#st. simon

[cuties-in-codices]

saints & fancy border decorations

in the hours of catherine of cleves, dutch, c. 1440

source: NYC, Morgan Library, MS M.917/945, pp. 228-280

[sittinwithyou]

Just reminding you how simple things turn into shit in a hurry.

On September 7, 2019, the Golden Ray eased into the harbor, where stevedores offloaded 285 Hyundai Accents and Kia Fortes from two decks and loaded 339 brand-new Kia Tellurides onto three. Harbor pilot Jonathan Tennant then joined the crew to navigate the boat out of the narrow shipping channel. Around 12:45 a.m. the next day, the Golden Ray raised its 275-ton stern ramp, and captain Gi Hak Lee declared it "ready for sea" and the voyage to Baltimore. Flanked by the Dorothy Moran tugboat, the Golden Ray made for the Atlantic with Tennant giving commands to the quartermaster at its helm. "Our job is very much about feel," he says. "You become in sync with the vessel." It was a still, 72-degree morning—"cupcake conditions," Tennant says. He remembers looking out at the moon, the lighthouse on St. Simons Island, and the lights on the Emerald Ace, an inbound car carrier. Once he felt in control of the vessel, he dismissed his tug so it could assist the Ace and pressed on, eventually ordering 10 degrees of starboard rudder to make the fourth turn of the voyage out to sea. But 10 degrees wasn't enough, so Tennant called for the next logical thing: 20 degrees starboard. That's when the ship began to lose it.

THE VB 10,000 HEAVY-LIFTING VESSEL SERVES AS BOTH SAW AND CRANE IN THE GOLDEN RAY SALVAGE OPERATION. IT PULLS A CUTTING CHAIN THROUGH THE SHIP TO SLICE OFF A SECTION, WHICH IT LATER PICKS UP BY THE LUGS WELDED TO THE SIDE AND DROPS ON A BARGE. EACH PIECE THEN MAKES ITS WAY TO A RECYCLING FACILITY IN LOUISIANA.ILLUSTRATION BY MORON EEL|CAR AND DRIVER

It was normal for the Golden Ray to lean while making the turn, but this "felt like she was going to spin out of control," says Tennant. Trying to slow the swing, he immediately called for midships (0 degrees), then 20 degrees port, then hard to port. When the ship didn't respond, he turned to Lee and asked, "What is happening?" Lee's reply—"Whoa!"—prompted Tennant to ease off a bit, to 20 degrees port. Suddenly, the ship's stern slid out "like someone kicking a stool out from under you," Tennant recalls. "The lights were gone. All I saw was water." Nevertheless, he kept driving, calling for full lock again, still hoping to right the ship. But unbeknownst to him, the rudder and propeller were already out of the water. Nothing could stop the Golden Ray from plowing into the sound. The crash threw Tennant against the wheelhouse windshield, and he held fast to a gyrocompass to keep from sliding away. Water rushed into the vessel through an open door in the hull. Inside the upended engine room, engineers similarly clung to life in the dark as the seven-cylinder lost power and fires broke out across the disabled ship. With the stern stuck out in deep water, a flotilla of tugs and taxis responding to Tennant's distress calls converged on the capsized carrier to shove it onto a sandbar. The Golden Ray risked being dragged to the bottom of the channel, which could have choked off the busy shipping lane and drowned everyone aboard. Tennant is an Eagle Scout who still lives by the preparedness mindset at age 46. As he dangled 50 feet in the air, he thought about the rappelling gear in his work-issued F-250 Super Duty that was parked a half-mile away near the pier. U.S. Coast Guard teams arrived by air and sea to contain the ship's fires and help Tennant, Lee, and 18 others escape. (True to maritime tradition, the captain refused to abandon ship before all members of his crew were safe, but Tennant convinced Lee he'd have a better chance of saving his men by leaving the vessel. That way, he could share his knowledge of the Golden Ray's access points with the Coast Guard.) Trapped in the bowels of the ship, four engineers stripped down to their underwear and climbed into the floodwaters seeking relief from air temperatures that hit an estimated 150 degrees. They banged on the hull to make their presence known. Nearly 36 hours after the accident, they were rescued through a hole cut in the hull. Tennant shudders to think what the outcome might've been had the ship rolled over at sea. "I don't believe there would've been any witness to it happening," he says. "And the ability to call for help would not have been there. I truly think that I essentially witnessed a miracle."

