#protestant core

[le-ophanim]

why is it called the good friday when everything that happened was fucking awful for everyone involved. should be called fucking awful friday

[blistexenthusiast]

symptom journal quilt by Nicole Jones Studio

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Bonus tell us why in the tags!

[bowenoke]

favorite part of writing a story is when it finally clicks, once you find the core that makes the story work and also worth writing but i named my current wip after The Core of the story and.

[aqours]

a hc i'll never let go of is that i think Belos would get REALLY fucking mad if you called him a catholic. like you have no idea. i think witches are like, probably the only thing he'd consider worse than a catholic

[dolliesboneyard]

Lord forgive us for what we have done.

[falderaletcetera]

listen. I don't just love father brown because I first saw it while ill with the flu or because it's consistently kind to the outcast in a way that has reviewers calling it Too Woke, obviously a vote in its favour. or because the recurring thief character is very pretty to watch. though those are significant parts of it.

I love it because after eight seasons father brown sits down with the village drunk (a munitions expert in the war, has a soft spot for the parish secretary, name of harold or blind harry) to find out why he gave a murder suspect a false alibi and harry explains to him, calm as you like, that seeing the life leave someone's eyes changes a person, that it's what he reckons brought father brown to his faith, that it's what drove him to drink, and he didn't see that shadow in the guy the police are chasing this time. and father brown, rather than justifying or correcting or dodging or doubting him, says he knows how unjust the situation is. that he got something good out of the horrors of the war. that harry really didn't.

it is not a perfect show and yes I have problems with it but gosh, this is a character who's largely used for comedic beats, albeit kindly, and a scene like this isn't out of place at all but it still takes my breath away. we could've been left with this as subtext, y'know? I hadn't even put together that his alcoholism must have been trauma. but instead harry tells us this directly, tells us it's about guilt, that that's something he shares with father brown, who is competent and so often cheerful and I can't even imagine when he was younger, and it's a moment of such unexpected humanity and respect. and it's such a strange thing to see these characters side by side like that.

the scene ends with father brown calling harry a good man, and harry denying it ("they was only young lads" "so were we, harold. so were we.") and the two them sharing a drink as father brown gets a bit watery-eyed and I'm crying too over my nice cosy 'this is a concerning number of murders for a sleepy english village' show and just. hi. what. ow.

I also haven't recovered from the episode that turned into a heist halfway through but frankly I'm only mentioning that because I don't know how to wrap up a post like this. (it was good though. there were two separate honeypots, three if you count the impromptu replacement, one character terrible at grifting and one unexpectedly great at it, and, somehow, a con within a con. it was really very fun. get a show that can do both, I guess?)

[comehithercornking]

hey babe, wake up, new reason to abolish the police force just dropped

[rustchild]

are gentiles aware that you can speak out against genocide without trying to legislate the complex nuances of jewish identity from a place of total ignorance. like

[thoughtportal]

Murphy – a song for aaron bushnell Aaron Bushnell 2/25/98 -2/25/24

[magnoliamyrrh]

its been insane witnessing the full force of propaganda and american imperialism with my own two eyes as an adult these past few years. obviously ive known abt it plenty and seen it before, but witnessing it at this age with this much force is... dystopian and crazy

[chicago-geniza]

Not what's needed rn but at some point will translate into Russian and publish as a blog post the research project from my refugee seminar final about the Soviet Jewry movement & how both Israel and the US made deliberate diplomatic + policy decisions that took advantage of both top-down/legal and lateral, ambient/societal antisemitism in the USSR to shunt the flow of emigration to Israel, exclusively, and entirely to facilitate the Israeli government's demographic program, while denying full citizenship and/or full recognition of Jewishness to those who "repatriated." Moreover there's a whole emigre political nexus that I called "Navalny Zionism" to a friend but it's not really a misnomer, and it's part of why so many Russophone expat Zionist Jews (and frankly, just Russophone expats) use the Caucasus as a rhetorical proxy for Palestine (no I am not ignorant of political Islamist shit, I am talking about, e.g., how many people who purport to oppose "Russian imperialism" suddenly bring up Chechnya as a rebuttal when someone speaks against the occupation, way before the incident in Dagestan, and know little to nothing about the region at all. I'm far from a fucking expert but have at least read some primary sources and talked to people beyond my background)

[marypsue]

If I were lucky enough to attract a loyal following of goths, I would simply not slag off the subculture in interviews in a desperate and pathetic attempt to get the mainstream to consider me a real artist. RIP to every musician goths have ever loved but I'm different.

[j-esbian]

wild fucking take i saw and like. i know it’s funny to make fun of catholics bc of historical oppression but i don’t think it’s unreasonable that, if you are an unbaptized person at a catholic religious ceremony, you’re expected to not take communion. you came into their house

[ms-hells-bells]

you guys know that pretty much every single political group in history has had the moderate reformists and the radical revolutionaries, right? and that even though they disagree about certain methods, their goal being the same means that they cooperate in order to achieve more attainable short term progress while actions are taken at the same time for long term progress? this is what liberal feminists used to be to radical feminists, the two groups did not hate each other, they just had different outlooks, but generally respected what the other group was trying to (and had some success to) achieve. we lost this dynamic and relationship with the post modern, genderist overtake of liberal feminism, and so it is clear to me that we are in dire need of that role again, with the same repeating schisms in approach that appear under the singular label of radical feminism.

at the very least, we need to establish a differentiation in reformist (i don't mean surface level equality feminism, but looking at practicality and realistic, incremental actions, and harm reduction for women while the other group is more about instant action towards the big picture of abolishment of the system, which won't occur tomorrow or any time soon considering most of the world is NOT radical feminists) and revolutionary radfems purely for the sake of having that instant understanding of how the other faction thinks, and not having these aggressive arguments over and over again when it is clear that it's not a misunderstanding or hypocrisy or bigotry (well, sometimes it is, but i mean the core issue), but a fundamental difference in worldview that is unlikely to heavily change with defensive and highly tense online debates that keep happening over and over.

this is all i'm going to say for this round of 'oh my god everything is imploding again'. this is also not saying anything specific about certain people or making judgement upon individual incidents on either side, i'm not getting into that. just a general thought after looking at repeating patterns of conflict.