#Immaculate Conceptions

[crowlixcx]

Good Omens fandom: And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

[crochet-the-ninth]

merry christmas from your lesbian jesuses

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Immaculate Conception Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682) Date: unknown Genre: religious art Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 198.1 cm (77.9 in) high x 134.6 cm (52.9 in) wide Location: Detroit Institute of Arts

[ynhart]

[shinelikethunder]

"i am the alpha and the omega" implies omegaverse jesus selfpreg....... call THAT an immaculate-- *SNIPER SHOT*

[stellaclaw]

mapleshade should have lied harder. she should have told oakstar the kits were his.

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

I love showing Xena episodes to someone new who's never really watched the show and infodumping my many amazing Xena facts upon their increasingly disbelieving ears

[northameicanblog]

Basilica of the National Shrine, Washington D.C., United States: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Washington D.C. It is the largest Catholic church building in North America and is also the tallest habitable building in Washington, D.C. Wikipedia

[melmedarda]

I have theories you would never BELIEVE.

[anghraine]

While I'm on my disruptive Tolkien opinions kick:

Yes, obviously, he was a conservative Catholic and this was really important to his understanding of the world and pervades his work and so on and so forth.

But I'm a bit "..." about reducing everything he thought and felt about the world to that. Like, yeah, there's a tradition of conservative pastoralism that meant the context of his environmental opinions was not inherently progressive in the way it can mistakenly seem in 2024. Do I think he was Like That about trees because of conservative pastoralism, or his Catholicism, or that the particular form taken by his TREES TREES TREES #OLDMANWILLOWDIDNOTHINGWRONG TREEEEEEEEES ethos much resembles most of his contemporaries' feelings?

Not really.

I mean, he would never have said it, but I kind of doubt whether his very sincere and deeply felt veneration of the actual figures of his religion was truly comparable to how he felt about things like That One Oak on the Corner That I Liked Got Chopped Down by Evildoers. I've read other conservative British writers of this era who have their own forms of pastoralism and most of them are way less intense about it. I truly don't think Tolkien loved trees the way he did Because Catholicism or whatnot. I genuinely think he just really loved trees.

Basically, I can imagine some alternate universe in which alternate Tolkien ends up with really different beliefs about religion, about politics, about all sorts of things. But I can absolutely not imagine a universe in which any version of Tolkien did not take the part of trees against all their enemies.

[sorryimananti-romantic]

HOLY FUCK Y'ALL THE CONCEPT PHOTOS THIS TIME ARE INSANE??!!?

[luvingsolace]

Rick Riordan is kinda the rarepair master cause how did he even explain solangelo to his editors

[rossodimarte]

Allegory of the Immaculate Conception, Spain, 17th century

[portraitsofsaints]

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

It's one of the four dogmas of the Catholic Church that maintains that from the moment the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in the womb, she was kept free of original sin so that she was from the start filled with the sanctifying grace normally conferred in baptism.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[careful-disorder]

Juan Vicente Macip, The Immaculate Conception

[illustratus]

The Immaculate Conception by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo