfazed’ and ‘normal’ after the upside down (bc he’s ALREADY traumatized)

Y'all are gonna think I'm so weird.

But I'm running with this idea I've had for a while for my mcl ocs. Well, other than the actual other mcl ocs I've made.

It's part lazy, part bizarre.

Clones.

Yep, clones.

My MCL NG oc is a clone of the original Puku, but different. I haven't figured out the details yet, but it's like what I did with Pukun, Puku's male clone. It has the idea of a type of clone theory idea of nature vs nurture. The DNA and nature of the puku clones is the same, but the nurture is always a bit different depending on circumstances. Puku "prime" is the parent of all the clones made, but Puku "prime" had a different parentage and upbringing than the clones. Not to mention, the events of each mcl game has different outcomes for clone Puku.

This Puku has -teal- hair and is a zoomer, I guess. Raised by Puku "prime" and has the existential grappling of dealing with being a clone in general.

There's... still a lot of ironing out to do. Like... Where does Kentin fit into all this? How should I incorporate the family given to Puku 2.0 in New Generation?

Why am I giving this plot to an MCL OC!??

lol

I may regret asking this, but I have an interdenominational, interfaith question about the literalness of the Bible for folks who are familiar with the doctrine of the more conservative denominations of Christianity.

So in the more traditional branches of Judaism, it is generally held that the Torah was given to Moses on Mt. Sinai, word-for-word. However, the other two sections of the Tanakh are not literally the Word of God, but rather the words of the prophets and important sacred writings (poems, histories, etc.) Now, obviously there is a spectrum of beliefs and more liberal Jews will attribute the five books of Moses to more earthly sources, while still holding them as very sacred. However, even the strictest of orthodox Jews still interpret the Torah and base their understanding of halacha on the Talmud and commentaries. Bottom line: in Judaism, the absolute *most* amount of sacred texts that form the Hebrew Bible that are attributable to God as God's direct words are the books of Torah, which are still interpreted by human beings to be able to be put into practice.

However, I have come across an alarming amount of Christians who say they take the [whole?] Bible literally. I genuinely don't understand what is meant by this, as only the first five books were ever attributed to God as direct revelation, and so even if you assume that the New Testament is also 100% verbatim word-of-God revelation (which I don't know for certain if these Christians do assume that) you're still missing the vast chunk of the Prophets and Writings from the Old Testament.

So I guess my questions are: When Christians say they 'take the [whole] Bible literally,' what do they actually mean by this in practice, since even the Hebrew Bible (never mind the whole Christian Bible) has tons of apparent contradictions that can only be resolved through interpretation? Is this actually common and/or historical doctrine? Or is this American Christianity being bizarre, especially in the last 50 years?

Do Christians who hold by this concept make a distinction between the books of Torah and the rest of the Bible? If not, how do they get around the fact that the other books were not verbatim revelation?

ONE TIME IN SEVENTH GRADE I TOLD EVERYBODY AT SCHOOL THAT I HAD APPENDICITIS I WANTED SOMEONE TO WORRY ABOUT ME BUT WHEN BETH BRANNON ASKED TO SEE THE SCAR I DIDNT WANT TO GET FOUND OUT SO I TOOK MOMS SCISSORS AND I MADE ONE IT HURT LIKE HELL BUT IT WAS WORTH IT BECAUSE I GOT SEVENTEEN CARDS AND I STILL KEEP THEM IN A BOX UNDERNEATH MY BED TWENTY TWO YEARS LATER BECAUSE IT PROVES THAT SOMEBODY AT SOME POINT CARED ABOUT ME WANT TO SEE THE SCAR SO YOU GET CREDIT FOR THAT TOO THIS IS ME

only hot girls get emotional about the relationship between jesus and judas every night

liking star wars is partly crying over obi-wan as a neat little study in grief and partly dodging obi/kin shippers as a form of extreme sport

You know what would be the worst? If at the end of the war when all is said and done, after the clones lost every little thing they had, after Vaders rise and the Jedi’s fall, after all that death and hardship and misery? It would be terrible to be a clone and wake up like suddenly coming out of a coma, in a stasis chamber that they grew up in and rarely left, there was the craziest dream just before and there’s the lingering feeling something important just happened, this is Kamino 35bby, all the information they were just fed is already neatly stored in their perfect flash-memory brain. No ones died yet, all of that was a simulation based on a calculation of events to instal orders and hone the discipline of troops. It’s dark, there’s no way of telling if anyone or anything exists beyond the boundary’s of the inside. There’s a designated call sign and designation along with vitals displayed in the line of vision, it’s also counting down the seconds to when a new simulation is set to begin.

History Channel guys: So glad to have you onboard for our docudrama. Here's the script telling you everything you need to know to play Ulysses S. Grant.

Actor: This just says, "Stare off into the distance and take a long drag on a cigar."

History Channel guys: Yeah, we're pretty sure he ended 75% of his conversations that way, so this show is going to reflect that.

Actor: Okay, then. Throat cancer, here I come!

Modern Slim AU where Maglor, for the clout, creates a dedicated side tiktok account where its just cameos/thirst trap videos of his Stupidly Hot Older Brother Maedhros just doing like... normal things but maybe he has his sleeves rolled up (to show off his arms) so they dont get dirty while cooking Ambarussa dinner, or helping Nerdanel lift some marble/stones/busts in her workshop, and the one with the most views and comments is the one where his long red hair is up in a messy bun and hes got an apron on overtop of a soft looking sweater and little baby Tyelpë on his hip and he's talking into his cell phone about some political thing for their grandfather. The audio is (obvi) covered over with the song "Guy.exe" meme

It's stupidly popular, everyone loves this stupidly soft beautiful man. Fingon has followed the account since Maglor first started (as did most of the siblings and cousins) and shows up sometimes in vids. One of the most liked ones is where Fingon looks to Maglor and the camera, goes "No matter what, if I throw myself at Maedhros he will catch me in his arms" and then takes a running leap at Mae (who is talking to their grandfather in some important looking political office, he's wearing a suit) who panics, turns to basically body block their grandfather and catch Fingon. The caption is "and then Maedhros yelled at us for 2 hours straight"

For their 2 mill followers Maglor gleefully takes requests in the comments. Maedhros, who was aware of the account but thought it was so stupid that he never really interacted with it, was bribed and blackmailed into actually interacting with their viewers one (1) time.

The video, which has the most views and went viral, to Maedhros' mortification, is a video of Maedhros himself in a maid costume with little ginger cat ears holding notecards. Behind him, armed with pillows and ready to strike if given any hesitation, are Celegorm (a full grown man) and the two gleeful (teenage) Ambarussa twins. He reads from the notecards a set of phrases paid for by the highest donations. Its a few shout outs, some memes, and the video ends after he pauses, frowns, looks at Maglor behind the camera and goes "What is an OnlyFans and why would someone pay just to ask me to make an accou--" and he is cut off by Celegorm and Ambarussa beating the hell out of him with their pillows. Maedhros annoyed yell is cut off my Maglor scream-laughing behind the camera and the video being cut just as Maedhros twirls around, ripping Celegorm's pillow out of his hands and goes to retaliate, skirts twirling a little too high but nothing is seen.