Something spooky, Addams Family fic seems fitting for this time of year.
There are a lot of steps to becoming an Addams, there are even more if you’re planning to marry Wednesday Addams. Joel Glicker takes on his initiation tests until he gets to the final one.
I started this right after Grian turned red in Last Life, so it’s a concept I had where he goes up Magical Mountain to confront/threaten Scar. But as Scar looks down at his former friend, he swears he can see the desert behind him, just for a moment.
– The biblical understanding of adultery includes looking lustfully at someone you are not married to (Matthew 5:28)
– The biblical definition of marriage is a lifelong union between one man and one woman (Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:3-9)
– Yes that means Abraham, David, Solomon, Isaac, Jacob, and other major figures in the Bible were sinful. In fact, all human beings are sinful. That’s kind of the point (Romans 3).
– Therefore, lusting after or having sex with someone who is the same sex as you is automatically sinful, because you cannot be married to them under the biblical definition of marriage.
– It also means pornography and premarital sex are on the exact same level as homosexual lust and homosexual sex. They’re all sins.
– That also means they are all covered by Christ’s death on the cross.
– So you can just keep doing them, right? No, go read Romans 6.
– That also means you can’t take “pride” in those sins or make them a part of your “identity.” The temptations you personally are particularly susceptible to are not something to fly a flag or have a parade for.
What’s even cooler about thrips, besides their badass sci-fi look, is some of them are eusocial with soldiers castes and other traits we associate with well-known social insects like ants and termites.
“STUDIES of the role of haplodiploidy in the evolution of eusociality have been limited to the Hymenoptera, the only insects known to exhibit both reproductive castes and the haplodiploid genetic system. Because aculeate Hymenoptera share many other traits that may affect sociality, such as provisioning at nests, powerful flight, mandibulate mouthparts, and stings, it has been difficult to separate the effects of haplodiploidy from other characteristics of this taxonomic group. Here I report the presence of eusociality in a second haplodiploid insect taxon, the order Thysanoptera. Sub-fertile ‘soldier’ adults of the Australian gall thrips Oncothrips tepperi Karny and O. habrus Mound defend the gall containing their mother and siblings from invasion and takeover by inquiline thrips species and other insect invaders. Australian gall thrips provide remarkable new opportunities for analysing the causes of the evolution of eusociality.”
