#medieval priest accusations to be honest

[lotus-tower]

I have to admit fandom is also a bit embarrassing sometimes in being so transparent in their projection. What makes you look at fang shaoye and go oh man this 20 year old sheltered spoiled naive loser lordling who has no life experience must be sooooo good and amazing at sex. Because I find him handsome. I’m sorry but do you hear yourself

[jesterghost]

i was going to put this in the tags then realized it may be pretty important so,

TL;DR "There were many jewish bankers in the middle ages" is a myth! more under the cut

So first things first we need to talk about usury, which basically means "the charging of interest of any kind on loans". Big no no right there. But why?

The main idea is that lending money is supposed to be a favour of christian charity. If you ask for an interest, youre asking to be paid in exchange of a favour, (very unchristianlike!! bad!!) and that is a sin of greed. It is especially disgusting if a priest does it, but since laymen are supposed to take the example from priests theyre not off the hook.

So are jewish people allowed to do usury? of course not. It is already a miracle they're allowed to live in a christian city (because they ARE allowed. it's useful to have someone to remind you of how bad life can get for infidels, saint Augustine says so!... that OF COURSE doesnt mean that you should mingle with jewish people too much, and OF COURSE it won't stop a raging mob from committing atrocities bc the harvest went bad, but i digress,) do you REALLY think they would be allowed to take possession of christian properties so easily and sinfully? to Trick the poor and the ignorant? under the church's watch??? No, of course jewish usury was even less tolerated.

I think part of the reason why we tend to associate medieval jewish people with usury today has to do with Jacques Le Goff. He was a very influential historian who wondered, to cut things short as fuck: "hey its weird how capitalism rose out of medieval culture, which seems to hate money so much!".

Basically Le Goff hypothesized that the act of asking for interest was a sort of heresy. Like the act of "selling time" and since time is divine and belongs only to god, of course this must be the reason why these guys hate usury so much. It's because the church must be completely opposed to money, thinking of money as dirty and therefore, allowing infidels to administrate money it's not so bad if it saves a christian's soul.

But! if the Church was truly so helpless when it comes to understanding finance... how come other financial practices were totally fine and tolerated?

Picture this: a monastery has a field, sowed with wheat. The monastery needs money right now, but it's only january! they cannot sell the wheat yet! What they could do, is make a deal with a trusted merchant: the merchant pays a way low price right now, and then he's going to sell the harvest for a higher price this summer.

How is this any different than asking the merchant for a loan? If the Church truly believed that the sale of time was the sin, then this type of transaction wouldnt be tolerated. But it was! it was only one of the many little widely practiced financial things they had going on back then!

For a few years now, historians have realized that whether or not a loan was considered a form of usury depended on the reputation of the person that was giving the loan out. Is he a trusted merchant? An honest noble? A pious monastery even? Then sure! They care for the common good, and must not be thinking about their mindless personal gain (sin).

But if the loan-giver is a shady type (or worst of all... a jew) then it is much more likely he'll be accused of doing usury.

As you can see, this is not a matter of "jewish people being forced into banking" but rather a matter of how the law was enforced, and who is being policed for doing the same as anyone else.

In fact! i'd argue that becoming an influential banker was orders of magnitude easier for christians than it was for jewish people! The rampant medieval antisemitism made jewish people so marginalized i suspect jewish bankers were in fact the exception, not the rule.

Last notes: My sources are books that focus principally on usury and only marginally on the jewish condition, so there's that. i dont have all the answers, etc etc.

i also suspect that the idea that there were "definitely soooo many jewish bankers" may be a leftover of nazi propaganda? just a hunch.

SOURCES:

G. Todeschini, Visibilmente crudeli. Malviventi, persone sospette e gente qualunque dal Medioevo all'età moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

G. Milani, L'uomo con la borsa al collo. Genealogia e uso di un'immagine medievale, Roma, Viella, 2017

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Hello ~ do you have any reading recommendation about Mary? Any genre is fine, devotionals that reference her life, theological work, etc.

Hey! And oh, boy, do I!

Mary for All Christians, by John Macquarrie, is a book written by a Protestant theologian who attempts to rearticulate the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church (as well as the controversial Co-Redemptrix title) in a way that Protestants may be able to accept.

