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emmanuellaborers · 6 months

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#Jesus #faith vs fear

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faithsnippets · 11 months

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Big Idea: We cling to our faith and God’s faithfulness during trials because our God delivers!

Because our God delivers, there are 2 spiritual anchors to cling on during trials:

1) OUR FAITH IN TIMES OF TRIAL (vv.1-18)

“Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”” (‭‭Daniel‬ ‭6‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

“When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.” (‭‭Daniel‬ ‭6‬:‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

“Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!” And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his Lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.” (‭‭Daniel‬ ‭6‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

2) HIS FAITHFULNESS THROUGH TIMES OF TRIAL (vv.19-28)

“Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.” Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.” (‭‭Daniel‬ ‭6‬:‭19‬-‭23‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

“He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”” (‭‭Daniel‬ ‭6‬:‭27‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

God does not deliver us FROM the trials.

God delivers us THROUGH the trials where our faith deepens and our trust in Him is elevated.

The ultimate purpose of the deliverance is for God himself to be glorified.

Reflection Questions

1. As you look at the trials in your life, how have you been responding to them?

2. In times of trial, what makes it difficult for you to cling on to your faith in God?

3. How has God been faithful in your past trials?

#God’s deliverance #faith vs fear #trusting in god #20230611

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cathartic-crypt · 1 month

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something compelled me to rank my favourite fictional men from "married" to "stay the fuck away from me"

yes i am outing myself

surprise! women

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celluzu · 7 months

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I really hope that the inevitable egg rescue can be a big break for everyone. I hope it helps them to finally discover something the feds are after, a big piece of this puzzle they've been taunting everyone with for months now. This feels like too much of a climax to be a loss in the end, I really hope its a win.

#qsmp #liveblogging #me vs the fear that qsmp will do that thing #a certain other smp did where they got too angst happy and never stopped punching down #i know that's not likely to happen I have faith #but god damn that server left some deep ass wounds in my trust for roleplay smps this big </3

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soldier-poet-king · 9 months

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I might not be any help but there is Christian meditation and maybe information about catholic eastern monks could help

Hey friend, thanks for the response!

I'm specifically atm looking for a completely non religious meditative practice (I should've been more clear in my original post oops). It's not that I'm opposed per se, in the long run, of this morphing into a religious devotion, but in the meantime, I'm a mess and half the reason I NEED this is because of religion in the first place.

So I'm looking for something not christian, but not specifically tied to any other religion either. Ofc I can realize that historically xyz whatever developed out of such and such religion. But I'm really seeking a holistic kind of practice here, separate from religion.

(Or, inasmuch as anything can be separate from religion. I should perhaps distinguish between religion as the institution and faith as the individual soul, even tho that is a gross oversimplification and kinda incorrect. My point being, I'm definitely a "everything is intimately connected in the woven fabric of the universe and so every action, no matter how small, toward no matter how insignificant a good, has the touch of the divine upon it" kinda person. So really. /Nothing/ is truly separate from faith for me. But I definitely don't want anything explicitly religious rn. I'm already having too many panic attacks abt that and fighting the urge to throw up or pass out constantly)

#franposting #anyway thank u anon!!!!!#truly i mean thank you i know you care and are trying to help #im just fucked up bad brain #and i have so many deeply ingrained fear responses to so many aspects of Christianity #that i have to live this false religion vs faith divide. or else i go insane #its the only way i can try to cling to the good ans the divine i know and love #anyway. religious trauma + ocd are bitches and we haye them

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dearjewels22 · 2 months

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Foot on necks! Including my own!

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cinemajunkie70 · 2 years

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Happy Birthday Edward Norton!

#edward norton #fight club #american history x #the people vs larry flynt #the 25th hour #everyone says i love you #primal fear #the score #keeping the faith #the Severn veil #down in the valley #the incredible hulk #stone #the Italian job #motherless brooklyn

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lifeinspiration4all · 2 years

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50+Inspirational African Sayings About Life

#lifeinspiration4all #faith #perseverance #challenging yourself #art of self-believe #self development #boil the ocean #perseverance and patience #fear vs faith #dailyprompt

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kristicainbooks · 1 year

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FEAST WELL

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blkwag · 2 years

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this lineup????

#mount n havertz starting even though they’ve been piss poor (argue w ur mum)#do i have faith that they’ll play better today? no.#GALLAGHER starting??????? when he got dragged the entire game vs leeds like woah #tuchel ball… 📉📉 i fear. i think he does this on purpose.#mm. we’ll see how this goes

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faithsnippets · 1 year

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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” (2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

Call to prayer:

Let us give thanks to God for His surpassing power working amid our afflictions, human weaknesses, and challenges of life. Let us not lose heart because the same power that raised Jesus from the dead will enable us to endure adversity.

Let us pray and believe that our suffering and endurance will not be wasted but will bring out this same resurrection life among our family, church and community as they too learn to trust God amid adversity.

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

“And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil people, for not everyone has faith. But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we command. May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.” (‭‭2 Thessalonians‬ ‭3‬:‭2‬-‭5‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.” (‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭23‬-‭24‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” (Proverbs‬ ‭4‬:‭23‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭35‬-‭39‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

God is Faithful, stand strong! (v3-4)

God loves you, press on! (v5)

Let God strengthen you.

#god’s guidance #call to prayer #bestrengthenedinhim #faith vs fear #guard your heart #ambassador for christ #20221030

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twiggy-in-pink · 2 years

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#good vs evil #god’s love #love over fear #faith in god

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diejager · 5 months

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what would eldritch reader vs some other eldritch person look like?

[A cheese wheel has been added to your inventory.]

[A cheese wheel has been consumed.]

Opposition Cw: blood, gore, death, cannibalism?, tell me if I missed any.

Despite old-age rivalries and ancient hostilities, to fight a Lord for One’s territory, the bloodshed and animosity shared between many, and the death of a ruling, primordial being, they had forgone the older ways, taken to learn and study humans and monsters alike, especially the sudden emergence of hybrids, a perfect cross between human and monster, one that rivalled the flawlessness of Old Ones. You were one of those that sought change, to live and prosper farther than in their imagination, their faith and their fear. You wanted something substantial, tangible under your clawed, see thing you could taste and touch, more than the pleas and cries.

Most had left their territory, travelling wherever the wind blew, some ventured far and high, drifting from the country they were born to new colonies —the Caribbean or the Thirteen Colonies in the West of the great Monopolies of the 17th centuries. You rarely strayed outside familiar lands, presiding over a small stretch of land in Europe, it was familiar, comfort. It was a decision many agreed with, those you crossed would peer at you, a subtle nod of their head and they’d be gone, vanishing when someone broke your contact; gone along the wind, leaving only a whisper of their existence in monstrous words too high for human and monster ears.

Perhaps that’s why it felt odd to fight another one after centuries of peaceful coexistence, to throw yourself into the fray, broad and towering over the trees, beak snapping at the canidae entity and talons gripping their paws, claws threatening to rip into your feathered body. You felt stretched, rusted with joints creaking and bones groaning, too old and too tired. This Entity was young, a few centuries old, with a wolf-like appearance and a character that fit a mutt more than it would a being of such prestige. They were chaotic, acting recklessly and without thought, you needn’t ask it their age, it was written all over the scarless skin and brutish acts.

Rather than fighting for land, coveting wealth and fine metals that humans loved with greedy hands, you took on the wolf for protection, the ward of your small family, under a dozen with years of bloodshed and violence under their belt. The 141 had a mastery in different skills, utilizing what they did best to push on, to fight and survive to see the next sunrise, but even hybrids had limits, where their great feats and insurmountable reputation were useless against something of old; be it young or primordial, Eldritch beings had little predator, prey to their own kind but rarely from another.

