#i have no fondness for the church

[mrpinchy]

growing up my family was catholic so i had to do a bunch of catholic stuff like choosing a saint and taking their name as my confirmation name. there's a whole ceremony in the church and everything it's actually one of the big seven sacraments. anyway i convinced enough adults that Saint Cloud was not only a real saint (he is) but that he is also the saint of preventing strife (he is not), and since there's like a million catholic saints they didn't call me on it

so, as far as the church is concerned, my catholic name is Cloud (Strife)

[girlwiththegreenhat]

in spite of everything i have never been more convinced that kitt is completely in love with michael actually. the car, he yearns

[wonder-worker]

I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the end of her family name.

I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.

Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.

All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:

“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”

Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.

[ehhgg-art]

would you guys be mad at me if i told you that churboose was actually my first and is my number 1 rvb otp be honest

[ive-got-you-clovered]

[silverjurors]

Thinking about the difference between devotion and duty. Thinking about doing something because you want to and doing something because you have to. Thinking about love and violence and how they can be the same thing. Thinking about how taking away a stranger's loved one can be a part of duty. Thinking about how taking away a stranger's loved one can be the ultimate act of devotion. Thinking about how duty can become devotion. How you gain new forms of duty through devotion to someone. Thinking about-

[saint-augustines-pears]

Advent is approaching so I figured that anyone with a family may or may not want to know of this (or no family, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

This is by far the single most greatest ever Christmas novena and you should be doing this :)

[merrilark]

Man, I forgot we're already almost at the DW season finale. Not gonna lie, fam, it's gonna need to do some heavy, heavy lifting to save this season for me personally. :x

[saturniidd]

everytime I eat blackberries I always think of my old friend who introduced me to them. I hope she is doing alright now

[astrxealis]

'everlong' stuck in my head rn oh god good morning

[enbyboiwonder]

Y’know, when Lee came and found me and told me to give over any data disks and especially any weapons I find in the mines for destruction (and of course it was the fucking church who found me first and not the research center. Luckily though I found the research center soon after. The church ain’t getting shit), I thought I’d be finding old nuclear warheads down there or something. The first time I found a glowing purple dot on the scanner, I assumed it was a weapon, and when I pressed A, I thought it had taken me to the entrance or something and I couldn’t mine in that area anymore. I didn’t realize it had taken me to an unused room with a few monsters to kill and a few chests to loot (and I could go right back and keep right on mining), and I also hadn’t uncovered enough to see that it was a pipe. I realized the second time, though.

No, it’s the triple barrel snakebite, a.k.a. the poison blaster, as I like to think of it. The day after I first pieced one together and tried it out, I received a cease and desist letter from the church (and lost nonexistent favorability points w Lee and Nora lmao). lol how ‘bout no.

Anyways, fuck the church.

[kayspaceprince]

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[arctic-hands]

Bless my former fundie Baptist church (and by "bless" I mean "fuck"), because back in two thousand and seven-ish they tried to reconcile the Word of God with actual science by telling us that God is so powerful and we are so insignificant in comparison that six days to Him could have been thousands or millions of what humans consider years. They even used the cosmic clock timescale (I forget if that analogy even has a particular name), where the whole history of human beings is just one fraction of a second in all of the unfathomable hours of the universe. Which is great and vastly more than what fundies teach/preach now and maybe even then!

But then they took my Sunday school class on a field trip to the newly-created Creation Museum in Kentucky, which had and has displays of humans and dinosaurs co-existing and teaches thusly. Which is terrible and completely predictable for a fundie church teach/preach now and even then.

[rynegaias]

as much as i wish i loved dragon age as much as everyone else, so much of what it offers are things that i am just insanely indifferent towards

[bunnyb34r]

Just word spilling here to get this out of my head

I was thinking lately yknow how people always say stuff like "oh I hate rap" or "anything but country" when music tastes get brought up

I have a theory that the reason why is in how/where they're exposed to said genre initially/most frequently

Like people who hate rap, maybe it's that they don't seek it out on their own bc they typically only ever hear it coming from someone's loud speakers (car speakers bass blasted, on the bus, at school) and they then associate the genre with "loud sound 'intruding' on my personal space"

Or maybe they have racist parental figures and THEY always sneered at rap music when they were a kid so they grew into young adults/adults who hate rap bc of the racial bias they were influenced by as a kid

And country maybe the ONLY times they hear it/ the only kind they get exposed to typically is the post 9/11 patriotic shit and that makes them uncomfortable/they dont like that shit (understandable) so they think aaalll country is that kind

I mean it all boils down to them needing to examine their racial bias that underlines their hate (since rap is a predominantly black genre and country was started by black singers) AND explore the genres to find something they do like and find what they appreciate in the genre based on that

I think this also applies to other commonly "hated" genres (but for the majority it IS mostly an underlying racial bias)

Anyway idk I'm just throwing this into the void so my brain shuts up

[simpletoymaker-a]

sighs. Mekhane