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Touch

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Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

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Anyone who actually cares about people in Gaza would be happy that the leader of a terrorist group that oppresses them and has seen their deaths as an acceptable price to pay is dead. That does not mean you support the IDF killing and displacing civilians. Anyone who can hold more than one thought in their head at a time knows that. You do not, under any circumstance, have to hand anything to Netanyahu or Sinwar.

Anyway here are a couple of reactions from Palestinians that I quickly grabbed from twitter:

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I finally opened my own etsy shop for these keychains

If you have any questions let me know 🛐

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This actually happens A LOT in Japan

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Love flutter so much

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2012) #3

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working on something

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I had a dream that I don’t remember, except for walking into a room to a Jonathan Crane casually at a desk and Edward facing the wall as shown above. I asked, “what’s up with prima donna over there?” And Jon shrugged while responding that he made Edward cry by telling him he wasn’t the center of attention.

That’s it. That’s all I remember.

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ok so who was gonna tell me that the guilt of existence, feeling perpetually too mature and not mature enough, and alternating between crippling emotional numbness and crushing emotional dysregulation isn’t a normal experience for a 16 year old

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shaming people for writing noncon and saying they support actual rape is not it

do u not realize that it’s just fiction? people dont actually support that irl its literally just writing

Whether it’s fiction or not changes nothing. Would you say the same if someone wrote smut about Ellie and Joel? Or fuck it, how about Ellie and David too? It’s just fiction, right? Or are you gonna say that that’s different and rape’s less serious to you?

If rape is fine because “it’s just fiction”, then where do you draw the line? Is there a line at all? Writing about your sick rape fantasies is no different than writing about pedophilia. It may be fiction, but it reflects who you are as a person and what you’re into. Romanticizing rape is wrong the same way romanticizing pedophilia is wrong, and if you disagree then you seriously need help. Get the fuck off my account

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Had a conversation with a couple friends last night where we were talking about just how out of hand weddings get, and I brought up the fact that weddings in Christian-majority cultures used to not be separate events. Sure, if you were royalty/nobility you’d have a big spectacle, but partially because your wedding was also a political event.

For a long time in Christian cultures, the wedding happened on a Sunday during normal Mass/church service, just as Baptisms and confirmations do today.

When I said this, my friends (who have two small children) expressed how beautiful they thought that was (not overdoing the spectacle, keeping it connected to the church and focused on Jesus, having the whole church family there, etc) and how they hoped for something like that for their children.

Maybe this is the answer to the spectacle of weddings. You can still have a nice dress, you can still hold a bouquet, you can still have friends and family there. But the purpose of the wedding ceremony is to have your community there as witnesses - yes, if your best friend from childhood wants to fly in, that’s awesome. But who is going to be there to support you as a couple when the honeymoon phase ends? Your church community.

We might need to start encouraging the trend of making weddings part of the life of the Church again, rather than a spectacle of wealth that puts new couples in debt (new couples who then say they can’t afford to have kids…)

In a Facebook group I’m a part of, someone shared this video. It’s from a Lutheran church in Romania. This was their Sunday service yesterday, and it included a wedding (skip to 1:01:55 for that part)

Note, I don’t know this couple. I don’t know what things about this ceremony were their choice, or were tradition in their community. I don’t know if the woman chose a simple dress because she’s just not a fancy dress person.

But what I love about this is that it’s a simple wedding where marriage is still seen as a sacred bond. This isn’t a courthouse wedding or a Vegas chapel wedding. It’s sacred, it’s reverent, it’s special, and it’s simple. Christ is the center, and everything is draped with the Word of God and the historic liturgy of the Church.

If you chose to do your wedding this way, you could still wear a fancier dress, you could still have your father (or other father figure) walk you down the aisle and give you away. But a wedding during the church service with a cake and punch reception in the fellowship hall after service is every bit as a valid as the $100k weddings on TikTok. In fact, with the research on the relationship between wedding cost and divorce rate, the simple wedding is likely better.

Now, I’m saying this as someone who had a relatively expensive wedding, at least compared to the video above. My parents were willing to pay for the bells and whistles because I’m the only daughter, they had a simple wedding, and they wanted me to have all the things. I very much appreciate their willingness to do so, and I have great memories from that day. But it wouldn’t have weakened my marriage in any way if we had a simpler wedding, and if we had a culture where simple church weddings were the norm, I think we’d have fewer divorces.

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Season 4 is out RIGHT NOW!!

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UHM Anyways... (IT'S AVAILABLE HERE)

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Its me😏

Tag that one friend in the group with a hot dad.

I drew this when I was bored at AILA and it's so hard to redraw group shots on paper multiple times!!! It was very fun tho, I'm proud of how scrungly they look

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context?

The Owl and his Talon

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It was funnier in my head