#i'm catholic so i can say that

[mi-ciudad]

[starryeyedmunson]

Kiss marry fuck kill

Fruity four

Nancy

Robin

Steve

Eddie

oh jesus h christ. okay.

kiss: robin she's just,,,,,,, so fucking hot.

marry: steve!! he'd be such a good dad and he'd just like when you come home wanna just hold you and make you dinner aaaahhhhh i love him.

fuck: EDDIE FUCKING MUNSON. as a sub, rope bunny, masochist, and brat???? dude he has the fucking black handkerchief and HANDCUFFS IN HIS ROOM ARE YOU KIDDING??????? bruh i'd let him literally smack me with a crowbar and then ask me if i fuckin like it and i'd just be like "another please" like holy shit.

kill: I'M SORRY NANCY i love you but we have legitimately nothing in common and it's not like you and robin where it like worked out like i'd literally hate nancy if we went to the same school.

[canisalbus]

Imagine if Machete was Muslim instead of Catholic. His name would be something like Saif سيف, and Vasco would probably be something like Dhahabi ذَهَبِيّ

.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking thoughts about Abuela being back and with this backstory about her being taken in by charlatans and Eddies whole catholic guilt thing and how the two things kind of play into one another as an exploration of faith and being taken in by something.

Abuela giving all her money to the tarot card readers etc because she was searching for something - for connection (with Abuelo) - trying to recapture what she had lost, and How Eddie has spoken about trying to re-find the magic he had with Shannon - how Eddie hasn't actually fully reconciled the Shannon of it all when it comes to relationships and how his Catholic guilt connects into that.

How Marisol as a physical representation of Catholicism is part of that narrative - how Eddie is entering a place where he has to chose his path - in order to move on from Shannon he needs to fully square the hole - catholic or non catholic. And how that needs to happen first - before he can begin his queer journey!

[gay-stuff-is-happening-here]

i'm gonna pretend i don't want gay eddie so gay eddie comes faster

[crimeronan]

the mental health clinic i'm going to tomorrow to manage my psych meds has pretty much exclusively dogshit reviews, which is to be expected because it's a medicaid clinic. even in portland you can expect that the american healthcare system is actively trying to kill poor people, nobody hates a poor person like a mental health professional. HOWEVER since i don't actually want to develop a rapport with a therapist or say anything true in my sessions or do anything except get my prescriptions and get out, here are the BEST THINGS i've learned:

providers are so overworked they will never remember your name or your patient history

you will have a different therapist every time

you will be in a different room every time bc no one has an office

the clinic will refuse to schedule you for therapy more than once a month if you "seem functional"

former employees attest that every therapist quits within 4 months because it's such an unrelenting hellscape

former employees attest that all the policies are made by a clinic owner with no background in trauma-informed care who fucking hates high-maintenance patients and wants to get you out the door as fast as possible

former employees and clients alike attest that the only thing anybody here cares about is avoiding on-paper malpractice suits instead of providing patient care

THE ONE SAD THING I'VE LEARNED:

the main psychiatrist is catholic. and hates medication.

THE GOOD NEWS:

i am a heterosexual cisgender white woman with good heterosexual cisgender friends who loves to work hard for money and wants to settle down someday with a husband and have babies and knows SO MUCH about jesus because i love jesus and He's going to heal me :)

THE BAD NEWS:

i am protestant.

[hislittleflower-throughconcrete]

Unpopular opinion but maybe (just maybe) instead of loudly proclaiming Pride Month is the most sinful awful thing we Catholics could use this month to find ways to reach out to and welcome LGBT+ individuals into our faith to introduce them to Christ

Maybe seeing a bunch of "I hate Pride Month" and "reclaim June for the Sacred Heart" posts COULD give the impression that LGBT+ people are not cherished individuals loved by God and may further from the Church where they could encounter Christ in the Eucharist

Maybe a successful month of June is actually the LGBT+ friends we made along the way

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

[cicelythereaper]

mannnnnnn i never thought i'd miss the dark days of 2011 ff.net but at least back then the narnia evangelical christians(TM) had the decency to announce themselves via homophobic statements in their bios. now you see a suspiciously vague tag on ao3 and you have to do a whoooole detective routine

[encrucijada]

never paid attention in church because you have adhd and all you did was daydream while looking at the ceiling but still want the catholic aesthetic in your latine coded book? introducing: just make shit up

[mi-ciudad]

Andy @avmlsu: gorl they have 4 king cakes at work today Me: NNNNNNNO YOU CANNOT HAVE THOSE IT'S LENT NOW.

[vampacidic]

We got the werewolf natsume gacha (where they were playing the game werewolf) but it's not enoughhh give me a part 2 happyele. Make someone hypnotize themselves into thinking theyre a werewolf. Wait post cancelled they did that already with tetora but as a tiger. Nvm

GNFGRKRGR SORRY I HAVENT READ MOST OF !! ERA im just a horror loser OHHH YOU KNOW WHAT THEY COULD DO. (praying hands) pleeeeeeease give me phantom of the opera mayoi PLEEEEEEEASEEEEEE anyway

i am unfamiliar with. tetora tiger hypnosis though They did what

[singsweetmelodies]

was thinking of pierre/carlos tonight and how we really need a better ship name than "piarlos" (because firstly it sounds too much like "piarles," and secondly because half the people who use it understand it as referring to "piarles + carlos" which is rlly not the same thing.) ANYWAYS. i was thinking through the options (carlierre - sounds too much like icarly. gasainz - just sounds plain weird) when i hit on sainzly and laughed myself stupid. because. that one looks a lot like "saintly," and for all that this duo are both catholic, we all know that they are the opposite of saintly, ehehehe 🤭😏

[nexus-nebulae]

so like. lately I've been feeling like there's some kind of Thing living in this house with me, like a spirit or creature or something, and i feel like it's been here a long time bc of how long things have been going missing in this house with no explanation. and i noticed when i got really badly sick i lost something and it made me like. sob uncontrollably bc it was important. and then i started Finding things in odd places. so i started thanking the mysterious entity. and now I'm finding More Stuff more often. and like i feel strange for believing in this entity bc I've always been told believing in pagan things is childish (??????) and feel awkward thanking it but also i Want To bc it's polite. anyway i wanna like. leave a little offering or something but don't know what would be appropriate bc i also dont know what entity this is

[laststandx3]

Thomas-I've-been-redeemed-through-pain-Hartnell vs Cornelius-we've-literally-been-tortured-Hickey vs Magnus-It-hurts-Manson

[soldier--poet--queen]

what came first, the body dysphoria flare up or the internet deciding now was a fantastsic time to show me transmasc content