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“Community has pulled off one the most patient easter egg: in one episode of each of the first three seasons, the word “Beetlejuice” was used off-handedly in a joke. If you’ve seen the movie Beetlejuice, the titular mischievous ghost would appear in the world of the living if anyone said his name three times. So, sure enough, on the third mention by a Community character, this guy appears in the background for exactly two seconds. They patiently waited three years to reach that punchline.“

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I’m a country girl at heart. || More of a townie, really.

The Crown ♕ | ✑ requested by @catie-does-things

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Abbott Tryphon appreciation post

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“War of the Waleses" – as told by Princess Anne.

Erin Doherty (Princess Anne) & Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II) | The Crown 4x09: Avalanche.

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I don't have words that can speak to this. This is why I'm Catholic

«A priest friend recently shared a story with me about a pastor he knew who served in a downtown area with a large population of gay people. There was a transgender person who would regularly visit his church and light candles at the various shrines. He would present himself with great drama, very theatrical, wearing over-the-top wigs and hats and dresses. He was never irreverent, but whenever he came in, he naturally captured everyone’s attention.

The priest would always greet this man with a smile and kind words. Once, he found the man weeping at the shrine of Our Lady. The priest asked what was the matter, and the man revealed that his mother had died and the family had requested that he not attend the funeral, as they thought his presence would confuse and scandalize members of the close-knit Baptist congregation. He reluctantly complied, missing his own mother’s funeral. While the funeral was taking place, he came to this Catholic church so that, gesturing to the statue of our Lady, he could be with his Mother. He then told the priest that all his life he had been the object of derision and mockery and he had known very little kindness. But over the years, he discovered that the one place he could go where he knew someone would be kind to him was the Catholic Church. And even if someone wasn’t kind to him there, he found that kindness in the faces of the plaster saints.

A few years passed, and the priest noticed that the man was not coming around as much, and when he did he looked like a shadow of his former self. The priest made inquiries and discovered the man was gravely ill. Before the man died, the priest visited him (in the man’s disheveled apartment) and the man was utterly despondent, sure that he would die alone and that no church would bury him. But through the priest’s intervention and by the grace of God, the man became open to being received in the Catholic Church. Shortly before he died, he became Catholic, and the priest offered him a funeral Mass. Few people were in attendance, but those who came remembered the man from his theatrical visits—the daily Mass-goers and the Rosary ladies. After the funeral, they all stayed behind to light candles and pray for the repose of his soul.

This is precisely what Pope Francis means in his yearning for a “Church of mercy.” No one had to do anything more to convince the man of his misery. What he needed was to be convinced that he mattered and that he could be loved. No moral teaching was compromised in letting the man know mercy. That’s what saved him.»

(via Brandon Vogt)

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Unrealistic

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Library Appreciation : Clementinum, Prague (National Library of the Czech Republic)

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HOWL in Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki