#behold Charle!

[lynkolnevans]

Boo!

You just got trollsona'd!

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

Charles: aw that was aces! right, Edwin?

Edwin: yes it was rather,

*consulting a list of modern slang Niko and Crystal gave him*

Edwin, proudly: poggers :)

[leqclerc]

Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel embrace at the launch of the Buzzin’ Corner biodiversity project in Suzuka, Japan, on September 21, 2023

[blanche-elizabeth-devereaux]

he would not let that photographer fall

[overtake]

@/scuderiaferrari: first ice bath of 2023

[alt-ernativewonderland]

Charles Rowland that's it that's the post

[sunsetcurveauto]

Good on you, yeah? With your nightmares and your sick smile. If you wanted me to be crushed or devastated, I am. I'm also bloody angry, and you won't be taking us anywhere. I won't be having it.

Charles, you cannot keep her. We don't want a repeat of the infamous puppy debacle of '94, do we?...It makes sense, given that you said that you hate being dead. Of course you fell for a living girl.

Get this through your dumb demon skull. I'm not ending up like Maren or Shelby. No boy is screwing my life up. I'm gonna find out how to get my memories back. And im gonna crush you.

Dead Boy Detectives x Greek Mythology: Charles, Edwin, and Crystal as the Furies - Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone

[cephalopodsquad]

henry wishes you all a happy and safe halloween!!

[tinseltownie]

Charles wins a second win this season and is already running his mouth about winning world champion he’s something else

[britneyshakespeare]

I feel bad for Margaret of York that this portrait is always used to represent her

fuck ass proportions!!!

[confirmedcannibal]

Oh I, wish I could synthesize

A picture perfect guy

[libraryleopard]

Dual POV adult historical romance set in 1810s England

When a Gareth, London clerk, unexpectedly inherits his estranged father's baronetcy in Kent, he moves to the Romney marshes and realizes that Joss, the man who runs the local smuggling clan, is the same one who he had several clandestine assignations with–before they abruptly things ended on bad terms

The two end tangled in conflicts between rival smuggling clans and the local authorities even as they find themselves drawn back to each other

Very grounded in historical politics, setting, and language

Gay main character; biracial Black/white, gay main character; M/M romance

[vroomvroomsposts]

.

[kraniumet]

loved the moira "payoff" romantic flashback in xm:a. it really felt like one of those lovingly crafted amvs people create for their rarepair who are in a total of 4 incidental scenes together

[madewithonerib]

4.] Why Don't We Understand?

Let me show you let me give you an example how life-changing this should be. In our situation, we live in the middle of New York — which is at the heart of modern western secular culture.

Some years ago, a man, a Canadian Philosopher Charles Taylor wrote a magisterial book called: The Sources of the Self

I don't recommend it at all, it's really a tremendous book; it's a nice big thick book. A philosopher wrote to philosophers, and so it is not an easy book to get through.

     But it's a magisterial account of how modern      western society's understanding of self and      identity is so different than every other      culture & every other century.

You see even today in non-western cultures & in previous centuries how did you find your identity

   •  How did you find out who you were?

Your parents told you and your people told you and they said this is who you are, this is who you should try to be.

And if you aspire to that & if you fulfilled that then everyone said you're a good person & you had self -esteem.

In other words, every other culture your family & your people said here's who you are & then when you lived up to that then they affirmed you & you felt you had self-esteem & self-worth as a person

But Charles Taylor says we are the first culture in which “No, we say you decide who you want to be —you determine who you want to be. You do not let anybody else tell you.”

But once you go deep in your heart & you figure out who you are, then you come out. Now Charles Taylor says, “We so desperately need affirmation from everybody, I mean we've come up with this identity all by ourselves & now suddenly we go out into the world & we demand recognition!

     We need recognition, we      demand constant affirmation.”

He says we have the most fragile identities in the history of the world because we need everybody pretty much to affirm them.

We cannot take it if people dislike us, or disagree with us or don't affirm us. We can't take it we are the most fragile identities in the world.

4.1] Downfall of Social Sciences

Now somebody who has been writing about this recently is a guy named Freddie DeBoer, I think he's on the staff of Brooklyn College.

He lives in Brooklyn & he's a good writer and he writes a column & he writes a blog & recently he wrote a great article about this very thing about the fragility of modern identity

that Charles Taylor writes about & he wrote this in an article called “You Can't Fake It.”

