#Does God Judge us?

[yhebrew]

Maui Tragedy 22 av - 8.9.23 - 2nd Fire IN 10 YEARS

Who is the Remnant to be saved into eternity? Maui gods. Have they blessed the nations of the world. Should they be restored?

What Is The Remnant? The Remnant will remember the dark nights of Rosh Chodesh! I bear my soul in this article of seeing God real in human tragedy. I write this on August 13 2023, my mother’s 95th birthday if she were alive. Our parents raised six children in what they thought was a safe Midwest small town. Turns out pedophiles ruined many lives then and still now. I lived amongst all that sin…

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#August 12 Parshah study #Deut 11 blessing cursing study #Does God Judge us? #Hawaii fire judgments #Hebrew Study #Judicial reform 2023 in Israel #Mathew 24 study Israel #Mathew 24:14 active now #Maui fires remove gods #Maui gods judged 2023 #Parshah Re&039;ee 2023 lesson #Psalm 18 gives hope #REMNANT #The End is now #tragic deaths #What is Rosh Chodesh

[ecscott]

God Views: How We View God Shapes or Distorts How we See Life and People

God Views: How We View God Shapes or Distorts How we See Life and People

I met God several tumultuous years after my father died. At that time I didn’t know much about God, except that my uncle talked about God a lot: as a cuss word. Thus my view of God was skewed and mostly driven by my need for a father. Still is somewhat. This gave me an outlook on life as tragedy and most people as orphans. How we view God shapes or distorts how we see life and people. What’s the…

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#Curt Cloninger #Does God judge us? #Eugene C. Scott #God Sightings #How do I live spiritually. #How to see God clearly. #Is God a judge? #Is God Higher Power. #Mako Fujimura #Matthew 18:12-14 #The parable of the Lost Sheep #What&039;s a God view?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Results from the ‘Who is the tallest MDZS Character poll! Thank you all for voting!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #nie mingjue #lan wunian #lan xichen #lan wangij #poll #Thank you all for showing up with your whimsy! I saw so many funny tags and messages! What a blast it has been!!! #Nie Mingjue was the distractor answer - word of god *does* say he's the tallest but...he *was* dismembered and beheaded. #It's still a grey area though! This was all for fun after all B*) #Jin Ling uses his hair as a little lasso. Good for night hunting and asserting dominance! #Not the tallest due to his hair gel getting stuck on his hands and reducing the height of his throw during the judging. #And yes- Poorly Drawn Jin Ling is ~4cm tall. Grab you rulers out an visualize that <3 My Friday Treat for you all. #Real feminism is the fact that all the men who won did so by technically cheating and the woman (horse) did it the honest way. #Real feminism is being a horse. Everyone better start getting on that. New Year's resolution. Horse time. #My apologies to the Jin Zixuan likers (lowest votes): He's a bit of a fail wife but that's okay. #I like to imagine that It's the ghost of JYL committing voter fraud to give him pity votes. #(It is still voter fraud if a ghost votes right? Has anyone looked into the legality of ghost voting?) #Much to think about....Hey speaking of the ghosts of women: See you all tomorrow for the new poll!

[lord-squiggletits]

"Rodimus is a better Prime because it didn't hurt for him to bond with the Matrix while for Optimus it did" headcanon/theory my beloathed.

One day I'm literally gonna snap and make a whole post addressing why what's wrong bc I'm tired of the inaccuracy and tired of ppl not understanding the Point TM of IDW and its version of the Matrix/Primacy and even more tired of people putting down Optimus in favor of Rodimus by essentially arguing that being unworthy means you deserve to be punished/put in pain bc you just weren't good enough to hold the Symbol of Ultimate Authority

