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To avoid deer strikes, Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint.

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I’ve done it twin. I’ve turned us into spectral deer. Twin run they are hunting us twin.

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The Moon

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Nature + Fiddler

This month's (June) exclusive sticker club artwork. There are a few slots still open!

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Fairy Tales are a necessity because they dare speak the truths that the world never wants to hear;

That adults are cruel to children.

That you will suffer injustice, but that doesn't give you the right to be unjust to others.

That there are negative consequences to indulging vices.

That upholding moral principles is always the better path, even in the face of hardship.

That you will die someday.

And that inspite of all the bad in the world, it is worth persevering and finding the love and joy that is out there.

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When you are used to the no-nonsense, no-context approach of medieval Irish stories, trying to read Old Norse saga literature does feel kind of like you're being told a medieval story by Uncle Colm from Derry Girls.

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arrival of dawn

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Religion is so much more fun when you get a bit silly with it. My grandma was catholic by birth but buddhist by blood so when I was younger she had a Buddha statue with several rosaries slung around his neck and incense and fruit peppered around him like little guards

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Maybe all that nonsense with Gethsemane and whatnot came down to the fact that Jesus had twelve direct reports but a frankly terrible managerial sensibility, where he was aloof with his employees, spoke in cryptic stories instead of clearly articulating his points, and played favorites in a major way, and let us not forget that he got the job because of nepotism

Maybe Judas was the ultimate traitor, maybe he was just trying to make sure the accounting was correct, and lord knows he never got reimbursed for anything. Jesus's fuckin haircare routine was running them hundreds of money, and what fucking tax assessor was gonna sign off on "miracles" as the production for all this wine, let alone worrying that Jesus was gonna say something about drinking blood and eating bodies in public. What's he gonna do, go to his skip-level? Jesus spends half his time yelling at the guy, who is, again, his dad, and nobody's ever met him. I mean joke's on all of them because Peter ended up getting control of the name of the business anyway, and that whole thing is still running to this day, god help us all

In fairness, I very much did have a boss who got run in for [doxable reasons] and if they'd asked me which one I wanted, I would have taken Barabas in a goddamn heartbeat. That boss also had too many direct reports. You just have to build a hierarchy. I'd like to see one of those damn Christian management books tell you any of this.

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i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:

it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)

when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways

when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society

if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think

there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers

whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs

look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle

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So genuine question. Do people of different religions think other religions' gods are fake? Like for example if your god created earth and my god created earth then is someone lying? Or do they acknowledge the existence of other gods but like in a multiverse of madness kinda way

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When I say I'm religious and christian I say it very tenuously because it's not the kind of christian my parents and my church are and that weird little dichotomy is messing with my perception of it I think. It's also why I don't really like labels or I don't get specific/respond when people ask me if I'm religious. Like yeah I believe in god but also I think the church is really messed up right now and are pushing values that directly go against the god they serve. Is god real to me? Perchance. Do I practice a religion? In a way, not the way my parents want me to, but it exists and it's personal to me. I think that's also why conclave means so much to me, especially when they had the homily about faith being a living thing, and about serving god not the curia. And "the church is what we do next" Fun! But yeah it's why I don't often respond when people ask me if I'm christian

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Conclave 2024, dir. Edward Berger

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I bring a sort of diy to the religion that the rest of the pagans don’t really like

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Wizard, sorcerer, or warlock variant

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