an admiring bog

your local Catholic cryptid ~ she/her ~ Sof/Sofi/Sofia ~ mostly into old books and other such nonsense

[an-admiring-bog]

inspired by @love-elevated -- I wanna get back to letter writing! past and present penpals include my 3rd grade teacher, 10yo student, and college roommates who moved far far away. dm me if you want to swap pretty typewriter and handwritten letters and stickers and things like that <3

[an-admiring-bog]

who else wants to be my pen pal?! it's the beginning of the school year which means i have a great urge to do anything but school. including write letters. come write letters with me

[valtsv]

i like the term "gallows humor" because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like "i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution"

[valtsv]

[autisticandcatholic]

The Story of St. Lawrence's death, patron saint of comedians

The prefect was so angry he told Lawrence that he would indeed have his wish to die—but it would be by inches. He had a great gridiron prepared with coals beneath it, and had Lawrence’s body placed on it. After the martyr had suffered the pain for a long time, the legend concludes, he made his famous cheerful remark, “It is well done. Turn me over!”

[ahopefulbromantic]

Always reblog St. Lawrence's execution!

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Clare of Assisi

1194-1253

Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad)

Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[lt-commandertom]

Oh, Sir Patrick Stewart the Royal Shakespearean actor that you are…

ONE OF THE GREATS

[orthodoxadventure]

​Icon of the Mother of God

[lingling40hrs]

i love 80’s music and by 80’s i mean 1880’s i’m talking about tchaikovsky again

[thatsbelievable]

[thatsbelievable]

[farewell-to-lorien]

Talking to Ghosts, by Sienna Gonzales.

[hopefulqueer]

Computer. New Mountain Goats album. Loud enough to kill.

[not-a-choice]

Beautiful lyrics from the mountain goats as always

[krollmonster]

The Moutain Goats' entire discography lives in the second between wanting to say "I'm going to kill myself" and pausing to think "I should stop saying that"

[for-the-sake-of-fuck]

[2birds1pencil]

twin high maintenance machines

[starbuck]

so many bands write songs about “relatable issues” that don’t resonate while the mountain goats write songs about issues no one has ever experienced before that are universal

[aropride]

joke i like to make when a baby is crying in public is “we’ve all been there.” We literally have

[jacki-daytona]

i like to say “they make a good point” and nod wisely

[an-admiring-bog]

burst a (viola) string mid-One Day More and had to replace with my sister's violin string. everyone pray I make it thru act 2

[an-admiring-bog]

made it! barely! hooray! two more shows next week and then I will be Less Miserable, as the classic joke says