#timshel

[clare-with-no-i]

#I genuinely cannot decide #this isn't so much a vanity poll as it is a crisis poll #please help #timshel #foreigner's god #poll

[lilaccatholic]

"And death is at your doorstep/And it will steal your innocence/But it will not steal your substance."

Like!!!! Isn't that the point!!!!!!! Yes, death will come for us, but it no longer destroys as it did before! Christ has come and He has died but He was and is triumphant and now we're not bound for destruction, but for life with Him!!!!!

#timshel #mumford and sons #lilac talks about jesus #i need a punny music tag i think

[hisinfernalmajesty666]

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?”

East of Eden, p.351, John Steinbeck, 1952.

#timshel #thou mayest #quote #book #east of eden #john steinbeck

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[h/t Carey]

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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

#cartoons #freedom #freedumb #timshel #thou mayest #quotes #John Steinbeck #east of eden

[stele3]

Chapters: 19/19 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: OC/OC Additional Tags: young adult, Medical Conditions, the characters are both 17 and there is one offscreen implied sex scene, Disabled Character, Disability, High Fantasy Summary:

This was originally a book that I published through Etopia Press 10 years ago. I noticed last year that EP had taken it down from all sites where it was sold and now the only place it's available is through crypt*currency websites, which is weird. I tried for the last year to contact EP about it and they didn't respond; their contract for exclusive publication rights has ended so I'm reclaiming the book and putting it up here.

Here's the book summary:

"The Cursed Ones. As the sheltered youngest son of a healer, Eiland of Summerton has heard of them all his life, the miserable creatures who share the great sickness brought down by the wrath of the gods. Yet unlike any of the illnesses Eiland's father treats in the village, this one is not passed by touch or cough or poison. It's given by the Cursed Ones. All it takes is three small words: I curse you.

It never occurred to Eiland that a Cursed One could be young. Or handsome. Until he meets Charon, a wandering outcast who bears the Curse. One stolen kiss changes everything for Eiland and sends the two young men on a dangerous journey that neither can hope to survive—unless they set aside their differences and give in to forbidden love..."

#my writing #timshel

[realgracelesscurran]

The World is Just a Pen Stroke Away

“Would you be willing to set up a pen pal exchange with my students?” Okay. That’s not a direct quote. But that’s the basic gist of what was written to me in a Facebook DM from a former student who graduated….12? 15 years ago? I see the horizon. It’s so close to me right now. I’m four years from retirement. Or four years from hitting the magic 30 years of service which means that I can retire…

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#compassion #goodness #kindness #Namibia #pen pals #timshel #we are all the same

[ghostingfee]

#timshel #saintseneca

[kenneturner]

"Though it seems that I know that I know . . ."

“Though it seems that I know that I know . . .”

Tom Turner Tom Markey Images by kenne (This posting id dedicated to my brother, Tom Turner and my close friend, Tom Markey.) Munford & Sons is a group I love to listen to, and one of my favorite songs is “Timshel,” which means “thou mayest” in Hebrew and is an important symbol in the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck. “But the Hebrew word, timshel—’Thou mayest’— gives a choice. It might be the…

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#Alan Watts #East of Eden #John Steinbeck #Munford & Sons #The Book #Timshel #Tom Markey #Tom Turner

[harmonicabisexuals]

another thing that bothers me about making donnie pfaster a demon in “orison” is that making him human plays so much better with the show’s overarching themes of fate vs. free will. if he was a monster, it’s basically fate that he would be evil, would kill all those women. the show even explores that concept earlier in the season in “hungry” where the monster can’t help his urges to kill people, even if he doesn’t want to, seemingly accepting his fate at the end by saying “I can’t be something I’m not”. however, pfaster being a human shows that evil is something that can be chosen too. in the x files, monsters are not afforded the luxury of free will, but humans are. which is precisely why a human villian who chooses to be evil, like pfaster, is much scarier.

it just makes the end of the episode that much more interesting as well. scully, a archetypal “good” person (which is probably also how she see herself) is just as capable of something “evil” (cold blooded murder) as someone like donnie pfaster. this realization bothers her, which is why at the end she says she fears that it wasn’t god working through her in that moment, that her human capacity for evil overwhelmed her overall desire to be good. however mulder, as someone who loves free will, immediately understands that one “evil” or immoral act does not outweigh all scully’s other actions that overwhelmingly make her a good person. of course he offers to lie for her. it isn’t exactly true that she “didn’t have a choice” but he understands that choice and decides that she is worth his love and protection regardless. 

