Hey I mean I’m personally a fan of the shortcut where I listen to what my mom, an incredible woman of God, has to say about stuff. She’s so wise, I would have made so many more bad decisions over the years without her saying “ok but the Bible says this, so...”
Realizing that translating the generalities of biblical principles into specifics for your life is a skill called "wisdom" and that it is acquired slowly over your entire life with no quick and dirty shortcuts
Girls having courage. Girls telling one another to have courage. Girls not fearing anything that is frightening. Girls fearing the frightening thing and then being told by a sister to take heart. Girls with trembling hands. Girls taking one another by those trembling hands and saying do not be afraid, we are not alone. Girls who know we need the breath of the lion to remember that bravery is our birthright now. Girls who know that this lion’s breath is the Word and the Word made flesh and that we can and must now speak this Word to one another, breathe it over one another: Do you believe what God has said…?
You’ve just put into words what I could never quite explain to my family about why I love this movie so much.
What makes Cinderella 2015 a GREAT film is the relationship between Kit and his father. That shot where the king is laying in bed, and the camera draws up toward the huge bed frame and shows his majesty, along with Kit curled up like a little boy? Because his father is dying and he loves his father? And how, even in his weakness, his father is strong and a father because he comforts his son regarding his impending death and lonesomeness?
What also makes it a great film is the aesthetics! Art nouveau! French chateau! Victorian! 1880s! Medieval! It’s mix!!! Which is exactly what “Once Upon A Time” means, it’s a mishmash of collective memory and a time in which magical things happen
And the last point on what makes it a great film is that it is unabashedly Cinderella. Cinderella is a story often criticized for “needing a prince to save her” and the issue is that Cinderella has done all she can for herself. She has. She has suffered and borne the abuse and even tried to escape it, but that’s the point of victimhood, you cannot stop it. So Kit taking her away from all that she’s suffered from is an affirmation of her value, of her glory. Yes, it was wrong that this happened to you. Yes, you did not deserve it. Yes, you are loved. The prince “rescuing” Cinderella is the direct negation of what is done to her. And frankly, because it’s a Western story and practically all Western stories are built on Christianity (we can’t help it, it’s rather unconscious), it’s a eucatastrophe! Cinderella is saved, as we all hope to be.
��why did I write down STARS big moon WANING in my notes app like I knew what I was going to mean by that when I got home?”
the alternative is also not great
"i'll remember the exact phrasing of the paragraph i just thought of for my fic when i get to my computer later, i don't need to write it down or put it in my notes app" this is the devil speaking
Wake up babe they’re making an actual Goncharov movie
Anyway if this post reaches 30000 notes I'll sit down and professionally film a Goncharov movie scene you can send to people who claim it's not real. This is completely serious, I've made movies before and I'm willing to do it for the memes.
So I was already doing a bunch of biochemistry math, and while I was still in math brain(TM), I started doing some more math in order to create a Bible/Tolkien style genealogy of the first thousand years of Narnian kings and queens (the Frank and Helen dynasty basically). And then after a while I thought to myself "why in the world am I doing this?" But I'm already five hundred years in. Not just names and years, but also exploits and how they ruled and whatnot. Modeled after Genesis and Chronicles.
So um. I don't have polls yet, but please sound off if that sounds cool/if I should finish. Like I said, idk what I'm doing. Think today might have driven me slightly insane.