#praem

[brackgiraffe]

Plant

[seven-gays-of-sunlight]

Evee: This is Praem, she’s… not my assistant, some other word. Praem: I’m her carer. Evee: Yeah, my carer. She cares so I don’t have to.

[selfdiagnosedeyemotif]

little height chart for the octopath OCs

[analog]

i really really like katalepsis but oh my god when heather tries to ego people its so.... its not even really cringy its just sorta cliche

[vibrantlyinvain]

i like to think that Dave from Dave and Muko is before the PRAEM was built. that’s why he’s so… chaotic? compared to the other interpretations of him, such as in Vs Dave and Bambi and Dave’s house. That part of Expunged was still in him. He probably didn’t know it was there. I like to think his personality changed a TON after the whole PRAEM thing- both from trauma and because of Expunged and him being separated… and Expunged kinda taking the chaotic energy with her.

[bambisfunhouse]

Lots of PRAEM related stuff...

[beantothemax]

also now that i've officially started work on cierra's story do you want me to hold off on sending you asks about her until you finish praem's story?

yeah that sounds like a good plan, lemme go look at her chapter 4 real quick

[anastpaul]

Saint of the Day – 27 December – Blessed Roger of Verdun O. Praem.(Died 1138) Priest

Saint of the Day – 27 December – Blessed Roger of Verdun O. Praem.(Died 1138) Priest or Regular Canon, Friar , Abbot and Preacher of the Premonstratensian Order (the Norbertines), Born in the late 11th Century in Germany and died in 1138 of natural causes All Saints and Blesseds of the Premonstratensians Roger was born at the end of the 11th Century in Germany. He was a nobleman and belonged to…

[cheatingexploitation]

I know he isn't important to the lore in any way that I can think of but- What do you think of Exbungo?

exbungo ! i love making excessively deep concepts for him because he was left alone on purpose to stay funny. i think he's really silly regardless i have drawn him a few times

specifically i like the concept of him also being a result of the praem like expunged. just because its really funny to make him wrinkly like hes old or something

actually i have this exbungo fantrack i literally just never finished but i think there still is no exbungo fantracks out there so maybe i should finish it just to be the first one. who knows

[booksandchainmail]

thoughts on the final? arc of Katalepsis

(this includes spoilers for the patreon advance chapters, specifically up to 24.2)

One: the setting change is an excellent idea. A big problem with any kind of long form horror is that eventually the fear wears off, and I think this is amplified in cosmic horror. There's only so long you can keep describing things as unknowable and indescribable and Wrong before it gets banal. But this final arc is neatly avoiding that by, after a few chapters to get across the weird, switching to a mostly metaphorical? pocket dimension? setting, where the horror can come from the twisted mundane.

And of course it has particular satisfying kind of full circle feeling: just as at the beginning of the story Heather is trapped, alone and restricted, surrounded by people sweetly, earnestly telling her to just behave and do what they say and not trust herself, and it's all in her best interest. Effective horror! And very satisfying to see how, even as she has to play along, she can do so without losing herself or compromising what she knows.

Two: I really like the character work going on for the rest of the cast. It's fucked up and disturbing to read, but very crunchy to think about. The way that in this world, everyone shows up as a mockery of themself.

The Caterpillars and Knights are easy, since they're pretty simple beings. It's spelled out in the text that the Caterpillars are explorers, but here trapped in a terrarium. And the Knights, built to be protectors, have been placed as prison guards

Twil has been... tamed is the word coming to mind. Cut down, placed in this pretty, preppy, meek upperclass respectability, robbed of all her roughness, and emotion, and aggressiveness, and confidence. This is a Twil who does not have a wolf inside her, who didn't grow up knowing she was faster and stronger than everyone around and utterly unharmable.

Evee is, I want to say, made a victim and only that. She's stuck back where she was as a teenager, her wounds still raw and bleeding, mobility aids removed, denied the safety and time that let herself heal, but also stripped from the drive (and Raine's help) that let her survive, just trapped with no escape from the woman who was killing her piece by piece.

And thinking ahead to the ones we haven't seen yet:

My first thought for Raine was to made conforming, but that's pretty much what's going on with Twil, so it would be redundant. Apart from that, I have two angles: one is Raine as she was before meeting Evee, aimless and drifting, no sense of purpose or meaning in her own life, on the outskirts of society. The other would be to pull from Raine's lack of an internal moral compass, her talent for and enjoyment of violence. Raine without having found people to structure herself around could be very, very dangerous, and either way (or both combined) I think this might lean into that. The caveat here is that if this asylum is trying less to shape them all in a way that is realistic but twisted, and more just to make them harmless, this would have to go differently.

Zheng, I think the obvious approach is to return her to being a zombie, just a corpse puppeted by a mage's will.

Lozzie, I think it will just mimic what her brother and uncle wanted to do to her. Treated like a child who can't make her own decisions, shoved into conformity... they've definitely taken her poncho.

Praem, I don't know entirely. Maybe she'll be one of the nurses, twisting her care into control?

Sevens is tricky, because I don't know if even this world can trap her. But if it can, I think it might have forced her into a single mask, which would be an utter unmaking of who she is. Alternately, if it's willing to give her more power, I could see her being made the puppetmaster of this place, with all her power and craft turned to a new type of story...