#it's wrong on so many levels both in terms of lore and as well as like what the general themes of idw1 are #it's just a validation contest using the matrix as some magical symbol to decide who's the most special #which is ironically something that was a plot point in exrid/OP. specifically how stupid of an idea that is ldskjflksd #ppl revealing that they havent read anything besides mtmte/ll as usual #like half the reason ppl think optimus is a bad prime and rodimus is a good prime is literally bc like #optimus was written by an author who was specifically trying to deconstruct him (sometimes to the point of absurdity) #and rodimus was written by an author who takes a more optimistic/idealistic approach. and is also better at writing #but also like am i seriously the only person who thinks that that argument is fucked up????? #like 'OP felt pain which means he's unworthy/not a real prime/not a true leader' #ok so you think that there's a hierarchy of moral goodness in which anyone who falls short of that Moral Ideal should suffer #as a sign of their unworthiness?? like does that not sound dystopian as hell to any of you?? why would you WANT the matrix to work like tha #even if the theory were true (which it isn't) why would you view the matrix as a good authoritative moral judge of character #if its idea of 'moral judgement' is to inflict pain on anyone who's supposedly not truly good/worthy #wasn't the entire point of the ending of LL (including rodimus being a good leader) that everyone is worth it? #like rodimus literally said 'you ARE damn well good enough' or something like that #so what? everyone else in the universe tries their best and that's enough but somehow when OP suffers it's like #a sign that he's not actually a good prime/leader?? we're really going with the punitive perspective purely for One Guy?? #swear to god ppl are projecting their authority issues onto Optimus the way they shit on him for things they would excuse #if any other character did it #Optimus is uniquely deserving of pain/being marked as unworthy bc idk he was a cop once and that offends my delicate sensibilities #what's even funnier is how much harm was inflicted by rodimus as a captain sheerly due to his stupidity or ego but everyone forgives him #i guess bc as long as the matrix likes him that means he's valid no matter what he actually does as a person #WHICH IS SOMETHING IDW ITSELF ARGUED AGAINST BC A LOT OF THE PRIMES THAT WERE CHOSEN BY THE MATRIX #WERE DICKS AND THE FACT THEY COULD WIELD THE MATRIX DIDN'T MAKE THEM GOOD PEOPLE #like oh my god stop using the matrix as an arbiter of moral authority in idw1 it literally goes against the themes of the story #including the themes that are embodied in rodimus himself #idw op love

[cream-and-tea]

if anyone was wondering i am still writing judge and calliope oneshot its just been taking a long time bc i've hit the part of the story that makes me have to get up and pace around my room every few sentences at least

#it does need a title still even if im not going to share it if it doesn't have a title itll drive me insane #flip flopping between doing a one word title or using a song lyric lol. the struggles never end #anyways there are lesbians in my google docs inventing methods of communication only shrimp can perceive or understand #idk these two make me ACHE its such a case of right people wrong time. they want to love each other in the right way but theyre just! #not able to!! not now! not like this!!!!!!! #AUGH #god i need a judge and calliope tag

[365-partygirl]

desperately need tiktok ethel cain fans to know how stupid they are

#did you listen to ANYTHING written by hayden...... #are you for reql #'preachers daughter made me convert to Christianity' I AM JUDGING YOU #like can you READ. its so annoyinnggg they literally make everything to do with Christianity seem all cute and sweet and 'sooo ethel cain' #like stfu its ok to like her music but jfc use your common sense #WHY are you defending evangelism thats fucking horrible #like genuinely it makes me so angry because Oh My God why can you not LISTEN #theyre the same kind of people who think strangers is a love song and ptolemaea is female rage! #they ALL misinterpret the album to mean “in Christian and i love god” like yeah she DID. until she got KILLED and the love was GONE #'god loves you but not enough to save you' DID WE MISS THAT LINE. DID. WE. MISS. THAT. LINE. #ok different interpretations exist i agree but theyre just SO FUCKING ANNOYING #tiktok ethel cain fans i hope you become a devout christian and realise just before you die that god does NOT love you. #blah blah! #ethel cain #venus being a hater again #not 75 stuff

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I don't not mean this offensively at all but is blows my mind that you are a lawyer but also writing jjk fics bc I work at a law firm and cannot for the life of me imagine any of the lawyers that work there writing fanfiction LOL kudos to u seriously I know how busy schedues can get due to court dates haha

im working in like. big city criminal law stuff right now and have been told by people in my office that i come off as a very deadpan and straight-laced legal nerd so i don't think the people who know me from my attorney life are imagining me writing jjk fanfic in my free time either

