#blessed logs

[sorcery-fight]

feel like writing about blessed. so Charlie “Ace of Spades” (everyone calls him ace.)

He is human, and has no supernatural abilities, something that is very common to have to some extent (maybe like 60% percent of kids. this is something that has cropped up in this generation, so there are very few adults with such abilities, even with those no humans with powers are over 25), even if its just small solely aesthetic abilities. (maybe twenty percent of kids with powers have ‘cool’ powers like Sierra(photographic memory in a headspace) or Theo(can control move simple machines with his mind) versus being able to change hair and eye color at will or grow and retract their nails a little bit like claws/)

He’s lived in the outer parts of town all his life. He was raised by his mom until she died when he was 10. After that he went to live with his dad (who doesn’t know that he’s his dad, just a friend of his mom.)

Before this, his dad had taught him how to play card games, and how to cheat at them. He also taught him magic tricks and other sleight of hand.

when he was thirteen, he moved out to sort of just start living independently. (I’ll elaborated later on the worldbuilding of the city, but the communities in the outskirts closer to the beach are almost entirely self sufficient and hostile towards the government. Everyone knows everyone in the neighborhood and its totally normal for a kid to move out by basically living in a tent, starting a garden, and receiving support from the rest of the community)

When he was fifteen he met Kat and Camilla Nova, twins (who i am trying to still figure out the specifics of their past but were basically Isekai ‘d into their current bodies in this city/general society) who are definitely not human, and know something about the cities government that the government doesn’t want anyone to know.

With this, they set off on a journey, and a few months later meet Sierra, and with this the story begins.

Nearer to the end (in like the second half of the story) a romance develops between him and Cascade, a murder of crows who can morph into a single human body (but with feathers instead of hair) and is trying to live life as an individual (but still plural) member of society. In the epilogue, the two are in a long-term relationship.

#thats one of the two romances in Blessed (the other involving Cassandra.) #you'll never guess how i came up with the name in the first place. (ace. then of spades) #dont wanna go too much into the epilouges until i have a more coherent plot #but i have a few bits a bob of it. #blessed logs

[stuffy-just-doodles]

Hehehe see wut i did in the first one :)))

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #cookie run fanart #crk pure vanilla cookie #crk shadow milk cookie #shadow milk cookie #pure vanilla cookie #stuffy doodles #soooooo I've been busy.... mainly with cookie run cuz i like the lil pastries on screen for all reasons #i gotta mention this cuz this was when i logged back in after a long time #so i decided to pull to see wut i would get the usual but somehow i was blessed by the gacha gods and got stardust cookie #soon i got enough soul stones to get capsaicin cookie too #crazy ass luck after not touching the game cjfjfjvjxhxv #also you can probably tell i like shadow milk cookie lil chaotic evil boi #that exclusively jaywalks and a gatekeep gaslight girlboss dude #yes im talking about a fuckin pastry im aware djdbdbxjkdkd

[doikayt]

"genocide has been a core part of modern history since before the holocaust and has continued to the present. comparisons to the holocaust are often apt as genocidal entities function similarly, and trying to isolate the holocaust as incomparable helps no one" 👍✅

"jews always gatekeep the holocaust, ugh why do discussions of the holocaust always have to center jews" 👎❌

#hope this helps.... #saw that (very correct) post about the importance of thinking materially vis a vis genocide and not engaging in holocaust exceptionalism #or magical thinking abt jews #and in the notes... theres someone saying that jews... gatekeep.. the holocaust #like...... its time to log off and read blessed is the flame by serafinski sorry

[leehallfae]

i like (i like) what you like (what you like) long hair (no bra) thats my type (that’s right!) you just told meee, want me to fuck you, BABY I WILL CAUSE I REALLY WANT TO!

#I LOVE LESBIAN MUSIC . <3 god bless #personal log #chappell roan #lyrics

[a-queer-seminarian]

Poems for Palestine

Poetry empowers us to imagine liberation that we can then work towards, together. In the latest episode of the Blessed Are the Binary Breakers podcast, listen to — or read along in the episode transcript — Jewish, Christian, and Muslim poems by Palestinians and their supporters.

