#our new orleans

[steven-myself]

Voodoo- Hamidou Banor by Baldovino Barani for FACTORY Fanzine XXXVI

[twobrokenwyngs]

You were fucking loaded. Beyond articulation.

Interview with the Vampire - S01E02: "…After the Phantoms of Your Former Self"

[cementcornfield]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjvwQTLg4ac/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

It's about the parallels 🥲

[showtoonzfan]

Maybe it’s just me but the way both these characters are from New Orleans, POC, and French Creole, and yet one of them sounds like they’re exactly that and the other sounds like an average white dude.

Like no offense to Edward Bosco, I love his voice acting and he’s very good, but holy shit you can just tell that Alastor being mixed creole was a last minute decision. I’m blaming Vivzie in this, not Edward, because while Alastor does have that 1920’s old Atlantic accent but he certainly doesn’t sound of his heritage, compared to Nico where the accent is clear. Of course I know that not EVERY person or group sounds exactly the same, so maybe this is a nitpick but still.

[jameslmartello]

‘One of a kind’ Eucharistic boat procession set to roll down Mississippi River  | Catholic News Agency

[nbasource]

ZION WILLIAMSON Los Angeles Clippers @ New Orleans Pelicans | March 15th, 2024

[realpontchartrain]

So the three of us just had the official talk about all moving in together when Robbie and I finally buy a house, in front of James no less lmao

[masterqwertster]

Cursed(?) Knowledge:

Ashton, as a person, is Madi Gras colors: purple, green, and gold.

[ignotussomnium]

Looking into tourism as a method of resource extraction. If anyone has recommendations for articles or books that talk about similar subjects, I would greatly appreciate it.

[dawnlotus1]

You guys don’t understand how crazzy this vampire campaign is making me. ME AND MY FRIENDS CAMPAIGN. MY FRIENDS GO CRAZY WRITING. y’all. Y’all. If you heard any of this story and symbolism — analysis essays would be written so fast. I’m going insane.

[stars-forever]

My Gift for the PJO Equinox/Solstice Exchange

Here is my gift to @littlelilliana15for the @pjo-equinox-solstice-exchange. I hope you enjoy the story. It started as just being a story and then I thought of adding some graphics and then it ended up with me learning what AO3 limited HTML could be used for so that I could add all the graphics I made. 

If you would like I can gift the story to you on AO3, I tried to do this earlier but it wasn’t working.

Also if for some reason there is a problem in this post, this is my first time posting on Tumblr so hopefully, I’m doing this right.

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR The Patroness of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana Feast Day: January 8

The French Ursuline nuns first arrived in Louisiana in 1727. The nuns established a convent and founded what is the oldest school for girls in the territory of the modern-day U.S., Ursuline Academy, which educated the children of European colonists, Native Americans, and those of the local Creole people, slave or free. The Spanish sisters came to assist the growing school in 1763 after Louisiana fell under Spanish control.

In 1800, the territory came back under French possession, and in 1803, most of the sisters, fearing the anti-clerical sentiment of the French Revolution, fled to Havana, Cuba. When Louisiana passed into the control of the United States, the sisters sent the President a letter asking if their property rights would be honored by the new government.

Short of teachers, Mother Saint Andre Madier requested sisters from France to come to America to aid the struggling convent. She wrote to her cousin, Mother Saint Michel Gensoul, who was running a Catholic girls boarding school in France at the time. The Catholic Church was suffering the wrath of the revolution under Napoleon. Mother Saint Michel, knowing that the Church was in distress in both her homeland and abroad, approached Bishop Fournier of Montpelier to request a transfer. Bishop Fournier felt unable to afford the loss of another nun, as many had been killed or fled during the revolution, and advised Mother St. Michel that only the Pope could give this authorization.

Pope Pius VII was a prisoner of Napoleon at the time, and Mother St. Michel knew the unlikelihood of the Pope even receiving her letter. She prayed before a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and said: "O most Holy Virgin Mary, if you obtain for me a prompt and favorable answer to this letter, I promise to have you honored at New Orleans under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor."

Sending her petition on March 19, 1809, Mother St. Michel received a letter from the Pope Pius VII granting her request on April 29, 1809. Mother St. Michel commissioned a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Infant Jesus. The workman carved her flowing robes so that she would appear to be moving quickly. Bishop Fournier blessed the statue and Mother St. Michel's work.

Many miracles have been attributed to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor. Two historical events are especially associated with the Virgin. The first occurred in 1812 during the eruption of a great fire in New Orleans devastating the Vieux Carré. The Ursuline convent was facing imminent destruction as the winds blew the terrible fire toward the Plaza de Armas.

An order was given to evacuate the convent, however at that moment, a nun named Sr. St. Anthony (Marthe Delatre, daughter of Antoine Delatre) placed a small statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor on a window seat and Mother St. Michel began to pray aloud, "Our Lady of Prompt Succor, we are lost unless you hasten to our aid!"

The second major miracle occurred in 1815, three years after the disastrous fire. General Andrew Jackson's 6,000 American troops faced 15,000 British soldiers on the plains of Chalmette. On the eve of the Battle of New Orleans, New Orleans residents joined the Ursuline sisters at their convent in the French Quarter to pray throughout the night, imploring the help of Our Lady of Prompt Succor.

On the morning of January 8, the Very Rev. William Dubourg, Vicar General, offered Mass at the altar on which the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor had been placed. Cannon fire could be heard from the chapel. The Prioress of the Ursuline convent, Mother Ste. Marie Olivier de Vezin, made a vow to have a Mass of Thanksgiving sung annually should the American forces win. At the very moment of communion, a courier ran into the chapel to inform all those present that the British had been defeated. They had become confused by a fog and wandered into a swamp.

The Mass ended with the singing of the Te Deum, and an annual Mass of Thanksgiving has been held January 8 ever since.

Pious believers of New Orleans pray before the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, asking for her intercession whenever a hurricane threatens the city. During hurricane season, prayers are said at every Mass in the city during the Prayers of the Faithful requesting Our Lady of Prompt Succor's intercession and protection. After Hurricane Katrina, prayers were made to Our Lady of Prompt Succor asking for the quick recovery of the damaged city and surrounding area.

On June 13, 1928 - the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Pope Pius XI declared the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor as the Patroness of Louisiana.

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Here in extremely Catholic New Orleans, we specifically worship two holy figures: the Venerable Henriette Delille (the first U.S. native-born African American whose cause for canonization has been officially opened by the Catholic Church; born a free woman of color here), and Our Lady of Prompt Succor (a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary enshrined here in New Orleans). I nominate them both for the appropriate categories!

NOLA, where you can get a psychic reading across from the church and then drown your sorrows in seafood and alcohol!

(Also remember Catholics don't worship saints or Mary, we just venerate/look up to them!)

BUT after those disclaimers I am happy to add both Ven Henriette and Our Lady of Prompt Succor to their respective lists!!!!

[jameslmartello]

St. Louis Cathedral-Basilica in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

[fibbermcgee123]

Proposal to dub the thing where companies constantly force broken processes and products on us that make our day-to-day life materially more difficult to navigate, solely in an effort to appease like 8-10 insanely rich guys:

✨️"endless shrimping"✨️

[aheathen-conceivably]

i love the new moodboards! How do you make the portrait in the middle? I would love to do this for my own saves.

Hi, there! Thank you 🥰

These are made using an AI app called Toonme, which has a “build your own filter” feature that I used to make decade accurate(ish) portraits for each character’s era.

However, for those who prefer not to use AI I imagine you could use photoshop or another photo editor to add appropriate detailing to in-game photographs. I’ve seen others do this and it always looks stunning, however my efforts at editing never come out quite as realistic (although that has more to do with my own editing skills than anything else)!