Catholic but Hopeful

Just an everyday Catholic looking on the brighter side of life (surprise!).

[babeymac]

wishing everyone a happy good friday xoxo

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[anonpolls]

How do you pronounce etc?

Etsa

Ehkt

Eee Tea Sea

Etsy

Other

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[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[eldritchsquared]

[airframeextender]

you know what really gets my goat?

[aglaja-deactivated20131222]

el chupacabra

[anonaboo]

I’m sorry!? What?!

[lindseyanna]

[azzandra]

Whoa, chupacabra’s a millennial?

[bookishjules]

[fallenangelvictorious]

Omg happy birthday el chupacabra!

The big 30!!!

Someone get this thing a cake made of goats!!!

[monarobot]

Happy birthday to this legend!

[klapollo]

the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they're pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they'd butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.

[klapollo]

where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall

[adobe-outdesign]

Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they've done:

LGBT culture

LGBT culture describes the social paradigm by which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals sometimes identify. C

[aquilathefighter]

Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.

They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.

It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 I wanna live on Sesame Street <3

[captain-acab]

That's because corporations do not have morals. Full stop. Corporations do whatever they think is most immediately profitable. Pride is fashionable? Yay pride, buy our stuff! Now fascism is fashionable? Haha forget that pride stuff, yay fascism, buy our stuff!

PBS, as a publically owned company, is not a sycophantic profiteer and thus is capable of having principles.

[maxknightley]

everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

[maxknightley]

romantic and sexual partner.

[talons-mcbeak]

My sister sent me this photo today with zero context and I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe

[sidebee-horizons]

A Monk, Aleksandr Kosnichyov, 2006

[dimetrodone]

What is this thing

[dimetrodone]

Investigation on his nature

[oxygen-stealer]

The neurodivergent urge to do this

[oxygen-stealer]

I made this picture in like 5 minutes on Ibispaint and it still haunts me to this day. Nothing else I will ever do will have the same reach.

[breannasfluff]

I’ve never seen the original! But this is one of my fav reaction pics

[why-bless-your-heart]

What I hate about people reducing Jesus’s message to “be kind to each other,” besides the obvious, is that it’s a serious downgrade from Jesus telling us to love each other radically. Your neighbor is the person on the street in front of you. Your brother has to be forgiven more times than you can count. Wash each other’s feet, if they steal your coat give them your robes, die for each other. Jesus didn’t call us to be ‘nice,’ because nice just doesn’t cut it. He calls us to be lovers, not of some amorphous humanity, but of every single person we encounter.

[dmcfadzean]

crunch munch

[dmcfadzean]

Happy tenth anniversary to this comic. I just learned that it’s still being shared constantly on Tumblr. I don’t totally understand why people like it so much, but I like it too.

#comics #dailycomics #comicstrips #skulls #birds

[all-comes-crashing]

me and my friends dancing to “mr. brightside” 

[callunacthulhu]

I can’t get over how well this fits

[kosmogrl]

[fyeahegerton]

I’m a huge fan of yours (requested by Anonymous)

[arrghigiveup]

For context: In that production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian McKellen, playing the titular character in a scene where Lear has essentially gone round the bend, strips completely naked right there on stage. New York critic Michael Portantiere, noted in his review, “Special note for those who care about such things: In a brief nude scene, McKellen amply demonstrates the truth of Lear’s statement that he is ‘every inch a king’.”

[ceebee-eebee]

#wow go ian mckellan #also a+ flirting there taron

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The above scene is amazing but I also feel we need to take a moment to appreciate the fact that a respected theatre critic took time to mention in their review of this production of King Lear that Ian McKellen has a truly impressive penis

[mossadspydolphin]

@bucklikethedollar why would you hide poetry like this in the notes

[skellybonesandtrees]

The pettiness is just 👌😂

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Sound on! Sound on!

[shipperwolf1]

He has since begun getting past the defensiveness and actually talking to people on the left to learn their perspective, and is openly admitting that no, if this hadn't happened to him, he wouldn't have considered our side of things, and that's wrong.

Love me some schadenfreude as much as the next guy, but we actually WANT these people to finally blink and go "oh shit wait, maybe I should move LEFT".

Bc the more we have on our side (esp ppl who can say they left MAGA and finally understand how culty it was, how bigotry is wrong, etc), the more resources we have with which to apply pressure and intimidation to these fucking fascists.

[fozmeadows]

to quote the sacred texts, don't punish the behaviour you want to see

[yunisverse]

i am on my knees tears running down my face knuckles raw and bleeding and BEGGING people to learn the difference between sentient and sapient

[yunisverse]

All animals are already sentient. Sentience is base level consciousness and ability to perceive.

Sapient is human-level intelligence. Any cartoon animals or whatever that talk are sapient. Describing them as sentient may not be wrong but it doesn't MEAN anything because animals ALREADY ARE sentient you mean they are SAPIENT PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU