#hieronymus

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I was reading about a painting when I came across the name Hieronymus Cock. My first thought was someone had vandalized Wikipedia by changing Hieronymus Bosch's name, and not even in a clever way, the slantiest of slant rhymes, barely a pun by the wildest stretch of the imagination, but no, turns out Hieronymus Cock is a whole other guy. Who'dathunkit?

[messagefromtheunderworld]

And if you had your way, would everything be like it was before? Could it be that you would never ask for more?

[bluekino]

I finally beat Hieronymus in Insane difficulty, which is also my first time beating a raid at Insane difficulty. They were right — Dress Hina is indeed that powerful.

Students stats for those who are curious (yes, I underinvested on my healers):

Kokona (borrowed): 3*, Level 88, Skills M/M/M/M, Gears ?/?/?

Swimsuit Hosino: 3*, Level 80, Skills M/7/7/M, Gears 8/8/8

Dress Hina: 5* UE40, Level 80, Skills M/7/7/7, Gears 8/8/8

Koharu: 3*, Level 80, Skills M/7/1/4, Gears 2/8/8

Ako: 3*, Level 80, Skills M/7/7/7, Gears 1/1/8

Himari: 3*, Skills M/1/1/M, Gears 1/1/1

This clear, unfortunately puts a strain on my resources, so I think I'm gonna clear only Extreme difficulty for the next raids... until Hieronymous comes again on Grand Assault several months from now.

And yeah, I really need to upgrade my specialist's gears; haven't done that for months.

[thisisthevoice]

☕🎼🌊!

from this ask meme!

i wanted to answer this yesterday but i also wanted to do some little drawings for it and my brain was not cooperating lol!

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

i was trying to get in the habit but kind of fell off with it lol, i should get back to trying to do it! my issue is a lot of my work is just meditative and spontaneous. i should do more formal drawing sessions with a warmup included though! a warmup exercise i find fun is to make a random scribble and then try and make something out of the shape you get!

🎼 Your favorite music to draw to right now?

tbh i dont draw to music terribly often, but [while ive been too busy being a night goblin in the ICU] ive really been wanting to do some character study pieces on my OC Hieronymus! he has a playlist that i'll pop on when i get around to this

🌊 What’s the hardest thing for you to draw? 

anything mechanical. cars, robots, etc etc -_-

[stolenkissesfromhim]

“Where All Is Vanity, Death Victorious”

By: Hieronymus Wierix (1553- 1619)

Courtesy of Wellcome Library, London

[queercomposerkarlsson]

This is by far my longest piece of 2023! The piece is inspired by the famous painting "The Garden of Eartly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch.

It begins with the exterior which depicts the third day of creation in the Bible. When opened, the piece follows the panels from left to right.

The first panel takes place in paradise, where God presents Eve to Adam in a pristine landscape, meanwhile some weird-looking creatures roam the land.

On the second panel, the Fall of man has taken place, and all the people take part in lustfull activities with each other and animals, both natural and mythological.

The third panel - The Hell - is the result of humanity´s sinful behaviour. The city is burning, the river is frozen and naked souls are tortured by grotesque demons.

[eweyroo]

I got to have a dream date with Hieronymus last night!! ;/w/; It's kind of strange, how much, like, continuity my dreams with him seem to have? No matter how far apart the dreams are, he always seems to pick up roughly where we left off last time, it's very interesting! (He's starting to get HANDSY, ouhgdcfvgbhnj, which I am NOT complaining about~)

[scribbledbyhand]

S8E18

[digitaltinnitus]

Avantgarde im Mittelalter

[ha-bakbuk]

[389]

Panel of hell (detail), Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505 oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado)

[a-book-of-creatures]

I know it’s a tiny detail overlooked among the rest of the Garden of Earthly Delights, but I have to appreciate how jaunty Bosch’s cow is

[lord-here-i-am]

Hl. Hieronymus

Priester, Bibelübersetzer, Kirchenlehrer * um 345 in Stridon, dem heutigen Štrigova in Kroatien † 30. September 420 in Betlehem in Palästina

