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leschanceux · 1 year

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☕✨ memes from the tea room: sfw version ✨☕ feel free to change pronouns where necessary!

well if isn’t the consequences of my own actions

on my way to make things worse ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

i am innocent and have done nothing to deserve this in my life ever

no no that actually makes sense to me

one day I will learn to count and you guys will be so proud of me

you'll understand when you're older

THAT IS NOT ENCOURAGING [ NAME ]

my voice was even lower than usual

my ADHD also goes "WE MUST GET RID OF THE NOTIFICATION", and then my bad memory goes ".....What was that?"

...... don’t look at that emoji name i don’t control it i promise

at no point did I know where either sentences were going

We are doing this because we love you (?)

it'll be a x-mas miracle!

ew. you're back

how do we file a complaint with winter?

I knew it, you're secretly Chester Cheeto

the cheese of truth seems to be a questionable method of divination, but who am I to judge?

I'm gonna treat that statement with the sarcasm it deserves

I should not have come in to try to understand the chaos happening here

[ name ] here just going for minimum effort, maximum embarrassment

I'M SORRY MY OLD WHITE MEN AND RODENTS GOT MIXED UP

“Is this the ghost of [ name ] seeking revenge”

Like BAM DID YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?! KOOL AID MAN STYLE

I'm living for the chaos

listen it’s not real if you don’t affectionately accuse each other of hypocrisy at least once

YOU ARE NOT DUMB. YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES.

.... CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

by which I mean I followed [ name ]'s explicit instructions

YOU CAN'T PUT KRAFT SINGLES ON TORTILLA

icb i have a new statement piece !

I swear I'm a professional

today's motivational speech: don’t be part of the problem, be the whole problem

my liege she be not bovvered

I'm allowed to have the braincell sometimes

pro tip: read the directions for things

T H E R A P Y

a queen is never late, everyone else is simply early

I have no defense you knew I was stupid when you hired me

I'm not adult enough for decor.

hi flop, i’m dad

Yeah, I am a noisy idea generating motherfucker when I have the braincell.

Hi I got distracted by a pretty man and almost walked into a fuckinG DOOR how’s your day going

I have been awake for over 24 hours and I'm about to order a truly inadvisable amount of Halloween decor

You're all terrible enablers and I'm too weak to protect myself

y'all just gotta trust me

let's all not do this but definitely do that

I saw nothing. I mean, I totally saw everything. But I won't tell anyone.

me and math are mortal enemies

my worst nightmare is that one day i'll like coffee and i'll lose a part of my personality

...I already barely use social media so I guess my geriatric ass is safe?

#rp meme #rpcdev #aka the starboard sees all 2; electric boogaloo

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nattikay · 1 year

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Kaltxì!! i'm just here to say how much i adore your art & your content!!! it brings me so much joy to see you draw the sully family, they're just so cute :") especially the newest art of jake, neytiri, neteyam and kiri - it's just so nice to see them happy together like this <33 your ocs are amazing too, btw!

this question is kinda random but i'm still going to ask, do you have any sully family headcanons (or na'vi headcanons in general)? i'm just curious, my brainrot is way too strong i can't stop thinking about them fsjdjdh

have a nice day! :] Eywa ngahu!

Aww, thank you!

Headcanons? hmmm.....I don't think I have many at the moment, but perhaps a few:

A silly one is that Balto is Lo'ak's favorite movie no I do not take constructive criticism. How did he watch the movie, dunno, the kids seem to hang around the scientists often enough, perhaps Norm introduced them to a few cartoons one day idk

The whole family is of course bilingual but stick mostly to Na'vi by default. On that note, none of the Metkayina know any English at all; everything we hear from them is translated from Na'vi for the audience.

I know it's a fairly popular headcanon in the fandom right now that Kiri is autistic; as for me I'm a little on the fence about it. On the one hand I highly doubt that she was intentionally written to be autistic. On the other, though, as an autistic person myself who also grew up as the awkward weird kid (a tearful "why am I different?" to Grace's spirit hit kinda hard)....I can definitely understand where the theory's coming from. I know people who dislike this headcanon say that just because an autistic person relates to a character it doesn't mean that character is autistic, and yes I absolutely agree with that--I relate for many reasons to many characters that I don't view as autistic--but I can see where people are getting those vibes with Kiri and can sympathize with wanting to view her that way. So.....maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Speaking of Kiri, based on what we've seen in the movie and until we get further evidence to contradict it, my theory on her origins is that she has no biological father--she's a genetic clone of Grace's avatar somehow spurred into existence by Eywa. How, exactly, we don't know, but given what we know thus far it seems to be the most likely possibility imo.

...on that note, though, can we please stop calling her "space Jesus"? I get why people draw the comparison, apparent immaculate conception and divine abilities and whatnot, but unless her purpose on Pandora is secretly somehow to sacrifice her life to atone for the Na'vi's sins (which I very much doubt is the case), the connection doesn't quite work, and feels a tad disrespectful. ^^;

Lastly, I don't think Jake became a "military dad" until after the RDA returned. I hesitate to even call this one a "headcanon" so much as simple analysis given what we saw in the opening montage, where he is shown to be very warm and playful with his kids. The military side only emerged out of necessity when suddenly the family was at very real risk of one wrong move getting them killed in the reignited war. (also there's nothing wrong with Neteyam and Lo'ak calling him "sir". Like, if Jake was strictly enforcing that they only ever call him "sir" at all times then yeah I would agree, that's kinda cold and harsh, but he doesn't, they call him "Dad" most of the time; an occasional respectful "sir" when they are in trouble is nowhere near the big issue some of y'all are treating it as).

#awow spoilers #(somewhat)

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fill-me-with-your-memes-daddy · 3 years

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Watching the Rise of the Titans movie and I'll be documenting all of my thoughts/reactions here. [Spoiler Warning]

So instead of reblogging every new update, I'm just going to have this post up on my phone as I watch and type my reactions in a bullet list format.

Nari's human disguise is so cute. As someone who does have a cottagecore aesthetic, I want to cosplay her so bad

Are Skrael and/or Belroc non-binary coded? Regardless, I'm also obsessed and I want to fuck Skrael and be Belroc.

STEVE CARING ABOUT JIM BEING HURT YESSSS!!! My god his redemption has probably been one of the greatest there is because he doesn't just suddenly go from being a bully to a completely good person. You can see the gradual shift in learning better throughout the shows which is awesome.

IN NEW YOOOOOOORRRRRRRK!!!!!! CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!

The mugshot montage reminded me of season 1 of trollhunters when toby and Jim were arrested at the museum.

STRICKLER PUT A RING ON IT??? HE'S THE ONLY DILF IVE EVER ACTUALLY AGREED WAS HOT WYM I CAN'T HAVE HIM??? well I'm still really happy about his arc over the series probably one of my favorite character growths.

Eli my guy got his growth spurt!!! As an 18 year old who is still 5'0", I'm happy but envious for him

So I went into this movie without watching any trailers or promo, but I doubt anything could have prepared me for the existence of mpreg. In fact, I wasn't going to document my reactions until I saw that.

NAMURA!!!!!!!!! MY BELOVED!!!!!! I CAN STILL THIRST FOR YOU WITHOUT GUILT

The coach teacher just called the kids zoomers so I have to dock one point from my final rating just because of that. Unforgivable

Those husky animation models suck lmao

Oh fuck the titans got power ranger zords!!

God why did they include the mpreg??? This movie would have been perfect without it.... After that plot point being revisited only one time I'm already beyond done with it

Like it's bringing me back to the v*ltron days where they're was a suspiciously high amount of klance omegaverse and mpreg fics and art created and it physically hurts because Steve and Keith's voice actor is the same person meaning this is especially cursed to me since I was unfortunately in the v*ltron fandom and remember all of that

But like on another note, how old are these characters again??? I haven't checked any wikis because of spoilers but is Steve an adult??? I know aja might be technically a lot older than 18 because alien but is whatever age she is equivalent to an adult as far as emotionally and physically in Akaridion development??? IS THIS A TEEN (M)PREGNANCY IN A KIDS SHOW????