So the article starts like this:

     I have been increasingly preoccupied by a      basic question recently why is everybody      such a wreck?

And now listen he goes through a list he says first we have this vast intellectual architecture telling us that physical attractiveness & hierarchies are cruel & gendered & unfair.

………………………………………………………………… And this is correct but we still care so much about being hot—and we judge each other about it & all of our papers & humanity seminars are entirely inadequate to ending that condition. …………………………………………………………………

Secondly we have a political critique of all the ways in which “notions of human worth” are dictated by our traditional inequalities of race & sex & class.

We have a whole set of political concepts of self- care designed to fight all those negative effects, we have a self-help culture that constantly tells us you are wonderful, brilliant unique light; and you alone can shine the way in a dark world.

We have very woke.

He said we have a woke world of marketing.

All the marketing is always affirming you, affirming you. He says he has a gym nearby where he lives in Brooklyn & the gym's ad says join the body acceptance movement.

He points out if you actually did join the body acceptance movement there'd be no reason to join a gym.

But he says,

     “See everything is there to help you      feel good about yourself, & then he      says we've also got social media tools      to craft a perfect idealized vision of      ourselves curated to the millimeter      that we can present to the world..

     exactly the kind of self that we want      to present.

Then he says & none of this is working, none of it works, and this is what he sees around Brooklyn:

     I see people who are the most outwardly      secure and confident they never betray a      hint of doubt or guilt or remorse.

     They project cool at all times, they are      popular; they're getting plaudits and      positive affirmation all the time. They      are academically and professionally      successful, they have money & respect

     And yet the flow of life reveals that      inside they hate themselves, they all      hate themselves.

     None of that stuff matters, none of it      gets at the core self-hatred within & I      am beginning to wonder is this the      human condition?

4.2] Heart of Flesh Thru JESUS CHRIST

See Charles Taylor would say yeah, but modern culture aggravates it. And here's what the Bible would say yes.

But what Freddie DeBoer calls self-hatred:

     Why is it with all this stuff we're doing      all these ways of making ourselves feel      good about ourselves that we are just      screaming affirmation & recognition so      deep down: Why it's not working at all?

The Bible would say that we're not OK is a universal sense that we all know deep down inside that we're sinners—so this thing that he's describing is

      like a rock on everybody's heart; it's a rock       on your heart & you know what the social       media & you know what the self-help &       the therapy & the self-esteem..

      You know what all these things are?

…………………………………………………………………       Water pistols trying to deal with that rock       but this in JESUS CHRIST, the FATHER loves       you even as HE loves JESUS! …………………………………………………………………

      Even as!

4.3] No Longer Trying to Self-Soothe

That is not a water pistol! That will blast that rock off of your heart—that will explode the rock off your heart if you believed it.

   •  Do you believe it?    •  Do you realize it?

That's what the Lloyd-Jones says:

All of your problems come from the fact that you don't really believe it. It's not really there & it is not a reality to you.

So this is the thing you most need.

You need to believe the Gospel, not just believe the Gospel—but believe the Gospel!

Beholding the Glory of CHRIST P1,2,3,4,5,6 | Timothy J. Keller [John 17:20-26]

[carebeardean]

charles & edwin don’t remember what they look like because they don’t show up in mirrors so they describe how the other looks & ga(y)ze into each others eyes is SUCH a good trope, self recognition through the other, beauty in the eye of the beholder, so long as I exist you will always be loved & your memory will never fade

AND. consider, perhaps. charles Cannot Stand the thought of his bestie walking around not knowing how cute he looks so he ropes the gang into drawing each other. nikos are Very BL manga stylized, flowers blooming behind them, sparkles, hearts, big eyes, etc. (edwin is very flattered. thinks she’s The Cats Pyjamas.) crystals are these realistic charcoal portraits that everyone’s amazed by (rich artist parents). edwin & charles spend sooo much time on theirs. neither of them can draw. charles drawing has a bunch of smiley faces & says —> my best mate! :) next to it. edwin does NOT tear up about it SHUT UP CRYSTAL. edwin frames all the drawings & hangs them in the office.

it’s a nice reminder for edwin, who tried his hardest to be invisible while he was alive, and charles whose friends liked happy, funny, easygoing charles but didn’t see him, that someone remembers & loves them just as they are.