#love HIM in death

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

[nova-rpv]

death leech shadoo.....

design by @galaxylover06

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

[lazylittledragon]

you know what fuck it we’re doing dadstarion

[bloominflowers]

The Duke 🐺⛓

[hansoeii]

Do you think of me?

[bamsara]

probably a bit difficult to get dried blood out of wool

[madewithonerib]

My JESUS I Love THEE | Meredith Andrews Sooter

My JESUS I love THEE, I know THOU art mine For THEE all the follies of sin, I resign My gracious REDEEMER, my SAVIOUR art THOU If ever I loved THEE, my JESUS ‘tis now

OOOh I love YOU JESUS

I love THEE because THOU hast first loved me And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree I love THEE for wearing the thorns on THY brow If ever I love THEE, my JESUS ‘tis now

Chorus [Repeat] I’ll love YOU in life, I’ll love YOU in death [yes GOD] With every beat of my heart With every breath

In mansions of glory, in endless delight I’ll ever adore THEE, in Heaven so bright [Yah] I’ll sing with a glittering, crown on my brow If ever, I loved THEE, my JESUS ‘tis now [Yes]

Chorus x4 Tag

With every beat of my heart With every breath With every beat of my heart With every breath

JESUS I love, JESUS I love YOU are everything I have YOU are everything I own I love YOU, O yeah

Words and music by Jacob Sooter, Meredith Andrews Sooter, and William Featherston Arrangement by Jacob Sooter ©2019 Essential Tunes

[queeraspirates]

x

[stedebonnets]

RIP Izzy Hands. You did not die alone. You died surrounded by friends and family. Belonging to something.

[kodii-ak]

Corre, corre

[tennant-davids]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach in Season 2

For the first time in my life, I'm truly and fully present. I used to view the sea as a battlefield, but now I can appreciate the bounty it has to offer, and all of the natural beauty that surrounds it. I am but a humble wanderer, blessed with this feast, no better than a heron, or a blade of grass, or some sand, or like... I don't know, a wave or something.

[corviiids]

in the one (1) month since i watched death note for the first time i sure have been doing a fucking posting

bonus:

[aarghone]

He's just a gunky goopy lil guy

[lily-s-world]

Based on this post

[whim-prone-pirate]

"i'm worried his life is better without me" because mary's was. she was better off and she was happy when he left the second time. why wouldn't ed be the same.