Chosen Among Women, by Mary Thurlkill, is a little more academic. It explores the way in which Merovingian Christians and medieval Shi'ites used the bodies of the Virgin Mary and Fatima bint Muhammad, respectively, to define both orthodoxy and community borders. It was a very fascinating book, and one I should really reread, to be honest.

True Devotion to Mary, by Saint Louis-Marie de Monfort, is a book that often gets Catholics accused of Mariolatry. But it's a very fascinating book that shows the extreme limits of Marian devotion, with the basic premise being Mary is so in tune with God's will that their two wills are essentially indistinguishable; the book promotes what is known as Marian consecration, where the individual entrusts their soul to Mary in order that she may better present it to Jesus. The book provides an explanation for this concept, why Marian devotion in general is important, and provides prayers to help prepare for a Marian consecration.

The Imitation of Mary (the one by Alexander de Rouville, not the contemporary book of the same name) is a series of meditations of how to live a Christian life based on the broad outlines of Mary's life, divided into four parts.

"Christianity and Tamil Culture: Father Joseph Beschi and the Image of the Virgin Mary" is a cool article about the cultural resonances between the virgin birth of Jesus and indigenous Tamil conceptions of... well, conception and childbirth. Joseph Beschi was a Jesuit priest who attempted to inculturate the Christian faith into a Tamil cultural paradigm by drawing on these resonances and embodying them in the form of traditional Tamil poetic structures.

Full of Grace: The Greatest Story (N)ever Told, by Tony Bellizi, details a huge amount of Marian Apparitions that have occurred through the centuries, both those officially approved by the Catholic Church on the universal level and those under investigation in particular dioceses. Each story should be taken with a grain of salt, but there are many potential wellsprings for Marian piety.

I can recommend you much, much more, if you like, but if you can tell me what exactly you're looking for, I can get more specific or focused on what you think you'd be most interested in.

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Blue Rose RPG 2nd edition: The World of Aldea

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One of the things that has changed the least between 1st and 2nd edition is the setting of Blue Rose, Aldea, which is a good thing because it’s a pretty great setting. There are two obvious differences in the main books, however.

The first, as I already mentioned in my overview, is that it includes all the material from the expansion book The World of Aldea, which went into much more detail over the different nations in Aldea, including adding the island matriarchy of Lar’tya. This is part of what makes the book worth the price tag; it’ two books in one, no need to buy an expansion. Moreover, as we’ll see in this entry, there’s been new material added, from small details to two entire new regions to explore.

The second is that the timeline has been moved forward. Between first and second edition, ten years have passed, bringing with it some big changes. Back in first edition, Kern was ruled by the lich Jarek, last of the Sorcerer Kings, while in Aldis Queen Jaellin had been chosen by the Golden Hart, to the resentment of Lord Saylin who had been the presumed next choice. Well, it turns out that Saylin eventually betrayed Aldis to Jarek in exchange for the promise of a throne, leading to a Kernish invasion. Jaellin, however, used the departure of most of Kern’s troops to launch a precision strike through a Shadowgate that led to the assassination of Jarek. While the return of Kernish troops and the incoming winter kept them from freeing the whole nation, Kern is now no longer a united force, but a tenuous alliance of seven warring factions vying for control. Also, Jaellin got married to a vata’sha rebel she met in Kern, to the consternation of bigots in Aldis.

But before we get into the details of what’s changed and what’s new in the setting, let me address one important question that looms over this setting:

Is Aldis a Mary Suetopia?

No. No it is not, and it irritates me when people claim it is.

A “Mary Suetopia” is, by definition, a perfect society filled with perfect people, where the only possible threat has to come from outside, not from within. Mary Suetopias have no internal strife, crime, discrimination, poverty, etc. and the stories they come in tend to depict all their neighbors as horrible for not being exactly like them.

Aldis is not like that. It is a good society, yes, and you are expected to see it as the most ideal of the options presented in the guidebook. It embraces diversity gives people equality under the law and broad freedoms, has a strong social safety net, focuses on reforming criminals rather than punishing them, and other progressive ideals. Aldis is not a medieval society, but a post-apocalyptic one trying to rebuild an ancient society that was more technologically and socially advanced than our own.

