I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth
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bastille has done more for the queer community by just making all of their love songs about "you" instead of specifying a gender than taylor swift has in all of her discography. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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Paige Lewis - God Stops By
to show me how healthy He’s been. He’s
sleeping more. He built his own gym.
Mostly muscle now, He gives me the fat
off his steak. I eat because He offers, not
because I need—it’s hard to feel hungry
when everything in this world tastes small
and wrong, like rubber grapes or sun-boiled
eggs. When I was small, I was certain
that what was holy was mine—I caught
moths in the garden, pressed their wings
between my thickest book, and waited
for new moths to sprout up and out
of the pages. I ask God if He considers me
a cracked seed of grace. He says,
Yes, dear. I understand. It would be exhausting
to lead a life with careful consideration
for all things—stepping over anthills, saving
lizards from pools. I mean, if I was God enough
to be idolized, every statue would be a golden
depiction of me riding a goose-drawn chariot,
absentmindedly resting my shepherd’s scythe
an inch away from their curved white
throats. Before God leaves, He clears the table,
pats my head, and presses two messages into
my palms. In my left, You are the bridge.
In my right, You are the dust.
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Im already seeing really bad takes that the show didnt make Gabe “abusive enough”. First and foremost, there are so many different forms of abuse, not just physical abuse. When we first see him, he is instantly belittling Percy. You can see how much of the space he takes up in the apartment. He has a single recliner, a jersey on the wall, and a side table all for him while he gambles with Sallys money. He is immediately financially abusive and verbally abusive.
Second, he answered Sally’s phone and spoke to the principal at Yancy. He is trying to control how Sally raises her son and is giddy at getting another person to bully again. Also, he controls the car. Sally has to negotiate with him and manage his reaction to her taking her son to Montauk. In this scene we see her sass him back and tell him to ask her nicely which I think is a great way to show that Sally still has some agency in the situation. She is able to say she doesnt want to be spoken to disrespectfully.
Lastly, in The Lightning Theif, Percy states “For the first time, I realized something. Gabe had hit my mother. I didn’t know when, or how much. But I was sure he’d done it. Maybe it had been going on for years, when I wasn’t around.” This was in the second to last chapter of the book. People are mad they didnt see him hit her in the first EPISODE??? Be so for real. Give the show time to flesh everything out.
ANYWAYS STAN SALLY JACKSON AND WATCH THE SHOW
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