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First drawing of the year! Starting off by adding Tuon to my WoT collection. Tried some new stuff with this one - I plan on doing a lot of experimenting with my process this year.

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[listening to Rhuidean glass column chapters]

On previous reads I've always been so focused on The Aiel Revelation and the drilling of the Bore that I never really noticed how Rand is getting to first-hand live out the chaos of the Breaking that he, personally is responsible for. A lot of the climate descriptions hint at some kind of nuclear winter.

On my last reread I got really caught up in the mechanics of Lews Therin channeling hard enough to make Dragonmount - trying (and failing lol - physics nerds? 👀) to calculate how much energy he channeled down to literally pierce the Earth's crust and cause the formation of an active volcano that is "several miles high" and thought to be the highest mountain in the world, littered with the bones of those who tried to climb it...I feel like RJ is giving intentional Everest vibes here.

The Chicxulub meteor that caused the end-Cretaceous extinction and wiped out 76% of species on Earth is now thought to have "almost" penetrated the planet's crust, so the magnitude of LTT's death on a global scale, not just at the site of Dragonmount, must have been immense, probably accounted for a significant portion of the damage inflicted during the Breaking, and an impact/eruption of that scale would definitely produce nuclear winter-esqe conditions 😬

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Merlin Season 6: Kingdom Come Script GRAND FINALE Episode 13 “Judgment Day Part 2” teaser

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Gradually gonna start Actually working on my Knights of The Round Table designs. Starting with some Grail Knights because I had pretty clear ideas for them already.

Suggestions on who to do next ?

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I've had a couple people asking me if I've noticed my TikTok feed is different since the app came back, and I haven't noticed that because I fucking deleted the app off my phone when it went down.

I think of it this way: If someone told me my favorite restaurant was reopening thanks to the sponsorship of Nazis (specifically, the Nazis who HAD IT CLOSED IN THE FIRST PLACE), I would never fucking go there again. I don't care how good the food is; the fact that it's working with FUCKING NAZIS means I want nothing to do with it. I don't need it for work or as my only line of connection to people, so I'm not going back until they prove there's no fucking Nazis. I'll go literally anywhere else.

In fact, I feel like just being off TikTok and on more reading-based apps like Tumblr and BlueSky for a couple days has vastly improved my brain. I feel like my mental health is better, I'm more focused, and I'm more productive. It's obviously too soon to tell, but I feel like besides making videos for YouTube I don't know if I'd go back to an app like TikTok again. The only thing I'm still debating is whether or not to leave the accounts up, mostly so people can find me from there and as evidence for a video I want to make later about grey area plagiarism on short form apps like TikTok and Instagram Reels.

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I warned you.

About 15 years ago, I had a minor moment of Internet fame when I wrote a lengthy essay series on LiveJournal called "Christians in the Hand of an Angry God." In it, I argued that right-wing evangelical "Christianity" was literally Satanic by scriptural standards, was literally the cult of anti-Christ that Jesus prophesied in Matthew 25:31-46, that they were literally worshiping a made-up guy with the same name to justify cruelty, just like Jesus predicted they would the week before the crucifixion.

And at least half of the people who read it and praised it called it excellent satire. They saw my point, thought I was onto something, but couldn't take seriously that I literally meant what I literally said.

"Do not commit the sin of empathy."

Jesus' prophesy that these people were coming was not especially miraculous, in hindsight. No philosophy or theological movement becomes a large organized church, let alone a majority faith of a nation, without needing rich people's money, and/or government funding, to pay for it all.

And rich people in general, and right-wing governments in general, get to be the way they are by believing that the poor and the down-trodden can never be shown anything but cruelty, should never be rewarded, or else they'll lose all motivation to obey, to work hard, to be good. (By contrast, they believe that the same thing would happen to rich, powerful, popular people if they were ever punished in any way, if they were ever anything but rewarded.)

And rich people and governments are not going to subsidize your church foundation funds, your church repair funds, et cetera if you tell them that they're evil. But someone definitely will come along and offer to take that money. The people who take that money and conform won't even all be lying psychopaths; if you truly believe that your organization matters, is doing irreplaceable good in the world, you'll sacrifice any principle of your faith to keep the bills paid, you'll look away from or excuse any sin. It's that or see it all shrink and crumble into irrelevance.

I've come to the conclusion that it may not actually be possible to be a good person while practicing the majority faith of the land you live in. Or, if it is possible, well, like the man said, "straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it."

The Episcopal Church has its own legacy of sin, they've long overlooked a laundry list of crimes to pay their own bills, so don't rush to congratulate a mainline bishop for preaching mainline Christianity or take too much pleasure from Trump and his fascist followers being surprised that that happened. But do remember this:

From the mid-1970s to the present, right-wing billionaires have poured a LOT of money into church expansion and maintenance conditional on them distorting the Bible's teachings to make it appear that Jesus was pro-fascist. "To deceive, if it were possible, the very elect." So when honest theologians tell you that this is literally anti-Christ, literally checks every box in the Bible's description of the future cult of anti-Christ, you need to hear us.

The modern book and movie image of "the Antichrist" was a well-funded propaganda campaign to distract you from the plain language of the scriptures. The biblical anti-Christ is not some socialist liberal peacenik. The biblical anti-Christ is everyone who tells you that Jesus wants you to be cruel to "the least of these, my brethren" so that they'll straighten up and fly right.

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Hey so….

The Presbyterians have *Shortbread* as their Communion wafers and I am continuously overjoyed to symbolically digest the Body Of Christ when we have Communion.

We still have grape juice though— too many under 21s in the congregation.

Also they have *women* who serve as deacons and elders. I am so glad Husband severed ties with the Baptist church post 2020 so we could then join a much more liberal, service-minded church.

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most homoerotic arthurian texts

Lancelot and the Hart with the White Foot

its got everything. lancelot trying to avoid getting married, a DOG, greek mythology gay people parallels, gawain rescues him and cares for him homosexually, gawain freaking out when lancelot is gone for 48 hours while guinevere looks on, corn? for some reason,

look the dutch went off with this one they really did.

the galehaut section of the lancelot section of the vulgate lancelot-grail cycle. here is the first part scanned by valentine lanzelet

honorable mentions go to:

–the second half of chretien de troyes knight of the cart

–the first half of the stanzaic morte

–bisclavret (gay werewolf knight gay werewolf knight)

and finally, who could forget gawains classic christmas kiss exchange, told in the famous–

greene knight, an alternate, gayer version of sgatgk knight that exists. is the poetry worse yes is it gayer also yes. god speed

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i’ll say a lot of shit about Veilguard but none of it is about Johanna Hezenkoss. she’s an evil old bitch who traded her ethics with thematics and cartoon-level planning. she holds a party for The Top Most Murderable People, located at a Murder Manor she’s been squatting in, and you’ll never guess how many Murderable People don’t predict what she has planned there. she shoots finger guns in a setting where there is a non-zero chance she’s never seen a gun. she tells a former dear friend that he’s a pussy for not killing himself. she’s everything and more.

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Fuck you, City of Ur!

If you're dumb enough to buy a cartload of copper this weekend, you're a big enough schmuck to come to Ea-Nasir's Imported Metals!

Bad deals! Low grade copper! Thieves!

If you think you're gonna find a bargain at Ea-Nasir's, you can kiss my ass!

It's our belief that you're such a stupid motherfucker you'll fall for this bullshit! Guaranteed!

If you find a better deal, shove it up your ugly ass! You heard us right, shove it up your ugly ass!

Bring your deposit, bring your sealed tablet, bring your messenger! We'll send him back!

That's right, we'll send your messenger back through enemy territory!Because at Ea-Nasir's, you're fucked six ways from Sunday!

Take a hike to Ea-Nasir's, home of challenge pissing! That's right, challenge pissing!

How does it work? If you can piss six feet in the air straight up and not get wet, you get no down payment!

Don't wait, don't delay, don't fuck with us, or we'll turn you into a eunuch!

Only at Ea-Nasir's, the only merchant that tells you to fuck off!

Hurry up, asshole! This event ends the minute after you make a donation to the palace, and it better not bounce or you're a dead motherfucker!

Go to hell! Ea-Nasir's Metals: Sumer's filthiest, and exclusive home of the meanest sons of bitches in Mesopotamia! Guaranteed!

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That scene in post-Heavensward where Alisae is brought to Fortemps Manor with a poisoned wound is so wild when you think about it.

Like imagine you're Alphinaud. You are chilling and having some well deserved rest after ending a thousand year war. Suddenly Thancred storms in with your beloved twin on the brink of death and also more ill tidings. Naturally you call for your bestie the Warrior of Light. She isn't home. While you are having a panic over your sister dying on the couch your bestie finally arrives. In fancy dress. Together with the Lord Commander. Also fancily dressed. In your darkest hour you also have to suddenly contend with the possibility that your bestie and the Lord Commander are fucking.

Or from Thancred's perspective. Before the melee Thancred mentions Aymeric almost sounds like he is in love when he sings the WoL's praises to get them to join the melee on Team Ishgard. He then kinda brushes it off just to later get to Ishgard with a wounded Alisae and find out WoL isn't home because she is on a fucking date with Aymeric.

And then Alisae herself. Does she even know Aymeric? Did she ever realise what her unfortunate run in with the Warriors of Darkness interrupted after she recovered from her wound? Did she feel awkward about cutting WoL's long awaited date short?

Scenes that live in my mind rent free

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We need to embrace the fact that the tumblr userbase is aging. What’s everybody’s favorite kitchen appliance?

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to be fair to Cain if nobody had ever died before and I didn't know it was possible I would probably also hit my brother over the head with a rock if he was being really annoying

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and it is of course well known that dragons are very cutes

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Machinist stands out to me among the FF14 classes... since the protag is essentially the first one.

There's a single "machinist guild" over in Ishgard and its initial quests are simply about proving the validity of the machinist as a type of combat unit. And while there's obviously a few machinists already there who show you the ropes, and there are other gun-users out in the world, such as in the western themed area of Shaaloani in Dawntrail.... None of them are doing the stuff the WoL is doing.

The guild gave you the rook autoturret and the drill. But their instruction only goes up to level 70. Past that, every skill machinist gets is unique to the Warrior of Light. This means they're inventions that your WoL made by themselves. The Warrior of Light invented the bio blaster, the air anchor, the automaton queen, the scattergun, the chain saw launcher, the excavator, AND the miniguns and rocket launchers they use during full metal field.

Just the automaton queen by itself would already be a ridiculous feat of engineering. As someone with a maxed-out crafter WoL who was born under Byregot the Builder, machinist stands out as one of the more "canonical" classes to my WoL's character.

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i love when medieval texts break off to be like "and a shout-out to my patron who paid me for this, pray for him maybe" but it's even funnier when they're like "well my patron wanted me to write a story about this specifically and i want you to know i'm not into it. but she asked and she's paying me. so i guess we're doing this but i'm just putting it out there that i don't condone any of this"

people haven't changed