Some pieces explore the Nativity story through this lens: Christmas joy must break bread with pain, birthing solidarity with all oppressed peoples.

Listen wherever you get podcasts — or visit here for a direct link.

Image descriptions are in the alt text and below the readmore.

A photo of Professor Refaat Alareer with a quote from him reading, “We’ve never been to other parts of Palestine because of the Israeli occupation, but… our parents and grandparents — especially our mothers — have been telling us stories… Our homeland turns into a story. In reality we can’t have it, but…we love our homeland because of the story. And we love the story because it’s about our homeland. And this connection is significant. Israel wants to sever the relationship between Palestinians and the land… And literature attaches us back, connects us strongly to Palestine…creating realities, making the impossible sound possible."

A photo of Hiba Abu Nada with an excerpt from her poem "I Grant You Refuge" reading, "I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering. With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog. I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh."

A photo of Aurora Levins Morales with an excerpt from her poem "Red Sea," reading "We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. …this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen. This time it's all of us or none."

A photo of Basman Derawi with an excerpt from his poem "His Name Was Essa" reading, "Essa means Jesus. My friend was neither God nor prophet, but a rebel soul and humorist, like Jesus. When Essa laughed, everyone laughed. I think joy was his gospel. …I can see him now sitting in heaven nodding, laughing."

#christmas #palestine #palestinian poetry #aurora levins morales #basman derawi #refaat alareer #hiba abu nada #podcast #blessed are the binary breakers #log #winter 2023

[linxuelian]

Comic Fiesta 2023 Anime Convention Experience Log - With Photos!

Hey there! After posting my previous experience log on Anime Fest+ 2024, I realized I'd shared photos from Comic Fiesta 2023 on Twitter but never did on Tumblr. Since this happened way back in late December 2023, I've forgotten a good portion of my experience there (I have unfortunately the memory of a goldfish) - so it'll mostly be photos of the crowd and MXTX cosplayers, whom I have some loose commentary on based on what I remember from our very short and random interactions.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this as an MDZS/TGCF fan as much as I do! I spent only a few hours there, but I did have a good time hunting down cosplays from the MXTX fandom during that time.

I'll begin with pictures of the crowd. If you don't already know, Comic Fiesta is an anime convention held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Malaysia, and it's one of the oldest here too. As of 2023, it's opened its doors to roughly 70,000 attendees, which is rather big considering our country's quite small in size. I've heard from my friend that there are attendees from overseas too, namely Singapore and Indonesia, due to the famous people the organizers tend to invite, so it does make sense that it's grown this large over time.

While the convention itself is held indoors, there's a large park outside where cosplayers tend to hang around and take pictures. A number of people don't buy tickets and go into the convention hall either - and I get why; the last time I was in the hall, I was squashed like a sardine, and not the fancy kind, either. We're a sweaty bunch after a good whole morning of lining up.

Anyway, the park is very pretty, as well as mostly green and neatly trimmed:

It's at this park where you can get the best shots of cosplayers, and find some space to line up for photos of them.

It's got this giant Christmas tree up at around this time of year too, which is super wonderful:

With that aside, I'll get to the cosplays. Let's start off with my favorite best girl of all time, Jiang Yanli:

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/clairegsw/

I'll admit I was both surprised and stoked to see a Jiang Yanli cosplayer around! She seemed pretty surprised too to have someone ask her for a picture - she was taking one with two elaborate bride cosplays, but as I'm a fangirl with heaps of love for Yanli, I thought she shone like the brightest star at that event. You go, Claire!

Next up is our boy Xie Lian, who seems to get quite a number of cosplays done of him:

Credits: https://www.instagram.com/ayana_liyana/ and https://www.instagram.com/itsmeira_az/

These two came together and were looking for wild, lone San Lang cosplayers to catch in Pokemon battle-like sequences respectively. Sadly, as it goes in the BL cosplay world, there's always a shortage of gong/top/seme cosplayers in a con. Everyone wants to be the beauty, it seems, and quite understandably too.

