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kylermalloy · 9 months

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Hi hello sorry for spamming ur notifs sndndnd i have a question for you! Are you just into elijah and klaus (and rebekah too??) or do u go crazy for all the mikaelsons? If u dont whats the main appeal of elijah and klaus for you! Im very glad to have found ppl who are also Insane™ about the mikaelsons in the year of our lord 2023 and its really fun seeing ur takes on things and reading ur work! Hope u have a good day/night uwu

Hi hi hi never apologize for spamming! How else would we express our passion for the things we love? ❤️

Klaus and Elijah are definitely my favorites out of all the Mikaelsons, but I do love Rebekah a lot too! Freya, Finn, and Kol are further down the list, in that order. I love my murder children, but I’m not their mother—I’m not obligated to love them all equally!

I think the main appeal of Klaus and Elijah for me is simply their intensity. They’re the first originals we meet in tvd, and before we even see them together onscreen we can tell they have a fraught, complicated history—yet there’s love there too.

The flashbacks to the 15th century as they prepare to sacrifice Katherine? Klaus laughing about their silly ploys throughout history, while Elijah gazes lovingly over his shoulder? Bliss. I swoon. And the scene in present day, after Klaus has broken the curse and has just transformed back into a human? Elijah, the previous night (or however long ago) was prepared to kill him. Had his hand in his heart and everything. Yet now here he is, helping Klaus dress like some kind of butler—someone who’s been there for him like this time and again.

I go similarly insane about the flashbacks to the 1920s, in which Klaus has to explicitly tell the audience that Rebekah is his sister and not, you know, his girlfriend. But they do undercut this slightly with Rebekah immediately jumping on Stefan and, while I approve, climb that ripper tree, it does take away from her psychotic, erotic bond with Klaus.

And that’s just in tvd! That’s only setting the stage for TO! In TO, Klaus and Elijah’s bond is ramped up to main character status. Elijah is simultaneously Klaus’s brother-associate, his overbearing, cautioning father figure, and the lover with whom he has frequent spats and reconciliations. Klaus is having a baby? No, Elijah says, we’re having a baby! And inserts himself into this pregnancy situation with Hayley, and no one questions it.

(Klaus and Rebekah’s relationship also gets some amazing moments in s1 of TO, and for the first time Rebekah and Elijah’s relationship gets to shine too! But alas, after some of the best episodes of the entire show—episodes 1x14-16—Rebekah departs, so we get to see less of her with her siblings, and Klelijah continues to take center stage.)

I could detail every single thing I love about Klelijah’s relationship, their ups and downs, their tragedy and their comedy—and I might come back later and add on, if I feel like it!—but yeah, that’s my draw to these two. Canon is so generous with them, and I simply go crazy for it!

Not to mention—the actors’ chemistry had a huge hand in all this. They bounce off each other so well, and their mannerisms are so different yet both so old at the same time. You really believe they’ve known each other for a thousand years, and any fight that they have is mere window dressing to the centuries they’ve stood shoulder to shoulder.

And not only that! But! (⚠️Spoilers for the end of TO, if anyone still cares about that⚠️) The show rewards me and lets them die together. Klaus makes the ultimate sacrifice for his daughter, and Elijah’s like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ guess I’ll die too, and follows him into oblivion for no other reason than he wanted to. Ah yes, a very normal brotherly relationship. (I’m going FERAL just thinking about it again!)

Truly I have not been normal about them since 2018, and that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. I will keep repeating myself in posts like these until…either the whole world understands the brilliance of TO, or until I die. Whichever comes first.

#asks #freakazoidr17cr-5 #the originals #klelijah #klebekah #thanks for sending this in!#it sure is fun being insane about these dumb vampires <3 #even more fun when you have other people to be insane with!

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29daffodils · 1 month

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9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Augghh I love these games! thank you for tagging me Mickey 🥺🌸(@thisautistic)

3 Ships You Like :

1. Yohan/Moogyeong from The Shape of Your Love (manhwa by Park Nodeok)

this is my ultimate OTP. i never had OTPs before them. they'll be my rise and fall. but yeah, anyway. they. my boys.

2. Vegas/Pete from KinnPorsche The Series

they had me by the throat even before i knew kpts existed and just, well. then i watched kpts and found them and they were everything i hoped for and more. a lot of it is also because vegas and i are very much alike without the mass murder aspect 😂

3. Alan/Gaipa from Moonlight Chicken

listen, MLC is like, the best thing i've watched in a while and alangaipa gave me what i had been craving since yohan/moogyeong c. 2019 : a small rare/ghost ship with barely any screentime but that hooked people in worldwide. firstkhao's acting was just bonus. alangaipa represent everything that i want from my own life. i couldn't not love them.

First Ship Ever :

Kanata/Miyu from Da!Da!Da!

oh, these two. i was head over heels in love with them. i shipped them even when i didn't know that shipping existed or what it meant, when we didn't even have anime on TV besides the broadcast on SONY at 5pm sometimes. i just wanted them in love and happy and raising a kid together. ugh i miss them.

Last Song You Heard :

The Moon Represents My Heart, by the Moonlight Chicken cast! God do I love this song so much! It fits all the ships so well! The lyrics are gold! (I also recently found that this is a cover of the OG by Teresa Teng and that's even more beautiful??)

(also, this has been helping me visualize and write a lot of sand/ray, surprisingly enough.)

Favorite Childhood Book :

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ahhh, well, this is embarassing. i didn't have a favourite book until adulthood actually. and it's my only favourite (as in something i've read time and again). i don't think i'll ever find another book like this one. this is it for me. nothing can ever top this. (yes, I'm very picky about my favourites lmao)

Currently Reading :

i found out this fic exists because of twitter discourse lmao, and I'm not even a dramione fan, i'll probably never read another work, but goddamn, the writing was stellar. lived up to all that hype. good stuff. (I'm almost at the end so wish me luck!)

Currently Watching :

Our Dining Table

no offence to those who love this, i loved the manga when i read it years ago, but lord was i bored to death even on the second trial at watching this lol. I'm soldiering on though, i'll get through this!

Currently Consuming :

Thai BLs

uhh... not sure what answer this demands actually, so, uhhh... lots of thai BL i guess? that's really what i've been consuming lately. i had never watched thai BLs before KPTS in 2023 so it's eye opening, they've gotten better ( i tried once before , quite a while back when a friend recommended, and i found it ridiculous so i never thought i'd actually ever watch any again lol, mostly because i never was a fan of live action BL dramas in general)

Currently Craving :

💵💵💵💵

well, i'll be honest here, money is vital and that's what I'm craving lol, i gotta feed myself and my cats and pay a 50k laptop repair bill that my company thrust on me even though it's not my fault it's damaged. anyway, essentially I'm experiencing financial doom among other unfortunate events, so here's your chance to commission a fic or donate at my KOFI so...... haha.

alright, this was super fun! I'm tagging @skyfish7 @semantics-error @justfionn @boyslovecorner @peachym00 @lilitblaukatz @ae-azile

(please feel free to ignore if you're feeling up to it!)

#tag game #my posts #source : 29daffodils

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reginarubie · 1 year

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I guess that's how an extremely good fic overdose feels like. After reading three chapters in a row I can't keep calm! I mean, that's the level of intrigue D&D could never keep. Such a rollercoaster 💥

If I had to wait to know how this proposal situation ends, I'd literally be no less desperate than Aemond. Thankfully, I found out our girl is safe very soon. Symon, I don't know you but don't be interested in Sansa? There's already to much tension, ahhh. Lord and Lady Vance are amazing, I already love them and I really hope they are just playing their parts in a play Sansa wrote, while staying on the greens side!