#I've got a friend who's clerking for a federal judge rn who's also a big fandom person tho she doesn't write #the legal sphere in general really does try to consume your entire life and i sort of hate that part of the business #like i like being a lawyer but i don't like how aggressively it tries to occupy your whole life #it makes offices very cultish #i like having boundaries in life and i have plenty of friends in my office but like. i have a life outside of it too that i want to keep. #and lawyers are so up their own ass about professional reputation that fandom shit is almost never discussed in a legal environment #you could not waterboard it out of me that I write fanfic for fun at work oh my god #it's not that i'm ashamed of it to be clear i'm proud of my stories i just don't know any of them well enough to trust them yet #lawyers are assholes so often holy shit #like not all of us. some of the nicest people i have ever met are lawyers. but the culture breeds a lot of very big and fragile egos #probably more lawyers than you'd think are into fandom stuff but they absolutely do not bring that shit up #i'd like to think i'll be doing fanfic and fandom stuff for years. it's just a great community and i really really love doing it. #i'm also a kick ass lawyer tho so i'm probably gonna be doing some pretty serious shit at work and just also being a fanfic writer. #but yeah court is exhausting and chaotic and i've been in it every day for like two weeks now so feel free to shoot me

[snow-and-saltea]

yesterday i spent 45 minutes of my life watching a video essay criticising the use of cheap shock values and crossing of taboos for a video game and i went from "he has a point even if he's explaining it in a really inflammatory way" to "oh umm... i can see how he thinks that way even if i don't agree" to "oh this guy's just straight up using people on tumblr as material for an audience to get mad at like other outdated people on the internet. nvm he's just an asshole"

#yuu rambles #it was about the coffin of andey and leyley btw - i agreed w him on the first half of the video about how it felt rather noncommittal to it #concepts and themes but i recognise its not really *trying* to be serious which means its not a reasonable #framework to judge the intention and execution of its work - an apple pie does use butter in it but just bc it does #doesnt mean you get to compare it to steak; a dish that also uses butter. this is intuitively easy to understand for me #but nonetheless it was like 3 am i had stuff to do so i just put it on my background to listen #he makes a diss at “people on tumblr” early on that i just raised my eyebrow at but shrugged it off bc its such an old joke #its lost its zinger; and im p sure its just confirmation bias from going into the tags of the thing you dont like lol if you use tumblr #normally you wouldn't come across things you dont like bc you'd have blocked them. But Anyways #then at the end he got sooo self righteous about how people on tumblr are insane and weird and showed screencaps about how twisted everyone #who likes the game are. there were some screenshots of people's post that were like “incest is bad and shouldn't be explored in media. #paragraph break‚ me who is an incest survivor and finds it helpful for working through my trauma: lol” #those types of post. but then lmfao he started going out of pocket and just mentioned the lists of other people he doesnt like which are #a screenie of a video essay about how kink is important at pride #and then some other stuff i dont remember anymore w the tumblr screenies #it was very mockingly written and said and at the end of it i felt sad i couldnt #block people on youtube lmao. like its not i dont want this guy to comment on my videos. i dont want to see his channel involuntarily #recommended to me ever again. just resorted to the most base sort of trolling behaviour he accused and judge other game devs for in his #video essay. good fucking god. the psychological projection is unreal #i dont have any strong feelings towards the game at the end of it even though i thought i would be like Eugh at first #but my bleh for any cheap gimmicks is overshadowed by my disdain for this guy's reliance on self righteous rhetoric #i discovered another new channel i really like tho after that vid!! bc i had to watch smth else to cleanse my palate lmao #they're jacob geller and freddydude! ive only seen one vid from freddydude about his essay on #detention‚ the horror game set in taiwan during the era of white terror under new cn leadership after ww2 #im personally quite jumpy so his humour and the way he edits his videos to make it silly even though its Scary #made me like it a lot!! im going through jacob geller's other vids but ive watched three specific types of terror #and the one about pinocchio which made me go :00 wow his scripts are super good! #again everything at your own discretion esp w the whole james somerton shit‚ but i enjoyed what I've seen so far #i just wanted to end this in a somewhat positive note JSHDKSJDJD the ramblings Continue... #theres a pedantic error in one of ky tags but im gonna update it when im on comp bc mobile sucks smh my head

