#unity through love

[compassionmattersmost]

Teachings of Jesus: Reclaiming the Inclusive Message of Christ

It is said that Jesus once spoke of a way, a truth, a life so profound that it encompassed the very heart of God. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,” he told his followers. “No one comes to the Father except through me.” These words, layered with mystery and spoken from love, have carried through centuries. And yet, how often they have been misunderstood, repurposed into boundaries…

[awaywithself]

Thinking about zosan where they butt heads during the day, shoes to blades, scalding words, scathing glares. while none of it holds any real weight, they still play up this grand facade of hating each other, swearing by the stars they can’t stand to be in the same room.

but when night falls, those same stars pay witness to how zoro lingers in the galley as sanji cleans up after dinner, dozing off to the gentle clinks of washed plates. they see how sanji climbs up to the crow’s nest long after everyone has fallen asleep, with blankets and a bottle of zoro’s favorite sake in tow.

they see how zoro ambles into the men’s quarters after night watch and clambers into his hammock, bumping not-so-subtly into sanji’s. they see how sanji gently rouses at the movement, and when zoro’s settled, his breathing even, he slides out of his own bed and climbs in with him. he nudges him over, zoro huffing with childish and weightless petulance as he shifts to give sanji the space to curl into his side. they stay like that for however long the darkness of night lasts, sanji’s head on zoro’s chest and zoro’s arm around him, tucked close into each other, warm under the blankets and briefly, blissfully impervious.

and when the sun rises, chasing away the stars and their secrets, they part and do it all over again.

[takemebacktowheniwassane]

*inhale*

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!

Happy pride to the trailblazing gays in the background who brought representation into media you enjoy!!

Happy pride to front-running queer characters that showed people a relationship with someone who you love above all else is valid and beautiful!

Happy pride to openly trans, enby, & gender queer characters (and all the likes!) with experiences that make people feel SEEN and LOVED.

Happy pride to everyone :) I hope we all have such a lovely month and continue to persevere through hardships and bigotry to come out stronger and better than ever before. Love yourself and others, and drink lots of water (stay hydrated at parades DEFINITELY)! Stay safe out there!!

❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🩷 🤎 🖤

(Bonus art because I’m messing with their comic designs— William with buck teeth my beloved)

[blackstarlineage]

"The Rastafari believe that through Jah, all things are possible. Life is about peace, love, and unity."

[fisherrprince]

miskellaneous

[nyenyerle]

something that’s really cute in lotr i that every time it says “and sam thought words were useless here” that’s actually tolkien realising he needs to put on his big boy pants and find words anyway. and the words he finds then catapult you into the 5th dimension

[asexual-levia-tan]

anyway i think i've mentioned this before but i do adore that yoojin has been acting with hyunjae the same way he acted with baby!yoohyun

its so easy to forget that most people hate hyunjae even aside from the ones he abandoned. and then there's yoojin like "what about hyunjae? are we bringing hyunjae?"

[someweirdoreblogger]

I want to rant about Buddha and how important it is to note that, for one of the least burdened men on Earth, who explicitly prides himself in natural solitude, independent of connection and influence, is one of the most responsible people in not only in Ragnarök but across the realms.

I want to.

So badly.

[brothermoth]

I fear I may be developing an assassin's creed hyperfixation

[eugenedebs1920]

Life is a series of lessons. Trial and error. Success and failure. Despite copious amounts of planning, regardless the itinerary one had planned, even with all one’s efforts. The winds of the great magnet will ultimately choose the way.

I once told a friend, going through a rough time, ‘Man! You can swim against the current all day and you’ll end up in the same place you started. If you go with the flow, it’ll bring you to the sea.” I surprised myself with how prophetic it sounded.

Just go with the flow.

What happens when that flow takes you and those you care for, through rapids, white water, crashing and tossing the cargo most dear, you and those dearest to yous, safety, happiness, and well being?

Maybe that was the point. If you were to follow my theory, the flow was taking you where you belonged. Through the turmoil, through the chaos, through the uncertainty, so you weren’t stationary. Yet when you look upstream, that position once stagnant, looks peaceful and inviting.

If you look at it through the lens of eastern philosophy, being present in the moment because moments are eternity. From a, want is the root of all suffering and, through suffering comes enlightenment perspective, the tumultuous times are the very essence of existence.

The thing is.

It’s not me where my concern lies. My life has been a series of pain, loss , abandonment, and struggle. I’ve had to start from nothing a couple times. I am use to nothing coming easy, to everything having to be done the hard way. It’s toughened me, aided in an ability to adapt, to survive. It’s made me who I am.

It’s those who are vulnerable. Those who are easy targets. Those who are marginalized. Those who are unable, unwilling, incapable of properly defending themselves from the rapids of existence or the cruelty of others.

I can’t stand a bully. I’m a pretty big, blue collar, tradesman who has used his body to make a living for over 20 years now. There’s not a whole lot of people where, face to face, are going to try and push me around, physically threaten me. It’s not a great idea. People who bully, degrade, discriminate, or pick on others are not something that I’ve had to deal with since grade school.

Yet I see it often. I see people hurt and take advantage of people who don’t deserve it, sometimes don’t even realize it’s happening. It pisses me off! Those people who would push around someone they know do not pose a danger to them, those people, I can see right through them. Insecure and hurt children, despite the age, who, as a defense mechanism for what happened, or didn’t happen, to them, put this tough guy mask on, overly aggressive and macho. It reeks of a lack of self confidence.

