#saintsophia

[russianicons]

Holy Wisdom is a traditional topos in Russian Orthodox iconography. The icon you see in the picture is of “Novgorod type,” meaning that it is attributed to the icon of Holy Wisdom in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod (16th century). With time, the composition and symbolism of such icons went into the focus of many iconographers and scholars, which led to the establishment of “Sophiology,” a school of thought known for its controversial notions.

#holywisdom #saintsophia #novgorod #16thcentury #russianicons #iconography #iconpainting #antiqueart #religiousart #christianart #orthodoxart #russianorthodoxy #orthodoxchurch

[thesynaxarium]

Today we celebrate the Holy Martyr Sophia with her three Virgin Martyr daughters, Faith, Hope and Love. The three virgin martyrs were subject to cruel and viscious torments which eventually had them killed right before their mother's eyes. Their mother Sophia was forced to watch as a punishment from the torturer, but rather than pleading for the tortures to cease, she encouraged her daughters to persevere in the faith, saying that the suffering will not last long and that they would soon meet their Bridegroom in Paradise. After all three daughters had been killed, Sophia reverently buried them and reposed in the Lord soon after while praying at their graves. At the time of their martyrdom, Faith was 12 years old, Hope was 10, and Love was 9. May they intercede for us always + #saint #saints #martyrs #martyr #virginmartyr #virginmartyrs #saintsophia #hagiasophia #faith #pistis #hope #elpitha #elpida #love #agape #mother #daughter #daughters #martyrdom #encourage #holy #repose #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CilCamcrIIe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#saint #saints #martyrs #martyr #virginmartyr #virginmartyrs #saintsophia #hagiasophia #faith #pistis #hope #elpitha #elpida #love #agape #mother #daughter #daughters #martyrdom #encourage #holy #repose #orthodox #saintoftheday

[serdalguzel]

#ayasofya #saintsophia #bluemosque #sultanahmet (at Sultanahmet Camii (Sultan Ahmed Mosque - Blue Mosque) Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClD2Q6krter/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ayasofya #saintsophia #bluemosque #sultanahmet

[raevenlywrites]

happy sts! i see that some of your work is collaborative with your partner. how did you find that writing with a significant other influenced your relationship, if at all? what's your favourite part about writing with your girlfriend?

What a GREAT question!

Writing with my best friend who is now my wife (congrats us lol) is the best thing that’s ever happened to both my writing and my relationship with her. When we were in high school together, we’d stay up too late RPing over MSN messenger (who remembers THAT dinosaur?  We did AOL, MSN and Yahoo baybee!). It was definitely a way of flirting without flirting, and it was some of the first times I explored the idea of myself as a man (though I didn’t realize I was doing either at the time).

Flash Forward to post college, and I’m working as a GM at a pizza place. I hate my life. I have zero free time mentally because the store is open from 8am to 3am and my boss is insane. I am falling apart, and my at the time girlfriend is very, very worried for me. I’m also going through some WILD upheaval re: my family, and I am legit having a nervous breakdown.

“I don’t know how I am anymore,” I say. “I remember what used to spark me, what fun is like. I feel so disconnected from everything.”

So she started sending me emails. Little story starts and prompts, just a paragraph or so of a character, a moment to ground them in the scene. If one jumped out at me, I’d write back, we’d play, shooting emails back and forth in those long hours of nothing happening outside of dinner rush but can’t leave either.

I start to remember myself.

Flash Forward again and now I’ve discovered myself to be non-binary. I explore parts of myself with her in everything we write, trying things on and growing closer to myself and my wife with each character I spin up. I quit my shitty job because I remembered life was supposed to be liveable. I got a job that let me listen to audiobooks all night because I remembered books and writing and reading are my passion.

None of this would have happened if I didn’t write with my wife.

Fiction is exploratory, transformative, connective, and honest. It’s all the things I don’t know how to be in my own skin. It’s all the things I’m trying to learn to be in my own skin. It’s a way to try things on without my rejection sensitivity screaming down into not bothering. It keeps me from burying things deep and letting them fester. I wouldn’t do that with my fiction if I wasn’t trying to work my shit so I could be a better partner.