Of course, Aemond, she knew. SHE DESIGNED IT. I get it — the Prince is offended, especially after they agreed to work together. But as soon as he chills, he may understand what was her plan about and appreciate this brilliant mind! You're gonna get the smartest wife, Aemond, don't worry. And with time, I don't doubt it, you'll kick Daemon's ass. Some things demand more effort and preparation. Sansa already fooled both Daemon and Rhae and now they think they have the upper hand. Isn't this the best outcome for now? MOREOVER NOW NED IS NOT A LOWBORN AND SHE'S PROTECTED BY THE THIRD PARTY. The girl is a genius.

Though I can help but feel Jonsa tent vibes during the Firesteel fight scene. It was all 🔥🔥🔥 and oh gods, our girl is going full Jon Snow, since she doesn't want to explain anything and asks Aemond to unconditionally trust her. And Aemond basically mirrors s8 Sansa, which I find very meaningful 👀

It was nice meeting Sara and the vision got me screaming! THE DAGGER? OMG? I'm thrilled and excited and puzzled and... Broome has visions too?? Am I mistaken? This keeps getting better and better, and I can get enough 🥺

Ciao Anne!,

This is the way to start the new year! And yes, I know you left it in my ask box before 2023 if I recall correctly, still… 🤩🤩🤩 thank you for so many compliments!

Lord and lady Vance have their reasons to help Sansa, but boy will she gain their love 😉 also, Symon… dear Symon… you’re gonna be a nice lad, aren’t you?

You put it in the right light, Aemond has his reasons as does Sansa. Sansa’s plan is not without flaws or weak points, and Aemond just wants to help — Season8 Jon and Sansa reversal indeed — I think Aemond point was not much what Sansa’s plan was but that he wasn’t included in a plot that could potentially endanger her without him being none the wiser so unable to help when they agreed to work together.

He’s not questioning Sansa’ intelligence, or the cleverness of her plan. He is questioning the matter of trust between them which is prominent in their relationship due the many lies and unsaid between them.

Don’t worry you’ll get more soon, I promise! As soon as I work around reading your firesteel fic I’ll put my mind to finish the next chapter which, a word of warning, will be pretty long and we’ll see many characters and people and plots at the same time because I need to speed the process before actually starting the Dance — so Viserys sleep well for your days are numbered — and also the first sidestory will be up with next chapter as well…so be ready for that too!

Also with some more Targaryen children content.

Also yes, Sara-the-dagger-the-vision and ser Broome. I put so many hints in last chapter I almost lost count and keep foreshadowing how the entire series will end so 😂😂😂 … yeah keep your eyes open, because you’ll get much more of all of that!

A small excerpt of next chapter (just because we all need to fall in love with Daeron— that is my agenda)

“I do not need to be minded” she hissed between clattering teeth. I am the lady of Winterfell and I am home, I do not need to be minded! “No one said you did,” and for the first time Daeron did remind her of Aemond “but we want to keep you safe anyway”

As always thank you for dropping by! Sending all my love ~G.

#ask the hag #kissed by fire ~ kissed by steel #aemond targaryen #aemondxsansa #aemond/sansa #sansaemond #aemondsa #firesteel #firesteel fandom #firesteel brainrot #do not touch Daeron the daring #he’s a treat and he should be left in charge of making the girls less angry #or perhaps the brothers know it and they send him ahead purposefully

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clood · 1 year

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on this day of me making all of the posts, i opened up east of eden to remember i had stopped on this specific page to talk briefly about the following paragraph:

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be human. One would be a monster.”

this is from john steinbeck’s east of eden, published in 1952.

in reading these lines for the first time i felt so disappointed and alienated, and then for a moment i was like, “oh well. this was published in the 50s!”

the trouble is, the sentiment toward asexual folks and asexuality still remains largely the same: we are told we are not normal, we are weird, some might even go so far as steinbeck did and call us inhuman. and shit like this hurts!! whether you see it in a book by an author you love or on your dash in the year of our lord 2023.

to my fellow ace friends, we’re fine just the way we are. we’re wonderful, even!!

idk why i’m really even making this post but like. i had to stop and read the paragraph out loud and process it and feel it, so i guess you do too??? support your ace and aro friends.

#anyway. ace folks are awesome #we are not monsters #asexual #asexuality #clood speaks #another mostly pointless post from yours truly lmao #still wanting to enjoy east of eden though i hear the whole book is insane #but still incredibly disappointed in this attitude

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artikgato · 7 months

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10/15/2023

Well, it was raining yesterday, so I didn't go out for the jogwalk. I did today, though! It took me until like 10:30 but I did do it!

I was also up until nearly 1am last night...reading a fanfic. A Slayers fanfic. A 60+ chapter Slayers fanfic, currently unfinished, in the year of our lord twenty twenty-three. I have no excuses. I make it a policy to almost never read unfinished fanfics, for one. I also knew exactly what I was getting into when I saw the chapter count and just shrugged and went YOLO I guess?

Okay, so it all started with Anime Weekend Atlanta announced, less than a month out from their con by the way, a whole slew of new guest announcements. The schedule is out now and it's less than two weeks to the con so I think they're done doing that now, but I digress. They announced Veronica Taylor as a guest. Well, years ago I already had the honor of meeting her and getting her to sign my VHS copy of Pokémon The First movie, so I don't necessarily need her autograph on any more Pokémon stuff. But of course she's in plenty of other things, including Slayers, which is one of my absolute favorite media franchises, period. So naturally I have to get her to sign for Amelia! And Lisa Ortiz, the voice of Lina, will be a guest at a convention I'm going to in March, so I can get her to sign, too! Fantastic!

And then, because I haven't really thought about Slayers in a long time, my brain went I should cosplay from Slayers again. I've been wanting to for a while. I cosplayed Filia (from TRY) waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, maybe I could remake her? (I do still want to do that, FYI, talk about obscure characters though am I right?) Or despite being so tall, I've always liked Lina's character design, she'd be great. I can probably pull that off before Khromakon in March, but absolutely not before AWA. But do you know who I could pull off before AWA?

Yeah, so I actually cosplayed Xelloss all the way back in high school. I never wore him to a convention, and it was a very bad cosplay. Technically, my first cosplay. (Technically, because my actual first cosplay was a very, very very bad closet cosplay of emperor Hotohori from Fushigi Yuugi the year prior, my junior year of high school. Our high school banned Halloween costumes but a gaggle of my stupid friends and I decided to see if we could get away with just wearing regular clothes but clearly being in cosplay. So I was Hotohori, a friend braided her hair and was Duo Maxwell, etc. etc.)

Anyway, my aunt made the cloak for me, and I still have it all these years later. The rest of the cosplay would be easy, because of how skilled I am now. I can 100% do this cosplay in time for AWA, and it'll be fun! He's a pretty recognizable character from a classic anime, so while I'm sure The Kids won't recognize me, I'll get at least a few people excited to find someone else that remembers Slayers. And hey, I already cosplayed one evil purple-haired anime prettyboy this year (Okada Izou) so why not two?

So anyway, I made a deal with myself. I would go to no more than three thrift stores after work one day and see if I could find a yellow turtleneck. If I could, I would proceed with the costume. If I didn't, oh well, it's not like I don't have a closet full of cosplays to wear. And wouldn't you know it, I found the turtleneck at the third Goodwill. So I ordered a wig, and now I just need to do a few minor alterations and possibly make the staff.

