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Cosmic Funnies
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.
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@tinfoil-catholic
Check out this dnd/pathfinder podcast I'm in! Would really appreciate if you took a listen and followed!! It's also available on Apple podcast 🥰
Also, I won't be posting about this a ton as we do this for fun, but if you want to listen that would be great!!
Daydreaming a story idea about someone adopted as a young child who comes of age to realize they have been raised, and loved, by the villains. And they're the survivor of a massacre their adoptive parents committed.
Just. A fun thought idea.
We love divided loyalties...
The slow realization that they have been loved not like a child, but as a trophy. But it was love nonetheless. Wasn't it?
Sol Ring
Lost to time is the artificer’s art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.
Artist: Mike Bierek TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link
Contrary to the legend, the Inquisitions were actually scrupulously fair, certainly by Early Modern and even Medieval court standards, let alone compared to East Asian or Islamic court systems. The Spanish Inquisition, the least fair (due to being a somewhat paranoid spy-hunt occasioned by the mopping up after a 700-year war for national survival), still had an acquittal rate upwards of 80%; the Albigensian Inquisition of the Middle Ages, and the Roman Inquisition contemporary with the Spanish one but starting later and technically never ended (now it’s called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—Benedict XVI, in other words, is a former Grand Inquisitor), had acquittal rates upwards of 90%. All three executed only a small minority—3–5% for the Albigensian one—of those they convicted, with the rest having penalties like “go on a pilgrimage” or “donate 10% of your income to charity for a period of years” imposed instead. The Albigensian Inquisition invented several of Common Law’s protections for the accused, like the presumption of innocence; they also had a rule of automatically excluding testimony from the known personal enemies of the accused, unless it could be independently corroborated.
Meanwhile current Japanese and South Korean courts—to say nothing of the courts in the communist dictatorships in East Asia, the nationalist military dictatorships that previously ruled South Korea and Taiwan, or the Neoconfucian dictatorships of the last several centuries—have conviction rates of about 98%, frequently accomplished by coerced confessions that may well involve actual torture, or psychological pressure that could be compared to torture with only slight exaggeration. (So when anime talk about the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, the word “chutzpah” comes inescapably to mind—their legal systems right now are not particularly preferable, let alone the ones that existed contemporary with the Inquisition. The Tokugawa Shogunate killed about 100 times as many people as the Spanish Inquisition just at its three main execution grounds, with far more brutal tortures, and in two-thirds as long as the Inquisition was in operation for. And that is not counting the court-imposed harakiri for members of the upper classes.)
If you want a term for something where protesting innocence is used as evidence of guilt, and so on, “show trial”, “kangaroo court”, or, yes, “witch hunt” is the term you want. (The Inquisitions shut down witch hunts, which is part of why those were a largely Protestant phenomenon. Indeed, due to mere belief in witchcraft having been declared heresy at Paderborn in 785 AD, under Charlemagne, the Inquisition occasionally tried and executed witch-hunters.)
Old men stop soliciting my work challenge
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what if it was called magic the slathering and it was about lotions and ointments
@paula-of-christ
"Catholic guilt" no babe, I'm pretty sure that's Calvinism
best trope: "ugh I guess I'll tolerate you for the time being, but this is a conditional, tactical alliance, and the second I get what I want, we're parting ways" to "you are the only good in the world and I will protect you to my dying breath"
@tinfoil-catholic
LET me on the bed i promise i wont lay on top of you and squish u under my big dog weight please ple please please let me up i promise i'll lay only on a fair amount of bed for me and not take up all the space :3 please pleas (lying)
Why do you live with the wolf from The Thing
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Artist: Daisuke Tatsuma TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link
It's been a minute, so I want to do a quick follower maturity check:
What was the last movie for adults* that you watched, and when did you watch it?
*not necessarily r-rated, a lot of r-rated movies are really for teens.
Sorry about this. Someone I know at work called Superman 2025 adult fiction and I just about broke out into hives.
One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.
One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”
When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.
Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China. One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot. The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.
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Global latina belt strikes again
