#Father Divine

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

I live in a constant state of Pronoia.

Give it a try.

#accentuate the positive #Johnny Mercer #Father Divine

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Carrying a banner reading “Father Divine is God,” these followers of the African-American religious leader marched up Lenox Avenue in Harlem on July 31, 1938, chanting “hallelujah,” while the little cleric himself rode in his limousine to cheers from onlookers. The parade was partly in celebration of the new “Heaven” he had acquired, an estate on the Hudson River across from the lands of President Roosevelt, where his followers would live a rural life, and continue to cry “peace, it’s wonderful.”

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #vintage Harlem #Father Divine #parade #July 31 #31 July #acolytes #followers #Lenox Ave. #vintage NYC

[singeratlarge]

SONG OF THE WEEK: “Ac​-​Cent​-​Tchu​-​Ate the Positive.” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/ac-cent-tchu-ate-the-positive This song was written by the great American songwriters, Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer in 1944. Mercer sang it in the style of a sermon. He described his inspiration for the lyrics: "[My] publicity agent went to hear a sermon by Father Divine, and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.’ …and I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'" The song has been covered many times in diverse styles, from country to jazz to punk. It reached me through the film soundtrack L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.

This track is from my collection of songs I play in assisted living homes. For some time I've been performing for people in various stages of dementia and disability. I've seen miraculous things happen while singing to people who are considered to be "disconnected"—suddenly they're singing, clapping, tapping, dancing...all because of these familiar tunes. There is proof-positive that music reaches into more areas of the brain than language, math, and other forms of communication. You can help me to continue this work. Your download my music helps to underwrite my expenses to keep doing musical service in these homes. Thanks for tuning in and stay positive!

#Positivity #JohnnyMercer #GreatAmericanSongbook #HaroldArlen #popmusic #standards #jazz #FatherDivine #LAConfidential #RussellCrowe #assistedlivinghome #carehomes #dementia #Alzheimers #disability #JohnnyJBlair #Singeratlarge

#johnny j blair #singer songwriter #music #singer at large #san francisco #pop rock #Positivity #Johnny Mercer #Great American Songbook #Harold Arlen #pop standards #jazz #Father Divine #LA Confidential #Russell Crowe #assisted living home #care homes #dementia #alzheimers #disability #Bandcamp

[dameronalone]

thinking about how percy jackson is seen as intimidating because of his godly powers from his father but the thing that makes him the most dangerous is his humanity from his mother

#I like to think that's the point but still #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv #obsessed with this kid bc he only cares abt the 'cause' as long as it aligns with his interests which is keeping his family safe #THATS why he's so intimidating to everyone #because yes he IS extremely powerful #but it's the the ruthlessness to protect the drive he has the utter determination that makes it so much of a threat #like in tlt just the sheer determination he has to bring back Sally. jfc kid I've met adults with less spine than you #HE WAS TWELVE. GOOD LORD MAN #obsessed with this kid I love him #like percy didn't get that loyalty and devotion from his *father* that was all Sally baby #loyalty to the point of it being his fatal flaw. yeah. not his dad. not the divine ichor. that's all humanity

[thoodleoo]

*twirling my hair around my finger* hes just soooooo burdened by his sense of duty and the insurmountable weight of being a mere man written into the role of a myth

#yes this is about aeneas yes im reading more aeneid #heres the thing about the aeneid that really gets me #like we're told from the very beginning of the story that this is a tale of how rome comes to be #a foundational story of homeric scale designed to inspire the people of rome #but then we meet aeneas and he's literally Just Some Guy #like he's a single father and he just lost his dad and he would really like to not be on this boat right now #also this is literally the same thing for turnus except instead of the sense of duty it's the divine rage of juno #like hes on the battlefield hes on his knees his Just Some Guy who didnt really ask for this #and heres aeneas heres the hero heres Rome Itself #but turnus looks into his eyes and for the shortest most desperate moment he sees himself #aeneidposting

[copias-juicebox]

sorry did anyone say tutti hands?

#i can see through the queue inside you #am i feral again? mhm maybe #bless me with your divine hands please #tobias forge #ghost #tender father #ghost band #papa emeritus #copia #ghost sweden #ghesties #the band ghost #myedit #papa emeritus iv #mr ghost #ghost bc #terzo #cardinal copia #papa copia

[llitchilitchi]

tonight has been such a great show of how the fans see c!Dream. the language surrounding him is dehumanizing, in the story, he is the book, he is kept in a vault, he is a monster - c!Q and c!Sam are seconds from calling him it, and the fandom reflects so many of these views. he is not a person with feelings, he is a monster, a predator stalking its prey, an obssessed beast. not human, never human with his very own motivations and goals and dreams who plans for something more. he never wans things for a reason that could not be seen as selfish desire, he is evil personified.

but the moment the language around him, by others in the story, the people who hold power over him reflect the lack of humanity that he should be granted, suddenly it is impossible to strip him of this human side. no, he cannot be in a vault, vault is for objects (like the revive book that everyone sees him as).

he is granted only as much humanity as people think he deserves to be punished further

#litchi.txt #dreblr #am i making sense i am still kinda insane about all this #prison arc save me #it makes the metaphor so much more fucked too #c!Tommy. Theseus. the man who slew the Minotaur #c!Sam. Daedalus. the man who built the labyrinth that the Minotaur was trapped in #does that make c!Dream the Minotaur? #he's a man eating beast that devours any who come close but what is the Minotaur if not a child taken from its mother after the father #broke a promise to a god? #a divine punishment on the world for a sin left wandering halls of cold stone while the people cower in fear and the architect rots away

[fellhellion]

So glad I backtracked to do the creche quest. I hadn’t thought a lot about Lae’zel beyond my impression that she was a bit of a cruel tool (in both senses of the word) held together by a rigid adherence to her religious code (which would’ve been fine if not extremely compelling to me, evil women rights etc etc) but then you get to the creche and it’s like oh. I understand you now.

Being taught to slaughter the siblings you grew up with, being told weakness was an offence to your goddess, service to your goddess being the first teaching you ever learn. It’s so damn good.

The way she desperately clings to this idea that it’s all simply a test, but she spills the blood of her kin to protect you like ough. Deep down she already chose, she believed you, before she even knew it herself.

#i loveeeee how the companions all wrestle in some form w their relationships to the divine and to a being #that held power of them (often one and the same) #mystra groomed gale -> shadowheart believes any suffering she encounters at her mother figure’s hands and by extension Shar’s simply HAS to #have meaning and she clings to that -> lae’zel shaped all that she ever was and all that she ever fought for around the being she was #taught to -> Karlach was betrayed by someone who held power over her #-> astarion cried out to the gods but no one answered and he’s been intimately shaped by cazador’s abuse #-> Wyll was failed by his father and is leashed to Mizora’s will #-> hell even the DURGE oh my god. shall you - CAN YOU? - forsake your father’s blood and the you he engineered? AND he’s your god #tunes talks bg

[daringdarlingdt]

Big fan of any time Mulcahy plays along with a bit or makes a joke of his own and Hawkeye is just so delighted and will full-bodied laugh about it. It’s the sweetest thing I love their dynamic so much.

#mash #rewatching Life With Father again bc im obsessed with Trapper and Hawkeye in this episode and it happens within the first like 5 minutes #also thinking of in Crisis when Hawkeye makes some crack at the end of Mulcahy’s prayer and Mulcahys just recites that lil jokey prayer. #hawk’s reaction is pretty golden then too. #also deluge “I worked my way through divinity school as a B girl in San Diego” #he can be so silly goofy and hawkeye loves when ppl go along with his bits and are silly goofy with him. #I dont personally ship them together but I can understand where that comes from #hawkeye pierce #father mulcahy #nia originals #best of

[doing-something-unholy]

I think Pruitt is a masochist and a monster fucker because no one else would call that Thing an angel after getting their throat ripped out by it.

