referencing this comic bc i realized klav would probably tell apollo,, bc he love loves apollo,,, and this

come get yer Laughin'stock! get it hot off the press! free Laughin'stock right here!

I know my experience is not universal, but I biked 5+ miles to do my errands today and I genuinely think we'd be much happier as a human collective if we increased residential density and switched to largely alternative modes of transportation.

Killer: "you come here often~?"

If possible-can I give golden choco a hug? If not that totally fine! :3

myeahhh... While he's touchy in general, the usual "buddy buddy" routine a car salesman would give, he's not a fan of unironic physical affection from randos.

'tumblr if you snipe the quality of another post of mine im going to break into your cellar and ruin all of your wine' translation: click for better quality

80's version

While discussing the Thomas Aquinas relic I started thinking ok, if saints are dead humans who occasionally show up to chat with people and stuff, are they ghosts?? Does that count? My formerly Catholic father had no answer to this so I brought out the big guns (googled Catholic Q&A websites) and I'm having a great time

What is the difference between talking to a saint and talking to a ghost? In both cases the saint and ghost have passed on; therefore, they both are a spirit. So what difference does it make if one spirit is in heaven and the other is in my house?

What is the difference? According to Catholic Answers.com occult contact with the dead (seances, ouija boards) are bad but chatting with saints is fine. Our God-fearing, beautiful faith vs. their wicked lawless necromancy, etc etc.

Then I got to the diocese of Lincoln Nebraska, which was incredibly confident about the whole thing

It is commonly accepted that these souls are souls in Purgatory who God, in His infinite Wisdom and Mercy, allows to appear to the living to prompt the living to pray for them.

Is it commonly accepted??? God really shooed the dead out the cat flap to tell them to remind everyone to say their prayers

A common assertion amongst experts is that, because seeking knowledge from a ghost or spirit is a violation of the First Commandment, souls in Purgatory that manifest will not talk or, if they do, they will only say yes when asked if they need prayers. If they appear visibly they will appear as fully human and unobscured, which is different from demonic spirits who may appear human, but only with some aspect obscured, or incompletely.

According to Catholic experts in this area, the way to distinguish between a soul that desires prayers and a demonic spirit is that souls do not do things that are scary or destructive

whipping out my ghosts vs. demons field guide

This is why, if we ever are confronted with something we believe to be a ghost, we should only ever offer to pray for them and leave it at that. Do not engage with them any more than that and certainly, do not do anything that they may ask you to do.

Thank you Catholic diocese of Lincoln Nebraska with your PSA of 'if you see a ghost, Just Say No'

The Stranger

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Counterpart to The Scientist

I finished that WIP from ages ago!

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The new year barely began and I immediately got stuck in Baldur’s Gate and forgot about everything, again. And just when I thought that New Year's holidays should be productive, they’re already over.  Well, that's fine. Anyway, I have some spoiler drider legs for you! I'm so proud of them! QwQ

Bungo Baggins 🤝 Celeborn 🤝 Faramir

Highly educated malewives who very much aren’t fans of fighting.

Belladonna Took 🤝 Galadriel 🤝 Eowyn

Feral warrior women who are very much fans of fighting.

the funniest moment I ever had in a trust was in the hydaelyn fight when I got a stack marker and all the scions came running over to me and then. then. at the very last second every single one of them ran out from under the stack to group in the middle (AI anticipating the next attack I presume) and the stack went off .0001 seconds after they ABANDONED me before I could catch up and the wol's mom resundered the shit out of my poor lizard boy. the sheer and utter betrayal of that moment. exquisite. hydaelyn was like yeah you guys should probably just get on the moon ship and gtfo

sorry lol I just agreed with that post so much and it got me thinking tbh. I think a lot of us have gotten into a habit of looking at a story so critically, trying to sniff out plot holes and 'bad writing' in a way that misses the fact that the point of a story is to tell a story. I feel like people forget about suspension of disbelief in their mission to analyze a work sometimes. I do think there is a place for in-depth meta analysis of a work, I think it's just as much a worthy fandom experience as any, and maybe that post wasn't even meant to criticize people doing that sort of thing at all, but I just. I think a lot these days about how much more enjoyment I get out of a thing when I decide to watch or read or play it with the intention of just letting it be what it is and not trying to fucking grade its quality or something. you don't have to rate and review everything you do. sometimes you can go 'oh they could have written this differently. but this isn't that version of the story' and then just carry on and not let that other version of how things could have gone haunt your experience. sometimes you have to go 'wow that was kind of dumb' and then just integrate the understanding that the thing you're watching/playing/reading is gonna be kind of dumb sometimes and keep going anyway. and it won't always work out this way, but sometimes you're gonna get a lot more entertainment and joy out of a thing by doing that than by keeping score in your head of the things it's doing 'wrong' or whatever, and I think enjoying a thing for what it is can be a much better use of your time than criticizing it for what it isn't, you know? we're not all film critics. we're not all book reviewers. we don't always need to give a measurement of the quality of everything we experience. you can just experience it. you know?

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odd thing we've noticed. the less okay we are the smaller our active system gets

Randomly remembered the half-reason i call my oc-verse by the name it has while laying in bed. One-half of the reason i still knew, but I had forgotten what had truly, really cemented it jointly until now

(it was a song from my favourite band I haven't listened to in a while.)

(the song fit so well at the time, still does, that i needed to hold onto it for the main protagonists forever, by partially naming their story in reference.)

Does this explanation make any sense? Does anyone know why I'm tearing up remembering this. Aahh