That said, here's another beauteous Xie Lian cosplay:

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/jingzu518/

Cute, nice, and also decidedly not looking for wild semes to capture.

Anyway, no Xie Lian is complete without a Hua Cheng by his side in any event, so here's the obligatory couple cosplay I saw by the escalators when I got up to the entrance:

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/njq_03/

This particular Hua Cheng cosplayer's one of the first dudes I've seen doing TGCF cosplay, which is pretty interesting considering the reception of BL by male anime fans in my country hasn't been... the best - or the kindest, from personal experience. But I'm happy to see it and would like to take this as a positive sign of changing times where our BL fandom gets more mixed in demographics.

Speaking of HuaHuas, here's a particularly fun and cheerful one:

Credit: https://twitter.com/meechandes

When I told this HuaHua that there were Xie Lians looking to form a couple, I was told that they already have a Xie Lian of their own! Again, HuaHuas are in great shortage! You'll definitely get a lot of attention dressed as him as he's both very flashy and coveted in the danmei cosplay scene as a character.

Moving along, here's a pic of my favorite best boy Jin Ling, the snazziest and most golden young master in the universe:

Credit: https://twitter.com/koni_kn

This particular cosplayer was kind enough to humor me at a crowded, fast-paced subway. We managed to find a quieter spot to take a picture. Look at how pretty it looks, bless! 😍 I'm so glad Jin Ling got some representation as a side character. He's absolutely the best!

On cue are his uncles, the twin heroes of Yunmeng, Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian (whom Jin Ling will probably deny is his uncle, but hey, Mo Xuanyu's body will uncle him however he wants):

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/feza_yu/

The duo came with their own professional photographer, who also doubled as their translator (thank you, photographer man!). This Jiang Cheng's also the softest, gentlest and shyest Jiang Cheng I've ever met in my life. Legs are safe when he's around since he won't be breaking them anytime soon!

Next on the itinerary are our not-so-elusive, staple-of-any-con Wei Wuxians:

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/ken520.cos/

I dub this guy the Balenciaga Wei Wuxian, because, you know, I took his photo right in front of Balenciaga and he looked like the richest Wei Wuxian cosplayer there. No joke - his outfit even had pleather, and he'd spent about 270 bucks on it. I saw it up-close since he was pretty friendly. His arm bracers even had details sewn onto them instead of just being prints! Talk about luxury! I coughed up jealousy like blood from my mouth.

The outfit is from CQL, but he knows MDZS too. I'm familiar with the donghua but too lazy to finish it, so he's definitely put me to shame here as a fan as well, blast him!

Last but not least, we have kitty ears Wei Wuxian (a.k.a. Lan Wangji's Incense Burner Dream #965):

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/mikaecsr/

Now, I won't lie - I first thought they were wolf ears. But as Wei Wuxian does not like dogs of any kind, nature or breed, I'm going to assume that these are feline ears.

Whatever ears they are, though, Lan Wangji will be sure to get hot and toasty seeing them. Wei Ying, you devil you.

Anyway, this marks the end of my write-up! I hope you enjoyed the descriptions. As I don't have Instagram, feel free to hit up any of these cosplayers I've credited and link them here so that they can download pics of themselves and read what some random Internet weirdo had to say about their outfits.

Over and out!

#anime convention #experience log #wangxian #hualian #jin ling #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #xie lian #hua cheng #jiang yanli #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #mdzs #tgcf #cql #tian guan ci fu #heaven's official blessing #cosplay #comic fiesta #comic fiesta 2023

[izvmimi]

Izuku is so shameless when he’s inside you.

big, rough hands littered with scars shoving your thighs further apart while he’s thrusting until you feel the ache in your legs, the stretch and heaviness of his thick cock splitting you open. “keep your legs open, bunny” he coos, a soft laugh huffed through his nostrils when you nod, so good for him. peeling your lower lips open like you’re a forbidden fruit, eyes shining as he watches his cock move in and out each time coated in more delicious, dribbled slick that sticks to him and drips down his big balls. you don’t even know where to look, his broad shoulders and chiseled biceps that flex as he rolls his hips and keeps you steady till you’re shaking, or how he has a gentle grin on his lips as he watches your entire form react to his touch. you settle for looking down as he hoists up your hips by your ass and you watch him enter you over and over. you dare not look away from the lewd sight, because he’ll only make you watch for the next round.

