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"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

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I’m very excited for my latest craft experiment, where I rhythmically slap sale rank oil paint onto a canvas and I see how long it takes to dry so that I can finally touch the paint textures I stare at so longingly in museums. 12 hours in, still wet. I am beginning to think this might take longer than I thought which you can imagine is quite a burden, as I am absolutely horned up to rub this paint.

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Mazel tov! Welcome to the Jew side. We’ve got cookies… and gefilte fish and kugel and latkes. Are you hungry? There’s plenty. You look like you might be hungry. Have as much as you want.

I am a Jewish convert. We also don’t proselytize because your spiritual practices are none of our business and we don’t believe your “salvation” is dependent on accepting ours. Proselytizing is inherently self-centered: “I know what’s best for you better than you do.”

That said, I feel like Jews are missing an opportunity for a targeted ad campaign around guilting people into calling their mothers. Call it sharing our culture.

Torah app ads? Pfft. This is so niche that I feel like if you need a Torah app in your life you’ve already got a Torah app.

Jewish people do not proselytise like christians do. Judaism is an ethnoreligion, they are not interested in converting the entire world into being jewish. Converts are rare and need a good reason for wanting to do it - depending on the denomination, even wanting to marry someone who is jewish and joining one's partner's people may only barely be valid enough of a reason. Converting has to be a choice that you want to make, or something that God wants you to do. And therefore, there are only two possible explanations of why my Tumblr's targeted ads look the way they do.

The algorithm has somehow concluded that I am jewish and not reading the Torah enough, and would be interested in an app that'd make it easier to do while still busy shitposting on tumblr.

These ads are coming directly from God.

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Eastern Sierras, California by Ben Hatten Bach

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Not to sound like I was raised by protestants, but I think those kids who argue that it's animal abuse to put working dog breeds to work doing the tasks they were bred and born for have simply genuinely never encountered the concept that they, too, could be genuinely happier if they could do work they found wortwhile and enjoyable. Like engaging in useful and constructive activities might genuinely make life better than a life of doing absolutely nothing because nobody's making you do anything.

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oh man i hate this part *starts screaming in pain as i begin to pull a spear out of the pocket dimension in my eye*

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the only people allowed to steal my art without credit are mexican taquerias who handpaint it on the wall like it's goku holding a taco. the rest of y’all gotta ask

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Just saw somebody refer to the Pope as "the final boss of the catholic church", and someone else replying "I like the way you're implying that you'd first have to fight every single catholic on the planet before you get to fight the pope."

And I'm not sticking my spoon in there, but isn't that... Pretty much how it works? Like sure there are outliers, but I think it's safe to say that if you announced "I'm going to fight the pope", most catholics would reply with "absolutely fucking not" and would fight you first. One does not simply walk into the Vatican with full intentions to throw down with the pope without having to fight through like at least 5 levels of catholic security first.

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I’m so proud of this.

After much research on the Plan of St. Gall and Benedictine monastic life, I have completed the first floor of the monastery as it would've looked during its height of operations, roughly 200 years, give or take, before Lida et al. find it on their travels. I will be making another floor plan showing it in ruins.

Something to note is that this is where they encounter the terror-feeder, because the Northern Reaches really was the gods' DeviantArt page. Though I modeled this on Christian monastic life, the experiences of these monks are fundamentally different and far less ascetic so I made some fundamental changes.

Let me take you through some of the design choices I made!

Directional focus is the Overlook of the Gods, so southwest. The cathedral points in that direction as do both chapels.

Original Benedictine monasteries had very limited access points to the inner sanctum. I modified this with a few extras, but I still maintained some separation between the acolytes and monks.

Which leads me to the big main storage room. This was actually a surprising distance from the kitchens in the Plan of St. Gall.

The original kitchen had no outside access, iirc, but was separated from the main building by a hallway. I maintained this here, as it was a pragmatic and not religious decision; kitchen fires wiped out a hell of a lot of monasteries and abbeys before they moved the building off. Now they still maintained zero outside kitchen access, condemning anyone trapped in the kitchen to death, but I digress.

Monasteries were fully self-sufficient. This bad boy would’ve had crops and livestock and breweries. I did not want to design all that out because it would be gone by the time Lisa et al. arrive, but I did keep chambers for the brothers-in-service.

This place would have had an old men’s rest home to account. Remember, part of the reason this monastery is so popular and well-maintained is because there’s too many men born in the Northern Reaches. (Don’t ask me why, I’m working on it.) So they would’ve had services for old impoverished men who couldn’t marry and had no families. I’m giving them three men assigned to the role and then an additional six that are cycled through the ranks to fulfill the mitzvah (by another name) of caring for others.

I eliminated the Benedictine conversation rooms, as Lida monks are free to talk, but kept the warming room out of practicality. It would be prohibitively costly to maintain fires everywhere. In monasteries that had dormitories, monks typically slept over the warming room, which will happen here. But unlike the ascetic Benedictines, I’ve given the brothers-in-service and others sleeping in beds far from the warming room little furnaces.

The conservatory is also not a traditional Benedictine room. My boyfriend asked the question of whether the era would’ve had such tech, but the gods gave them a lot of knowledge.

Now we get to the big question: what the hell is up with the arcana rooms? Well, I may have jumped the shark. In constructing this on Inkarnate, I saw they had summoning circles, and I wondered, what if they had been practicing forbidden magic? Not magic outlawed by the Magisterium, but the one form of magic outlawed by the gods? What if they had accidentally summoned the terror-feeder from cryo underneath the Overlook of the Gods and this was their downfall?

I don’t have all the answers yet and I have a whole second floor to build before I can demolish it, but it’s interesting to think about and damn this was fun to make.

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So when Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi he looked like this

But turning to the dark side changed his physical appearance. Most notably his eyes, which became yellow (a very typical Sith transformation in many species)

And while I know that Wookies are not supposed to be able to be force sensitive and therefore cannot become Jedi or Sith, all I am saying is that

.... You know?

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Так видит себя мой кот, когда я с утра не дал ему поесть