[arolesbianism]

I’ve been having a rough few days, but I’ve been feeling a bit better so I decided to make some lil thingies for some spiraling upwards kitties :3

#keese draws #warrior cats oc #spiraling upwards #I’ve posted art of ratstar and pigeonbillow before but the other three I haven’t I think #but yeah these are some more of the minkclan founders #and by that I mean two of them are and one of them was a kitten at the time #lightning is haveniris’ mom but she didn’t trust herself to raise him so her clanmates sort of collectively raised him #and by that I mean mostly pigeon and two other old ppl that aren’t included here #light did end up opening up to him more and acting as more of a mom after he chose to become a medic tho #the two have a complicated relationship for sure but they still care abt each other a lot #oh yeah and literally all of these guys are dead by the time murtle rolls around except for haven #pigeon died about two years before the other two and raincinder has been dead since before minkclan was properly founded #which is unsurprising given she’s such an old withering woman #she mostly made it that long because she was given a guide sponsor life #so long story short not all starclan cats actually get to use the cool starclan powers and those who do are usually ‘sponsored’ with an #extra life and a cool star like marking #this isn’t a well known thing tho and even within starclan only higher ranking cats rly know anything beyond knowing that every now and #then new guides are chosen #now usually what’s supposed to happen is that the sponsored cat has a close eye kept on them and if they are deemed worthy they’re allowed #to keep their mark and become a guide once they die the second time #the main flaw in this system is that the cat who sponsored them has to be the one to revoke it #so if they refuse to revoke it for whatever reason there’s not much that can be done about it #or in raincinder’s case her sponsor ended up fading before they could judge her fully #so even though by all means even the most rebel friendly guides would revoke it easily she managed to keep her mark til death #this was ofc largely helped by her living til 19 fucking years dear god woman #but hey I guess it means minkclan gets a guide even though she’s a rly shitty one #rly that mostly only matters for the sake of nine lives and the sake of travel between starclan and the living territories #which actually does cause a lot of problems when all the guides decide to go haunt a child instead #oh also guides also pass on their mark to leaders who’s life ceremony they hosted #not the guide role tho each guide gets a new mark

[blazewatergem]

Hi. So I’m wrapping up Fontaine right? The last part is being incredible so far right? I’m playing as I type this on my phone.

I have never felt this sick over something.

I cannot stress this enough: What the hell.

Furina basically just tried to DIE on stage. The nurse confirmed she was able to be effected by the Primordial Seawater. She stuck her hand in, in front of EVERYONE over this fuckshit trial.

I know this is needed for the plot and the prophecy, and I KNOW she lives because she has a story quest and I pulled for her. But. Gods.

She’s gonna have trust issues for life. I know I would. Everyone turning on a girl who for 500 years has been I can only assume trying her best????

Traveler, normally I’m on your side. This time, I genuinely feel sick.

#WHATWHATWHATWHAT #talking fire #genshin impact #I’m actually losing it #We got her to trust us and then baited her #her closest ‘friend’ is the judge now judging her #Gods of course she’d attempt on fucking STAGE #WHO DOES SHE HAVE LEFT AFTER THE WHOLE COUNTRY TURNS ON HER???

[warlordfelwinter]

oh we love to see gale say 'you might be onto something' when rain says mystra is probably manipulating him. that's growth

#i thought he was going to be mad at rain for suggesting that #i know i'm literally playing a character that's sleeping with a god in my dnd game so like i can't really judge gale #but mystra's thing with gale always seemed a little manipulative to me #telling him he's chosen and all and then throwing him out after one fuck up #only to come back and be like 'no i'll forgive you if you kill yourself' when she could definitely probably fix him pretty easily #and just hasn't until now when it's suddenly useful to her does she decide to have someone come put a pause on gale's impending death #like if we meet her rain is going to give her a piece of his mind #fel's bg3 #oc: rain #at least asmodeus is straight forward with celeste #and weirdly more forgiving than mystra lmao

[prettyallfriends]

trans characters in idol stuff are... not fun usually. like either the fanbase is transphobic and ppl make up excuses as to why theyre not actually trans (literally seen a LOT of ppl from a... certain fanbase say a trans character isnt actually trans bc she lives in japan. like... HUH???), OR the english translation is transphobic (...proseka trying to make mizuki seem like shes a crossdressing boy even tho her friends all v clearly see her as female). not to mention the original text usually being some kind of transphobic or just a lil ignorant, writer changes dragging trans characters down etc...

