#catholic larping

[odinsblog]

Catholic larping💀💀💀

[corvidfeathers]

in vampire the masquerade the Catholic Church somehow is big enough to both be puppeted by the lasombra vampires and ALSO fund a centuries-old vampire hunting organization. some poor sucker definitely balances budgets that include both charges for mysterious vampire business and the society of leopold’s yearly supply of stakes and holy water

[beach-norma-thorndike]

Dog lover, wine connoisseur, and expert snuggler.

[oldyears]

my best friend’s mom sends me typical religious mom stuff and i have a little fun playing around and making an image of being religious going all “happy blessed sunday to you too, tita! ❤️🙏🏼” in my reply to her

[nonbinaryphantom]

the hartman dp yt watch party is gonna be a nightmare god BLESS 🙏🙏

[ashqueeart]

I just got an iPad for portable drawing so have a wip of some vampire religion bullshit 👀

[ludwinas]

When you go a little hard on the cosplay (via NRC)

[succliberation]

I got an email from my mom talking about a fucking exorcist who posts his lectures on Youtube and I just had to realize me and my parents literally live in different dimensions now lmfao.

[seraphimfall]

i’ve read so much tradcath bullshit the last two years. i can confidently say tradcath men fit into one of two categories:

“protestant-raised and converted to catholicism because of his crippling porn addiction and racist tendencies. reposts crusader and conquistador memes. is hated in his local parish.” tradcath

“catholic-raised band kid who ate his lunches with the religion teacher. smells like mildew. cut off all his friends that came out as gay after high school. now larps as an aquinian scholar and cries after jerking off.” tradcath

[transmutationisms]

i feel like my perspective on catholicism is so discordant with how people talk about it on here lol like having grown up knowing as many schism catholics (pius x &c) and sedevacantists as regular mass goers and also being raised by 'ex catholics' who have since converted catholic larp denomination like i just don't put any stock in the idea of like doctrinal control or consensus and i think that's such a misunderstanding of organised religion. like when i think "catholic church" that's a political entity yk the relevant activities are like. owning land. doing colonialism. integration with various states. what im NOT thinking basically ever is doctrinal content like i literally don't think of catholicism as doctrine you have to believe in order to practice or align with. in actuality many people simply don't. if you tell me you're catholic there are definitely assumptions i make about you and actually none of them have to do with the intricacies of your religious beliefs

[log6]

LARPing as a Catholic (protestant hating Catholic) is fantastic because there's really nothing protestants can even say. Catholics actually walk the walk. Average Catholic church is a masterpiece and the average protestant church is a ramshackle hut

[wytchwyse]

Your aptitude for magic is not in your tradition of magic. It is in your effort to learn your system/tradition/religion.

These are my opinions, and observations.

Traditional Wicca, Folkloric Witchcraft, Feri, Appalchian folk magic, Hoodoo, NOLA Voodoo, Santeria, Hellenism, Celtic polytheism, Obeah, curanderismo, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Luciferianism, ceremonial magic, catholic folk magic, folk religions etc.

All of these are magical traditions/ systems and many are religious in nature. None of them are more "powerful" then another. Spirituality is no different than anything else, you get out of it what you put into it. Once more I see a disturbing Trend within occulture This concept that some systems are greater than others. Magic, sorcery, occultism are not games that we play, they are not an aesthetic, they're not a costume. they take time, they take effort, you are expected to grow as a person as you grow with your practice.if what you care about is arguing over whose God is more powerful than I can assure you any magic that you think you're doing you're not. That is not the point of why we practice the arte magical.

If you are still experiencing these delusions of grandeur as you practice your magic you have a lot of work to do within yourself. Your magic should be used to propel yourself forward Psychologically, exoterically and esoterically. The practice of magic no matter where it came from, or what point in time it came out of has no bearing on its potency.

Let's remember the importance of rationality in the occult , it is okay to keep our heads in the clouds as long as our feet are firmly on the ground beneath us. So just to reiterate no, your God will not beat up someone else's God that's childish and ridiculous. Sorcery demands maturity, otherwise you're just LARPing.

[diarrheaworldstarhiphop]

What's going on with the redscare pod being canceled from the dissident right or whatever? Somehow BAP is being accused of being a controlled-op because pariah the doll bought his book? Just seems odd how their "movement" hinges on disavowing gay or Trans people who have seemingly done nothing nefarious to anyone on the Right.

There's a transwoman in Thiel's pet Dimes Square clique whose whole bit is being a self-loathing failed man catholic type afaik (Pariah, as you point out) and Anna got worked up over unnecessary "cruelty" by her followers toward Pariah. A whole row of that top dissident right clique joined with Anna in solidarity because yadda yadda "friends protecting friends is a virtue" while many others actually have stood their ground on how nonsensical it is to be ideological reactionaries yet give passes to transwomen in their social elite. Anna got caught up trying to reify her "trannies are men" cred to no avail.