Like bruh I saw a singular post on here before going into the movie that was like "rott spoilers without context" and there was a pregnant belly but I was absolutely not expecting the actual context of it. I'll find the post after I finish and edit this post to tag the creator right here: @makoden

This entire post is just gonna be me ranting about mpreg huh

Anyway I love the whole roundtable allusion to the legends of king arthur (not the toa version but the one he's based off)

THERE'S 3 TO 5 BABIES????? I need to take a break bruh this is just too much

Alright I've taken a 30 minute break got some food and did some things i love (decompressed by tactile stimming with some owl plushies and watched some videos on my favorite owl, Garu. He lives in Japan with his owner and is a domesticated eagle owl who basically just acts like a sky cat. If anyone else needs some eye bleach, here is their YouTube channel)

Blinky and ARRRGHHH!!! saying their "if one of us doesn't make it" talk my god one of them is going to die I can see it and I will be utterly crushed. Jim can't lose another father figure and Toby can't lose his wingman again I will riot if this happens

On a similar but unrelated to the movie note, can we just talk about how toa started with Jim having 0 dads and (if strickler and blinky live to the end) will end with 2 dads? Like I just really feel happy for him that he has two dads who actually figured out how to put the past behind them to not have any infighting between them so that both of them are healthy father figures. Jim has already been through literal hell and back losing his actual humanity in the process so if he loses one of them, I'm going to be really pissed because at this point, this is just Jim torture porn. Y'all know how as SpongeBob SquarePants went on, the show just became Squidward torture porn? It's starting to feel that way for toa and I really hope they cut the shit by the ending

Jlaire is such a good ship but like I feel like it's too perfect they never disagree with each other

YESSSSSSS Someone finally doesn't treat toby like a fat waste of space who messes stuff up!!! I think out of all the characters that would have been most deserving of a rewrite, it's Toby. Sometimes I just feel he's only comic relief and any heartfelt moments he's had in the series was also born of stupidity (ie his flour baby project being unharmed was seen by him as divine intervention from his parents but was actually just Eli and Steve behind the scenes).

Ohhhhh yesssssss Archie's father!!! I was hoping I'd see him again because we got so little of him last

Ooooooooooh Asian trollmarket!!!!!

Oh never mind slavery trollmarket

Bruh titanic camelot

I feel like we're not seeing enough of the villains because I completely forgot about the power ranger zord things

NAMORA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY LAST CRUSHHHH

STRICKLER NO NOT YOU TOO PLEASE

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE ONLY TWO CHARACTERS I SIMP FOR ON THIS SHOW DIED WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF EACH OTHER

THAT WHOLE ASS RANT I WROTE IS COMING TRUE FUCK THIS MOVIE THIS SERIES IS JUST JIM TORTURE PORN

WAIT JIM'S SPERM DONOR INFO?

Oh thank God I don't want to know anything about that person

For the record, I call that man Jim's sperm donor because he has no business being called a father to him. All he did was donate some swimmers to the creation of him and give him abandonment issues

Oh another blind troll elder???? This fucker is just if vendel was a bad guy

Bruh I was grieving

PACIFIC RIM WITH GUN ROBOT VEX AND THE BELROCZORD? I've never seen that movie but I know the reference

Bruh Blinky doesn't read horoscopes? Does he realize conspiracy theories are just the manly version of horoscopes?

NO DON'T KILL VEX STOP KO-ING FOUND FAMILY MEMBERS

Oh thank God he's okay

NO NOT ARCHIE AND CHARLEMAGNE OH MY GOD

oh never mind they're just gonna coup de tat I believe in them :))

But I want to see him again

But I'm glad to see vex

Yay they're in arcadia!

But yeah I wondered why the trolls and Merlin didn't keep the whole "daylight doesn't hurt trolls" feature from the eternal night but now Guillermo del Toro I see you were playing the long con in that just to kill my girl Namora :(((

Oooooh I love the animation of the Narizord over Chihuahua!! It looks very good and realistic (if only they could have put some of that into those huskies from before smh)

Bruh the character designs of the arcane order are so good I want to be them

Nari making sure the Skraelzord doesn't crush the bus

DAMN DOUBLE HOMICIDE

Bruh I'm just glad we finally have an answer on why arcadia had everything going on as opposed to literally anywhere else!! I always found that as a weird coincidence for plot convince.

BRUH WERE BACK TO THE MPREG IM SO JEALOUS I FORGOT ABOUT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS GRIEVING THE LOSS OF MY LOVELIES.

Oh that's real convenient that the ninth configuration meant all of them. Way to not decide which character gets more attention. Though it probably was a smart way to not have any infighting in the fandom between each character's stan group.

Bruh I just realized where is Barbera did they just ditch her on the Camelot ship???

And where are the other trolls that migrated at the end of trollhunters s3? They said something about new jersey but obviously Jim and the other main characters got on Camelot instead.... This feels like a plot hole

And we never learned the process of how changelings are made and bonded to humans and stuff. We just know it's super painful but I'm curious ffs!!!!

THE DONT THINK BECOME HERO SPEECH ALL SAID TOGETHER!!!

BRUH THEY REALLY HAD TO SHOW HIM GIVING BIRTH??????? WAS THAT AN ABSOLUTE MUST??????

Plus the main audience for this series is little children (the rating for the movie is literally TV-Y7) so even though my adult ass is not in the target audience, I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY WOULD MPREG AND ANAL BIRTH WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT THING TO 7 YEAR OLDS???? THIS IS A LITERAL FETISH HIDDEN IN KIDS CONTENT ITS ELSAGATE ALL OVER AGAIN Y'ALL 😭😭😭😭😭

Though it's probably hypocritical of me to think fetishes don't belong in kids tv when I've openly admitted to thirsting for strickler and namora

HUZZAH

NEW AMULET WAZ GOOD????

STAB THAT BITCH JIM

WAIT NO I SAID STAB NOT GET STABBED

Alright good job just missed the directions at first but you fixed it

SEVEN KIDS?????????

T O B Y ????????????

W A I T NO

N O

IS HE ACTUALLY

OH MY GOD THERE'S HOPE

NO THERE ISN'T

F U C K THIS SHIT THEY REALLY JUST HAD HIM TO BE BULLIED THEN KILLED

Y'ALL IM ACTUALLY CRYING THIS NEVER HAPPENS

I NEVER ACTUALLY GET SO EMOTIONAL OVER MEDIA THAT I CRY IT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE AT THE END OF VOLTRON BUT AHHHHHHHH

W A I T

HE'S GONNA BE BROUGHT BACK?????

HOLD UP THEY'RE JUST GONNA BRING ALL THOSE DEAD PEOPLE BACK??????

WAIT IS HE

BLINKY CALLED HIM A SON

HOLD ON IS THIS GOING TO BE A CLIFFHANGER???????????

BRUH THEY REALLY JUST CAN'T END THE SERIES WITHOUT CLIFFHANGERS like there's always an open ending

TROLLHUNTER TOBY????? You know what forget the whole rants I had on how toby was written they just redeemed it all

And that's all! I'd rate it a 6.5/10 because it's definitely the weakest of all the sequels but still had amazing animation and some good plot points. It's just really hard to look over the bad stuff enough to rate it any higher.

#tales of arcadia #rise of the titans #trollhunters #rott #rise of the titans spoilers #rott spoilers #toa #3 below #athena's own original post!#jim lake jr #claire nuñez #toby domzalski

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ablednt · 3 years

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And for real y'all will champion the "you don't support autistic people if you don't support weird people" argument (which i agree with) when it applies to having special interests or stimming but not

Delusional thinking / things that can be perceived as such regardless of if they are or not (kinning, for example. Spiritual beliefs like witchcraft or divination. Or the plural, "I can talk to characters telepathically." As we used to tell people as a kid.)

People who are snappish or irritable, who respond "wrong" to vents and shit like that (the amount of people I've seen have fits over someone saying "oof" and other one word responses to vents like they aren't a kind gesture to acknowledge someone even if you don't have the emotional or mental capacity to perform for them rn is astronomical like just say you hate low empathy people and also chronically ill/fatigued people and go lol)

Being inconsistent/moody etc.

Having triggers or being triggered by "stupid" things. They don't have to tell you it's a trigger maybe they don't even know, "this makes me uncomfortable/I don't want to talk about that" should be enough

Being too obsessive, intense, clingy or needy etc. (Like obviously have boundaries but come ON y'all the way people treat people with BPD traits who aren't aware enough to hide them is fucking disgusting.)

Literally anything y'all are armchair diagnosing as narcissistic behaviors. Half the time y'all say this shit for ppl who just are practicing self love. Shut the fuck up already

#edit: TUMBLR STOP ERASING PART OF MY POSTS ISTFG #Ok to rb

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rist-ix · 3 years

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The prophecy arc in sparked was cause for some controversy, so I’ll do my best to clean this up here. Spoiler warning obviously for the finale.

First, the cut together prophecy so y'all don't have to look for it:

At last, King Oritel's trusted advisor, Hagen the Blacksmith, has returned from his quest to the gate of the stars. The witches may have destroyed the grand lenses, but the astronomers' records have survived. And from beyond the grave, they bless us with their knowledge.

The witches’ power can be broken, they foretell us, by a company of six warriors, fighting for the light beyond these times of darkness. It is the sliver of hope the King and Queen have longed for. There is no doubt now that the Company of Light will be victorious, with such obvious signs from the Stars.

What will become of Valtor, one might wonder, their most trusted weapon, once the witches are defeated? The astronomers’ studies have concluded that he can, in fact, exist outside of them. For the Flame is eternal, and even its stolen, corrupted sparks can never be extinguished. And the witches cannot command him through the veil of death. Surely, their spawn will rain new, unforeseen kinds of terror upon us all, in vengeance for his creators.

