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IT'S FINALLY BACK UP!!!!!!!!
Book of the Divine Part 1: Christianity for the Pathfinder System - This is a project I have been working on for a very, VERY long time. It
After a full week of figuring out legal stuff, my book is finally back up for sale on DriveThruRPG!
If you already bought the book and can't download it any more, send me proof of purchase and I'll send you a free copy!
sales for my Pathfinder book seem to have dried up. I suppose that I have exhausted the supply of people in the middle part of the Ven Diagram of Christians and TTRPG fans.
On the one hand, I wish Magnifica Humanitas was shorter. Part of me thinks we didn't need a recap of the fundamentals of Catholic Social Doctrine. But then I have seen reactions online, of non-Catholics who read it and were surprised to find the concepts of solidarity, subsidiarity and common destination of goods in there, and thought they were new contributions rather than the pillars (with human dignity) of CST. So maybe it WAS needed.
people drive really slow here.
I have arrived safely and on time. Thank you guys for praying for me.
can we appreciate for a moment that the show Secret Saturdays essentially made Bigfoot the main big bad, and far from being a joke character he's treated as a legitimately creepy and terrifying foe who is a realistic threat to the life and freedom every single human on earth?
I mean, just LOOK at this guy.
like this is what I was talking about when I was saying cartoon network had the most iconic villains between 2000 and 2015. Classic-era Vilgax, V.V. Argost, Van Kleiss, Slade. They all have their own "aura" that makes them stand out against the crowd as distinctly sinister. Even Aku, who ABSOLUTELY IS a joke villain despite being the main villain of samurai jack, feels unstoppable any time Jack isn't in the room.
I think part of it is that they aren't merely "evil", they are MONSTROUS, and have a classic cinematic flair to them. I've heard Classic-era Vilgax referred to as a cross between darth vader and an eldritch horror. V.V. Argost is an actual monster inspired by classic old horror films, both in and out of universe. Van Kleiss, while appearing human, is a warped, psychologically inhuman sociopath consumed with the desire for power and is fully willing to torture and murder his own allies (on screen) for his own benefit. And Slade... we'll just say that his behavior really captures the predatory nature of his appearance the original Judas Contract comic arc uncomfortably well. They're all unapologetically evil, and they revel in it, which makes them REALLY fun to watch.
I feel like CN shows made between 2000 and 2015 are particularly iconic, especially regarding their villains.
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Couple days late but Happy 16th Bappy to peak television
project hail mary is insane bc the first half is like oh my god the world is dying and there's alien bacteria eating the sun and there's some guy alone on a ship and he's having a breakdown and the flashbacks are getting darker and this is a tragedy the likes of which i have never seen. then BAM andy weir says fuck you actually. here's this pokemon guy he's here to save the day with the power of friendship. and it's the best thing you've ever seen in your life
Tolkien's Eucatastrophe strikes again!
New Titans #33 - "The Future is Tomorrow" (2026)
written by Tate Brombal art by Sami Basri & Adriano Lucas
i had Generator Rex and it's predecessor comic Machina Rex (M. Rex) on the brain, and I thought for a long moment that the coffee maker was part of the Technogenus and would grow legs and guns and attack someone.
grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)
rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it
free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed
BRO
I was thinking about the religious imagery and parallels in Generator Rex, how Rex is incredibly Jesus-coded down to healing the sick and casting out demons, how the jump jets look like stylized angels in flight and the carriers look like celtic crosses from the bottom, how Providence is named Providence and strongly resembles The Catholic Church in behavior and purpose (both positively and negatively), how Black Knight seems to parallel the currents within Christianity in general that replace Christ and the salvation He brings with a false ideology that appears kinder on the surface but is rotten inside, how Hunter Cain represents currents within Christianity in the opposite direction which reject the very concept of forgiveness and salvation and replace it with devotion to a false purity and mindless hate, how the engineers in The Architect demonstrate how good people can be manipulated and abused by demagogues, the fact that Alpha looks and acts like Satan and claims the title of God (Alpha-Omega, the Beginning and the End of all things), and so on.
but I started thinking... all of this really feels intentional. If so, then... where does Van Kleiss fit into all of this? Van Kleiss, the main villain, the EXTREMELY PROMINENT villain in the first season where the bulk of this imagery is established, and yet he appears COMPLETELY DEVOID of any Christian imagery or themes. I've already said before that Van Kleiss seems to symbolically represent the transhumanist thread in modern science, that desires to transcend humanity entirely, but that, again, has almost nothing to do with Christianity.
Then it hit me. The reason why he doesn't have any Christian imagery is because he represents it's antithesis; not paganism, not satanism, but complete apathy toward the very concept of morality, of sin, guilt, compassion, mercy, justice, ANYTHING. The only thing that Van Kleiss values is POWER. Power over others, power over himself, power over reality itself. And he seeks this power through his intelligence, and his will... his WILL TO POWER.
VAN KLEISS IS NIETZSCHE'S UBERMENSCH, THE ANTITHESIS OF THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY!
it makes so much sense now. What better enemy for a parallel to Christ than a living embodiment of everything He stood against? The philosophy that views every act, good and evil, as mere tools to greater power? That rejects altruism? That doesn't hate, but doesn't love either, CAN'T love? That only seeks the self and nothing else?
brilliant. absolutely BRILLIANT.
it’s kinda funny bc the videos of grace hanging out w rocky is the happiest eva stratt had ever seen him. like imagine guilts been haunting you and the laws been hunting you and for decades you have no idea if it’s been all for nothing and then….. first clip you see is the scientist and a sentient rock going “this is me and my BOI ✌️”
Grace getting knocked out at the control panel was probably some sort of nightmare for Rocky. Eridians don’t look like they get knocked out easy if at all, and here’s the squishy alien friend, sleeping very suddenly, and leaking a fluid Rocky surely knows by now is incredibly important. He was watching and Grace is dying anyway.
My mom and one of my sisters are REALLY not taking my departure well. :(
I start the first leg of my trip tomorrow! Pray for my safe and expedient arrival in Saint Louis.
