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Request: "I am practicing informed stupidity"

Thank you!

everyday tbh

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a gift for a cat shaped friend! @catwingsthespatula

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fanfic writers will go "anyone gonna explore the kinda fucked up or emotionally impactful implications of this minor canon detail?" and then not wait for an answer.

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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Sending lots of love today to the writers who are struggling with their current projects. The ones who haven’t written in a while. The ones who haven’t written in a long while. The one who are afraid they’ve lost the words for good and they’re never coming back. The ones who muddled up the words, only to be met with tepid ripples in response. The ones who feel like they’ve plateaued. The ones who feel uninspired. The ones who would rather be writing but are going through some shit

Writing is hard

Anyways, I can’t fix any of that, but what I can do to make us feel better now that I have you all gathered here is play ‘Wonderwall’ *cues up Oasis*

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As much as I love ‘I would kill for you’, it kinda really loses its impact if the person saying it is a villain who already kills at the slightest provocation

’I would refrain from killing for you, I would spare them all if you asked me’ is a very sexy alternative, and a much more powerful declaration of love coming from a character prone to violence

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AAAAAAAAUUGHH

I love it when characters are just fundamentally entangled with each other, in whatever way. And there's so much angst in the juxtaposition of "I can't let her see how messed up I am now" and *would absolutely love him anyway but can't do anything to convince him of that until he's actually ready to listen*

Thank you for the delightful ramble! Exactly what I ordered, thank you 💚

Every time I write Caldren and especially his interactions with Madreline I'm just like Boi what on earth is going on inside your head???

You know she loves you but you don't recognize her attempts at flirting. Every time you think of the future it's about being with her and deep down somewhere you've known since you were a kid that you were going to marry her, but the thought of your relationship with her being romantic somehow never crosses your mind. You almost kiss her but somehow don't actually realize that's what's happening.

You're aware that Madreline is hurting because of your anger so your solution is to just leave. You don't say goodbye because you know that if she asked you to stay, you would stay, but you still leave.

Caldren is such a mess of contradictions and obliviousness I can't even

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Me waltzing in with queerplatonic JonHelen and infecting as many people as possible

my fav genre of fanfic is "ship i have not ever considered but the author is insane abt it in a way that intrigues me immensely"

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Oh buddy... he sounds like an absolute disaster and I love him already

Can you tell me more about him and Madreline? What does she think is going on in his head through all this?

Every time I write Caldren and especially his interactions with Madreline I'm just like Boi what on earth is going on inside your head???

You know she loves you but you don't recognize her attempts at flirting. Every time you think of the future it's about being with her and deep down somewhere you've known since you were a kid that you were going to marry her, but the thought of your relationship with her being romantic somehow never crosses your mind. You almost kiss her but somehow don't actually realize that's what's happening.

You're aware that Madreline is hurting because of your anger so your solution is to just leave. You don't say goodbye because you know that if she asked you to stay, you would stay, but you still leave.

Caldren is such a mess of contradictions and obliviousness I can't even

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Finally got my main characters in the same spot, but one's unconscious and the other one doesn't want a potentially dead body on her ship.

Like come on I'm trying to write a story here I don't have time for you to become sentient, just bring him on board and slowly fall in love already

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Ploop ploop ploop

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I second this question, and I have a few specific subquestions!

For a totally (not) hypothetical example: say I wanted to write about a Catholic priest who was planting a particular church for a group of vampires (or vampire-adjacent people, at any rate).

I don’t think this will happen in the main story, but if I wrote about the existence of vampires becoming more generally known to the public, including to this universe’s Vatican), would it be disrespectful to depict or reference the Magisterium issuing an opinion on any related questions of doctrine? Would the answer to that question change depending on how much detail I gave about the result? Would it be different if framed as a clarification of existing doctrine in response to a new circumstance as opposed to a new teaching entirely?

If the teaching was on a dilemma that fully doesn’t exist in the real world—like, say, whether humans who died and came back to life different are still ontologically human, and the practical and ethical implications of the answer—what’s the best practice for writing about that? How about for writing about the process of a priest or group of priests in collaboration developing their opinions on those topics?

Either way, I assume that writing about a priest working through and even wrestling with questions of how established doctrine applies to dilemmas faced by his vampire parishioners doesn’t fall under that category, because his decisions won’t be official teachings of the Church as a whole even in universe even though he will be small-t teaching his parishioners in his role as their priest and pastor—is that correct?

Could it fall under the category of permissible/beneficial inculturation to have said priest (in conversation with other priests and bishops and in response to felt spiritual needs of his vampire parishioners) develop ceremonies to acknowledge events and life-state changes important to vampires, as long as there’s nothing in them that goes against existing doctrine and they are clearly not sacraments?

@apilgrimpassingby I don’t know if the Catholic Church has an official policy on the Sacraments and sapient nonhumans, but this might help: Pope Francis says he would baptize aliens (the article gives the context, and also some brief but delightful background on the question of whether the sacrament of baptism could in theory be licitly applied to sapient extraterrestrials)

(Tagging @tildeathiwillwrite and @ahopefulbromantic because this may be relevant to your interests— by ‘vampires’ in this context I do indeed mean TMA avatars, although I have the same questions about other sorts of vampires as well)

(For everyone who’s just reading this on my writing blog: the giant sprawling AU continues to sprawl, and Father Burroughs has entered the chat! I know I’ve said this many times, but y’all, I’m sorry it’s been so long since I updated AWOHO, and I am still actively working on it. Thank you for your patience.)

Things that are okay to make up if you wanna play with Catholicism in your story:

- Religious orders (just because there wasn’t an order dedicated to fighting vampires doesn’t mean there can’t be)

- Saints (just because there wasn’t a St. Kxchylian, patron saint of transporters, doesn’t mean there can’t be)

- Popes (see previous. You can also make up bad popes! We’ve had our fair share)

Things that are not okay to make up:

- Doctrines and teachings

- Sacraments

- Secret societies that hide the Real Truth from the unwashed masses (you can actually get excommunicated for trying to do this in real life)

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The two best reasons to ship anything are:

1.Incredible, deep and detailed narrative themes. The parallels that seem to hit just right, the narrative foils that they can be to each other, the intricate dynamic that's both extremely complex and easily understood. The juxtaposition between something that's harsh and undoubtedly toxic, with the softer undertones, the parts where you read in-between the lines and find a mutual feeling of loneliness from both parts, their intrinsic understanding of each other comes from the mere fact that they're each others mirrored reflections and shadows. In the end both sides will be together forever, and you as an audience can clearly see their tragedy laid out before in a path that blurs pure anguish and tender romance

2.It would be so fucking funny

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Happy avatar birthday, Jon!