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[catilinas]

everyone i've talked to about this has been completely unaware so: if you didn't know already, there's going to be a solar eclipse, with totality or coverage of 90% or more in some places, over a lot of europe, on august 12th 2026. in the uk it will start just after 6pm, and the maximum will be at 7:13pm.

here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)

get eclipse glasses if you want to look at it. it is not safe to look at through sunglasses. ok informative post over o7

[ex-libris-craux]

mostly missing me but i know a bunch of folks that are right in the path 🥰 enjoy it for me, my lovelies!

[importantcatpics]

[kianamaiart]

former baddie

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[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[greeniery]

i tried to make a venn diagram but my migraine is ironically too bad for me to have the brain power to take the time to fix the proportions and then i locked one of the text layers and got pissed off and gave up. but i kind of like it all fucked up like this

[messsssmer]

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

[fireknightqueelign]

thy mother

[messsssmer]

Art thou for fucking real

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[viridiancolors]

[mlembug]

[flipocrite]

why?

it’s working just fine

[catasters]

[brennapepper]

actually a really good way to explain black holes to sillyheads

[uss-edsall]

Love seeing something from TikTok and going “girlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal States”

[uss-edsall]

Jewish baby named Edgardo Mortara is seemingly about to die in Bologna, 1851

Catholic nanny secretly baptises him to save his soul, which she’s not exactly the kind of authority who can do that, but w/e, it’s interpreted by the church as valid later

Kid survives

1857 her secret gets out, a baptising makes a kid a Catholic according to the Church and a Catholic can’t be raised in a non-Catholic household in the Papal States, so the church authorises the police to kidnap Edgardo from his family

Raised personally by Pope Pius IX, Jewish family not allowed to take him back due to Church doctrine, this action destroys the family with grief and despair

This case gets international infamy with the Pope not understanding why everyone’s shiting on him for doing this, including allies

Emperor Napoleon III shifts from opposing Italian unification to supporting it as a direct consequence

Bologna falls the next year, 1859

Kingdom of Italy forms 1861

By 1870 Rome is lost to the Italians and the Papal States are no more

(Edgardo Mortara goes on to become Father Mortara)

(He dies in Belgium in 1940 three months before the Nazis occupied the nation, which if he’d have lived he would’ve been persecuted as a Jew)

[communismlives]

[sztupy]

Wikipedia confirms

Mortara case - Wikipedia

[bonyassfish]

Fun fact: the Catholic Church did not stop doing this after Edgaro Mortara. During WW2, many Jewish children were put in convents or catholic-run orphanages for their own safety. Sounds nice right? Except after the war ended, when parents or surviving relative went back to claim their children, the church went, “uhhh, actually they’re catholic now, no take backs!”

The most infamous of these cases was the Finaly affair. Two Jewish children in France, Robert and Gerald Finaly, were placed in a Catholic nursery in 1944 in anticipation of their parents being deported to Auschwitz, where they were both murdered. Their aunt, Marguerite Fischel, survived the war and went to find the boys so she could take them to live with her. However, the nun who had custody of the boys, Antoinette Brun, adamantly refused to give them up, reportedly saying that “The Jews are not grateful”

What followed was a years long custody battle where despite being repeatedly ordered by courts all over Europe to return the boys, Brun took them to many different countries and hid them, with the support and help of other nuns and priests. It was suspected at the time, and later confirmed by documents released in 2020, that Pope Pius XII had supported the effort to keep the boys away from their surviving family and have them be raised Catholic.

Thankfully, after negotiations between a sympathetic cardinal in France and the chief Rabbi of Paris, the boys were finally recovered and reunited with their aunt.

The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives

Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatic

I wish I could say that the phenomenon of the Catholic Church kidnapping children and keeping them away from their families for the purposes of forcefully raising them Catholic is unique to Jews, but it’s not. From the mid nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, the Church ran hundreds of residential schools in the US and Canada where indigenous children were kidnapped from their homes and forced into these cruel and inhumane “schools”. The children were forbidden from speaking their own languages or practicing their own cultures and religions, their hair was cut, and they were subject to emotional, verbal, spiritual, physical, and sexual abuse. Many of the children died due to malnutrition or medical neglect, their bodies buried like dogs beside the schools. The Catholic Church was not the only Church to participate in this, but they’ve been the most reluctant to fully acknowledge and apologize for it. It was only in 2022 that Pope Francis apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church for their part, but some people found the apology inadequate.

Idk what my point is here, just that there’s such a clean link between evangelizing, cultural/religious imperialism, and how damaging and horrifying a religion can be when it is thoroughly convinced of its own superiority. And that unless an institution is forced to change, it probably won’t change on its own.

[ravioliet]

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

[an-drom-eda]

environmental storytelling

[depsidase]

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

You also purchase CDs once and as long as nothing happens to them you get to keep them forever.

[alteredpanel]

why do you draw?

[json-derulo]

when we started talking about getting a small-breed dog I was like, "I will NEVER turn into one of those people who treats their little dog like a doll or an accessory by forcing them to dress up in ridiculous outfits. Dogs HATE that. They should get to be DOGS, and that means not having to wear anything but a HARNESS and being FREE to ROLL in the MUD." and then I adopted a dog who throws a fit if you try to take him for a walk without letting him pick out a bow tie first. a dog who loves wearing pajamas so much that I'm about to spend a disgusting amount of money on several sets of linen ones for summer. a dog who watches me wave at him to follow me through a mud puddle and just stands there blinking up at me like, "are you fucking serious? and get my paws wet?"

[json-derulo]

me: I will raise him no differently than the two 80-lb labs I had growing up. absolutely no hoity-toity frou frou little yapyap dog stuff. he's gonna be a good ol' fashioned, rough-and-tumble, capital D-O-G—

—never mind. the boy yearns to be ensweatered

[json-derulo]

to celebrate the popularity of this post, I ordered him another set of the linen jammies in yellow. now he looks like paddington bear

the etsy seller threw in a little miniature hermes silk scarf as a freebie and I dare you to tell me he doesn't know how handsome he looks in it. whenever we take it off of him he broods like he's a wealthy victorian orphan child in desperate need of a seaside holiday to restore his delicate aristocratic constitution

[everydayimslothin]

Far be it of me to comment on the politics of another nation, but the Binface thing is so fucking funny. I just saw an attempted smear article against Binface in the Telegraph. It was basically just like THIS JOKE IS NOT FUNNY IT IS STUPID ALSO A DIFFERENT GOOFY POLITICIAN WHO DID A SIMILAR BIT KILLED THEMSELVES (stay classy Telegraph) AND ALSO DID YOU KNOW BINFACE IS LIBERAL!?!?!?!?!?

I'm reminded of a time in high school during student body elections, when some of my friends began posting signs around the school to encourage students to write in a vote for the pokemon blastoise. And no one really took it seriously until the school did a psa over the morning intercom not to vote for blastoise and to take the election seriously.

After that everyone in the school, now realizing they had the ability to actually mildly disrupt the proceedings of those in power, agressively and obsessively began campaigning for blastoise. 'A vote for blastoise is a vote for blastoise. Vote Blastoise.' Became the most common thing to hear in the hallway. Some people even made tshirts with a tshirt press. Eventually a human was elected but only because the school didnt count the blastoise votes. Real voter fraud happening here. I bet the boring human class president only got like 3 votes in total but I'll never know how much my hero Blastoise was cheated.

Anyway a vote for Binface is a vote for Binface. Vote binface.

[valtsv]

you'd think that demons would have a lot more sympathy for the virgin sacrifices and a lot less for the guy holding both of them captive against their will

[valtsv]

guy wearing a hooded robe and holding a tome of ancient magic: o foul demon, i have summoned you here to -

the demon, walking straight past the sacrifice and towards the guy who summoned them with murderous intent: is this guy bothering you queen?

[readerofthewilderwest]

'i have summoned you demon!'  'uh no you haven't. i don't see you bleeding out in the middle of the summoning circle'  'then... then why are you here?'  'SHE summoned me.'

@the-knights-who-say-book​ how could you leave this gem in the tags???

[wolvesandhoundshowltogether]

OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

[rhysintherain]

Smoke and echoes filled the dark chamber, until it felt like a place belonging to another world.

Which is why it seemed so jarring when Apollyon, Prince of the Abyss, Bringer of the End, appeared looking surprisingly human, in jeans and a black leather jacket.

They stood still for a moment, frozen in confusion as their eyes flicked around the room, landing on the bleeding girl in the summoning circle.

"You alright?" They asked.

"No," she replied through sobs. "I'm dying."

Apollyon raised one hand in a simple gesture. The bleeding wounds across the girl's face and arms started to close, leaving only cuts and red stains in the fabric of her white dress.

"Well, now you're not. Best stop crying about it, because somebody needs to tell me what the everloving FUCK is going on here!"

"Obey me, fiend!" Boomed the man in the black robe, the one who held the knife. "I have summoned you! I am your master!"

Apollyon sneered. "Now technically speaking, she summoned me," they gestured towards the girl, now on her feet and crying a bit less.

"I control you! The binding spell -"

"And what exactly were you using to power that binding spell?" Apollyon asked, with a smile that showed white teeth just a little too sharp. "It wouldn't be virgin's blood, would it? Because she's not bleeding anymore, idiot."

"Hey, who are you calling a virgin?" The girl protested.

Apollyon shot her a look. "What are you, twelve?" They asked.

"Fourteen!"

"yeah, well shush." Apollyon stepped easily over the salt line that surrounded the summoning circle.

"I command you -" the man's voice was shaky now, and he took a step back from the demon.

"As was done shall be returned threefold," Apollyon's voice filled the room, echoing off the walls and filling the air. It cut the cultists gathered around the circle, quick, deep gashes opening until they fell, one by one, and the room went silent.

"Fucking assholes," Apollyon muttered. "What's your name, little miss?"

"I'm Summer," the girl replied tentatively.

"Want to get out of here, Summer?"

"I... My sister..."

"Probably doesn't know you snuck out, huh?"

The girl shook her head.

"Well, we better get you home before she notices." Apollyon rifled through the cult leader's pockets and came up with his keys. "If I've got a read on this twat, there's a shiny motorcycle sitting outside. Probably red."

"You're not going to destroy the world?"

"Do you want me to destroy the world?"

Summer shook her head.

"Good. I happen to like the world. It has fizzy drinks, and television, and surprisingly robust public infrastructure for a place run by assholes like him," they gestured towards the body of the cult's leader.

"Anyway, I work for you now."

"What's the price?" Summer asked.

Apollyon raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you clever, knowing about prices and shit?"

"My sister knows about this sort of thing. She's not going to be happy about me making a deal with a demon."

Apollyon waved a hand at the crumpled forms on the floor around them. "The price is already paid, little miss. Bad deaths on this scale will keep me comfortable on Earth for years yet."

"And then what?"

"Then you decide if you want to send me back or keep me here. If you choose that option, just remember that there's plenty of people like them in this world, who would happily watch others bleed for a shred of power. Their souls are worth just as much as yours."

"And you'll do as I say? You won't hurt anyone if I ask you not to?" Summer asked.

"Hey, you're the boss. Wanna know a little secret about chaos and destruction?"

"um... Sure?"

"In a world ruled by people like him, chaos is far more likely to shake out in your favor than theirs. Play your cards right, the only suffering I'll cause will be to the people who started it."