Eye of the Storm

It's Hoo-rah-KAN, named after the Taino word for storm. 'Cause I'm Puerto Rican. This is mostly a fandom blog, but it does often verge into religion, and on occasion into politics.

[vintage-tigre]

Art by Worry Lines

[slyandthefamilybook]

purely balanced

[barzum-and-baizli]

I had a dream last night that someone made sexy tumblr man humanizations of stuff like misogyny, homophobia, racism, etc and they all got really popular and people started making fanart and fanfics of them and shipping them and shit and someone made yaoi fanart of homophobia and misogyny and another user made a call out post for them. 

[barzum-and-baizli]

was looking back through my blog to try and find an ask i answered and found this again and honestly the fact that this hasn’t come true is proof alone that we’re not in the worst timeline

[oglach-uisce]

Hasn’t come true YET

[joshpeck]

[just-bears-here]

It’s almost 4.00AM and this is what my last five brain cells are doing

[thememedaddy]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

your cat was an honor to see in the window

[background-character-341]

For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.

[moderate-irritation]

And you may ask yourself, where is my chronological dash?

And you may ask yourself, where is the following-only option?

And you may ask yourself, who are these people?

And you may ask yourself, why are there so many videos?

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[ravenshazam]

[edgar-allan-possum]

[narrenstrich]

[skodasforge]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[kaosuqi]

photoshop fakers are like the villain with moral standards now

[jurakan]

American Christians Face a Choice

The faithful can still repair the wreckage they have wrought.

The Roman emperor Julian complained that the “impious Galileans” cared for pagans as well as their own poor, thereby increasing their popularity. He urged his fellow pagans to match the Christians’ “benevolence to strangers.” It was a tribute, from an enemy of Christianity, to the power of Christian charity. “Perhaps above all else,” Stark writes, “Christianity brought a new conception of humanity to a world saturated with capricious cruelty and the vicarious love of death.” Will it do so again?

Without paywall.

[jurakan]

How America Gave Up on Its Own History

Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying

"It’s our 250th birthday, and no one seems to know what we’re celebrating."

Without paywall.

[jurakan]

[thebelfry]

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

[peniswizard69]

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Oh I love this news!!!!

[pulmonary-poultry]

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[postilionstruckbylightning]

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

[magical-bear-dubin]

That is such an interesting etymology!!!!

And entomology too i guess

[asparklethatisblue]

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

[istadris]

In French it’s “Good Lord’s Beast”

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

[dent-de-l1on]

In Dutch it’s “Lieveheersbeestje”, the Good Lord’s Little Beast

A liddol creeture

[jurakan]

“We cannot believe in Jesus and promote war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery.”

-Pope Leo XIV

[jurakan]

“We cannot believe in Jesus and promote war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery.”

-Pope Leo XIV

[o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]

Anti-honesty: what person from history would you add to Mount Rushmore?

Rapustin

[o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]

Why is this getting notes?

When did I write this?

Why did I spell Rasputin like that??? How do you even mess up that name that badly???

[aevarswall]

This has conjured an image in my mind!