#the interviews in that video doing the lord’s work fr but also that ‘do you not miss him’ feels SO uncomfortable. say no! but then he leans

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18 + swaymark!!

oooo thank you!!

#18 - pleaser, wallows + swaymark

okay i know they are canonically obsessed with each other but. the song is in some ways about feeling like you’re failing in your relationship and being not quite as obsessed with them as they maybe are with you, and in this video of them talking about being a tandem, there is the slightest pause before swayman answers “do you miss him?” that makes me want to probe a wound. we’re not talking irl reasons of how that’s an absurd question (how do you miss him. you’re coworkers you’re seeing each other all the time) we’re talking that maybe this whole goalies-in-love thing got blown out of proportion and now swayman’s having to buy into the bit too hard. linus loves it & everyone’s asking about their bromance & how they love each other so much and the thing is—linus is safe. he’s got a wife and plausible deniability and jeremy? jeremy is gay. sure, he can crack jokes and people-please but the more people ask the more they're going to find out until maybe they find out something jeremy doesn't want them to know. and the longer this goes on, the more jeremy has to sit at linus' dinner table with linus and his beautiful wife and pretend like he isn't a little bit in love with him. and you know what? the longer it goes on and linus doesn't dial it down jeremy does stop being in love with him, because it just feels cruel, until he finally is done enough that he stops biting his tongue and ruins the moment.

#…this so is not a five sentence summary but ALSO this manages to perfectly align with something i was obsessed with (that media video) #like yeah is that pause reasonably a buffering time to a weird question? yes!!! do i want to read into it & make swayman a bit uncomfortabl #also yes!!! sorry i decided to give them tragique but they were assigned by spotify. the other option for this song was an ED fix-it fic #about healthy sex and learning that it can be a part of a normal relationship!! sex is weird and fucked up!! but like. that’s just because #i have always interpreted this song as a) unrequited best friend love & you’re worried you’re gonna fuck it up b) virgin who doesn’t know #what sex is and is scared to tell anyone and then option c) people pleaser keeps going along with it but can’t anymore #also OBVIOUSLY they end up fine. whether that ends up being jeremy finally telling linus (oblivious) i don’t want to do this with you #i need to get over you & them creating a platonic space & sway ends up with someone else OR linus has the oh. true. i simply never #considered that i could be gay for you option OR the one i have just invented but is now my favorite because i love a good polycule is that #linus & his wife simply add jeremy to their relationship. and then this song becomes jeremy scared to have sex with linus’ wife at first lo #liv in the replies #the interviews in that video doing the lord’s work fr but also that ‘do you not miss him’ feels SO uncomfortable. say no! but then he leans #in with the dirty jokes comment & i know i’ve made like eight variations already (sorry. that’s how my brain works) but it is soooo fun #to me personally if they are broken up but now have to act nice & keep doing all these rituals & sell us on the narrative & they’re just #trying to see who’s going to crack first. needle each other into laughing or getting irritated enough it shows through & the other one wins #do even more aggressive hug rituals!! get a medical warning from the athletic training staff!!!

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Accent on Truth: An Interview with Karlo Broussard

Catholic Answers: Were you raised Catholic?

Karlo: It’s funny, I get asked this question all the time when I speak. People think I am a convert because my speaking style is similar to Tim Staples’s. But unlike Tim, I am not a convert. My mother was a devout Catholic and provided many opportunities for me to experience God’s love, such as youth group and retreat settings. Her witness to daily prayer and ease in conversing about the Lord still remains with me to this day.

CA: What would you like to accomplish as a Catholic Answers apologist?

Karlo: In the words of St. Paul, “I become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some” (1 Cor. 9:22). Whether my audience is adults, young adults, youth, or the second-grade First Communion class, and no matter what their education level is, I want folks to know that Catholicism is true and that it possesses the fullness of truth and life that Jesus came to give.

CA: You talk funny sometimes. Do you think you can accomplish your goals with that Cajun accent of yours?

Karlo:  Meh, da good book says, “I can do all tings in Jesus that stretens me” (Phil. 4:13). No prob’m chere!

CA: What apologetic topics do you like to focus on?

Karlo: While there is always a need to be conversant in the Protestant-Catholic dialogue, there is a growing need to face the challenges of modern secularism, which prides itself in being skeptical about—and outright denying—truth, God, and Jesus. Such secularism seems to be taking a toll on young Christians, since according to recent studies, they are giving up God and Christianity in droves. Unfortunately, they are often presented with a shallow form of Christianity and thus don’t see it as a viable option for an intelligent human being. As I learned when I worked with Fr. Robert Spitzer and the Magis Center a few years back, there is a need for intellectual evangelization to go with the New Evangelization.

CA:  What do you think is unique in what you offer Catholic Answers?

Karlo: I think I can bring a personal element to the apologetic endeavor that people long for. As my friend Jon Sorensen says, “You want the person you’re speaking with to think, ‘That’s a guy I would want to have a beer with.’” Being from Southern Louisiana, I know a thing or two about being the kind of guy you want to have a beer with. I would also like to think I am a team player and can excel in whatever area Catholic Answers needs me to excel in, whether it’s speaking, writing, radio, Q&A, video, or now television. I pray every day that I can be a well-rounded apologist in order to benefit the kingdom, my family, and Catholic Answers.

CA: Who is your favorite apologist and why?

Karlo: I think I have to go with St. Thomas Aquinas. The clarity with which he explained things is second to no one. He also rises above the rest when it comes to his ability to be conversant in both theology and philosophy. And his methods of articulation in both fields provide the Christian with the tools necessary to engage an unbelieving culture. Furthermore, he is valuable to Catholic apologists today because he answered so many questions that are still on the mind of modern man, as seen in his classic works the Summa Theologiae and the Summa contra Gentiles. As Pope John XXII said of Aquinas, “A man can derive more profit in a year from his books than from spending his whole life studying the doctrines of others.”

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