For I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Philippians 4:11)
Paul learned not to let what he didn’t have, overshadow what he did. Contentment calls for simplifying your life. “Contentment makes poor men rich, and discontent makes rich men poor.”
Contentment means my happiness is not dependent upon circumstances. It's saying "My happiness is dependent upon the Lord not on my circumstances in life."
Paul said, “I've learned the secret of contentment in every situation." Contentment is something you have to learn. It's not something that comes naturally. Our happiness isn't dependent on how much or how little we've got. If you don't learn contentment, you'll never be happy. You'll always want more.
The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) vs. Thor (2011)
Gifset prompt fill for @mcuchallenge year of celebrations - Superhero Day
The original picture from the NASA website for reference.
Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!
Dumb meme I made while reading the OG Captain America comics. What tags would you personally use for Cap?
Reading any mentions of Murtagh's dancing skills is funny because I try to imagine him doing court dances, but because I've danced ballet for most of my life, I end up imagining him doing something crazy athletic like this
Ooh, this looks fun!
Hello everyone!
We are announcing a new event as part of our MCUchallenge year of celebrations (see details here) - Superhero Day! 🦸
Superhero Day is celebrated on the 28th of April, so this is when our event will take place. To participate make a gifset/art/edit, post it on this day, adding “@mcuchallenge year of celebrations - Superhero Day” to your caption and the #mcuchallengefilled tag 😘
As usual, for your edits you can use MCU movies, Disney+ Marvel shows, interviews with cast and crew, other videos of actors e.g. from premieres or other public appearances, from Instagram, etc. For more details see our Rules/F.A.Q. page (or for those on the app - the post) - all the same rules that we had for our monthly prompts apply :)
For those who can't create, and for everyone who'd like to take part in that event with another fun activity as well, we thought to launch a tag game, where you can tell us your favourite superheroes. We'll be gathering those (don't forget to mention @mcuchallenge) and we'll make a set for our celebration that will include 10 (MCU) superheroes that will be most frequently mentioned in those posts from now till the 25th of April, 2025 😉 The example post (aka the starting post for that tag game) can be found here. Everyone is invited to take part! 😜
Reasons why it takes me so long to finish comics
1. Time
2. Motivation
3. Scribbling kawaii faces on Mjolnie
Bonus live action scribble:
Tiny municipal airports with family-owned FBOs (Fixed Base Operators) are our favorite kind to visit. They usually have a perfect mix of small town vibes and a sense of adventure. Plus the airspace is usually a breeze to get into. You never know who you'll meet or what crazy flying stories you'll hear. If there's an airport restaurant, you can be sure that it'll be serving comfort food like burgers and cheesesteaks.
fandom goes into deep denial about the attempted infanticide of baby loki because the imperialism reading of it works against the text and requires that the baby be stolen not abandoned, and that this theft be for the most nefarious and imperialist purposes we can think of. whereas actually - and i was going to say this is 'the obvious parallel' but no it's not even a parallel it's what's clearly happening there - the baby's been left out to die for being disabled hasn't he?
the word 'runt' gets used but adult loki compared to other frost giants is not just slightly on the small side, he's probably equivalent to a human with dwarfism, which definitely brings this into Infanticiding The Disabled Child territory. which a) laufey cannot be allowed to do because that's a fucked up and horrible thing to do* b) we also can't allow that odin just kept that baby because by asgardian standards there was no obvious disability there. (the social model of disability, but with giants and less-giants**) "why would you be throwing out this baby, laufey? it looks normal-sized. it doesn't even have an unusual number of limbs. yeah, i am taking this baby as a friend for my similarly-sized bio-son. mine now. finders keepers." i point this out because the disabled baby is not saved by someone thinking disability-based infanticide is wrong - at least not necessarily so - but by being found by someone who doesn't recognise the supposed problem. to whom it simply does not exist.
and of course fandom loves sad little feeble loki being weak and pathetic in fic, but i have somehow never seen this tied to the fact that he is canonically undersized for his species and likely has some connected internal fuckery going on with his organs. we have no idea what made him that small or what it'd do and - here's the fun kicker for you angst fans! - probably nobody on asgard would either. when's the last time any of them had to look after even an entirely able-bodied jotun? how likely is it that they can just write off to jotunheim to say "hey what's up with that kid your king tried to murder? how would we fix him if he lived here? yeah, our king kept him. no, we didn't eat the baby! can we borrow a medical textbook? what do you mean you don't have paper there. well how do you write down how the orientalist belly-dancer outfits are to be worn? well then how... no, come back. did you just hang up on a letter???"
sorry, i digressed. what i was aiming for was that there is a very obvious reason why loki might be unusually weak for a lad who looks healthy to us and who doesn't seem any smaller or less able-bodied than the people around him, but i just don't see it being deployed in fic or in meta or whatever. is this because the 'laufey just left his baby out for some fresh air like norwegians do' reading kind of relies on that baby not being seen as a burden to be got rid of and we all kind of agree that... no. no, i shall not finish that thought. it is too depressing. it probably is that though isn't it?
anyway. this is me wondering what is up with that. other than maybe some kind of 'echo-chamber effect' where even the wildest ideas can become commonly-held fanon and where it'd be easy to just straight-up ignore a very obvious implication of baby-murdering because someone leaving you to just fucking die for being disabled is somehow not enough oppression for a blorbo in these enlightened times. or because it breaks a popular fandom interpretation of events. or something like that?
*in fairness i'd say humans from earth are probably within the group that's allowed to just not care about humans from earth getting invaded and killed.
**i say 'less-giants' because look:
look at this literal giant among men. tiny scrawny little thing, so smol and so freakishly tall to the humans. i call this 'the social model of smolness.'
Nothing to see here, just a pair of fanfic writers who like random stuff.
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