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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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oh I get it now. it's called face/off because he takes his face

off

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There's a place just down the street where they chop off angel's wings and fry them in oil. You should try some. Oh, the angels? Yeah they're regular people now. Simultaneously their freedom of flight is ripped away from them violently and yet at the same time they are granted freedom from the yoke of divine subservience so it's bitter sweet for them or some gay shit like that. Anyways the wings are really good.

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people have these “my dog is a democrat” stickers and I like to imagine them with increasingly unlikely animals professing more niche political opinions:

my parrot is a democratic socialist

my arctic fox is an anarchopastoralist

my catfish believes in the divine right of kings

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me, unsure of how to add an additional piece of context to my sentence:

the humble parentheses:

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got a major pest problem this year actually

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“Hey man please make something normal at craft night this time”

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This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

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Does everyone know there is now a mod that exists solely to give Gale hayfever?

Because there is now a mod that exists solely to give Gale hayfever.

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Currently fixated on the concept of Urban Fantasy Clickbait

"With The Cost Of Groceries Skyrocketing, Many Young Adults Turn To Vampirism To Manage Household Expenses"

"An Answer Today's Housing Crisis? This Single Parent's UnusualDeal With The Fair Folk"

"A Hairy Situation! Down On Her Luck, This Druid Turns To Scavenging In Beast Form- Terrifying Suburban Homeowners"

"Buried In Debt? Local Leprechaun May Have Hacked The System"

"Boggart Or Poltergeist? Top Ten Warning Signs You Need To Know!"

"Elementary Student Raises 15k For Revenant Research After Grandfather Is Raised From The Dead"

"Heartwarming! After 20 Years In The Wild, This Lost Familiar Is Reunited With Their Witch"

"You Could Be Making This Mistake! Experts Warn Against Using These Common Sigils In Your Wards"

"An Incredible Victory! This Seelie Fae Wins Custody Battle For Two-Year-Old Boy"

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Big fan of this one concept drawing specifically for one small detail really

WE’RE GOING TO DO IT, FUCK IT!

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Every romance book promoted on tiktok is just full to the brim with horrible "steamy" taglines that are just like... Eyes on me, Little Beast. I'm here to make you Damp

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So today the Lord Mayor of Melbourne made the ill judged decision to use AI to generate some artists impressions of the new parks he plans to build

Downside being he didn't notice the dead body the AI decided to chuck in there

Just another day in Australian politics