#Numbers 24

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[kdmiller55]

A God-Ordained Glimpse Into Israel’s Future

15 And he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,     the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, 16 the oracle of him who hears the words of God,     and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty,     falling down with his eyes uncovered: 17 I see him, but not now;     I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of…

[coldcigarettes]

“Hello, Jean,” Nathaniel said.

“Go away,” Jean said, in a voice he barely recognized. “I have nothing to say to you.”

“But you’ll listen, because I just told Ichirou where you are.”

[tiramissyoucake]

Girl imagine

Reader not knowing mark is invincible and waiting for a whole hour for Mark to come to their date, where he promised to go to a concert of her fav band. Waiting and waiting at the entrance, the band already half finished before Mark finally arrives, out of breath, thinking she'll be really angry again, but instead she's tearing up.

Would he instantly reveal himself? Tell her he'll make it up? Fly her to bands the next concert? Omg

Ooooh I thought of this, because I'm a frustrated cryer and I can't help it

Mark expects you to yell, insult, or even slap him, but instead he hears you sniffle when you turn away and his heart shatters. You're wiping away tears telling him to forget it and you're tired and just wanna go home and he insists on apologising or at least talking to you.

He wishes he could tell you "Hey, I'm that superhero Invincible! That's why I was late! I was getting clobbered!" But that would put you at risk, but this is worse. God, it's so much worse. He wishes the earth could just swallow him up now, the sweetest girl who looked at him like he put the stars in the sky, and he made you cry.

He sees you try to speak, voice your frustrations about how he could've at least told you if he'd be late so you wouldn't stand outside like a weirdo while your favorite band was playing all the songs he remembers you showing him, the songs you had him listen to with an expectant smile on your face.

But it's ok, he can salvage this. That's what Mark keeps telling himself while he tries to coax you to let him come to you, let him hug you so you could cry into his shoulder— but you shove him away, that hurt worse than any punch.

He couldn't do anything but listen as you vented your frustrations to him, crying harshly as the anger from all the previous times he was late came crashing down on you; you forced a smile and told him it was okay everytime, not this time. This was supposed to be a night between you two, you hated yourself for being vulnerable enough to share something you enjoyed with someone who didn't care.

Mark had a feeling he'd regret telling you why he's really late, or that you wouldn't believe him, but if it meant finally opening your eyes to his 'job' and being honest with you, so you wouldn't feel like he doesn't prioritise you, so he wouldn't be the reason for your tears, he'd do it.

"Look, I'll tell you everything, okay?" He finally spoke between your heaving and sniffling, coming closer and lowering his voice. "No more secrets, I promise. Just... come with me, okay? I'll tell you in private."

[vivienvalentino]

hotch and morgan being weirdly in sync

[airoarts]

if theres 1 million yukio stans im one of them, if theres 1000 yukio stans im one of them, if theres 1 yukio stan its me, if theres 0 yukio stans im no longer alive. if the whole world is against yukio then im against the whole world

first image is a manga redraw, original will be below cut as well as ID's repeated from alt text

first ID: redraw of several manga panels from blue exorcist. they are colored and painted in cool colors. panel 1: yukio suddenly calls "rin!" causing rin to jolt his head towards yukio. panel 2: yukio stares intensely at rin, saying "Satan is a demon. And demons will say anything to trick humans… so don't listen!" rin looks surprised. panel 3: yukio getting really into it saying "Got it? You have control of your flame now! That's the result of hard work the rest of us can barely imagine! You're helping people! So you aren't wrong!" panel 4: yukio breathing heavily from his outburst. panel 5: rin rubbing his neck and blushing with a big grin on his face. yukio asks "W-what's… that look on your face?" to which rin responds "Huh? Heh heh heh heh! You hardly ever compliment me! So I'm blushing!" panel 6: zoomed out picture of rin punching yukio's arm. yukio says "I didn't compliment you! I was just stating facts!" rin says "c'mon, admit it!" and yukio says "Seriously! I didn't!"

second ID: digital portrait of yukio okumura smirking devilishly, with a pale blue left eye, dressed in a coat with a harsh white background.

third ID: digital painting of yukio and rin's eyes (intended to be at the moment of yukio's face-heel turn). yukio is glaring, his left eye aflame, and rin is confused and concerned.

fourth ID: crude drawing of rin saying "Why don't we let the guy whose every plan could be reasonably construed as an abstract suicide attempt take a crack at it" (text post by theboost), while pointing over his shoulder at yukio

fifth ID: crude drawing of rin running holding a steel chair over his head and yelling "Yukio you crazy bitch!" (in all caps and with a lot of exclamation points at the end). the background is a photo of the arctic.

