Homeless people are human beings with immense value. They are members of our families, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and, for a number of people reading this, they are themselves (or have been).
The fact that homeless people do not have housing is a wrong done against them, not a sign they did something wrong. To then try and ban them from public spaces and existing in public (including doing things we all have to do, like sleep or eat), is yet another grievous wrong.
An attack on homeless people is not “protecting the community”, it is an attack on the community. Homeless people aren’t my enemy, those who would ban them from things like sleeping in public are my enemy.
I dream of a world where we encourage biblical literacy by doing a nativity pageant each year based exclusively on only one of the four Gospels, instead of a mishmash.
Mark: 15 minutes of complete silence in the dark. Everyone is given a tiny scroll that reads, “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way—a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” Suddenly, a very hairy man with bugs on his face jumps down from the rafters screaming, “REPENTTTTTTT!”
Matthew: full scale retellings of each person in the genealogy, including Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba. (This is the longest one. Parents are upset by their children being assigned any of the women.) Mary is then “found” to be pregnant, Joseph tells the audience that he’s going to divorce her, he falls asleep. An angel harangues him in his dreams. He doesn’t divorce her, and takes her home kind of crankily. They have a baby. Some Magi come ask the despot ruler about a powerful baby just born. Herod freaks out and consults all his spies. The Magi head out again, find the baby, worship him, and avoid Herod on the way home. An angel comes back to harass Joseph while he sleeps, telling him to run for his life, because Herod is *pissed.* They make it to Egypt.
All boy children under 2 are graphically murdered (blood packets everywhere), lay all over the space, spattered with red.
Women scream for a long time.
An angel tells Joseph in a dream that it’s safe again, and they go back – but only to Nazareth, because it still isn’t safe everywhere. The end.
Luke: The living embodiment of the “Well, actually…” guy comes to the front to tell you that you may have heard about Jesus, but it was all pretty wrong, and HE is here to set you right, and aren’t you grateful he’s so good at it? Then an old priest starts presiding at the altar, as you do, with pots of incense burning. An angel – covered in wings and eyes – pops out beside him. The old priest freaks out. The angel drones, “Your…wife…will…become…pregnant…your…wife…willl.become…pregnant…” The priest looks blank and says, “Yeah, I don’t think that can happen. We’re old.” The angel rolls their many eyes, places eight hands over the priest’s mouth, and says, “You. You’re not allowed to talk anymore.” The priest walks out of the sanctuary and everyone is worried about him, but he can’t tell them what happened.
His wife gets pregnant and hides in the church closet for the play-version of five months.
Following that, pretty much every Nativity play we already do, minus the Magi and the star. The old priest gets to talk again once his kid gets circumcised, and then he sings a long song about how it was good he was wrong.
John: The room is dark. Tiny children wear black capes. They whoosh around the room whispering, “in the beginning…in the beginning…in the beginning.” One of them whirls around to display a glow in the dark WORD, and they dance over to another child, whose belly reads GOD, and then they link and become one unit, together, dancing, dancing. They keep pulling out glow in the dark scarves that say light light light, and they dance around lighting all the candles scattered throughout the room.
They chant, “the darkness did not overcome us! Ha!”
A haggard man enters the room and says, “I am a witness to all this light.”
The children whisper, “the true light is coming, the true light is coming, the true light is coming.”
[from the loudspeaker: “The true light is coming! To the world! Even though he came to the world, and made the world, the world didn’t like him much! He came to his own people, who rejected him, probably like some of you! But those who did recognize him, and you sitting here, if you’re ready, will become children of God yourselves! Not some halfway “actually children of people who feel slightly more divine because of church” nonsense! Actual! Children! Of! God!“]
The child bearing the word WORD tears off their cape and runs around in their underwear, in the flesh, like a wild thing.
