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wiirocku · 1 year

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Exodus 15:13 (CSB) - With Your faithful love, You will lead the people You have redeemed; You will guide them to Your holy dwelling with Your strength.

#Exodus 15:13 #Your faithful #love #lead #people #redeemed #guide #Your holy #dwelling #strength

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 6 months

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The Lord's Unfailing Love

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. — Exodus 15:13 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Exodus 6:6; Exodus 15:16-17; Exodus 20:2; 2 Samuel 15:25; Nehemiah 9:12; Psalm 74:2

#mercy #redeemed #guidance #God's people #promised land #Exodus 15:13 #Book of Exodus #Old Testament #KJV #King James Bible

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jesus-is-lord-and-savior · 8 months

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"You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

(Exodus 15:13, ESV)

#Exodus 15:13 #bible #bible verse

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touchofgoddotworld · 11 months

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Follow His Cloud by Day, Fire by Night (195) – May 27 2023

LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST The Lord endeavors to lead His creation away from evil and captivity and into a better place in relationship with Him. Out of the Kingdom of Darkness and into the Kingdom of His Beloved Son, Jesus (Colossians 1:13). He led His chosen children of Israel in the pillar of cloud and fire day and night. His Spirit led His Only Begotten Son into the wilderness to be tried and…

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coreofthebible · 1 year

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Keeping God's Word before us at all times

Keeping God’s Word before us at all times

Today we will be looking at one of the seven core Bible principles: integrity. Reviewing the information today I hope to show how believers should be so imbued with God’s Word that it causes us to act with the integrity of his commandments as a reflex. Deuteronomy 6:18, 25 – Do what is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, so all will go well with you. … For we will be counted as righteous when we…

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bookkats · 2 years

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Potent Promises: Rescue at Sea

God’s Potent Promise, I will deliver You Exodus 14:5-7, 10-14, 21-29 God parts sea and delivers(Suggested read Exodus 14:5-29 all)Matt 2:13-15 Mary, Joseph, Jesus flee to EgyptPsalm 77 Call to Worship God you promise to take care of us. Even when we question or are uncertain, you are there God you are our deliverer Come Let us worship God who promises to save us Call to Worship (based on…

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#call to worship #confession #Exodus 14:5-29 #God Delivers #Matthew 2:13-15 #Moses #narrative lectionary #Potent Promises #Psalm 77 #Rescue at Sea

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graceandpeacejoanne · 2 years

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Revelation 1: Α and Ω

It was a huge question for the early church, one of the first questions the church councils sought to answer. Was Jesus a human being? Was Jesus divine? #AlphaandOmega #Revelation1 #HighViewofChrist

BEHOLD! He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him, and they will beat their breasts with grief over Him, all the peoples of the earth. Yes! Amen!“I AM the Alpha and the Omega,” the Lord is saying, “The God Who is, and Who was and Who is now coming, the Omnipotent.”Revelation 1:7-8 High View of Christ Who is Jesus? It was a huge question for the early…

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jooheons · 11 months

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spider-man 2099 / miguel o’hara reading guide

miguel o’hara was a young genetics genius employed at mega corporation alchemax, in the future city of nueva york of the year 2099 (a future universe where all superheroes got wiped out). he became spider-man when one of his experiments to replicate the powers of spider-man is used against him, his dna is rewritten and became fifty percent spider.

essential reading:

spider-man 2099 (1992), #1-10

spider-man 2099, #11-14

spider-man 2099 annual, #1

2099 unlimited #1-3 *

spider-man 2099, #15

ravage 2099, #15 *

x-men 2099, #5 *

doom 2099 (1993), #14 *

punisher 2099 (1993), #13 *

spider-man 2099, #16-22

spider-man 2099, #23-33

2099 unlimited #8 *

ghost rider 2099 #7 *

spider-man 2099, #34-38

spider-man 2099 special #1

spider-man 2099 meets spider-man #1

2099 unlimited #9-10 *

spider-man 2099, #39-46 *

2099: world of tomorrow (1996), #1-8 *

2099: manifest destiny *

* in early 1996, editor joey cavalieri was fired. it led to the cancellation of the 2099 titles. for spider-man 2099′s case, peter david (creator and writer) chose to resign in solidarity with his editor, finishing his run with issue #44. the last two issues of spider-man 2099 were done without his input and the series ended with issue #46.

