#apocryphals

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

The Apocrypha (A Facsimile Of The Nonesuch Press Edition Of 1924), slipcase, University Books Inc., 1962 (engravings by Stephen Gooden)

[jonnywaistcoat]

i just want you to know that i have to do some analysis of "for sale: baby shoes, never worn" for an english assignment and that joke you made one time on a stream about the shoes never being worn because it was an unexpectedly massive baby has been in the back of my mind the entire time. thank you

I remember! "For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Massive baby."

Always astounds me Hemingway is held up as such a great writer when the man didn't even realise adding these two simple words would make his story cool and happy and kinda funny (cause of the inclusion of a huge baby) instead of it being, like, super sad. Absolute rookie move imo.

[nyuiarantes]

A short comic based on a passage in Acts of John, an apocryphal christian writing from the second century CE. I really enjoy the way it's written as a first person account of the travels of Saint John, it's very lovely:

113 O thou who hast kept me until this hour for thyself and untouched by union with a woman: who when in my youth I desired to marry didst appear unto me and say to me: John I have need of thee: who didst prepare for me also a sickness of the body: who when for the third time I would marry didst forthwith prevent me, and then at the third hour of the day saidst unto me on the sea: John, if thou hadst not been mine, I would have suffered thee to marry: who for two years didst blind me, and grant me to mourn and entreat thee: who in the third year didst open the eyes of my mind and also grant me my visible eyes: who when I saw clearly didst ordain that it should be grievous to me to look upon a woman[...] who didst make my love of thee spotless: who didst make my joining unto thee perfect and unbroken: who didst give me undoubting faith in thee, who didst order and make clear my inclination toward thee[...]

[sadclowncentral]

Hey, I’m just reaching out to people on Tumblr. You’ve probably heard of Jesus and God, but have you ever reached out to Jesus for problems in your life? Big or small. Not to make you uncomfortable, but did you know sin (in your life and other people’s lives) can really hurt you, it make feel like there is a void that is never satisfied. That void could be called a “God sized hole.” Sin sucks and not just in a cookie cutter way, but in a way that it feels like there is a decay within a person. That can be a lot to take in, but I hope it is good food for thought. I hope you’re having an awesome day!! 💕

i don't usually post about this as to me it's a private affair but i am indeed religious. and let me say this:

even a second spent in compassion for a stranger, one smile, one donation, one helping hand across the street - don't forget to do good and share with others. these are the kind of sacrifices that please God (Hebrews 13:15) - would bring you closer to god's love than sending a thousand unsolicited, guilt-tripping messages lecturing about sin - for all have sinned and fall short in the glory of God (Romans 3:23) - to strangers on the internet. just some food for thought in return. let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth (1 John 3:18).

[noahwylie]

I wanna lay out everything about the robbycollins relationship because the timeline is confusing and they fascinate me

Explicit canon info:

Adamson died in September 2020.

The single shift takes place in September 2025.

Dana tells Collins that Robby hasn’t worked this day in four years because it’s the anniversary of Adamson’s death, and that he might be a little prickly that day, but to give him a pass because he’s still blaming himself for it.

Collins is in her 4th year of residency, which means (if they go by how residents usually start their year in July) she started as an intern in July 2022.

Collins says “We [her and Robby] dated, briefly, a million years ago. Never again.”

At some point during this brief dating period, Robby got her pregnant.

Collins “gave up on him.”

She aborted without telling him because she wasn’t ready to be a mom and wasn’t even sure about the relationship.

He never knew until she told him.

Collins has done IVF on her own at least twice since then.

Two of the gossipiest nurses, who were working in the ER at the time of their relationship, don’t appear to know that Robby and Collins had a relationship at all.

Apocryphal info (stuff the creators have said but isn’t explicit canon)

This is Collins’s second career.

Robby’s relationships tend to last around six weeks because he has a hard time opening up to people emotionally.

Adamson’s death was part of the reason Robby and Collins broke up.

So based on this, I’m going to make some inferences. This is all technically my headcanoning, but it is based on the above info.

For Adamson’s death to affect their relationship, they were probably dating in the second half of 2020, maybe early 2021; meaning Collins was likely an MS3 when she and Robby were dating and not his direct employee. Collins’s statement that they “dated briefly” lines up well with Noah’s assessment that Robby’s relationships have an expiration date of about six weeks. (Since he was obviously with Janey for much longer than that, I assume that relationship took place entirely before Adamson’s death; and therefore, that death is likely a major reason his relationships no longer last beyond two months.) I assume also that Collins is not aware of the significance of Adamson’s death to Robby, because Dana has to explicitly warn her about why Robby might be off today.

So if Collins was not aware of the extremely psychologically damaging effect of Adamson’s death until Dana told her five years later, and Robby had no idea Collins was ever pregnant or that she aborted the fetus until she told him five years later… That does not speak well at all of their communication skills with each other on a personal level (though professionally they seem to work well together). It also doesn’t give me a picture of a deep, strong relationship; based on all of this, plus the fact that Perlah and Princess don’t know about them dating, this relationship feels, to me, like barely more than a fling. And as I’ve said before, Collins gives Moved On to me; like, even beyond my interpretation of her demeanor in their interactions, it’s canon that she’s attempting IVF alone. She wants to be a mother now, but NOT with Robby. I think she enjoys the occasional flirtation (see her little smile when Robby admits to trying to impress her) but that’s as far as it goes for her.

