what’s the vibe of your blog. everyone has their own. is it an art gallery exhibit serving canapés. a nightclub. a knights of the round table situation. a book discussion meeting. a lonely hearts club newspaper section. a bedroom where you and two friends are chatting. the school of athens debating matters of consequence. a garden tea party. a bacchanal. an agatha christie murder novel style tense dinner party. etc

It’s a Tolkein situation. You came for the fandom and the literature, but unexpectedly found yourself in a cozy cottage drinking tea by the fire with way more Catholic stuff on the walls than you anticipated (which you may or may not be awkwardly trying to ignore).

If you have the time and flexibility, you can also try out libreoffice.

Just did this on November 14th, 2024, so this is very current!

If you have Word for Mac, it’s under Microsoft Word>Preferences>Privacy>Manage Connected Experiences, and uncheck the box for analyzing content.

i don't care if monday's bleak

tuesday matches wednesday's freak

thursday mispronouncing steak

it's friday, i'm in love

writing a paper on second wave feminism and the catholic church and going into it i was not prepared for the level at which people think the church is oppressing and suppressing women.

like girl where

is it. is it one of the countless churches named after. the mother of God. or. or the hundreds of female saints. or. the art on the walls. or the nuns who are the life of a parish. or. what. are we looking at the same thing here. it's our seventh Marian feast day of the year. later we have a whole day in honor of Edith Stein. sometimes men take the names of women. by choice. in their teen years. is that. is that where women are getting oppressed by the church

Hi!

A person who is not a Catholic here to clear things up as best I can: it's the people. 510% it is people who report being Catholic loudly. We can look into any major religion and see massive red flags, that comes with age of texts and human progress. Some lines written so long ago hit different, and that's always the case, so dragging anyone for that can only go so far for literally anyone, so please don't think that's the driving factor always. It's really not. When a person is a part of any faith, they're getting treated really nicely by others of the faith. That also isn't a dig, that's normal. People who think like you and worship like you are your people. That is what it is. Unfortunately, the people who don't think like you and don't worship like you are not going to always be seen in the best way.

Those people who you are certain are good people? Some of them are not good people. And they're saying "this is Catholicism," very confidently, and about things that your faith doesn't even have anything to say about. These people like to take Catholisism and anything good about it and... Well, you know Disney's animated masterpiece Hunchback of Notre Dome? They go Frollo after Mass. And this is the only time people actually get exposed to Catholics. Because Frollo is in their personal space to shame them and parade how superior they are. And they like to do that to women a lot. For some reason. If you can imagine how Frollo is to Esmerelda, I think you understand where this is going.

That's not an exaggeration, even. These kinds are like this when you're not looking. They go searching for people and get nasty and blame Catholisism for their actions. They're real, they exist, and if you listen to some people speak closely enough, you might even be able to ID them. No, it's not fair entirely, but what are the victims of this behavior to believe, realistically?

You know honestly, well put.

There’s a guy where I live who goes to Mass every Sunday. Looks clean-cut, dresses well, seems like the kind of guy who could smoke a pipe and talk Chesterton with you. And I know because I’m one of the women who liked talking Chesterton.

I’ll never forget the time I mentioned to him, (after praying a group rosary!) that I wrote fanfic and he immediately started asking me questions about whether I wrote smut. And I and every other woman I know in our little group at a catholic university was quietly told not to go anywhere alone with him.

It’s not all Catholic men. It’s not even most of them or a lot of them. But holy shit I can’t blame people for thinking that one apple spoils the bunch when it’s a really bad fucking apple.

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the plot of prince caspian is so funny to me it’s like “locals bring back ghosts from hundreds of years ago to help defeat the evil king” except it’s from the point of view of the ghosts

the ghosts, not actually being dead, spend a significant fraction of the early book scrounging for food on the deserted island that used to be their house

and that scrounging for food, and uncertainty around where exactly they are, is something that adaptations should lean into more

And of course it’s the “ghosts” of the Great Kings and Queens from hundreds of years ago but right now they’re just kids so no one’s actually sure they have the right guys at first sight

No, but the characters themselves talk about this in the book!

“‘Aren’t there lots of stories about magic forcing people out of one place ― out of one world ― into another? I mean, when a magician in The Arabian Nights calls up a Jinn, it has to come. We had to come, just like that.’

”'Yes,’ said Peter, ‘I suppose what makes it feel so strange is that in the stories it’s always someone in our world who does the calling. One doesn’t really think about where the Jinn’s coming from.’

‘And now we know what it feels like for the Jinn,’ said Edmund with a chuckle. ‘Golly! It’s a bit uncomfortable to know that we can be whistled for like that.’“

I’ve never thought about it like this and now I can’t stop laughing

and a shoutout to the two Māori men who travelled to Vienna in 1859, got themselves apprenticed as printers (and incidentally became accomplished ballroom dancers), and finally had an audience with Franz Josef where they charmed him so much that he sent a printing press to New Zealand….which was promptly used from 1861 to print the newspaper of the Kingitanga anti-colonial movement.

Just researched a bit- they’re names are Wiremu Toetoe and Te Hemara Rerehau Paraone and it’s quite a fascinating story.

Holy crap, there NEEDS to be a movie! This is DELIGHTFUL in every way!

this never stops being funny

I have been made aware that this is not common knowledge and so wanted to announce that ChatGPT is not a search engine and not supposed to know answers to things. It's a language model- it's trained to talk like a person. Not to know information or understand how to do operations or really even reasoning

The trouble is they absolutely market it as a way to get answers to questions

"there's no platonic explanation for this"

Wrong. Plato has explained everything.

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My guiding moonlight 🌕

☁ a fluffy pixel art sky ☁

Asking my child's forgiveness

I woke up early since I had a 7am call for work. Today was my day for school drop off, so I walked into the boys' bedroom to find my preschooler sprawled out on the wood floor! 😂

I swept him up and told him, "Can Mommy tell you something? I need to ask for your forgiveness. I have not been doing my best lately. I've been impatient and got easily angry at you. I also haven't been saying sorry to you for those times. I'm not proud of that and it makes me sad to treat you that way. I'm sorry. I'm still working to do better, but sometimes I will make mistakes. Can you forgive me?"

He had a tear in his eye and with a smile, he said "Yes" and gave me the biggest hug.

I asked him to pray for me whenever I make a mistake. "You can help me, my love. Tell Jesus, 'Please help Mommy, she's having a hard time,' when you see that I need calm down time or if I'm using my words to hurt others. I promise I will always do my best to say sorry."

It's a lot to ask of him, but somehow I could feel it on my heart that he will love me through it, like he always does even when I least deserve it.

Dear God, please give me the strength to shepherd the children You've blessed me to care for.

lindt is being sued in a class action in the united states because they are one of MANY brands of chocolate that tested high for heavy metals. and this is despite lindt claiming their chocolate is "expertly crafted with the finest ingredients". no recall was issued after the tests came out. lead and cadmium can fuck the body over BAD.

lindt's genius defense is that they are going to stop saying the whole thing about being expertly crafted with the finest ingredients, so nobody can complain about the heavy metals in their chocolate anymore! and that makes it okay. source: trust me bro

(now please drop the lawsuit thanks)

consumer reports test results of a bunch of different chocolate brands <- original report being referenced

even more chocolate brands that were tested for heavy metals

imagine this. you advertise yourself as "the coolest dude around". your whole persona is being "cool" and "chill". and then one day, you burn someone's house down on purpose. they inevitably sue the shit out of you. and your defense is that you will stop calling yourself "cool" or "chill" so nobody can reasonably expect that you will not set things on fire, because fire is hot, which is the opposite of cool and chill. and therefore everything is fine now and nobody can be mad at you anymore.

that is lindt's defense here.

Well that explains why I fucking hate eating them.

every time

I'd love to see Brad's habit from "Shades of Green" get nipped in the bud! 17 more seasons of Lower Decks! 🖖🤣