They express this frustration, this anger, this lack of self worth by making others miserable, by making it hard on them because life has been hard on themselves, and why should others have it easy when everything was such a struggle in their lives. By making others feel small and powerless, for whatever reason, makes them feel the opposite. Powerful, strong, tough.

I think that’s one of the, if not the, hardest things in the outcome of the 2024 election. To know, that the most vulnerable, easiest to target, kindest people, are the ones in the line of fire. The ones who already singled out for their differences, status, or preferences in society. They are now who will be isolated to receive the blunt force of the victors.

Immigrants and their families, working hard for a better future, paying into a system they will not reap the benefits from down the line. The LGBTQ community, already ostracized for who they are. Minorities, unable to hide or pretend they aren’t the color they are, disenfranchised for years, and scapegoated unjustly. Women, treated like second class citizens for millennia, given the right to vote after those of color, or trusted to even control their own bodies by a patriarchal culture. Those with disabilities. The young. The old. The marginalized masses of America. Now more vulnerable than ever before.

It’s said that, “the cruelty is the point” when it came to Donald Trump and MAGA. I don’t disagree. These people didn’t hide their prejudices. They didn’t hide their hatred, their anger. Some politicians, some movements, will put a front on, use dog whistle. They were using a blow horn to announce their dislike of transgender people, their dislike of immigrants, their dislike of women. Their dislike of equal treatment. They ran on that shit.

The worst people, with the worst perspective, with the worst intentions, now validated in their plight. Given assurance that their xenophobic, anti-immigrant, racist tendencies and behaviors are credible. They are vindicated in their actions and hate speech.

Thats what hurts. The thought that these bullies, these assholes, these racist pricks, are given legitimacy to continue that tradition.

That those who are already unguarded in this world are now left in a place with even less protection.

It’s not fair to them! It’s not acceptable to hurt those who are the most sensitive and open. It’s not fair to isolate those who were already isolated in this turbulent world. Now it will be even harder. The current of existence submersing them in the riptide of a populous focus. How is that ok!?

It’s not. Martin Luther King Jr once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of Convenience and comfort, but where he stand in times of challenge and controversy”. Thats where those of us who can defend, must defend.

Those of us with the capability to stand up against the wrongs done to others. To defend those who are cornered and scared. To protect the rights of our fellow human, regardless whether it directly affects ourselves or not.

To protect and defend the Constitution. To safeguard democracy. To secure the rights and liberties that so many, gave so much for us to have.

Things are going to get worse before they get better. Just last week a group of Nazis where waving swastica flags outside of an Anne Frank play. The Trump administration hasn’t even began yet, but these pricks are validated that this behavior is acceptable, it’s condoned even. It’s going to get worse.

That’s why it’s important that if we can, we do. This treacherous journey has just begun, but when we come out the other side. May we be all the more better for it. All the more strong and tougher due to it. May we show that being good is far more rewarding than being a jerk.

Only through this will we get the world we want to see. Through our actions through our kindness. John Adams once said, “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do”.

[justana0kguy]

2024 MAY 09 Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Thursday

"I urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace."

~ Ephesians 4:1-2

[jarkonian]

pffffffffffgrAUGH HELLO

Crazy ass month but still kicking! Moved overseas and been mainly focused on All That Entails.

Around the same time, I also kinda lost steam on the Tornado game, if I’m honest. Had some free time though this week so decided to work on a different project for a bit to get the gears turning.

So, for now, here’s a little snippet of a unit command system I’ve been thinking of for a while!

Green ball is ‘summon’, calling all units to your side, and purple is ‘command’, telling units to attack whatever’s in the circle!

[silent-moons-camp]

Well, I did it. I finished Starfield. Ish. Spoilers below.

My mind was already made. Kanan couldn't leave their home behind. I couldn't leave everything behind. Kanan wasn't lying when they said the journey far outweighed the destination, and I have to agree.

For as much as the Unity offers... there is still plenty to be done in this universe. The Unity tells us that with Constellation's publishing of everything we've found, and with the Starborn out of the way, humanity takes that giant leap together. And I think, at the end of the day, someone will step through the Unity. Someone will witness the infinite in full. But for me, for Kanan... this universe is enough.

I did load a save to see what would happen if I stepped through. And the cutscene with the swelling music... It was overwhelming, in a good way. All the fruits of my labor led to that moment, witnessing eternity, witnessing the infinite, seeing the vast cosmic universe bend. It sure was something. It left me breathless.

Man. Starfield really is something special.

I'll keep fucking around with Kanan's save for some time. I'll probably end up doing a new playthrough with them. I do plan on doing a playthrough with their sister, Senya, where I will actually experience all the alternate universes, since she goes through the Unity in my canon.

I'm going to be coming back to this game for a long time to come. (I mean, this game has been my entire personality since it came out. It has filled every waking thought. You can ask my friends, they'll likely tell you they're annoyed with me for spending so much time with Starfield and being unable to do movie nights because of it, lol.)

Anyway. Just wanted to put my thoughts out there.

[eveonbee]

can we just talk about Chevalier/Chevalière d'Éon for a second?

In a network of secret spies, the captain of the dragoons, consistently danced on the gender line, and died at the ripe age of 81 as a legally recognized woman. Yet, even now, the wiki-page never uses a pronoun for d'Éon; just d'Éon.

If that isn't gender goals, idk what is.

[furyblaze76tm]

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[fandfnews]

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