#i once told a friend i found cyrus relatable and they were very concerned because they thought i meant the ending the world thing dslkjdskj

[catboy-cyrus]

For blorbo bleebus: Cyrus 👍

shocking: Guy with an account themed to a specific fictional man is unwell in the head about him.

Good luck reading my handwriting dskjdskl.

I'm still open to do this about more people btw!! I have opinions on most pokemon characters (some more than others but still). Template from here!

#i once told a friend i found cyrus relatable and they were very concerned because they thought i meant the ending the world thing dslkjdskj #also. you want to ask me about more characters you wanna do it so bad pspspspsps i love pla oras dppt xy sunmoon swsh and sv guys so much #anyways #Cyrus meows #ask #anon #also intentions spoilers but i do kill him in that. I very much do make this man dead even if its temporary #its in front of all his commanders its great

[johannesviii]

Top 10 Personal Favorite Hit Songs from 2020

You know, when I finished my latest list and realised every decade had the same pattern and that we were slowly going towards a series of great years for pop, I didn’t realise how good that year would be.

What’s at the top? Am I boringly predictable because I already said I loved that song all the way back in January 2020? Let’s find out.

Disclaimers:

Keep in mind I’m using both the year-end top 100 lists from the US and from France while making these top 10 things. There’s songs in English that charted in my country way higher than they did in their home countries, or even earlier or later, so that might get surprising at times.

Of course there will probably be stuff in French somewhere on this post. We suck. I know. It’s my list. Deal with it.

My musical tastes have always been terrible and I’m not a critic, just a listener and an idiot.

I have sound to color synesthesia which justifies nothing but might explain why I have trouble describing some songs in other terms than visual ones.

So. Uh. How was your 2020?

Mine was actually surprisingly good, considering. I’m lucky enough to have a job that I can partially do from home, and I was extremely paranoid from the get-go and nobody got sick under this roof so far. Turns out I’m even better at my job from home and I got permission to work from home one day per week even after the health crisis is over! My first name was also finally officially approved and I can’t tell you how happy I feel about that. I almost feel bad to have had such a good year considering the circumstances. I feel like an asshole just because I’m happy, haha.

The only frustrating part was that I was supposed to see Hatari in concert in Paris in early April which, as you can guess, was cancelled. I’m not too mad about it though, since their tour was called “Europe will crumble” and the message saying the tour was cancelled started with “since Europe is actually crumbling due to Covid-19″ and that’s hysterical.

Good or interesting albums that came out in 2020 now, let’s see.

Nightwish released Human/Nature, which was a huge letdown compared to their previous album, but I will relisten to it at some point to make sure I wasn’t just in a bad mood that day.

The Birthday Massacre released Diamonds, which might be their weakest album since their debut, but contained some real gems (I listened to The Last Goodbye on a loop, it floored me. Flashback and Enter are also very good).

The 1975 released Notes On A Conditional Form, and let’s be real, it’s a f█cking mess. You could cut half the tracks and end up with an excellent album, but as it is it’s like, yes, a collection of notes ; however there’s some truely excellent shit on it (see unelligible songs).

Thanks to a friend on a discord server I was exposed to Dorian Electra’s music and I haven’t been quite the same ever since. I’m so happy to be alive to see other enbies making such great music with an insanely good aesthetic surrounding it and asking so many interesting questions about gender. Also the arc the ‘gentleman’ character goes through over the course of the entire tracklist of the 2020 My Agenda album is absolutely hilarious, don’t @ me.

I also discovered 100 Gecs this year. Why are most of you guys saying it’s unlistenable garbage. It’s just as abrasive and over the top as industrial music is, but with none of the edginess or drama. I love it. What the hell. But yeah Tree of Clues was released this year. Good.

Speaking of industrial, in March 2020 Nine Inch Nails were like “hey remember when we released Ghosts I-IV a decade ago entirely for free and how amazing that was? Well we’re all in lockdown and bored as hell so here’s Ghosts V-VI and it’s also free. Enjoy” and I f█cking died instantly. And it’s even better than I-IV. What the hell was that year

Jonsi released Shiver. It’s strange and highly experimental. I’m pretty sure it’s a good thing I was into hyperpop this year, otherwise going from his previous material straight to this album would have been brutal.

Yadda yadda yadda After Hours by the Weeknd good yadda yadda.

I’ve joked about that already but if you had told me in 2019 that 2020 would have fires, a pandemic, riots, monoliths appearing and disappearing, and also a super good Machine Gun Kelly album, guess which part I would have found the most ridiculous. But yeah uh. Tickets to my Downfall good

So uh this year I tried to listen to some hyperpop and liked it a lot, and I also dipped my toes timidly into screamo and listened to Svalbard, who released When I Die this year, and the entire album was a very beautiful, very intricately decorated punch to the face. It sounds like God Is An Astronaut except with a shit ton of yelling. I love it. Open Wound is my favorite track on it.

But no, despite all of this, my album of the year was from a band I had never even heard about before that year, called Spanish Love Songs. The album is titled Brave Faces Everyone and it’s line after line after line of extremely relatable generational angst but yelled with complete sincerity and it’s so propulsive and energetic you can’t help but feel both exhausted and ready to fight the entire universe. I don’t know how it works, but it’s incredible. The entire album is wonderfully brutal, so it’s kind of difficult to pick my favorite songs on it, but Beachfront Property and the title track stand out.

Unelligible songs, now, and there’s, uh, quite a few of them too so I’m also gonna use bullet points. Good lord this post is gonna be long.

First, let me say I have literally no idea why Midnight Sky by Miley Cyrus wasn’t a bigger hit. It’s not on the year-end US top 100 and it feels extremely wrong. Would have made it to #4 on this list otherwise.

I still entertain the vague hope that stuff from Machine Gun Kelly will chart higher in 2021 but I doubt it will happen so I might as well tackle it now and say that Bloody Valentine and especially Forget Me Too are both excellent and that it’s a shame radios aren’t playing them more often.

Heaven by the late Avicii featuring Coldplay should have charted in 2019 and still didn’t chart in 2020 and that’s a real shame.

If the world was a bit less unfair, Lovesick Girls by Blackpink would have been a hit rather than the awful Ice Cream.

One day I will stop complaining about my bafflement concerning the lack of mainstream pop charts success of The 1975. Today is not that day. I just love how they keep making songs about extremely awkward relationships full of weird details, and I haven’t grown tired of that yet. So yeah If You’re Too Shy is about a guy who’s crush is asking him to get naked on Skype in his hotel room and he’s, uh, not too sure about that idea.

And Me & You Together is about a guy who never finds the right moment to tell his best friend he’s in love with her, and he manages to do so at the end and it’s cute as hell. My fave part is “I'm sorry that I'm kinda queer / It's not as weird as it appears / It's 'cause my body doesn't stop me (Stop me) / Oh, it's okay, lots of people think I'm gay / But we're friends, so it's cool, why would it not be?”. Relatable as f█ck.

And now for an international hit that should have been bigger in the US and/or in my country but wasn’t: Head & Heart by Joel Corry and MNEK.

I’ve heard Nos Célébrations by Indochine extremely often on French radio for months now so I was very surprised to see that it didn’t crack the local year-end list. What happened.

I can finally hear the appeal of Bring Me The Horizon. It took me ages. And also Death Stranding. The song Ludens isn’t in the game per say, but it’s among the ones you can pick to broadcast briefly when people drive by your constructions, and long story short it's been living rent-free in my head for months now.

Phew.

It’s time for a round of Honorable Mentions for elligible songs, containing a couple of guilty pleasures, which is saying something considering the kind of shit I put on some of my previous lists.

Ne Reviens Pas (Gradur et Heuss l’Enfoiré) - Heuss is a French artist that kept baffling me while making my lists for the previous years, and I was like “??? ok, that’s it then, I guess I’m getting too old to get what teenagers find funny”. This one worked for me, though. And the music video doesn’t hurt. Really dumb and really fun.

Adore You (Harry Styles) - Perfectly good little pop song, very pleasant to listen to, never outstayed its welcome for me.

Mood (24kGoldn) - This doesn’t sound like a very good relationship, my dude, but that’s still a super pleasant song.

WAP (Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion) - This song is absolutely hilarious and I will hear no argument from any of you.

Control (Zoe Wees) - Was clearly a hit here. Should have been even bigger though. What a powerful but comfy voice. If I had better taste it would be on the list.

Hot Girl Bummer (Blackbear) - I. Uh. Listen. I keep saying I have bad taste and nobody believes me. Do you believe me now. But yeah. “F█ck you, and you, and you~, I hate your friends and they hate me too” is gonna pop in my head every single time someone is being a jerk anywhere near me now. It’s been happening all year already. Someone trashed my documents at work? Someone isn’t wearing a mask in public? That guy has filled his car with rolls of toilet paper? Brain goes “F█ck you, and you, and you~”. Every. Single. Time.

Come & Go (Juice WRLD & Marshmello ) - Damn, that’s a pretty good little song. I’ve seen plenty of people saying it’s ruined by the drop, but may I remind you I’m the person who loves Blue by Eiffel 65 with all my heart. If the song was ramping up consistently until the end instead of ending like that, it would have made the list, definitely.

And now, the actual list. This one actually feels pretty solid, I genuinely like everything on it, there’s no filler here for once.

10 - The Box (Roddy Rich)

US: #3 / FR: #23

Now this is a weird case, because for the longest time I couldn’t figure out why this song was so popular and I was completely neutral about it. Then, one morning in September, my mental jukebox (which always, always puts a song on a loop in my head when I wake up) decided to play it. And I was like oh wow?? I never noticed the atmosphere in that song before? It’s so great. And that hook too. Let’s listen to it.

So yeah, I don’t know what happened. It just clicked one day and everything fell into place, I guess.

9 - Alane (Wes & Robin Shulz)

US: Not on the list / FR: #93

Come on. You can’t do a remake of one of my previous #1 songs and let it chart in 2020. That’s cheating. Even with this subpar drop, I have to put it on the list, now.

I’ve already said my piece about the original, so I’m just going to send you back to my 1997 list.

8 - Kings and Queens (Ava Max)

US: Not on the list / FR: #76

[BBC documentary voice] After Lady Gaga decided to make piano balads and left her musical niche vacant, Ava Max quickly took her place as the top predator pop diva. Even after Lady Gaga was re-introduced to her natural habitat in 2020, she still hasn’t fully recovered in Europe, where Ava Max still reigns supreme on the charts -

(tldr I think it’s hilarious that this isn’t on the US Billboard while Lady Gaga isn’t on the French year-end top 100)

7 - Roses (Saint Jhn & Imanbek)

US: #19 / FR: #3

What an earworm. It doesn’t even bother trying to have an intro or an outro, so it loops almost perfectly. It’s like entering a party that started long before you arrived, and it will go on long after you leave it to go back home. Kind of hypnotic in a way.

And yes, my mental jukebox was very fond of using it to wake me up this year, so this is another song that’s here almost solely because of that.

6 - Physical (Dua Lipa)

US: Not on the list / FR: #69 (hehehe)

“Hey I’m not that old” says the guy who’s definitely a sucker for this kind of retro throwback that was so popular this year. Oh well.

I don’t have anything interesting to say about this one, though. Apart from the fact that everyone seems to have a different fave song on that album. Guess that’s quality for you.

5 - Rain on Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande)

US: #48 / FR: Not on the list

That is far from being Lady Gaga’s best song, but it was a joy to listen to everytime it was on the radio anyway. Also Ariana Grande has surprisingly good chemistry with Gaga! This year was full of strange duets mostly made for commercial reasons, and this one isn’t an exception, but unlike a lot of them, it really, really works.

4 - Dynamite (BTS)

US: #38 / FR: Not on the list

I’m still not 100% sold on k-pop even if a ton of it sounds super good, but come on. Even if some bits of this song (especially the beginning of the second chorus) sound a bit like they were made on autopilot, it still sounds just as happy and fun several months after I first heard it and I never got tired of it. That’s quality. You hear it and you can’t help but tap your feet and smile.

Actually, I’m sure there’s people somewhere that don’t smile when they hear this song. And they must be avoided at all costs.

3 - Godzilla (Eminem ft Juice WRLD)

US: #62 / FR: Not on the list

What are you doing so high on this list, old man. Why are you still here in the year 2020. I thought we left you in the previous decade. Who gave you the right.

I’m gonna tell you who did, and it’s actually Juice WRLD. Because that chorus is incredible, and like a lot of people I’m pissed off because the guy died super young and this shit shouldn’t happen to anybody. No, his early material wasn’t great, but I’m sorry I’m gonna say it again: have you heard this damn chorus? It’s suspenseful and dark, it’s got this lowkey menacing quality, it’s an earworm and a half, and it’s more convincing in like six lines than Eminem’s own flexing is in the entire song.

The beat is extremely good as well, and the flow, obviously, impressive. The weakest link is Eminem’s writing, which is as usual full of puns and weird wordplay, except here a lot of it isn’t great, and that last ultra fast part at the end is technically impressive but it also drives the song up a cliff and stops it dead in its tracks once it’s over. But frankly the lines fly by so fast it’s difficult to be too annoyed by them.

Can I sincerely put this extremely flawed song so high on my list? A better question would be “did I spend hours trying to learn how to sing this shit without choking on my own spit?”. The answer is yes. To both.

2 - Heartless (The Weeknd)

US: #28 / FR: Not on the list

I’ve said it on my 2015 and 2016 lists already, but just for the record I’ll say it again: it took me ages to like The Weeknd, mostly because I found most of his songs fairly boring, or disliked the lyrics, or both. Also I never really liked the general vibe of his “sexy” songs like The Hills, they felt dark but in an unpleasant creepy way. Felt like miserable hedonism, if that makes sense.

So, because I’m a person with extremely consistent and logical tastes, here’s the exact same shit he was making before, except that this time I absolutely adore it.

What is he doing differently that makes the whole After Hours album click for me whereas almost all of his previous material failed to do so? Is it the energy? Is it the reverb? Is it the fact that the narrator sounds properly unhinged and, frankly, scared to be spiralling out of control? Why are the colors so beautiful yet full of anxiety? Why is that bridge so fantastic? How can you make your voice look like a glowstick in the dark?

I give up. I have no clue. At least I’m done talking about-

Oh.

1 - Blinding Lights (The Weeknd)

US: #1 / FR: #1 (listen sometimes something’s just that good, ok)

Surprise. Or not.

Wow, look at that, Johannes has put this year’s number one pop song at number one on their personal playlist. The audacity. The edge. What a hot take.

I discovered that song when it first came out at the end of 2019 and I adored it instantly. And I was so scared it wouldn’t be a hit. Which means I’m a f█cking dumbass considering it ended up breaking all sorts of records in 2020. But what can I say, overplay can be a blessing when you love a song that much.

Like every single song I put at number one on one of my lists, I will draw this one at some point and you will understand how incredibly satisfying it is to listen to a song called Blinding Lights, talking about city lights looking blurry when you’re driving at night, while looking itself like a bunch of blurry city lights passing by super fast. Perfect in every way.

Also it sounds exactly like A-ha, and that never hurts.

See you next year! Pretty sure it will be even better music-wise.

#Johannes’ bad not good pretty terrible music lists #music #long post #eye contact tw

[justkimberley]

Freckles

Word Count: 2222

Summary:  TJ and Cyrus are finally having a sleepover, after planning one for months, and it turns out that overtired TJ is very touchy TJ. TJ is also surprised to learn that even after being friends for almost a year, Cyrus can still shock him.

This was inspired by a post by @tyrus-is-endgame-no-doubt

I hope you enjoy!

Ao3 Link: x

          TJ and Cyrus were sitting Cyrus’ basement watching a movie. Well, TJ didn’t really think that sitting was the right word for it, they were more… lounging. They were lounging comfortably in Cyrus’ basement, surrounded by almost every blanket and pillow in Cyrus’ house, watching a movie. They had already played ping pong, Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros earlier that evening and they had also done every other classic sleepover activity that they could think of. All they had left to do now was watch the movie and eat snacks.

          They had been planning this sleepover for a very long time, but there was always something getting in the way of it happening. Whether TJ had a basketball game or Cyrus had a family function, there was never a time when they were both free. Because of this, they had never had a sleepover – despite having been friends for almost a year. But, now that they had finally found a day when they were both available, their plans for the ‘Super Sleepover Soirée’ (Cyrus had come up with the name) were finally coming into fruition, and TJ couldn’t be happier.

          At the moment, TJ and Cyrus were sitting on the floor with their backs leaned against the couch. Their shoulders were pressed together, and their legs were touching from hip to ankle. Cyrus had moved into this position, pressing their sides together, when they had started the movie. It made TJ’s heartrate pick up and his palms grow sweaty, but he was back to his regular resting self now. TJ was hoping that because Cyrus chose to be so close to him, Cyrus might like him back. TJ knew that Cyrus was gay, and he also knew that he liked Cyrus (a lot). He was also pretty sure that Cyrus knew he was gay. Combining this knowledge with how close they currently were only made TJ’s hopes rise higher. Cyrus probably liked him back. Why would he press so close to TJ if he didn’t? TJ was very happy that he got to be this close to Cyrus, he just hoped that Cyrus would stay this close for the rest of the movie.

          The first week that TJ and Cyrus became friends, TJ noticed that Cyrus had a hard time staying still for extended periods of time. Unless Cyrus was really comfortable, he would change his position every ten minutes. That was one of the reasons why TJ loved studying with Cyrus so much. He liked watching Cyrus lay down, roll to his side, sit up, change his sitting position, lay back down facing a different direction, et cetera, et cetera – it was probably TJ’s favourite pass-time. It was like Cyrus was so invested in his reading that he needed to move to express it.

          TJ had mostly just been watching Cyrus since they started the movie. He already knew what happened, he’d seen the movie before, but what he did notknow was what Cyrus’ reactions to it would be. TJ was enthralled by Cyrus’ reactions; he thought that Cyrus’ face might be more interesting than anything he had ever seen in a movie. Cyrus was a very expressive person, especially with his face. TJ could always tell what Cyrus was thinking, and he found that fascinating. TJ was falling into a new pit of Cyrus related thoughts when Cyrus started shifting around and changing his position, so TJ quickly turned to face the movie (he didn’t want Cyrus to him staring).

          Cyrus tried different leg placements, moving away from TJ, and moving back towards TJ while he tried to find a more comfortable position. This lasted for about three minutes before Cyrus let out a sigh, flopped over, and placed his head on TJ’s leg.

          There were many ways that TJ had expected Cyrus to end up sitting, however he had not expected Cyrus to do that. He stiffened in surprise when Cyrus’ head touched his leg, and his heartrate increased in response to their new position. He was fine with this new arrangement, more than fine actually, he just wasn’t prepared for it.

           “Is this okay?” Cyrus asked looking up at TJ inquisitively. He must have felt how tense TJ was. TJ forced himself to relax even though his heart was beating much faster than it was supposed to, and his face was warm.

          TJ cleared his throat, “Yeah, it’s fine,” he said, voice cracking as he attempted to feign nonchalance. How was he supposed to be calm when Cyrus’ head was resting in his lap?

          Cyrus studied TJ’s face, as if he was searching for a sign that TJ wasn’t okay with what was happening. Seeming to find no signs of resistance, Cyrus smiled and turned his attention to the movie, cuddling into his new ‘pillow’.

          With Cyrus’ head nuzzled on his leg, TJ couldn’t think of anything else. This might be one of the best moments in his life. Cyrus’ head was on his leg. It was strangely comforting to have the weight of Cyrus’ head on his leg, and he felt his heartrate return to normal.

          TJ went back to watching Cyrus’ reactions to the movie, but he soon got very distracted by Cyrus’ hair. It looked so soft and he really wanted to touch it. His hand slowly reached towards Cyrus’ hair and began playing with it. It was as soft as it looked, but TJ was worried that Cyrus might be weirded out by TJ touching his hair. Heck, even TJ was weirded out by it because he didn’t remember consciously telling his hand to do that.

          “That feels nice, keep doing it please,” Cyrus mumbled, snuggling closer to TJ’s leg.

          TJ felt his heartrate pick up again at Cyrus’ words. He was still slightly concerned over the lack of control he had over his hand, but it seemed like overtired, touchy TJ was doing something right, so he kept playing with Cyrus’ hair. It was criminally soft, and all TJ could think about was how nice running his fingers through it felt.

          They were half way through the movie when Cyrus paused it and started moving to get off of TJ. TJ had to stop himself from grabbing Cyrus’ hand to keep Cyrus on his lap a little bit longer. He was so comfortable, and he reallydidn’t want Cyrus to leave his spot. Cyrus must have noticed the disappointed look on TJ’s face, because he smiled softly at him and said, “I’m just going to go upstairs to get ready for bed, I’ll be right back,” before heading towards the stairs. “There’s a bathroom down here you can use to get ready,” he added as an afterthought.

          “Underdog, I’ve been here before you know,” TJ replied teasingly. Cyrus just waved his hand, too tired to respond, and continued up the stairs. TJ rushed to his bag after Cyrus disappeared behind the door, grabbing his stuff to get ready for bed. He finished in record time (his mom would be proud). He wanted to be in the same position that he was in when Cyrus left so that when Cyrus got back, he would hopefully lay down on TJ’s legs again.

          Cyrus finally came back down the stairs and TJ held his breath nervously, wondering if Cyrus would lay on him again. When Cyrus reached where he was sitting before, he flopped down, placed his head on TJ’s lap, and started reaching for the remote. TJ let out a sigh of relief as the comforting weight of Cyrus’ head on his leg returned.

          TJ turned his attention to Cyrus’ face once again and was shocked for the second time that night. This time it was not because Cyrus was laying on him, this time it was because TJ could see freckles dotting Cyrus’ cheeks and the bridge of his nose, spreading across his face in the most beautiful patterns. After TJ got over the shock of seeing Cyrus with freckles, he became confused. He knew for a fact that Cyrus had not had these freckles earlier tonight, so where had they come from? Freckles don’t just appear in the space of ten minutes. TJ stared at Cyrus’ face, slowly moving his hands to touch Cyrus’ cheeks, trying to get a better look. He traced his thumb across the flow of the freckles on Cyrus’ face, starting on the bridge of Cyrus’ nose, down his cheekbones, and then up to his forehead. They were real freckles, so where had they been before?

          “Umm, TJ?” Cyrus asked quietly, breaking TJ out of the spell that had been holding him to Cyrus’ face, “Not that I’m not enjoying this but, uh, why are you touching my face?”

          TJ felt himself flush and quickly took his hands off of Cyrus’ face, realizing that what he had been doing was a bit more intrusive than playing with Cyrus’ hair, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry. I just, I wasn’t really thinking, and my hands just did it on their own. That was weird wasn’t it.” TJ rushed out covering his face, ashamed. He couldn’t just touch people’s faces! That was weird and intrusive! Just because TJ liked Cyrus didn’t mean Cyrus liked TJ too.

          “I mean it was kind of weird, but… I didn’t mind it,” Cyrus said softly, interrupting TJ’s spiraling negative thoughts, “I just wanted to know why,” he added, looking up at TJ.

          TJ didn’t really know how to explain his thoughts, so he said the first thing that came to mind, “Freckles,” he said quickly and then blushed. Really? All he could think to say was freckles?

          “What?” Cyrus looked confused.

          “I, uhm, I didn’t know you had freckles, so I, well, I just wanted to… touch them? Sorry I just… they looked so nice and, uh, yeah, sorry,” TJ trailed off, his face felt very warm.

          “You thought they looked nice?” Cyrus asked, smiling.

          “Well, yeah. I love freckles. Every boy I’ve ever liked had freckles,” TJ said quickly, blushing when he realized that he had just inadvertently told Cyrus about his crush on him.

          Cyrus was blushing now too, “You like boys?” he asked.

          TJ nodded, “I thought you knew… I don’t exactly try to hide it,”

          “I didn’t, but I’m glad that you told me,” Cyrus said, smiling. TJ still couldn’t tear his eyes away from Cyrus’ freckles. He didn’t think he would everget used to them, “You can keep touching them if you want, it felt kind of nice,” Cyrus said shyly, still blushing.

          TJ’s face lit up with a smile and he moved his hands back to Cyrus’ face, tracing gentle patterns and connecting his freckles into different constellations, “How did I not know you had freckles?” TJ mumbled, mostly to himself, still tracing patterns on Cyrus’ cheeks.

          “I cover them up,” Cyrus said quietly, “Actually… the first day we met was the first time I did it, and I’ve done it ever since,”

          “Why would you want to do that? They’re so beautiful,” TJ said, staring reverently at Cyrus’ cheeks. Cyrus’ blush grew darker.

          “I never liked them,” Cyrus shrugged, “So I used makeup to pretend I didn’t have them,”

          TJ was shocked, “Why didn’t you like them?” TJ had always loved freckles, and even though Cyrus had been cute before TJ saw his freckles, TJ thought Cyrus looked even cuter with freckles than he did without them.

          “Some kid bullied me about them. It’s been an insecurity ever since,” Cyrus shrugged again.

          TJ felt his heart sink, hearing that Cyrus was insecure about something that TJ thought made him even more beautiful, “I wish I could go back in time and stop that kid from ever bullying you. You are so… beautiful. Inside and out, especially with your freckles,” TJ said. He couldn’t help but think that if that kid hadn’t bullied Cyrus, he wouldn’t have been deprived of Cyrus’ freckles for so long.

          Cyrus was blushing even harder now, “You are so sweet,” he said quietly, “Can I tell you something?” Cyrus asked, voice barely above a whisper as he looked up at TJ.

          “Anything,” TJ replied, meeting Cyrus’ gaze, TJ could get lost in those eyes.

          “I really like you TJ,” Cyrus said quietly. TJ felt a glimmer of hope rise in his chest, could it be? Cyrus likes him back? “I like you in a gay way, just so we’re clear,” Cyrus added cheekily. TJ felt like his heart might just explode.

          This felt like a dream, but TJ knew it wasn’t because there was no way he could have come up with this on his own, “I like you in a gay way too,” he said softly, beaming at Cyrus.

          Cyrus smiled widely, “So, does this mean that we can be boyfriends now?” Cyrus asked.

          “I think that could be arranged,” TJ replied, smiling right back.

          With that, Cyrus pressed play on their movie. TJ felt incredibly content being all cuddled up with Cyrus. Cyrus’ head was in TJ’s lap, and one of TJ’s hands was playing with Cyrus’ hair while his other hand was tracing Cyrus’ freckles. TJ decided that this was the best way to watch a movie, and he couldn’t help but hope that this was just the first of many movie nights spent in this exact position.

Notes:

I literally wrote this three separate times because I couldn’t figure out how I wanted to tell the story, but I’m happy with the end result so :) Also I made it 2222 words on purpose because like, that’s such a nice number right?

Please like/comment/reblog if you enjoyed it/want to!

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[i-am-church-the-cat]

In A Few Minutes

Now that Buffy was back and she and TJ were on good terms, the three friends regularly found themselves studying together after school. They normally went to Cyrus’s house and they had been to Buffy’s once or twice, but the trio had never gone over to TJ’s house. Until now. Cyrus was trying not to just, burst into little sparks like a firework, as he and Buffy walked up the basketball captain’s porch. Buffy waited for Cyrus to give her the okay before pressing the doorbell. The pair could hear the ring all through the house and then a “Just a sec!” come from the inside.

A second later, the door was opened to just about the cutest thing had ever seen. TJ was in sweatpants and his Jefferson hoodie, his hair ungelled and glasses perched on the end of his nose. In the boy’s arms sat a light orange cat that gave the two newcomers a bored look. Cyrus' brain shut off, any chance of coherent thought abandoned.

“Hey guys”, TJ said, flashing a dazzling grin. “Come on in.” The boy moved aside to allow his two guests entrance, one pulling the other inside since their motor skills had also been abandoned. The cat wriggled a little and TJ dropped them. They landed with ease and gave a short meow before retreating to the inner depths of the house.

“Macaroni's not very social”, TJ explained before turning back to his two friends and clapping his hands, jarring Cyrus out of his cuteness-induced coma. “Anyway, my parents are gone, but my sister and her friend are in her room, so we have free reign as long as we’re not too loud. You guys want to start or do you want to grab snacks or something?”

“Snacks please”, Buffy replied quickly, partly because she hadn’t had breakfast and partly because she knew that Cyrus wouldn’t be able to produce an answer without coherently. Their host nodded and led the way to the kitchen. It was a normal kitchen, if not a little small, and was relatively clean(relative in this instance meaning cleaner than Buffy’s but nowhere near as polished as either of Cyrus’s). Buffy walked over to what she assumed was the pantry and started rifling around. TJ rolled his eyes at the girl but his attention was soon caught by the boy who was still kind of out of it.

“You okay, Underdog?”, TJ asked. The concerned tone in his voice caused Cyrus’s heart to melt.

“Ye-Yeah”, Cyrus croaked. He cleared his throat and tried again. “Yeah, I’m fine. Just, do you have any tea or anything?”

“Yeah”, the older boy said nodding. “There should be some in the corner cabinet, but don’t take any on the second shelf, that’s my mom’s “private” teas.”

“Private teas”, Buffy repeated as Cyrus made his way over to the cabinet. Her eyebrow was raised as she turned to look at the other captain.

“Yeah”, TJ said with a shrug. “It’s the tea that she reserves specifically for herself. Not even any of us are allowed to have those.” Buffy gave him an incredulous look before turning back to the snack cave. Cyrus. Meanwhile, was busy filling a kettle with water and placing it on the stove to heat. He then turned back to the cabinets to get a cup when a notification sounded on TJ’s phone. TJ looked at it and typed something back before shoving his phone back in his pocket. Cyrus was about to ask who the text was from when he heard people tromping down the stairs. Buffy looked up from her scourge as the footsteps rounded the corner.

“Amber?”, she asked in a bewildered tone. “And Iris?”

“Buffy, Cyrus, what are you doing here?”, the blonde girl asked upon seeing the two in her kitchen.

“We were invited, what are you doing here?”, Buffy responded.

“I live here”, she said, sounding slightly offended.

“You’re TJ’s sister?”, Cyrus gasped, his eyes popping out of his head.

“Yeah, how do you know each other?”, TJ asked, his eyes flicking between Buffy, Amber, and Cyrus.

“She’s Jonah’s ex and Cyrus’s enemy-t0-friend project before you”, Buffy supplied.

“How did we not know you guys were siblings?”, Cyrus asked, choosing to ignore Buffy’s comment.

“As if I would ever want people to know I was related to this loser”, the siblings said at the same time before glaring at each other. Buffy turned toward Iris, the only one who didn’t look surprised.

“Wait, you knew, why didn’t you say anything?”, Buffy asked, more curious than accusing. The girl just shrugged.

“I thought you guys knew”, she answered.

“Wait, how do you guys know Iris?”, TJ asked. Cyrus's eyes widened as he realized he would have to explain to his crush, who didn’t know he was gay, that he had dated his sister’s best friend. Before anyone could answer, however, Cyrus was saved by the whistle of the tea kettle. Iris and Cyrus both lit up and went toward it. Iris explained that the two girls had come down for tea and soon the tea was poured, Buffy’s arms were filled with snacks, and each of the friends were settled in their respective friends’ bedrooms.

TJ’s room was different than Cyrus had expected. Yes, he had been prepared for the basketball posters and the shelf of trophies, but wast he hadn’t expected is the bookcase situated up against one wall. The top three rows were double-rowed with books and the lower two held several bins of old records. A record player sat on the other side of the closet door and TJ’s desk and bed were on the other two walls, his desk sitting under an uncovered window.

“Welcome to my third favorite place in the world”, TJ announced before plopping down on the bed. Buffy decided to take the floor, situating her snacks around her, so Cyrus sat in the desk chair, placing his stuff on the desk. The desk held a few books and a cup full of pens and pencils, but otherwise, it was bare.    

“Third favorite?”, Cyrus asked, taking a sip of his tea.

“Well, the basketball courts down the street where I shot my first basket is my second favorite. And my favorite place is the swings, of course”, the older boy answered nonchalantly. Cyrus blushed at the words and Buffy raised an eyebrow but no one commented.

“So”, Cyrus began, breaking the silence that had settled around them. “What subject do you guys want to start on first?”

“Math”, Buffy and TJ said at the same time, already pulling out their notebooks. The trio had a system, Math first so they could help TJ with the hardest parts while they still had patience, and then Science because Buffy wasn’t that good at it and Cyrus thought it was more productive to group all of the technical subjects first. Then a quick break, with either a television episode or a short one-v-one in basketball between Buffy and TJ while Cyrus kept score. Next, English, because Cyrus and TJ rocked in that department, while Buffy was, less than ideal. And finally, History, because it was the thing Cyrus was worst at and he was the easiest to help without feeling like breaking down or punching something(both something TJ and Buffy had done, though they would never admit it). Plus, TJ was a “History god”, as he put it, and Cyrus loved to end a study session with TJ showing off something he was good at.

The group went through their schedule in just under four hours, their break having gone long because Buffy and TJ would not end on a tie. The three threw their stuff down and flopped down when they were finished, TJ and Buffy now both on the floor and Cyrus on the bed. They sat there for a while before Cyrus got up and wandered over to all the records on the bookcase.

TJ watched him look around for a minute before saying, “You can put one on if you want.” Cyrus looked at him and smiled before turning back to the records. The selection was quite varied, everything from musicals to 80’s rock to Ariana Grande. Finally, Cyrus saw a Wicked album and happily bounced over to the record player, careful to avoid his friends on the floor. His grandfather had had a record player, so he knew how to use one. Cyrus placed the album on the track and started it before heading back to the bed and plopping down again.

Buffy gave him a pointed look as the opening song started, but she didn’t say anything, the effort of arguing not worth moving from her position. TJ just smiled and hummed along to the music. As “Popular” started to play, TJ pushed himself off the ground and walked over to the bed. He laid down next to Cyrus on the bed, both of them looking up at the glow-in-the-dark paint flecks splattered across the ceiling. They had gotten there after TJ had decided it was a good idea to break a glow stick and then flick it at the ceiling in place of glow-in-the-dark stars.

“So”, TJ said softly so only Cyrus could hear. “You never told me how you knew Iris.” Cyrus’s heart sped at that. He was tempted to deflect the question, but he knew that wouldn’t work and he could never lie to TJ.

“She’s my ex-girlfriend”, Cyrus answered in the same tone as TJ.

“Oh”, TJ replied. “W-Why did you break up.”

A feeling of courage flooded Cyrus. He didn’t know if it was because of the slight sound of heartbreak in the older boy’s voice or just because it was TJ. It was probably both, Cyrus decided as he said, “Well, it was around the time I realized I was gay and I didn’t want to lead her on.”

The room was silent before TJ sat up, turning to face Cyrus. Cyrus did the same, facing the other boy and trying to read his facial expression.

“You’re gay?”, TJ asked curiously.

