#and yet we never tire of them

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Whew ok chalk art achieved!!!

All of my muscles hurt but it was so worth it look at him!! First time I have ever drawn Gale and I think he turned out really well!

At least ten people walking past called him Jesus it was beautiful. One guy came up to it, shouted "GALE!!!!" And then got embarrassed and ran away.

[thegreenleavesofspring]

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Me: *on the phone with my mother* Yeah God has me in a holding pattern right now so I'm just chilling.

*two days later* Stuff Starts Happening

Which. Don't get me wrong. It's good stuff and stuff I've been praying for for awhile now but also... it is going to be Tiring and Inconvenient to deal with and the holding pattern the boys and I have been in has been remarkably comfortable, actually, and I am reluctant to face the exertion and weariness that the process of this Stuff is going to require and...

Anyway, don't mind me, just complaining about blessings again. XP

(I'm just. I already know good and well that I am going to be Tired for the next few months. Really really Tired. Even with trusting and praying it's still going to take mental and physical energy and also concern for my children and it's just. Gack.)

(Actually maybe I need to be praying that I will soon meet a dependable, trustworthy babysitter so that my children can get to know and trust them before the impending periods of hours of separation. And yeah yeah "Bri just hours?" but keep in mind my children have never been separated from me except once, my eldest stayed with my in-laws while I was in the hospital giving birth to my second son and that Did Not Go Well. Indeed my youngest never even experienced the usual separation anxiety phase that happens around a year old because he has never been without me.

Add to that that we don't actually know ANYONE in the area. Like at all. Except my mother, who is currently without transportation and who I don't... fully... trust to watch my kids for like... four hours. Or longer.

Anyway this has been weighing on me and I don't know why it hasn't occurred to me to pray about it before.)

On another note, when the CPS dude visited today he asked if we were going to be okay (re: my husband no longer providing any financial support at all) and I said yes, because we have no other choice but to be, and we just sort of looked at each other. But I didn't come off as worried because even though I know already that next month is going to be challenging, I also have full trust that God has not brought us this far just to drop us now. Just because I don't know yet what He has planned doesn't mean He doesn't have a plan and also I think I've maybe gotten a glimpse at it? Little bitty glimpse? Just takes a certain amount of effort on my part.

...yes I'm a bit lazy. XP

[kazhanko-art]

I love living in the conservative chamberpot of Canada where the cons here constantly white Ukrainian Canadian history to dismiss racism and make out Ukrainians as what all prairie folk should be, constantly use our ancestors’ hardships as part of their bootstraps narrative, compare everything to the Holodomor and the soviet oppression of Ukrainians, and constantly make themselves out as the party for us, but then when the war actually breaks out and we’re looking to protect our families and homeland of our people, so many of those same conservatives stood for russia and made Ukrainians into the next cog of the Q anon plot

[dragon-tamer-1]

I want to be able to reblog people's art without having to worry about people's negative reactions when it's someone that a majority of people don't like, is that so much to ask?

Why must it be a problem if I like someone's art even if the person believes in something others don't? Why must people treat people like they're bad for liking someone's art and writing when others don't like that person because of their beliefs?

I'm just hanging out and reblogging art and writing that I find enjoyable. In the end that's just what I'm doing when I reblog stuff. Enjoying it. If it's something I don't enjoy/like to see, I just block the tag or, if it's a specific blog that I decided that I didn't enjoy and don't want to see I block that blog as well. Otherwise just vibing. I don't hate anyone that doesn't like someone else of course, but the way people talk about that one person, it's like they think it's the worst possible thing for someone to enjoy that person's art and writing. I just can't hate someone based on that person's beliefs, it just goes against my own personal beliefs, and I can't help that I still enjoy those things.

I try to keep the drama and stuff off my blog cause I'm not about that. And it shouldn't be treated like some kind of crime to still enjoy someone's art/writing/etc just because other people don't like that person, in my opinion.