* cross-overs are optional reading, they’re grouped together with the original spider-man 2099 issues because it’s part of their collection.

non-essential reading (crossovers):

fantastic four 2099 (1996), #4, #6, #8

captain marvel (2000) #27-30

exiles (2001-2008), #72 *

exiles #75-99

exiles annual #1

timestorm 2009-2099 (2009), #1–4 *

* exiles!miguel is a variant (not the same from his 1992 run), he’s from earth-6375 here.

* timestorm!miguel is a variant, he’s from earth-96099 here.

semi-essential reading (main marvel universe):

superior spider-man (2013), #17-21

superior spider-man #22-26

superior spider-man annual #1

superior spider-man #27-31

superior spider-man annual #2

essential reading (spider-verse event):

spider-man 2099 (2014) #1-5

amazing spider-man (2014) #1

amazing spider-man (2014) #9-15

spider-man 2099 (2014), #6-12

spider-man 2099 (2015), #1-5

spider-man 2099 (2015), #6-10

spider-man 2099 (2015), #11-16

spider-man 2099 (2015), #17-21

spider-man 2099 (2015), #22-25

spider-man 2099 meets spider-man (1995)

amazing spider-man (2018), #32-36

semi-essential reading (back to 2099):

spider-man 2099 (2019)

spider-man 2099: exodus alpha (2022)

spider-man 2099: exodus #1-5

spider-man 2099: exodus omega

spider-man 2099: dark genesis #1-5

other media:

spider-man: shattered dimensions (2010, video game)

spider-man: edge of time (2011, video game)

ultimate spider-man, the spider-verse: part 1 (2015, animated series)

spider-man: into the spider-verse (2018, film)

spider-man: across the spider-verse (2023, film)

this reading guide will be updated should any upcoming projects arise!

#spidermanedit #comicedit #marveledit #miguel o'hara #spider man 2099 #spider man: across the spider verse #atsvedit #*#heavily inspired by coolgirl's jason guide :)#very big thank you to zee (@tresrachas on twt) for the graphics help!

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girlbloggercher · 2 months

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how to read the Bible

this is in order!

1. John

2. Mark

3. Matthew

4. Luke

5. Genesis

6. Exodus

7. Leviticus

8. Numbers

9. Dueteronomy

10. Romans

11. Galatians

12. Colossians

13. Proverbs

14. Ecclesiastes

15. Job

16. 1 Peter

17. 1 Corinthians

18. 2 Corinthians

19. Ephesians

20. Philippians

21. 1 Thessalonians

22. 2 Thessalonians

23. 1 Timothy

24. 2 Timothy

25. James

26. 2 Peter

27. 1 John

28. 2 John

29. 3 John

30. Jude

31. Psalms

32. Joshua

33. Judges

34. 1 Samuel

35. 2 Samuel

36. 1 Kings

37. 2 Kings

38. 1 Chronicles

39. 2 Chronicles

40. Ezra

41. Nehemiah

42. Jeremiah

43. Lamentations

44. Ezekiel

45. Joel

46. Amos

47. Obadiah

48. Nahum

49. Habakkuk

50. Zephaniah

51. Haggai

52. Zechariah

53. Malachi

54. Micah

55. Hosea

56. Luke

57. Esther

58. Jonah

59. Song of Solomon

60. Acts

61. Titus

62. Philemon

63. Hebrew

64. Isaiah

65. Daniel

66. Revelation

#that girl #wonyoungism #clean girl #glow up #coquette #health and wellness #christianity

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goodwhump-temp · 5 months

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Yuu Otosaka Whump | Charlotte