“Y-Yeah”, Cyrus said, the feeling of bravery having left as soon as the words had left his mouth. “Are you okay with that?”

TJ gave Cyrus a soft smile before pulling the smaller boy into a hug. Cyrus melted against the blonde boy.

“Of course”, TJ answered into Cyrus’s hair, rubbing circles into Cyrus’s back. “And I’m really proud of you for trusting me enough with this.”

“It’s no problem”, Cyrus mumbled burrowing into the boy’s chest.

“It is, but also”, TJ began, pulling Cyrus away so that he could look into the boy’s eyes. “I’m gay, too.”

“Yeah?”, Cyrus said, smiling brightly.

“Yeah”, TJ repeated, laughing slightly. “And, I really like you. As in, more than a friend way.”

The smile Cyrus gave TJ would’ve blinded him, but thankfully, he only saw it for a second before the boy’s lips were on his.

“I really like you, too, Teej”, Cyrus said pulling away. TJ beamed and pulled Cyrus back to his chest. When they got up a few minutes later, they’ll discover that Buffy had snuck out and that the three girls had been spying on them. In a few minutes, they would open the door to “finally” and “congratulations”. In a few minutes, they’ll remember that they still had to come out to their parents. But right now, they just laid together, two boys in love.  

#andi mack #tyrus fanfic #tyrus #if 3x13 had gone well *sigh*

[danihelman-does-stuff]

Estelle Crossheart Bio (2017) by REIdepenguin

special shoutout to @nohmasked for helping me redesign this character! so for almost a week, I have been working on a Redesign of my main Ace Attorney OC: Estekke Crossheart. the main reason why I wanted to redesign her was because I wanted her design to be more influenced from her Hispanic heritage. so I changed her color scheme  and changed her scarf with a necklace. these changes  may not seem like much but I think they really elevate her character quite a bit.

I would love to hear your thoughts about her as well as of things I can improve with her!

bio is under the keep reading

Full Name: Estelle Maria Crossheart Gender: female Orientation: Asexual, Demiromantic Occupation: Defense Attorney Age during debut: 23 (Born in 1997) Height: 165 cm Weight:  67.7 kg/ 154 lbs Nicknames/ On-off names: Estie, Crossbrat Appearance: Estelle is half Mexican and half American. she got the Mexican side from her mother. she also has a slightly curvy body type matched with a round face, thick lips and large hazel eyes. Her shoulder length hair is neatly combed and a section of it is attached to a white bow like clip which makes it defy gravity. At court, Estelle wears a burgundy red jacket with a black collar. on it she wears an attorney's badge and bellow it a white blouse. She also wears mismatched marron Pants and cream colored shoes. in addition she wears with her a green necklace which is a family heirloom from her mother's side. she considers it a good luck charm and whenever she's in a tight situation, she has a habit of grasping the necklace. When she doesn't have to keep a professional appearance, Estelle likes to wear something comfortable that manages to be a little on the "girly side". She's also a secret fan of Lolita fashion, even though she can't afford any of the dresses.

Brief Personallity description: Estelle is a woman who is defined by her passion for the things she loves and believes in. In court, she acts in a very professional demeanor and she talks in a respectful and polite manner to the judge and witnesses even though she's a greenhorn. but because this is ace attorney, her attitude is constantly challenged by the constant antics that are brought into the courtroom. in her inner monologue she shows cynicism towards the unusual witnesses, constantly remarks of her mentor's pretentious sayings but when some of her thoughts are leaked, she can completely lose her cool. she is also an impatient person in general. she doesn't have a lot of patience for witnesses who tend to ramble and she likes getting things as soon as she can. this has lead her to jump to conclusions and sometimes gloss over details.

But despite her cynicsm ((which gradually decreases as she gets used to things)) Estelle isn't always a stick in the mud. she can be quite the extrovert as she loves going to parties, organizing events with her friends and openly greeting people with compassion and friendliness. She also loves playing and litsening to music. she has a very wide range and she finds the medium as her perfect form of escapism.

because she was raised by a psychiatrist and a detective as well as her personal experiences, she has a strong sense of morality, justice and above all loyalty and once she promises to defend her client she will do her best to believe them until the end. But at the same time, Estelle has a very large inferiority complex that was caused by her relationship with her late mother. She tends to be very dependent of others because of that and she gets very hurt and moody when she is betrayed. In addition, she also puts a lot of worth in her occupation as a defense attorney because aside from defending and playing music, she doesn't show a lot of confidence when she is tasked with certain actions (such as cooking for example).  But even despite her weaknesses, she still tries her best to improve herself and work on her low self esteem.

Relations:  Ethan Crossheart (father), Teresa Crossheart (Mother, deceased) Cyrus Twain (Mentor and brother figure ), Ty Evergreen (friend and assistant), Zoe (Ty's boyfriend and Estelle's client), Erin Skye (Friend and detective in charge over investigations), Renee trouver (rival prosecutor), Anya Linchevski (Friend, Rival Prosecutor and Mentor's lover.), Lewis Grant (client), Gordon "Black Friday" Smith (Favorite musician), Kristoph Gavin (affiliate), Archer Klim (Client and Kim's brother). (more to be added)

Backstory: As a child, Estelle always looked up to her mother, who was a well-respected detective in the police. Therefore she always wanted to work in the field of law out of the naïve belief that she wanted to be a defender of justice like her mother. However she always felt like she’ll never be as successful as her and lived in her own shadow as a kid causing her to have an inferiority complex and insecurity in her choices. She also felt that she couldn’t confess she was jealous of her mother because of it. During her years as a teenager, Estelle met her best friend Kim Audrey. they met by chance when they worked on history project in 8th grade. After the project, they eventually began spending more time with each other and bonded over their love for rock music and their upbeat personalities. While Kim admitted they were mostly content with their life as helping her father in his restaraunt, they still openly listened to Estelle's passions and cheered her on. but aside from kim and a few others, Estelle didn't have many close friends despite her extroverted nature. that is because it was during this time Estelle started putting more effort to her ambitions. she attended courtroom trails where her mother was involved, even if it meant cutting classes in school, attempted to help her mother in some of her cases (emphasis on attempted), and attended electives in her school that could assist her in her pursuit. she even tried applying to Themis Legal Academy when she was 15 only to fail because her grades weren't good enough. respected Estelle's drive for her ambitions but she was also concerned that her daughter was pushing herself too hard in such a young age. after all, Estelle's passion and impatience hurt her school and social life, and also her sleeping habits. she didn't know that Estelle's efforts were partially caused from her desires to be on par with her mother. this lead to a very rough patch in their relationship because both sides didn't really know how to communicate with the issue. Estelle's Dad was also concerned about her behavior and he constantly tried to talk with Estelle about her and sort things out. and while Estelle listened to his advice, she never fully stuck out to it.

When Estelle was in 11th grade, Her mother died in a traffic accident on her way back home. this caused great grief to Estelle and her family. Estelle felt  guilty she couldn't resolve things with her mother and she lost a lot of hope in herself and her ambitions. Estelle managed to somewhat cope with her grief thanks to her friends and her father. It was during this time that Estelle really opened up about the feelings for her late mother and to accept the fact they existed, and to move on from them. Eventually, her Father introduced her to Cyrus who was his former patient. back then, he only had a year of experience in the law business but was still a very promising attorney. Cyrus has started teaching her about law but they didn’t have the best of relationships because he found Estelle unmotivated and bland. When Cyrus told her the truth, Estelle wasn’t offended and decided to listen to his criticisms. in fact, she appreciated the fact she had someone who motivated her to comfront her insecurities. The compassion he showed to her and to his clients were one of the things that rekindled her passion for her ideals and to pursue the legal field, this time in a way that wouldn't damage her health. And thus she went on to study law and pass the legal exam. Once she gained her attorney's badge, she went to work under Cyrus, who she became very close friend's with and become his protégé.

Even though she still has issues with her self esteem, she is still very grateful to the people who helped her overcome her difficulties. in fact, this gratefulness is what motivated Estelle to become a defense attorney, because she wants to her clients the same way they helped her, as well as stay faithful to the ideals she perserves.

Notes - her favorite food is chicken fajitas - Her first name, Estelle, means "star" in french - Her last name is a play on the term "cross my heart" - She is very claustrophobic. - her necklace is inspired by the Spanish Inquisition Necklace. - She fluently speaks Spanish and English and has a habit of occasionally cursing in spanish - she believes in the superstitions of her culture

#ace attorney #ace attorney OC #my oc #my art

[woodworkingpastor]

Telling the truth in a post-truth age Matthew 5:33-37 Sunday, November 3, 2019

I want to begin this morning with a question:  When did it become acceptable to not tell the truth?  I realize this is a foolish question—as if there is someone here who would say, “I know: it was a Thursday afternoon, around 2:30. The humidity was high that day; it was mostly sunny, but we were expecting storms that afternoon,” as if the moment when dishonesty became acceptable could be as vividly remembered as we do other tragic events.

We might not be able to pinpoint a time when telling the truth seemed to pass out of fashion, but there is an identifiable time when the editors of the Oxford Dictionaries decided that the word of the year for 2016 would be “post-truth.” This word describes situations where “objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

There are several circumstances that started me thinking about truthfulness. The first was a series of posts on Facebook that simply were not true.  What stood out to me about these posts was that the people making these posts are friends of mine who I know to be deeply committed Christians—people who are sincere in their faith and active participants in their congregations.  

Because these people are my personal friends, I challenged them about these posts.  In each case I said, “Have you checked the accuracy of this post? Because I looked into this, and what you are saying here is actually not true.”  In each case, their reply was, “Well, that’s ok. I agree with the sentiment behind what is posted.”  This is the very definition of “post-truth.”  The content of their Facebook post appealed to their emotions and personal beliefs. The fact that they were actually repeating something that was untrue didn’t bother them.

The second circumstance came from articles I’ve read concerning sexual abuse and sexual misconduct scandals in the Catholic Church, Southern Baptist Church, and some high-profile mega-churches.  The current issue of Sojourners includes an article by Wade Mullen who teaches organizational leadership and who has researched situations like these: how it is that in face of serious wrongdoing, churches chose to minimize and cover up instead of plainly telling the truth.  In the article he describes a situation in a church where he served as youth pastor:

he learned the congregation had an abuser among their membership. When he reported the abuse that was happening within the congregation to his supervisor in accordance with state protocols, he was shocked when the church leadership dismissed it out of fear for what could happen to the institution. He was told, “Do you realize what reporting could do to that family? To this church?  These stories could bring down this church.”

Protecting the reputation of the church became more important that the truth-telling of confession and reconciliation, and wounded people were essentially sacrificed so a reputation could be propped up.

When did it become acceptable to not tell the truth?

Not emphasizing this enough?

Looking at the Scripture this morning made me wonder if the church has assumed too much about telling the truth.  Could we have been so focused on other topics that we’ve overlooked this one? Our text from Matthew 5:33-37 is surrounded by more famous passages that receive more attention in biblical commentaries, writing, and conferences and workshops:

Matthew 5:21-26 talks about anger and murder and reconciliation. We understand the significance of violent acts—be they through our words or our actions—so much that the Roanoke City Council established a task force to propose solutions to end gun violence.

Matthew 5:27-32 talks about lust and adultery and divorce. The church has long advocated for strong marriages, and it’s easy to imagine that if we were to have a weekend seminar on strengthening marriages, we would get many eager participants.

Matthew 5:38-48 are verses Brethren comment on frequently: non-retaliation, enemy love, peacemaking all get significant attention through sermons, studies, books, and conferences.

But almost hidden away in Matthew 5 amidst all the “tall trees” are these words on truthfulness: “Do not swear at all…let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No.’” There is no need to embellish our words; followers of Jesus simply say what they mean and mean what they say.

