Romance, Glory, Honour, Fidelity

I've been a devout Catholic for 19 years, a trumpet player for 24, and a nerd since birth. The typos let you know I'm not a bot.

[coruscanttojerusalem]

The owner of this blog believes and professes everything that is contained in the Symbol of faith.

With firm faith, the owner of this blog also believes everything contained in the word of God, whether written or handed down in Tradition, which the Church, either by a solemn judgment or by the ordinary and universal Magisterium, sets forth to be believed as divinely revealed.

The owner of this blog also firmly accepts and holds each and everything definitively proposed by the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals.

Moreover, the owner of this blog adheres with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops enunciate when they exercise their authentic Magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim these teachings by a definitive act.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[edgebug]

"wholesome" and "pure" are not antonyms of "sexual" btw

[darnitjack]

This post brought to you by Song of Songs

[coruscanttojerusalem]

"The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses takes place are noble and honorable; the truly human performance of these acts fosters the self-giving they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and gratitude." Gaudium et Spes 49, CCC 2362

[collectivefandomstuff]

Catwoman: [flirting while wearing a backpack full of stolen art] always a pleasure to see you Batman

Batman: I know you robbed the exhibit. Put it back

Catwoman: [pretends to think it over] you know… I don’t think I will.

Batman: fine. Just one thing before you go.

Batman: [steps aside to show Robin (Dick Grayson), 8 years old] this is Robin

Batman: he’s been asking me to go to the exhibit since it opened but I haven’t had the time

Batman: I finally had some time off this weekend, so we were going to attend on Saturday.

Batman: he hasn’t spoken of anything else all week.

Robin: [blinks sadly]

Catwoman:

Batman:

Catwoman: [wavering] I’m not going to just-

Robin: [in a watery voice] it was all I wanted for my birthday

Catwoman: [throws her hands up] FINE I’LL PUT IT BACK

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 6 days 12 hours

[animate-mush]

This movie is FANTASTIC. I don't want to give any spoilers but. It's so good.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[karrakazz]

everyone is meeting me in the grotto

[karrakazz]

[souf-vs-staff]

You should be able to listen to a full album without looking at your phone. You should be able to watch a 3 hour film from beginning to end without checking social media. If you can't do this, you need to start training your attention span as if it were a physical muscle. I don't experience boredom or restlessness because I've trained my brain to not be dependent on quick stimuli and dopamine hits. If you can't chill on a park bench while waiting for a friend with just your imagination to keep you company, you need to learn how to do it ASAP because one day we may not have access to the internet.

[vintage-tigre]

Oh wow…Lovecraft and Philip K Dick have been jamming on acid in the afterlife:

The classic science fiction trope of brain-in-a-jar appears in many forms: the disembodied human intelligence sustained by machines in Donovan’s Brain, the grotesque preserved heads and laboratory minds of old pulp horror and B-movies, and the philosophical nightmare of The Matrix, where consciousness survives inside an artificial reality while the body is reduced to biological hardware. In each version, the central terror is the same: a mind severed from ordinary life, kept alive by technology, trapped somewhere between person, specimen, and machine.

That fantasy has begun to move, uneasily, from pulp imagination into the outer edges of modern science. Researchers are now growing brain organoids: tiny clusters of human brain-like tissue developed from stem cells, capable of forming neural structures, producing electrical activity, and in some cases connecting with computational systems. These are not conscious minds preserved in glass, nor are they miniature human brains in any complete sense, but they represent a profound shift in what can be created, studied, and sustained outside the body.

The most unsettling implication is philosophical rather than merely technical. Science has not produced a trapped human consciousness, but it has produced living neural systems that learn, respond, signal, and imitate some of the architecture of thought. The old image of a brain suspended in fluid once belonged to horror films and speculative fiction. Now it lingers at the edge of laboratory reality, forcing us to ask where mere tissue ends and moral significance begins. The jar may be real; the ghost inside it remains unproven.

[coruscanttojerusalem]

You are not your brain.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[sunshinetomorrow]

hey there, you've arrived at a Tumblr checkpoint!

are you thirty? have a sip!

are you hungry? have a spack!

have you been snitting in the sale proclation? mack your tabbers!.

are you stick? purt your indies!

do you need to prot a buntle? go! now!

are you tired? break your togs!

do a quick snat of your vitals. are you fond? do you need to reduct your plandles? if you have a trick, tog it. if you need to sitch, go so.

are you grod or too trinking? if you need to break off a grint or mend the bontle, go to that now!

I hope this helps! and I hope your tunderfal day :-)

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

[zagreus]

[cryingprussian]

"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

[exitwound]

mutuals

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

Which is prev?

Unmarried girl

Apologist

Craftsman who works with a wheel

Archivist

Dying person

Educator

Girl

Jurist

Knife sharpener

Lawyer

Librarian

Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours

[the-history-witch]

New College Chapel • Oxford University

[avantegarda]

video game and film fandoms will come and go for me but the Silmarillion fandom will never die. because that book came out like 50 years ago and we're all still trying to figure out what the hell is going on there.