Loving God we are so grateful for your blessings! Your mercy gives us new life and new hope each day. Your forgiveness allows us to have freedom. Your wisdom directs our steps. We lift you up in praise today! We honor your name! You are holy, mighty, and everlasting. Thank you for loving us and saving us! We pray this all in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
An excerpt from the end of a letter where Mary Shelley rejects the advances of her long-time friend Edward Trelawny, 26 July 1831:
"My name will never be Trelawny. I am not so young as I was when you first knew me, but I am as proud. I must have the entire affection, devotion, and, above all, the solicitous protection of any one who would win me. You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours.
I write in haste, but I will write soon again, more at length. You shall have your copies the moment I receive them. Believe me, with all gratitude and affection,
i will always - the cranberries, my friend - hayley williams, radio silence - alice oseman, @inkskinned, euripides - anne carson, @honeytuesday, the kids aren't alright - fall out boy, anonymous
The Gods are transgender, They are transsexual. ‘Trans’ means ‘beyond, across’.
The Gods are beyond gender. Beyond sex. Beyond flesh. Beyond normality and norms— thus, They are queer. They are trans. They are on the other side of gender, of sex— on the side we cannot even begin to understand.
The Gods are transsexual and transgender and queer not (only) within our human understanding of transness— They are not trans in the way we humans are trans.
But They are still trans. They are the original transness. The ultimate transsexuality.
Transness as a transition from a state to another state, from a form to another form— from Their divine form to one we humans can behold without being consumed by Their inherent queerness. From Their divinity to words we humans can attempt to understand and think of without being utterly lost in the enormity and infinity of the divine.
Transness as a journey, a constant state of evolution within the world— evolution of the world itself, for the Gods are the world, are beyond time, beyond space, yet constantly changing.
The Gods do not love trans worshippers despite their transness, despite their queerness. The Gods love trans worshippers for their transness. They love us because we are trans. Because we are queer.
As we defy norms, we become closer to Them— trans people are humans, mortals, but I firmly believe that there is something inherently holy in transition. To change yourself, to think the limits of the body and to alter your own flesh is to create, is to destroy. To understand how limitless the world is— how flesh and sex and gender are human things, social things, that are made by us and can be expended and transgressed— is to take a step towards the Gods.
The Gods love you. You are made in Their image. Or maybe— you make yourself in Their image. And that is beautiful.
(reminder that this is my vision of divinity, not a definite fact, even if i think there are a lot of things (in multiple cultures/religions) that point to the divine being beyond gender)
Dear Lord, help me to not be afraid. Make me strong against worry and fear and bring peace. Lord, I don't want to be a worrier, I want to be a warrior for you. Thank you for fighting for me when I struggle to do it myself. I pray this all in Jesus' powerful name. Amen!
Many folks have asked! And I shall deliver -- see this boy? You see my man Devotion here?
Here's how you can make your very own brand of saucy lil tiefling / elf / w/e it's all the same body type 2
The eyes aren't any particular mod, actually. It's a sorta glitch in game? Basically if you click one of the infernal eye types and then you give your character heterochromia -- as long as you're changing colours with that option on, the left one forever has that weird flame glow on it! It takes a little clicking and tweaking things around, but it happens a bunch. I used Elf Gold for his special eye tm in this case!