Hieronymus, der gelehrteste der lateinischen Kirchenväter, wurde um 345 in Stridon (Dalmatien) geboren. Seine wohlhabenden christlichen Eltern schickten ihn 354 nach Rom zum Studium der Grammatik, Rhetorik und Philosophie. Nach einem Aufenthalt in Trier und Aquileja begab sich Hieronymus um 373 auf dem Landweg nach dem Orient. In Antiochien musste er die Reise abbrechen, weil er krank wurde. Er lebte dann zwei Jahre bei den Mönchen in der Nähe von Aleppo. Damals begann er außer Griechisch auch Hebräisch zu lernen. Um 379 ließ er sich in Antiochien zum Priester weihen. Einer Einladung des Papstes folgend reiste er 380 über Konstantinopel, wo er Gregor von Nazianz kennen lernte, nach Rom zu einer Synode. In Rom wurde er Sekretär des Papstes Damasus und Mittelpunkt eines Kreises von frommen Damen, zu denen die hl. Marcella und die hl. Paula gehörten. 385 verließ er Rom, nachdem er sich durch seine harte Kritik am wenig asketischen Leben von Priestern den Unwillen des dortigen Klerus zugezogen hatte. Er ließ sich jetzt in Betlehem nieder, wo er ein Männerkloster und drei Frauenklöster leitete, an seiner Bibelübersetzung arbeitete, zahlreiche Schriftkommentare schrieb und mit den Theologen seiner Zeit in Briefverkehr stand. Hieronymus war ein Mann mit einem heftigen Charakter, einem unersätt­lichen Wissensdrang und einer großen Liebe zu Christus und zur Kirche. Sein wichtigstes Werk ist die lateinische Bibelübersetzung (Vulgata). Seine Schriftkommentare sind theologisch nicht so bedeutend. Seine Briefe und Streitschriften sind wichtige Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte. Hieronymus starb am 30. September 420. „Christus ist Gottes Kraft und Gottes Weisheit, und wer die Heilige Schrift nicht kennt, der kennt weder Gottes Kraft noch seine Weisheit: die Schrift nicht kennen heißt Christus nicht kennen.“ (Hieronymus, Prolog zum Jesaja-Kommentar) „Denen, die lieben, ist nichts schwer; keine Mühe ist zu hart für den, den die Sehnsucht erfüllt.“ (Hieronymus, Brief 22)

[bluekino]

With the latest Grand Assault concluded, I think this is the appropriate time to write the after-action report here. This time, it's Hieronymus — the same raid boss I write about three months ago. However, this time I came prepared and built my students in time, and so I secured a platinum rank this time. Yay!

Below I will describe the team I used and how the raid went for each color:

Red

Azusa: 4*, Level 90, Skills 1/M/1/1, Gears 1/9/8

Kokona (borrowed): 5* UE50, Level 90, Skills M/M/M/M, Gears ?/?/?

Hoshino (Swimsuit): 5* UE30, Level 90, Skills M/7/M/M, Gears 9/9/8

Hina (Dress): 5* UE40, Level 90, Skills M/7/7/7, Gears 9/9/8

Ako: 3*, Level 90, Skills M/M/7/M, Gears 6/7/8

Himari: 3*, Level 90, Skills M/1/1/M, Gears 5/5/1

All the top-score team for this color used Nonomi (Swimsuit), but they also run Kokona alongside her. When I tried her as the main DPS, I tried to use Koharu instead as the healer, but I got lower score. Because of that, I stick to use my own Hina (Dress) as my DPS and borrow Kokona — the 5 free COST from her Sub Skill turns out to be better for speedrunning compared to switching DPS.

I don't bother upgrading Azusa's skills other than Normal Skill and her gloves (increasing ATK) since she's here only for reducing Hieronymus' DEF. While I have enough materials to max out Dress Hina's Normal Skill, I want to save it to upgrade Swimsuit Shiroko's skills (because her banner is two weeks from now), so the skill level stays there.