#midnight mass #father paul #Monsignor Pruitt #father rambles #priest kink #terato #babygirl thats not divinity you're just ho/rny #truly tho there is nothing better in fics than john being So Fucking Weird about His Angel and thinking its like #“”“The Grace of God”“” or whatever #but its just him being subby lol

[artstrosity]

#dice #dnd dice #dice maker #handmade dice #dnd #dnd community #hand made dice #dungeons and dragons #dice collection #artisan dice #divine dice #holy dice #paladin dice #cleric dice #gold dice #divine gate dice #dawn father dice

[sincerely-angel1]

My Comfort Characters..💕

(Different than my kins. Don’t come for me 😭)

#haha #comfort character #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 astarion #halsin #bg3 halsin #bg3 #bg3 rolan #aziraphale #good omens #john ward #faith the unholy trinity #dr wilson #house md #father paul hill #midnight mass #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #damien karras #the exorcist #crowley #dr who #tenth doctor #fane #divinity original sin 2 #stanford pines #gravity falls #phantom of the opera #habit emh

[guiltywisdom]

David Kirby (1957-1990)

He looks like Christ, I see Christ in him.

David Kirby on his deathbed, a victim of AIDS. Also pictured, David's caregiver and friend Peta, David's father Bill Kirby and David's sister Susan. Photographed by Therese Frare in Ohio (1990). David's father Bill has made it clear, David wanted everyone to see his picture.

#society #aids #hiv #david kirby #death #i was struck by this image in another post but i felt making it about God there was the wrong place so i created another post #when this image was seen by many the roman catholic church was apparently outraged over the similarities between david and the pieta #which i saw as well - but instead of outrage i felt awe - i recognised in david the Christ like we should see in every person #of course there was similarities - of course this father was weeping for his child just as our Mother wept for her Son the day He suffered #they recognised the divine in David but instead of embracing it they turned away from it #i see Christ in David - just as i see Christ in everyone - but on that day 30 years ago it was a little easier to see

[amakiakudian]

My boy from Baldur’s

My brain said selunite chest scars and I obeyed UwU

#my art #my post #artist on tumblr #digital art #fanart #rpg #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 durge #bg3 dark urge #why selune symbols on a Durge #because Bhaal was a better father when he was dead #On previous games you awake with divine powers after killing people #now Bhaal just gives you trinkets to keep you in line #it’s manipulative father 101 #so fuck Bhaal #his child is praying to Selûne now #dnd bard #dnd character #dnd art #dnd #dnd tiefling #tiefling #dungeons and dragons #trans #trans man #trans masc

[didsomeonesayventus]

sometimes u just gotta think about the shit this kid went through. what the hell man.

#windy art #alear #fe17 #spoilers #engage spoilers #fe17 spoilers #tw blood #i think so often about what alear could have possibly been forced to do to survive. #from tame as maybe ended up razing a village or two because people saw him and lost their shit and escalated too fast #to as horrendous as being part of the reason lumera was the last divine dragon when he met her #(as well as other awful and unsettling things when you are left to fill in the blanks) #(when his father is probably one of the most evil to ever evils of the franchise) #anyways alear vc well another tuesday of being coerced into war crimes

[ladykissingfish]

I’m sorry, it’s 5:30am and the combination of this picture and headline made me laugh so hard I damn near rolled out of bed 😂🤣😂🤣

And for some reason I immediately pictured a scene of Deidara sitting up in bed screaming after having this nightmare. And Sasori is like What the hell? And Deidara tells him the dream and it’s the first (and only) time that Sasori laughs so hard he dislocates his entire face.

#ronald mcdonald #funny #like imagine running through an abandoned McDonald’s and behind you #slow thudding footsteps made by clown shoes #and Father Ronald McDonald is closing in on you #angry that you’re not paying attention to his sermon #and preparing to give you Divine Atonement via your head being shoved into the french fry oil vat #five night’s at Freddy’s WHO?! #sasodei #sasori x deidara #sasori #deidara #bad dreams