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Argent, a cat sable rampant contourné, holding a cat toy gules in its mouth.
Mea culpa! I forgot an element in the blazon:
Argent, a cat sable rampant contourné guardant, holding a cat toy gules in its mouth.
Phew. That's better. :)
First day on my latest job I accidentally said some personal detail to my manager and he just responded "Don't tell me things like that. It just makes it harder on me when I fire you."
With the way American tradcaths are currently speedrunning schismatism, I'm about 80% convinced we'll see a non-trivially supported American antipope within my lifetime, and not gonna lie, I'd be fascinated to see how that would go down.
@dubbedcorn replied:
I understand maybe 50% of the words in this post
In brief:
tradcaths: Traditional Catholics; folks who profess to be Roman Catholic, but oppose the reforms introduced by the Catholic Church in tie Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican in 1962 (colloquially known as Vatican II). Mostly they tend to have a problem with local priests being allowed to administer rites in whatever language is spoken locally rather than only in Latin, though there are other reforms they often object to as well.
The Traditional Catholic movement is closely associated with sedevacantism, the belief that the apostolic succession of the papacy has been interrupted and the Holy See is thus vacant – or, in plain English, the belief that somewhere along the line, one of the popes lost God's support, and thus, that pope and all of his official successors, including the current pope, have been imposters. Sedevacantists usually identify Pope Pius XII (who died in 1958) as the last real pope, though there's some disagreement on this point.
(Note that not all tradcaths are sedevacantists, and not all sedevacantists are tradcaths – there's merely substantial overlap.)
Antipope: Anyone other than the official pope who claims to be the pope. All antipopes are sedevacantists, though their justifications for why they're the real pope vary; some are self-elected, while others claim to be the legitimate successors of a secret lineage of "true" popes that branched off when the official popes lost their legitimacy. Naturally, no antipope would describe themselves as such – as far as they're concerned, they're the real pope, and it's the guy currently warming the big chair in Rome who's an antipope!
Historically, antipopes have sometimes been a very big deal; consider, for example, the latter part of the Western Schism, a period of eight years from 1409 to 1417 where there were three competing papal lineages who all denounced each other as antipopes and made a whole thing of it. More recent claimants tend not to get much traction; the latest American antipope, Pope Michael, for example, never had more than a couple dozen verifiable supporters.
Hm. Would sedevacantism qualify as heresy? Just asking for clarification.
Not necessarily. Heresy is about doctrine, and you can disagree about who the current pope is without rejecting any particular point of Catholic doctrine – indeed, sedevacantism is often motivated by the belief that the pope himself is a heretic.
(Note, however, that all forms of schismatism, including sedevacantism, carry a penalty of automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church regardless of whether they're founded in heresy, specifically to avoid anyone squeaking by on that particular technicality, so in practice the distinction is somewhat academic.)
mandalorian for @eiyfel
The thing came out of hiding
Thing has been exploring. It is very brave even though my apartment is very new and scary. everyone clap for it
my wicked concubine keeps demanding i kill my best servants for her amusement
bro she is purposefully isolating you
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
May I also bring up Alexei Leonov, the first man to do a spacewalk
He did an illustration of what he saw and it brings me to tears
The original sketch:
The final painting:
Artists I feel are so important to science
Fossil of dragonfly larva or I don’t know.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Guess I died"
Jorge Molina - X-Men
best damn post on the site
Today in "how the hell did I manage that", I went to speak to Support for Learning and left with a 7 week trial of "targeted intervention for six 1st & 2nd year pupils with social and emotional additional support needs" last period on a Friday.
Functionally what this means is that 6 kids get to come out of class last thing on a Friday for me to GM a TTRPG campaign for them.
I genuinely have no idea how that happened. I went asking for names the SfL staff would recommend as potentially being interested if I ran a club, explained why I was interested in trying it and we picked out 6 kids and now I'm probably going to annoy the PE and Modern Languages department .
She's being weird again
in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic
honestly, i think this is why i like the way the game handles substances so much. when i was looking up playthroughs of disco elysium i stumbled across one subreddit thread where someone asked “gameplay wise, is there any point to staying sober?” and just looked at it. like, yeah. yeah, exactly. we know that harry often does drugs specifically so that he can take on a superhuman caseload - as he puts it to kim, to be a “really good detective”. it was so chilling to see a player asking the same exact question that harry would probably be asking himself. without an external punishment mechanic, without being heavy handed about it, and in a way that (as OP pointed out) is so natural as to be almost unnoticeable, it manages to put the player exactly in his shoes as a recovering (or not recovering) addict. it’s a really well-designed mechanic
wait tumblr is now fully telling us if the call is coming from inside the house?