BAP being team Anna makes sense since he's part of that academic ivy league caste larping as toddler speaking barbarians. >Just seems odd how their "movement" hinges on disavowing gay or Trans people who have seemingly done nothing nefarious to anyone on the Right.

Shouldn't be odd. It was some post-modern silliness to assume that reactionary ideologues should support LGBT in the first place. I think it's really funny that a bunch of guys became thought leaders for the anti-degeneracy populist new right and forgot that irony poisoned millenial city cosmopolitans with tech millionaire backing is the kind of shit their reader base hates on class basis and has probably tolerated until now.

But also its a largely mob-like online community like any other online community. "fren" shit is just tumblr smol bean shit for racists. Eating their own is built into the culture.

[doctorjennifermelfi]

if the corcorans are irish and so heavily into kennedy family larping why did she make bunny so anti catholic

[collecosplay]

All Hallow's Eve LARP by L'Chaim Games - Meiserich (my ghost OC, yes he was shot in the face)

aka "Ghost Ball! Ghost Ball!", London, 02.12.23

Photos by Astora Photography on FB

My jester took so long to make because I took inspiration from Diana Wynne Jones' 'Howl's Moving Castle' where Sophie cuts up Howl's suit into triangles and then sews it back together, so Meiserich's outer layer is all triangles.

I wanted to make Meiserich out of scraps from previous projects, so virtually all of the cost of the outfit is the time that went into it. I worked on him for six months in virtually any free minute I could find the energy for. But it was worth it.

It's not 100% historically accurate, but this outfit was designed to double as a cosplay for the Fool from Robin Hobb's 'Assassin's Apprentice' and the rest of the Farseer Trilogy. (I still have to read the other books! No spoilers please though I have seen some sneak peeks thanks to fanart <3)

More about Meiserich as a character under the cut!

Meiserich (anglicised pronunciation: My-Zer-Rick) is a colloquial German name for galium odoratum, sweet woodruff. It's a flavour you can get commonly in German desserts and schnapps (Waldmeister), but I've never come across the flavour in the UK.

Meiserich is a jester from the early 1400's and lived in a part of the Holy Roman Empire that is now Germany, namely within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster. At the court of Droste zur Aa Meiserich had a close relationship with Lady Klara of the keep. In 1412 this court took part in a knights' jousting tournament in Buda where the future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund was also in attendance. Whilst there, through social occasions, Lady Klara found out and obtained evidence that Sigismund was the one who poisoned the previous King of Germany, Jobst of Moravia. She confided in Meiserich what had happened.

It comes to light that Lady Klara knows too much, so Sigismund sends soldiers to Münster to besiege the keep. Meiserich encourages his Lady to run and hide with the evidence of the poisoning. As a jester it was also Meiserich's job to act as a messenger and diplomat at times. However, the siege negotiations failed, he was shot dead with an early arquebus design and the castle was fired upon with trebuchets. Lady Klara initially survived in the rubble in an airpocket but ultimately suffocated.

Meiserich usually haunts the ruins of the castle keep he used to live in. It is now a tourist destination and he likes to tease the tourists. He also eavesdrops and through them and the keep staff learns of other things going on in the world. He has not forgotten about Lady Klara and wants to reveal the truth she uncovered to the world.

Please note: The poisoning plot is fictional, Sigismund doing this is something I made up based on some Wikipedia reading I did.

His wish to have fulfilled at the LARP was to have the keep in Münster renovated and restored, revealing the buried corpse of Lady Klara. In her hand are a vial of poison and a letter proving Sigismund was the one who poisoned the previous king of Germany, Jobst of Moravia. It will be a joy for the historians and great to hear the tour guides at the keep bring this up in perpetuity.

And he got his wish fulfilled at the game! I'm so happy. Monsieur Roc Flamboyant (a French noble, 1600's) was touched enough by Meiserich's story and devotion to Lady Klara that he made the wish for Meiserich. I could not have asked for a better end to this game.

Shout out to the podcasts that helped me put together Meiserich as a character:

Gone Medieval by History Hit

We're Not So Different - esp. episode "Medieval Fail Sons: Wenceslas IV & Sigismund"

Weird Medieval Guys - esp. episode "Sieging for Dummies"

The Court Jester by Kleio Pethainou

I'm glad I picked the early 1400's for Meiserich's death, this is still before the Western printing press, Columbus sailing off to the detriment of many, the fall of Constantinople, and the big witch hunting craze, so he died in a bygone world on the cusp of the Early Modern Period.

If I could give him one power like in BBC Ghosts, I'd say that the two bells on his hat are audible to the living.

[plaguery]

I WANNA BE A NUN SO BAD BUT LIKE. no i dont because i dont want to be fully controlled but yes i do i want to be a nun in the way i say. i want to give up control where i say so but keep control in different ways. i also want to be gay but also the solution to this might be larping as a nun. would you still love me if i larped as a nun everyday. would you call me sister ophelia. im not catholic i just have a special interest. i should write my own book of hours. the problem with this is also that part of me is not into this idea at all