A random Pope (XXXI)

A pope that must not be named

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Happy VERY late Christmas, @R5H ! I have to say that I was confused by your request, and since I didn't want to draw something that could be cuestionable or even offensive, I decided to just draw Amanda being Amanda during December :,) I hope you like it

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Merry late Christmas, @shititsarobyn :D Luna Nova is giving gifs to the surrounding countryside, but Diana have to keep watch on Amanda and Sucy, whose idea of a perfect gift are potions (Mostly poisonous ones) xb

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Happy late Christmas, Miss Scrawl! Luna Nova has an old building in a snowy mountain and decided to pass the Winter there. Akko with the... unexpected? help of Sucy tried to build a giant snowman. Nothing could wo grong, right? :) I tried some new stuff with this one, and I almost miss the date, sorry for making you wait. I hope you had a great time with all your beloved ones <3

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Akkoshley :D (Before this fad dies out)

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In the case you haven’t yet, go watch Bocchi the Rock :)

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“What is going on with these two?!” Lotte thought.   Yep, this is the most romantic I can get xb Merry late Christmas, dear KE :)

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

[woolandcoffee]

We stan an icon.

[atlinmerrick]

I never knew the whole quote or its circumstances. Lord she was amazing.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” – Ursula K LeGuin

[einarshadow]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

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:o

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Keeping my tradition of posting my gift at the last minute xb Akko and Amanda were about to fight, but Sucy got what it needed to defuse the situation fast ;)  Merry Christmas dear anon (Since Noajt didn’t gave me your nickname lol) and an epic year 2022 for you and all your loved ones <3

[wildsurvival]

[bear--hearted]

This is a beautiful graphic but it doesn’t explain the pros and cons of each fire type.

The Swedish torch is good for an efficient and contained fire, it’s controlled and good for cooking over and produces less light and heat than other fires. It can be difficult to keep going once you burn through the original log

The teepee is your traditional campfire. Good for heat and light not great for cooking, burns through fuel fairly quickly

The star fire is one of the slowest burning and not well protected but provides an even heat good for slow cooking and is excellent if you have limited fuel and need the protection a fire can provide

The lean to is a compact and efficient fire that evolves into a dense and hot bed of coals. The structure creates a good source of air flow which can help damp wood burn. A slightly better cooking fire that isn’t as bright. It also provides protection from wind on one side

The platform fire is incredibly hot and will create a very thick bed of coals but it doesn’t have a lot of air flow and is a little harder to get started.

The log cabin is big and bright and has lots of air flow which again is good for damp logs. You can also use this structure to start a smaller fire in the middle while drying out bigger logs. This fire will crumble into a messier bed of coals that don’t produce particularly even heat for cooking.

The modified leanto is excellent if you need it to perform multiple functions. The side with more fuel will burn bright and hot and the side with less fuel will burn less hot but more evenly and controlled, this gives you different cooking options.

[rinitachan]

reblogging for writing purposes. the exact reason will come soon enough.

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Interesting

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SAME ENERGY 

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Episode 7 alternate ending :^) 

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“Akko, we are going to finish what we started in that Magic Astrology test!” “You re on!”

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Im really, REALLY sorry for the long wait :,)!! But here’s your present, @daijoboob. Everytime Chariot gets drunk she also gets really nostalgic, so she tried to summon the Shiny Arc... with a bottle of good ole Chilean wine :D

[tastefullyoffensive]

“Most Awful Sleeping Face in Japan” (photos by @mino_ris/via neebus)

[sterlingkato]

I can’t not reblog this. I tried… impossible. 

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<3 <3

[lwasanta]

Assignments Sent

Given that there were so few people, I was able to get all of the assignments done and sent out today! I did make a few mistakes, and had to issue two corrections, but everyone should now have an email from  [email protected] with the details for their gift and delivery.

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Few people? That’s sad to read :,)

[theneonflower]

Misty in the 2000 movie: Hes never alone because he has... me.

Me, crying:

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Good ole times <3

[catchymemes]

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<3 <3