You clashed with the Wolf, standing on muscular, hind legs ruffled with dirtied fur, blood staining the greyish hair; a strong tail swaying carelessly, cutting trees down with a rough swing; a well-defined abdomen painted with a tribal tattoo, gleaming with a gold light, portraying the image of a holy symbole on a blasphemous being; sculpted arms holding back your own feathered ones, hands bleeding from your talons; and a wide mouth, silver teeth bared in a loud growl, the sound near deafening to you. It was strong and well-trained for something born in times of peace, body built to it’s peak and mind sharpened to ignore every distraction, but you were from the old, racking up more experience and wisdom it could only dream of wielding.

You were defending the LZ, standing between the Wolf and it’s mission of killing those it could kill, beings weaker than it. The only thorn in their mission was you, the lone Entity that engaged it. The Wolf hadn’t been told that the TF had an Old One, primeval in every sense. It struggled against you, your more monstrous figure compared to their tamed one, their creation stemming from some wild fantasy of the Middle Ages, when France feared the human eating wolf.

You screeched as loudly as it growled, voice gaining in force, a cacophony of screams and cries slipping from your tongue, the fears and terror of beings that brought you to life. Spreading your second pair of limbs, you slashed at it, digging into the soft skin of it’s abdomen, tearing away fibres of muscle and warm fat. It yowled, struggling to pull away, frantic at your shift of tactic —fearful that you decided to attack than defend your group. It stood on the single probability that you wouldn’t engage, preferring to protect than fight with the risk of endangering your family.

The Wolf would die today. Your grip was unyielding, keeping it in this situation however much it tried to squirm away, hands prisoners of your first pair of wings and chest bleeding from your second. Before long, it would be another body added to your count, cooling and gutted on the forest ground. You swung your tail around them, wrapping once around their slim waist, adding further leverage over it while you dug their intestines out. The strong stench of blood, metallic and tempting, filled the air, bringing fearful tears to the Wolf’s eyes, beady, yellow eyes growing hazy.

You revelled in it’s slow death, your thirst for violence growing with the ages of peace, strung tight like an itch that bothered you incessantly. You hungered, you couldn’t remember the taste of Eldritch meat, the rich ambrosia in the veins or the last whip of their dying breath. Your beak cracked open, white teeth gleaming inside your black mouth until they were dirtied, stained red with the blood of an Entity, you clamped down on it’s neck, breaking the rough skin with enough force to shatter bone, but the Wolf had tough bone. That would only prolong it’s suffering, the pain feeding you as much as the meat and bone would —a delicacy of the ages. You wonder how König and Ghost would think of Eldritch flesh.

You wouldn’t need to eat for another month after this buffet.

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eamour · 1 year

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ar · chive

✿ ⋮ basics

all the basics about manifesting.

⋮ 1 ⋮ the law of assumption

⋮ 2 ⋮ physical and mental reality

⋮ 3 ⋮ states

✿ ⋮ clarifications

these are important to keep in mind.

⋮ 1 ⋮ manifesting isn't just affirming

⋮ 2 ⋮ your affirmations don't manifest

⋮ 3 ⋮ you don't have to feel

⋮ 4 ⋮ you don’t change reality

⋮ 5 ⋮ you aren’t "faking it till you make it"

⋮ 6 ⋮ why we aren't always in the void state

⋮ 7 ⋮ feeling uncertain and being indecisive

⋮ 8 ⋮ things don’t just "happen" in your 3D

⋮ 9 ⋮ non-dualism and manifestation

⋮ 10 ⋮ buying the pearl

⋮ 11 ⋮ movement doesn‘t exist

⋮ 12 ⋮ your subconscious mind isn't your friend …

⋮ 13 ⋮ the more you want it …

⋮ 14 ⋮ a state is your garment

⋮ 15 ⋮ "thoughts don't manifest, states do"

⋮ 16 ⋮ past, present and future

⋮ 17 ⋮ 3D and 4D are the same

⋮ 18 ⋮ daydreaming and imagining

⋮ 19 ⋮ the void craze

⋮ 20 ⋮ creation is finished

⋮ 21 ⋮ there are no big manifestations

⋮ 22 ⋮ the outer world cannot be altered

⋮ 23 ⋮ feeling over desire

⋮ 24 ⋮ the law of consciousness

⋮ 25 ⋮ outer world analogies

⋮ 26 ⋮ feeling is the secret

⋮ 27 ⋮ thought · state analogy

⋮ 28 ⋮ the law cannot fail you

⋮ 29 ⋮ you are within yourself

⋮ 30 ⋮ the law of being

⋮ 31 ⋮ nothing exists outside of you

⋮ 32 ⋮ feeling the wish fulfilled

⋮ 33 ⋮ emotions do not matter

⋮ 34 ⋮ mental over physical

⋮ 35 ⋮ thoughts come from feeling

⋮ 36 ⋮ visualisation and imagination

⋮ 37 ⋮ time delays are inexistent

⋮ 38 ⋮ a change in self

⋮ 39 ⋮ all about techniques

⋮ 40 ⋮ inner self and outer self

⋮ 41 ⋮ multiple manifestations

⋮ 42 ⋮ the duality of self

⋮ 43 ⋮ faith in the unseen

⋮ 44 ⋮ persistence, repetition and more

⋮ 45 ⋮ everything is self

⋮ 46 ⋮ an attitude of receptivity

⋮ 47 ⋮ the bridge of events

✿ ⋮ prompts

need motivation? looking for reassurance?

⋮ 1 ⋮ it's up to you

⋮ 2 ⋮ dare to assume it

⋮ 3 ⋮ stop conditioning

⋮ 4 ⋮ why not now ?

⋮ 5 ⋮ what are you waiting for ?

⋮ 6 ⋮ why wouldn’t they ?

⋮ 7 ⋮ the only way to have more …

⋮ 8 ⋮ let go of the old version

⋮ 9 ⋮ don‘t rush the process

⋮ 10 ⋮ manifesting is easy

⋮ 11 ⋮ you deserve your desires

⋮ 12 ⋮ fearing the feeling

⋮ 13 ⋮ is this what you want ?

⋮ 14 ⋮ start applying

⋮ 15 ⋮ no one to change but self

⋮ 16 ⋮ the garden of imagination

⋮ 17 ⋮ trust your subconscious

⋮ 18 ⋮ discipline vs motivation

⋮ 19 ⋮ making the first step

⋮ 20 ⋮ decision making

⋮ 21 ⋮ the cycle of waiting

⋮ 22 ⋮ the only way to change

⋮ 23 ⋮ perfectionism prevents progress

⋮ 24 ⋮ the two sides of the coin

⋮ 25 ⋮ dream the dream

⋮ 26 ⋮ appropriate what's yours

⋮ 27 ⋮ living a life in sin

⋮ 28 ⋮ unfavourable concepts

⋮ 29 ⋮ a radical change

⋮ 30 ⋮ dwelling on the past

✿ ⋮ q and a

some questions and some answers.

⟨ coming soon ⟩

✿ ⋮ reminders

just wanted to remind you!

⋮ 1 ⋮ what’s manifesting ?

✿ ⋮ guides

for whenever you feel lost.

⋮ 1 ⋮ how to manifest

⋮ 2 ⋮ method guide one

⋮ 3 ⋮ method guide two

⋮ 4 ⋮ a manifestation routine

✿ ⋮ dictionaries

unclear vocabulary? no problem!

⋮ 1 ⋮ law of assumption · lexicon

⋮ 2 ⋮ goddard · glossary

⋮ 3 ⋮ loa · regulations

✿ ⋮ challenges

want to participate and challenge yourself?

⋮ 1 ⋮ sos · suffering from success

✿ ⋮ methods

let‘s try something new! here are guide one and two.

⋮ 1 ⋮ scripting

⋮ 2 ⋮ affirming

⋮ 3 ⋮ decreeing

⋮ 4 ⋮ visualising

⋮ 5 ⋮ revising

⋮ 6 ⋮ subliminals

⋮ 7 ⋮ placebos

✿ ⋮ affirmations

i am loved, i am a master manifestor, i am …

⋮ 1 ⋮ manifestation rules

✿ ⋮ scripts

need help writing about your desired life?

⟨ coming soon ⟩

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀with love, ella.

#archive #law of assumption #neville goddard #loassumption #manifestation #manifesting #the law of assumption #manifest #spiritual #loa #spirituality #how to manifest #affirm and persist #self concept #eiypo #everybody is you pushed out

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hoyowomentournament · 9 days

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FINALS!!! Furina vs Kiana Kaslana

(Propaganda under the cut)

Furina:

the girl who saved fontaine. condemned herself to a life of silent pain and suffering without any warning or preparation. she could confide in no one, seek out help from no one, all while bearing the weight of her entire nation on her shoulders. not only did her willpower save everyone in fontaine, but after the prophecy was averted, she was finally allowed to live a normal life.

Kiana Kaslana:

TLDR: she's kiana kaslana what do you MEAN!!!! kiana is a beautifully written character who fully encapsulates what hi3 is about and she's so full of love and guilt and (most importantly) hope. she's a clone who struggles with her own identity/inhumanity and traumas extending from when she was a young child and her guilt but is so so resilient and so so so so compassionate which ultimately reinforces her humanity :)

kiana's character IS the honkai impact thesis statement. i don't even mean it as in she's the literal main character and face of honkai i genuinely mean it when i say she just IS honkai impact. she reflects every single theme that they portray [hope over nihilism (chapter 25 || the flame chasers and just. the previous era in general), having agency over your identity and your own story (himeko, her being k423 and being so linked to sirin, everlasting flames || the kaslana household name honestly, bronya, fu hua, mei, sirin), believing in the humanity's inherent worth (chapter 25, arc city || elysia <- important since as a current era herrscher, she is a successor to elysia AND as kiana kaslana, she is a narrative parallel of elysia), having faith in the youth (himeko, kevin || the other flame chasers! notably su), etc.] her character being so reflective is also sooooo OUGH to think about when you view it as a reflection of honkai's 50,000 year samsara because kiana is a representation of these themes coming full circle (especially since many of these stretch back to the previous era and elysia).

SHE FEELS SO MUCH. she's so full of love and guilt. she clearly prioritizes others over herself and part of her arc is her learning to value and love herself as well!!! she would give herself for the world ten times over because she holds so much affection for humanity!! (WHILE FEELING DEHUMANIZED BECAUSE OF HER IDENTITY AS BOTH A HERRSCHER AND K423) and it's actively apart of her character's growth :'')

dear god her growth… okok. so i think first you have to understand that a lot of kiana's growth obviously coincides w general maturity as she grows from a teenager to a young adult. but aside from that i think people often forget that younger kiana is incredibly self sufficient since her father literally left her with little to no explanation when she was like. what 8? the insecurity she feels at that! the anger she has to navigate while also balancing it with her own feelings of missing and loving him. basically: kiana has struggled a lot w instability and is thus kinda good at navigating it. ex: she isnt shaken by nagazora and literally tries again and again and again to save mei and convince mei to let her help. the thing is this fucks w her a bit though because a big thing that she does as a means to cope w instability is avoiding them (not reflective of real life of course, but in the fictional hi3 this is partially represented in kiana's repressed memories about her actual origins as k423). she can not stand the realization that she killed himeko that she's so deep in denial and doesnt truly realize it until more than 10 chapters after himeko dies! she's so horrified with her being a herrscher she actively tries to not use her powers out of fear, even when it puts her in harms way (the chapter XI-EX CG!!!!!! her literally trying to kill herself!!) she literally runs away from her friends and loved ones because she's so scared of hurting them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which is why her promise to himeko to not run away is so important!! because it addresses one of kiana's biggest flaws!!!!! this is especially important bc her refusal to continue her avoidance feeds into her arc during the herrscher of dominion chapters where she both faces her own guilt/identity and deliberately chooses perseverance and hope over nihilism!! she is hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#hoyoverse women tournament #hoyoverse #tournament poll #genshin impact #genshin #furina #honkai impact 3rd #hi3 #kiana kaslana #hi3 kiana

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hattersarts · 9 months

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gomens s2 thoughts, all spoilers!