[lascitasdelashoras]

Simon Leclerc, Place St. Henry, 2023

[notsoterrifyingrenegade]

Thinking about women in the Venture Bros universe, specifically how they’re treated in the OSI vs the GCI (spoiler alert: it’s way better in the Guild)

Throughout the show we see three prominent women in the OSI: Gathers, Myra, and Amber Gold. They’re all mistreated by the organization in one way or another.

Gathers is forced to detransition to get back in because she knows it’s a boys club and there’s no way they’ll ever let a woman into a position of power.

Myra has been broken by her job and then the OSI sweeps her under the rug and tries to act like she never existed.

Amber Gold is almost never seen in the field on her own and is always accompanied by a man (Headshot and Brock).

On the other hand the women of the GCI have wayyy more agency. There are plenty of female antagonists who work on their own and are in positions of power (Vain Gloria, Mommy Longlegs, Novia). Sheila was originally an antagonist in her own right as Lady Au Pair and later became part of the council and became more important than her husband.

Hell, even Bobbi says that she basically switched sides because of how badly she was treated in the OSI.

I definitely don’t think this is just a coincidence. In many of the pieces of media that the Venture Bros takes inspiration from there are very few women, especially spies/soldiers, but there are PLENTY of villains/femme fatales. I think it's so interesting to see how women navigate a world where many of the systems are rigged against them but they still tend to win in some way regardless.

[yuzhoubeisi030]

💥🔥

[fictel]

I’ll post my venture art here. Just messy sketches while I relearn how to draw everyone. It’s been a while

[ineedhjalp]

and what if I told you st hilarion was the patron saint of loneliness. what then

[whats-9plus10]

It’s the longest day of the year :)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Tavik Frantisek Simon, The New York Public Library, 1920s. Etching and aquatint on paper.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

[tomicscomics]

02/21/2025

Happy Feast of the Chair of St. Peter (this Saturday)!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. In this Bible story, Jesus warns Simon-Peter that his faith is about to be tested (during Jesus's arrest and execution), and although Satan wants to use that test to destroy the disciples, Jesus assures St. Peter, specifically, that He prayed for him, and that once Peter "turns back" (i.e. "returns to the disciples after denying Christ"), he must strengthen his brethren. 2. As per my pact with my patron (St. Lawrence), I am bound to inject humor into every comic, lest I face "the Cleansing." Thus, in the last panel, Jesus makes a pun. He basically reiterates what He tells St. Peter in panel 3 by saying, "Your faith will be ROCKED (as in "caused shock or distress" or "tossed by waves, like a boat"), but as the ROCK (Peter's name means "rock"), you must ROCK on (as in "continue to celebrate the music -- or, in this case, the Gospel -- like a rockstar")." Then Jesus waves a hand-gesture called "the horns," which rockstars use.

[cuties-in-codices]

st. christopher carrying the christ child // st. mary magadelene in a grotto

from a book of hours illuminated by simon bening, bruges, c. 1530-35 // size of the illuminations: 4.8 × 3.4 cm // (here's a cute video about this manuscript)

source: New York, The Met Cloisters, Inv. 2015.706, fol. 207v and 212v

[s1n3ater]

i lovveee songs that are supposedly about a women being jealous of the attention another girl is getting from her boyfriend (that just end up sounding like shes in love with her)

[leporedae]

diamonds are a girl’s best friend ✧˖°.

[sea-owl]

Spouses:*pretend crying* Our mother in-law doesn't love us anymore!

Violet: I didn't say that, I'll always love you

Violet: What I said was I wouldn't take my children back, they're you're problems now

Spouses: It's the same thing!

[n1ckelpistol]

A ver cuándo - Los piojos

[goatvaxing]

family majeure