But the stars favor Domino once more. And so the late astronomers have given us one final prophecy.

Valtor will die.

Our recent failures to kill him have a simple, obvious reason: none of us are chosen. Only a true wielder of the Dragon's power could hope to destroy Valtor, fire against fire. And the astronomers have divined the time of his demise as well:

When the witches are torn from this world, at last, the power of the Dragon Fire will burn across dimensions in a glory once thought lost. Its faithful guardian will destroy the last traces of the Ancestresses, and slay the demonic beast they call their child. Our brave, beloved princess shall claim its spark as her trophy, and its body will rest in forgotten catacombs, deep beneath the earth.

Everything that was written in the chronicle deserves to be treated with a grain of salt, last but not least because it was written by an unreliable narrator: Lord Bartelby. I have no idea what his canon personality is like, but in my fic he's this zealous royalist (and somewhat nationalist) dragon flame stan. Most of the entry in the chronicle are his own words, the actual prophecy is rather short. I've marked it in purple above.

The second point that should have tipped Valtor off was the fact that the predictions, and especially Bartelby's interpretation, were already proven flawed:

He assumed Domino was going to go into a new golden age, and instead it was completely destroyed.

He assumed Daphne would be the one the stars referred to, but she was killed just four weeks later.

He assumed the company of light would be victorious, but half of them are either dead or in exile after the fall of Domino.

Valtor knows all this, but because he's a firm believer in destiny and the stars, and also emotionally impacted, he doesn’t pick up on these red flags. And since he's your POV character, neither did most of you!

(Gotcha!)

Let's cut out Bartelby's fangirling over Daphne and the rest of his speech, and look at the prophecy itself.

The witches power can be broken, by a company of six warriors, fighting for the light beyond these times of darkness.

This, on first glance to them, is referring to the company of light. (Duh.) Six people who fight for the light beyond the darkness, aka a better future, yadda yadda. And it’s not incorrect: the company of light did indeed defeat the witches, which lead to them being banished to obsidian.

But it’s not the only interpretation. Those who have watched the movie, or — like me — binged the wiki entries instead, will know that the Winx are dubbed the new company of light by the end. The witches weren’t really defeated by their predecessors after all, only their power was broken. The real defeating will be done by the Winx (conveniently also a group of six ppl) over the course of two movies.

Knowing this, the part “fighting for the light beyond these times of darkness” takes on a new meaning. It’s not “fighting for the light at the end of the tunnel” anymore, but “fighting for good, but long after these current dark times” aka 20 years later.

So Bartelby got the timing wrong, in his interpretation.

Another thing he got wrong? Thinking the second part of the prophecy meant Valtor would die. Because it’s never this explicitly stated. If you pay attention to the writing style, you can kinda tell which parts are the original, translated predictions, and which parts are his interpretation. “Valtor will die” doesn’t fit with the flowery rest of the prophecy, it’s safe to assume Bartelby just skipped ahead to the point with that line.

The only actual quote from the astronomers in that entire paragraph is this:

We have in part 1:

the witches are torn from this world (dead/trapped in obsidian)

Dimension-crossing dragon fire (Bloom being send to earth and returning to Magix (bringing the “glory thought lost” — the royal family was assumed extinct, after all)

Then, in part two:

destroying the ancestresses traces

Slaying their demonic beast child

And this is where Bartelby's, and by extension Valtor's big mistake is! They assume the guardian fairy would destroy the witches “last traces” by killing Valtor. But the two points are not necessarily related.

Bloom does destroy the witches' traces, but she does so by eradicating their power over Valtor. And she certainly slays his demonic form, in a way. It vanishes almost instantly, probably never to be seen again.

(And what happens *ahem* after counts as slaying too, in my book. Girl is gonna give him a heart attack one of these days)

If you want to be petty, you can argue that she does actually kill a demonic child of the witches later on - Mandragora, a character from the movie. That's Close Enough for the stars.

A big reason for Valtor and Bartelby interpreting this part as Valtor's death is the wording of the next sentence.

The Princess will claim Valtor’s spark of dragon fire (aka his life force, aka his heart)

His body will rest in underground catacombs, IMPLYING that he will be buried there and forgotten

And well. All this does happen, doesn’t it? She officially wins Valtor's heart and love for herself, and together, they find some well deserved rest in the catacombs. In other words, they Take A Nap.

Eat THIS Bartelby.

#im not sure if im making much sense here im tired #if there's any questions im always available #fic: sparked

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brothermouse · 4 years

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so you may have noticed me in all of your notes- hi I love you btw- sending this in because I saw in one post you said "Someday I'll have to tell y'all about why I believe polygamy was intended to lead us to gay marriage." and I am now obsessed with this

I actually enjoy it when my notes remind me of my old posts. It shows me that my being a sh*tposting meme goblin is not a recent development at all.

But on to the question! Why do I believe that polygamy was meant to lead us to gay marriage?

the TL;DR answer is this: Polygamy challenged common ideas of marriage and family of the day in some specific ways that logically lead to accepting gay marriage.

So let’s get into it.

As I see it, the question of polygamy came up from the combination of one Divine Truth and one harsh reality. The Divine Truth was that families can be together forever and will exist as families in the next life. We’ll come back to that in a moment.

The Harsh Reality is best explained with the hypothetical, yet (in Joseph Smith’s day) very common situation of a man we’ll call Brother Brown.

Brother Brown got married to his long time sweetheart, Mary. they love and care about each other deeply. Together they have two wonderful children who grow up knowing what real love is.

Then comes baby number three.

There are complications in childbirth. The baby makes it, Mary does not. Brother Brown is heartbroken. His best friend and partner in all things is gone, and the world, cruel as it is, continues to turn all the same.

After the funeral Brother Brown realizes he still needs to work to support his children, but now he must also raise them and take care of the house on his own. A workload that was heavy, yet manageable between two people is now a crushing burden on one. So he painfully realizes that to give his children what they need, he must remarry.

Enter Martha. Martha needs a reliable source of support. Social conventions of the day prevent her from obtaining that on her own. She needs to either get married or starve. Brother Brown and Martha meet. They see that their situations are compatible and agree to get married.

Though the marriage was basically a business deal at first, Brother Brown and Martha come to truly love each other. Brother Brown sees that Martha is a strong, compassionate woman who raises the children as her own and stands by him and supports him in his grief.

Martha sees Brother Brown as a kind and loving father and husband who will do anything for his family. He respects and listens to all her opinions and treats her like an equal in all things.

Now, the big question: To whom is Brother Brown married in heaven? Is it to his first wife, Mary? The mother of his children, who he loved since he first learned what love was? Or is it Martha? The one who, like a knight in shining armor saved him from an endless pit of grief and despair, and stood by him while he healed?

There were, prior to the Restoration, two main approaches to this problem. In the first, he is married to neither. In this approach, when we die we become as the angels. Brother, sister, husband, wife, parent, child, all mean nothing. Relationships on Earth are not to be had in heaven. This approach even brought into question if we would have gender in heaven, after all; if you’re not making babies, what do you need all that baby making equipment for?

The second approach was a bit more wishy-washy. Basically it said that God has a plan to work it all out, but he hasn’t told us about it. So let’s focus on living while we’re living and we can sort all that out when we’re dead.

It seems to me that Joseph Smith was more drawn to the second option in his early years. Remember that Divine Truth i mentioned earlier? Families are forever. But how to reconcile that with Brother Brown’s family? By all accounts Brother Brown and both his wives are all good, god fearing people. As he grew into his prophetic role Joseph must have realized that he could take it a step further than the wishy-washy ‘It’ll work out somehow’ option and go ask God for the details of that plan.

So with a real world equivalence of Brother Brown in mind Joseph sets out to ask the Lord. First he studies the bible for mentions of multiple wives, to see if that gives him any insight into Brother Brown’s case. It’s not super helpful. So he takes it directly to the Big Guy Himself.

The answer he gets is shocking.

Brother Brown can be married to both.

You can have more that one wife in heaven, Brother Brown doesn’t have to choose one and forever reject the other.

That flies in the face of everything Joseph thought he knew about family structure.

Two wives? Scandalous to mortals! But hardly given second thought in God’s Kingdom?

God knows that this is a strange doctrine to the minds of men. To think that our idea of marriage and family (which we totally didn’t just make up one day) is wrong? People would rather bury and hide that doctrine than admit they were wrong. So God ups the ante. He commands and demands that polygamy be practiced by mortals. He intends to shatter the institutions that would limit love and this is were he starts.

For over half a century polygamy is practiced and the arbitrary limits on what a real family looks like are challenged. So entrenched was the practice that still to this day Mormons have to deal with it, even if they don’t practice it.