And so, with Xelloss Metallium now fully on my brain, I remembered that, oh yeah, Xelloss/Filia was one of the OTPs for me back in the day. One of the very first ships I got really, really invested in. And I wondered if, in the fifteen or so years since the least time I probably looked, any good new Xel/Fil fics had been written. I mean, the last time I was really invested in the ship, Evolution-R and Revolution hadn't even come out yet! A03 didn't exist yet! What was the harm of taking just a little, tiny peak at A03, right?

And that's how I ended up binge reading a 60+ Slayers fanfiction, in the year of our Lord Of Nightmares 2023. I'm not even done reading, but I've got shit to do today!

Time: 21:41 Weather: 63, sunny Humidity: 60% Song of the Day: Ghost, Mystery Skulls

#mental health jogwalk

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invisiblegarters · 8 months

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Dangerous Romance Ep 3

Episode Three Let's Goooo.

Oh wow Sailom is way more forgiving than I'd be over the whole gun incident. And the bullying.

But yes, I am fond of how money is informing a lot of these interactions. I hope they deal with it well, because the financial disparity between Sailom and Kang is large and it's informed so many of their interactions already. If they're gonna do this I want them to go hard.

Oh Sailom. I do love that he has his pride and he refuses to budge on it.

Called it. I knew Kang was gonna develop a hero complex about Sailom. We'll see how long it lasts.

Lol he is not going to read any of those. Not a one.

"Why is he here if he had no intention of studying?" Sailom honey you're smarter than this.

Damn, dad is super good at just cutting Kang's intelligence down without even breaking a sweat. And once again we get to see it land and a piece of his soul die. Perth is so good at that.

*cackles* Thank you Auto. I approve of Sailom kissing Kang every time he's annoying too.

Wait are we still talking about math why did it suddenly get tense in here?

SAILOM why are you softening this early. Stop it.

Oh okay good. I was starting to worry he'd forgotten how badly Kang bullied him since he's being decent all of the sudden. Like fine, great, he's letting you tutor him now. But don't forget what an asshat he was before yet please.

Man first Sand now you. I am disappointed, my dudes. Yes they're pretty but they're not *that* pretty. Yeesh.

Lol okay yes this checks out. The casual way that Kang drags Sailom into a restaurant way too rich for his blood. I knew he'd be high handed about it, too. I do love being right.

Okay would Sailom not knowing how to cut his steak really be normal? Not ever having it, fine, but not knowing how to cut it? Genuinely asking because I don't know.

Man I am way more suspicious than Sailom already because when Kang said he was going to the restroom my first thought was that he was going to ditch Sailom there.

Why is everything so happy and peppy what show is this? I feel like I started out in an enemies to lovers BL and then got dropped into a completely different genre this ep.

IDK every time they eat street food in one of these it always looks so good to me.

And now we're doing a spot of light trauma dumping in ep three.

Wait did he say handsome boy or Asian boy? Either way, gross. And aw, Sailom, I saw the way your eyeballs flickered at that money. I know escorting comes into play at some point, too. And then a wild Kang appears with his saving Sailom thing.

Ah okay for a sec I though we were doing the strategic hand placement kind of kissing in the year of our lord 2023, but it was on purpose. Makes sense because I was *wondering* how they were gonna make that happen this ep lol.

Damn dad, you didn't even wait for him to do well on his midterms.

I do like the bike though.

WHY. Put that guitar down now.

Hahaha okay I still love this dude. "Here's the cake for you from your fridge," lol. Why is that so hilarious to me.

*starts humming Father Figure by George Michael*

So I guess they're friends now? Okay then.

Okay there has to be something with this constant bathroom using. Like. Is he in there throwing up after eating or what?

Ah and we have surprise nice!Kang backstory. Okay, okay. And then mom died?

Alrighty then. I have to admit that I was hoping for a bit more antagonism or like, acknowledgment from Sailom that Kang literally got him fired from his job but I guess we're just not doing that.

That's fine. I will continue to be suspicious for the both of us.

#dangerous romance #episode three

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anntmaan · 9 months

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Dear Twin flame,

I still remember our first ever conversation. I remember having the biggest crush on you and thought to myself one night. I have to message this girl and try my luck. And so I took the courage to send you a Snapchat asking “anyone up for a chat” as if it was a Snapchat I sent to a whole heap of people but really it was just for you. Not knowing if I was gonna get left on seen or not you responded quite quickly with a Snapchat of your brother Jack being Jack when you were down visiting him in the Sunny Coast. We just started going back and forth all night that night, and I was so happy. Days go by. We’re still talking. Weeks went by. We’re still talking. I’ve fallen in the deep pits of love. I tell myself every night before bed. “My god, I love this girl” to myself every night. I all of a sudden knew what love was, and I was counting my blessings every night thanking the lord for sending me an angel. We’re dating now and I know what I want in my life for the rest of it, it’s as if you were part of me. I know at this point. That this is the girl I’m going to grow with. I only got a few months with you but my god were they the best few months I’ve ever gotten to experience.

It’s a few months in of you being posted to Perth in the Navy. You don’t talk to me for a few days (which you’ve never done) I sit and ponder on my thoughts knowing something is off in my heart. My heart was weighing on me and I felt nauseous that day. You finally message me. You tell me that we can no longer be. I can’t believe what I’m reading and my heart breaks into a million pieces. But I accepted it and never said a bad thing about your decision and I knew and understood the reason why we couldn’t be together. Right person wrong time situation and I thought the universe was cruel for doing that to me. I was broken. A year goes by and I’m a raging alcoholic at 18 who’s going to parties and clubs and writing myself off. I slowly heal. Another year goes by and I’ll never forget when you started posting about another guy. Definitely a tough to swallow pill but I accepted it. I meet Kiera and we clicked. I felt a spark in my heart again and I fall in love with her. We live together and we’re so happy. But I always still had so much love for you and I felt confused as to how I could love two girls. But I guess that’s the difference between a soul mate and a twin flame.

A few years go by, me and Kiera are falling out of love, she doesn’t approve of you in my life but I can’t let you go. I think the relationship started spiralling down slowly because she knew I still loved you. She ends up calling it off with me and I’m broken. I found that all I could think about during the period of heartache was you. I slowly heal again and I get to a healthy stage in life again and I knew what I needed. I’m ready for you but I find out there’s another man. I’m hurt but it’s okay, I learn to accept it because seeing you happy would make me happy and I knew in my soul that one day our souls would unite again because I know in my heart that nothing can interfere with true love. It’s 2023 now and this year you confess your love for me still. I confess mine. I now find myself getting lost in my thoughts many times through the days and nights thinking about you. I make up scenarios in my head of you. I can’t help my thoughts and when I listen to love songs my mind drifts away and I think about making love with you. I go to bed every night and think about how nice it would be to have you laying beside me. I think about holding your hand every day. I go for drives and I think of you sitting in the passenger. Oh how nice it would be to cook dinners together while sipping on wine and dancing around the kitchen together. Going out for dinners together. Going to the movies holding hands and eating popcorn. Going for late night drives together listening to love songs. Going for adventures into nature together. Having lazy days with the cats in bed. Doing life with you. Oh how nice it would be. My gut tells me you’re the one and that someday we will be together again and I’m a big believer in what’s meant to be will be. If my soul tells me you’re the one. Then you’re the one. Nothing can interfere with true love and especially the twin flame love.

I love you. I love your face. You have the most beautiful face ever. You’re art and I could sit and look at you forever. I love your eyes and I get lost in them every time you stare into mine, they’re angelic. I love your hair and the smell of you, I wanna always hold you and kiss you on the neck and whisper “I love you” into your ear. I love your voice and every time you talk to me I can’t help but to glance at your lips and think about caressing my lips onto yours ever so gently. The worst punishment is only being allowed a long hug but not too long because like you said, that’s suspicious. We’re both respectable and loyal people so we respect the boundaries as you’re not ready yet. But I know what I need in life and I know nothing can stop what’s meant to be and when I held your hand the other night to clean paint off them. I wanted to hold them forever. Holding your hand made my soul feel like it was breathing into yours. You’re special and one day we’ll be together again and finally unite our twin flame souls together. I will wait for you x

With love, Ant 🫶🏽

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youhideastar · 8 months

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Let's Get ((REAL)) fic writer asks: 🎙️, 💫 & 💝

Yay, thank you for asking! Ask game post is here.

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

This is not an interesting answer, because I feel like everyone would say the same, but... the longer and more detailed, the better! The readers who basically live-tweet their response to the fic bring me so much joy. But there's also a special place in my heart for the folks who take the time to let me know that a story resonated with their personal experiences, or changed the way they see or approach something in their own life. There's a song by Gaslight Anthem that gets at a lot of why I write in the first place: "I know there's someone out there feeling just like I feel / I know they're waiting up; I know they're waiting to heal." And when I know that I achieved that... that's a great comment to get.

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

I've been doing this for almost 15 years, and by now I've generally got a good sense of what kind of response a fic is going to get, based on fandom, length, pairing, subject matter, etc. But I was pleasantly surprised by the positive response to A Sword With No Hilt. That fic is heavy, and the summary is vague because I was trying to avoid spoilers, and it's omega LWJ, which automatically shrinks the audience because in the Year of Our Lord 2023 some slash fans still care so much whose dick goes where (joke's on them re: this particular fic, though), so I was expecting it would enter the water without a splash, as it were... but people liked it! And the comments I got were really wonderful - readers really got that fic, you know? They picked up on the sweetness and the healing that grows from underneath all that pain. That made me so happy. ❤️

🎙️which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?

True confessions: I do not listen to podfic, or audio fiction of any kind. My fiction reading style includes so much bouncing around the page that I find it super uncomfortable to consume fiction in the linear way that audio demands. So I guess I'll say I wish someone would podfic The Words in Your Head because I think it would be fun for them! (Lots of different accents and voices, fun lines to deliver, and the stage-direction-y narrative notes lend themselves to audio, I think.)

#fic asks #my writing

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seasononesam · 1 year

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Spn ask...

Question 1: who are your 4 fav characters?

Question 2: If you had to erase one of these characters from the show (all their episodes disappeared), who would you choose?

answering another ask that is like ... at least a year old SORRY ANON if you're still around thank you for indulging me in my desire to talk abt the cw's supernatural in the year of our lord 2023.

my 4 fave characters are extremely basic choices so sorry to anyone expecting me to have better taste. but they are sam (ofc), eileen, cas, and dean. I also love kevin, jack, charlie and rowena a lot I KNOW the ask was four but this show has so many characters I always feel like I'm not including someone!

I had to read this question a few times bc at first I thought you were asking what character out of all the characters in the show I would erase and I wrote a long tangent about apocalypse world but I think you mean I have to pick one of my faves? which is much harder smh :( I guess I'd have to say eileen, even though I love her so much it is only bc you can't really erase sam, dean, or cas without getting rid the entire show or the majority of it lmao. which honestly might not be a bad thing, maybe I'd just keep the eileen episodes?

#me: why don't you guys send me asks :(#me when i get an ask: thank you you'll hear back in 5 to 738 business days <3 #answered #anonymous

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alexjcrowley · 1 year

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Severitus Headcanons, I guess (pt. 2)

Quick introduction: this is the second part of a post written more than a year ago when I was strssed for am exam because, guess what, I am now stressed for an exam. Here's the last post

As you'll also find in that post, here's the disclaimer, more or less modified.

Obviously I don't support the terf bitch, the only reason why in the year of our Lord 2023 I am writing something like this is because fantasizing about yet another fictional father-son relationship to make up for the one I lack takes the edge off my stress for exams and...well, other stuff.

I don't give a flying fuck about the Snape discourse, I don't care if he is good, bad, or in the middle, I did not write this to be accurate to the books I haven't read or the movies I hardly remember, I wrote this because it's comforting to me. So if you are personally offended by Severitus as a concept or Snape in general, don't make me part of your grudge, because I don't care for it. There are better ways to spend your time rather than insult me.

As I've made patently clear, I don't know Harry Potter that well, so if there are inaccuracies, I'm sorry. I linked my last post because these headcanons take place in the same "universe" as my last post, so you may want to read that too.

Let's begin.

Snape only uses his Legilimens ability on Harry to win at cards.

Harry only learned Occlumency to stop losing at cards (it may or may not have been Snape's purpose from the start).

"Do you have...a seven?"

"No luck. Now stop trying to get inside my head, literally."

"...you're getting better at this."

"Cards or Occlumency? I bet they go hand in hand."

"Shut up."

The hardest thing to adapt to when Harry starts Hogwarts is new boundaries. Harry and Snape have to pretend they don't know eachothers. Especially with Harry being a Gryffindor, Snape can't even use the excuse is looking out for a little Slytherin. But the necessity to protect The Boy Who Lived from all dangers hidden at Hogwarts (and the urge to look out after Harry who has a special ability in putting himself in trouble) is too strong to ignore. So now everybody thinks Snape is just really weird about Harry, he never lets him out of his sight, he is almost following him around and also they fight a lot in class. Honestly it's a bit weird to see a thirty-something years old professor have beef with an 11-year-old, but nobody dares to bring it up to Snape, they're scared of him, alright?

So the whole...turning down Draco's friendship is real pickle. Like, yes, being close to Draco, who is Lucius's son, is a bad idea because Lucius can't find out Snape is working for Dumbledore and Harry literally lives with him but also purposefully antagonize Draco Malfoy? On your first day? That's simply suicidal.

"Why did you have to be so...stubborn with him?"

"Me? I'm the stubborn one? He insulted Ron!"

"Whom had known for 2 hours then!"

"Well, I only needed to know Draco for five minutes to understand he was a bully and I am not friend with bullies."

Snape wants to reply but he is stunned for a moment. That's an admirable stance for an 11 years old. Merlin, if someone told me years ago I'd hear this coming from James Potter's son...

"It wasn't the worst decision you could have made. That was Draco Malfoy. His father, Lucius, is...a dangerous wizard. Not accepting his friendship will certainly breeds problems, but you could have hardly afford the scrutiny you would have been submitted by such proximity to the Malfoy family. You'd need to be a far more cunning Slytherin to avoid giving yourself away while making...friends with Draco, and you're a foolishly impulsive Griffindor, as we've witnessed today."

"Even if it was bad choice, I wouldn't have turned my back to Ron."

"I am well aware of that, Harry, but would you be so kind to let me believe in all the years I've brought you up I instilled some sort of Slytherin smarts in that red and gold head of yours?"

It's not fair, Severus thinks, it's really not fair. James Potter was the rich kid who strutted Hogwarts halls like he owned them and his son turned himself against an entire house not to turn his back towards a kid he met on a train. One day, Severus will have to tell Harry about his parents. He won't lie, he has never been one to sugarcoat things, but he doesn't want to tell Harry who is father truly was either. The side of James Potter people don't talk about, people turn a blind eye to, because it was just with Slytherins and everybody knows they're bad news anyway, because it was him and nobody cared if it was him. Harry doesn't deserve to know the truth, but one day he'll have to.

