#Catholic W

[templevirgin]

Checked the place I may be moving to and it’s 51-100% Catholic!

[snaccy-time]

Had a dream last night that the Catholic Church was making sure everyone got to see the barbie movie for free

[gibbearish]

kids who werent raised christian being like "lol baptising children is whack if they tried to do that to me i would start doing things to make it look like i was possessed" no you would not. you would bask in the pride and approval coming from the adults around you and you would quietly wait your turn because you were told from birth that sinning sends you to hell and baptism is The Promise that youre dedicating your life to jesus that youve had hyped up for years and watched other people be fawned over as they cry happy tears about it and you do NOT want to fuck up your One Big True Promise To Love Jesus Forever So You Don't Get Tortured For Eternity when you are literally 8 years old. im begging yall to remember its a thousand times easier to see the church's bullshit for what it is when you're not actively in the church. eight year old you is not thinking about trying to fight back against an oppressive religious group indoctrinating children because You Are The Children Being Indoctrinated. stop acting like you would've magically known better if it were you.

[crismakesstuff]

cast out of paradise

[autisticrosewilson]

It's not that I hate fanon or that I think fanon is inherently less intelligent or morally wrong, but a LOT of fanon is based in racism, misogyny, and classism that I feel like a lot of you accept without question.

WHY is Duke (Daredevil, son of a god, has never once allowed himself to be defined by anyone's actions but his own) relegated to a background role, only characterized by reacting to the whims of other bats?

Why is Babs - Birds of Prey leader and backbone of the hero society, tells Bruce to fuck off and die 4 times a day and is constantly ruining her relationships by being biased and unhinged - Gotham bound, the mature responsible mom of the group who never argues with Bruce and never gets in trouble?

Why is Dick, both a tactical genius and master manipulator, a himbo only appreciated for his sex appeal? Especially when he is both Romani (group of people demonized and condemned as hypersexual by their nature alone) and an SA victim.

WHY is Damian "feral" and "uncivilized" despite being raised as a literal prince? Half of you treat him like a sociopath with no hope of redemption for an unfunny three second joke and the other half of you go full throttle into Bruce's white savior bullshit so that Damian can be "redeemed". Y'know when you're not villainizing Talia and acting like Dick is his other parent, actually.

WHY is Stephanie - extremely intelligent detective who can't stand Bruce and has a living mother she loves - lumped in as another member of the Batfam, a blonde ditz who only cares about prank wars and emotionally supporting Tim?

WHY is Cass - intelligent, a grown adult, suicidal perfectionist - emotionally intelligent, primarily existing to support the characters around her, immediately accepting of everyone she meets regardless of her own morals?

Why is Bruce the golden standard? Enough so that though everyone in the fandom could agree that he's an emotionally unstable wreck, being considered "the most like him" is seen as a compliment and not the HIGHEST insult? Everyone would agree if I said that Bruce purposely self sabotages his relationship half the time and the other half he simply does things without caring about the emotional impact it will have on people because he has to be the smartest in the room, but if I said that makes him a shit partner and emotionally abusive parent the fandom would bend over backwards to argue with me.

Why is Tim "the best Robin" when Dick Grayson invented the mantle, it is impossible for someone to embody the spirit of Robin better than him because he made it and he created what being Robin means. Maybe Tim is the best in Bruce's eyes, but what Robin means and who has the right to give it over was a significant thing they argued about. Tim the high school drop out, and yet also somehow the smartest? Tim "the most like Bruce" except no he's not, that's Cass. Poor neglected, abused, victimized little Timmy (the rich boy at the elite boarding school with loving albeit busy parents and almost every instance of him being victimized by another character has either been racist bullshit - The Al Ghuls and Rose Wilson- or a complete 180 for the character that made no sense when examined through the lens of prior characterization - Jason for instance.)

Almost every fanon trope that gets passed around like gospel seems to deliberately push POC characters and women into the background and strip them of interesting complex traits and stories, usually for the purpose of fitting them all into bite sized incorrect quote character types and uncomplicated narrative roles that are not only completely divergent from canon, but primarily exist to prop up the two rich white boys.

Also the insistence that Bruce, a 20 year old at the time, should actually be excused for how much he mentally and emotionally fucked Dick up because really they're more like siblings! While deciding that Dick at the same age was actually the perfect candidate to be Damian's new parent/guardian...have you lost the fucking plot you don't even make sense to yourselves.

Okay I lied at the beginning, I do hate fanon. You guys are so uncritical about the media you consume it is BEYOND just letting people enjoy things and have fun. I guess it's one thing if you KNOW this stuff isn't canon and UNDERSTAND why these tropes are problematic and you engage with it as such, it's fine read and write what you want, but just spreading the same nonsense around and parading it around as "better than canon" (version of the character so bland and boring you've somehow made the old white men at DC look like geniuses in the art of representation) is just infuriating.

[modawg]

one of my fav things is the way percy’s influence slowly changes annabeth

ik this is smth talked abt a lot but to me it’s so perfectly shown UGHHH i love it i’m sorry

like throughout the first series (specifically the first book) annabeth is shown to be very respectful of the gods and their choices yes she’s very curious but she never questions them or disagrees with them in a way that could cause disruption

ie asking percy if he’s the one in the prophecy yet consistently being very careful abt interacting with anything to do with said prophecy (not telling percy abt it being cautious abt fighting aries or sending medusas head to olympus)

and ofc percy is the dead opposite

however by the end of the series percy is bending at the knee to do exactly what the prophecy could be saying (he takes the prophecy and accepts that he could die he takes the prophecy ASSUMING he’s dead there’s no question no fight just like how annabeth was unquestioning percy suddenly is too)

and suddenly annabeth just can’t stand it she’s watching this happen and she’s putting up a fight for him and to me the biggest sign of this was not only the fight she has with him post finding out abt the prophecy (+ him taking it) but when she takes a dagger for him

he could’ve died from that dagger that could’ve been it

“ hero’s soul a (cursed) blade shall reap

a single choice shall end his days”

obv we know what the prophecy was talking abt based off the final results but i always read into it too much and thought abt the choice annabeth made to sacrifice herself in that moment saving percy’s life

if she hadn’t stepped in, possibly changing the course of the prophecy or what the “gods plans” were he would’ve died just like so many people thought he might

she also just literally interrupts the gods plans of having percy in olympus just by being herself and being someone percy loves

going from someone seemingly putting up a fight when percy tries to stand up against the gods to being someone who won’t back down fighting her own mother when she has to (even when it hurts)

idk i just love her character development

[handweavers]

any understanding of irish history of the last 500 yrs has to explicitly contend with ireland functionally having a caste system wherein your specific religious denomination roughly determined your class status ie. relationship to land ownership and the means of production. the common presentation of ireland being simply a matter of 'religious conflict' obfuscates that if you lived in the island of éire your position in society was nearly entirely determined by the religious sect you were born into, with some degree of economic movement (should you convert to a different sect but even then you would still be distrusted) and variability of the precise nature of one's economic status, ex. you could have some degree of land and wealth as a catholic but it was constantly being cut apart and taxed heavily, you couldn't attend school, you were often terrorized by both official and unofficial roving gangs of protestant soldiers and settlers, etc. but it often wasn't enough to simply be a protestant, you had to be anglican - a follower of the church of england - and if you were presbyterian (like most scots-irish) or from another protestant denomination your position was somewhere in between anglicans and catholics, and the rights of nonconformists (the term used for non-anglican protestants) often fluctuated depending on the material demands of the anglican ruling class, and whether it economically benefited them to gain favour with nonconformists or not. but the primary conflict was the mass extraction of capital from the catholic majority, to line the pockets of the anglican land (and later factory) owners and most importantly the coffers of the british empire. this relationship between religion and class is fundamental to having any degree of understanding of irish history

[pinayelf-archive]

okay but I think it IS nice to see cullen be friends w a lot of women. it's refreshing to see in a game where like the strong, silent, masculine type is in genuine friendships w women and is explicitly shown that he respects them despite not having any romantic intentions towards them

yes I know this is a bare minimum irl but like I said it's NICE to see it in media

*if you dislike cullen pls don't post hate on this thank u, u may do that on ur own post 👍🏽*

[samble-movedd]

"homura is an evil abuser who wants to control madoka and hates their friends" tired trope, canonically untrue, congrats on falling for the facade put up by a middle schooler.

"homura sees herself as inherently evil and abusive due to her upbringing, past actions, and status as a witch, which is still ongoing even at the end of rebellion" fresh, new, actually closer to canon, doesn't demonize a child for being mentally ill.

[raskolnyxov]

another one thank you anya wip instead of studying for my theories of personality midterm 😼

[snidy]

a little ideation collage about failstates viktor and the concept of anamnesis (both the philosophical and theological meaning) i made while planning/writing

[gomacave]

5p yuuram bloood twww

[seraphim-eternal]

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, but the world did not know him.

John 1:10

[texaschainsawmascara]

[anghraine]

Good morning to my fellow US residents on this, the worst day of our calendar. Fingers crossed etc.

[newmexicophotographer]

antonio, co