Education of the Virgin, (1650)

by Georges de La Tour

oil on canvas

97/29/2022

Happy memorial of Lazarus, Martha, and Mary of Bethany!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. This cartoon features Jesus, His cousin John (the Baptist), and His friends Lazarus, Martha, and Mary (of Bethany) as children.  It's possible that the family from Bethany didn't meet Jesus until later in His life, but I've taken creative liberties so Jesus has more childhood friends in my cartoons, and until someone definitively proves that this is historically inaccurate by digging up Jesus's diary or sending a satellite 2000 lightyears away to videotape His life from beginning to end, I'll continue to do so with impunity and gall. 2. Lazarus is known for being woken from death by Jesus when they're adults, so I usually portray him as sleepy, hence John calling him "Lazy Lazarus". 3. Mary is known as a more open and spiritual character, hence "Merry Mary". 4. Martha is known for being faithful but a little too serious, over-focused on chores and work, hence "Mirthless Martha". 5. Martha takes her nickname as an insult because it implies she has no sense of humor.  She says she "eats jokes for breakfast", implying that she enjoys them, but when she tries to tell a joke to prove it, she butchers it (i.e. ruins it) by forcing herself to laugh before she's said the punchline. 6. John jokes that, by saying she eats jokes for breakfast, Martha must've meant she butchers jokes like one might butcher a pig to have bacon for breakfast.  Martha is too embarrassed to come up with a witty retort.

5x13 The Song Remains The Same

1x05 Legend Of A Mind

seeing young!mary is so strange bc its like she's deancoded when really dean is marycoded bc mary came first but then again dean is the one telling this story so is he projecting

Yoon Young Bae for Marie Claire Korea (2023) Photography: Park Jongha

A modern image of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a young woman.

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

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remus the type of guy to watch sirius and james from sidelines doing weird shit, sigh dramatically and say "..men." with the girlies

You've been playin' around with magic that is black.

baby gerry discovers painting or something

5x13 The Song Remains The Same

1x05 Legend Of A Mind

okay marauders hc that because sirius' middle name was “orion” and the boys didn't want to call him that every time they used a different silly middle name like imagine stuff like:

“sirius santa claus black why is there dirt in the carpet?”

or like

“sirius toaster black get back here and give me my shirt”

and slowly it'd get like a game and maybe the girls would get in on it too