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I don't think the Trinity is that hard to understand or explain. o:

I usually think of it like this:

You have a friend; they have 3 jobs.

They have a job as a engineer, a cashier, and a janitor.

You wouldn't go to your friend in each job and ask "Are you the same guy I know????" - You know it's the exact same friend at each job, even though they're doing something different at each job.

Or think of it in gaming terms:

It's like someone with three different characters in a game. They switch between each character whenever needed, but you know it's the exact same person controlling each character, despite the different skills/class abilities.

Heck, even further think of someone who changes their hair color + style every day. You don't question or ask if they're the same person from when you first saw them. You know it's the same person, just different presentation.

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Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

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this is a terrible time to be alive *remembers the latter half of the 14th century* this is a not so good time to be alive

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

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Tapestry is traditionally woven from the back, weavers sometimes mount a mirror to show them what the work will look like as they do it.

I've been thinking about this all day.

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This is not a completely original observation, but I very strongly believe that one of the things that makes Shakespeare so worth producing over and over is that many of them have very substantial questions at their heart that the text does not definitively answer and can be addressed in different ways.

I told my five year old son the basic story of Hamlet last week (it came up, I swear) and his first question was “was it true? Was the ghost real?” You can hang a whole production on that question! And you don’t even need a definitive answer, the ambiguity of it drives drama.

there's a certain genre of horror media out there that's like "I'm gonna represent the horror of what having psychosis feels like through the narrative device of a character being haunted by an evil ghost" and you go "yep this is a pretty clear metaphor for what having psychosis feels like via the metaphor of an evil ghost" but then later when you say that the character is psychotic everyone else says "??? no they were being haunted by an evil ghost where did you get the idea that they were psychotic they're literally normal"

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I’ve got my mom’s last name, and I gave my son my last name, change is possible, though it takes a generation or two.

I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”

So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”

Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.

Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.

But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.

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BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE — 1958, dir. Richard Quine

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kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

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(gesturing towards your little sister) you know that thing would eat you if you died, right?

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The Mouth of Krishna, Albarran Cabrera

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idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

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"divine feminine" "divine masculine"

wrong. Divine.

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~ The College Freshman’s Don’t Book, by George Fullerton Evans, 1910