#niche posts again

[wisteriagoesvroom]

probably good that oscar didn't stay on the academic track because he would've been one of those people that's utterly intolerable and annoying with their 40+ IB score

[searchingforserendipity25]

it's a good thing conclave didn't waste any time on making the stories about catholic orders and their in-fighting. and probably i shouldn't either because i am not informed enough about it to go on at length. pls take all of this w a grain of salt.

but i know in my heart of hearts that aldo bellini is a progressive liberal jesuit, the holy father's specialest most progressive liberal italian-american jesuit.

look at him. look at his glasses. those are the glasses of a man who did his dissertation on reinterpreting loyola through a contemporary reformist lens. academic wunderkid. has sooo much beef w the editors of american jesuit weekly. possibly the events of conclave are occurring in a better more beautiful world where aldo bellini is the editor of american jesuit weekly.

the late holy father for sure was a progressive jesuit also. vr pope francis coded. and low-key set him up as a successor. for a while, that seemed nearly a sure thing in some circles.

but there is the fact. well. the fact that everyone is tired, done and tired of jesuits, progressive or otherwise.

this among other factors meant he couldn't consider him the best option, besides whatever character judgement and uncanny machievallien prediction he came up with.

adeyemi has that benedictine swag which makes his potential election particularly seem like a breath of fresh air + reliable + lots of influence. tremblay is giving dominican drip and dominican corruption. and dominican flop. his nespresso machine? it's giving dominican also.

tedesco has to be an italian-founded order member. most hypocrital salesian of all times maybe?? this is unrelated to the fact that i was nearly enrolled in a salesian primary school and the weirdly panopticon-ish playground didn't pass the vibe check. and also because: consider tedesco rising in the ranks of an order created to help migrant workers...someone kick him in the head for me pls.

who even knows about benítez. i want to say franciscan but that might be just too on the nose. cistercian?? honestly it would work well if he is also without affiliation.

this lens does make lawrence's homily being interpreted as a campaign speech more understandable (and particularly funny).

because, as far as anyone can tell, he's fully running as an independent candidate. zero platform besides - if i fuck up i'll apologize and do better and be held accountable, which is more than any of you probably would.

and because he stands alone, he can be held accountable. he can belong to all, and not one faction only. as far as anyone can tell, he's burning bridges with bellini and rocking the status quo.

he is speaking to/from a place of frustration with institutional inertia and factionalism, he is using his position as dean to bravely promote a platform for internal change in the curia, he is offering doubt as an alternative to certainty, he is pulling an absolute wildcard move.

pity he didn't mean it.

pity the the only order lawrence is interested in joining is the most hardcore discalced carmelite experience possible.

you know how some people look into luxurious real estate listings like it's porn? that's lawrence w tiny monasteries. the sort of minuscule organization with not enough people for management to be necessary. too small for politics. as close to erasure as you can get in this world: no need to be useful.

serving god by existing only to meditate on him. a narrow slant of a life, at that. barely taking up space, barely casting a shadow.

his favorite is a decrepit wreck of a place in the middle of southern spain, nowhere. no wifi no speaking aloud no possessions. no shoes no food. no nothing, only prayer. and a big big sky overhead.

maybe that will fix his issues with reaching god. if that doesn't work he'll probably just wander into the tabernas desert and become an hermit. works for some people, supposedly; plenty of order founders seem to believe so, anyway.

[arch-aeology]

Merry Christmas! Here’s a Jayvik au where they’re college students in 80s New York

[xxplastic-cubexx]

graph

bonus:

[crispy-art-on-fire]

I saw @/johannamation's ship dynamic meme and I was like THEM ITS THEM. I am pitching you BlitzPrime I am on my knees I needdd more of them.

[charcubed]

do I think that Dean Winchester knows he's bisexual? Yes. Do I think he knows he wants to fuck Cas? Also yes.

[soaptaculart]

Zelda & Link 🫶

[muttmedley]

idea: cockwarming the strap you're going to facefuck them with so it tastes like you

[spock-adoodledoo]

sometimes I get you shou yan on my weibo feed because of the overlap between it and frz so I’ve been enjoying the official human design sheets of their characters So Much. can’t believe those fluffballs are getting humansonas omg… I fucking love character sheets, these ones are SO FUN. super fun sketches, good personality and snippets of their characterization, cool layout and the human version designs are cute af!!! it tempts me to get into this series waahh

[chat-no-r]

i crush thee,, alien

[washingtonwerewolf]

whatever…. freelancer w chronic pain and fatigue. freelancer who doesn’t mean to neglect themself but the time gets away so easily and everything takes so much energy. gavin who teasingly inquires why they haven’t been up and about but it doesn’t take long for him to realize something is more seriously amiss. his freelancer’s skin with a sweat sheen and unkempt hair. gavin who takes matters into his own hands, running a bath for the two of them and scooping freelancer off the bed and gently depositing them into the warm water, settling in behind them so he can get at the nape of their neck while he washes their hair for them. freelancer who sniffles and tries to mumble out an argument about how he shouldn’t have to do this for them- & gavin who shushes them before the sentence is even finished, kissing up their shoulder and whispering against their skin that he lives and breathes to make them feel good; & good can’t possibly be achieved in this state, & he loves them & would take far grander steps to help them than just this.

[emiko-matsui]

how badly did you handle being dumped on a scale from owen carvour (faked his death, betrayed his country, killed over a thousand people, tortured his ex in disguise, tried to launch a worldwide surveillance system during the lavender scare despite being gay) to delissandro katzon (used the last gift he ever got from his ex, a knife, to mutilate himself to never be able to let go of the memories, appointed a younger girl he knew was in love with him in the position in his court that he invented for his ex, started a war)

[fumifooms]

Benichidori is jirai kei

Benichidori's modern look is very iconic to the japanese alt fashion movement jirai kei! The archetype associated with it even fits her in interesting ways. Here's what and why

(The untranslated top part reads something like: "If their world was our modern world, Benichidori would have worn contacts and drawn tear troughs.)

The two most damning features are her very distinct makeup and pink & black hair combo! Incredibly iconic. The iconic jirai kei has a very specific look, being dressed in pink and black or some white, with casual chic type blouse and skirt, but the "subcul jirai", a somewhat debatable semantic, is used for the look of jirai kei that has become more neglected in its wider image with time, for example very commonly seen wearing a huge loose shirt like a dress. Baggy & loose, primarily dark with pastel embellishments is a way to sum it up. Something dark with an edge of innocent.

I'm gonna be quoting the aesthetics wiki because I think they put it better than I could. I also recommend the japanese fashion wiki for more info and visuals— Here I tried to pick references that are more subcul and less front and center, but for example Benichidori's exact hairstyle is common if you look around. "地雷系 is a subculture originating from Japan that is heavily based on the teens hanging out in the night life of Kabukichō (a red light district). During the height of its popularity it highly resembled Japanese Girly fashion, especially dark girly, but has since moved on to integrate a broader variety of styles. The stereotype behind this subculture is that cute, hyperfeminine young women who dress in darker fashion styles have personalities that do not match their appearance. Rather than being sweet and demure, they are said to be violent and obsessive (like a Yandere), and-"

I'll spare the gritty, more sensitive details, but yes the reputation of this style is based on very stigmatized negative assumptions of its wearers being emotionally unstable, with mood swings. Jirai in the first place means landmine, so the name associated to the fashion being "landmine" gives you an idea of the stereotypes associated with those who wear it, it's the same idea as with calling someone a ticking time bomb.

Which brings us to our girl! Very quiet yes, very demure, looks pretty and does her job in elegance and silence. Until…

Mood swings is right! For Benichidori analyses I have other posts, but it's clear Benichidori has her sensitive spots and anxiety spikes that can get her to lash out- canonically stated dysmorphia, black on white text on her profile, in fact.

So yes lots of dark and problematic roots with this movement, both in actual events surrounding it and the way they are treated for it. Needing money for a host addiction (Host clubs- Usually predatory industry where people grow an attachment to the escort they buy time with/for. I recommend the oneshot Kamiya by Tsubasa Yamaguchi that depicts this), gang affiliations, trafficking... And well, Benichidori does have experience with one of these.

But yeahh! I want people to draw more of modern Beni, basically. Love her. Give her attention. This could even be used as ship fodder. Hienbeni Benichidori yandere confirmed. Did you know? Modern Rin is goth/dark girly, according to her summer sketchpage look <3 I love thinking of them hanging out, rinbeni real. The ninja trio girlies all trying out alt fashion together and aaa 💕

I found so many clips of people all telling the story of how jirai kei is not so secretly messed up and yada yada when I first looked into the subculture, but it is good to know that jirai kei/dark girly clothing is being worn a lot by people not part of its culture as well, apparently! It's becoming more mainstream, so to speak. Still, in my heart Beni remains my landmine girl……… 🫶

[ariadne-mouse]

sidenote I love that Jester speaks from an informed voice about orgies and how they function, and also that when observing a group of people going into a back room at the Leaky Tap asks quite seriously if they're leaving to have an orgy, because genuinely at the Lavish Chateau this is what she might have observed lol

[juicysnoop]

watched like 7 seasons of buffy in half a month something is wrong with me anyway ... him

[hunting-for-sport]

Bones and All, Camille DeAngelis | Fear the Walking Dead (2015) | "Cotton," the Mountain Goats | "Against Pollution," the Mountain Goats | "(You Made It Feel Like) Home," Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bones and All (Original Score) | "Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph Of," the Mountain Goats