I’m not sure I recall a case where a church held a weekend conference on telling the truth, but with what I see in the situations described earlier, it seems like more attention to truth-telling is in order.

What does a commitment to telling the truth reveal?  

Telling the truth reflects our belief in God

Stephen Carter, who is a Law professor at Yale University, reflects on what truth-telling reveals about our belief in God in his book Integrity.  One of the courses he regularly teaches at Yale Law School is “Contracts.”  In that class, he teaches his students that

there was a time under the English common law when one could defend against a suit to collect a debt by what was known as the wager of law. The defendant who chose to this would get his friends and neighbors to swear alongside him in the name of God that no money was owed; if these oaths were duly sworn, the court would give judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff could not collect the debt.

In an earlier age, the defendant was allowed to choose the wager of battel. He could fight the plaintiff—or acquire a champion to do the fighting on his behalf—and God would grant victory to the one whose lawsuit was just…a tradition that continued into the early decades of the nineteenth century (Integrity, 107-8).

Carter says that his students never have difficulty understanding the wager of battel, because they see that something is at risk: real harm will ensue from this choice. But to go to the witness stand and swear in God’s name to tell the truth? Why would anyone do this? No risk seems to be involved.  Just lie!

The reason the wager of law worked was because those who chose this option did believe something was at risk!  They believed God would intervene if they were not truthful. No one in that day would dare lie—they feared the wrath of God, if not in this life, the certainly in the next.

Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:33-37 are somewhat related to this idea.  We tell the truth because we believe in God.  Not that we believe God will strike us dead for telling the lie.  At the very least, I’d just once love to see someone’s pants actually catch on fire when they tell a lie. The point is that telling the truth reveals that we have committed ourselves to God’s ways of living and acting. We have no need to embellish our words by swearing an oath to convince others of our truthfulness, or to add strength to an argument. Disciples of Jesus speak simply and plainly, telling the truth, because we recognize that our lives are lived in the presence of God, and everything we do or say is to reflect that.

Telling the truth is essential to community life

I mentioned a moment ago that these verses on truth telling seemed tucked away in the middle of a lot of topics that seem to be more important.  The thread that ties Matthew 5 together is that these are qualities that must be present for a close community to thrive. No relationship can last if there are unresolved conflicts, or unchallenged marital unfaithfulness, or dishonest relations, or an unbroken cycle of retaliation against our enemies.  We can’t live that way.

As much as we value our individualism, ultimately our choices have an impact on others. Within the congregation we each have to consider how “my” choices impact all of us.  What kind of church community would we be if we could only be certain of our truthfulness some of the time? What actually makes our truthfulness more guaranteed if we have a hand on a Bible?  Is God any more present than God already is?

The old Brethren found these verses to describe an essential characteristic of their life—our trust in God is so great that we can simply tell the truth. God will work all things out in their own time.  One example of this is the life of Cyrus Bomberger, one of the free ministers in the Spring Creek congregation in Lebanon County, PA. Brother Cyrus was so well-known for his commitment to telling the truth that when he took wagon loads of wheat to be sold, the miller told his workers that the did not need to examine what was in the bags.  Just weigh them and pay him. Cyrus Bomberger was a man of his word.

Living in anxious times

In spite of all this, I think I understand my friend’s motivations for their inaccurate Facebook posts, and I get the fear behind church leaders who try to minimize damage to their congregations—even if both sets of behaviors are clearly wrong. We live in anxious times. So many things in our world are changing that it becomes easy in our anxiety to grab on to anything that seems to validate what we’ve believed for a long time.

We can see this a bit in the wooden people in the background of the slide. They’re not all alike; we can imagine each one having their own opinions and attitudes that might seem challenging to us. When we’re confronted with this, we are tempted to look for ideas that support our beliefs, and we hang on to them, even if we recognize something isn’t quite right about them.

Some of the most interesting reading I’ve done recently speaks to this “tribalism” we see in our culture. Some people use the terms “ingroup” (to describe us) and “outgroup” (to describe others).  It is our human nature to view our ingroup in a favorable light, while we view the “outgroup” in a less favorable light. The people in our tribe are “interesting” and “diverse.”  But the people in the other tribe are “all the same” and “just like that.”  

But even if we are threatened by those of differing tribes, it does not diminish God’s presence in our lives. It does not make it impossible for us to honor God with our truthfulness. In speaking about such things, St. Augustine said “O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.”

The simple fact is that it has never been acceptable to not tell the truth. We only need to find the courage to define our lives by our truthfulness.

[nvmlindseyallan]

Guys In Godhead, Last July 22 I told you that a young man dressed in a blue Empire t-shirt with the image of an eagle had led me to discover a computer shop where I was able, after hours of waiting for a closed shop, to get the best out of my money for that day writing what I have to write for that day, and where also I received delays from either the Empire or the Godhead as I have told you already (Galatians 5). Thinking about all those things I asked the Godhead whether They really did were the ones who tried to disrupt me to work online last July 22. I received rather responses that even shocked me, that not only that They never tried to disrupt me, but rather They even confirmed me, as in the previous days, that day to be still Their own. Please allow me to relate one by one those. First let me tell you that we were respectively baptized to the Empire branch we belong, the Minions, on prophetically-auspicious days. I was the first (James 1) to be baptized, on November 15,, anniversary of the American Empire’s Commonwealth in the Philippines, so that rather confirmed that I’m going later on to be one of your leaders here in your Commondominion. My mother was next to be baptized on October 24 the year that followed, which will be the day in 2015 when the Empire extolled their celebrities over the Minion Arena in favor of the Neronian holiday and in pursuance to the Neronian clause on the ‘sanctuary’. My sisters were baptized later on in January 30, 2 days after the Minion head EVM preached in the exact locale where all of us were baptized, as if really EVM does the gesture of bestowing confirmations (Genesis 26) to me later on. EVM in fact will be there too many times (the chapel was dedicated by Ka Erdy on Lindsey’s birth year)- for example, on March 11 this year. The locale’s name reciprocates Olongapo- once Ka Erdy was at Angeles on March 11, 1994, and on many times Ka Erdy was at Angeles (EVM was even at Angeles on November 22, 2013, one year exactly before I personally went on my own to see EVM at Pasig, as STF confirmed, in fulfillment of biblical prophecies, particularly on the biblical clause of ‘trees beside waters’) he declared that Angeles and Olongapo were (Hebrews 11, Isaiah 1-2, 58) the new Sodom and Gomorra, or in Revelation 11’s words, Sodom and Egypt, where of course the two witnesses came from. In this instance I have as my co-pair in that Revelation 11 clause, as Angeles’ name suggests, our Executive Minister Ka Angel. When the Commondominion went out of the Roman Empire officially on July 23, 2015, I even attended a worship service in the Minion Central Complex on the early morning of that day without knowing of course the following events that would erupt later on that day. (In fact when the Godhead formally asked me to be Their Messenger on December 28, 2016, my sisters were even able to attend a service at the Minion Central Complex.) I say this because in Jewish law, any newborn baby must undergo the service of ‘Purification’ or Dedication in the Temple (Deuteronomy 16) 40 days after their birth. In Empire tradition Christ did that on Groundhog Day, February 2, and Groundhog sounds like the name of (Luke 10) another trusted confidante and namesake of our Executive Minister Ka Angel, no other than Sir Nathan Grundhofer, whose wife Juliette happened to sound of course like my name. Last July 16, anniversary of Brother Martin Evangelista’s divine commission (and the earthquake of 1990 by 4:26 pm), as I was about to post my blog in my page that day, the page demanded rather that I schedule my blog’s posting rather than to post it right away. It happened without my intention that I saw the time I was supposed to post at once upon finishing was 6;41 pm. Of course I scheduled it to the nearest minute after the 41st, which is 6:42 (Revelation 12,6,11), which resembles 4:26. If you are following my posts I have said that Godhead sent signs confirming me on June 11-12, which we here in your Commondominion observe as a special Passover Memorial. 40 days on, on July 22, I was so that the Minions sent EVM’s personal secretary named sounding just like me and even bearing the surname of Purificasion to officiate in the service that day in the locale where I’m residing. It’s like the gesture of course that you were visited by somebody from the Minion Headquarters on the same day 2 years ago that you were there exactly where the said Empire man came from. That’s like an act of course, of the Jewish Purification Service (1 Corinthians 10, 2 Chronicles 29). It was on that morning also this year that I saw the young man whom I have mentioned earlier that as I have said days ago, was sent by Godhead to confirm that yours truly, #GodsTinyDancer, is another endtime ravenous bird of prey or New Cyrus foretold by Isaiah. I at once broke that to you in my page that same afternoon, without fully delving on the details, which I could not remember at once on that moment or rather because I have little time left on rent at the store, the time being ate up by the delay that happened. So mediating on everything that happened I was shocked to discover that I declared my election as Bird of Prey at once without fully knowing that earlier that day other signs aside from the young man I have told you then and earlier here had been sent by Godhead to support this. 1. After the service as I leave I opened the gate and it was so hard that in process it sliced a bit of my palm’s skin and hence blood came out. I was so shocked hours later as I was doing online work as I have mentioned that my other hand, on its nails this time, had blood, and that was without me doing anything to my other hand (Matthew 5-7) except that I was typing. That’s a sort of blood sacrifice, if you are to Purify or Dedicate at the Temple. 2. As I came home that day I was also surprised that my co-boarders’ friends had left a laptop because the family have to render it together with ours to the repair shop for rehabilitation. It’s like you have the old and the new ‘tablets’ of stone in Exodus together (2 Chronicles 5-7). 3. Also, as I came home that day I was so surprised too that a ballpen was at my wallet. I don’t know where it came from, I never got hand on any ballpen that day, it just came up on my wallet (1 Samuel 1-3) and I never, really saw it there earlier that day; nobody even of course gets hold on my wallet but me alone. It’s like really the Godhead is showing up to me continually on that day (Revelation 2,12, 1 John 1, John 9). Let me further relate to you. Concerning Sodom and Egypt: one morning when I was at the bedroom my mother came in sweeping and cursing me of course because she’s angry. Shocked I don’t know where to go across the room because dirt and dust are all around being swept by my mother and of course you don’t want to scatter those after being swept. I could not even get in to the bed because my mother was also fixing it at the same time that moment. So I rather found my self at once unintendedly sitting on the dust for a brief minute. You can know already how Jezebels like my mother are sitting elsewhere (Ezekiel 28,31,26, Revelation 17, 1 Samuel 4) so we could see how Godhead (1 Kings 17-19) continually sends people like me to expose them by nature: that’s why I’m a yokebearer (Hebrews 10) because I strip (2 Corinthians 2, Colossians 2, Ephesians 4, 1Corinthians 15) off the Empire’s identity (Revelation 16, Jeremiah 8-9, 2 Corinthians 12, Isaiah, Matthew 25). Our election is evident: Christ said He will be even pleased with Tire and Sidon (Matthew 10-12). In prophecy Godhead promised to strip off the Empire’s powers through yokebearers (Job 1-2, Philippians 3) as personified by (John 16) Tire being a former Empire center (Ezekiel 24,26). Today Tire is under Lebanon (1 Corinthians 5), one of our allies here in the Commondominion, which was specifically attacked by the Empire on the service of July 23, 2016 (Amos 8). Hence, our election to contend for all our comrades and colleagues such as Lebanon (Daniel12). We are, as per Matthew 10’s ‘Sodom and Gomorra’ clause as we earlier mentioned to Revelation 11, taken out of the Empire’s influence (Revelation 6, Hebrews 11, John 10-15), and as Lady Kirsty Nilsson confirmed of me way back then citing Acts 7, I was really placed by Godhead to facilitate (Ezekiel 1-3) yokebearers out of the Empire (2 Chronicles 36,15,20). Furthermore, here in our locale they keep a book which they said that they created because they want to do what Malachi 3 talks about as a ‘book of remembrance before God’. I just mention it because should they want to keep so, they should hence receive that (Matthew 8-12, Luke 20, Genesis 18, Hebrews 13) with the keeping of such a’ book’ comes the sending of messengers in their midst (Malachi 1-4 [Empire quotes Malachi 3 for the Purification in the Temple]), hence my appearing (Hebrews 9). My grandmother was born on the same day as an Empire man who once said that ‘people would come down from the mountains, led by the sun’s rays, and I count them all as brethren.’ We could see that this was fulfilled in the Empire’s eyes one month before my grandmother’s birthday (Numbers 20, Deuteronomy 34), in 2014, when Ka Elias’ media team even observed that the attendees to the EVM rally service that day all ‘came down from the mountains that morning’. As for us our first surname denotes mountains, the Empire’s very type that we are shattering (Judges 6-7, Daniel 2, 2 Corinthians 10, Joshua 6,15) through the means that we begin with ourselves- I mean, all that we go through, and all that we implement here (Psalm 51, Micah 4-5, Isaiah 22,28-29,40, Proverbs 4, Genesis 12-13,18, 1 Corinthians 9). Finally (1 Corinthians 1-4, Isaiah 41,44-45,66), when the Prophet Haggai talked about the signet ring, he also talks about yours truly, because we are gathering all countries, churches, and dancers here under (1 Peter 3, Jeremiah 18,20) one roof (Luke 12) which is your Commondominion (Ephesians 1-4, 2 Corinthians 1,5) through our preaching ministry that seals the Holy Spirit to all countries and churches who will agree with Him (Revelation 7,14,22), and to all yokebearers for their salvation (1 John 5, Psalm 105). But before I end this treatise, let me tell you further about EVM’s circular of July 3, 22-23, 2017 (if you could notice, the dates alone form the Empire code 3-22, so that’s already #Agenda), That was also recurring, as it is also with all other EVM lessons lately. The circular was first read February 8-9, 2012. The year that followed, February 9, 2013, EVM was at my city preaching. Way back February 7, 2009, EVM was at my hometown preaching too. EVM’s December 7, 2013 lesson was relayed February 8-9, 2014. February 8, 2014, in true EVM style, when I was not yet here with you (Ephesians 2), I attended Jun Santos’ rally on that same city where EVM preached on December 7, 2013. I said ‘in true EVM style’ because I have to persist attending against the wishes of my parents. I really decided to still proceed there because I was enthralled with the Empire’s promise that the said service is going to be ‘big’. What only happened is that only a few, by Godhead’s grace, attended.

THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME ‘The Commondominion of Christ, is God’s answer to apostasy, it is a back-up plan of God. When things fall apart in a organization which evidently enjoys God’s approval and countenance but abuses it until it is apostatized, God keeps a “remnant” group (Acts 2:39) to keep the election of that organization alive and to keep having the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), and God starts all over again from that remnant group. Even if elected as the new, cut-clean version of God’s chosen, a true Commondominion member is not complacent that he or she could not be apostatized anymore. They always bear in mind that if they do not take caution through remaining faithful, honest and humble, they could be apostatized too and lose the election God gave them. So they always discount the possibility of being the next apostate.’ With this, your Commondominion of Christ, with the grace of the Godhead, existed and persisted as long as humankind went on. We could see that your Commondominion could be traced way back long ago, according to the findings of our branch churches, when the Godhead created all men and women to exist throughout subsequent history to live with Them in preexistence before the creation of the world (Matthew 25). We could see that all these men and women (Matthew 19, Isaiah 65) were created to be angels and not as gods, unlike what the Empire would claim. The first recorded creation of the Roman Empire during this time was of course the rebellion and downfall of Satan the Devil and all his cohorts, who will later on be the present Roman Catholic Pope and all other heads of the Empire’s branches, as would be seen further on in biblical history, that repeated rebellions of the Empire would occur in heaven (Isaiah 14, Luke 10, Revelation 12, Ezekiel 28,31, Matthew 18,8,25). Hence, after the world was created the Son- Jesus Christ- and the Holy Spirit, will be sent, together with Their Female Counterparts, to shepherd and govern the men and women who would later on be sent to earth through natural birth to plant the Commondominion of Christ on earth and hence (Jeremiah 32) in human history (Matthew 7 Empire usage, 2 Timothy 2, Colossians 1, Psalm 89,69). Down here on earth, the Commondominion of Christ existed through the following groups of men and women: 1. Adam and Eve 2. Abel 3. Set, Enoch, Methuselah 4. Noah, Sem, Japhet 5. The Israelite Nation 6. The First-Century Primitive Christian Church 7. The various Commondominion settlers in the other places of the world, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, Book of Jeraneck, et cal. After the death of the apostles the Commondominion existed through the following up to the first Medieval Reformation forerunners: 1. Arius 2. Essenes 3. Donatism 4. Polycarp of Asia 5. Novatianism 6. Paul of Samosata 7. Montanism 8. Marchionism 9. Ebionites 10. Clement of Rome 11. Polycarp 12. Josephus and Eusebius, et cal. 13. Papias 14. Pseudo-Barnabas 15. Epistle to Diosnetus 16. Hermas 17. Didache 18. Justin Martyr 19. Tatian 20. Athenagoras 21. Tertullian 22. Hegesippus 23. Patrick of Hibernia, Columba, Columban 24. Branches of the whole Eastern Orthodox Church 25. Nestorianism These names we have listed are only but a representative of their many other countless and priceless like-minded guys and girls who existed up to the first Medieval Reformation. The Commondominion launched it formally with the Albigensian movement in 1129 and the Waldenesians in 1173. And you all know everything that the Reformation produced: Luther, Savonarola, Wycliffe, Huss, Calvin, Muntzer, Erasmus, Knox, Petrarch, Goethe, et cal., until the English-speaking Protestants: Edwards, Wesley, Whitefield, and then Spurgeon and Morgan and Moody and Tolkien and Lewis. The Godhead, upon though seeing that the Empire is bent on streamlining Protestants to the Antiochian banner, particularly in attempts to claim and woo Moody, had decided to come up with a clean slate through electing as new Commondominion people what are now though the Empire’s branch of Neronians. It began with Joseph Smith in 1805 but the Godhead later on replaced him with Ellen White in 1843. Ellen failed the Godhead so Mary Baker Eddy was elected next. She wasn’t able to keep up so Charles Taze Russell instead got the divine election. After Russell the Godhead became happy with Pierre Coubertin and Leo Tolstoy that their organizations got the divine election. But seeing that the Empire would later on overrun those, the Godhead had decided to formally reestablish the Commondominion of Christ on earth with what is now the Minion church from the Philippines. Joey Arrigo was called as its first leader in 1886, in preparation for the birth of the man from whom the Godhead will take later on the succession bloodline for this church. Felix Ysagun Manalo was born also on that year. He was summoned by the Godhead on November 15, 1913. His son Tomas led the first gathering of this church on December 25, 1913. Felix later on had this church registered on July 27 of the year that followed. On December 25, 1918, upon the death of Tomas, Felix formally took the top post. The year that followed, he personally led the launch of the church’s overseas missionary work. He would later on switch places with Justino Casanova (1919-1921) and Prudencio Vasquez (1942-1945) administering the church. Seeing the eventual apostasy of the Minion church (Psalm 14), Godhead had elected the half-brothers of Felix’s successor-son Ka Erdy to be part of the nucleus of the restoration of the Commondominion later on in the forthcoming years. Furthermore, Godhead tried to see whether They could have other churches to cooperate with the forthcoming backup reserve plans for the church which first saw light in 1913 in eventual event of apostasy. So Godhead tried to enlist the support of the South Korean World Mission Church but saw them to be only supportive of the Empire more than the Commondominion’s cause. The Godhead also saw the same with Eli Soriano, who turned down the Godhead’s invitation. And also it was with the church of Nicholas Perez. Yet the Godhead would not fail though to see all other churches (Matthew 20) who will be so much happy to join the Godhead in the future new church when the time comes (Ephesians 1), many of those other kind and willing churches are even traced from the very original Commondominion people we have all listed above. (John 11) That exact time came on April 11, 2015 when evident signs of Minion apostasy broke out in the surface. This eventually led to our exodus from the Empire in modern times, July 23, 2015. We thought that our newfound supposed to be (Psalm 55,59,42-43) trustful brethren from the Minion church would be with us all the way, but later on they themselves had proven not to keep up at once (Matthew 13) with this new Way of Life. 1. The Defenders refused to recognize Ka Angel as Ka Erdy and EVM’s rightful successor pursuant to the succession line instituted by Felix himself, and instead endorsed Ka Angel’s brother Ka Marc under EVM’s backup agenda against Ka Angel. 2. The Defenders agreed to be infiltrated with other Empire branches the way the Minions were already are, and they rather trusted Empire media, personalities and heads more than Ka Angel and the Godhead (Exodus 14, Numbers 11,21). 3. The Defenders, being infiltrated by the Minions too, agreed to conspire with the Minions in refusing to honor the public’s divine wrighte to know through hoarding preaching held by Empire heads to no more expose the (Daniel 5, Acts 17) Empire’s doings. These prompted us to just recently part ways with the Defenders and they, together with all branches of the Commondominion which was found to be, and will be found to be, no more different in worship and practice from Empire churches and media (and therefore breaking our laws here of humility and meekness), had been already identified as the new branch of the Roman Empire- those who refuse to publicly identify themselves with any Empire branch due to their kinship with us yet their actions prove otherwise (Matthew 5-7,15,23, Titus 1). This prompts the need that we rededicate ourselves continually (2 Corinthians 1,7) in order not to be contemptuous of the grace Godhead has already given us to gather all that is good and godly in the world and bind them eternally under one roof (Romans 12, 1 Peter 3). But you may ask, ‘why the Commondominion had to specifically come out of the Minion church?’ It is rather because Titus 3 tells us about ‘3 strikes and you’re out’. Godhead had 3 major churches striding the world today repeatedly repudiating the Scriptures throughout history. ‘But why you have to purge yourself again the 4th time?’ Because Godhead (2 Corinthians 8-9, Matthew 13, Jeremiah 8-9, Genesis 9, James 5) shall continually see to it this time, with our already existence here as your present Commondominion, that we would if need be, reestablished repeatedly because we don’t want to disappoint the Godhead (Psalm 106, Isaiah 63, Luke 17, 2 Corinthians 1) Who elected us (2 Timothy 1, Proverbs 16). Currently at the visible helm of the Commondominion’s public work is her Administration’s mouthpiece, yokebearer and writer Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykes. Joseph is no better than the now millions of your Commondominion brethren who once thought that being at the Empire is the only thing that there can be for them, and the next big thing to heaven. Hence, Joseph poured out his whole efforts in the service of each Empire branch that he ever was, until he realized that no Empire branch is better than the other, and all those actions trained him for the great work he’s now at for your sake. THE PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST Moved by the burning desire for the salvation of all souls (1 Timothy 2:3-5), and armed with nothing but the knowledge on the necessity for all to do biblical research (Acts 17, 2 Timothy), we campaign through social media for people to come out of false religions (Revelation 18:4), hoping that Lindsey will notice this and rethink where she is right now (Revelation 2-3). We love Lindsey with a love nobody can give and Lindsey could not even fathom. We love Lindsey because we know Lindsey needs to be reassured that she will never be in the losing end if she gets to know and believe the Christ which the Bible, and not this multi-billion dollar, pretending ‘Christian’, false religious Empire, introduces. Our evangelization work is focused with and committed fully to all dancers, athletes and artists, which we look up to as the most creative, busy and emotional people. We will be the Christian representative of these people, including the tempted, disabled and impoverished to the Empire powers which control today’s perverse society (Isaiah 28, Psalm 105, Revelation 7:3). We also hope to bring home to people the value of cultivating good taste for value-oriented, wholesome and quality media materials done in the spirit of unfailing humility and hardwork, aiming to give people the best we could muster on content and information in helping people find Jesus Christ and His Gospel, live committed to it for the rest of their lives and declare the same to the world. We have already decided to make Christian conservative values our upholding guiding light in this ministry (2 Corinthians 4), and hence resolves to dedicate our work to speaking out for it, leading people to live up and speak out loud the Word of God every single breathing moment, a determination that burns till now and will continue to rage since Joni Eareckson Tada was conspired by the Empire to be eliminated from their Academy Awards years ago. We aim to point people to listen to the sent or commissioned messengers of God to rally them in living the Christian life (John 6:29), while enjoining believers to make full use of their “priesthood” before God (Revelation 1,5,20). SOME OF THE ENDORSED MESSENGERS OF GODHEAD TO THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST Nathaniel Manalo (Executive Minister) 1. Lalyn Vasco Dela Cruz facebook.com/shzka0 2. Roger Aquino facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011180587153&fref=fr_tab 3. Cristopher Ilao facebook.com/cristonangelson 4. Jogat De Mora facebook.com/kamaynabakal4719 5. Jay Borromeo facebook.com/jay.borromeo.35 6. Elias Arkanghel facebook.com/ferdinand.alvarado 7. Sebastian Rauffenburg 8. Sterling Allan https://www.youtube.com/cha…/UCPEGAsmAGUQzbtuJvaZjYUg/videos 9. Marcelo Mercado 10. Mannie Rey Amoguis facebook.com/1manams 11. Rydean Marvin Daniel facebook.com/PAODMDR 12. Eddy Hawks facebook.com/eddy.hawks 13. Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykes facebook.com/jonas.stirling 14. Lope Columna facebook.com/lope.columnaii 15. Gerald John Jennings 16. Gerald O’Dell facebook.com/gerald.odell8O18 17. Filemon Reambonanza 18. Wilfredo Santiago facebook.com/wilfredo.labaosantiago 19. Ronald Weinland 20. Kacou Philippe 21. Ian Navarro facebook.com/ian.navarro.73 22. Guy St. Onge facebook.com/Laidback52 23. Ed Everett Dorris facebook.com/edeverett.dorris 24. Richard Thomas facebook.com/profile.php?id=100017221446141 25. Alex Gonzales facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007602368476 26. Horacio Villegas 27. Steve Fletcher facebook.com/FLETCHDOCTOR 28. Paul Jong 29. John Leonzon 30. Salvacion Legaspi facebook.com/hrmsalvacion 31. Archie C. Guiriba facebook.com/ShalomCCFI.Official 32. Apollo C. Quibuloy 33. Benny M. Abante 34. Louie R. Santos 35. Edmundo Macasalig Lahi 36. Tagumpay Gonzales 37. Matias Grandbaka facebook.com/matias.granbacka 38. Amos Omoboriowo facebook.com/wnkululeko1 39. Eliyahu Zerubabel facebook.com/eliyahuzerubabel777 40. 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@Caradelevingne @emilycshock pls rt and stay in touch with me, #GodsTinyDancer. Thanks. #nvmlindseyallan Guys In Godhead, Last July 22 I told you that a young man dressed in a blue Empire t-shirt with the image of an eagle had led me to discover a computer shop where I was able, after hours of waiting for a closed shop, to get the best out of my money for that day writing what I have to write for that day, and where also I received delays from either the Empire or the Godhead as I have told you already (Galatians 5).