[ao3feed-tolkien]

The Mystery of Heather and Haruhi

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/sVaoT9d

by macrocosmus

A massive crossover fanfic that was made simply for me to be over-eager about including way too many stories. Why are so many stories being mashed together? What is the cause of this? Who knows!? I do!

Words: 14055, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Katalepsis - Hungry, 涼宮ハルヒ | Suzumiya Haruhi - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Marathon (Video Games), The Black Company Series - Glen Cook, Senki Zesshou Symphogear

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, Multi

Characters: Heather Morell, Raine Haynes, Twil Hopton, Evelyn Saye, Tom Bombadil, Praem Saye, Kyon (Suzumiya Haruhi), Suzumiya Haruhi, Asahina Mikuru, Nagato Yuki, Taniguchi (Suzumiya Haruhi), Kunikida (Suzumiya Haruhi), Security Officer (Marathon), Koizumi Itsuki, Raven (Black Company), Croaker (Black Company), One-Eye (Black Company), Goblin (Black Company), Tracker (Black Company), Toadkiller Dog (Black Company), Lady (Black Company), Yukine Chris

Relationships: Raine Haynes/Heather Morell

Additional Tags: The Fandoms are Spoilers, The Characters are Spoilers, Crossover, This fic is for me you all just happen to get to read it, tags will be updated as story progresses, I put author notes in there because I don't care, egg fic, who is the egg? find out later

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/sVaoT9d

[candlelightpress-org]

March 26, 2023 homily: Fr. Sebastian Walshe on Resurrection Faith from CandlelightPress.org on Vimeo.

Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O. Praem., 7 AM Homily at Our Lady of Fatima on Resurrection Faith

[timetochaing]

≡ P R Λ Ë M ≡

[selfdiagnosedeyemotif]

hurting so bad because ive been waiting to write praem 4 and 5 since forever but that damned chapter 3 is standing in my way

[analog]

been reading katalepsis and i love praem so much

[tabernacleheart]

“Son of Perdition.” “It were better for that man if he had never been born!” Horrible words for someone who evidently met a horrible end, and they were pronounced by One who was all-knowing, and who had given their object every kind attention. We speak of Judas Iscariot, Our Lord’s betrayer. The overwhelmingly common interpretation over time of such expressions is that Judas has been, is, and ever will be among the damned. [But] I for one cannot say that I have any joy in the thought, and still less in the conviction, of a soul’s damnation, much less of the soul of a chosen apostle. I am sure that [the] saints didn’t, either. Nonetheless, I can’t bring myself to contradict such weighty authorities with any certainty-- the sad fact seems to be well established in the tradition. Granted, there are some apparent exceptions, especially within the Eastern tradition. Origen in his commentary on Matthew holds out hope for a Judas who was so filled with remorse that he impulsively wanted to precede Our Lord in death so as to be able to encounter him in his “naked soul” and beg for pardon. St. Gregory of Nyssa tends toward a hopeful opinion; St. Silouan of Athos says we should pray for his salvation even now. [So... is Judas in hell?]

Clearly, we should hold on lightly to any interpretation of a soul’s eternal loss. The Church does not have an opposite process of canonization. There is no particular illumination to be received from the fact of a soul’s damnation, whereas a soul’s beatitude is filled with the light of grace and revelation and so is proclaimed solemnly by holy Church. Our message is of redemption, and the default outcome for Christians is salvation. [This gives] us a lot more hope and confidence than just the [vague] notion that God would not really let someone fall into eternal hell. [As Christians,] we can be [truly] hopeful about the salvation of even the worst of us without falling into a sentimental naturalism and the [misguided] doctrine of universal salvation. [This is because, far] more important than [trying to determine] the fact of Judas’s damnation or— if it were possible— his merciful salvation, is the example set before us, [for] every sinner, at least every grave sinner, is a Judas, one who has betrayed the Lord. He repents, but only to the point of despair. He regrets his fall, admits his injustice, but does not go immediately and seek pardon. [However,] Saint Peter betrayed [Jesus] also and at the same time, and yet Peter was restored by true contrition. He proclaimed, “Lord, You know that I love You! You know all things; You know that I love You!”

It is a certainty that God will give true contrition, which takes away even mortal sin, if we ask it of Him, and especially if we ask with trust, [and] intend to make a good confession as soon as we can... Contrition, a good confession, and a penance imposed by the priest and well performed will be our best offering at this holy time. The absolution of the priest will do for us far more than we can desire or hope for. Now is the time to make that good confession! [Do not make the fatal mistake of Judas, when redemption is mercifully within your reach.] The remission of one mortal sin is a greater work of God that the creation of the entire external universe. And yet this happens all the time in hundreds of thousands of sacramental confessions! If the removal of our sin requires an almighty power, it is not hard to understand that so great a power may do things beyond our imagination even beyond the grave. [That is hope for both us and Judas.] Between the next-to-the-last and the last breath, a new world can come to be. Between the bridge and the water, [our] salvation can be obtained. [As our own end inevitably approaches,] let us hope for all, and cling to the means of grace, and then we will escape the fires of hell for sure! Or, infinitely better, we will be fit for the glory of heaven and the resurrection!

Father Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.