"O Demônio Existe E Se Revela No ódio E Na Opressão. Antes De Ter Medo Do Pecado, Meu Filho, Tenha

Seeing stan wars over asoiaf never fails to make me laugh. Why are you putting any of them on a pedestal???

well i guess that's fine

"Christianity is the only major world religion to have as its central focus the suffering and degradation of its God. The crucifixion is so familiar to us, and so moving, that it is hard to realize how unusual it is as an image of God." Churches sometimes offer Christian education classes under the title "Why Did Jesus Have to Die?" This is not really the right question. A better one is, "Why was Jesus crucified?" The emphasis needs to be, not just on the death, but on the manner of the death. To speak of a crucifixion is to speak of a slave's death. We might think of all the slaves in the American colonies who were killed at the whim of an overseer or owner, not to mention those who died on the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. No one remembers their names or individual histories; their stories were thrown away with their bodies. This was the destiny chosen by the Creator and Lord of the universe: the death of a nobody. Thus the Son of God entered into solidarity with the lowest and least of all his creation, the nameless and forgotten, "the offscouring [dregs] of all things" (1 Cor. 4:13).

—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (p.75)

The Drowned (1867) by Josef Manés

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Director: Toshiya Fujita

Cinematographer: Masaki Tamura

— KILL BILL VOL. I & II Costume Design by Kumiko Ogawa & Catherine Marie Thomas

Rachel Weisz as Lady Sarah in The Favourite (2018)

A Favorite Custom by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1909)