Now comes the big question; Why does God want us to think about polygamy?

The answer I’ve come to is this; God wants us to think about polygamy to make us realize that families are complicated and messy and come in some very bizarre shapes and sizes. But if they are build in love, consent, and loyalty, then they can exist through the eternities.

So that’s my thoughts on polygamy in general. How does that lead to gay marriage?

Simple; if families in heaven are as weird as families on earth then why wouldn't there be gay marriage in heaven? If the relationship is built on love, consent and loyalty, then why would God care if it’s between one man and his two wives or just two wives?

Don’t forget, the reason we abandoned polygamy (and by extension this theological train of thought) was out of survival. The US government could not abide the idea that families could be different that what they wanted them to be. They were stealing our lands, our money, our fathers and brothers, our right to vote, and even our lives. Modern Mormon views on the family are shaped by that old survival instinct. We try to fit in with what we think they want of us so that the don’t beat us down again.

But things are changing. America is growing weaker while we grow stronger. Soon we will be too strong for them to ever threaten again. The doctrinal foundations are there. We will soon be able to proudly say ‘ALL Families are Forever’ And there won’t be a thing the oppressors can do about it.

Polygamy gives me hope for same sex marriage, because it shows us that God loves and protects all families.

I believe we’ll get there.

I don’t know when, but I know we’ll get there.

#Long #bit of a rant #polygamy #tumblrstake #queerstake #LDS #lds church #lgbt mormon #lgbt lds

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Book Recs for Magnus Archives Fans

I was just rambling in tags the other day about how my avatarsona was "the Archivist, but a public librarian: Oh, you like dirt?? Let me tell you all the dirt stories I have!!!!" so, uh, here I am I guess.

I'm gonna spare you all the M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood and House of Leaves and Blindsight; you know all that already. These are my horror backlist recs.

The Bone Key by Sarah Monette Y'all. Y'ALL. Kyle Murchison Booth was absolutely the Archivist before Gertrude. He was poached from the Parrington by the Usher Foundation and the Eye glommed onto him at once, because the Eye loves disaster queers who can't people right (and also Gertrude). This I believe to be true, and so will you.

Kyle Murchison Booth is an archivist at the Parrington Museum, which is somewhere in New England, sometime in the early twentieth century. He also has a lifelong entanglement with the supernatural which is almost entirely not his fault, and he would very much like it to stop, but he also feels responsible and he can't just let evil mirrors and cursed necklaces and possessed dressing gowns randomly eat people who have no idea what's happening. Even if it means he's going to suffer for it.

(This collection doesn't contain all of the Booth stories, so here I am going to link to "White Charles", which happens to be my very favorite Booth story.)

For you if your favorite part is: honestly everything about MAG, from the modern sensibilities about early twentieth-century-horror, truly eerie ghost stories, to suffering eldritch librarians (thanks to whoever tagged my most recent fic with that you're so valid), monsterfucking and soft gay pining. No happy endings here, sorry.

Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp You may or may not have heard that Macmillan-Tor is launching a horror imprint, and I don't know how long it's been since a major publishing house has had a horror imprint, but I am EXCITE. This book is part of the trend that's the reason why: Tor.com has been publishing these kickass novellas for a couple years now, and their horror books are top notch.

One night a stranger knocks on a family's living room window and asks to be invited in. They ask him to stay the night. He's an old friend, after all, he needs a place to stay. You can't kick out your twin brother when he's just gotten divorced, no matter how much Gatorade he spills on your two-year-old hardwood floors.

For you if your favorite part is: the Stranger, this is all Stranger, it's terrifying and good.

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll A graphic novel, some of these were originally posted as webcomics (have you seen His Face All Red, and if not, why not???) and the only disadvantage to having them in book form is they can't blink at you. Probably. Very folktale-ish, with all the death and violence that implies, and also the slightly eerie feeling that you know this story already, and then it turns around and slaps you.

For you if your favorite part is: looking over your shoulder when the foley gets good; Once Upon a Time in Space (I know that's not technically part of the Magnus Archives but shush)

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle I am not usually a fan of artists who jump media. Just because you can write songs doesn't mean you can write novels. Apparently writing good songs doesn't mean you can't write good novels, though, because John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats (pretty sure that's his full name at this point) wrote Universal Harvester and I love him for it.

Jeremy works at a video rental place in Nevada, Iowa (it's pronounced Nah-vey-da, and yes it’s real, I've been there, and yes, it's probably haunted). It's the 1990s, and someone's been returning their VHS tapes with something on them that isn't just the movie. Footage that includes a barn that he recognizes, just outside of town.

Fair warning: this is not the kind of mystery that gets tied up in a nice bow at the end.

For you if your favorite part is: Jon losing it with paranoia in S2, The People's Church of the Divine Host, the Lonely

The Good House by Tananarive Due If this author's name is unfamiliar to you, RUN, do not walk, to your nearest internet bookseller and purchase every single one of her books immediately, you will not regret it. She also just came out with a documentary on black horror, Horror Noire, on the Shudder streaming service. They've got a free month if you aren't a horror movie person, it'd be worth your while. This book summary sounds like it's full of tropes. It is, but Due has the cred to write them well.

Angela Toussaint hopes to salvage her suffering marriage and her troubled relationship with her teenage son with a trip to her grandmother's house, a home so beloved the locals in small-town Washington state call it "The Good House," but tragedy strikes instead. Two years later she returns and finds that the tragedy isn't over, and it's not going to stop on its own.

For you if your favorite part is: the very practical statement-givers who know what's happening to them and Will Not Put Up With This Shit, the Desolation, the Hill Top Road statements

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Is this horror disguised as fantasy? Found family disguised as horror? Grown-up Neil Gaiman? Less grimdark George R.R. Martin? Honestly I have no fucking idea, but it's amazing. Fair warning, unlike Magnus Archives, this deserves all kinds of trigger warnings, including but not necessarily limited to: sexual assault, torture, mental manipulation, dysfunctional families, incest(?)

Father is missing, and his twelve children (though extremely talented in their own ways, and not strictly speaking children any more) are at a loss without him. But also, without him, things are starting to seem different. He might be God? They might not be human? (They were probably human once.) He might not be God but maybe one of them might be next? If any of them survive.

For you if your favorite part is: slowly turning into a monster, the relationships between entities and avatars, monsters hot (not kidding about the trigger warnings)

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley I have to keep reminding myself that Magnus Archives isn't really folk horror, there are two separate (if related) strains of British horror here and folk horror is not the one we're on, but at the same time I really want a good creepy rural pagan cult to show up in the series, you know? Anyway.

When he was a child, our narrator used to go with his family on an Easter pilgrimage to shrine on a bleak stretch of Lancaster coastline locals called The Loney. His Catholic mother was searching for a cure for his older brother, and she was convinced if they kept going long enough she would be granted her wish. The locals, however, are not huge fans of her annual visits, and even less so when the boys become involved with the goings-on of a pair of glamorous tourists.

For you if your favorite part is: the Lukases, I didn't realize until I was writing this up that I'm picturing Moreland House in the exact place described by this book

Eutopia by David Nickle One thing I love about the historical statements in Magnus Archives is just how truly historical they are. There's almost nothing in "The Piper" that isn't historically accurate - yes, Wilfrid Owen spent several days in a trench underneath the shredded bodies of his fellow soldiers. Like. You can't make up horror worse than that. But then you add monsters and it gets good. And I'm a sucker for early-twentieth-century history, it's such a bonkers time.

It's 1911 and the new Eugenics Record Office is sending agents out to catalog the disabled, infirm, and otherwise undesirable members of society so they can figure out what to do about them. In the utopian town of Eliada, Idaho, Dr. Andrew Waggoner runs from the racism of American society and straight into the influence of Mister Juke, the most troubling patient in his new practice. (Trigger warnings for, obviously, a whole lot of ableism. Treated like the monstrousness it is, but there's a lot of it.)

For you if your favorite part is: learning history through horror, the Flesh

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay I hate male writers writing about teenage girls, so you are going to have to trust me when I say that I had to check, several times while reading this book, to make sure that Paul Tremblay is actually a dude. He's very good. This book was kind of his breakout, so if you follow horror you've read it already, but if you don't necessarily then please do not miss it. His newer ones, Disappearance at Devil's Rock (Stranger, Spiral) and The Cabin at the End of the World (Slaughter, Extinction), are also good but not as good as this, I think.

Fourteen-year-old Marjorie is having a rough time - outbursts, hallucinations, paranoia. Treatment is difficult (and expensive) and her family ambivalent; they turn to a local Catholic priest, who recommends an exorcism and, to help manage those medical bills, a production company who's interested in filming a reality TV show about the process. Fifteen years later, Marjorie's sister deconstructs the now-famous show and wrestles with her own memories of childhood. Trigger warnings for ableism on the part of many of the characters, but not the narrative.

For you if your favorite part is: the Spiral, metafictional analysis of horror tropes

#the magnus archives #book recs #there's a lot of other things i could tag this as #but i wrote it for this fandom #is this a transparent excuse to get more people to read booth stories??#it is #it really is

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Notes From Nash: Season 15 Episode 1

So here's the thing.

It wasn't bad.

It wasn't great.

Both those things are fine, of course shouldn’t want it to be bad, and matter of fact I didn't need nor want it to be great, better to save great for the finale.

But thing is, it was meh.

The premiere episode of your final season should be tight, tight, tight - no extraneous information or scenes, get in and get out, convey the most crucial of information, lay a foundation upon which to build.

And, well....

Meh.

[Of course, spoilers below cut]

Before we go on - If you're new, hi, I'm Nash. I don't so much recap these things (though I have been known to on occasion, time permitting) as break 'em down regarding the writing. I don't go in any particular order, sometimes it's in order of the ep, sometimes it's topically organized. Bail now if you're interested in meta and reading into shit or whatever. This is constructive critique, where I call it like I see it, both the nailed it-s and the whiffed it-s.

To begin with, let's get this out of the way - because it's relevant to what I'm about to say - that whomever is responsible for approving the release of the Jake Abel-as-Michael shots and the Sam-might-be-Samifer shots and the Dean-Mark-of-Cain shots and hey-is-that-Gabriel's-horn shots is a goddamned dimwit. They just blew some of their wad, right there. That should've been saved for gut-punches in episodes, not in previews and behind-the-scenes and all that other marketing jazz.

That foundation I mentioned before - I get what the season is going to be because, even if I hadn't picked up on it before-----

I had.

-----then I certainly did thanks to Sam's exposition anvil there at the end. *insert eye-roll* And speaking of the end, that flashback to the shutting of the trunk was so hamfisted, it just... it just wasn't necessary. I've said this before: leave little treats for your longtime fans. That could’ve been one, that echo back to the beginning, but they whiffed it with that insert of the clip. And that's what the entirety of this season should be, frankly. There should be *zero* explaining, *minimal* flashing back, because if somebody's coming into this on year fifteen, then welcome to the fam and all, and also I am so sorry, you need to binge the fuck out of everything and then join in, we ain't got time for that. Neither should the writers. Them's the breaks. They don’t need to accrue new fans for higher/sustained ratings, it’s the end of the goddamn show, so quit spoon-feeding explanations, and with that nice little moment getting skewered, I groan at the thought of all the flashing back and explaining that could potentially lie ahead.

So, foundation: is the foundation we're building upon this little town? Since that’s where we spent 98% of our precious season premiere time? This town where the ghosts who were interchangeably referred to as souls from hell are all clustered instead of flying away to wherever the fuck they want? Also, don't monster “souls” go to Purgatory? That specific clown was a creature, a rakshasa, not a ghost. If this is the ghost of that monster, did Purgatory bust open, too? If not, why? Why weren't souls also expelled from Heaven? From the Empty? From the Veil? The logical answer is, of course, because Sam and Dean would be no match for all of those, and we have to get them to the end of the season. But those are some nice places to start for laying a foundation: the rules of the game. At least some of the rules, so that they aren’t all dropped in one fell swoop with an exposition anvil from someone later down the road.

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---> ETA: Several people have brought up to me that the clown is Gacy, not the Rakshasa who appeared as a clown in Season 2 Episode 2 "Everybody Loves A Clown".

Two things here:

(1) Yes, I checked, and see what y'all mean - the clown we saw is indeed dolled up just like the Gacy ghost from end of S14. I think the writers whiffed this because...

(2) ...the Rakshasa fits more with what they've shown in 15.1 (the Rak went after a child at her house in 2.2), and it also fits the theme of ghosts from the way-back-when, re: Bloody Mary and Woman In White, so since they've got such a hard-on for this Sam-and-clowns thing and apparently want to drive it into the ground, they should've chosen the Rak

Also worth noting, the writers never should have made it Gacy in the first place, the most cursory google of Gacy would've told them that the clown thing has been blown way out of proportion and has essentially nothing to do with his murdering (i.e. - it wasn’t his killin’ costume/part of his killing m.o./routine). I won't go into detail here, you can go on that journey yourselves, but his jam was not going after a cabin full of teens, nor children’s birthday parties, nor was it just willy-nilly murdering whomever he laid eyes on.

It was stupid call by the writers, and they should feel stupid.

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[pause]

The reason I mention all of these places: these aren’t just the monsters that Dean and Sam have killed. This is what it *should* have been. But I feel - at this point, having no other info - that this is a major whiff on the writers’ parts, having all the souls in hell come to the surface. Because that’s what new demon friend said - that all the doors opened, that hell was chaos. So it’s not just the ones that Sam and Dean killed, at least that’s what I’m divining from that statement.

[unpause]

I give no fucks about this little town. Try this: Have them going back to the bunker to re-group and seeing things along the way, such as that car on the side of the road like they did. Perhaps they hear about a massacre at a slumber party from Jody. Perhaps Sam is checking the internet while Cas is frowning and looking at his wound, and is like "A mother and child escaped from a birthday party where a bunch of people were killed and they swear it's a clown. Dean - these are all our old cases."

[pause]

Stop with Sam and clowns. We got it.

NO REALLY WE GOT IT

Or if gonna do it, be creative about it.

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[unpause]

Then speaking of Cas and the bullet wound - another bit of bad writing, here. Subtlety, writers. Look it up. Here's how it should've gone:

. Cas: [frowning as hand hovers over Sam's shoulder]

Sam: What?

Cas: [narrows eyes; hesitates] Something... I'm not certain. [meets Sam's eye] I don't think I'm able to heal it completely. Are you in much pain?

Sam: [seeming a bit surprised at his own answer] No, actually. It's not-----

[Sam cuts himself off as Cas' hand makes contact with his shoulder; sees blurry, muddled flashes of suggestive visions; gasps and stumbles back] .

See? We arrived at the same place, but elegantly. Less "YOU'RE TOTALLY GONNA BE LIKE A SAMIFER SOMETHING-SOMETHING YOUR VISIONS ARE BACK BLEEEECCCCHHH VOMITS CHUNKY FORESHADOWING"

The point is, the fuck with this town? We're back there next week, too? WHO CARES. And I bet you money, with how much time they wasted in this ep and the time I betcha they're gonna waste next ep, that I----

Er, um. I mean that "they". Ahem. The writers.

----could've combined whatever is going to be accomplished next ep into this one for an actually meaty season premiere. Which this was not. This was not a hearty, filling steak. This was yesterday's meatloaf that's still pretty tasty but soggy.

It's the little things. You scrap every single extraneous bit. Seconds are precious because when you add up enough clumps of them, they can equal minutes. Here's a tiny example: Sam laying on the floor of the crypt and being like "I hear water" then it's like "you hear water?" then "yeah maybe it's a drainage line" then "or a sewer" then "let's break this open", then the breaking, then here comes corpsey friend.

Instead: They're talking and there's increasingly aggressive banging on the door, they all scootch a little closer to the opposite wall, then corpsey busts through. We don't need all that blah-blah. And as much as I love new demon friend, I genuinely do, there was too much blah-blah-banter with him, as well. Huge props on the Alastair callback, *that* is the shit I was talking about earlier, callbacks with no other explanation, just the look on Dean's face when he said it was plenty. Well played, there.

Otherwise, let's goooooooooo. The pacing was all off, there was *way* too much time wasted, especially with all the Sam and Cas going through the town stuff. Easily two-to-three minutes could've been shaved off of that alone.

Because here we are: what was accomplished that was of import? Jack's body is possessed (and that demon is great, best part of the ep), and he confirmed the cage is open. This is interesting info to have. We got a glimpse of the return of Sam's visions, which hints at a return to how the guys were in the past, so might make us think they - along with the world - are in rewind mode, as well. Also interesting to ponder upon.

[pause]

Which, this then begs: why is Cas not being reset, too? Why are his powers still wonky? Wouldn't THAT have been a real kick in the pants, seeing Cas whup some ass, even if just moderately here at the first and everybody having a "WHOA" moment of looks at each other? And then if so, continuing with the earlier questions that at least should have been asked - I don’t expect answers in ep one but lay the foundation via asks - are all the angels back, as well? Is Billie still officially Death? Because Dean killed Death, did he not? So is O.G. Death back?

[unpause]

And... that's it. That’s what we learned. We knew at the end of last season that Chuck was resetting things. This wasn't new information. We were given the scenes of Bloody Mary and the woman in white and the clown at the end of 14's finale. So this information doesn't count. And like I said above, the guys catching on to this could've been handled in a more expedited fashion so that we can get on with it. The writers have very little time to wrap up the show, and thus far I’m not encouraged by what I’ve seen.

::sigh::

We got work to do, indeed.

