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feeling this old mitski tweet so hard lately

By far my favourite 'ridiculous mischaracterisation of Catholic practice as pagan' is the account, derived from Martin Martin's account of a journey to the Hebrides, that the people of the West side of Lewis in the 18th century have this particular habit where they on Midsummers Day come down as a community to the sea, walk into it up to their knees, and sing songs in praise of a certain 'Seonaidh', who he interprets as some kind of water spirit or folk memory of a pre-Christian sea god. This I have seen cited all over as an example of surviving pagan practices, and I have seen people who consider themselves Gaelic Reconstructionists Saving the True Heritage of the Gaels worship this being. There's even a decent-ish trad tune about it, "Seonaidh the water spirit".

Now, those of you who know your church year might know that midsummer's day is also known as the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist, a very big and important celebration especially in medieval Christendom, and might have a guess as to why on earth this group of Christians are going into the water on the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist to sing the praises of one of the two Gaelic forms of the Greek Iohannis, and it doesn't involve a somehow surviving pagan cult for 1,200 years which is somehow also involving the clergy.

legallybrunettedotcom

what does prev give off?

prophet in the desert

tyrant king

shady merchant

wandering bard

forgotten god

healer in the woods

rebel group leader

average peasant

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#rebel group leader

ampervadasz

Unmute !

magical-awesome-kid

For those who can’t see/hear:

The video opens a door to an outside industrial plant-like area. Snow is on the ground and there is otherwise some miscellaneous noise of factory work going on.

Then the person behind the camera lets off an “OooOOO AH AH” ie the typical monkey sound.

Suddenly the air is filled with the cries of the humans imitating this monkey sound. No one is seen this entire time. You just hear the cries of people imitating monkeys.

frawgs

jarvis . give me huge jugs STAT

lesvegas

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

lesvegas

literally how it feels

dogpuppy

plantbard

Believe women

darkcomedies

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

darkcomedies

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

polybius-on-gameboy-deactivated

i actually do think you should draw clocky trans people. no i don’t think they’re a stereotype or caricature. i think that’s a horrible thing to say about real people who exist. i think that’s a horrible thing to say about my friends and my family. i want to see your art of a trans boy with curves and long hair and baby face because that’s me. i want to see your art of a tall trans girl with broad shoulders and facial hair because that’s my friend. stop being scared to draw the people you know.

polybius-on-gameboy-deactivated

“I’m not going to draw a clocky trans woman because that’s how TERFs draw them” i don’t think my friends should be forced to only see themselves in artwork made my TERFs and transphobes. They should get to see themselves lovingly drawn by other trans people.