Ep.01 I think about others - Tackled-ish, punched x2 + gutpunched + uppercut wombo combo, shock, jumpscared Ep.03 Love and Flame - Viciously bodyslammed into wall/pain (while possessing) Ep.04 Moment of Earnest - Passes out x3/possessing (15:30) & (21:20), briefly held, tomato torture (21:50) Ep.05 The Sound You Heard Sometime - Reckless/near human-pancake Ep.06 Happy You Did Not Notice - Panic, crushed by rubble (off-screen) Ep.07 The End of the Exodus - Hospitalized, shock, meltdown x2, very depressed, manhandled, passes out/possessing x4, marbles lost, confrontation Ep.09 The World is Not in Here - Freaking out (09:00), [Flashback; collapse], hospitalized Ep.10 Looting - Hit with a book, passes out (13:50) Ep.11 Charlotte - Emotional panic (16:30), eye sliced, extreme pain, shoulder stabbed, berserk (19:50), caught in building collapse, unconscious, carried, Ep.12 Promise - Hospitalized, berserk (00:20), drugged, brutally blamed/guilt, physical therapy Ep.13 Memories to Come - Collapse (08:40), insanity from schizophrenia, causes/caught building collapse, insomnia, wanted vigilante, worsening amnesia, worsening insanity, classic falling from building (14:00), collapse (14:30), crying, limping, shot x3, bleeding out, passes out, hospitalized

#whump #emotional whump #whump list #whumplist #anime whump #charlotte #charlotte anime #charlotte whump #charlotte anime whump #yuu otosaka #yuu otosaka whump

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liteonlamb · 1 year

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Fate of the Red Crown AU Masterpost

Ello yall welcome to the masterpost for the lil AU comic I've started Basically "Directly following his defeat by the Lamb, Narinder is indoctrinated into the cult. But the former god of death isn't content with living out the rest of his eternity in shame. Tensions are high and someone's bound to do something rash. What will become of the Red Crown's bearer? Only time will tell..."

I'll be posting 1 page every week or so So stay tuned Pages Below

These are all the current pages of the comic and anything related to it. Anything related to this AU is tagged with "#fate of the red crown" Cover (You are here) Page 0 : Usurper Page 1 : Arrival Page 2 : Confrontation Page 3 : Authority Page 4 : Rags Page 5 : Home Page 6 : Inside Page 7 : Light Page 8 : Note Page 9 : Sleep Page 10 : Morning Page 11 : Awake Page 12 : Glare Page 13 : Breakfast Page 14 : Friendly Page 15 : Unfriendly Page 16 : Job Page 17 : Farmer Page 18 : Betrayer Page 19 : Shock Page 20 : Go Page 21 : Shun Page 22 : Alone Page 23 : Monotony Page 24 : Exodus Page 25 : Lost Page 26 : Found Page 27 : Strife Extras; New Crown Bearer : Sakuro New Crown Bearer : Ekari New Crown Bearer : Koren New Crown Bearer : Ceru New Generation + Character Summary New Generation w/weapons New Generation : Updated Designs Lamb + Narinder Designs Koren : New Curse

#cotl #cotl fanart #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #cult of the lamb #fate of the red crown #cotl au

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kwanzaa-wakanda · 4 months

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Kwanzaa music

...is very hard to come across.

There are a few albums out on the major music streaming sites. But I'll admit, nothing really worth talking about.

I think my problem with most Kwanzaa music is that all too often, it sounds like Holiday Music, or it sounds so traditional that it's too hard to really get into.

So instead of trying to find Kwanzaa music, I went through the music I already like, music I was already raised on, and tried to identify what gives me an overall Kwanzaa vibe.

Honestly, I don't expect everyone to like it, or for the playlist to get popular. There's only 15 songs on it. But it's as close as I can get to finding music that really captures the essence of Kwanzaa, at least to me.

For people that don't use Spotify, here's the list. It's arranged in no particular order because I'm not very good at that...

1. Zanset Nou Yo by Boukman Eksperyans

2. Worth His Weight in Gold by Steel Pulse

3. African by Peter Tosh

4. Every Ghetto by Talib Kweli

5. Radio Freq by Dead Prez

6. I'll Be There by the Jackson 5

7. Celebration by Kool & The Gang

8. Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers

9. Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga by Michael Abels (it's the song from Get Out...ik, ik, but literally look up the lyrics)

10. MY POWER by Nija

11. Where I'm From by Diggable Planets

12. Pacifics by Diggable Planets

13. Have Some Love by Childish Gambino

14. Africa by Boukan Ginen

15. Master Blaster (Jammin') by Stevie Wonder

16. Stand Tall by Childish Gambino

#kwanzaa #afrocentric #african diaspora #Spotify

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 19 days

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Blessed Are the Forgiven

A Maskil of David.

1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

6 Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him. 7 You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. 9 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord. 11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! — Psalm 32 | English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Genesis 19:16; Genesis 24:48; Exodus 15:1; Leviticus 26:40; Judges 5:1; Ruth 1:13; Job 30:11; Psalm 7:10; Psalm 18:16; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 25:8; Psalm 31:10; Psalm 46:1; Psalm 64:10; Matthew 6:12; John 1:47; Acts 13:11; Romans 2:9; Romans 4:7-8; 2 Corinthians 5:19; James 3:3; 1 John 1:9

#sin #blessing #confession #forgiveness #penitence #Psalm 32 #Book of Psalms #Old Testament #ESV #English Standard Version Bible #Crossway Bibles #Good News Publishers

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Out of curiosity, when did the, 'fanfic doesn't need to adhere to canon, everything is valid and good, don't give concrit unless specifically asked for' attitude become the norm? Genuine question.

I was active in fandom back in the LJ days, when sporkings and comms viciously mocking Mary Sues were the norm, but then I sort fell out of fandom spaces for the past (checks notes) fifteen years holy shit. The current attitude seems diametrically opposed to what I remember fandom being like (kinda shitty, it was 'cool' to be an asshole back then), and I'm just curious as to when and how the shift happened. I mean, I assume it was a gradual thing, but is there anything in particular that stick out to you?

(Also, because tone doesn't convey very well through ask, and I don't want to leave you with a poor impression-- this is by no means a defence of the 2000s attitudes, nor an aspersion on the current ones. I'm genuinely only curious about the evolution from one to the other; I hope that comes across.)

Hi anon!

TL;DR because my response got LONG -> Anon this existed before Livejournal as an attitude, in fact modern fandom was literally born out of being not canon compliant (*waves aggressively to Spirk shippers*) and this existed on Livejorunal too and there have always been big pockets of fandom that really frowned on sporking even there, like that was not cool when I was on LJ, unless you were a certain age, or in certain spaces in fandom.

But also AO3 was its kind of final death knell re: making it cool to bully 13-16 yo writers (who were largely the victims of sporking) and killing dreams, which was born out of meta happening on LJ and in other places about like... not trying to make people miserable for writing a free fic out of the love in their heart that someone else didn't like or think was good enough.

Anyway, the longer version of this under the read more!

(For everyone else, welcome to some of the uglier aspects of 00s fandom!)

So there was actually criticism around all the stuff you mention 15-20 years ago as well. I was also on Livejournal during that time and there was a pretty big proportion of people in certain fandoms who recognised even then that like... setting up communities to mock say, Mary Sue writers, was actually a pretty weirdly cruel thing to do to people who were providing free labour and the literal only 'payment' they could get in a kind of energy exchange was people just not being complete dickheads to them.

So things were already changing, especially in many LJ communities and awards communities. There were a lot of big debates over whether concrit should be asked for, and a growing movement of authors who said they welcomed constructive criticism for example, instead of assuming it should automatically apply. There was also a lot of meta around the function of fanfiction and whether it should even be 'good' by published standards if the author was just doing it for themselves, and for fun (esp if they were just going to get punished for it by folks who were elitist, judgemental, grammar purists etc.)

