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20something. 🌈 ~*~profound quote here~*~ very long queue. i make actual posts rarely camp and cheesiness are virtues, being boring, predictable or narrow-minded are cardinal sins if you have one of those links filled with personal info you’re scamming yourself tumblr veteran grumbling playing bridge on the porch w/the others lol

[helenvaughans]

[azspot]

“Christian Nationalism is wimpy. For all its macho bluster, crusader fantasies, and tough talk about a masculine faith, Christian Nationalism is wimpy. By Christian Nationalism I mean a Christianity that not only seeks but needs the apparatus of the state to be its protector. Think of it as nanny state Christianity. The swagger that characterizes Christian Nationalism is compensation for its insecurities. Deep down the Christian nationalist is afraid that following Jesus might be, well, hard.”

— Brian Zahnd

[airedelalmena]

Yeah, pretty much. They don't want to follow their own trumpeted religion and never have.

[eartharchives]

Ancient Turkish cave reveals Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared same way of life

A cave in Türkiye suggests the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans was far more culturally seamless than once believed. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven.

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/neanderthal-homo-sapiens-cultural-continuity-14904.html

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

good morning world   :)    ♥

[elephantaday]

Day 1489 of posting videos of elephants.

You guessed it - Tula! sent to me by @aegor-bamfsteel

[spiritualseeker777]

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[vampfuneralpyre]

[motsimages]

I'm adding an analysis based on watching US films and series and being Spanish who reads Spanish literature and watches Spanish films and series.

I'm culturally catholic and not religious (not even baptised) but like... a thing I don't see enough of in US media when they want to touch catholicism is the fact that you can sin and then you repent and it's all good. The guilt is what makes you repent.

I don't go to church and don't know all the details of it all but as far as I know, absolution is a big part of the catholic confession and it's the way to take your sins away. You can sin your whole life, repent when you are about to die and be absolved/saved. I know this mainly from jokes, because those of us who grow up in Spain not being Catholic still live in a world where this happens often since the Middle Ages.

In media and stories, there are ways to interpret this that could be very interesting but never are because usually we have protestants who don't bother looking into it. They just mock the Catholic guilt, I guess to feel better about their own ways. If they do something serious, make guilt just a permanent feeling that prevents people from moving on or do something other than praying, when it could actually be the main motor for a story, as it is in our stories.

It can be the way a character chooses to ignore all responsibility because he will always be forgiven (or so he thinks) when he says "I'm sorry". It can be the way a priest manipulates a believer into doing whatever he wants, because the believer is looking for absolution and the priest keeps on giving conditions for it (see: La Regenta, a classic of Spanish literature). It can speak of the frustration of not being able to change or not being able to help someone else.

Also, it goes against the infantilisation that we are seeing more and more. If you are born with the original sin, you are expected to sin and you must feel guilt to be absolved, you are allowed to grow and learn. And that's something both children do and adults do. You don't live in a permanent state of purity where seeing something unholy will taint you (like reading "fuck" instead of "f*ck").

[amandier-et-lavande]

My slow life in Provence by @amandier-et-lavande

[chippythedog]

[lizardho]

This morning I was looking at my wife with dreamy eyes and she was talking about something nerdy and cute and she saw me looking at her and stopped and reached down and pinched my cheek and said “now we’re crab married” and all day we’ve been pinching each other gently and saying “crab wife” and that’s what love is tbh

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself” by Charlotte Eriksson⁣

[dubiousdisco]

[airedelalmena]

I'm in the library and someone (I think it's the older lady, can't tell because there are a good handful of people) is sitting there with no earbuds at one of the computers just listening to these songs aloud

I will say. You have good taste. But, ma'am. Pardon me. Please.

[airedelalmena]

The way DND people act like it's some quirky, fringe thing only they and their friends do is equally annoying. It's been popular since like, the 70's.

This ask is from 2021 but I never look into my ask box. Whoever you were/are, I agree to an extent lol. That said, it didn't begin to be mainstreamed until pretty recently. It was a "weird thing" that was done in like, people's basements and comic book shops where it was incredibly unpopular to go, at least based on talking to middle aged family. But yeah, now it is 100% mainstreamed as part of the sort of...post-Joss Whedon and Harry Potter era "rise of the geeks" moment or whatever. Which came with what I've seen called gentrification of SF/F subculture.

Which is likewise why you see so many fantasy novels with basically mainstream soap opera plots but HP-style "cute magic", usually without attempts to delve into a lot of the elements earlier authors were working with, or distinguish themselves or their creations as individual at all. Which kind of ties into the whole conversation about publishing houses only selling what seems risk-free and profitable. But that's a whole broader conversation.

Basically, we've left the dungeon.

[blackjame]

Madison Square Garden sues Wired over article alleging celebrity 'risk scores'

Madison Square Garden filed a defamation lawsuit against Wired Magazine over story claiming the arena tracked and assigned risk scores to ce

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly

Madison Square Garden Has Been Secretly Tracking Queer Musicians

The venue’s database also assigned a “high risk” label to Freddie Gibbs, Lil Jon, and other rappers

Madison Square Garden Allegedly Marked Celebs as “LGBTQIA” in Surveillance Database

New reports from 404 Media and Wired reveal a database that allegedly categorized 93 celebrity guests as “LGBTQIA.”

MSG is suing Wired over recent surveillance article

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[melkem0t]

Marseille

[toiich]

Penda's Fen (1974), dir. Alan Clarke