Now, it does have its downsides. When I don’t feel my writing, it comes bundled with this feeling of letter her down. When I can’t write, I feel tons more pressure because it’s almost like erectile dysfunction as far as it hits my psyche. I can’t willynilly share whatever writing strikes my fancy, cause it’s not all mine. We don’t agree on how public we want our work to be, and it’s only fair that I bow to the less willing to share partner--I trust that she’d do the same for me, if it were reversed. It sucks cause I’m super duper a performer type, I get hyped on having an audience. But I’ve learned to be okay with it, and I still find way to share that seem to work for us both.

So yeah. Sorry for the novel but in short its great! :D

#storyteller saturday #saintsophia #asked and answered

[officialjimmybuffett]

for the playlist ask game: hi!

innocent and delicate / if you’ve ever wondered why /  i’ve got a sea of flowers / they say i’m young but / i’ve been a bad girl

send me an ask and i’ll make a poem out of the first lines of the first five songs that come on my playlist!!

#saintsophia #answered

[writinginslowmotion]

✉ writing poetry for your non romantic loved ones is also valid... and it's kind of weird people don't do it more often.

100% agree, tbh. Platonic love is just as important and valid as romantic love, imo, and I think it would be a very thoughtful and nice thing to do for your non romantic loved ones. I'm one of those people who always tells my friends that I love them, and I mean it. I saw a post on here that basically said that a person can be important to you without romance being a factor, and its true.

Plus, getting a poem could make your loved one's day!

#asks #saintsophia #unpopular opinions #platonic love

[pallases]

soft blonde hair, curled just behind your ear. green eyes, half faded over. scuffed brown boots, worn from clambering up rocky cliffsides. pastel print dresses sunbleached. a handful of signet rings in the shape of skulls, glittering.

this is,,,,, wow i’m? in love with this impression?? i’m just. this is so nice omg skull rings aren’t really my personal style but all of it including them is such a nice image and the rest is v accurate

— how do i look in your mind?

#thank you!! #ask #ask meme answers #saintsophia #i wish i had sunbleached pastel print dresses......... #my hair is curly and blonde! depending on who you ask my eyes are either green blue gray or smth in between so that’s good too #and i love brown boots and hiking aaa

[chayscribbles-archive]

happy sts! i've noticed that many of your wips contain sibling dynamics. is there a particular reason why?

honestly ?????????? i don’t even know 😭

i think i just ??? enjoy writing siblings ?????? like sibling dynamics are a Ride, you’re stuck with this whole other human or two or three of them for the first 20-ish years of your life and you have to go through all kinds of shit together and the relationships that form from that can be so, so interesting to explore

i love making them be at each other’s throats one moment and then be willing to Die for each other the next, and then do the weirdest shit and lose all their braincells when they’re together but suddenly turn into expert connivers when they need to keep something from their parents

it’s just fun

thanks for the ask!💕

#in case you were wondering #i have an older brother #who got married last october and now i barely see him anymore #but he's not why i write about siblings so much dkjgf #although i have to confess #the siblings in ATDR were originally based off of my and me brother #storyteller saturday #saintsophia

[tabbydrafts]

word: rough

“It’s always more fun when it’s rough,” Five said, and her words were accentuated with a long cough, wet and disgusting and terrible.

This is from a fanfic I have not announced at all and it will probably remain that way, but here we go anyway!

Send me a word, and if it’s in my WIP, I’ll post the line it’s from.

#thanks for the ask! #asks for tabby #saintsophia #the petals fall lightly

[nouveauweird]

🌻🌻🌻

get to talk about whatever the fuck i want: free choice

one )    my oc juliet has been on my mind a lot lately, mostly bc i just keep developing new ideas about her by accident. i rp her too so i’ve got some non-canon ships for her, and tbh they bleed into the boyfriend im giving her in the Hyacinth Stalks a lil bit. Maybe in personality or in circumstance, but shout out to Elliot and Mint for giving me brain worms about how Juliet is in relationships (and also shout out for both of them having super amazing characters that are always so interesting to write against bc honestly the dynamics we get to build take juliet to unexpected places as a character and im so grateful). 

two )    i feel so emotionally detached from But a Monster so far while I’ve been writing the second draft for nano. I started the first draft october 2018 and finished it July 9 2019, and since i haven’t seen the beginning in AGES it all feels so distant to me! the prose is a disaster! idk my characters! the conflict feels wear, and idk how to make this a better, well paced thriller and ROMANCE at the same time. i feel like a fraud lmao but im working through it. this draft is cutting out the fat, and maybe a dedicated beta reader can tackle both drafts and tell me if i need to reconsider letting some parts be meatier -- who knows i dont wanna think about it anymore

three )   i wish writing commission were easier to advertise and clients were easier to acquire, bc damn a bitch needs some money and babysitting gigs aren’t coming in at all. and while i am fully capable of not spending money, there are bills that need to be paid desperately and i need to make more than 200 dollars a month in order to fend off my credit card bill and the other stuff i need to cover (transit pass, phone). money is stressful when youre virtually incapable of functioning with a normal job and doing school at the same time. what’s a bitch to do when her biggest skill is creative writing which happens to be an industry that you dont get paid in til the hard work is COMPLETE

Send me more sunflowers (+ a wip or oc)

#answered asks. #juliet shain. #but a monster wip. #saintsophia

[carnationwrites]

NEXT

“Jack had sprawled himself across one of the living room chairs, scrolling through his phone. He found himself often checking in on his old friends’ social media accounts.”

#thank you!!!! #ask #saintsophia

[lettersandinkstains]

NEXT

Blood Upon the Altar:

“ Even so, their presence were welcomed at any rate -- and knowing that The Church has likely isolated them is chilling to Adrienne. If each and every country fell to their clutches, does that mean her Aeonia might succumb to its pressures as well?”

[no excuses writing game!]

#letters #blood upon the altar #bloodaltar #altarexcerpts #altarwriting #c: adrienne #saintsophia

[thesynaxarium]

Today we celebrate the Holy Martyr Sophia with her three Virgin Martyr daughters, Faith, Hope and Love. The three virgin martyrs were subject to cruel and viscious torments which eventually had them killed right before their mother's eyes. Their mother Sophia was forced to watch as a punishment from the torturer, but rather than pleading for the tortures to cease, she encouraged her daughters to persevere in the faith, saying that the suffering will not last long and that they would soon meet their Bridegroom in Paradise. After all three daughters had been killed, Sophia reverently buried them and reposed in the Lord soon after while praying at their graves. At the time of their martyrdom, Faith was 12 years old, Hope was 10, and Love was 9. May they intercede for us always + #saint #saints #martyrs #martyr #virginmartyr #virginmartyrs #saintsophia #hagiasophia #faith #pistis #hope #elpitha #elpida #love #agape #mother #daughter #daughters #martyrdom #encourage #holy #repose #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT5BcMYsor5/?utm_medium=tumblr

#saint #saints #martyrs #martyr #virginmartyr #virginmartyrs #saintsophia #hagiasophia #faith #pistis #hope #elpitha #elpida #love #agape #mother #daughter #daughters #martyrdom #encourage #holy #repose #orthodox #saintoftheday

[paracomas]

word: soft

send me a word and i’ll find it in my wip

soft:

‘ The material is thin and baby-blue, and it’s surprisingly soft when she runs her fingers over it. ‘

thank you for the ask!! i hope you have a good day!

#saintsophia #asks.

[drowsy-quill]

STS! Can you tell us about one key inspiration for your WIP?

Gay fantasy roadtrip. I just really wanted to write a gay roadtrip, and I can't escape fantasy!

#roadtrip wip #STS #Storyteller Saturday #saintsophia #Drowsy-asks

[officialjimmybuffett]

sophia, if it’s still open? 💖

sophia —rosy cheeks, yellows and oranges and browns, jumping to avoid stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk, dozens of keychains hanging off your backpack, striped sweaters and socks, laughter sweeter than any song, warming your cold hands in theirs

#saintsophia #answered