#expedite

[graycloak]

Saint Expedite Working

So... this coming Friday, the 19th, is the feast day for our pal @saint-expeditus. In true "I need this specific saint's help, specifically" fashion, I have procrastinated and am only just now getting my shit together to do A Thing™ this Friday.

Since I am also trying to get back into the swing of things with the Tumblr community I've been a part of for a decade now, I thought I would extend an invitation to you all to be part of this with me 😁

I have set up a Google form for people to fill out to add their petitions to the pile, so if you're interested, please use the following link to access said form:

I will have to keep an eye on things and close the form to additional responses once I hit the max for the supplies I have, so if you hit an inactive form, I apologize ... but if this goes well I will probably start doing this for other things and maybe even keep the Expidite thing going as a yearly offering? Maybe?

I'm not going to share this form on Facebook, Instagram, or Discord either ... this is exclusively for my Tumblr fam 🫂

Feel free to reach out if you run into any issues with the form or if you have any questions or anything.

[ghosted-sound]

Visceral - Psycho by Expedite Records December 04, 2020 at 07:24AM

[3liza]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

[a2zsportsnews]

If successful, Florida State's latest motion in ACC lawsuit could expedite potential departure from league

Florida State filed a motion Tuesday for a partial summary judgment in its lawsuit against the ACC that could expedite the school’s potential departure from the conference, according to court documents reviewed by CBS Sports. The filing is another development, and perhaps the most significant yet, in the ongoing suit that began in December 2023. FSU is asking for a partial summary judgment…

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[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT EXPEDITUS OF ARMENIA The Patron of Emergencies, Revolutionaries, Navigators and Against Procrastination Feast Day: April 19

Puns on saints' names are not uncommon, but that a saint named Expeditus should be invoked against procrastination just seems too good.

There was a real St. Expeditus: He was one of six Armenian Christians, possibly Roman soldiers, who were martyred in Melitene. His fellow martyrs are Sts. Hermogenes, Gaius, Aristonicus, Rufus and Galata. There is documentary evidence that St. Expeditus was venerated in Turin in northern Italy during the Middle Ages. From there, devotion to him spread to Germany and Sicily in the 17th century, but how he became the saint of procrastinators is harder to pin down.

The version with the widest circulation claims that late in the 18th century relics of a martyr, along with a statue, were shipped from Rome to a Paris convent. Neither the relics nor the statue were labeled, but the shipping crate was marked 'Spedito,' which the nuns assumed was the name of the saint. The sisters Latinized Spedito into St. Expeditus. It's a good story, but it does sound like a holy urban legend.

An older legend tells us that on the day Expeditus resolved to become a Christian, the devil came to him in the form of a raven and tried to persuade him to put off his conversion until the next day. Expeditus declared, 'No! I will be a Christian today!'

Devotion to St. Expeditus has spread around the globe. In the United States he is popular among New Orleans Catholics, who tell a story similar to the French legend. The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe received several crates of statues of saints. One of the statues was unidentified, but on the crate was the French term, Expedit, so that was taken to be the unknown saint’s name.

In Sao Paolo, Brazil, hundreds of thousands of Catholics crowd into the churches for Mass on the saint's feast day. The French introduced St. Expeditus to the inhabitants of Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. The saint's cult is particularly strong there, witness the countless private handmade shrines and altars lining the roads. Chile is another center of devotion to St. Expeditus, particularly at the beach resort of Vina del Mar where a small church dedicated to him has become a popular destination for pilgrims.

In art, St. Expeditus is usually shown dressed as a Roman soldier, holding the palm frond that is the symbol of martyrdom in one hand, and raising above his head a cross on which is inscribed the word 'Hodie,' Latin for 'Today,' and trampling on a raven labeled 'Cras,' Latin for 'Tomorrow.'

In Germany, however, St. Expeditus is depicted pointing at a clock, a reminder not to waste time, or procrastinate.

Source: The Arlington Catholic Herald

[wimbledon2008]

sorry boss i can't come in today. yeah they positively identified james fitzjames's remains and his bones have cut marks consistent with cannibalism

[barghest-land]

3 days in the arctic. not much time to draw, but a lot to see 🌠 kola peninsula, august '24

[crustaceousfaggot]

Was anyone gonna tell me that there's a Creature in The Terror. I thought it was just about 20 men named John sucking and fucking and eating each other in the Arctic.

[chaotic-goodsir]

[queeroldweapon]

The doomed Franklin expedition, circa 1848 (artist’s interpretation)

[septembriseur]

I know the algorithm is both evil and annoying, but honestly sometimes I open Facebook and the top of my feed is just a grandma in Nunavut whose grandson caught a really big trout and she wants to let everyone know that she’s going to cut it up and bake it for a Christmas community feast.

[clove-pinks]

Details from Arctic Expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1848-49 published 31 Jan 1850, lithograph after W.H. Browne.

[karolinastast]

lino cut series, inspired by photos of the Trans - Antarctic expedition, lead by Sir Ernest Shackleton, photographed by Frank Hurley

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[angelcake10023]

Being Normal…. (Part 1)

Red and MK have a talk 💛❤️ Decided to try some stylization for their designs, I like how it turned out

(Part 2)