I think Robby’s behavior can be interpreted many different ways, but the way I interpret them is that he still wonders What Could Have Been. I don’t think they ever got far enough that either of them actually fell in love; but he feels there was potential there that got lost. And he sort of plays in the space of being her friend and boss and ex-lover all at the same time and he’s awkwardly trying to set her up on dates, and also still flirting a bit, and giving her leeway to work on her own.

I dunno, they are interesting to me because their relationship is sort of undefinable. It’s not really romantic, at least not anymore, but it’s also not really platonic; it’s professional but it also crosses that boundary in big ways. They have this weird combination of like, knowing each other very very deeply in one sense but in another sense not really knowing each other at all. As a sidenote: I wonder what Collins’s confession will do to that dynamic, because Robby seemed pretty torn up about it. Like the confirmation that there was in fact a Could Have Been and Collins didn’t want it… that’s painful.

[supercritters]

would love to see you furrify ozymandius of watchmen fame

Guess who just reread Watchmen that's right it's Watchmen on the brain time

Adrian Veidt - Ozymandias

Sometimes I choose these animals based on highly thought-out, esoteric symbolic means and sometimes I simply cannot get a dumb idea out of my head. This being, 'haha what if he was just Bubastis'

BUT I do think there is a lot of kitty imagery with Ozymandias too. In general the quiet, stealthy, cunning character fits with how cats are traditionally portrayed, cats were important animals in Egyptian mythology, and there's a lot of dog imagery about brutality and power in Watchmen that contrasts nicely to his heightened scheming

Bubastis seems to have some tiger in her, based on her size and striping, so I leaned a little bit closer to lion + lynx with him instead. Lions are the regal, kinglike animal, similar to how Ozymandias sees himself and also geographically close to the domain of Egypt and Alexander the Great. That's also why I chose the Eurasian lynx out of the four lynx species

His pose is referenced from a ballerino; Ozymandias is in-comic associated with gymnasts but I couldn't find a pose that felt right, and I also really like the image of Adrian as a performer in an opera of his own creation

[illustratus]

Madonna Laboris by Nicholas Roerich

[amongponderosas]

Of all the dogs, what if James Fitzjames brought a greyhound to the Arctic? Tall, elegant, attention-grabbing. Runs mad zoomies around Neptune. Likes to dress up. Doesn't actually do great with the cold and needs to wear fancy little boots in the snow.

And oops! They're wearing matching cream-coloured sweaters. It was totally an accident.

[necromycologist]

not to sound severely unwell but i <3 lying for fun. you can literally make up any fucking anecdote and people will believe it and remember it as a key part of your identity and even think youre funny about it. like this shit is easyyyyyy

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Remember that time napoleon just walked into a room, and just dropped something like “you know I’m actually the legitimate king of France because the man in the iron mask was louis xiv’s older twin brother and I’m his direct descendant”

When everyone was shocked and or pretending to believe this, he laughed and admitted he was joking but like.

Napoleon, hear me out, you’re onto something, let this ride it’s the funniest thing just heist the French Revolution itself as the most convoluted “return of the rightful king” fantasy of all time

[artbyblastweave]

Was Silver Age Superman a manipulative dick as much of a dick as ppl say he was or was it just the covers exaggerating things?

So my understanding of what was actually going on there was that someone would come up with a provocative insane cover of Superman behaving like a maniac (torturing his supporting cast, conquering the world, having a secret family he abandoned, etc.) or else being subject to some equally bizarre situation, and then it would be left to the interior writers and artists to cobble together some sequence of events by which the events depicted on the cover could come to pass/ secretly have been part of a clever plan the entire time. Sometimes they found semi plausible ways he could have done these things under duress but rather predictably there wasn’t always a way to do this gracefully so he frequently does come off as batshit insane. Other times he’s possessed by a djinn or something

[firowisteria]

Apocryphal AU

[ezicx]

This was a scene that was supposed to be in my pinescone novel, but I scrapped the idea of making the novel. xD

[cirrus-grey]

Interesting tidbit from this Wikipedia article in light of today's episode (emphasis mine) :

Much of Newton's writing on alchemy may have been lost in a fire in his laboratory, so the true extent of his work in this area may have been larger than is currently known. Newton also suffered a nervous breakdown during his period of alchemical work.

Newton's writings suggest that one of the main goals of his alchemy may have been the discovery of the philosopher's stone (a material believed to turn base metals into gold), and perhaps to a lesser extent, the discovery of the highly coveted Elixir of Life. Newton reportedly believed that a Diana's Tree, an alchemical demonstration producing a dendritic "growth" of silver from solution, was evidence that metals "possessed a sort of life."

[felicitousferret]

I’ve been super into Subjectively’s Apocryphal world and all the enigmorph designs so i’ve decided to model a couple of my favs. So we’ve got Borabark and Oliver Caorain’s unnamed companion!

[livingdumpsterfire]

i want to read the Bible but like as a novel