#[act of contrition.]

[ave-immaculata]

Father told me that crying about it won't fix anything and if I actually forgave them then it wouldn't so painful

[cup-of-starlight-waters]

thinking about boromir dying and and his last words being “I have failed”

and Aragorn saying “No!” and kissing his brow and “You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory”

and realizing that even here, Tolkien was planting the seeds for Frodo, because Boromir’s victory, the victory Aragorn praised him for was that he fell to the Ring’s temptation but unlike gollum and Isildur he came back—

and because he came back, Frodo could too.

[project-catgirlpillar]

I think Viewing Monika as some Kind of evil Mastermind does her character a huge disservice for multiple reasons but also Just cause it ascribes her a Level of competence she simply does Not display

[apenitentialprayer]

It is not hard to be good, if you don't let yourself be cast down by your faults and failings. Only learn to repent well and a holy life becomes much easier. We all fall often; that is to be expected, we are weak and we are surrounded by temptations. When we fall we ought not to be surprised as if we had expected never to fall again. We ought not to be cast down, but we ought to make our self-accusation. "There you are again. O God, forgive me. I wish I had not offended Thee. I wish I had kept my resolution. I will begin again. O God, help my weakness." See whether this plan won't help you.

George Porter, S.J., the future Archbishop of Bombay, in a letter written to a Sister of Mercy on September 22nd, 1873

[septembersung]

One of the things that gets me about world war z is it’s very realistic for how something awful on a big scale would happen. That fast, that confusing. And the only reason him stopping to observe, even for seconds, works without killing him is because it’s a movie.

[baylardian-1]

Having that Protectors in Threshold AU brainrot agaaaaaiiiiiiiiin. :)

Just some stuff of her cooking and gardening and her return to the fleet and whatnot!

Part of me has the thought that like, Kathryn would have pumpkin cravings and would ask her mom to do things for her but Gretchen would make her go start the crops and everything herself. (Maybe being a little moody about Kathryn not disclosing her pregnancy with her mother until she needed to) Another part is like,,, Gretchen would probably bend over backwards to get her firstborn daughter what she wants and everything while she has her and Kathryn would help her out and get back into gardening. Another part is like, well maybe Gretchen started the pumpkins before Kathryn arrives on Earth lol. It's like a three to four month interval for pumpkins I think.

[itsallmadonnasfault]

[navree]

Let's be honest, and I say this with full offense, Lucerys Velaryon is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Dance of the Dragons. He is meant to be a sacrificial lamb to kick off the entire war proper. If we had gotten a full season of development with him like we did with the younger cast in Game of Thrones, I guarantee more people would've felt something. The only reason I personally feel bad is from a baseline level of empathy, because he was a child who was placed in an unwinnable situation due to his mom being completely irresponsible with him and his brothers.

However…

The comparison between Lucerys and Aemond is no contest. Love him or hate him, Aemond has an actual personality and goals when we first meet him. There's enough dimension in Aemond as a child to showcase the potential for sympathy between him and Jace at the funeral, a scene they didn't need to put in, but they did, which emphasizes his own innocence. Even before he breaks bad fully in S1E10, he's still far more compelling to watch due to the number of scenes allocated to him and his dynamic with other people.

This is where you and I are going to disagree just a bit, because Lucerys does do something in S1E07 and S1E08. He gouges out the eye of a family member and petulantly whines that he “didn’t do anything!” when confronted with the possibility of getting in trouble for it, then years later has the nerve and complete lack of sense to giggle at the person he permanently maimed only hours after his legitimacy was publicly called into question (again) and resulted in a murder. The narrative (perhaps unintentionally) glosses over these moments in favor of portraying him as good, whereas if you read between the lines, you can see that as being an oversimplification. The problem is that because S1 was truncated, secondary characters like Lucerys don’t receive screentime dedicated to portraying anything other than a single personality trait. Unfortunately, because of his role in the text and the way it was adapted for television, there was never a chance that Lucerys would be interesting.

I don't even have anything to add, this is just objectively correct.

[restinthewest]

Lately I’ve really been wallowing in my own drama over Hallow’s health and grieving my very much alive dog. Honestly, she’s fine. Yes she’s effed up but also she’s fine. I think it’s hard for me to be positive right now because I haven’t felt physically well since October and it’s making me extra doom and gloom. So melodramatics it is.

Still, when I’m laying in bed being emo about the whole situation and I’ll look over and Hallow will just be there being Hallow… thrashing her soccer ball, rolling around like an idiot, and I’ll feel so silly because it’ll remind me that Hallow’s default emotions are: 🤪🎉☺️🎃😏💃😍💅

Seriously the damn dog is fine I gotta get over myself

[normalbrothers]

peaky blinders (2016 | 2022, tim mielants | anthony byrne)

[theblackestofsuns]

“Act Of Contrition”

Heartbreak Soup (2007)

Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

[ropertplant]

shhh listen. it's 6 am. i've been reading priest fics lately and getting annoyed when i can immediately tell they were written by a protestant ... my religious beliefs are muchhhhh closer to buddhism than catholicism and yet. here we are. what brand of trauma is this

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Chapters: 4/6 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jonathan "Jack" Murdock & Matt Murdock Characters: Jonathan "Jack" Murdock, Matt Murdock, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Karen Page, Margaret Murdock, Father Lantom (Marvel), Fogswell (Daredevil) Additional Tags: Jack Murdock Lives AU, Roscoe Sweeney takes Matt instead of killing Jack, and all that follows, Background MattFoggy, Minor Matt Murdock/Foggy Nelson, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Human Trafficking, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Catholic Imagery, Marvel Dad Survives Origin Story Seeks Superhero Son, how to tell your dad you're not dead: an elaborate panic attack by matt murdock Series: Part 1 of acts of contrition Summary:

It sticks in Jack’s mind when he’s walking home that night. A man in a mask. Dropping down from the sky and making sure folks make it home.

It’s good. It’s something the neighborhood needs.

A part of him can’t help but wonder if Matty would still be here, had there been a man in a mask running around back then.

Or:

After his father's final fight, Matt Murdock disappears, leaving behind nothing but a broken cane and a pool of blood.

Years later, Jack Murdock pulls a man in a mask out of his dumpster.

[stone-cold-groove]

I always feel grand after confession.

[tinyshe]

[baylardian-1]

I was gonna save these for Threshold Day but I’M ANTSY and there’s a lot hahaha. Enjoy the dump(s)! :D