But it is far from perfect. Yes, leaders are chosen through magically meritocratic methods...but they can and do become corrupt after their selection. The Sovereign’s Finest cannot be everywhere, and bandits are common in remote regions. Within urban areas, the Silence (the Aldin version of the mafia) lurks in the underside of society. There is still a fair amount of prejudice against vata’sha and night people. And their very lenient attitude towards religious practice allows cults dedicated to the Exarchs of Shadow to crop up more than they do in other nations.

Nor are these issues something you only finds in the more nuanced World of Aldea expansion; they’re right there in the main guide. The 2nd edition draws more attention to them, but it’s not like they’ve really changed much at all.

So why did this get a rap as a Mary Suetopia? Simple: a lot of people are deeply uncomfortable with a setting that depicts LGBT positivity and progressive causes as good things. Thus this setting gets accused of being “preachy” or pushing a political agenda in a way that other settings do not. Nevermind that you could totally examine the political ramifications of, say, the 3rd Edition Eberron setting and how it endorses colonialism, but I digress.

Hopefully now, a decade later, enough minds have been changed that this game will get a better reception. And its progressive and positive outlook can potentially appeal to people turned off to traditional settings.

Background

The history of the world of Aldea has remained largely unchanged; in fact I think the creation myth is a word-for-word copy paste. The major difference is that the primordial gods used to look like this:

and now they are depicted like this:

Have I mentioned how much I adore this new art?

Aldis: New Elements

In some ways this series has doubled-down on its progressiveness as there is now a long, brand new section on laevvel bran’maur, the Aldin word that covers our ideas of trans, nonbinary, or intersex individuals. In Aldis they have equal rights and their gender identities are respected and even celebrated. The book goes into details on different ways that people can transition in the setting, and notes that the Aldin language has a gender neutral third person pronoun (as do many real-world languages) so you can choose whatever pronouns you like for characters.

People in Aldea believe that souls are inherently all genders and none at the same time, and it’s a widespread belief that laevvel‘s identities come from a mystic awareness of spiritual gender fluidity. This leads to the positive superstition that laevvel are inherently magical in some regions, which could be annoying if your character isn’t interested in magic. In the theocratic Jarzon, this stereotype has more to do with their suppression than their departure from gender norms, and in the dystopic Kern they may be targeted for recruitment by sorcerers. But in Aldis itself and elsewhere you can safely play a laevvel character without being part of a narrative of oppression.

Otherwise the big change is the discussion of immigrant groups who don’t always share Aldis’s exact same ideals but are still tolerated. A number of these come from Jarzon, which we’ll be discussing next. A little more iffy is their choice to include the Trebutane, a sect among Kernish refugees that was a part of a campaign from the end of the World of Aldea. It’s very obvious that the Trebutane are partly inspired by Judaism, especially in their garb, and to be honest the original campaign made me uncomfortable to read. By and large, however, they are a merger of different traits from different religious minority communities throughout time and history. Their past of violent factionalism more resembles Christian conflicts, and the lineage of Highbloods that initially discouraged them from rising up against Kern reminded me a bit of Rennyo and the Ikkoshu in the Muromachi period (though I doubt that was intentional). As a Narrator, though, I would probably adjust their clothing so they don’t have the Hasidic hats...

Jarzon: the Well-Intentioned Extremists

It is possible from the brief overview in the basic 1st edition guide to see Jarzon as a strawman for patriarchal heteronormative values, but the World of Aldea content, reproduced here, goes out of its way to emphasize that Jarzon is not an inherently evil nation. They suffered worse under the Sorcerer Kings than Aldis and reacted accordingly. What’s more, how repressive the priestly hierarchy that runs the country is varies from region to region, and many Purist Jarzoni question whether the country and their religion hasn’t lost its way. Some dissidence is tolerated so long as people are quiet about it; it’s only the vocal who wind up persecuted, sometimes fleeing to Aldis. Ultimately Jarzon is a country that Aldis can work with to fight greater evils even as both sides consider the other to be deeply misguided.