Harry didn't exactly took well the news (well, news to him) that Draco was Snape's godson. When Draco told him Harry couldn't believe it. He said it was joke, that he was lying. Everybody seemed to know at school. When he asked Snape for explanations, he said he "didn't want to burden him with this information", that was also "never relevant until this moment" for him. It doesn’t calm Harry down, on the contrary. He locks himself in his room. The only reason Harry doesn't fully blow a fuse is that they're at Hogwarts now. Of course, he can't tell Ron and Hermione why he is upset. Really, Draco Malfoy? Snape is his godfather? In which alternate universe? Sure, Draco is a Slytherin, but he is also pretentious, and whiny, and he is always ready to go tell his father things, and he expects to be treated like royalty by everyone and he is a bully! Snape hates all of these things, how is that even possible that he is connected to someone like Malfoy? Everytime Malfoy flaunts how being Snape's godson gives him certain priviledge, Harry wishes he'd known a spell to shut him up. And no, this isn't jealousy, it's something else that right mow he cannot name, but it's definitely not jealousy. And it's not jealousy because he knows Snape doesn't care about Draco more than he cares about him. Draco may be his godson, but Harry is his...protegè? Maybe? The exact definition of the nature of Harry and Draco relationship has been a bit foggy. Whatever, it's not important the title or anything, he knows Snape cares more about him, right?

Snape is torn between keepinp up apperances and following his heart. As disgustingly sentimental as it may sounds. Draco and Harry fight ever more than he precicted. And as head of Slytherins and Draco's godfather the only sensible behaviour for him to follow would be take Draco's side everytime, he knows that. But no one could prepare him on how hard it is, especially when Snape knows Draco is wrong, to look at Harry and call him a liar when he denies to have started the fight, an insolent and a brat. He explained him he has to do it, no one can suspect, but Harry is just a kid, of course there's hurt in his eyes when Snape says those things. He pretends to yank Harry from an arm to some classroom so he can give him a proper scolding, while the other kids who witnessed the fight chatter about the tremendous punishment Snape is going to inflict on Gryffindors' golden boy. Some of them try to subtly follow Harry and Snape, hoping to hear some of the insults the Potions teacher will throw at Potter and make gossip out of it, but Snape glare at them so hard some think it's a new kind of spell. When they're away from indescreet eyes and ears, Snape lowers himseld at Harry's level. "It's just pretend. Don't believe anything I say in front of the Slytherins and in front of Draco, especially. You're good kid, Harry." he whispers. "But I was right! It wouldn't be suspicious if you tell them I am right when I am! Draco pushed me and-" "It's not that simple, Harry." A sentence Harry will grow tired of hearing pretty soon. "And now go to your dormroom!" shouts Snape at Harry, theatrically, in front of the students who waited to catch a glimpse of Snape's rage. Snape is pretending to be be angry, but when Harry looks at him with fire in his eyes Severus knows he is not faking him.

Snape cannot stop directly Draco from harassing Harry, but he can alternative ways, after all he is a Slytherin. He opted for convincing Draco that fighting Harry Potter is a waste of time and all of the public insult matches he gets up to with Harry doesn't make him look good on his curriculum. Draco has an ego and Snape knows how to play with it. Snape does care about Draco, in his own way. He is not surprised he turned out the way he did, snobbish and egocentric and with a mean streak to him- he is after all Lucius's son and a Slytherin, you couldn't expect a Hufflepuff behaviour. But, because he knows Lucius, he can also tell that he and Draco are different. Surely Draco resembles Lucius physically, but it's clear he is putting effort into acting like his father. His meaness is not as nonchalant, one could say, as Lucius's. Snape pretends not to notice. He really did wish Draco didn't always use Harry as an assistant to prove the world he is just like his father, especially when he is better than him.

In the rare occasions Snape is forced to give Harry punishments he doesn't deserve (very rare occasions, since Harry usually breaks four rules a day)

At some point, way earlier than Snape wanted, Ron and Hermione found out Harry had been growing up with Snape. Which was weird, to say the least, but for very unexpected reasons. First of all, because for how much they argue in class you can tell they've got something personal going on, but "father-son" relationship is not what you would expect. Second, because Ron especially couldn't believe someone could ever entrust Snape with a child. When Harry told him in muggle children stories usually wizards and witches are evil and eat children, Ron thought it was about Snape. Having lived with Dursleys for a few years, though, Harry is very firm in defending Snape from accusation of being a bad guardian/parent. Snape can be hard to deal with sometimes, sure, but there's a difference between that and bad guardians, Harry knows, he's been through it. Snape doesn't deserve to be put on the same level of the Dursleys.

It's also weird that Harry and Snape live together for Ron and Hermione because it's just so much harder to hate Snape. It's not like they suddenly love him as soon as they find out he's Harry's guardian, but damn. You just cannot just things anymore. It's not even "it would be impolite in front of Harry", more often than not Harry is openly fighting Snape when he thinks he did something unfair, but because now you know Snape is not The Worst Person Alive. What is Ron suppose to say when he hets a low grade in Potions? Oh, Snape is probably a frustrated asshole who tried to get back at me for his sorry life? THAT MAN BROUGHT HIM, HARRY AND HERMIONE SLICED FRESH FRUIT FOR A SNACK WHEN THEY SPENT SUMMER AFTERNOONS AT SPINNER'S END. HE ACCOMPANIED HARRY TO RON'S HOUSE. He stayed over for tea once with his mother. You just cannot pretend he is the devil who spends time huddled on his home to making up new ways to torture his students anymore. He medicated Hermione when she hurt her knee falling from a swing. You can't hate the man who put a hello kitty band-aid on your knee (Hermione always brings with her her own small aid kit, funny ban-aids included).

Make no mistake, same goes for Snape. It's pretty hard to maintain your reputation as unsufferable professor when two of your students hang put by your house an awful lot. It's harder to be strict with them. And he does want to do that, Snape prides himself in projecting his image as a hard professor to deal with, who requires respect and the maximum effort in his subject. Ron sucks at Potions, and Snape is not going to give him better grades just because he is Harry's friend, but damn it's just...harder to do that thing when you don't care about how you students perform when they don't strive for perfection. Now he is disappointed. Disappointing in Ron Weasly. Disappointed for Ron Weasly's grade. He shouldn't carr about it! And also it's not fun anymore to tease Miss Granger. Now when she raises her hand Snape has resorted to tell her he knows she knows the answer, so why doesn't she give the rest of the class a chance? See, it lacks sarcasm, it lacks spite, it lacks maliciousness, it lacks...Snape's treadmark snarky attitude. "You're becoming soft, Severus" sometimes he sighs to himself, after missing what he would once consider a brilliant opportunity for a nasty comment. He then looks at Harry, Ron, Hermione, or whatever other kid his tongue now decided to spare by force of habit, taking a huge sigh of relief becayse Snape's remark has been less cutting than they expected. "Maybe it's not a bad thing" a voice in his head suggests. But what if his students lose respect for him then, it's always either feared or loved right? "You'll cross that bridge when you get there" a softer voice answer.

Speaking of failed Potions classes, Snape really can't hide his disappointment for Harry's grade. He'd thought living with him he would have learned something, even just observing him preparing potions as a child- they used to do this a lor when Harry was little, Snape bewed potions while Harry stayed in the same room, drawing or reading or making muggle homework or even helping sometimes. Harry is average at best. And Snape is only being fair, doesn't matter their relationship, he doesn't give him a point more or less on his homework, his work ethic is very strong. Snape considers this his greatest failure in Harry's regards.

But guess what he is great at? Bleah, Quidditch. Snape didn’t understand the appeal of the sport when he was at Hogwarts and he doesn’t understand it now. Harry blabbers to him excitedly about brooms and snitches and points and teams, but Snape barely understands him. "If only you were to pour such enthusiasm in more useful activities, like studying for Potions class". Harry puts on a face and looks away so Snape doesn't see him. He can't utter a word of Quidditch that Snape starts lecturing about "more useful activities".

"I am merely worried, Minerva, that pointless glory achieved in...sports will lure his mind from his studies. I wo't let the boy turn into a good-for-nothing brawny knobhead like all athlestes. " Severus complains to professor McGonagall. "He shouldn't waste away the little cleverness he has." He adds with a calculated insulting remark, in fear he let too much of his true feelings show.

"First of all, Severus, not all athletes are good-for-nothing brawny knobhead. There's nobility is sports." Minerva lectures him.

"You would say from such an unbiased point of view." Severus retorts. It's no secret Minerva is the biggest Quidditch fan in the school, her enthusiasm can trump the one of the students.

"Secondly, Harry has had an eccellent education and a dedicated" she says, stirring her tea while giving Severus a knowing look "he is not a knobhead and he will never be. About being brawny, I don't see how a but of exercise wouldn't help in preparation for darker days."

She and Severus drink their tea in silence.

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10/04/24

I have officially completed the first week of my AS levels, and I'm not going to lie, things are going much better than I expected them to?

I have been very close to mainly one group of 3-4 other girls, and I told them I was bi today, and they all accepted me, which was really such a huge weight off my chest. I casually just mentioned it in conversation when one of them said that they never had a friend who was gay, so I just immediately for some reason replied with "well, I'm bi, so-" and then they all just stopped for a second and went "oh, that's great" and stuff, there wasn't much of a discussion to it which I appreciated SO much.

We also played badminton today, and it was so much fun. I became much closer to some of the new students with the game too, because we kept having to take turns and we were playfully arguing about if we were out yet or not and it was all so much fun.

I don't think this new class is better than our old one, honestly. The dynamics in our old class were genuinely the best, and all of my bestest memories were from there, but this class is definitely incredibly great and special in its own way. For one, we finally have more girls than boys in our class, and that is still so surreal. And the people from my old class who I was actually close to, I'm still in contact with, so I'm not in that deep of a state of mourning anymore.

Our studies have ramped up so drastically too, though! I have no idea how to even start revising for Biology, and we've already completed the first 15-20 pages with almost ten pages of notes, and a bunch of diagrams which I'm not quite sure what to do with yet. I'm just hoping I'll figure it out soon, and not actually fall behind my studies at any time. Fingers crossed!

I love sociology so much too! It's one of the new subjects I have this year, and I love the classes so much. Our teacher is so much fun, and I get to yap for 45 minutes every day, which is never going to be something I complain about honestly. We have to research on cults as homework for friday, and I'm researching on the cult of cybele, which is basically this ancient religious cult that predates the roman empire, and became infamous FOR how popular it became, where it was a threat to the actual roman leaders. If you can't tell already, I'm having a lot of fun.

I went through my Wattpad today too, and I found this old therapy book that I unpublished in the year of our lord 2023, which was originally just a bunch of motivational speeches for my very mentally unstable followers at the time. I kinda want to do something like that again, but I have no idea how. Maybe if I do, it's going to be private, but we'll see, I guess.

My favourite song right now is red wine supernova by chappell roan, and it's been on repeat for days now, so I will most definitely reccomend it to anyone reading this right now.

I don't know why exactly, but I'm really missing ninth grade these past few days. Maybe it's because my brother has just entered it, or maybe it's because it was the first year I had offline with the people who would become so important to me in just the span of a year or two, but random memories from 2022 are just playing in my head, but I'm not sad about it? I don't know, I'm a little glad I'm not the girl I was then, no matter how much nostalgia she's bringing me right now. She had a lot of stuff to work through, and she's gotten me so far, but this is where I have to leave her now, if that makes sense? I'm so grateful for all the progress she's made, but she's not there anymore, and I don't think that fact is something I mourn actually.

Even if I don't want to admit it, my personality has changed a lot with this new class, but in the best way possible. I don't have to be unnecessarily mean to be scary anymore, and I'm telling people I love them and saying compliments whenever they're at the tip of my tongue, and I'm smiling so much more now and laughing so loudly, and somehow, I've stopped caring how my teeth or my neck or my jawline look when I do so? I've made friends much more easier than I expected to, and they're all so nice and smart and funny and pretty, and I don't have to get them scared of me to listen to me, because they care about me and understand where I draw my boundaries anyway. It took so long for the people from our older class to get that sometimes (not that I didn't love them just as much), so it's actually kind of surprising how safe I feel with these people considering that they're practically strangers, you know? Maybe I'm just rambling now hahah.

Okay I really do have to get back to my sociology and psychology homework now, so this is where this entry will have to end. If you're reading this, I hope you literally have the best day ever, and I hope that your favourite person gets you flowers and you go outside on an annoyingly hot day only for it to start raining, and I hope you only have good hair days for the rest of your life. I love you!

Love from Skye <3

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR DECEMBER 24, 2023

4th Sunday of Advent

By Jennifer Christenson (Wisconsin, USA)

READ LUKE 2:15-20

"Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart."

LUKE 2:19 (NRSVUE)

"In the silence of my infant daughter’s room, I finally understood Mary’s pondering. In those precious moments after my daughter had fallen asleep in my arms, my thoughts flitted from the long hours of labor, to the moment my daughter was laid on my chest, to her big brother holding her for the first time. I marveled at the miracle of giving birth, and how fearfully and wonderfully made we truly are. I gave thanks to God for allowing me to play a vital role in bringing this new life into the world.

We can’t know, of course, what Mary’s thoughts were that holy night. We can only guess what this exhausted young mother pondered as the shepherds’ voices faded into the night. Being a new parent is overwhelming enough. Imagine what it felt like for Mary to know that her child, this sweet baby boy swaddled in the manger, was born to save us all. Surely that was almost too much to bear. And so she pondered. She let the thoughts and emotions turn over and over in her heart as she gave thanks to God for inviting her to play this critical role in the salvation of the world.

As we celebrate the Incarnation, may our hearts also be filled with wonder and awe as we ponder the ways God is inviting us to bring the light and life of Christ into the world." Be filled with Jesus for Christ was born on this day. We should carry that Love and spread to the far away corners of our life. Jesus is "a gift that keeps on giving", may it be so with you.

TODAY'S PRAYER

"God of love, bless our pondering this holy season. Fill us with the same hope and wonder Mary felt. May our thoughts always lead us to you." Amen.

Luke 2:15-20

"'15 When the angels returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go right now to Bethlehem and see what’s happened. Let’s confirm what the Lord has revealed to us.” 16 They went quickly and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. 17 When they saw this, they reported what they had been told about this child. 18 Everyone who heard it was amazed at what the shepherds told them. 19 Mary committed these things to memory and considered them carefully. 20 The shepherds returned home, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. Everything happened just as they had been told."' What Jesus had shared with the disciples through the years of earthly ministry, and now year after year we remember how it all came to pass. Celebrate and rejoice in the birth. It brought hope to us that we truly can experience day after day. This is the Christmas moment to take in all of the meaning of true Christmas. Be blessed, all! Joe

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10/20/2023 DAB Chronological Transcription

Matthew 16, Mark 8 and Luke 9:18-27

It's the 19th day of October. I'm Jill. It's so great to be here with you as we're counting down this month of October. Man, it's just happening. There's nothing any of us can do about it. It's going by fast. We are just a couple of months away from being through the Bible in chronological order in a whole entire year, I just want to say, well done. No matter where you're at, well done. I'm so proud of you and you should be so proud of you that you took this journey together to make time, to be intentional in the Word, and to allow God to speak to your hearts, to your mind, to your soul, to your spirit. And to say what he wanted to say, we can only be changed from the inside out by being in his word, and I trust that you are, as I know that I have been. And it's been a pleasure and a complete honor to be on this journey with you and to read the word of God. And that's what we're going to do right now. We're reading the book of Matthew, first, the 16th chapter, and then we'll jump over to Mark and read the 8th chapter. And then we'll finish today. And Luke .Chapter 9, verses 18 through 27. We're reading this week in the Amplified Bible. Matthew chapter 16.

Commentary:

It's another day where we could close our eyes and point and identify ourselves and anyone of these stories. Let's just start at the beginning today, shall we? Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and testing Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven which would support his divine authority. I'm going to fill in the next part because who he is and what he has done thus far has not been enough for them yet- they need him to prove himself a little bit more. Can we identify ourselves here? Yes. Prove yourself, Jesus, if you really love me, if you really are who you say you are, if you are really good then you'll do this. Then you'll give me this. Then you'll show me a sign. And we sometimes call it laying our fleece before the Lord. I absolutely love it. Jesus doesn't even play with the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Or maybe he does sort of play with them, if you will, by his response, depending on how you want to look at it. And he points out to them that they can read the weather by looking at the sky, but they failed to interpret the signs of the times, and proceeds to call them an evil and unfaithful generation that craves a miraculous sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. Now remember the story of Jonah being swallowed up by the whale, but then going and telling the people to repent? OK and then just moving right along into the next paragraph. Then the disciples, maybe we can identify ourselves here, they go to the other side of the sea and they realize they forgot the bread and Jesus says to them, watch out and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And then they begin to discuss this among themselves, and they land on that He said that because they forgot the bread. And Jesus repeatedly calls them out. You men of little faith, it's almost like you can hear him saying, what am I going to do with you, do you not remember the miracle of feeding 4000? We were just there together and I want to laugh. I want to laugh at them and think how ridiculous that is until I see myself trying to figure out what Jesus is actually trying to say. Until I realize maybe it's me. Maybe I'm second guessing. Maybe I'm starting to doubt what he actually- I mean, there's so much happening here. The next paragraph Jesus asks the disciples, who do people say that the Son of Man is? And they respond. And then Jesus asks the most important question, that he's trying to get you to the heart of the disciples. But who do you say that I am? It's a question we all have to sit with. It's a question that we all have to answer within our own faith, within our own convictions, and within our own foundational beliefs. Who do we say that Jesus is. There's so much that happens in this exchange between Jesus and the disciples. But then it narrows in on Jesus and Simon Peter, and in this moment Jesus renames Simon Peter to Peter and Jesus reveals himself to Peter. The fascinating thing about this declaration is Jesus declares where he will build his church and where he declares. This is so interesting because this is a place of Pagan worship. This is where detestable acts of worship to false gods took place. Let me break it down just a little bit further. This is probably a place where most Christians would condemn another Christian for being at. And this is where Jesus declares upon this rock in this place I will build my church, and the gates of death will not prevail. That's who Jesus is. I love that it starts out where he asks the question and he answers it for us. This is who Jesus is, where he chooses to build his church, where few of us would even want to be seen or recognized. That this is where he will build his church.

Prayer:

Father we thought we knew you and we realized that we've only known about you. What we're learning- we're learning who you are through your word. We're learning that many of us have gotten it all wrong. We have gone with the flow. We have believed the status quo, but we are learning who you are by listening to you speak for yourself. And as you speak for yourself, it is penetrating us from the inside out. And sometimes it hurts, sometimes it stings a little bit as we allow our perceptions, as we allow the things that we thought we knew about you, we allow them to fade to gray as you shed new light and you tell us yourself who you are. Reveal the truth of who you are to us. We pray we have gotten some things wrong about you, and we have even told some things wrong about you to other people, but we thank you for shedding light on the truth of who you are. As you reveal yourself to us this day and every day after Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Both God and man. So loving, so kind, humble and righteous, but never self-righteous. We thank you for who you are. We thank you for your love for humanity, for the lost. For those with little faith just like us. We love you. We worship you and we long to know you more Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

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Dear DABC Family, just want to praise God and thank him for his goodness. This is my first time requesting prayers since June. I've been facing one obstacle after another. Every time I get up, I feel pushed down by Satan. Earlier in this summer I got results for a mammogram which were benign but needed to have a lumpectomy to make sure the results were benign. But they found an atypical cell, which may or may not become cancerous. Have an MRI in four months to see if I need to go on preventive medication. Later in the summer, I got into a serious car accident with my younger son in the car. The car was totaled, but we walked away. Some pain, but recovery. My son is OK. The other driver obtained a lawyer. We don't know who's at fault. Waiting to see what the claim they are making. Two weeks later, my older son got into a car accident. He's OK, but that car also needs to be fixed. We just dropped him off to college on the other coast. And after working for 20 years at grade level, I am teaching a whole new grade and I feel like a first year teacher. I was not in a good place mentally, physically and spiritually for a few months. I'm just relying on God to get me through these storms.

Good morning, this is Tonya calling from Suffolk. Under Construction, I just finished listening to your prayer request. Just wanted to let you know that God hears you. God knows all about it. I just trust and still believing that God is going to come through in his perfect timing. We tend to like to rush things because we feel like things is on our timeline and we get I think we've rushed it more so being fearful, not intending to rush but just being fearful and then we started getting anxious because we feel like that we have a deadline that we have to meet and just things that. That's not gonna happen in time, but I still trust and believing that God is going to come through right in the nick of time. So just continue to hold on and know that God wants again. He hears you. He knows all about. He knows what you what you're going through. He know where we we're going through. So Lord God, I just continue to trust you, Father. We continue to hold on to your unchanging hand, Father, allow your child to know Lord God that you are God and there is no other. And we just thank you. Lord God, we love you and we praise you in advance, Father, that once again that you're going to show yourself mighty in your timing in Jesus name. Amen.

Good morning. This is Diane from Tennessee. This is Monday, October 16th, and I am requesting some pretty heavy prayers right now just for my mind and my heart. My husband has been moving forward in pursuing and building a whole new life with his mistress, girlfriend and just was building a separate life while we were still married. And technically where we are still married, we are going through a divorce because of this and after 22 years of marriage. Um, there in recent weeks has just been very public, cruel behavior, complete disregard and disrespect for both myself and my son and our families and even our closest friends and community. And there's just been gloating and boasting and flagrant just disregard is really just the the word I can say- lack of any compassion or care for everybody that he's leaving behind and my mind is just consumed with the whole process. Um, with the acts of cruelty and with the unknowns ahead, the unknowns that exist even happening right now, that I'm just cut off from and my son and I are just working to get through. I just asked for prayers of protection. Protection and provision over my son. And I just thank you all for joining in me on this. Thank you.

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10/15/2023 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 26:1-27:22, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18, Psalm 85:1-13, Proverbs 25:16

Today is the 15th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible and here we are at the threshold of a brand-new, shiny, sparkly week where nothing has really happened yet. And we get to make some choices in advance to live into this week along with God in all of it. So, welcome to the third week of the month of October. We’re gonna read from the God's Word Translation this week. And we’ll continue our journey through the book of Jeremiah throughout this with this week. Today, we will finish Paul's second letter to the church in Thessalonica, also known as Second Thessalonians, and then we’ll spend the rest of this week reading Paul's first letter to his son in the faith, Timothy. But first, Jeremiah chapter 26 verse 1 to 27 verse 22 today.