Things really changed around the time of AO3 (2009-2010 - literally around 14~ years ago, you may have just missed the big change anon!), Strikethrough and the Dreamwidth exodus. There was a massive swing away from leaving concrit unless the author specifically asked for it, and fandom became a lot more generally able to recognise that a lot of labour goes into fanart and fanfiction and that paying with public criticism is shitty actually. Also people were just more able to recognise that like most fanfiction writers aren't trying to become professional writers and many don't want to be.

(I would actually say things changed around the time of fanfiction.net too - rude comments there were definitely noticed and could create some pretty forward 'hey why are you doing this on something you literally don't have to read' responses from fellow readers - idk what fic sites you were on. The small indie fic sites where you could often only comment via email for example, definitely drew a lot more critical attention than sites that tended to have public comments).

The 'fanfic doesn't need to adhere to canon' literally exists since the very first Spirk slash fic in modern fanfiction in the last few decades. Literally, as soon as you write Kirk/Spock, you're not adhering to canon. Our fanfiction 'ancestors' literally paved the way for a legacy which is about not adhering to canon in order to see the world/s and thing/s you want to see, be entertained by, by turned on by, or enjoy, from the very beginning. You may not have been in slash circles anon, but the foundation of queer same sex fanfic is in many ways the foundation of fandom. But yeah, this is literally where fanfiction started! As soon as you're shipping characters that aren't canon for fun (or for whatever reason), you're making it pretty clear that you want stories different to canon, and you have to change things to often keep those characters in-character.

So yeah! That's been there for decades. Idk what circles you were in on that front! While it was fairly common for a while to criticise characters for being OOC (Out of Character), imho, a lot of folks started to recognise that they literally weren't paying for what they were criticising, and they could just walk away and potentially not like...blast the fanfic. Some folks started to recognise more that people were writing with ESL, or were teenagers (some 40 yos in fandom realised they were mocking literal 15 year olds in their proto-podcasts and websites and realised actually that's just...mean? Really mean? Not the way to nurture new generations of fanfiction writers. Definitely in no way encouraging), or were writing for themselves, or writing for like one other person, or writing for fun, or writing for free, or writing for personal reasons etc.

'Don't Like Don't Read' wasn't just about political stuff, it was also about just walking away if you feel the urge to slam a fanfic in the comments.

I've been in fandom for around 2.5 decades anon, and there were so many spaces that were not actually as shitty or mean-spirited as the ones you were in? Or ones that at least had a lot of different thoughts etc. Like, sporking (mocking/bullying badfics and sometimes the folks who wrote them) was disapproved of by a lot of people in fandom even while sporking was at the height of its popularity (the Fanlore page goes into more detail about this). It might have just been the fandoms you were in, or the people you were hanging out with (and that might have been dependent on your age or just if you were around people who wanted to be 'cool' back then - in the same way that being an 'anti' is cool among certain crowds today. It's possible to spend years in certain crowds and never get an image of broader fandom for example - we can all end up in spaces like that! I know I have.)

When I started writing fanfiction (which no one will EVER find lmao), generally giving positive comments was normal. Constructive criticism was actually pretty rare and there were already fanfiction aggregate sites that generally disapproved of it in their Rules of Conduct. People were encouraging and polite. And this was around 20 years ago on Livejournal and private indie fanfiction websites.

I would actually say there was never exactly an evolution from 'one to the other' because like thousands of people in fandom already believed this and argued in defense of supporting fanfiction and transformative works via accepting that people are labouring for free and that not everyone wants to become a 'better writer' etc. - the meta was there on Livejournal in the 00s. There were communities where sporking was seen as hip/fun, and communities where it was literally banned or at the very least, super frowned upon.

There were meta fandom communities where sporking was the subject of discussion and you know eventually in a lot of those meta communities, that's where a lot of folks decided actually that calling out the fanfiction of 16 yos as 'cringe' or 'badly done' maybe said more about us as human beings and what we wanted fandom to be, than it did about the actual fanfic itself. By the time AO3 came around, people built it with this in mind.