[celestialrealms]

it's so funny how people act like mephisto is so horrible to mc, meanwhile the brothers in season one like:

[peridouu]

this was a bit funnier in my head but basically this is their dynamic right

[starbuck]

“bro, SHOULD we?”

[gobstoppercowboy]

Friendly reminder that your “cis friend” or your “straight friend” in your queer friend group may not actually be your cis or straight friend.

Sometimes being a part of a friend group that has a lot of openly trans or gay people in it isn’t enough to make someone feel safe or comfortable enough to come out. For some of us it really does take years, and it doesn’t matter how many of our closest, most beloved & trusted friends around us come out and share their queerness/transness with us. It just isn’t as easy as that for some of us, and as much as I admire your courage to come out to your friends I really ask you to see that it isn’t that way for everyone.

And I can assure you that being constantly labelled as “the cis one” or “the straight one”, who’s told they “wouldn’t get it because they’re not trans”, or “that you obviously don’t understand, but”, or is kept out of queer conversation, or just in general made fun of (even when it’s in good spirits) — seriously, seriously gets you down. It hurts and there’s no reason for it.

Unless someone has told you, in confidence and honesty that they identify with a certain label such as cis or straight, do not take it as a-given. Just because you haven’t been explicitly told otherwise doesn’t mean it’s not happening, and it doesn’t mean that that person isn’t struggling.

A trans/queer person who feels isolated from their own community, their own queer friends, will really feel the effects of it.

[batemanofficial]

hello upper middle class northern usamerican tumblr user. i want to play a game. you will notice that you are in a super america convenience store in rural kentucky - you have three minutes to purchase a snack and drink of your choice and make normal small talk with the cashier. however, if you use the word "cryptid" or generally make reference to appalachia and its inhabitants as "wild", uncivilized, or lacking restraint around alcoholic beverages during your time here, i will personally tie you to the chassis of a four wheeler and tip it into the river. live or die. make your choice

[meezer]

"calling ben shapiro gay is homophobic" he is ACTIVELY spouting racist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic rhetoric, day in an day out, and you're worried about being a good person to him.

[lovestryke]

i think if you grew up in my household you would have put a gun to my mom and dad's heads already

[virginiaisforhaters]

maybe its 5 am and im stoned but i wish that there was more of a conversation about abusive friendships, people talk a lot about abusive relationships and thats important but like, 10 years of having an abusive best friend really permanently altered my ability to trust or relate to people and it took years for me to realize or admit to myself that it was abusive and like, maybe people should talk about that more, maybe if we talked about it more it would happen less, because no one deserves going through that, and i dont know if im ever gonna be normal about people again after that and that really sucks 

[aeide-thea]

having a post make the tumblr rounds really will teach you all sorts of things about yourself that you never previously understood, lmao

like, okay, the notes on the 'masturbatory' post fall into a few distinct categories—plenty of reblogs without any comment at all, of course; a lot of people saying, somewhat tediously but unexceptionably, that in their view the term should really be a compliment; a lot of other people claiming that it's inappropriate to share art they personally deem unappealing, just as it's inappropriate to share unsolicited dick pics (i take strong exception to this argument but it's very popular!); and finally a few people who admit that sex-negative insults aren't really compatible with the sex-positive stance they otherwise nominally concede is correct, and who choose to resolve the issue by gleefully leaning into the inconsistency—like, there are some tags on that post that are just straight up like, 'i love hypocrisy :)'

and like, the 'unwanted dick pics'/'artists i don't want to see naked' camp drives me fucking batty, for sure, but i can at least respect that they're trying to come up with a unifying principle, even if i personally think what they've come up with is pernicious nonsense ('consent' is an idiotic lens through which to contemplate the problem of 'viewing art,' imo); but the people who just—outright reject the idea that they should have consistent values to which they adhere, and that where they encounter resistance in themselves to these values, they ought to interrogate what's motivating that resistance, and attempt to find a consistent throughline? really, really alienating and—frightening to me, if i'm honest!

[mejomonster]

Every time I go on a dating app I feel hopeless -.-

[united-under-skyfall]

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