One way that this idea is reinforced is through changes in the character profiles for Jarzon. There’s a cool new character, Aelyth, who is a laevvel priest who fled Jarzon to live as a woman but still believes in her religion and has dedicated her life to writing a more inclusive commentary on their scripture. Likewise Falinur Fenirson has gone from being described as a “fanatic” to a known opponent of priests having secular power.

Khanata of Rezea: Nomads and Ruins

Rezea is a vast grassland with seasonal rains where most of the people are nomadic herders, thrown together from different cultures while they lived as slaves under the Sorcerer Kings until they found their freedom. Their culture takes elements from Central Asian nomads and Plains Indians, and is probably the second most ideal after Aldis. They segregate vata’sha and night people, and allow the death penalty for a few extreme crimes, but otherwise they’re just culturally distinct from the settled, agrarian Aldis.

2nd edition adds a new location, the Stormpoint Refuge, but otherwise is very similar to 1st edition.

Kern: A Whole New Order

Needless to say with the aforementioned chronological shift, Kern’s section has changed dramatically, with profiles of the new seven regents who feign an alliance while all secretly working against each other. There are new profiles for all of them as well as many other Kernish characters. Also this completely awesome picture of the regents:

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Roamers: Every Positive Stereotype of Romani

A lot of fantasy settings both in games and in literature have a counterpart of the Romani people (still sometimes better known as g/psies, though that’s generally considered insulting by Romani themselves), and Aldea is no exception. Blue Rose only includes the positive stereotypes, the image of the Romani as wandering free-spirits who are into dancing and fortune-telling with tarot cards.

But this image can be deeply problematic as it overlooks how much of Romani culture has been shaped by their oppression in Europe. Why do they wander? Because in many countries they weren’t allowed to own property. Why do they make their living through art, fortune-telling, and tinkering? Because they were often denied access to any other work.

The setting has worked out its own backstory to try to justify Roamer culture, as the Faenari (as they call themselves) wander because their country was long ago destroyed by a sorcerer, becoming the Shadow Barrens. Their fortune telling through the Royal Road (tarot) is a remnant of their ancient religion, and while it can be used for telling fortunes, for them it has higher meaning. Lastly, as Aldis has become a peaceful, accepting nation, some Roamers have begun to settle down in their own communities, no longer “Roaming” at all.

Still, if any of your players find this insulting or offensive, as a Narrator you can modify it further to try to match a more accurate picture of real-life Romani people or to give the Faenari greater diversity.

It shouldn’t be modified so as to remove the Shadow Barrens, which is the actual greatest threat to the world. As a Narrator I’d keep some of the information here secret from players, but let’s just say that if you wanted to do a higher-level hack-and-slash arc in your series, a joint Aldin-Jarzoni expedition into the Shadow Barrens would be a good setup.

New Nations: Lar’tya, The Pirate Isles, and Wyss

Lar’tya is from the World of Aldea expansion, an archipelago nation that is matriarchal and caste-based. In the two lowest castes, men are more or less equal to women, but in the higher castes women hold higher station because men are believed to be too emotional and irrational to be in positions of power. It’s a benevolent, condescending sexism (unlike the harsher patriarchy in Jarzon). Likewise the caste-system, while barring intermarriage, creating greater wealth disparity, and requiring etiquette that outsiders view as demeaning, is not overbearingly oppressive. There’s a fair amount of mobility within a given caste, and even the lowest caste still has rights nor are they without the basic necessities of life. Additionally, there are internal changes underway as salons that provide free spaces for castes to interact and talk about issues facing Lar’tya together have sprung up over the country. Be careful of turning this into a potential White Savior situation; Lar’tyans may be darker than the average Aldin, but both countries are multiracial and Lar’tya doesn’t need to be “saved” by outsiders.

Brand new to the setting are lands southeast of the Shadow Barrens: the Pirate Isles and the tropical forest of Wyss. The Pirate Isles are, as the name suggests, a main resting ground for pirate crews along with sorcerers and other unpleasant groups. Wyss is a nation that has yet to make direct contact with Aldis and can serve as a setting for a series that’s more about exploration and diplomacy. Also, some of the trees there are sentient.

While there are a few elements that might need adjustment, overall I like the material included in the 2nd edition, and I feel like it gives plenty of adventure hooks for a Narrator to build a series around - which is what my last entry in this review will cover.