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Guys In Godhead, Last July 22 I told you that a young man dressed in a blue Empire t-shirt with the image of an eagle had led me to discover a computer shop where I was able, after hours of waiting for a closed shop, to get the best out of my money for that day writing what I have to write for that day, and where also I received delays from either the Empire or the Godhead as I have told you already (Galatians 5). Thinking about all those things I asked the Godhead whether They really did were the ones who tried to disrupt me to work online last July 22. I received rather responses that even shocked me, that not only that They never tried to disrupt me, but rather They even confirmed me, as in the previous days, that day to be still Their own. Please allow me to relate one by one those. First let me tell you that we were respectively baptized to the Empire branch we belong, the Minions, on prophetically-auspicious days. I was the first (James 1) to be baptized, on November 15,, anniversary of the American Empire's Commonwealth in the Philippines, so that rather confirmed that I'm going later on to be one of your leaders here in your Commondominion. My mother was next to be baptized on October 24 the year that followed, which will be the day in 2015 when the Empire extolled their celebrities over the Minion Arena in favor of the Neronian holiday and in pursuance to the Neronian clause on the 'sanctuary'. My sisters were baptized later on in January 30, 2 days after the Minion head EVM preached in the exact locale where all of us were baptized, as if really EVM does the gesture of bestowing confirmations (Genesis 26) to me later on. EVM in fact will be there too many times (the chapel was dedicated by Ka Erdy on Lindsey's birth year)- for example, on March 11 this year. The locale's name reciprocates Olongapo- once Ka Erdy was at Angeles on March 11, 1994, and on many times Ka Erdy was at Angeles (EVM was even at Angeles on November 22, 2013, one year exactly before I personally went on my own to see EVM at Pasig, as STF confirmed, in fulfillment of biblical prophecies, particularly on the biblical clause of 'trees beside waters') he declared that Angeles and Olongapo were (Hebrews 11, Isaiah 1-2, 58) the new Sodom and Gomorra, or in Revelation 11's words, Sodom and Egypt, where of course the two witnesses came from. In this instance I have as my co-pair in that Revelation 11 clause, as Angeles' name suggests, our Executive Minister Ka Angel. When the Commondominion went out of the Roman Empire officially on July 23, 2015, I even attended a worship service in the Minion Central Complex on the early morning of that day without knowing of course the following events that would erupt later on that day. (In fact when the Godhead formally asked me to be Their Messenger on December 28, 2016, my sisters were even able to attend a service at the Minion Central Complex.) I say this because in Jewish law, any newborn baby must undergo the service of 'Purification' or Dedication in the Temple (Deuteronomy 16) 40 days after their birth. In Empire tradition Christ did that on Groundhog Day, February 2, and Groundhog sounds like the name of (Luke 10) another trusted confidante and namesake of our Executive Minister Ka Angel, no other than Sir Nathan Grundhofer, whose wife Juliette happened to sound of course like my name. Last July 16, anniversary of Brother Martin Evangelista's divine commission (and the earthquake of 1990 by 4:26 pm), as I was about to post my blog in my page that day, the page demanded rather that I schedule my blog's posting rather than to post it right away. It happened without my intention that I saw the time I was supposed to post at once upon finishing was 6;41 pm. Of course I scheduled it to the nearest minute after the 41st, which is 6:42 (Revelation 12,6,11), which resembles 4:26. If you are following my posts I have said that Godhead sent signs confirming me on June 11-12, which we here in your Commondominion observe as a special Passover Memorial. 40 days on, on July 22, I was so that the Minions sent EVM's personal secretary named sounding just like me and even bearing the surname of Purificasion to officiate in the service that day in the locale where I'm residing. It's like the gesture of course that you were visited by somebody from the Minion Headquarters on the same day 2 years ago that you were there exactly where the said Empire man came from. That's like an act of course, of the Jewish Purification Service (1 Corinthians 10, 2 Chronicles 29). It was on that morning also this year that I saw the young man whom I have mentioned earlier that as I have said days ago, was sent by Godhead to confirm that yours truly, #GodsTinyDancer, is another endtime ravenous bird of prey or New Cyrus foretold by Isaiah. I at once broke that to you in my page that same afternoon, without fully delving on the details, which I could not remember at once on that moment or rather because I have little time left on rent at the store, the time being ate up by the delay that happened. So mediating on everything that happened I was shocked to discover that I declared my election as Bird of Prey at once without fully knowing that earlier that day other signs aside from the young man I have told you then and earlier here had been sent by Godhead to support this. 1. After the service as I leave I opened the gate and it was so hard that in process it sliced a bit of my palm's skin and hence blood came out. I was so shocked hours later as I was doing online work as I have mentioned that my other hand, on its nails this time, had blood, and that was without me doing anything to my other hand (Matthew 5-7) except that I was typing. That's a sort of blood sacrifice, if you are to Purify or Dedicate at the Temple. 2. As I came home that day I was also surprised that my co-boarders' friends had left a laptop because the family have to render it together with ours to the repair shop for rehabilitation. It's like you have the old and the new 'tablets' of stone in Exodus together (2 Chronicles 5-7). 3. Also, as I came home that day I was so surprised too that a ballpen was at my wallet. I don't know where it came from, I never got hand on any ballpen that day, it just came up on my wallet (1 Samuel 1-3) and I never, really saw it there earlier that day; nobody even of course gets hold on my wallet but me alone. It's like really the Godhead is showing up to me continually on that day (Revelation 2,12, 1 John 1, John 9). Let me further relate to you. Concerning Sodom and Egypt: one morning when I was at the bedroom my mother came in sweeping and cursing me of course because she's angry. Shocked I don’t know where to go across the room because dirt and dust are all around being swept by my mother and of course you don’t want to scatter those after being swept. I could not even get in to the bed because my mother was also fixing it at the same time that moment. So I rather found my self at once unintendedly sitting on the dust for a brief minute. You can know already how Jezebels like my mother are sitting elsewhere (Ezekiel 28,31,26, Revelation 17, 1 Samuel 4) so we could see how Godhead (1 Kings 17-19) continually sends people like me to expose them by nature: that's why I'm a yokebearer (Hebrews 10) because I strip (2 Corinthians 2, Colossians 2, Ephesians 4, 1Corinthians 15) off the Empire's identity (Revelation 16, Jeremiah 8-9, 2 Corinthians 12, Isaiah, Matthew 25). Our election is evident: Christ said He will be even pleased with Tire and Sidon (Matthew 10-12). In prophecy Godhead promised to strip off the Empire's powers through yokebearers (Job 1-2, Philippians 3) as personified by (John 16) Tire being a former Empire center (Ezekiel 24,26). Today Tire is under Lebanon (1 Corinthians 5), one of our allies here in the Commondominion, which was specifically attacked by the Empire on the service of July 23, 2016 (Amos 8). Hence, our election to contend for all our comrades and colleagues such as Lebanon (Daniel12). We are, as per Matthew 10's 'Sodom and Gomorra' clause as we earlier mentioned to Revelation 11, taken out of the Empire's influence (Revelation 6, Hebrews 11, John 10-15), and as Lady Kirsty Nilsson confirmed of me way back then citing Acts 7, I was really placed by Godhead to facilitate (Ezekiel 1-3) yokebearers out of the Empire (2 Chronicles 36,15,20). Furthermore, here in our locale they keep a book which they said that they created because they want to do what Malachi 3 talks about as a 'book of remembrance before God'. I just mention it because should they want to keep so, they should hence receive that (Matthew 8-12, Luke 20, Genesis 18, Hebrews 13) with the keeping of such a' book' comes the sending of messengers in their midst (Malachi 1-4 [Empire quotes Malachi 3 for the Purification in the Temple]), hence my appearing (Hebrews 9). My grandmother was born on the same day as an Empire man who once said that 'people would come down from the mountains, led by the sun's rays, and I count them all as brethren.' We could see that this was fulfilled in the Empire's eyes one month before my grandmother's birthday (Numbers 20, Deuteronomy 34), in 2014, when Ka Elias' media team even observed that the attendees to the EVM rally service that day all 'came down from the mountains that morning'. As for us our first surname denotes mountains, the Empire's very type that we are shattering (Judges 6-7, Daniel 2, 2 Corinthians 10, Joshua 6,15) through the means that we begin with ourselves- I mean, all that we go through, and all that we implement here (Psalm 51, Micah 4-5, Isaiah 22,28-29,40, Proverbs 4, Genesis 12-13,18, 1 Corinthians 9). Finally (1 Corinthians 1-4, Isaiah 41,44-45,66), when the Prophet Haggai talked about the signet ring, he also talks about yours truly, because we are gathering all countries, churches, and dancers here under (1 Peter 3, Jeremiah 18,20) one roof (Luke 12) which is your Commondominion (Ephesians 1-4, 2 Corinthians 1,5) through our preaching ministry that seals the Holy Spirit to all countries and churches who will agree with Him (Revelation 7,14,22), and to all yokebearers for their salvation (1 John 5, Psalm 105). But before I end this treatise, let me tell you further about EVM's circular of July 3, 22-23, 2017 (if you could notice, the dates alone form the Empire code 3-22, so that's already #Agenda), That was also recurring, as it is also with all other EVM lessons lately. The circular was first read February 8-9, 2012. The year that followed, February 9, 2013, EVM was at my city preaching. Way back February 7, 2009, EVM was at my hometown preaching too. EVM's December 7, 2013 lesson was relayed February 8-9, 2014. February 8, 2014, in true EVM style, when I was not yet here with you (Ephesians 2), I attended Jun Santos' rally on that same city where EVM preached on December 7, 2013. I said 'in true EVM style' because I have to persist attending against the wishes of my parents. I really decided to still proceed there because I was enthralled with the Empire's promise that the said service is going to be 'big'. What only happened is that only a few, by Godhead's grace, attended.

THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME 'The Commondominion of Christ, is God's answer to apostasy, it is a back-up plan of God. When things fall apart in a organization which evidently enjoys God's approval and countenance but abuses it until it is apostatized, God keeps a "remnant" group (Acts 2:39) to keep the election of that organization alive and to keep having the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), and God starts all over again from that remnant group. Even if elected as the new, cut-clean version of God's chosen, a true Commondominion member is not complacent that he or she could not be apostatized anymore. They always bear in mind that if they do not take caution through remaining faithful, honest and humble, they could be apostatized too and lose the election God gave them. So they always discount the possibility of being the next apostate.' With this, your Commondominion of Christ, with the grace of the Godhead, existed and persisted as long as humankind went on. We could see that your Commondominion could be traced way back long ago, according to the findings of our branch churches, when the Godhead created all men and women to exist throughout subsequent history to live with Them in preexistence before the creation of the world (Matthew 25). We could see that all these men and women (Matthew 19, Isaiah 65) were created to be angels and not as gods, unlike what the Empire would claim. The first recorded creation of the Roman Empire during this time was of course the rebellion and downfall of Satan the Devil and all his cohorts, who will later on be the present Roman Catholic Pope and all other heads of the Empire's branches, as would be seen further on in biblical history, that repeated rebellions of the Empire would occur in heaven (Isaiah 14, Luke 10, Revelation 12, Ezekiel 28,31, Matthew 18,8,25). Hence, after the world was created the Son- Jesus Christ- and the Holy Spirit, will be sent, together with Their Female Counterparts, to shepherd and govern the men and women who would later on be sent to earth through natural birth to plant the Commondominion of Christ on earth and hence (Jeremiah 32) in human history (Matthew 7 Empire usage, 2 Timothy 2, Colossians 1, Psalm 89,69). Down here on earth, the Commondominion of Christ existed through the following groups of men and women: 1. Adam and Eve 2. Abel 3. Set, Enoch, Methuselah 4. Noah, Sem, Japhet 5. The Israelite Nation 6. The First-Century Primitive Christian Church 7. The various Commondominion settlers in the other places of the world, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, Book of Jeraneck, et cal. After the death of the apostles the Commondominion existed through the following up to the first Medieval Reformation forerunners: 1. Arius 2. Essenes 3. Donatism 4. Polycarp of Asia 5. Novatianism 6. Paul of Samosata 7. Montanism 8. Marchionism 9. Ebionites 10. Clement of Rome 11. Polycarp 12. Josephus and Eusebius, et cal. 13. Papias 14. Pseudo-Barnabas 15. Epistle to Diosnetus 16. Hermas 17. Didache 18. Justin Martyr 19. Tatian 20. Athenagoras 21. Tertullian 22. Hegesippus 23. Patrick of Hibernia, Columba, Columban 24. Branches of the whole Eastern Orthodox Church 25. Nestorianism These names we have listed are only but a representative of their many other countless and priceless like-minded guys and girls who existed up to the first Medieval Reformation. The Commondominion launched it formally with the Albigensian movement in 1129 and the Waldenesians in 1173. And you all know everything that the Reformation produced: Luther, Savonarola, Wycliffe, Huss, Calvin, Muntzer, Erasmus, Knox, Petrarch, Goethe, et cal., until the English-speaking Protestants: Edwards, Wesley, Whitefield, and then Spurgeon and Morgan and Moody and Tolkien and Lewis. The Godhead, upon though seeing that the Empire is bent on streamlining Protestants to the Antiochian banner, particularly in attempts to claim and woo Moody, had decided to come up with a clean slate through electing as new Commondominion people what are now though the Empire's branch of Neronians. It began with Joseph Smith in 1805 but the Godhead later on replaced him with Ellen White in 1843. Ellen failed the Godhead so Mary Baker Eddy was elected next. She wasn't able to keep up so Charles Taze Russell instead got the divine election. After Russell the Godhead became happy with Pierre Coubertin and Leo Tolstoy that their organizations got the divine election. But seeing that the Empire would later on overrun those, the Godhead had decided to formally reestablish the Commondominion of Christ on earth with what is now the Minion church from the Philippines. Joey Arrigo was called as its first leader in 1886, in preparation for the birth of the man from whom the Godhead will take later on the succession bloodline for this church. Felix Ysagun Manalo was born also on that year. He was summoned by the Godhead on November 15, 1913. His son Tomas led the first gathering of this church on December 25, 1913. Felix later on had this church registered on July 27 of the year that followed. On December 25, 1918, upon the death of Tomas, Felix formally took the top post. The year that followed, he personally led the launch of the church's overseas missionary work. He would later on switch places with Justino Casanova (1919-1921) and Prudencio Vasquez (1942-1945) administering the church. Seeing the eventual apostasy of the Minion church (Psalm 14), Godhead had elected the half-brothers of Felix's successor-son Ka Erdy to be part of the nucleus of the restoration of the Commondominion later on in the forthcoming years. Furthermore, Godhead tried to see whether They could have other churches to cooperate with the forthcoming backup reserve plans for the church which first saw light in 1913 in eventual event of apostasy. So Godhead tried to enlist the support of the South Korean World Mission Church but saw them to be only supportive of the Empire more than the Commondominion's cause. The Godhead also saw the same with Eli Soriano, who turned down the Godhead's invitation. And also it was with the church of Nicholas Perez. Yet the Godhead would not fail though to see all other churches (Matthew 20) who will be so much happy to join the Godhead in the future new church when the time comes (Ephesians 1), many of those other kind and willing churches are even traced from the very original Commondominion people we have all listed above. (John 11) That exact time came on April 11, 2015 when evident signs of Minion apostasy broke out in the surface. This eventually led to our exodus from the Empire in modern times, July 23, 2015. We thought that our newfound supposed to be (Psalm 55,59,42-43) trustful brethren from the Minion church would be with us all the way, but later on they themselves had proven not to keep up at once (Matthew 13) with this new Way of Life. 1. The Defenders refused to recognize Ka Angel as Ka Erdy and EVM's rightful successor pursuant to the succession line instituted by Felix himself, and instead endorsed Ka Angel's brother Ka Marc under EVM's backup agenda against Ka Angel. 2. The Defenders agreed to be infiltrated with other Empire branches the way the Minions were already are, and they rather trusted Empire media, personalities and heads more than Ka Angel and the Godhead (Exodus 14, Numbers 11,21). 3. The Defenders, being infiltrated by the Minions too, agreed to conspire with the Minions in refusing to honor the public's divine wrighte to know through hoarding preaching held by Empire heads to no more expose the (Daniel 5, Acts 17) Empire's doings. These prompted us to just recently part ways with the Defenders and they, together with all branches of the Commondominion which was found to be, and will be found to be, no more different in worship and practice from Empire churches and media (and therefore breaking our laws here of humility and meekness), had been already identified as the new branch of the Roman Empire- those who refuse to publicly identify themselves with any Empire branch due to their kinship with us yet their actions prove otherwise (Matthew 5-7,15,23, Titus 1). This prompts the need that we rededicate ourselves continually (2 Corinthians 1,7) in order not to be contemptuous of the grace Godhead has already given us to gather all that is good and godly in the world and bind them eternally under one roof (Romans 12, 1 Peter 3). But you may ask, 'why the Commondominion had to specifically come out of the Minion church?' It is rather because Titus 3 tells us about '3 strikes and you're out'. Godhead had 3 major churches striding the world today repeatedly repudiating the Scriptures throughout history. 'But why you have to purge yourself again the 4th time?' Because Godhead (2 Corinthians 8-9, Matthew 13, Jeremiah 8-9, Genesis 9, James 5) shall continually see to it this time, with our already existence here as your present Commondominion, that we would if need be, reestablished repeatedly because we don't want to disappoint the Godhead (Psalm 106, Isaiah 63, Luke 17, 2 Corinthians 1) Who elected us (2 Timothy 1, Proverbs 16). Currently at the visible helm of the Commondominion's public work is her Administration's mouthpiece, yokebearer and writer Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykes. Joseph is no better than the now millions of your Commondominion brethren who once thought that being at the Empire is the only thing that there can be for them, and the next big thing to heaven. Hence, Joseph poured out his whole efforts in the service of each Empire branch that he ever was, until he realized that no Empire branch is better than the other, and all those actions trained him for the great work he's now at for your sake. THE PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST Moved by the burning desire for the salvation of all souls (1 Timothy 2:3-5), and armed with nothing but the knowledge on the necessity for all to do biblical research (Acts 17, 2 Timothy), we campaign through social media for people to come out of false religions (Revelation 18:4), hoping that Lindsey will notice this and rethink where she is right now (Revelation 2-3). We love Lindsey with a love nobody can give and Lindsey could not even fathom. We love Lindsey because we know Lindsey needs to be reassured that she will never be in the losing end if she gets to know and believe the Christ which the Bible, and not this multi-billion dollar, pretending 'Christian', false religious Empire, introduces. Our evangelization work is focused with and committed fully to all dancers, athletes and artists, which we look up to as the most creative, busy and emotional people. We will be the Christian representative of these people, including the tempted, disabled and impoverished to the Empire powers which control today's perverse society (Isaiah 28, Psalm 105, Revelation 7:3). We also hope to bring home to people the value of cultivating good taste for value-oriented, wholesome and quality media materials done in the spirit of unfailing humility and hardwork, aiming to give people the best we could muster on content and information in helping people find Jesus Christ and His Gospel, live committed to it for the rest of their lives and declare the same to the world. We have already decided to make Christian conservative values our upholding guiding light in this ministry (2 Corinthians 4), and hence resolves to dedicate our work to speaking out for it, leading people to live up and speak out loud the Word of God every single breathing moment, a determination that burns till now and will continue to rage since Joni Eareckson Tada was conspired by the Empire to be eliminated from their Academy Awards years ago. We aim to point people to listen to the sent or commissioned messengers of God to rally them in living the Christian life (John 6:29), while enjoining believers to make full use of their "priesthood" before God (Revelation 1,5,20). SOME OF THE ENDORSED MESSENGERS OF GODHEAD TO THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST Nathaniel Manalo (Executive Minister) 1. Lalyn Vasco Dela Cruz facebook.com/shzka0 2. Roger Aquino facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011180587153&fref=fr_tab 3. Cristopher Ilao facebook.com/cristonangelson 4. 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