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Apples to apples

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You boys in need of some saving?

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A circular golden Viking brooch from Hornelunde near Varde in Denmark. This brooch, decorated with wire filigree and granulation, was made by a Danish goldsmith in the last half of the tenth century. It’s now on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen [1259x1259]

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/fca0x4/a_circular_golden_viking_brooch_from_hornelunde/

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Really niche things I recommend to research when bored:

Judith Butler’s queer theory

Hofstede’s national cultures

Anne Lister

Creative nonfiction and Gutkind

The queer culture of Berlin in the early to mid 1900s

Stone Butch Blues

Geoff Ryman’s novel 253

A room of one’s own by Virginia Woolf

The effect of Ibsen’s play ‘The Doll’s House’ on Chinese feminism

Feminist economics

The history of the term “Spinster”

Lesbian pulp fiction

Queerbaiting in Marketing

Saladin

Islamic cultures and their scientific discovers in the 5th-15th century

Take this isolation as an opportunity to indulge in yourself and your interest but do not force yourself to do things, I know it’s an anxiety fuelled time. Please feel free to add to the list and stay safe!

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y o u ’ r e   n o t   a l o n e .

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Spheroid Universe

https://spheroiduniverse.io

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Moment

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I don’t tend to see Christians talk about this much, or in a very nuanced way, and I think it’s worth talking about. and that is that suppression and surrender are two different things.

suppression is the refusal to acknowledge feelings you’d rather not feel. it’s stuffing them down out of shame or guilt, or the belief that you’re not “supposed” to feel them, in favour of pretending that you don’t experience them at all. suppressing anger, for example, leads to long-term bitterness, grudges, and burn-out from pretending you’re a happy peppy optimistic Christian all the dang time. it is deeply unhealthy.

surrender is the active, honest acknowledgment of your feelings, desires, and temptations, without attaching undue shame to them, and then bringing them to the feet of Jesus and choosing to live by His Word anyway. it is not a dismissal of feelings but the very act of bringing them to light so He may show you what to do about them. 

surrendering to God’s way does not mean shoving feelings of anger or bitterness or anxiety into a dark crevice, or acting like you can brush off years of pain in a moment.

surrender is telling God you are hurt, letting yourself feel the pain of being wronged so that your pain may be healed by Christ’s tenderness and love. 

surrender is telling Him you are anxious, you are desperately frightened, and letting Him be present in your trembling, letting Him be peace and steadiness and unconditional love while you breathe and count and grounding-technique through the wave of panic.

surrender is allowing yourself to say you did not deserve the abuse, you will not stand for abuse, you will not return to your abusers, and working day by day to forgive your abusers and pray for them anyway. 

surrender is telling Jesus you are sorely tempted- to cheat on the exam, to cheat on your partner, to objectify your cute coworker, to talk shit about your boss- and allowing Him to lead you away from acting on it and into doing the right thing anyway.

surrender is the exact opposite of suppression.

I so often see this message online, explicitly and implicitly, that whatever you’re feeling is valid– and it is!– but then it just… stops there. if you’re angry, good, stay angry. you shouldn’t have to forgive anyone. you shouldn’t have to treat people with dignity if you don’t like them. nobody has the right to tell you to act in a way that doesn’t completely indulge your feelings. treat yourself. you do you.

I disagree. indulgence may seem like the right fix because it’s surely the polar opposite of suppression. but being a slave to your thoughts and emotions is no better than being a slave to shame. it is good to express anger. it is also good to place limits on your anger so you express it in healthy ways. it is okay to have a mental illness. it is also important to not let that illness define your very being, to remember you are more, to fight for recovery. it is completely normal to be tempted in a thousand ways. it is important to resist temptation and seek to do the right thing, and run to the grace and overwhelming love of God when you don’t.

true freedom in Christ comes when you are open with Him about all you are, and willing to let Him lead you through the maze. true freedom makes room for limits and boundaries, ones that will help you grow and flourish.

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it’s 2020 and i am still crying over dan and blair, we need a dair support group at this point.

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Petition for Netflix to get Penn and Leighton in a romcom together. To make up for their tragic ass ending in GG

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I just wanna say that “With you she was always caught up in schemes and takedowns, but that’s not really her. She’s intelligent, she’s intuitive. You know? She weeps when she watches Nights of Cabiria.” 🤪🤪🤪