rat's all, folks

mar, 27, she/her art tag is #myart

[iimanii]

12.12.2017 | altair and malik. woodcarving, scrolls, sleeping, arguing.

[allthe0slinedup]

Do you hate me?

[cynical-cat]

Do you guys remember when nothing bad happened to Desmond and he lived a long, happy life? That's my favourite part :)

[swadloom]

STOP saying the otherworldly powers are corrupting my mind godddddd. You literally wish you were us. I mean us. I mean me.

[twirlingfreckles]

kids these days don't know what it felt like to be bisexual and wear a stupid as fuck hawaiian shirt in 2017

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[rainwasheseverythingaway]

The time will pass anyway

[rajieeeee]

[teainlungs]

she didn't mean to, honest

[teainlungs]

💋💋💋

[skxtchyghost]

been playing a lot of asscreed rogue lately

[rolanroran]

"ezio getting burnt on his (ring) finger is like an engagement to altaïr"

[mrasayf]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“she felt like a kebab” goes so hard 😭

[petiteechorizon]

Venonat for a 4-fun fanzine themed around Poison types! The lil guy’s one of my faves, they’re out there hunting 4 food, kekeke~

[qqueenofhades]

Guys, I have great news. The literal U.S. leader of the Committee on Catholic Doctrine has taken time out of his presumably busy schedule to also tell JD Vance to eat shit and educate him on, like, the basic tenet of Catholicism.

I think it's "when Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ" that really does it for me.

(Etc etc I cannot believe I am getting this much enjoyment out of high-ranking Catholic officials weighing in on American politics, but here we are. Can you imagine being JD Vance, my apologies for that mental image, and still publishing your bell hooks-ripoff-titled-book in June about What A Great Catholic You Are. At this rate, we can definitely get Bob to pull the excommunication trigger on or around that exact date.)

[qqueenofhades]

Listen, speaking as a historian, the question isn't "has the Catholic Church been used as a massively destructive instrument of state violence in the past, often by its own eager initiative and sanction." Because it has been. Obviously it has been. There's an argument to be made that the Catholic Church became an instrument of state-sanctioned violence as early as the fourth-fifth century CE, when it became institutionalized across the Roman Empire (religion and empire: tale as old as time, etc etc). Then there were the crusades, the Inquisition, the sponsorship of mass colonization/genocide in the Americas in the name of "saving Indian souls," the systemic sexual-abuse scandals whose cover-ups were driven by the need to "protect the church's image" and everything else bad that comes to mind when you think of the Catholic Church's historical legacy. Which is why many of us (myself included) often view these well-intended "Catholicism is a religion of peace!!!!" messages skeptically, to say the least. Religion is always political and the Catholic Church has been entwined in it since the very beginning.

But uh. Kinda the Core Big Thing about Catholicism is that What The Pope Says About It Is The Final Word, The End. They had many, many wars about this. They had an Investiture Controversy and Pope Vs. Holy Roman Empire centuries-long power struggle about this. They had a Reformation and a Counter-Reformation about this. The whole thing when you're a Catholic is that even if you disagree with him and/or ignore him, the guy in the chair gets the Pope Privilege of being the final say on the matter. Even if what he's saying is totally opposite to whatever the last guy said, tough titties. He's The Pope, Fuck You. So when you have an absolutely reprehensible toad like JD Vance, who cares for nothing but his own political career and self-advancement, already infamous as Pope Franciskiller 3000, strutting around and writing books about How He's The Most Catholic and trying to lecture the actual current pope about staying in his lane, JD Vance Knows Better And Is More Catholic Than The Pope, it is deeply hilarious.

(JD Vance, Antipope does seem about right for this stupid stupid timeline. Avignon Papacy Electric Boogaloo, here we come.)

Also, Bob, I repeat: Do it. You know you want to.

[samimarkart]

Pigeon stack!

[ullathynell]

40% off all my art prints on INPRNT today, including these newest additions!

These three pieces are also featured in my 2027 calendar, which will be launched in the upcoming Woodlands Kickstarter campaign, and later on available from the publisher's website as well. ♥