sixth ID: the original manga panels the previous redraw is based on. they are in black and white. panel 1: yukio suddenly calls "rin!" causing rin to jolt his head towards yukio. panel 2: yukio stares intensely at rin, saying "Satan is a demon. And demons will say anything to trick humans… so don't listen!" rin looks surprised. panel 3: yukio getting really into it saying "Got it? You have control of your flame now! That's the result of hard work the rest of us can barely imagine! You're helping people! So you aren't wrong!" panel 4: yukio breathing heavily from his outburst.

seventh ID: part 2 of the manga panels (they were consolidated into one image for the redraw) panel 5: rin rubbing his neck and blushing with a big grin on his face. yukio asks "W-what's… that look on your face?" to which rin responds "Huh? Heh heh heh heh! You hardly ever compliment me! So I'm blushing!" panel 6: zoomed out picture of rin punching yukio's arm. yukio says "I didn't compliment you! I was just stating facts!" rin says "c'mon, admit it!" and yukio says "Seriously! I didn't!"

end IDs.

[cubbihue]

youre itty bitty au is so peak.. can we get more information on peri and timmys relationship?

When Peri went to Boarding School, Timmy was his “Primary Guardian” since his new apartment was closer to Peri’s school than their parents were. This meant that, on some occasions, Peri’s first call would be for Timmy instead of their parents.

Once, Peri got caught joyriding and ditching school campus against curfew. Timmy had to fly out to bail him (and Irep) out of the detention center. They crashed at his apartment while he worked with Anti-Cosmo to remove that incident from their records.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[chanelle-lize]

Let’s be so for real.

As an ex-evangelical with currently-evangelical parents, please believe me when I say “Steel did the bad thing and she did it with purpose and intention because she was evil all along” is very likely not going to be the twist reveal that rips your heart out through your ass.

Nineteen episodes ago, the Wizard Sky allowed the Wizard Steel to cast Geas on her and then purposefully and intentionally drank a potion to erase the memory of the spell being cast in the first place so it could be replaced with a false memory.

Before she did this, Steel said, “People that are not very bright, when they are unaware of a magical compulsion, they get confused and frightened. And I’m going to tell you something very scary right now, which is that brilliant people, when they are following a compulsion, tend to invent an innocent reason for doing so.”

When Suvi cast Identify on herself and realized that she was under a magical compulsion that she had previously been unaware of, she became confused and frightened.

The Empire is an intellectual oligarchy, intelligence is a construct, and Steel, the Sword of the Citadel equates intelligence with being unable to tell when you’re being controlled.

A sword neither chooses nor remembers the lives rent by those who wield it.

[kdmiller55]

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies

27 And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” 28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert. 29 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on…

[rowdyluv]

it’s okay Macklin, you’re the height Jack Hughes tells everyone he is.

[crustyfloor]

Till's point of view on his and Ivan's relationship - An (personal) analysis of Till's side of things leading up to Round 7.

As kids, IvanTill's relationship was tulmotious, to say the least.

Ivan would do things to rile Till up as a means of getting closer to Till when they were just starting out, and Till would fall for it.

Ivan would steal Till's things and turn around and give it back like some evil Christmas gift as a means of trying to get closer to Till, and Till would fall for that too, for some time.

But we all know Till isn't stupid. Till must've noticed after some time that the constant disappearance of his stuff only to be coincidentally found by Ivan every time wasn't actually a coincidence. And Till, being handled roughly his whole life by aliens naturally wouldn't have been so fond of the way Ivan would constantly instigate fights with him. All of these things that Ivan did, they did irritate Till. In any normal case they would've given all the more reason to avoid Ivan. So why did Till let him linger?

Well, I think Till actually considered Ivan at least a good friend, At least at the start. Ivan was strange, mean, and annoying but he was one of the only people who actually made an effort to stay and get close to Till. To have someone in a world like this would mean a lot to a kid like Till, even though Till and Ivan had their moments he was still the closest person to Till.

Other than that, Till is a high-spirited, compassionate, and emotional character. it's shown in a comic where Ivan and Till spot a crushed flower and Till tells it to cheer up out of sympathy, it's shown in the way Till cares about others around him even if he holds a cold exterior that keeps him from showing his heart often.

This isn't to say Till regarded Ivan because he felt bad for him, he didn't know the first thing about what went on in Ivan's mind. Till allowed Ivan around him because he cared about him enough to look past those aspects, Till is observant enough, so he was able to see that Ivan was just a kid trying. Till indulged Ivan, allowed him to stay because he cared.

And then we have the meteor shower scene. (pain&suffering.exe)

Ivan, motivated by his strong love tries to get Till to escape with him at the perfect moment. Keyword tries. Because they couldn't get far before Till stopped in his tracks and went right back to Anakt Garden, why? fear of the unknown? Of course. But it's because Till wouldn't have been able to live with himself knowing he left behind a person he loved so very dearly, Mizi. He couldn't possibly leave her there, aware of these deep feelings he had for her. He cared too much to leave.

