Tag: THIS IS SO GOOD

dark-haired-hamlet:

Pro tip: if an evangelical stranger approaches you asking to pray for you, there’s inevitably something about you that they see and want to change. [Ex: I attend a very conservative, very religious uni and am clearly tomboyish/lesbiany, and thus am constantly attracting evangelical strangers] If you can’t shake them (usually very difficult), then turn the tactic upon them by asking if they mind you leading the prayer bc “I have a few things on my mind.”

Then talk about whatever it is that’s making them uncomfortable. I ask god to protect all the lgbt+ kids that are lost, isolated or homeless. I mention my non-Christian brothers, sisters, and siblings that have to fight for recognition and respect in a monoreligious nation. I pray for the protection of immigrants and refugees, reminding my evangelical friends that their savoir was once one of that number. You can pray for pregnant mothers to find the resources and abortive care that they need, if they need it, if you’re feeling particularly brave.

This achieves two things: 1) there is no response to this, esp if you wrap it up with “amen, thank you guys so much for doing that with me. I hope y’all have a blessed day” and leave them no room to continue the prayer. But more importantly 2) that group will NEVER bother you again and you will show them, using their own method against them, that their prayer isn’t an act of faith, but of power.

Just thought I’d share bc I know that I used to be accosted by evangelical strangers once a week on my uni campus and never had a good response or ‘out’. This is by far the most effective method of shutting that sort of behavior down real quick.

The Frigga Didn’t Die AU.

portraitoftheoddity:

  • Frigga is wounded by the Kursed, but does not die. However, the poison on the blade means her prognosis is not good; she isn’t expected to survive
  • Loki is told by guards only that the Queen was badly stabbed
  • Thor comes down to Loki’s cells with a plan. He knows, however, that for the plan to work, he needs Loki to be vengeful; he lets Loki believe Frigga is dead
  • Thor & Loki go to Svartalfheim. They get in a fight on the skiff, and Loki rails about not even being allowed to go to Frigga’s funeral. Thor argues that there was no funeral, not everything is a design against Loki. Loki stops – why no funeral? He heard from the guards that all the others were given their pyres.
  • Thor realizes he’s been caught in his lie; he admits that Frigga is in critical condition, but not yet dead. 
  • Loki, predictably, flips out. 
  • Thor explains, once Loki has either calmed enough to listen or is being pinned down by Mjolnir, that he’s sorry, but he had little choice; if Loki had not craved vengeance, he would not have come. If he’d known Frigga still clung to life, he would have wanted to be by her side; Thor knows, because he too wishes he could hold vigil with her, but the truth is that stopping Malekith matters most of all. Loki, grudgingly, concedes the point.
  • The fight happens, and Loki is stabbed by Kursed. He can feel the poison coursing through his veins, and slips away in Thor’s arms.
  • ….Then, he wakes.
  • Everything hurts. He’s still badly wounded, bleeding sluggishly, and his skin is abraded from the dust storm Thor abandoned his ‘corpse’ to – but the poison has burned out of his blood. 
  • When the Einherjar follow, Loki sneaks into their skiff with an illusion to return to Asgard. 
  • Once there – he does not bother with more illusions. He does not go to the Allfather, or the Vault, or anything else. No. His first and only priority is to go to the healing ward, where Frigga lies. He throws open the doors:
  • “My blood.”
  • He manages to explain that they need to look at his blood – something in it can fight the poison, and there lies the cure for the Queen’s ailment. Once he’s certain Eir and her cohort understand, his knees finally buckle, as exhaustion and blood loss claim him.
  • He wakes with bandages wrapped tightly around his chest, and groans. But when he opens his eyes, he sees his mother in the bed beside him, breathing regularly. The gray cast to her skin is fading back to pink, and when her eyelids flutter, his heart skips.
  • “Loki?” she murmurs.
  • He swallows, then reaches across the distance between the beds to take her hand. “I’m here,” he tells her. Then adds: 
    “Mother.”