Bodies aren’t meant to stay the same. We are supposed to grow and change. We shouldn’t be making people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, etc feel like they need to strive for the bodies they had in their teens and 20’s. Or making people feel like they “need to get their bodies back” after they have had children. These mindsets aren’t healthy and change is inevitable.
it’s so fucked up when you see something you KNOW is a portal to somewhere but you can’t figure out how to activate it. this is the most frustrating feeling that plagues modern man.
Normally I’m very good at suspension of disbelief but I cannot get over the sisters and nurses of Call the Midwife somehow knitting what is clearly a crocheted baby blanket.
By request, this is my translation of Hosea 14. The book as a whole is a challenging one, especially for feminists; it contains some graphic and brutal passages. But in this final chapter of the book [1], the authors finish with a note of undimmed hope: if the Israelite people return to their patron god, then he will nourish them abundantly. See below the cut for some important notes and a small excursus.
Oh Israel, come back to YHWH, your god, for your guilt has made you stumble. Come back, laden with words, to YHWH.
Tell him: “Relieve our guilt; receive our goodness. Then we will use our lips to fulfill our sacrifices. [2] Assyria cannot save us; we will set aside stallions [3]. We will cease saying ‘our god!’ to what we have made — for you are he who mothers orphans.” [4]
I will heal their apostasy. I will love them unstintingly, for I have rescinded my wrath.
To Israel, I will be like dew. He will blossom like a lily, his root plunging deep, like [a lily of] Lebanon.
His shoots will flourish, graceful as an olive tree, aromatic as [a cedar of] Lebanon.
They will rest in his shade once again, revived like sprouting grains, blossoming like a grapevine, famous as the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? I am your Answer and your Caretaker. [5] I am like a verdant cypress; [6] your fruit is found in me.
Whoever is wise must know this; whoever is knowledgeable must understand. YHWH’s paths are straight; the righteous walk on them, but the wicked stumble on them.
1. Best Streaming Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Action/Thriller Television Series
2. Best Actor in Streaming Presentation - David Tennant
3. Best Supporting Actor in Streaming Presentation - Michael Sheen
While we might raise an eyebrow about Michael being in the supporting actor category, it allows both our boys to be nominated and not competing in the same category :).
The Saturn Award is an American award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; it was initially created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror on film, but has since grown to reward other films belonging to genre fiction, as well as on television and home media releases.
The winners of the 45th Saturn Awards will be announced on Friday, September 13th, and be available to watch via live-stream for the first time in the event’s history.
coworker told me he “hates all mollusks” today. and to each their own obviously but like… theres 100k species of mollusk… you really hate all of them bro? nautiluses and oysters and snails and nudibranches and chitons and thousands of animals youve never even heard of???? what did ammonites even fucking do to you