Till probably felt guilty, going back to Anakt garden because it was all in wrong timing, probably felt guilty knowing he disappointed Ivan back there. But imagine just how much guiltier he felt seeing Ivan the next day. He followed Till back knowing there was no way he'd get the chance to escape again. And so this was the first thread of their relationship that was frayed.

After this point, Ivan was under the full assumption that he had been wrong about how he thought Till saw him so he gradually started to distance himself too, Ivan's antics seemed to have mellowed out, as they grew more distant but he still messed with Till, remained in his life in the shadows, and cared about him, becoming gentle when Till was unaware because even then he couldn’t force himself to leave Till’s world even if Till wanted to leave him in favor of a more bright, beautiful paint that permeated Till's dull canvas, that was so much different from his own bland, dark existence.

Till noticed their distance, and Till thought Ivan hated him for leaving him behind, so as a last effort to bring Ivan back to him and fix his relationship with his friend, to let Ivan know he wanted him near, he left him a message on graduation.

"You were the one who stole my pencil at that time right?"

That was in response to Ivan's "I hope you'll remember me" message.

Till's response sounds pretty straightforward, by design. but I read it as an indirect pointing to a direct message; "I know it was you, of course, I'll remember you. I'm not even mad at you for all of it...So come back?" unfortunately for Till, Ivan didn't read it like this because Ivan isn't a simple person, he needed more than Till could give him. So most likely instead Ivan ended up reading the message as Till still not caring this only motivated him to distance them more until they weren't even talking anymore.

And so after everything, round 6 comes. Till has to compete and win against Ivan.

Till went into round 6 with the full intent to kill himself on that stage and let Ivan win. He couldn't continue to live in a world he hated, in a world where he was tormented, was used, and had nothing else to live for. he couldn't continue to live in a world knowing Mizi, his only shining light and goddess was gone, most likely dead.

It's eerie just how close he was to succeeding, but his plan was thrown off as Ivan realized what Till was doing when he stopped singing and interfered before it was too late.

Ivan kisses Till, selfishly furious with emotions, and sentiments that haven't been addressed for years, but gentle in the message Ivan was trying to get across. Ivan chokes Till for the final blow. Till doesn't understand any of it, it's all too fast and it confuses him. it's hard to say what exactly Till was feeling in that moment, but Till doesn't fight back properly because he doesn't want to, he can't bring himself to show that spirit he had anymore, not the one Ivan saw in him when they were kids, that's been drained out of him because of years of the trauma, the torture, the pain, everything. He's tired. He's lost Mizi, and he's lost everything. If he's just meant to be lamb to the slaughter then why should he delay the inevitable fighting for a life he didn't want? So if Ivan was going to kill him in that moment, so be it. He was going to let him.

Only that's not how it goes, as soon as Ivan's hands leave him Till is disoriented. and then he is shocked, confused, worried? because he didn't expect, nor want this either, he didn't ask for this, he didn't ask for Ivan to take away that one thing he wanted. That expression on Ivan's face, he doesn't get it. But it hits him, that this was all a plan.

And at the end of the day, Ivan is dead, and Till is left staring at his peaceful corpse on the ground, with his blood staining his shoes like Ivan's actions are staining, permeating his perspective, giving him more questions and less answers. All while knowing that he is truly alone in this world now. He has been abandoned.

(I go over pencil.exe a little more in another post of mine if anyone is interested in reading keke)

[muirneach]

'Sulphur' and 'Selenium' by Mary Soon Lee

Sulphur #16 sits atop Selenium #34 in the periodic table. Selenium is rarely found in nature without Sulphur nearby.

for the periodic haiku series by @simmyfrobby

[tiredandoptimistic]

Really funny to me whenever artists give Wash grey hair, because if you think about it he's gotta be like...thirty, max. I'm not complaining though, because his ass would definitely be going grey at thirty.

[linoyes]

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

⚠️Trigger warning⚠️ Graphic image.

His foot is barely hanging on. This child has been bombed by Israel. This boy is one of the 15,000 CHILDREN who have been injured by Israel and the United States. The number of life changing injuries we've seen on literal children is unfathomable. I don't share them here because of how graphic they are, which is why I ask you to follow journalists of gaza on Instagram, they share everything as they witness it. Follow shaun King too as he has given up his account for Palestinian journalists even if you don't think he's a great person. Our kids need you, never stop talking about Palestine.

Share our stories and our names, we aren't numbers. This has to stop!

[johnnyvalance]

soda and steve when they’re on break at the dx BY THE WAY