#scruples

[saintjamboni]

Someone please explain to me why it seems like every single Danganronpa fan loves Teruteru so much despite him being. Him.

Because he's making trying to watch the DR3 anime really difficult.

In return, have a 2 year old drawing of him that I did for a button commission

I never knew any better, either

[amarenacherriezzz]

Pick my next read!

Greek Lessons

Between Two Fires (4th reread!)

Scruples (70s erotica)

Der Buchspazierer (really popular in Germany rn, "The Book Walker"??)

Books or I'm Bald option

Voting ended onMay 11

propaganda:

that last one doesn't have an english edition, but it's really popular in Germany rn and even got a film adaptation. That book was also a bday gift from my bff ♡

Scruples has been sitting in my shelf for a while. I've heard it described as booktok smut before booktok so I want to read it and compare it to todays published smut haha. There's also a tv adaptation available for free on youtube!

I've been eyeing Greek Lessons ever since a bookseller in Luxembourg recommended it to me. It also won han kang a nobel prize of literature

I loveee Between Two Fires and got my hands on the special hardcover edition last month and this would also be my first time reading the actual physical book instead of the audiobook

[heckate-hexx]

Sam Hazeldine in a trailer for a show that did not get picked up. He has spiked hair and likes to use that back hand at 1:39.

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

She's a clever and essentially good woman... But she doesn't have any scruples. She is ruthless. And merciless.

The Tower of the Swallow (Andrzej Sapkowski)

[hislittleflower-throughconcrete]

"So, how's your prayer life?"

[moratoirenoir]

[turns-out-its-adhd]

16th Century weights and measures seem like they use they same system as when my mum tries to give me a recipe over the phone

Source: http://pkperfumes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Apothecary-Weights-and-Measurements-Tutorial-rev6-12.pdf

[spiritualdirections]

Two rival versions of moderate religious practice

I like these two diagrams as a way of explaining why it’s not always better to be stricter with oneself. 

Some people assume that moderation in the spiritual life is a code word for lukewarmness:

As a result, they don’t have any defenses against any immoderate religious practice, so long as it points to being stricter. Someone mentions Saint so-and-so, who lived on nothing but the Eucharist, and the person thinks, either, “that’s what it takes to be a saint” or even, “I know my diet from now on.” This mentality was behind the Jansenist heresy in the Church, which basically held that any concession to human weakness made one ineligible to receive Communion.  This mentality is also characteristic of the spiritual disease of scruples.

The correct way to think about moderation in religious practice is expressed in this diagram:

Here the moderation in religious practice is virtuous, a “mean between the extremes” in the ancient description of virtue. People with scruples often don’t understand this, which is why not only do they keep adopting stricter and stricter standards for their behavior, but why also they find themselves in despair when they fall short of those strictest standards. 

(h/t)