________ Note: none of these sets contain stables.
pro tip: when you fall a little behind in a conversation bc you don’t understand a word/they’re talking too fast/there’s a concept that you’re missing – “can you talk about that a little more?” will work… magic……
u sound smart
if you’ve used up all your “sorry, what?” times this has ppl repeat themselves in different words but they feel good about it
often when asked to speak more about a topic ppl explain it more clearly
if you don’t know the word they used but everyone at the table seems to (they don’t), having them talk more about it can help u figure out what that word means
it will also give u more context to figure out if a word/topic/concept was just dropped for Style Points (ie to be Fancie) or if it’s something u actually need to google later
EVERY time i have done this in a group conversation, at least one person has said “actually yeah i don’t really know what you’re talking about” so ur probably helping friends
ppl really love talking about stuff & you’re basically telling them “i’m super into listening to you talk”
One of the things that really gets to me about Tumblr fandom’s view of relationships is the idea (sometimes stated outright, often implied) that there’s some kind of clear dividing line between healthy and not-healthy, between abusive and not-abusive, that people never slide back and forth between those things or slip over the line, and that’s just … not how human relationships work. And it’s one thing when you’re holding fictional characters to an absurdly high standard, but it makes me worry that a lot of people are internalizing the idea that human relationships aren’t messy and complicated and sometimes painful, and that’s really going to make life hard for you. You’ll either end up beating yourself up way too much for doing utterly normal things, or beating up on other people for doing utterly normal things, and you’ll let a lot of things that could have been good slip through your fingers because they aren’t perfect.
Look, I’m not saying anybody should stay in a relationship that’s toxic for them, and ideally we should all be in happy supportive relationships with people who make us happy all the time, but human emotions are a mess.
You WILL do terrible, awful things. You’ll be selfish. You’ll hurt people. Sometimes they’ll forgive you and sometimes they won’t. Every long-term relationship you have will end up being littered with the memories of times you were both awful to each other.
You’ll fall in love with people who don’t love you, and be loved by people you don’t love. Sometimes you might try to make a relationship (or a friendship) work anyway. Sometimes it’ll even work out.
You’ll end up loving some people you never in a million years thought you’d feel that way about, because you got a terrible first impression and misjudged them. You’ll look back and think, How could I not have known how awesome they were? But you didn’t, then. And you’ll walk away from other people who could have been just as beloved and never know it.
A lot of times you won’t be able to tell how other people feel about you at all, and you’ll just have to keep going anyway.
You’ll break up friendships by doing stupid, selfish things.
You’ll put your trust in the wrong people, and the wrong places, and have it broken.
You’ll do some things thinking you’re the good guy at the time, and realize in retrospect that you weren’t.
You’ll change your mind about a lot of stuff. You’ll realize that some of the things you used to believe were kind of messed up. Sometimes you’ll change your mind because of people around you and then realize that you were right all along. Sometimes you’ll realize that nobody’s right or wrong, but have to make a decision anyway.
You’ll interfere where you shouldn’t and get your ass handed to you. You’ll fail to interfere where you should have, and feel guilty for the rest of your life.
(Not everyone will do all of these things. But it’s humanly impossible not to do at least some of them.)
And none of that makes you an awful person or undeserving of love or bad to be around?! It’s just how people are. It’s how EVERYONE is, even the ones who seem like they have it together. Life is messy and complicated and confusing, and it hurts. People can do awful things and be forgiven. In fact, if that weren’t true, none of us would have any relationships at all.
I don’t know, I’m just thinking about this today, because expecting perfection of fictional characters is one thing (they’re fictional, it doesn’t hurt them) but it’s going to mess you up in all kinds of ways if you think that’s actually how real life works.
it’s been weeks and i’m still not over thirteen’s face when she realised that yaz, ryan and graham want to stay with her and she doesn’t have to be lonely again
members of vox machina: vax, vex, scanlan, pike, percy, keyleth, grog, and travis willingham, who sometimes contributes to plans out of character and everyone responds to him in character
So what, none of you punks were gonna tell me Don Cheadle out here all kingly dapper af looking like some kind of aristocratic bamf? WITH A SWORD?? I had to stroll up on this all unexpected???
I was looking for suit pictures, I wasn’t out here trying to thirst after the man, but here we are now, and I hope all of you are happy.
That nice
*Is honestly baffled by the idea of anyone having to TRY to thirst after Don Cheadle’s Very Fine Aesthetic Assets…*
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