nobody look at me

#mimi replies #treasures: gray #i've like #held onto this #but now i'm logging off #goodbye #be blessed

[jvlianbashir]

brought to tears by how much they all love sisko in "take me out to the holosuite"

#and they r all so petty god bless :) <3 #odo practicing umpiring in his office was. cute. i will say #star trek #ds9 #doctor's log

[nyerus]

Highlights from Tiān Guān Cì Fú/Heaven Official’s Blessing (天官赐福) - Chapter 89

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #tgcf manhua #tgcf manhua highlights #i am so sorry for how long it took to upload this!! #my life has been a mess and i haven't been able to log onto my bilibili acc until today lol #but this chapter was soooo good aaahh!! #HUA CHENG LOOKS SO AMAZING FKJGLKFJG #but it'll be so long until we see him again im devastated #he looks so shocked in that one panel where we know he accidentally stabbed xie lian augh the pain

[thatweirdnoise]

I miss Missa Sinfonia Minecraft and Philza Minecraft Sinfonia.

#missa #god bless him #i know he doesnt want to log right now #thats ok tbh #do your vlogs king #pissa #philza #qsmp

[blueberryspyder]

Me listening to The Magnus Protocol episode 8:

#LISTEN #I KNEW HE WAS GONNA SHOW UP #but I was NOT EXPECTING GG!!!! #I heard her and almost went ape shit in the fucking Walmart #was deadass so lucky I had clocked out already #and my mask hid the look of fucking excitement on my face so I didn’t look insane #amen #god bless #thank you Johnny and Alex #for blessing me with Them #she’s his grandma 🥹🥹🥹 #captain's log #tmagp #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #kinda #I’m keeping it vague for my partner who hasn’t started it

[sorcery-fight]

ok so changes. Elaina -> Sierra; Alex -> Lewis

Tassle -> Kat; Cassandra -> Camilla

#for sierra and lewis its refferencing fault zones in the us. bc we already had Andrea (whose name had somewhat came from the San Andreas #Fault) . and Kat nd camilla are referencing catagory five hurricanes in the US. (Kat for Katrina) #still thinking about how to alter some other names. im not changing charlie's name bc. idk. his name might as well not be charlie so he get #s to be a loser without the imagery and such. #trying to figure out theo. . #blessed logs

[kqluckity]

"they're trying to nerf forever" impossible. he knows every minecraft mechanic. he invents new way to exploit said mechanics when he's bored. nerfing him is impossible without nerfing the game, hope this helps

#he's going to log on the serve and find a new fun way to make an incredible xp farm #while respecting the new rules too #i just know it i have seen this man destroy a desert. bless #qsmp #mcyt tag

[princessnijireiki]

anyway my most spiciest political take right now is so many people are showing how easy it is to lash out when they are feeling helpless, or to believe in a villain they can defeat on a smaller scale than the way the bigger wheels of the world are grinding beyond our reach, because they want to be able to do something, anything, even though that can be propaganda in and of itself, and it makes you lose track of the power of kindness and aid and support in our hands that we can do.

I think the biggest thing people can do is log off, not offline entirely, but log off the platforms where people are screaming at each other just because things feel so fraught that they have to scream and having a target lulls you into feeling like it is productive, and reach out to whoever it is you DO want to help, and ask them what you can do. financially, volunteering, labor, prayer, therapy, buying phone cards, whatever.

it's not as emotionally cathartic as feeding into your own self righteous indignation by fighting strangers on the internet, it won't lie to you and tell you that you're singlehandedly making somebody across the world bulletproof or neutralizing somebody's weapon, but it is better, because it will be the truth that you need to hear, and agency over not the smallness of your limitations, but the actual span of your reach and your capability to help beyond wishing to be superhuman and hating yourself for not being that.

