#what are you a fucking catholic

[gayforbagels]

Pouring one out for Afghanistan and Anguilla and Antigua and Aoteoroa and Barbuda and Australia and the Bahamas and Bahrain and Bangladesh and Barbados and Belize and Bermuda and Botswana and Brazil and Brunei and Canada and the Cayman Islands and Cornwall and Cyprus and Dominica and Egypt and the Islas Malvinas and Fiji and Gambia and Georgia (the country) and Ghana and Gibraltar and Grenada and Guyana and Hong Kong and India and Iraq and Ireland and Jamaica and Jordan and Kenya and Kiribati and Kuwait and Lesotho and Malawi and Malaysia and Maldives and Malta and Mauritius and Montserrat and Myanmar and Nauru and Nigeria and Pakistan and Palestine and the Pitcairn Islands and Qatar and St Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Helena and Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and St Vincent and Grenadina and Scotland and Seychelles and Sierra Leone and Singapore and the Solomon islands and Somaliland and South Africa and Sri Lanka and Sudan and Swaziland and Tanzania and Tonga and Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos and Tuvalu and Uganda and United Arab Emirates and United States and Vanuatu and Wales and Yemen and Zambia and Zimbabwe tonight

#text #op #dancing crabs #and many more #sorry if I missed you trust me when I say I am still popping the FATTEST bottle for u TONIGHT #edit: guys I copy pasted a shit ton of countries from fucking Wikipedia for a shitpost it’s not that deep #edit: the amount of y’all that are tagging this as ‘except us and Canada’ are missing the fucking point #it isn’t cute lol #EDIT: WHATS UP GUYS IT’S ME YA BOY COMING LIVE FROM. GLASS ONE OF WINE #I CHANGED MY MIND FUCK IT IM ADDING EVERYONE I MISSED INTO THE OP #AND ANOTHER THING #SOME OF YALL HAVE TO REMEMBER THERE ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN CANADA AND THE USA TOO #SAYING THE USA AND CANADA DOESNT DESERVE TO POP BOTTLES IS DISMISSIVE OF EVERY INDIGENOUS LIFE DAMAGED BY THE BRITISH EMPIRE #AUSTRALIA TOO #THE MONARCHY HAD A VERY PROMINENT ROLE ALONGSIDE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AND COLONIAL VIOLENCE #IN SETTLER HISTORY #ALSO TO ANY OF MY BRITISH HOMOES I AM SO SORRY YALL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT PROPAGANDA MACHINE RN #GFGFGFFGGG I’m not changing that

[payasita]

#2: Golden fleece

#cult of the lamb #cotl #doodles #my personal favorite for Fucking Up Everything #hi i got steadily drunker for the entirety of this one so it'll be interesting to look at it in the morning when the queue posts it #also this is accidentally turning into 'also draw the coolest looking crownform weapons' #theyre so slept on bro some of these weapons look SO COOL #and some are so weird #shoutout to bane sword. thats just a baseball bat that gives you tetanus #genuinely 10/10 #ALSO BEFORE I FORGET i spent a hot topic giftcard i got like two years ago this morning and they had cotl merch #i now own a graphic tee with narinder on it thats also just a thinly veiled parody of catholic iconography #what a time to be alive

[heckling-hydrena]

man did fucking pandora's box open because we posted too much about the roundsey crown? because Why did people start spreading misinformation about how multiaccounting bans work and getting outwardly hostile towards staff for enforcing well-known site rules. and then why did staff get weirdly snippy at someone in the tag for posting shit that's well within site rules and then proceed to have a public discussion with this person regarding said site rules. ON TUMBLR? what the hell is in the waterrrrr

#catholic button person I commend you for your patience because if staff talked to me like that on my own post I would not be as kind lmao #genuinely. what the fuck. is some sort of january madness setting in #negative

[blujayonthewing]

