#apocrypals

[apocrypals]

Happy Hweens 2024

[lazyasriel]

so I've recently finished the magnus archives and it's left me with a giant hole in my life (hahahaha I'm FINE). I really need a new podcast to listen to so help me choose please:

malevolent

RQ Gaming Podcast

Welcome to Night Vale

The Black Tapes

Apocrypals

Mentopolis

(a stupid writing podcast that I should definitely listen to for educational purposes)

(a stupid Roman history podcast for my stupid degree)

tma again

for context I am physically incapable of listening to more than one of these at a time once I become obsessed with it

I really appreciate the help

[racefortheironthrone]

Why do alternate history authors always assume No Reformation = Middle Ages forever? No Reformation means no Counter-Reformation, i.e. decadent neoclassical popes and cardinals pouring money into arts and sciences.

I don't know, because that doesn't make sense even on its own terms. Surely No Reformation means Renaissance Forever...

Also, even without the Reformation, at some point some king is going to get into a fight with the Pope and manage to get Gallicanism or a revived Conciliarism over on the ultramontanists and make it stick. It's just the law of large numbers.

[disastergenius]

@apocrypals may have accidentally predicted Taylor and Travis in 2018 by using their names in Ep12 (The Gospel of John pt2) as part of joke about the timeline changing by dropping a book of baby names in Nazareth

[get-hamilton-on-your-side]

So I was playing Death and Taxes and came across this profile...which sounds suspiciously like Benito Cereno @apocrypals

[jcsflo]

@apocrypals is back baby and so are the fanarts!

[thischristianguy]

of course they would team up @apocrypals

[glimmeringghost]

Today I learned that in some texts such as the 3rd book of Enoch, Metatron is called “ the lesser or small Yahweh “

And because I’m a dirty weeb I immediately thought of Sailor Chibi Moon. And I made this:

Sailor Chibi Yahweh

Original is by William Blake

[gotylocks]

[flameraven]

I am not a Bible expert but I've listened to enough podcasts on it that I'm pretty sure there were quite a few centuries of people writing "the Apocalypse of X" stories that featured visions of what Heaven and Hell were like. Most of them are apocrypha and not canon, but they were very much part of the existing religion and people's understanding. The idea of Hell being where people were tortured in karmically satisfying and horrible ways (while the people in Heaven looked down and watched/mocked them) was absolutely a thing that showed up pretty early. Which I think counts as "theological basis." @apocrypals

The fact that Dante created the most popular image of the afterlife with absolutely no theological basis for it will still be the funniest thing to me

[apocrypals]

Happy new year I got you this new episode

[ortie-pnk]

Thecla Mary Sue

[theneverusedaccount]

OMG Rachel is staring straight at the viewer this is so funny to me

Laban in search of idols by Laurent de la Hyde

@apocrypals thank you so much for giving me the context

[mcgravin]

St. Catherine of Alexandria. I learned about her on @apocrypals​

mutuals

[apocrypals]

If you have ever read Genesis 15 and thought “I wish this was longer and weirder with more flying snakes in it,” great news

[thischristianguy]

@apocrypals @benito-cereno

shots fired at gwneyth