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50 best tweets that helped us cope throughout 2017

Let's be honest here, 2017 has had nothing but disappointments and mediocrity. 

This tumultuous year has taken such a toll on us that the only thing that made us smile, even a little bit, was our dear old friend and the best place for great memes: Twitter. 

Sure it can be a terrible toilet at times, but at its best, it's all we have. 

At the end of the 2017, we might as well get a laugh out of it to hide our 365 aches. 

SEE ALSO: Twitter confirms it's testing a tweetstorm feature

In no particular order, here are 50 of the most perfect tweets from 2017. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might even run for office. 

1.

Guys imagine the possibilities of Vine 2. Did Kyle step the fuck up? Can Raven swim? Did Jared ever learn how to read? IS MISS KEISHA STILL DEAD?

— Jen-gle Bells ❄☃ (@Miss_Zelda_Zonk) December 6, 2017

2.

judge: please present your argument millennial lawyer: your honor & members of the jury, yall aint never gonna BELIEVE the fresh as hell tea and receipts i have on the accused...my first point, sis over here is a gemini with a scorpio rising, she's already over & canceled

— william shookspeare (@dracomallfoys) December 5, 2017

3.

On the first day of Christmas, Bob Mueller gave to me A guilty Michael Flynn plea

— hieronymus squash (@brain_koff) December 1, 2017

4.

Just so y’all know I taught my big sister about @CardiB_ today pic.twitter.com/sGt7R1hOwi

— Tiffany Haddish (@TiffanyHaddish) November 26, 2017

5.

Where is @LilJon? Is he “OKAY”?!

— austin nelson (@austinCLGnelson) November 22, 2017

YEAHHHHHHH https://t.co/QNBlZK15lb

— LILJON (@LilJon) November 23, 2017

6.

I accidentally texted my wife with voice recognition...while playing the trombone pic.twitter.com/tWCPSXbbrO

— Paul The Trombonist (@JazzTrombonist) November 21, 2017

7.

my instagram feed: 3 days ago 3 days ago 1 day ago ad five days ago 3 hours ago 6 hours ago 3 days ago 4 days ago 3 days ago 2 days ago ad 1 day ago 1 day ago 3 hours ago 4 days ago 5 days ago 3 days ago 2 hours ago ad

— Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) November 20, 2017

8.

why do i see 2015 harry holding 2010 harry and 2013 harry is behind them, holding 2011 harry pic.twitter.com/WQhSuO9N5P

— kyrstene ���̽◞̽ (@aIwaysIou) November 19, 2017

9.

bill nye's full name is actually bill new year's eve

— ocular frog (@holyscum) November 19, 2017

10.

the year is 2008. the time: 2:30 AM. you awaken in a sweat. a light illumates your dim room and a sound penetrates the area. you hear the words that come this time every night: “All. My. Friends. Know the low rider.” You see him. pic.twitter.com/hZ38fC4cvI

— LOGAN (@luggin_) November 17, 2017

11.

pic.twitter.com/utp0PqD1zZ

— ️🤳🏾 (@iamkiyonce) November 18, 2017

12.

"sir do u know how fast u were going?" "Officer I..." "and do u know how furious u were going?" "um..." "and do u know how...Tokyo Drift u wer

— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) November 16, 2017

13.

WHAT IS BLAKE SHELTON HIDING BEHIND HIS HEAD. pic.twitter.com/DrQWaCFz9z

— Peter Allen Clark (@peterallenclark) November 15, 2017

14.

Who did this pic.twitter.com/3ZIaaNhRyo

— Professor Snape (@_Snape_) November 6, 2017

15.

ᶜᵃᶰ ᴵ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵃ ᵘʰʰʰʰʰ ᶫᵃʳᵍᵉ ˢᵉᵉᵈ pic.twitter.com/8FBFEvwhzI

— memes 🎄 (@memeprovider) November 6, 2017

16.

if #Arthur was an edgy teen drama (Trailer) pic.twitter.com/IDzGbS7Egn

— Daniel Nkoola 🇺🇬 (@DNkoola) November 4, 2017

17. 

I thought DJ Khaled just graduated lmaooooo pic.twitter.com/MuRWx3MqXF

— billy🥀 (@oraltwjnk) November 3, 2017

18.

