this post always makes me so emo... here's me next to my ceiling fan that i turned off for the first time in months to draw

stop reblogging this post without the art this is the only version that exists now

dear encanto fanartists :))))))))))

Shoutout to my queen, rarity for teaching me how to draw curls at age 7

@jewish-elphaba

What is it when they do deserve it, then?

God will decide what they deserve in eternity.

What is it when they deserve it now?

an opportunity to repent and change their ways. if they refuse, they will then be given punishment. but they must first always be given the opportunity to repent and change their ways.

And if they didn't take that opportunity?

Because there's plenty people who got their chances and continue to do bad. And giving them anymore is basically the same as self harm at this point

The overall concepts of grace and mercy don't negate the concepts of justice and consequences. Grace and mercy need to be accepted by the person they're given to for them to make a difference. Even Jesus shares a parable about how a man who received mercy but wouldn't extend it to someone else had the mercy recinded and had to pay his original debt. (Matthew 18:21-35)

And even if we accept God's grace and mercy, we may still face the consequences of our actions here on Earth. A murderer might receive the wholly unearned forgiveness of the victim's family, and whether or not the murderer accepts it won't get them out of the legal consequences. But it can bring peace to their spirit, and, in the case of accepting God's grace and mercy, freedom of the soul. And in the case of the victim's family, whether or not the murderer is changed, they free themselves from the hate and anger that could poison their hearts and relationships long after the murderer faced justice.

I think C. S. Lewis's point on forgiveness is always helpful, too.

When it comes to a question of our forgiving other people, it is partly the same and partly different. It is the same because, here also, forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that that there was really no cheating or no bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. They keep on replying, “But I tell you the man broke a most solemn promise.” Exactly: that is precisely what you have to forgive. (This doesn’t mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart—every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)
~ C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, On Forgiveness [emphasis mine]

When we forgive, we do not say that nothing wrong happened. We don't say "I therefore have to open myself up to the same injury with no caution". And as theriu points out, forgiveness on a personal level does not necessarily remove the natural consequences of our actions. But by forgiving others, not only do we drain the poison of bitterness from our souls, we become vehicles for the grace of God Himself.

i forgot high schoolers existed. Hey you're not a bad person if you do this ^ but like level with me. It feels incredibly awkward getting fandom posts with lots of notes tagged "#sorry for putting [fandom] on your dash" trust me. you would feel a lot better if you weren't ashamed of yourself or your interests. even if you can't stop doing it mentally right away, its a step at all to not say it out loud.

@murphysiblings

I've actually been thinking about this in the context of an insect-like alien species for a possible sci-fi setting

Because supposedly, bees can't hear sounds (only sense vibrations) while ants can only hear low-pitched sounds. It's debated if humans have pheromones that influence emotions, but even if we did, we apparently don't release them at will and there's no guarantee that we could correctly interpret another species' pheromones (or vice-versa)

So in a "First Contact" scenario, human astronauts would likely try speaking to the aliens. But since the aliens are either partially or fully deaf, speaking wouldn't work. The astronauts might try using gestures and body language along with speech, but the aliens would either:

1. Not recognize what we're "emoting" because we have no gestures or stances in common
2. Think we're emoting some nonsensical gobbledygook because we only have some gestures and stances in common
3. Grossly misinterpret what we're emoting because the gestures and stances have entirely different meanings between our two species (and God help us if they see a friendly wave as the single most offensive remark one could make towards their colony/hive)

But supposing both species figure out "Oh, they don't communicate like we do", they could develop an alternative method that both can understand---which could bridge the gap until a complete speech-to-dance/dance-to-speech dictionary can be published, THEN we can have sick dance moves as a form of intergalactic diplomacy