To this day on AO3 it's mostly considered appropriate to say you want concrit in your author's notes, and to otherwise assume as a reader it's never welcome if it's unsolicited. That started during the LJ era. And it was talked about at great length. There's obviously going to be people who disagree! But for the most part I'm a big believer in compassion and 'not everyone is here for the same reason' and 'they literally gave this to us for free and it's meant to be fun' (like yourself! What we do/think/argue 10 years ago on LJ is sometimes different to what we do 10 years later lol, I used to be against trigger warnings pre-AO3! Times change a lot :D )

So yeah, this was definitely something that was around before you and I came to fandom, and it was something that continued to grow as an attitude during, until finally it kind of won out on AO3. But yeah fandom as we know it was born in people literally not being canon compliant to make some gay dreams come true (Spirk shippers bless them all), at a time when there was no representation.

Even in the earliest days of fandom where comments could only happen via email, one of the earliest phrases authors used were things like 'flames will be used to roast marshmallows.' For those reading who don't know, flames are hate comments, critical 'this fic is bad because' comments etc. Except you emailed them directly to the author, because there was no place for comments on a fic.

And this started because authors in part got death threats for writing gay stuff.

So you know, from the very beginning, authors in fanfic have by and large had a very low tolerance for criticism / hate over something they're doing for free and making no profit out of, when they're changing/altering the canon as they please to create representation (or hotness lmao), that is literally a labour of love in a world of very little representation. From there, things have just grown. The whole 'flames will not be tolerated' existed even before Livejournal did.

Honestly there are still people who love sporking and you could probably find groups and Discords dedicated to that even now (actually you literally can, there's a Dreamwidth group for it), it's kind of wild but it started to get cool again. Just like 90s clothing :D (Which is also wild because I can just take that crap out of my closet and wear it again).

But yeah it also sounds like you may have been in some pretty crappy pockets of fandom! When I was on LJ in the 00s I avoided those places and still got to experience fandom across multiple fandoms (mostly NCIS, Captive Prince, HP, Profiler, The X-Files and some others) and communities.

I was super active in some fandom communities and saw a lot of meta happening, and my view during the early and late 00s was that sporking was largely pretty frowned upon after a very brief (like 3-6 month) era where it was cool for only some folks, and then everyone (including some - but not all - of those folks) was like 'heyyyyyyy hang on a minute.' It was something that the bullies did, and enjoyed, and otherwise folks kind of stayed away from it, especially once they learned people were becoming too scared to write fics, which is the inevitable outcome of mocking/bullying folks and fics that have been made purely out of love for something.

Like, publicly making a spectacle out of what a 13 yo (they were often teens - and it's kind of sad how many 40 yo women were doing the sporking :/ ) wrote out of love, just for fun/clout was not considered cool by everyone even back then, because like, a lot of us saw that as killing new generations of fandom (some folks who sporked considered it a win if a fic or account got deleted, this is not based behaviour), not actually creating good writing, internalised misogyny (Mary Sue hatred and self insert hatred), etc. It's hard to explain because I do really think we were in different corners of fandom at the time, but I don't know anyone personally from my time on Livejournal who actually liked sporking as an idea or enjoyed it or enjoyed listening to it or reading articles mocking fic.

I knew about it from very lively 'is this okay' 'actually no it's not even if it's just for fun this is trying to hurt people and saying 'it's just the fic' is not going to be the bandaid a teenager needs to understand why older folks (generally) in fandom are mocking them for being new at a skill' discussions on LJ in meta fandom communities. So this is how much I could be in fandom and not be a part of it and also have like a wildly different experience to your LJ experience!