#if you are religious a lot of holidays at this tine of year are about miracles of smallness of survival of impossible odds and humble work #oil holding out for one more day and one more day and one more day #a slaughter of children and children of children but even two teenagers running away and escaping with an infant is a blessing #light scraping away at the hollow of darkness in winter and yule as the promise of having enough enough enough to survive and see the spring #it is not your duty tovsave the world. it is your duty to save yourself and to save the person next to you if you can. #and then another and then another. #solidarity is good. solidarity forever. but what do you have beyond ideals? who do you know? and who knows you? #log off of twitter and grow that. cultivate that.

[daphyswitchylibrary]

Blessed Yule!

Yule, Yuletide or the winter solstice, happens usually around the 21st to the 25th (it depends for each year!) The winter solstice is a celebration of the longest night and shortest day of the year: after that, days will get longer again! It's a great time to celebrate home, family, friends, and reflect on ourselves. It also celebrates the eternal cycle of light and dark, life and death.

Crystals that are good to have for Yule are Ametrine, Orange Calcite, Ruby, Turquoise, Garnet, Bloodstone, Snowflake Obsidian and Onyx

For food, you can think of fruit (like oranges!), dried fruit, nuts, or even drink cider!

Colors that go well for Yule are, of course, red, green, white, silver and gold!

What to do for Yule

Decorate a Christmas/Yule tree. It's also a great activity if you are still in the broom closet

Bake a Yule log (the cake!), gingerbread cookies, plum pudding, or other recipes you usually make for the holidays. For example, fruit pies are always a big thing in my house during Christmas, so I also bake some for Yule!

Since Yule is a great time for reflection, make sure you take some time for that. Sit down and think about what happened in your life this year, meditate on it, try to see what was good and what was bad, and how to fix/change the latter. Do shadow work. Be grateful, make bullet points of your year's highlights. Using divination tools, like making a tarot spread about yourself/your situation, is also a great way to do that. Sometimes, it's even easier because the tool might bring up points you would've never thought of.

Have fun with family and friends! Yule is about the love and warmth around you, that also goes for the people you love.

Take a cleansing bath or shower! It's time to let go of things that you don't need anymore: and cleansing yourself helps to move on, to get rid of energies that no longer serve you. It will make some space for new things to come!

Go take a walk outside! Go appreciate the cold and how calm winter is.

Watch the sunrise and sunset. Afterall, it is the shortest day of the year, and it's nice to really see it.

With all that being said, I wish a blessed Yule to all! Take care of yourselves and have fun :)

#yule #blessed yule #yuletide #winter solstice #witch #witchcraft #kitchen witch #witchythings #baby witch #sabbat #sabbats #wheel of the year #witches #witches of tumblr #yule log #yule cake #shadow work #witchblr #magick #pagan celebrations #pagan sabbat #pagan sabbats #magic #spells #nature #kitchen witchcraft

[a-queer-seminarian]

“Truly I tell you, whenever you did it for one of the least of these siblings of mine, you did it for me.”

This piece is part of a sermon I wrote on how Matthew 25 empowers all those whom the world calls “least” to envision Christ as one of them!

Listen to the sermon or read the transcript on the Blessed Are the Binary Breakers podcast. It's episode 74, "A Queer Sermon on Matthew 25's Queer Christ, the Outcast King."

ID is under the readmore & in the alt text.

ID: Text on a trans flag background reads, A TRANSGENDER MATTHEW 25.

When I was hungry for affirmation, you reassured me of God’s love. When I thirsted to be seen, you called me by my chosen name. When my family or faith community kicked me out, you welcomed me in. When I had nothing to wear that matched my gender identity, you held a clothing drive. When I needed gender-affirming healthcare, you protested the bans against it. When the state tried to outlaw my existence, you fought by my side.

#queer christians #faithfullylgbt #trans christians #matthew 25 #queer christ #trans christ #jesus is trans #log #summer 2023 #podcast #blessed are the binary breakers #my sermons