Prayer:

Father, as we enter into this new week, we are grateful for the kindness of Your word. The direction and gift that You have provided to us. And we ask that Your Holy Spirit plant these words in our lives. And we ask that it sprouts new life within us, as a becomes a part of who we are. And we consecrate ourselves before You and walk into this week boldly, in Your presence, asking that Your Holy Spirit guide our every thought, word and deed in the minutes and hours and days ahead. Come, Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello DAB family, this is Joyful Joyce from Southern California. I’m calling in to pray for two DABers today. For Andrea who asked for prayers for her daughter Rain and her son as well and a few other folks. I want to let you know, thank you for bringing these prayer requests to us, Andrea. I know as a mom of kids who have walked away from the Lord, although we you know, we try to bring them up in the ways of the Lord, children up in the ways of the Lord, and they will return to you. So, I’m just gonna pray but also encourage you that we too, have seen the same thing and we are just trusting in God. That’s, you know, I’ve come to realize that my children are not my projects, I was there for a time to show them they way and all I can do now is stand back and pray. And that’s what you are doing so, I hope you’re able to set that burden down because it can be a mighty burden. Our children are our greatest gifts from God and there is faith in God and then there’s our children, right? In that order so, I’m just gonna join you in that. I also wanted to lift up His Little Sharie. His Little Sharie, I just love you and I want you to know, you prayed for me and you prayed for so many DABers. So guess what? I am gonna be praying for you. Because your authenticity in your prayer request was so amazing. I’m so glad you didn’t re-record the prayer request because you were just being authentic. And you know what? God knows our hearts. You know, He knows what we’re going through. When we are trying to present ourselves as bright and shiny and happily and bubbly, and everything’s going to be fine, blah, blah. You know what, God knows so if we are going to go to the King of the Universe, the greatest God, the one true God. He already knows that we’re broken and we’re scared and we’re all these things. So, I’m gonna go ahead and lift you up in prayer right now. Please join me DAB members. Heavenly Father, we just lift up His Little Sharie. We are so grateful for her story, for her courage, for her authenticity. Lord, we just pray, we know that You are the great physician. We call upon ….

This is God’s Gracious Gift on the Space Coast of Florida. And the end of October 7th community prayer, Beloved in Texas, you got a nudge from the Holy Spirit to speak to people about bi-polar disorder. And yours and there side of it. And two years ago, my 41-year-old daughter was finally diagnosed as being bi-polar, which I had suspected for quite some time. And therapists were only treating her for depression. And your words were very healing to me. Saying the things that I know that she can’t say. Her belligerence and her outbursts have hurt me so I’ve protected my heart when talking to her. She’s become prodigal and not raising my three grandchildren in the faith of the Lord. Although, my youngest grandson was baptized. But, anyways, your message rang loud and clear. And it was God speaking to me through you. And I need to heal my heart and forgive her and understand her disease. So, be in prayer for her as I am. She can’t take lithium for control cause she’s susceptible to kidney stones. But thank you. Thank you for sharing that and for obliging your nudging. Cause sometimes, when we ignore it, it's things we are left undone. And you certainly covered all the basis. So, thank you for sharing.

I want to pray for the gentleman from Clarksville, Tennessee that just lost his job. You were trying to learn a new system and you were told that, you know, to go find a job elsewhere. And I just want to say, I just want you to know, like yourself, I’ve been praying in the background for people. I rarely call in, but I’ve been calling in more because you just hear stories that you can relate to. So, I’m right there. I’m unemployed as well. I have a mortgage and you know, you do get scared and concerned. And I know for me, the Lord is showing me that you know, as I go through these things, it’s the testing of my faith. And so, you know, just to not lose faith. The system that we live in is designed to destroy your faith, it’ll help to cause you to lose your faith. So, just hold on to the word. Keep God’s word before you. You get these thoughts of depression and discouragement and fear and just cast them down and replace it with the word of God. I pray, Father God, for him, Lord Jesus, as he begins to go look for another job, God. And not dwelling in this grief. Which I’m well acquainted with, Lord God. That he would, Your word says to ask, seek and knock, and as he goes to ask, seek and knock for employment elsewhere, God. Would You grant him favor and grace and open doors for him, Father God. Let him not sit, God, in grief. Let him move and demonstrate faith. Lord God, and may you grant him favor where he goes. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Good morning my DABers, it’s Manita. I just heard His Little Sharie. Girl, my heart goes out to you. I’m sure God is looking at you right now. Looking at your scared spirit. I am so sorry to hear that. Let me say a prayer for you. Dear God, my Heavenly Father, Lord in Heaven, Hallowed be they name. Your kingdom comes, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Father God, I come before you praying for Sharie, dear God. She’s scared. Father, I pray to you Lord, that You calm her spirit, that You embrace her with Your peace. As she __ that she has to go through this, she has to take this MS drugs. You know what that drug is and what it does to her body. I pray that You touch her legs, dear God. That You’ll bring back her mobility, Lord Father. Please Jesus. You can do this miracle for her. I pray this is Jesus name. I love you, my sweet sister. I’ll be continuing to pray for you, okay. Take care, God bless you. Thank you, Father in Jesus name. Amen.

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Hey.....me. I’m back again, and so much has happened, in particular this semester. I had so much fun this semester, with my friends more especially. The memories i’ve made with them, are definitely to be grateful for and cherished. I had made up my mind about boys, well....i was fooling myself, cause i’m sleeping with one now. Yeah i saw him through a friend, but i just couldn’t help my cravings, of one year 3 months without sex. I was celibate for that long, i too am flabbergasted that i stayed that long without sex. Well, it was for my own benefit, to focus on me for a while, my academics mostly. I took the decision to be celibate because i was also prioritizing my spiritual journey with God, to be pure. But this year, 2023? Amazing so far. I have never had so much confidence in being a player, literally all my life, i just wanted to settle, but my chances to were always slim. So much has happened, partying with the gents, drinking constantly like....EVERYDAY bro, its alcohol and weed. I am starting to not even get used to the life of being a sober minded person, its boring, but its not, i’m just addicted to it. I grew more open with the gents, man, because i had devoted my time and energy to them, my family there in Jozi currently. They’ve been nothing but so good to me, and i love, absolutely adore our time spending together, its epic! Mzwandile, Kat, and Ron are good friends, for real. I appreciate them so much, man, for all that they have done. Kwezi, Luzuko and Kabelo, my favs ke sana, my flag family. Yeah, there’s drama, but one thing about us, we got each other’s backs so much. I had never imagined, again, i’d be associated with a gay squad because of how dramatic it turns out to be, but these ones? So refreshing, man. . As months continue to go by, i still get triggered by small things, things that are in the past but i had forced myself to forget, for what? Met a nigga i liked, through a friend, but honestly, i wanted to just sleep with him, but he got it the other way around. Now, we’re friends, urgghhh...i never wanted it to start like that. Yeah we kissed, and i absolutely loved it, i wanted it to happen so bad, but it happened at the wrong time. It may look like i betrayed my friend, because they were vibing, well...used to vibe a year ago. Now, i’m still fucking a nigga the very same friend of mine knows, except that i have decided, we’re gonna be fuck buddies this year. It was my first time being cuddled, getting hikkies and doing such good sex positions. Oh my word he fucks so good, he literally does his job, and i give him an 8/10. I am still proud of myself for not forsaking God, my source, my Lord and Savior. With all the drinking and smoking on a daily bases, i still am stuck with God, through praying and reading the holy word. I guess this year is my year to explore, to do as i please, and never be apologetic, a year of not letting my emotions rule my judgement, to not be partial but be a person who is fair. I also met Mookodi, whos such a free spirit, we click and i like our vibe. He has been through a lot, man, but i believe we add on that cherry on top of his problems as his friends. Now, i’ve got 6 months left to make it, to ace my academics, with Mzwandile and Kat, but its all gonna be worth it, i know.

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