This week has been difficult. I find myself swearing and being short-tempered. The reason: all (or nearly all) the priests in my diocese are on retreat all week. Almost none of the parishes have daily Mass, and none of the early Masses (before 7:30) are available this week. So I haven't gone to daily Mass. This is the most days I have not had Mass in years other than while traveling. And even when I traveled, I still went to Mass at least once.
Just wanted to complain, thanks.
But I do want to mention: if you don't go to daily Mass and are trying to morally improve yourself, and you can go to daily Mass, even if inconvenient, you should. You will be amazed at how God works in your life and your heart if you visit Him daily in the Eucharist.
Thinking about Miranda's line that she's not the first one her father made, just the first one that he kept.
Thinking about how she describes herself as having been tailor-made: looks, biotics, the whole deal.
Thinking about her age and how humans were just barely learning about biotics when her father began his tinkering.
Thinking about how biotics requires in-utero exposure to eezo and how many of those infants developed cancer and birth defects instead of biotics. Thinking about how few actually developed usable biotic potential.
Thinking about how many older sisters Miranda never even knew about.
for sophisticated enjoyers of obscure Mass Effect lore! This reddit user compiled ALL of the old Cerberus Daily News e-mails into a google doc, helpfully formatted for better readability and organized by topic! There are plenty of one-off articles about various aspects of galactic life, but also a bunch of multi-installment stories. The whole thing is very entertaining and compelling despite CDN having been written as "just" a fun extra thing for players to read along with in ME3, and it's packed with tons of neat glimpses into the setting outside of Shepard's immediate circle and experiences.
Maybe I've just missed it, but I feel like there's not enough discussion on Catholic Jason Todd and his feelings on being seemingly resurrected by God Jeesie-Chreesie style.
Like, we as the readers know that it was a reality bending punch from Superboy Prime that brought Jason back, but in canon no one has any explanation at all for how that happened.
The Lazarus Pit fixed him, but he was already alive (just in super bad shape) to be fixed. He woke up in his own coffin and had to claw out of his own grave and no one in-universe can explain how or why it happened.
And that alone would fuck someone up, but add in Catholic Guilt (TM) and references to the resurrection floating around every Easter and Jason's gotta wonder at least a little bit if the Big G brought him back and if so has to absolutely agonize over what he's done with his big second chance.
I just wanna read 100k words of Jason's complicated feelings on his death, rebirth (resurrection?), Red Hood, God, Bruce and what it all means, if anyone's got any recs please share them I'm begging 😭
me stumbling out of my room beaten and coughing up blood after posting art on tumblr: i create for my own enjoyment. true art comes from those whose audience is themselves. i do not need the validation of the masses for that only leads to self-inflated egos and disappointment long term. i create for my own enjoyment. true art comes from those whose audience is themselves. i do not need the validation of *dies*