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as a catholic. i hate everyone's obsession with so-called "catholic guilt" actually

that's called scrupulosity (or, in the common parlance, religious/moral ocd) and it's not supposed to be there. we have resources we'll help you

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i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

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Conan the Barbarian #24 cover by Luke Eidenschink

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Pics of my first tattoo from yesterday!

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It irritates me when people act like writing is like a technology and it gets improved upon with every new iteration, so all writing of the past is worse than all modern writing. That's not how it works. Things are written for their era, but that doesn't make them bad or useless, it just makes them different from things written for the current era.

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For those who don’t know, I’m a soldier. Have been since I was seventeen. Now in my thirties, I’ve never pursued or known any other profession throughout my adult life.

In my early years, I viewed war as a sort of proving ground—a place to find out if I could live up to the ideals of the men I idolized, both real and fictional: men like Teddy Roosevelt, Aragorn, Jack Ryan, and Dick Winters. I considered myself only a nominal Christian at best and spent far more time chasing adventure, pleasure, and a set of self-selected virtues like courage, independence, and chivalry than I did pursuing any sort of Christian lifestyle.

Now, as a married man and a far more devout Christian than I ever was in my younger years, I find myself having to be increasingly intentional about philosophical concepts like the justification of war. Despite considering myself fairly well read in early church history, this is the first I’ve heard of Augustine’s letters to a Roman soldier. Will definitely be digging into those here in the near future.

Finally, just want to give a huge shout to Wes Huff. The man has proven himself again and again to be a sincere, thoughtful theologian and orator for truth. So grateful to have men like him occupying the public sphere.

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

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I’m bypassing the hiring process and just showing up and gaslighting companies into thinking I had a scheduled interview that day and HR forgot to document it. Fuck HR, most retarded job position imaginable. I’ll let you know how it goes

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Oh my god

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The Red Wake

By Niellustrate

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ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to memento my mori

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Alright! So! Today You Learned about the recent Tolkien lawsuit. You’ve probably seen it in some headlines? I don’t know. But it goes something like this:

This guy named Demetrius Polychron (which is a cool as fudge thing to put on a book cover) decided to sue Amazon for 250 million dollars because he believes that the series The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power copied ideas from his book The Fellowship of the King. The judge on the case “dismissed it with prejudice” back in August.

Because! As it turns out! His book! Is a fan sequel to The Lord of the Rings. To be clear, not in a “It’s heavily inspired by Lord of the Rings but it’s changed all the names,” sort of way. It’s a straightforward sequel, and part of a planned seven-book series. See, Polychron loved the books, and felt inspired to continue the story. And he had ideas for a sequel series. Boy, did he have ideas. 

Polychron went so far as to tell the Tolkiens this, too! He wrote several letters to Simon Tolkien, telling him that he felt inspired to write a sequel to The Lord of the Rings, and even though he’s not affiliated with the Estate, he would very much like to be, as he is sure his ideas fit in with the original author’s. He outlined his thoughts and ideas of how to do the sequels. The Tolkien Estate, as you can probably guess, was not amused, and told him to stop it.

Unsurprisingly, after he tried suing Amazon, Polychron himself got sued, ordered to remove and destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King.

I feel kind of bad for this guy; at the same time, what the fudge did he think was going to happen if he tried publishing and selling his Lord of the Rings fanfiction? Did no one stop him from doing that? 

Wild, man.

The One Ring has a better summary than me.