#thank god for zombie land saga... a beacon of hope in the mire of shitty treatment of trans characters #playin proseka again and there was an announcement where mizuki was consistently referred to as they/them/their. like... huh???? #its like... even if she does end up being nonbinary i rly dont think she wouldnt use feminine pronouns?? #nd pripara fans... always on the back of my mind. just bc reona goes to a japanese school doesnt make her cis 😭😭 #nd u cant judge s1-3 based on info from idol time. u cant retcon transness u can just be bad at writing character continuity

[lochley]

i honestly do love delenn's sorta optimism and hope for the future but i think lennier holds her up on such a bizarre pedestal sometimes, and the things he says about her become true for anyone who listens.

like "uwu delenn does not walk in the same world as you or i she walks in a better perfect world where we treat each other with COMPASSION uwu"

lennier were you not there when she stole a dead body and cremated it without any regard for how that would disrupt the grieving process of everyone else .

#og #not the best example bc im sure he believed her about it being what branmer had actually wanted but #as viewers we can't. know that. #lennier accepts delenn no matter what she does (see: em war) so i don't think he's the best judge of her character #even though i don't think he's necessarily wrong at times either bc delenn is compassionate and hopeful etc etc #she just also isn't perfect and sometimes the way he talks about her is like. in a way that strips her of any flaws. #and therefore not accurate to her as a whole entire person. #like that quote just places him in a Necessary Position to protect her Perfect Innocent Worldview in a way that #almost infantilizes her when... she's been more than willing to do the hard work herself too a;jlksdkfljalksjd #and i do wonder if his refusal to see any flaws in her contributed to him Possibly thinking he had a shot with her lol #because she's not using me she loves me :) (wrong lennier she's using you. or she's just a friend navigating an awkward situation #imperfectly because idk man i wouldn't know the best course of action there either if my aide was in love w me #but point is there is a possibility of her navigating it imperfectly. and that possibility is not something that would exist for lennier. #because to lennier delenn is Perfect always and forever.) #anyway as usual it has been a v long time since ive seen the show all the way through i just remember coming back #to that scene for editing purposes forever ago and going heyyyy #wait a minute . but god knows if im pulling stuff out of thin air at this point #lenncourse

[vydumaj]

sometimes I feel like I went to elementary school in like the 1970s in comparison to my 10 years ish younger cousins 😹

since I didn’t eat pork I very often got special food since pork was the most common meat they’d serve at school, which meant I always got my food last and I couldn’t ask for the school kitchen staff to give me less (they hardly ever did that when people asked to, though). the most common replacement was soy sausages which are absolutely gross imo and I still can’t eat them, and bc I got my food last teachers kept a hawk eye on me to make sure I finished, and I was never allowed to leave before finishing, no matter how bad the food tasted and even though I ate a lot of it…I was called immature and childish and spoiled for not wanting to eat, and while my classmates finished their food (which they got earlier and I assume was better tasting since the recipes were adapted for pork) and played outside I always had to sit with teachers watching over me until the older students came…

apparently this is not a thing at all anymore, like 10-15 years later, my aunts and uncles were shocked I had to go through what they did as kids too when I’m closer in age to their children

#I have way more stories like this lol #like I was also called childish and immature for being afraid of water and thus being a bad swimmer #and not wanting to jump in the pool (I’ve never jumped off a trampoline taller than 1m idk why it just…i just can’t) #I vividly remember being eight years old and crying bc I was afraid to jump in #and a teacher goes ‘don’t be childish. my little three year old daughter plays in the water like a water animal it’s nothing to be scared of #‘ #thanks #judging from my cousins’ schooling that does not happen anymore either here thank god #t says #rant #I guess? #using my mom as a reference too bc she grew up in the 1970s and our stories about being force fed and guilt tripped and called childish #over these kind of things are really similar #schools are sooo much better with adapting to different diets like no pork vegetarian vegan gluten free etc than when I was a kid though #it’s such a relief #the improvement started when I was in like middle school though #like 12-13