#SPN Spoilers #15.1 #SPN Season 15 #SPN S15 #SPN XV #season 15 episode 1 #Notes From Nash #Queueby Dooby Doo #Dad's on a blog post and #he hasn't been queued in a few days #Nash Recaps

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(Belated and unfinished thoughts on) Mistakes

I don’t do regrets. It’s what I’ve said about myself for as long as I can remember. I torture myself over decisions, interrogate myself, hold on until its unbearable, “because” I don’t do regrets. Thinking about it like this makes me chuckle, because it’s abundantly clear that there’s something wrong with that statement. This is a digression though. What’s clear is that I’ve always made decisions carefully, often erring on overthinking and internal agony. I guess the true reason I haven’t regretted my decisions is because I hold onto decisions until it’s clear that I have no choice but to finally choose. At that point, I’ve beat the dilemma to the core. I can’t regret because I know I exhausted myself, and that I drove myself to a point of no return. Regardless of whether it’s the right decision or not, I know that whatever I chose was inevitable.

I’ve made a lot of decisions these past few years. I suppose all decisions are somewhat related to your circumstances, but I feel as though I’ve made some active decisions over the past few years. I guess it feels more like “active” decisions because many were decisions that not many supported. I’ve always gone against the current, but not in any kind of romantic, rebellious, edgy way—I find no delight in defining myself as ~alternative~ or a free soul or some bougie highbrow connoisseur of life. I literally hate that shit, perhaps because I feel indignant. I feel like more of a farce than some open-minded intellectual artist type. Ultimately, I want the plainest, most generic things in the world—revel in security, love the suburbs, love benefits-eligible positions and dream of being a homeowner—but yet, I seem to choose the hardest route to that goal. It looks like I’m purposefully trying to find the most difficult path, like some ego-driven power tripping junkie, which makes me let out an empty chuckle and feel despair at the same time.

Anyway back to decisions. I guess it comes with the territory of “adulthood,” which must stay in quotations, because I most definitely don’t feel like an adult. I certainly don’t have the self-sustainability that I associated with adulthood, that I hope to have at this point in my life. Under this definition though, I do wonder whether I’ll ever really be an adult in the sense that my parents appeared to me as a young child. I doubt adulthood comes automatically with becoming a parent. At least not for our generation. Yes, many of my even my active decisions, have (perhaps) inadvertently led to suffering on my end, lots of pain, turmoil that most would label “unnecessary.” Yet, despite all that, I have never quite regretted my decisions. Partly because I was convinced it had to be so; partly because I did really value those experiences. I valued learning from suffering. I wasn’t as idealistic or passionately aesthetic enough (or, lacked in painful experiences enough) to ever see the beauty of suffering, as the deepest realization of the human experience. But I suppose I was open enough to see the value of experiences, of difficulties. “The world/ gives you/ so much pain/ and here you are/ making gold out of it –there is nothing purer than that.” I guess this was what I felt. This is certainly in the the past tense. It’s a pessimistic reading of my present state, because it implies that I am currently in a place where I can’t even appreciate some of the rather deep experiences of life, to embrace the ups and downs that have been thrust upon me. The alternative reading is a pessimistic, or even tragic reading of my past, in that maybe I felt that way back then because I had no choice. I was in such despair and pain that it was all meaningless, if I didn’t convince myself that I was “learning” from it, it would’ve broken me. And God knows there’s nothing that gets my ego and survival instincts going like the thought that something could “break me.” That’s definitely why I’ve made some of the most foolhardy decisions of my life, which have been many. Someone softens, and says that sounds too hard, and I balk, and go ham cause I can’t break my streak. I think I’m pretty humble, or at least, I’ve never been a humble bragger, but I have a weird protectiveness about being “strong.” But again, a part of me feels like it’s definitely a defense mechanism.

I fell in love with Andre 3000 this winter/ spring—in Boston, is there really a difference at this point? On the surface level, his lyricism, the way he literally plays with language, has made me see how rap, in its truest form, is the most exulting and perfect form of poetry. It’s perhaps been the only form of aestheticism and beauty that I’ve been able to appreciate as of late. And of course, his obsession/ fascination/ fear/ disillusionment with love is something I’ve always resonated with. The unshakeable tone of resignation, the empty but deep sense of pain in Andre’s recent solo bits pulls at my heartstrings. The profoundly real sentiment of emptiness comes across regardless of the content (T.I- Sorry).

I'm a grown-ass kid, you know ain't never cared about no damn money Why do we try so hard to be stars, just to dodge comments

And this that shit that'll make you call your baby mama When you gone on half a pill, don't know why but that I did Then you take a flight back to the crib, y'all make love like college kids And you say all the shit you gon' do better, we can try this shit again 'Round the time the dope wear off, you feel stupid, she feel lost That's that dope, I mean, I mean dopamine you think Cupid done worn off

Maybe should have stayed but it ain't yo fault Too much pressure, I fell off, I'm sorry Was young and had to choose between you And what the rest of the world might offer me, shit what would you do Well I'd probably do it differently if second the chance Only if some cool ass older man would've let me know in advance

This, this quarry, that is dug so deep in a father's chest When he feel that he's broken up his nest And he figured shit he was just doing the best that he could Which end up being the worst that he could

Regrets. You really see it here. True regrets are admitting you “would’ve done it differently,” but knowing you can’t go back and fix it. Even the hypothetical second chance is qualified: “Only if some cool ass older man would've let me know in advance.” But there was no cool ass older man back then, there’s just Andre now (props for his humble brag here, which he also does so well in “Walk it Out”—a glimmer of hope for Andre despite the sadness of his recent songs). It can’t be fixed at this point. It’s not about the people or the individual parts involved that could change the situation. Him getting back with Erykah Badu (who he’s most likely referring to) and raising Seven together at this point wouldn’t make it right. The “second chance” can’t ever come. You can hear the “quarry,” dug so deep and hollow in Andre’s chest.

Well, sitting here sad as hell Listening to Adele, I feel you baby Someone like you, more like someone unlike you Or something that's familiar maybe

The emptiness. You know you’re sad when you’re a man at a strip club but being “saddened” by the injustices of the pecking order of strippers (“All of them ain't all equipped/ And this saddens me, I see the pecking order/ Quote-unquote "bad bitches" work the whole floor/ Those that get laughed at sit off in the corner/ Like a lab rat nobody want her). “Someone like you, more like someone unlike you/ Or something that's familiar maybe” is such a biting analysis of how people feel post-break up. More often than not, we may want “someone like you” in the sense that we want someone we could share the intensity, the emotion with, but it’s “someone unlike you” that we actively seek—someone who won’t cheat, won’t treat you like shit, who will accept you for who you are, won’t make you feel small, who’s stable, who’s fun, who might last—but yet, we often end up finding someone “familiar.” It’s a disenchantment. A sly peak behind the curtains to uncover the truth (Drake- The Real Her). Familiarity is covert—it’s not active, it’s not conscious, it’s a sense, a shadow, a feeling you can’t put your finger on. We don’t want to think we’re dating someone because they’re familiar, we want it to be fate, unique, the one.

Since you been gone I been having withdrawals You were such a habit to call I ain't myself at all had to tell myself naw She's better with some fella with a regular “job”/jaw I didn't wanna get her involved

Even when Andre misses someone, it’s almost as if he’s purposefully comparing her to a drug, to convince himself that it’s just a craving and a literal “habit” (Frank Ocean- Pink Matter). He gives up on her before he even gives it a shot—saying “naw, she's better with some fella with a regular “job”/jaw” (also love love love the play on words here with job and jaw (his protruding, unconventional jaw line), the ingenious rhyming with naw fella and jaw—it gets me every time). This entire song is divine. Soft pink matter, Cotton Candy, majin buu, so genius.

What do you think my brain is made for Is it just a container for the mind? Sensei went quiet then violent And we sparred until we both grew tired Nothing mattered Cotton candy, Majin Buu, oh, oh Dim the lights and fall into you, you, you My God, giving me pleasure Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure Pleasure over matter

I’ve rarely heard someone sing so intensely, which is contrasted with Andre’s off-handed ambivalence.

