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May Pope Francesco rest in peace and may the next pope be as kindhearted as him

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Pope Francis has died.

I know to a lot of people on the left and in the LGBTQ+ community, he wasn’t exactly seen as a holy herald of progressive values. That said I think he was more helpful to our community than we have ever really given credit.

The Catholic Church is hugely entrenched in the past. They may not ever accept gay marriage within our lifetime. But if you compare Pope Francis to any other Pope that came before him, he did more to progress the Catholic Church than anyone else ever has. He constantly spoke out saying that the church needed to accept LGBTQ+ members. He has denounced laws that criminalise homosexuality. He supported same sex civil unions—which I was literally taught was evil and dangerous when I was in Catholic high school. Transgender people can be baptized and same sex couples can be blessed because of him.

He was never enough, of course. He has affirmed the teaching that gay marriage is not spiritually possible and prior to becoming pope he opposed the legalization of same sex marriage. He has said gay children should seek psychiatric care. He has also been even less accepting of transgender people than same sex couples.

But at the same time he was the most empathetic Pope to have existed in the past several hundred years. I have left the church because I no longer believe in God, but I do recognize that the Catholic Church has power over huge swaths of the world. My mother still believes in her Catholic faith and has always stood by this idea: it’s impossible to move a behemoth organisation like the Church overnight. She stays in the community because she wants it to become better. She pushes, in her own small way, a little bit every day towards what she thinks is right. In this conversation, that is the acceptance of LGBTQ+ youths. Pope Francis was helpful in moving the Church away from a stance of hate. Now I hope that whoever the cardinals choose next for pope is someone who joins her in pushing that ball forward.

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Hey, Dolls you sent this ask:

To the crew:

I am requesting you all to put on a play at my party. What sort of thing are you thinking?

In my old JoR blog

You mind asking it to @jor-contact-center instead?

Sorry for the inconvenience, good day!

Oh I’m sorry, I mixed the two up. On my way to do that now!

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the late pope was really liberal for pope standards and that was pretty cool and the next one will probably be less chill which is going to suck for Catholics so my sympathies for that.

but I think we can all admit that dying during the highest holiday of the Christian calendar after meeting an insufferable fascist catholic convert is such a power move. and a little funny. a guy so insufferable the leader of his church went "no i can't deal with this guy for four years".

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Watching the film adaptation of Going Postal and writing down my thoughts;

I love how they did the clacks towers, I think that’s quite fun

Moist seems… old? I could swear they referred to him as being 26 in one of the books but I might be making that up. And he always seems to be fairly young

He also seems less… I don’t know, I always thought of him as a bit more of a showman, a little more enthusiastic/energetic

I do love the sort of quasi-Victorian aesthetic that the Discworld movies tend to go for. Four decades ish plus whatever vibes they want plus some medievalesque stuff all thrown in a blender

Love the executioner. I feel like he was translated well

I also feel that they didn’t show the execution quite as well. Didn’t have as much “cocky till the last second”

I am of mixed feelings on Drumknott, leaning towards positive

Love Vetinari, he’s perfect, although one detail: where’s his little hat! He’s always drawn with the little skullcap!

Also they left out the detail of Mr. Pump mispronouncing “Lipwig”, which is sad, I love that line/reaction

Moist comes off as really angry and jaded, not the weirdly likeable guy from the books

I could swear it was 2.83 people, not 22.8

I don’t like Adora Belle’s hair

They didn’t keep the detail of her filing the brick under B in the filing cabinets

The fact that Moist constantly sleeps jacket on, cravat tied, shoes on is kind of absurd but also perhaps the most Moist thing that happens in this adaptation

And the stamp plot seems changed

Everything seems… rushed in the first episode

Otto seems way too unenthusiastic

Anyways these are my thoughts so far

Generally not super positive

I feel like they mischaracterize Moist a lot

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watch, switzerland c. 1830.

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bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

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yoou guys wont be laughing when i suddenly collapse unconscious and have to be taken to the hospital. then youll all see <- normal thought process to have while doing anything i dont want to

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(crawls on all fours with blood drenched on me) I have to do arts and crafts

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Excellent performances of both Oh Canada and The Star Spangled Banner tonight at the caps game. No clue why I am saying this but if for some reason the guys who sing at Washington games see this, good job 👍

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They should let me be the pope. I am not an ordained priest or Catholic or baptized or a man but I am I think a pretty good person and have done a bunch of research on theology so that’s got to count for something

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The world may really suck right now but sometimes you can take string and turn it into fabric and that’s pretty neat.

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Do you think Jesus ever got many carpenter requests after he started preaching? Like did anyone ever go up to him and be like; "My Lord! My Lord!" And the disciples are all: "The Master won't do anymore miracles today." But obviously Jesus is like; "Yes, my child?" And they just ask what his basic rate is to fix their door.

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we got another good news roundup!

the fight is still on! don’t give up!

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If you are currently sitting or laying down this moment ask yourself if you are resting or rotting. Change your behavior accordingly

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“And remember: the sky is the limit! You can be anything you want to be!”

“Thank you. I want to be a secretary.”

That stopped them short. “What?”

“A secretary,” she repeated.

“But…” they trailed off, dumbfounded. “Why? You could be a CEO, a scientist, a law–”

“I don’t want to be a CEO,” she said. “I want to be a secretary.”

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I always think I couldn’t possibly play the coquette and then I’m three thousand points up in hand a foot and suddenly adopt the softest, most girlish voice and say things like “oh wait… sorry, I’m afraid… that i’ll just play that and oh my goodness and that’s a clean book of sevens isn’t it?”