[guideaus]

still mad abt jujutsu kaisen btw. gonna rant in the tags

#personal #its been bad for a while but it touching my fav... can we cancel it come on #the flashback parallel thing reminded me of hilda's final season #netflix cut it so they had to heavily imply things instead of showing actual development and jjk was the exact same way #higuruma compared as a mentor figure as if he was there long enough to do anything #then again gojo was supposed to be one too and he barely taught shit to the main trio so #world building and character development who? #...but god it really did set things out! higuruma coming back to his senses to empathize w a suicidal yuuji #yuuji calling himself a cog. a literal tool to be used. higuruma conflicting w the system. yuuji's feels better after but... #smth goes wrong and now higuruma's inexplicably on the side of the sorcerers and becomes a tool (in a good way??) to help yuuji's goal #depsite the prev trauma of nanami's death (and shibuya) leading to yuuji's prev guilt. 'i did it im not lying and wont deny' #which higuruma knows is false and refuses to judge and punish. but jjk has higuruma 'positively' die as a tool after he explicitly #stated he wants to be punished. he essentially does get punished in a way. but its framed as a sacrifice. this event is good for neither #character but is shown as a good thing??? #wolfwoods death was better than this lol

[cream-and-tea]

LAY ME DOWN. chapter seven excerpt. unedited. featuring: agnes’s first meeting with several students of The Library after pallas is forced to go to them for help. mention of injuries. threats of violence and just a Lot of unresolved tension

[Transcript under the cut.]

hello and welcome to another instalment of This Book Has More Than Two Characters I Swear! this time we have judge, calliope and max, a trio of oddballs who pallas has a history with and agnes is meeting for the first time. they’re all really fun to write (calliope especially) and have really grown on me as the plot has progressed lol

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The one all in white cocks her head to the side, face twisted in a weird not-smile. Agnes has never seen a girl with hair this short and bright before, a soft cap of copper offset by a multitude of dangling earrings, little charms hanging from pastel ribbons that tinkle whenever she moves. Her face is very oval and her smile is very crooked and wide across it, freckles wrinkling up around her nose in disdain.

“Would you look at that Judge? It’s the principal's little lapdog,” she says in a high, dramatic drawl. “Thought you’d finally gone and found a hole to die in Bloodhound, to what do we owe the pleasure?”

She bows mockingly and from behind the shelves Agnes winces, but Pallas doesn’t even blink. 

“Ah Calliope, glad to see you’ve lost none of your charm,” they say cooley. “Your nights have been restful, I presume?”

The girl in whites smirk shifts into a very unlovely snarl and she moves forward. But before Agnes has time to squeeze her eyes closed a hand comes forward to rest on Calliopes shoulder. From her narrow view between the shelves Agnes can see the third figure stepping forward, touch instantly setting her friend to rest. She’s tall, wrapped in a long tweed coat with straight, narrow black braids framing a straight, narrow brown face, and Agnes is struck in the moment by just how small Pallas is. Smaller than her and definitely smaller than this person. They look almost frail in comparison.

“Easy, it’s not worth it,” the second girl says, her voice deep and raspy and flat. Then, to Pallas: “What do you want?”

“A favour.”

“Interesting idea, one counterpoint: why would I ever do anything for you?”

“Because you owe me Judge. Because if it wasn’t for me you’d be dead.”

At this the one called Calliope starts laughing until a stern “Cal, please” cuts it off. Agnes has never been good with expressions but she thinks the girl with braids—Judge—looks more confused than anything else, a tiny divot appearing between her dark brows. “You’ve never asked for anything before, why now?”

“I’m very tired,” Pallas says and Agnes takes a moment to marvel at how a conversation can somehow sound like the clash of steel on steel. “And I don’t want to go through the mess of making Max’s little brain come out his ears to get you to listen. I'm not going to take chances on this. It’s quite delicate.”

Calliope’s face twists again and she steps further in front of turtleneck boy. There’s something off about her eyes. This is a place filled with terrifying people with weird eyes. “Wanna say that again you demented little–“

“Cal. Not. Worth it.”

“But—“

“They’re trying to rile you, it’s what they do,” Judge says, knowing and measured, straight-edged profile facing her friend before she turns back to Pallas. “Spare the theatrics Bloodhound, and tell me what it is you need. I can decide whether it’s worth my time from there.”

Agnes is starting to think that Pallas smiling is never a good thing, this one is tiny and contemptuous and probably means you are but a tiny ant and I will not hesitate before squishing you very badly under my chunky black boots, or something like that. Judge doesn’t seem like she can be squished, but there’s a first time for everything. “It’s funny you think this is a negotiation, but all right.”

And then they turn and their awful, awful eyes meet hers from between the books. They make an unmistakable beckoning motion with their hand and Agnes has to scramble to drag herself up, avoiding putting pressure on her bad ankle. She pokes her head out from behind the shelves and waves slightly, unsure of what else to do. 

“She’s hurt,” Pallas says, not even sparing a look her way. “You’re going to heal her.” 

The redheaded Calliope makes a whistling sound between her teeth and says: “You’ve gotta be kidding me.” Then she turns towards Judge, who’s already looking Agnes up and down in a way that makes her feel the most awkward she’s ever felt in her life. It’s a magnifying glass stare, one that catalogues and processes, every inch of her laid bare. The line between Judges eyebrows deepens and Calliope says again, now in a tone of complete exasperation and disbelief: “You’ve gotta be kidding me.”

“Cal–“

“Nope. No way.”

“Calliope–“

“We’re not helping the creepy little murderer! Group Rule Number One is not helping creepy little murderers!”

“Group Rule Number One is about healthy communication.”

“Semantics!”

The boy in the black turtleneck and glasses looks out from behind Calliope. The short crop of dreadlocks on top of his head have been strung through here-and-there with colourful beads that pop against his dark clothing. Agnes gives him a nervous smile, hoping that her mouth is moving the way mouths are supposed to move when they smile, and is relieved beyond measure when he raises one hand in a tiny wave. Agnes leans against the towering bookshelf, feeling a lot like she’s stepped into a place she shouldn’t be while Pallas makes a show of examining their nails. 

“It’s just one girl. It won’t cost me anything.” 

“Oh don’t ignore basics, there’s always a cost. And besides, it’s Bloodhound business!” Calliope hisses, pointing as the Bloodhound picks a tiny bit of dirt from under their left ring fingernail.

“Calliope, please,” Judge says in a voice that Papá used on Mother all the time. The I don’t wanna fight voice. The we can talk about this later but not right now voice. Agnes' face burns from just looking at the two of them. Her ankle and throat will probably be fine, why did Pallas have to bring her here at all?

Calliope puts her face in her hands in what must be defeat because Pallas smiles a smile like a crack in marble, and Judge sighs in a soft, exhausted kind of way that makes guilt bubble like mud in Agnes’s stomach. 

“Okay,” she says. “But you’ve got to do something for us.”

Pallas raises an eyebrow. “I’m not bartering with you Judge.”

“Tough luck,” Judge deadpans. She turns to Calliope and the boy in black: “Max-Attack, Cal, this’ll only take a few minutes.” And then looks directly at Agnes, who jumps: “Come on then, we don’t have all day.”

#me. shoving my side characters in all of your faces: LOOK AT MY KIDS MY SWEET CHEESES MY SPECIAL LITTLE GUYS #they’re all so much more important in book two but they do have kind of a subplot in lmd as well #mainly involving judge trying to get tf out of the library bc she’s been trapped there since she was 13 and wants to find her family #calliope wanting to kill maim bite attack pallas so so bad #and agnes kind of bonding with max bc jesus christ does she need other friends #it’s all obviously minor background stuff but good GOD the amount of lore i have in my head for these guys is wild #let’s just say any of them could’ve been main characters if this was a different book. #can’t wait until they do get more plot stuff so i can write about all of it lol #calliope uses all pronouns btw agnes is just meeting them for the very first time and kind of assuming bc of all the high femme-ness #babygirl lived in a cabin in the woods w like two other people for her entire life she’s still learning #creme does a writing #wip: ghost story