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So remember that Joan of Arc sketch I posted like 6 months ago? I’m pleased to present the finished linocut version.

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St Michael the Archangel and St Joan of Arc

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Whenever someone says God can't make people gay, it takes a lot of self-control not to say that telling The Good Lord what He can and can't do with His creation is not a hill I'd want to die on

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Florence Welch by Luis Alberto Rodriguez for NYT Style Magazine (2024) / Adoration of St. Joan of Arc by J. William Fosdick (1896)

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Shirt that says “I’m the saint worshipping catholic your evangelical friends warned you about”

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[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

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Nun in red heels from Readers Digest magazine, ca 1967.

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Penda's Fen (Alan Clarke, 1974)

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Paintings depicting Jeanne d’arc in armour

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Title: Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices Artist: Eugène Romain Thirion (French, 1839-1910) Date: 1876 Genre: religious art; historical painting Medium: oil on canvas Location: Église Notre-Dame, Ville de Chatou, France

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The Virgin Mary by José Luis Castillo

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i’m like joan of arc if god didn’t talk to her

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Piotr Stachiewitz- Mother of the God Herb

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The Druids by illustrator and comic artist Julia Tar

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St. Michael Archangel by me!!!