#I've played with irl atheists and catholics and everything in between #but it rarely feels like faith is a real factor for anyone-- DM or player #outside of‚ again‚ divine spellcasters and Big Epic Plot Things #I mean there are a couple of 'RAAAHGH FUCK THE GODS >:C' edgy backstory types but #no one is just Normally Culturally Religious and it's WEIRD #like it's not even a matter of faith in dnd! the gods are LITERALLY OBJECTIVELY PROVABLY REAL #so what does that MEAN for the average person! how does it shape language? business? culture? #where are the people wearing holy symbols like amulets-- or the way modern christians very casually wear crosses? #blessings over meals? prayers before bed? burnt offerings? #and like I enjoy thinking about world and culture building but I know that's A Whole Thing but even just like... #it doesn't feel like anyone believes in gods at all except clerics and paladins #like they DO because they factually exist but in the same way I 'believe in' like. the president of france. #like yeah he exists and is important to some people but has no bearing on my life whatsoever #that's such a fucking weird approach to the DIVINE in a polytheist world where those gods are YOUR CULTURE'S GODS?? #I am bad at this myself but I'm not religious so it's harder for me to remember what Being Religious All The Time Casually is like lol #funny enough my character with the most intentionally religious background in this sense #is one of my ones who's ended up wrapped up in Big Plot God Things lmao #'aubree starts the campaign with a holy symbol of yondalla because of course she does why wouldn't she' #'oh okay well she's gonna get deeply and personally entangled with a bunch of death gods immediately' fdkjghkdf oh!! welp #you don't really pray to urogalan unless you're breaking ground for a new building or someone just died so it's STILL weird for her lol #but at least I had the framework there of 'oh yeah the gods exist and matter to me and my everyday life and culture' in general #about me #posts from twitter

[inkskinned]

i had a dream that the clouds looked like you, pink in the sunset. you were the ghost of a lighthouse and when we fell in love all your shackles fell off in great grey chunks. we became fish-squid-humans, unkillable and round as the sun. our children were whales, and we grew past the size of cruise ships. i cursed poachers with my own blood; only to relent, knowing the pain of drowning just close-enough, warning them: do better. be well. don't make a mistake you can't come back from.

how quietly you've slipped inside me, little seal shifting me under the water. this little dance we are both stepping, our hands just-quite not-touching. like mermaids, sometimes i think our form is the shape of the ocean. sometimes i think we are too horribly human, too terrified of the rip and torrent.

i have thought about my hand in your hair enough, and the curve of your cheekbone, and how you wait for a moment to gather your thoughts before telling a joke. i have thought about the tension that grows in cables between us, a little spined bridge neither of us will cross unless the situation dramatically shifts. i have thought about the way you tilt your head when considering something i blurted, how you show just-half of your smile when you know more than i did.

what even are you two? she asks me, stirring her coffee, her brows knitting. i shrug noncommittally.

somewhere, we are mermaids, eternally. in this world, for now - i tell her: i think we're just... enjoying.

#you know.... like. you know. #gay yearning #writeblr #(i had a dream the clouds actually looked like . well officer they looked like pussy. and i took a picture and sent it to you. and was like #what the fuck is happening what kind of cloud is this like milord that is 100% JUICE #.... the dream was extremely extremely bittersweet . i'll tell ya that much. i knew i was changing and the only way to follow the #lighthouse ghost. was to leave my family. forever. #something something something make it gay and make it about being unkillable and beautiful instead of like #''i have learned love is such sacrifice that even my dreams of transformation and love. are about how in order to follow my heart. #there's always SOMETHING i have to give up.'' #& how sad is that! how very catholic! this idea i have that happiness always has to come with #some kind of balance!

[bookshelfdreams]

americans learn what the middle ages are challenge

#15th century? that's the very very tail end (depending on what landmark you chose for an end) #16th century? ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT #and also the witch hunts weren't really a medieval thing they mostly took place in the early modern era #and largely weren't perpetuated by 'the church' #and the inquisition spanish or otherwise had nothing to do with them #because church doctrine actually was that belief in witchcraft is superstition; only god is all-powerful #yes heinrich kramer called himself institoris. that doesnt mean anything it's just a fancy title he gave himself. #and hey guess what! protestant regions were way worse about killing witches than catholic ones. 'the church'? that's catholicism babe #do you see the flaw in your argument #anyway of course theres not an exact endpoint to the middle ages however #it's a period of a relatively stable socioeconomic system that collapses for various reasons #& things like the witch panic are a symptom of that collapse #so to talk about that in the same breath as *actual* medieval folklore & blame them on 'the church' #(when the catholic church losing power and influence was ALSO part of that collapse!) #is careless and silly #esp when you call yourself a historian #rant over

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

Considering the ask I got about christianized speech in Hilda fic writing and Sadie’s tags about the idiom I mentioned, the topic of “do christians exist in the Hilda universe?” has been on my mind. And then, I remembered that there’s canonically a place called Saint Guglow’s Cemetery

So I thought “hey, that’s interesting. Is that a saint I don’t know about?” and looked it up. But nope, not a single positive result to tell me who the hell mr. Guglow might have been. Which leaves me with two options:

1- There aren’t christians in the Hildaverse, but whatever religions there might be there is at least one which utilizes the concept of saints and canonization, or-

2- There are not only christians, but also specifically catholics in the Hildaverse. And they have access to exclusive secret saints over there

#*banging on Luke Pearson’s door* GIVE ME ACCESS TO THE FORBIDDEN SAINT LORE!!!! #who is the Hildaverse pope. I must know. #I really like the idea that maybe there is catholicism is the Hildaverse but LP didn’t want to deal with the trouble #of looking up A Guy to name the cemetery after #really said ‘the aesthetics are nice but I don’t wanna deal with Catholics’ and he was right #unfortunately he still has to deal with Me #you know what. fuck it. gonna start making up saints to use in Hilda fanfic #(to new followers I’m so sorry I promise I don’t catholic post this often GSJSGSJDGJD) #hilda the series #hilda netflix

[introspectivememories]

oh my god bernard gets batman and dick to help save tim in the last issue and everyone in the family takes that to mean that bear knows about their night jobs. except tim still thinks bear doesn't know. that bear being there was just a coincidence. he just tagged along to save him cause bear is such a standup guy! cue tim doing everything to hide his identity and the family looking at him like he's lost his mind because obviously bernard know tim?? he literally patches you up every night???? why would he not know??????

#bear walking into the dining room: oof that's a nasty cut dick. how'd you get it? #dick: oh well saving the city just does that to you 😉 #tim seething internally cause dick is making his job ten times harder: ha ha ha! what a funny thing to say ☺️☺️☺️ such a comedian my brother #dick staring at him like he's grown 2 heads: what. #cass starts pulling off her mask in front of bear #cue tim tackling her into the gotham river #cass sopping wet signing irritatedly: what the hell was that?! #tim whispering; how could you be so careless? u almost told bear your identity! #cass softly: what. the. fuck. #damian casually showing bear his sword collection #tim barging into dami's room out of breath: he's really into medieval history! that's why he likes sword!! no other reason #dami later to bear: we must end this delusion of his #bear: yeah probably. but it's funny watching him come up with so many excuses #bear: yesterday he tried to convince me that the knife wound in his side was really stigmata and that he was a devout catholic #bear: i wanna see what else he's gonna say #dc #bernard dowd #tim drake #timber #timbern

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

Whenever I see christian discourse get ugly, I always wonder if the perpetrators ever ask themselves if they are actually bringing people closer to Christ, or if they're pushing people away.

If anything, unkindness and focusing on winning just pushes others away. Both those involved in the conversation and those non Christians watching.

When discourse gets ugly it becomes pointless and accomplishes nothing

#talking about the post where that one prot girl goes nuts about mary #like calm down #the way you're acting is embarrassing and makes me not want to read what you're saying #also it's very unchrist like #and stop trying to protsplain catholicism to catholics #you have no idea what you're fucking talking about #catholic #christian #this is why i don't get involved anymore #it's pointless and accomplishes nothing

[compacflt]

slimav?

would never happen bc slider canonically smells bad

#ice doesn’t say anything 1. bc he’s a good friend 2. bc he never says anything about anything #but slider man you stink #in all seriousness i rate slimav much higher than cymav because slider was THERE the day goose died #yeah might happen! #he gets it! #pete maverick mitchell #ron slider kerner #slimav #top gun #asks #the first time i watched this fucking goofy movie i literally did not know what to make of this scene #like what ??😀 #is that supposed to be some kind of comeback? instructions unclear just sniffed a man #maverick being haloed in this shot like a catholic saint… #the artificially imposed height difference like an angel visiting a shepherd upon a hill… #slider you stink… #something about this is holy and sanctified I fear

[greencarnation]

in northern ireland during the troubles (and before) catholics used murals as a way of both claiming territory/identity and taking up space in public when they couldn't march. it was a way of forcing their voices to be seen and heard when the media and the government were against them. it was a way of protesting. i will elaborate later but do you get me. marching, posting - all good but not the only way to resist. there is so much in our arsenal and we aren't exploiting it. you don't need 100k followers or ten thousand people marching with you to make your voice heard - you can start now, alone. make it impossible for palestine to slip from public consciousness, make everyone know and everyone remember

#murals are just an example btw #for talentless fucks such as myself posters stickers and graffiti also work #protestants also used murals btw. they did it first in fact #catholics only really picked it up after bloody sunday and shit #ok might actually make a post later bc murals and shit played a pretty big role #very interesting. to me ig #anyway history repeats!!! this struggle has been fought and won before #learn from what has helped snd what has worked #i feel as though many of us are stuck in a loop of not really being able to do shit besides. email post and weekly protests #all good for sure but there is more you could do #there always is #palestine #gaza #free palestine #israel #northern ireland #ireland #free gaza #colonialism #genocide #ethnic cleansing #politics #social justice

[soldier-poet-king]

hfdjkshfdsjklah my home parish is advertising some city-wide catholic women's group thing, and as if the phrase 'dynamic catholic women's group' wasn't bad enough to raise my hackles, they're like 'oh special guest speaker tammy p*terson wife of j*rdan p*eterson' AND mass presided by former archbishop cardinal c*llins.

yall i cannot make this shit up. this is smthn ppl are proudly advertising. and then they demand why i dont want to be even remotely associated with my coreligionists. *mr incredible voice* IM NOT AFFILIATED WITH YOU

#i debated not posting this bc it's so mean but also fuck peterson fr #and i am not a fan of collins by any stretch of the imagination #like. why. why are you showing me these posts on social media #what about me in ANY WAY makes nthe algorithim think i want this #the duality of fran #you could not PAY me enough to be there #it's all branded like. i love strong catholic women of faith :) #HELLO??? HELLO??? BEING A DICK IS NOW A REQUIREMENT??? #screams #and ppl are like oh fran why do you hate 99% of your coreligionists so much and avoid church things except for literally to go to mass #GESTURES AT THIS #faith tag #also the fact that your qualifications as a guest speaker are bc your someone's wife #like. YIKES??? YIKES????? YIKES???????????????? #what kind of message is that sending. even beyond the fact that he's a shithead/ #just the general defining a woman by her husband. bitch wtf.

[reunioninn]

Daisuke's Notes on Venom's Concept and Design:

Like Millia, he was raised in the Assassin's Guild from an early age. He adores Zato.

He was set up to be a long-reach character and flier. I wondered what kind of character I should make. Originally, he had a cello. He actually had a fan for a weapon before Anji did. He also had a large cross, which I thought was the best concept, however, we were told that it was OK to have it as a part of his design, but not to hit anyone with it. When I was struggling, I went out to play games as a distraction. One time, as we were playing billiards, we talked about how interesting it would be to have a fighter who fights with a pool cue. But I thought the character would be too boring with just the cue alone, so I made it so that his hair also covered his face and added a mark on it with a bit of paint. Since the head had such a strong personality, I wanted to keep the body simple. However, I wanted to change the overall shape of the body to make it similar to Zato's, so that's why the legs are like that. As for the pants design, if I wanted to keep it simple, I would have made each leg the same color, but that would've made his figure appear more naked. To find a way around this, I made one leg light and the other dark to add more of a mysterious flair.

#SORRY i got distracted. #also if i had a dollar for every time daisuke described venom as 'mysterious' id be rich #also that last paragraph was a bitch to transcribe in a way that like. made sense? #bc on its own it really doesnt lmao i didnt want to stray too far from what he was saying #ANYWAYS WE COULD HAVE HAD THE RELIGIOUS IMAGERY!!!!!!!! THE CATHOLIC GUILT. FUCK #my first thought was wolfwood from trigun if he carried around a giant cross lmao #and knowing daisuke likes trigun part of me wonders if wolfwood was actually inspiration for venom #guess we'll never know... #EDIT AS IM STILL TYPING THIS POST; HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING #HE ABSOLUTELY BASED VENOM OFF OF WOLFWOOD. CHRIST ALIVE HOW DIDNT I NOTICE #THE PARALLELS. THEYRE THERE. THEYRE THERE ALL RIGHT. YOU SNEAKY SON OF A BITCH #sorry got distracted again bc i needed a moment to process this. #anyways. um. yeah! #sorry for the tag rant. im normal i promise. #thank you for the food kat i might do more if im feeling up for it LOL #guilty gear #venom guilty gear

[khalixvitae]

I will never understand why some people get upset when twst characters (who are all morally grey as the basic premise of like, the whole game) do/say morally dubious things. That’s like. The whole point actually.

#like what else were you expecting??? that’s their whole niche #and furthermore some characters catch more flack for it than others #but that’s another story #anyway have fun being Catholic about it ig??? #everyone is entitled to their opinions and favs but I just think it’s silly for that to be. where you draw a line #this game has NECROMANCY and ATTEMPTED MURDER(S) #anyway. soz for this post lmao #twst #I think their fucked up mannerisms are entertaining and worth dissecting but that’s just me !

[tamaotomoe]

brief rambling about mayakuro in the revue of souls, and their cyclical paradoxical bond that somehow solves itself.

revue of souls posits maya and claudine to us as thus:

claudine, the devil, who bargains with maya, a vessel of god on stage.

the deal, claudine shall show maya, who claims to have stood on every stage there is, a completely new brilliance unseen by her, by the both of them, by anyone. if the deal is fulfilled, then maya's soul is the collateral. her soul shall be taken by the devil.

if you are reading this, then i assume you have seen the revue. i shall skip act i and ii.

act iii begins, and maya declares herself empty, a vessel of god. something to be filled and molded into whatever role the stage wishes, inhuman and most importantly, soulless. if she has no soul to wager, then she automatically wins the bet, no?

here is her declaration, that she is something godly, inhuman, divine.

but that little intermission between act iii and iv.

claudine, the devil, exposes maya. she cannot be soulless, for she shows such emotions as pride and arrogance, envy and longing. she as a stage girl by nature, is greedy. here exists such feelings within her, and this is the proof that she is a human.

the deal still sits unfulfilled.

and here is act iv.

for heroes, there are trials. for saints, there are temptations. for me, there is a devil.

for me, there is you.

maya's admittance to this seals the bet. claudine wins, the devil wins the revue. her soul is damned to fall with the devil. and yet, it is salvation to her. they, together, complete the other. the only one there can be for themselves, is each other. maya's soul falling and being damned is the same thing that gives her salvation, dignity as a human.

together they fall, as something unholy and blasphemous, but together, just themselves, it does not matter if hell is where they land, or if they keep falling forever. each other is heaven, each other is salvation. for me, there is you. their salvation is their rivalry, their eternal clash and overcoming the other over and over again.

maya is damned, yet maya is saved.

claudine as the devil, is already damned, and yet she saves a soul.

act iv ends with fire. hell is the absence of god, and with maya's loss, she can no longer be a vessel of god. thus, the stage is hell, and hellfire consumes it. but to maya and claudine, this hell is heaven, because claudine is there. and to claudine, this hell is heaven, because maya is there.

a continual cycle of salvation and damnation, yet somehow, it seems like it solves itself, this weird little paradox. it really all goes back to that infamous quote huh?

for heroes, there are trials. for saints there are temptations

for me, there is you.

#revue starlight #mayakuro #kuromaya #maya tendou #claudine saijo #Emile begins casting Coherence. #what haeppensg if you give a little fuck raised catholic these two funky guys? uh. thsi shit #peak yuri tbh #i think if i drill a hole in my head it will fix whatever's wrong with me! #i haev to sleep. i have another fuckin. study. study??? #study. to write about aries shiori stories tomorrow #or some day #i gotta. h

[cleradinthealps]

people on tiktok/tumblr will post a picture of a rural appalachian town and caption it “ethel cain core southern appalachian gothic catholicism americana lana del rey vinyl” like my god you were raised in a protestant suburban home in washington.

#it’s the romanticizing rural life and then a) having never stepped foot in the country and b) being classist to rural people when they #don’t fit your idea of what rural life is #they’ll say that hunting should be banned when it’s such an important part of living for a lot of people #not to mention it helps with the huge overpopulation of deer in northern appalachian areas (pennsylvania for example) #they’ll act like being catholic is a trendy tumblr thing and not a fucking religion lmao #idk maybe it’s because i was raised catholic but it always felt weird to me #because if they actually had to participate in catholic things they’d want to die #it’s just wack because i see all of this ‘appalachian gothic core’ stuff and it’s like??? that’s just the town right next door😭😭 #it is a great comfort to me that ethel cain hates these people❤️ #anyway i love you hicks go eat some venison and drive your old truck down a dirt road❤️ #ethel cain #americana