I think if I'd been a teenager during that era it would have seemed a lot more appealing (in the same way that many teens are antis now before they grow out of it), and fuck it if I was a more bitter person who was just around people who liked to make fun of what other people created, perhaps I would have enjoyed it too, I can see a lot of reasons why a person would fall into that in LJ -> but I was an adult on LJ trying not to be mean to people or what they were creating, so yeah I was maybe just in very different spaces! (Don't get me wrong, I have my giant fucking character flaws, but I was very scared of people hating me so like I didn't want to do things that would make that happen, lol, and also I was scared to put up fic myself during the era of active sporking. I know for myself that sporkers didn't just scare away writers of 'badfic' - they...intimidated a LOT of people).

Before AO3 I was on FF.net, posting fics on LJ, posting on Schnoogle, gossamer, and a couple of other archives. So I don't think my experience was that 'narrow,' I just think I wasn't around like... anime at that time or other places where it might have been happening. I also avoided like...Draco/Malfoy where CC drama was happening and I know sporking was popular in that specific arena / pairing for a while as well (er, as well as anything to do with Mary Sues).

So yeah! That's about where that is. Generally gatekeeping fandom is just seen as not a great thing to do to people, and that creates other kind of beliefs that are generally upheld as being more inviting/nurturing. After all, if someone truly wants to get better at writing, they can ask, or do courses, but as we all know, everyone has to write some bad stuff to get good at it, but not everyone wants to be good. Folks are in fandom for different reasons. I'm rambling now so I'm going to finish my lunch! :D

#asks and answers #pia on fandom #pia on writing #god i do not miss sporking #but it's still happening tbh in some sections of the internet #and it always will!!!#there will always be fics that piss us off or that are just written painfully #generally speaking it's just encouraged to share that with afriend privately #instead of creating a website and recording an interview or discussion or slam #or writing an article for fandom to see #and using BNF energy to chase fic writers out of fandom #it's wild that it was actually around for as long as it was #on LJ #i feel like that was the mean-spirited click-bait era before click-bait then came around #anyway it's grown in popularity again because of Tiktok!#such is life :D

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visenyaism · 1 year

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i have done so many theory rubrics it’s time for a table of contents proper. So here we go, in descending order:

Ghost is a good boy who deserves treats other than that one time he was mean to daven seaworth (20/20)

AEGON BLACKFYRE SWEEP (20/20)

Red Wedding 2.0 (18/20)

Danny Flint is Coldhands (16/20)

Euron Failed Bloodraven Student (15/20)

Maegor was a blood magic baby (14/20)

Lemongate (13/20)

Oberyn poisoned Tywin (12/20)

Loras is alive (11/20)

Walda Frey's letters are code (10/20)

Bran is the Great Other (10/20)

Jon has a secret Stark name and it is theon (10/20)

Pycelle is a Lannister bastard (10/20)

Ye Olde Starks are responsible for the Others in some way (9/20)

Arrax left dragon eggs in Winterfell (9/20)

Euron is warging the dusky woman. for purposes. (9/20)

Tywin is Rhaegar’s biological father (8/20)

The Cannibal is just posted on Skagos (7/20)

Bolt-On (7/20)

Quaithe is secretly Shiera Seastar (6/20)

Varys is a Merman (5/20)

Varys is 3 kids in a trenchcoat (4/20)

Melisandre is a Shiera+Bloodraven love child (4/20)

"Robert Strong" is neither Gregor Clegane nor a descendant of House Strong but a descendant of Aemond Targaryen and Alys Rivers (3/20 but a winner to me)

Lemongate but specifically Preston Jacobs' Dornish Master Plan version (2/20)

R+L=D (1/20)

Euron is time traveling bran (1/20)

Exodus Theory (-2/20)

#this is just testament to the fact that i will do anything if you ask me abt my interests #theres a lot more in the queue i'll add those in as they come #probably add a readmore eventually theres a LOT

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graceandpeacejoanne · 2 years

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Revelation 1: The Branch and the Spirit

The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. #SevenSpirits #Revelation1 #TheBranch

It took a whole post to even briefly explore the significance of the number seven to John’s original audience. You and I need that understanding today so that we can also be blessed in “keeping the things having been written” in John’s and Jesus’s letter. We understand that everything John is about to disclose to us will be less about knowing the future and much more about keeping faith in the…