I spent 10 hours talking to my housemate about the season after we binged the whole thing in the morning but here are the highlights and the biggest takeaways from the season.

okay i did love the ending, i love that we get the conformation of love AND going into the divorce arc next season (if they're not properly together by the end of season 3 however, i am rioting) they're slow burn and a whole season of them getting to the final 10mins was tasty.

HOWEVER. it was an extremely clunky season when it comes to writing, lots of either set ups missed OR set ups repeated 4 times that they're drilled into out heads. there was also lots of dialogue that really needed to be tightened up. the lesbians were so poorly written i thought they might have needed to be cut BUT they just needed to have more bearing on the rest of the plot AND say things like real people would say things and LITERALLY SHOW ONE SINGLE REASON WHY THEY WOULD LIKE EACH OTHER WITHIN THE FIRST EPISODE.

gabe/bulz romance was the one that should have been cut, have them do more of a oh-my-god-my-boss-sucks kind of thing, lean into them complaining about having to avert a civil war after armageddon stopped and touch on the "structural problems" the angels mention later. Have gabe/bulz be super punished for working together which puts huge fear into az and crowley about what happens if you try to team up as an angel/demon pair (but an extra reason why az takes the job at the end so he and crowley can be the same)

imo it works more if the only mirror of their romance is the HUMANS which should lean into themes to season 3 of how they need to team up with humans (re:"us vs them" line at the end of season 1) to actually achieve their happy ending.

Nina and maggies best scene was their last one telling crowley he needed to talk to az but i think that was one that needed to be cut, it would have been far more satisfying to have crowely work out it out himself that he loves az and wants to tell him (still via maggie and nina but more subtle rather than them telling him to his face AND via spending more time with az in the season)

flashbacks were all pretty good, loved the jobe one and that final "lonely" scene. the nazi one needed some trimming the most (why did all three come back to earth, it made scenes too crowed, have them fight to be a zombie)

shax was disappointing, she was kind of just incompetent the whole way through which didnt make the stakes very exciting, (that whole scene of her talking to the legion was unfunny and pointless) i wanted crowley to mentor her more like when he gave her advice in the first few meetings we saw (kind of in a very non-demonic way, not expecting anything in return) and her to then meet him on equal footing in the finale. would have been a little accidental taste for Crowley to have his good deeds come back to haunt him while showing he's different to demons.

speaking of the finale fight, that halo had NO set up, it was sick as hell but ??? the fuck did that come from. the fight should have been won by az and crowley performing another HUGE miracle together, discorporating the demons (which then would alert heaven and hell something was up in the bookshop and the final scene can happen)

az taking the job from metatron was very good, its consistent with his character where he still hasn't let go of his faith in good/god, he's only been upset by the angels running heaven and still has faith in the system while crowley has realised none of it works and it's only them together that matters. it was nice to show he still hasn't truly accepted crowley for who he is now (tho imo he knows he loves him, he just hasn't quite unrepressed himself) and him not turning down the job after crowley confesses to him shows he still thinks he can fix it. Crowley on the other hand thinks he's now lost him, az has broken he the trust he had in him, he's going to be in big depression mode

few thoughts of good directions for S3:

finally delivering on what crowley said at the end of S1 I think is the most satisfying. the final showdown should be humans Vs heaven/hell with Crowley and az on the human side, helping them win the conflict. there would be suggestions that this is actually god's ineffable plan, this is a conflict she wants to happen and the things that Crowley and az went through are what make them perfect ambassadors to help the humans.

the set up for az in S3 to finally work out he and Crowley can't work out within the unfair rules of the system and for him to abandon heaven (tho not I think, becoming a demon) is good. a sucky ending imo for season 3 is if az somehow "fixes" heaven and via bureaucracy and not via blowing it all up.

growth moments for Crowley in S3 might be having more contact with humans since he's already abandoned hell and it would put az & crowley on similar footing (as az very much loves humans already) when they decided to side with humans for a humans Vs heaven/hell conflict.

anyway, gay people

#this is all the surface stuff really #im having fun re-plotting the episodes for thr same end but tweaked to be more satisfying

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