From all the three colors of this Grand Assault, this one turns out to be the most comfy. I don't have to worry much about Hieronymus killing my students since almost all of them have Blue or Purple armor that resist Hieronymus' Red attack. Azusa, however, has Yellow armor, forcing me to reset my run if Hieronymus' curse land on her before the lantern is healed five times.

Yellow

Hoshino (Swimsuit): 5* UE30, Level 90, Skills M/7/M/M, Gears 9/9/8

Kazusa (borrowed): 5* UE50, Level 90, Skills M/M/M/M, Gears 9/9/8

Maki: 5* UE50, Level 90, Skills 3/M/7/7, Gears 9/9/8

Koharu: 5* UE30, Level 90, Skills M/M/1/M, Gears 7/9/8

Ako: 3*, Level 90, Skills M/M/7/M, Gears 6/7/8

Himari: 3*, Level 90, Skills M/1/1/M, Gears 5/5/1

Nearly all the guides I saw on YouTube used Kokona as the healer, but the problem is that I don't have Kokona and Kazusa, so I have to use Koharu as the healer here. As you will see later, this will have a negative consequence later...

Since I have to bring my own healer, I need to max out all of Koharu's skills that improve healing. In this case, that would be the EX skill (already maxed from my first Hieronymus raid), Normal Skill, and Sub Skill. Expensive, but completely worth it. I also haven't maxed Maki's other skills except the Normal Skill (where she inflicts DEF down), but since she's here to reduce Hieronymus' DEF, I'll keep it as is — until Hovercraft Wakamo Grand Assault, around one month from now.

This color is the hardest of them all. I barely beat Hieronymus in this color with one team, leaving only three seconds left before the time runs out, as shown in this image.

A lot of things need to go right for clearing Yellow Hieronymus with this team, such as the curse not landing on Kazusa, timing Ako-Himari-Kazusa skill combo so that Kazusa's EX hits the boss while it has DEF debuff from Maki, ensuring Kazusa lands enough crits, and so on. I think I reset the run for half an hour straight before getting this clear, and swept the rest of my ticket for this color to prevent more suffering. This is what no Kokona does to a motherfucker — the free COST she gives from her Sub Skill is really helpful, especially to cut the raid duration.

Blue

Kayoko (New Year): 3*, Level 90, Skills M/7/1/7, Gears 8/9/8

Kokona (borrowed): 5* UE50, Level 90, Skills M/M/M/M, Gears ?/?/?

Hoshino (Swimsuit): 5* UE30, Level 90, Skills M/7/M/M, Gears 9/9/8

Wakamo: 5* UE40, Level 90, Skills M/M/M/M, Gears 9/9/8

Ako: 3*, Level 90, Skills M/M/7/M, Gears 6/7/8

Himari: 3*, Level 90, Skills M/1/1/M, Gears 5/5/1

Copied the team from this video, down to the skill rotation. Completely maxed out all of Wakamo's skills for this raid, which is useful for this raid and Goz (which is the next Total Assault, one week from now). I want to also bring her to UE50, but I need around 900 eligmas while I only have around 3,100, which is quite expensive.

Having the right units, all of them decently built, this should be an easy run, right? HAHAHAHAHA NO. Wakamo has Red armor, which means she's very vulnerable to Hieronymus' attack. The positioning of this team also means that if the curse lands on Swimsuit Hoshino, you must heal her because the explosion will kill Wakamo otherwise, but Wakamo still haven't healed when you have dealt with the curse. This color is easily the most stressful of them all, with me resetting quite a lot because Wakamo dies due to curse RNG making me unable to heal her in timely fashion.

Well, I get platinum rank for this Grand Assault, so all the stress (especially on Blue Hieronymus) should be worth it. The boss for the next raid is Goz — widely deemed to be the worst boss of Blue Archive due to his RNG mechanics. However, I've been building all the students needed for this raid (especially Tracksuit Yuuka my wife), so I have this mixed feeling of dreading the next boss while simultaneously looking forward to it.

I hope I can get another platinum for the next Total Assault, and I'll be making another after-action report two weeks from now!

[thegaminggang]

[diioonysus]

green is the fresh emblem of well founded hope. in blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest