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galacticlamps · 8 months ago

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very minor thing I still definitely deserve a medal for:

being raised catholic, and now as an adult repeatedly falling in love with characters that fandoms like to declare catholic, but still managing to reject those headcanons because at heart I'm too much of a stickler for accurate analysis to get behind them when i know the person in question is really meant to be anglican/episcopalian/whatever other flavor of christian

i am being, as the poets say, so brave about it

#i dont wanna list examples bc this is just a lil vent post im not looking to make this pop up in any tags & insult anybody #bc tbh some of the worst offenders are absolutely top-tier favorite characters of mine with woefully small fandoms #& the LAST thing i wanna do is be rude about or discourage anyone who posts about/writes for/discusses them #just because i happen to have trouble getting on board with one part of their analysis.#but it does amaze me that this Keeps happening #talk about resisting temptation #& for the record when i say 'raised catholic' i do not just mean christmas and easter catholic okay #im talking 'college was the first time in my life religion wasnt a required subject' catholic #'virtually everybody i knew as a teen went to different single-sex high schools' catholic #horrible uniforms. strict nuns. classes interrupted for masses for even the minor holidays. joined choir for something to do-catholic #as an adult i still have friends & acquaintances who work in/for churches type-catholic #my mom actively tries to hide rosary beads & scapulars in my bags & car every time i come home catholic #(i dont even think most people know what scapulars ARE for christ's sake! & if they think they do they're probably picturing the wrong one #meanwhile i've got a routine list of hiding spots to check for them before driving away)#my point is.#if it made even a scrap of sense for any of these characters to actually be catholics trust me i'd be the FIRST one saying so #bc i know i could write the SHIT out of all the angsty repressed queer guilt religious trauma stuff everyone's drawn to it for #that's like the very least i could get out of having been up to my eyeballs in it for the first two decades of my life #but 99% of the time it just doesn't track w/ what we know about them at all im sorry.#im sorry your moodboard yearns for stained glass saints #im sorry your fic hinges upon a flashback to a certain sacrament #but im just not buying it

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