The Weight

 I wish I could plug myself into Three Houses and spend forever singing and eating with Edelgard and Annette.  There’s just so much hate and so little calm.  Peace feels like it’s gone for good; the second-largest political party in this country has made punishment their M.O., I get the feeling they’re planning a homophobic and transphobic genocide next time they get the White House.  Only Tara Platt’s calm and Abby Trott’s exuberance keep me from collapsing into total despair, because nothing we say, no truth, no evidence, no proof reaches their ears because they have wrapped themselves in a shell of rigid, extremist interpretations of scripture, making them kill their kindness and replace it with a spirit of punishing the weak and defenseless, dragging their names through the mud and brutally silencing and ending them.  If you told me the current Republican politicians killed Kurt Cobain and did 9/11 and the Pulse Nightclub shooting, using suicide, al Qaeda, ISIS and even Bush as patsies to pin their crimes on, I’d believe you without question.  They have nothing but contempt for the LGBTQ+ community and their allies and blame them for every terrorist attack and natural disaster.  They seek to execute Biden and Harris, pardon Trump and then begin a genocide that will outdo the Holocaust and be on par with the extermination of Native Americans and slaves done by their ancestors.  The only way to stop them and end these attempts at madness is with bipartisan support, and we’ve lost that for good, so we have to outlive them and they will all likely have lengthy lives.  I don’t want to spend my next 40 years losing friends and fighting extreme fascists who beat you in the face with Leviticus 20:13 at every Pride Parade and any Church service they please.  Yes, even GSUMC’s current building is not safe.  I’m so wiped out and sad.

Top 40 songs of 2023 so far

 I saw that the LA Times did one, so I decided to test myself and do the same.  I think it turned out really good:

1.)    FLOWERS-Miley Cyrus
2.)    Thousand Miles-Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile
3.)    Separate Ways-Daughtry and Lzzy Hale
4.)    Torn into Lies-Joel Hoekstra’s 13
5.)    Far Too Deep-Joel Hoekstra’s 13
6.)    Need Each Other-Revolution Saints
7.)    Set Yourself Free-Revolution Saints
8.)    Bygones-Dolly Parton, Rob Halford
9.)    Dear Insecurity-Brandy Clark, Brandi Carlile
10.)    Peaches-Jack Black
11.)    Heart Wants What It Wants-Bebe Rexha
12.)    Seasons-Bebe Rexha, Dolly Parton
13.)    I Finally Do-Erika Harlacher
14.)    Northwest-Brandy Clark
15.)    Man on the Silver Mountain-Paul Gilbert
16.)    Winner Take All-Nita Strauss, Alice Cooper
17.)    Divine Attack -Shingeki-BABYMETAL
18.)    The One (Unfinished version)-BABYMETAL
19.)    Monochrome (Piano version)-BABYMETAL
20.)    Out of that Truck-Carrie Underwood
21.)    Muddy Feet-Miley Cyrus, Sia
22.)    Breakfast in Birmingham-Tanya Tucker, Brandi Carlile
23.)    Wonder Woman-Miley Cyrus
24.)    FLOWERS (demo)-Miley Cyrus
25.)    Coast to Coast (live 5/16/1992)-Trapeze
26.)    Violet Chemisty-Miley Cyrus
27.)    Peaches (Bowsette Version)-Cristina Vee
28.)    Ain’t Enough Rocks-Brandy Clark, Derek Trucks
29.)    This is the Song-Duff McKagan
30.)    MAYA-BABYMETAL
31.)    Lighthouse-Duff McKagan
32.)    Whipping Post-Jenn Ford
33.)    Black Hole Sun-Jenn Ford
34.)    Neon Knights-Paul Gilbert
35.)    Kill the King-Paul Gilbert
36.)    All-Star Jam-Geoff Tate, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai
37.)    Meant To Live (Our version)-Switchfoot
38.)    Home-Brandi Carlile
39.)    Peace Like A River-Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton
40.)    I’m Not High, I’m in Love-Bebe Rexha

Pride stuff inspired by memes

 

My Top 10 favorite LGBTQ+ Celebrities (This is dumb, because it’s rating God’s output):

1.)    Miley Cyrus (singer)

2.)    Rob Halford (lead singer, Judas Priest)

3.)    Brandi Carlile (singer/songwriter)

4.)    Freddie Mercury (singer, Queen)

5.)    Vicky Beeching (Praise singer)

6.)    Arryn Zech (voice actress, Blake Belladonna from RWBY)

7.)    Amber Heard (actress, "There Goes My Life" by Kenny Chesney video, Mera in Justice League and Aquaman)

8.)    Lzzy Hale (lead singer, Halestorm)

9.)    Bebe Rexha (singer)

10.) Tegan and Sara (twin singers and advocates)

 

My top 10 favorite LGBTQ+ characters:

1.)    Edelgard (Fire Emblem; Three Houses, Fire Emblem Warriors; Three Hopes, Fire Emblem; Engage)

2.)    Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

3.)    Byleth (Fire Emblem; Three Houses, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (DLC))

4.)    Blake Belladonna (RWBY)

5.)    Petra (Fire Emblem; Three Houses, Fire Emblem Warriors; Three Hopes)

6.)    Korra (Avatar; the Legend of Korra)

7.)    Asami (Avatar; the Legend of Korra)

8.)    Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

9.)    Yunaka (Fire Emblem; Engage)

10.) Ferdinand (Fire Emblem; Three Houses, Fire Emblem Warriors; Three Hopes)