#i'm rereading east of eden and thinking a lot about the idea of timshel and how free will relates to humanity's capacity for good and evil #i just feel like making pfaster human could have provided a stronger foil to scully's distress over good vs. evil actions #cause even the fact that she's bothered over her choices means that she's a better person than he is #someone who commits evil acts and sees absolutely no problem with it #orison #txf rewatch

[clare-with-no-i]

happy one-year anniversary of foreigner’s god everyone (and hehe hbd to me!) :) thank you all for making this story feel so special. it was healing to write, and to share. love you all! and now, as promised…

extended timshel snippet: The Sex Dream Scene

[mature content below!]

#my stuff #timshel #love uuuu alllll #happy one year to one of my proudest accomplishments in fic lol #still can't believe I pulled it off sometimes ngl

[atlantic-riona]

actually I'm very curious to know what lines and/or live rent free in everybody else's head

#mine are the entirety of Puck's monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream #''I rather think he knew anyway'' from Bartimaeus #the whole scene from Bartimaeus where Kitty has just asked him about Ptolemy #and it ends with him going ''What do you presume to know about me'' #''hound I am fallen'' from the Tain #''the wine dark sea'' from the Odyssey #''timshel'' from east of eden #the ending scene of arcadia where they're dancing by candlelight and the audience knows that the girl will die in a housefire that night #the entirety of the fate/stay night ubw abridged series but in particular the first and second episodes #''bite me bite me'' #''I'm just doing a bit I speak modern English just fine'' #''you know what this is? we're sailing a friendship. the ss get-along'' #also many lines from Peter Pan #''to die will be an awfully big adventure'' #''but he was looking in through the window at the one joy which he could never share'' #to name a few #superman's world of cardboard speech in jlu #the argument between batman and lord batman in jlu #''mom and dad. they'd be *so* proud'' #lots of folk songs #''true love has no season no rhyme nor no reason/justice is cold as the granger county clay'' #''how do you like his face he said how do you like his chin/how do you like that dead body now there's no life within #it's more I love his cheeks she said it's mor I like his chin/it's more I love that dead body than all of your kith and kin'' #''they came in the night when the men were asleep/that band of Argyles through snow soft and deep/ #like murdering foxes among helpless sheep/they slaughtered the house o' MacDonald'' #more poetry #''she walks in beauty like the night/of cloudless climes and starry skies/ #and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes'' #and the first half of the lady of shalott poem #okay I'll stop now 😂😂😅

[prngsie]

timshel

Isn't it ironic for the god of love to hate himself?

Chapter 1: How to survive War when you are the literal definition of Love

Starring Regulus as the unmovable object and James as the unstoppable force. Or the opposite, really.

(Read it on AO3)

#jegulus #wolfstar #harry potter #the marauders #regulus black #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #pandora lovegood #barty crouch jr #dorcas medows #fic: timshel

[toberenaissance-or-bust]

I think it’s kind of beautiful how music has the power to transport us in time.

One moment you’re 27, trying to get your shit together, and the next you’re back to being 15 and crying to music on the floor.

#this is about Mumford and Son’s Sigh No More #2010 was a fucking vibe #music #I hear the cave and sob #nostalgia #timshel changed my life

[raylangivins]

Finished East of Eden 😭😭😭😭😭

#timshel 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #old man yells at cloud

[rarephloxes]

I said I'd keep my blog updated on reading East of Eden but the truth is I didn't have the strength for it. I think I'll need to read this book three times over to understand it fully and still, I don't think I will ever have the guts to. I never had a book change me, or chisel away some part of me, or add a little clay to my own clay bar (you know? the one people use to make little cups and plates), but I guess it was about time.

#east of eden #reading eoe #ana reads #i'm genuinely left a bit broken from this book #and i don't think that's the reaction Steinbeck wanted from this book #but timshell you guys #timshell

[realgracelesscurran]

Setting Limits

I am a hundred percent kind of girl. Give my hundred percent to a hundred percent to what I do and then find a way to exceed that hundred percent. Now, don’t get me wrong. That didn’t apply to my grades. Or to every little thing in my life. For example. My house is messy. Not a hundred percent (thank God). Because I don’t give a hundred percent, daily, to keeping my house clean.  But when I…

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#compassion #self care #steamroller #thou mayest #timshel #you may