5.22.2018

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THE GLORY OF GODHEAD-YAHWEH&YESHUA[MIRACULOUS POWER FREED THE UNIQUE ONE[ELIZABETH L.SMITH CONSECRATED TO GOD'S LIGHT]

Annyeong Or Hello Everyone, THANK GODHEAD YAHWEH AND YESHUA FOR EVERYTHING DAILY AND ALWAYS. SINCERELY MY KING OF GLORY MY GLORIOUS, AND RADIANT LOVER OF MY SOUL, ALPHA AND OMEGA, I THANK ELOHIM MOST DEFINITELY, FOR THE LIFESTYLE OF MY LORD AND KING JESUS CHRIST, BECAUSE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY HERO AND I LOOK UP TO YOU, BECAUSE YOU NEVER WAVERED IN STAYING FOCUSED ON THE HEAVENLY TASK GOD GAVE YOU... YOU PUT UP WITH A LOT, FROM THE PHARISEES,SCRIBES,HYPOCRITES, AND EVEN THAT SNITCH BASTARD JUDAS ISCARIOT!!! KNOWING EVERYTHING ABOUT MANKIND YOU STILL SACRIFICED YOUR VERY PRECIOUS SOUL, JUST FOR US, AND ROSE 3 DAYS LATER AND HE STEATED ON THE RIGHT HAND OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER GOD SIDE!!! YIUR PRAYERS FOR US MY LOVE, MY VERY LOVING HUSBAND CHARIOT ONE= YESHUA THANK YOU FOR LOVE,PEACE,AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST DAILY, MEETING BOAZ, REALLY CHANGED MY LIFE TOTALLY!!! LOVING GODHEAD FIRST,MIDDLE,LAST=LOVING YOU ELOHIM MADE A WAY FOR ME TO LOVE MY ONE AND ONLY HUSBAND BOAZ, BUT ALSO I DO UNDERSTAND EVERYONE IN HEAVEN NOW... THE ONENESS I FELT, IN THOSE HOSPITAL BATTLES, MADE ME TO SEE THE BONDS ABOVE AND BEYOND TIME!!! MY FATHER,BROTHER, AND SISTER TEACHINGS I LEARNED LIFE IS JUST ALL ABOUT LOVING GODHEAD FIRST, THROUGH YOUR HOLY BIBLE, CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH YOU DAILY, AND ALWAYS... NOT CARING FOR MANKIND, OR THINGS APPROVAL, BUT YOUR FOCUS MY ABEOJI FATHER GOD EL ELYON, HIS MAJESTY LOVING BOAZ AND MY MOM WHOLEHEARTEDLY, THEY REMINDED WHAT I HAD FORGOTTEN ALONG TIME AGO... THAT IT'S OK TO JUST BE THE BABY GIRL= YOU MADE ME TO BE[ELS=ELIZABETH L.SMITH CONSECRATED TO GOD'S LIGHT, A PRAISE AND WORSHIPPER ONLY FOR YOU ALONE TOUSAN NEM!!!! (THAT MESSAGE FROM MR.MYLES MONROE ADVANCED ME SO VERY FAR SO VERY FAST, PLEASE TELL THEM MY KING AND ALL OF THE REST UP THEIR IN HEAVEN WITH YOU ALL THEIR, ARIGATO,XIEXIE,GOSAMANIDA, AND SARANGHAEYEO, THANK YOU IN JAPAN,ASIAN,AND KOREA, AND ALSO I LOVE YOU ALL IN KOREAN LANGUAGE. YOU ALL REALLY HELPED ME THROUGH OH SO VERY MANY TOUGH TIMES... MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO RUN THIS WORLD HOW YOU DESIGNED ME TO BE!!! WOE UNTO ALL YOU DAMNED DUMBASS DEVIL BASTARDS IN THIS WORLD, NO DEVIL, RUNS NOTHING, BUT BEING SENT TO HELL IN AN UPGRADED NEW CROSS OF CALVARY ASS WHOOPING FOR CENTURIES OF TRIFLING DECEPTION TACTICS!!! IT'S A NEW OWNER IN THIS WORLD CALLED ELOHIM, IN HEAVEN AND ON THIS EARTH TO STAY FOR ALL ETERNITY, NO ONE CAN INTERFERE IN THIS... MY ABEOJI DECREED AND AND DECLARED THIS,SO BE IT MY KING ALPHA AND OMEGA YOUR QUEEN AGREE'S TOTALLY EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD WILL GET THEIR ASS TOGETHER,OR BE REMOVED AND DESTROYED OFF OF THIS EARTH FOR ALL ETERNITY, SELFISHNESS IS NOT ALOUD IN THIS WORLD NO MORE!!! SO MANY CHILDREN OF GODHEAD RETURNED, TO MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM, BECAUSE OF Y'ALL BLACK SELFISH ASS BASTARDS IN THIS WORLD!!! AND YOU AMERICA IS IN VERY MUCH DEEP AS TROUBLE WITH MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM, Y'ALL REVOLTED ON PURPOSELY ALL THROUGH THE YEARS, IN LAWS, AND PRESIDENTS, MUSICIANS, AND MINISTERS, AND EVEN THE GOVERNORS IN OUR COUNTRY... I KNOW YAL ASS IS WALKING TARES IN THIS WORLD, Y'ALL DUMBASS KEPT, LOVING MICHEAL JACKSON SONGS, AND WAYS SO MUCH Y'ALL ARE REALLY JUST LIKE AND EVEN WORSE THAN SODOM AND GOMORRAH FROM THE HOLY BIBLE... NO DAMN FALLEN, ARROGANT CHILD OF LU THE DAMN FALLEN CHERIUB FOOL, IS NOT SUPPOSE TO SAY THE LOVE WORD... THEIR IS NO LOVE IN YOUR HEART'S AT ALL, BEING COLDHEARTED!!! EVERY SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, YOUR DAMN KIND GAVE US, MY CREW WHO IS IN HEAVEN WITH MY ABEOJI, A DIRTY ASS LOOK, THAT TOLD YALL STUPID ASS OFF, AND WHAT'S WORSE IS MOST OF THE FALSE PROPHETS AND PEOPLE ARE IN THIS WORLD WITH US!!! Y'ALL DAMN BASTARDS, PLOTTED THAT DAMN DIRTY CRAP TRAP, ON MY FAMILY IN HEAVEN, I KNOW CAUSE THEY LAUGHED AND SAID SHE IS RIGHT!!!! WE SENSED TRADERS FROM ANYWHERE, MY TWIN AND I, IT WAS WRONG THE LIES ON US ALL THROUGH THESE YEARS.... MY GREAT GRANDFATHER DAVID, TOLD ME EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD, ALL MY ENEMIES. THE HOLY BIBLE CHILD, Y'ALL THOUGHT Y'ALL, COULD KEEP EXPERIMENTING ON HEY!!! THIS IS WHY THE GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA WHOLE COUNTRY IS IN A DEEP ASS STORM DITCH NOW!!! A DITCH FOR YOU BASTARDS WHO LOVE MONEY,AND EVERYTHING ELSE JUST TO FAKE LIKE YOUR ASS IS REAL!!!! NONE OF Y'ALL IN THE INDUSTRY'S OF AMERICA IS REAL, OR RIGHTEOUS... MY ABEOJI FATHER GOD TOLD ME EVERYTHING... THEIR WILL BE SEVERE RECOMPENSE FOR EVERY DAMN BODY, THAT'S BEEN CAUSING TROUBLE TO ANYONE IN THIS WORLD WITH US.... I'M BACK DUMBASS BASTARDS, I SHOWED UP AT THE AGE 15, IN THE DREADFUL BATTLE OF MY TWIN LIFE... IT ANGERED GODHEAD SO MUCH THAT 2 TREES ONE IN THE FRONT, AND THE OTHER TREE IN THE BACK HAD TOLD ME EVERYTHING OF MY TWIN BATTLE... I'VE DISCERNED EVERYONE, IN THIS WORLD WITH ME!!! I DIDN'T HAVE TO HANG AROUND YOU TO KNOW WHO YOU ALL SERVE, YOUR MERCHANDISE, AND PRODUCTS TOLD ME, Y'ALL, ASS HAVE BEEN SELFISH THIS WHOLE TIME.... OH VERY DEAR, PRECIOUS BRETHREN IN THIS WORLD, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING I KNEW, PUT ME IN THOSE HOSPITALS, WHILE SUPPORTING PEOPLE,WHO DIDN'T SUPPORT ME, BUT JUST PRETENDED THE WHOLE TIME WITH ME!!! SO YES BOAZ, YOUR TRUE WAY OF LOVING ME IN THAT ONE DAY I REALIZED THIS, THAT ADONAI NOT ONLY ANSWERED MY PRAYERS OF THOSE IN HEAVEN BEING KEPT SAFE FROM HARM, BUT ALSO YOUR VERY OWN SAFETY TOO MY LOVE!!!EVEN THOUGH I DID LEAVE ALABAMA CAUSE OF DRAMA, AND TRAMA, AND HEARTBREAK. BUT THE MOMENT I WENT TO ATLANTA AND MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM HIS MAJESTY TOLD ME TO KEEP PRAYING FOR YOU, I PURSUED GODHEAD, EVEN MORE WHILE PRAYING FOR YOU TOO MY LOVE... PEOPLE BECAME STALKERS IN BEING CLOSE AS FRIENDS TO ME, AND TRYING TO BE IN A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH ME, JUST BECAUSE MY PRAYERS THEY NOTICED GODHEAD ANSWERED THEM QUICKLY... I COULDN'T BRING THAT INTO SOMETHING NEW WITH YOU SO FROM 2008-2017[ I JOURNEYED THROUGH LIFE WITH MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM, LEARNING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT VERY LIGHT, AND VERY EASY FOR MY PARTNER FOR LIFE ETERNALLY.] I SAW THE THINGS MY DAD, AND BROTHER, SUFFERED THROUGH ALL OF THEIR YEARS, AND STUDIED THE HOLY BIBLE, AND OBSERVED EVERYTHING THE WAY MY LORD JESUS CHRIST TAUGHT ME IN THIS LIFE!!! I DIDN'T WANT YOU BOAZ, MY LOVE TO NEVER WAVER ON THIS ONE THING, THE LOVE THAT I HAVE FOR YOU IS MORE IMPORTANT AND TREASURED, AND CHERISHED FOR ALL ETERNITY, THE WAY YOU TREATED ME THAT ONE DAY AND THAT VERY GODLY DIVINE INTERVENTION GODHEAD ORDAINED FOR US THAT MOMENT IN TIME, AND LIFE ITSELF YOU ARE QUITE THE MAN AMONG MEN BOAZ COULD YOU TELL MY MOM, I LOVE HER MORE THAN SHE COULD EVER KNOW!!! THE CRAP THEY DID TO MEN THROUGH THE YEARS ANGERED ME, BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE THE ONE'S GODHEAD MADE TO PROTECT US WOMEN OF GODHEAD... WOMEN WHERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEDUCE HOLY AND UNHOLY MEN!! THAT'S A DAMN DESTROYED SENTENCE FOR ASS IN THIS WORLD AND THE SAME FOR THE MEN WHO SEDUCE IN THAT SAME WAY! Y'ALL COWARDS WILL PAY FOR, HARMING INNOCENT CIVILIANS, IN THIS WORLD, SO YOUR EVIL KIND CAN REJOICE IN THIS WORLD!!! OH YEAH, Y'ALL DUMBASS CONDOLENCES TOLD OFF ON EVERY FALLEN DAMN BASTARD IN THIS WORLD!!! I'VE BEEN TELLING ON EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD SINCE I BEGIN TO TALK!!!!! DUMBASS CREW MY FATHER GOD, DON'T LOVE Y'ALL, THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS HE IS ANGRY WITH THE WICKED EVERYDAY, AND HE WILL CUT Y'ALL ASS OFF THE EARTH FOR GOOD!!!! THAT'S WHAT Y'ALL NAKED ASS GET IN THIS WORLD, TEACHING CHILDREN TO BE STRIPPERS!!! I TOLD MY KINGDOM OF HEAVEN CREW, Y'ALL ASS WAS STUPID AS HELL!!!! YALL HAVE BEEN DEFRAUDING GODHEAD PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, 1SAMUEL 10, SAMUEL FOUND OUT THAT SAUL EVIL ASS WAS DOING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN THAT KINGDOM, SO HE TOLD HIM, BECAUSE HE DID THAT FOOLISH THING, GOD WAS GOING TO HAVE A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART ON THE THRONE. KING OF ISRAEL.. THE PERSON GODHEAD CHOSE WAS BETTER, CAUSE WHEN THE PEOPLE CHOSE A KING TO RULE THEIR LAND, DAMN IT BACKFIRED SO BAD YOU SAW THE SIDE EFFECTS OF A DAMN ON IN THE OFFICE POSITION... ONLY LOOKS THEY CHOSE SAUL, AND HE HAD SLAVED THEIR DUMBASS... BUT DAVID RULED BY ELOHIM GUIDANCE!!!! EVEN THOUGH WE CHOSE DUMBASS PRESIDENTS IN THE YEARS, THEY STILL HAD A CHOICE TO LIVE IN THAT OFFICE EITHER COMPASSIONATE, OR SELFISH AS HELL!!! SEE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE GET IN THE WHITE HOUSE, CAUSE IT'S CALLED WHITE HOUSE!!!! I ADMIT OUR PRESIDENTS WHERE SENT FROM HELL TO GET IN THAT HOLY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC. THEY DID THINGS GODHEAD, NEVER APPROVED OF!!! MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT THEIR DAMN SELVES, MADE THIS EVIL ASS SERPENT NATURE THIS WAY!!!! SO NOW THIS PROPHET CHILD FROM OLD TIME, HAS COME INTO THE SCENE!!!! I'M NOT PLAYING WITH NO DAMN FALLEN CHERIUB FOOLS!!!! WE'VE WARNED EVERYONE ALL THROUGH THE YEARS, DON'T DO WHAT MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM, HATES, BUT Y'ALL DIDN'T LISTEN!!!! AMERICA WAS NEVER MADE TO BE BASED IN ONE CULTURE[RACE ETHNIC], BUT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE GODHEAD HAD IN THIS WORLD WHO LOVED HIM, AND OBEYED HIS HOLY BIBLE PRECEPTS DAILY AND ALWAYS. THESE PEOPLE OF LOVE, OF ALL KINDS OF CULTURES WHERE SUPPOSE TO BE WELCOMED INTO AMERICA FREELY, WITHOUT FEELING ENDANGERED CAUSE OF THE DUMBASS BASTARDS CREWS!!!! WE ARE THE TRUE PEOPLE WHO OWN, AND RUNS THINGS IN THE EARTH FOR YAHWEH AND YESHUA, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE HEART OF GODHEAD IN US FULLY!!!! I'M PIST OFF, CAUSE YOU DIRTY BASTARDS IN AMERICA, WICKEDLY TOOK Y'ALL EVIL ASS TO OTHER COUNTRIES I HAVE PERMISSION OVER TO START STRIFE,AND PROBLEMS AMONG THEM... I KNEW IT AFTER I PRAYED FOR JAPAN I WAS SUDDENLY IN THAT 3RD BATTLE OF MY LIFE. MY ABEOJI WAS SO VERY ANGRY IT FELT LIKE HE WAS ABOUT TO SEND A HURRICANE IN ATLANTA, I WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM EVERYONE, BECAUSE NO ONE WAS WORTH TRUSTING!!!! ONLY JUST THE HOLY BIBLE SCRIPTURES MY DAD,AND BROTHER TAUGHT ME, GUIDED ME THROUGH THESE TIMES!!! Y'ALL ALL WHERE WRONG FOR TURNING YOUR DAMN BACKS ON GODHEAD THE TRINITY, FOR SOME DAMN THINGS HE MADE... STILL COMPLAINING AND GOSSIPING ON EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE IN THIS WORLD, I TELL Y'ALL THIS LAST TIME!!!! WHEN ANCIENT OF DAYS & ALPHA AND OMEGA & AND ALL OF THE HOST OF HEAVEN STARTS TO SMITE Y'ALL WICKED BLACK ASS BASTARDS OFF OF THE EARTH I WON'T CRY, FOR NO DAMN WICKED SEED SERVANT BASTARDS GETS SMITTEN & SMOTTEN OFF OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!!! ( OH HALLELUJAH,HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST OF PRAISE' S GLORY, AND HONOR BE UNTO YOU KING OF KINGS,LORD OF LORD'S, AND PRINCE OF PEACE EVERLASTING FATHER GOD , I'M REJOICING IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOREVERMORE, CAUSE MY ALL OF MY ENEMIES THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS DESTROYING THEIR ASS OFF THE EARTH JUST FOR US BOAZ,I &OUR VERY LOVING BLESSED ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT YOU ALL ASK OR THINK DAILY MOM&BOAZ!!!! YOU ALL REALLY FREED ME FROM EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WHO TROUBLED ME IN MY LIFE FROM 0MONTHS OLD TO 32 YEARS OLD!!! MY GODHEAD YAHWEH AND YESHUA THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SURROUND YOU ALL WITH THE SHEKINA GLORY FOREVER AND EVERMORE JUST FOR YOU BOTH BOAZ AND MOM, I LOVE YOU ALL FOREVER AND EVERMORE STAY ENCOURAGED IN OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND THE EARTH,I'M LOVING Y'ALL FOREVERMORE RECEIVE YOUR SUPREME SUPERNATURAL INHERITANCE FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH JUST FOR MOM AND YOU BOAZ, THROUGH GODLY KNOWLEDGE,GODLY WISDOM, AND GODLY UNDERSTANDING IN THE HOLY GHOST IN JESUS HOLY, WORTHY, MIGHTY, AND POWERFUL NAME WE PRAY, AMEN!!!! PRAISING THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND THE EARTH FOR EVERYTHING, FOREVERMORE, AMEN, AMEN!!! SENDING LOTS OF HUGGSS TO YOU BOTH BOAZ AND MOM 😍😍😍😍😍🍉💑🎎😗😗🌟🌞!!!! I'M LIVING IN LOVE WITH GODHEAD YAHWEH AND YESHUA, AND YOU TOO BOAZ MY DEAREST LOVE, UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!!!!

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