Stranger Things Stranger Things 2 Strangers and Things 2 Strange 4 Things 5 Things The Strange and the Things: Tokyo Drift Strangest 7

— eric 🐻 (@ericbearden_) November 2, 2017

19. 

steve and billy's fight scene but with toxic by britney spears playing in the back pic.twitter.com/3iGzzrTUCu

— river (@mkewheeIr) November 2, 2017

20.

Last minute costume idea: put on a trash bag and go as 2017.

— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) October 28, 2017

21.

[day after hallowe'en] me: I think I ate too much candy doctor: sorry I can't offer you any treatment me: ok just gimme the trickment

— Marf (@MarfSalvador) October 27, 2017

22.

Bad news: I accidentally washed a nice wool shirt that I really loved and it shrunk a LOT Good news: pic.twitter.com/bPN6uji4ws

— alex tumay (@alextumay) October 24, 2017

23.

offset: I put a ring on her finger quavo: FINGER offset: i hired a priest and a singer quavo: VOWS offset: wut kinda cake I got quavo: POUND

— Zachary Fox (@zackfox) October 28, 2017

24.

when you're just trying to enjoy the fall but existential dread keeps creeping in pic.twitter.com/jjJASoT9vn

— rae paoletta (@PAYOLETTER) October 22, 2017

25.

I've been picking apples in the autumn since before it was cool to post about it on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/9hJLCwV6Fc

— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) October 22, 2017

26.

once a dude interrupted me, and a second dude said, "wait, she is saying something." anyway i married the second dude.

— Kathryn Jezer-Morton (@KJezerMorton) October 16, 2017

27.

Can't wait for BLACK PANTHER because Michael B Jordan is playing the most terrifying Marvel villain yet: Your college boyfriend pic.twitter.com/eQDTFRgiBF

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) October 16, 2017

28. 

It’s big/lil season & UPD just got their matches 💗💗💗💗 pic.twitter.com/MawdI6zkI8

— Northwest MoState PD (@NW_UPD) October 12, 2017

29.

Pitch: THE OB, a show about a rare blood type that’s a sequel to THE OA and a prequel to THE OC

— Ira Madison III (@ira) October 4, 2017

30.

when you're signing up for a free trial and it asks for your credit card details pic.twitter.com/VsP4ue7Ezv

— Medieval Reactions (@MedievalReacts) October 1, 2017

31.

I save all my best dance moves for food.

— Issa Rae (@IssaRae) October 1, 2017

32.

My dad loves This is Us. These are the different names he's called it: -We are Them -This is Now -Who are You -What is Up

— Season's Tweetings (@Swag_Catholic) September 27, 2017

33. 

the year is 2027. rihanna &her brand have seized the means of production from corporate america. we have universal healthcare. fenty health.

— virgo queen (@EFFLORESCENE) September 25, 2017

34.

U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!

— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 23, 2017

35.

How come when a house is 'haunted' its always a ghost from the 1700s? imagine a ghost from 2007 screaming "ITS BRITNEY BITCH" at 3 am.

— Amber Joy (@officialambrjoy) September 18, 2017

36.

I just want android users to realize that their snaps look like civil war footage

— Sabria Ⓥ (@glutenfrida_) September 13, 2017

37.

Hi my name is Junie B. Jones. The 'B' stands for lil BITCH YOU CANT FUCK WITH ME IF YOU WANTED TO THESE EXPENSIVE THESE IS RED BOTTOMS

— Madi Wallace (@madimae443) August 29, 2017

38.

me after Amazon lowers Whole Food's prices pic.twitter.com/fTHbiNN9jP

— bootykiller (@tamboochie) August 26, 2017

39.

me: skincare! my other organs: please help us .

— sam (@smeezi) July 26, 2017

40.

I closed my finger in a drawer and yelled "Son of a bitch!" and my 6 yo called from another room "What is it? Is it Trump? What did he do?"

— Kristin (@FeralCrone) June 30, 2017

41.

[enter password] SuperMan [password not strong enough] WonderWoman

— Eden Dranger (@Eden_Eats) June 20, 2017

42.

hey there delilah whats it like in a country that believes in climate change

— i need a girlfriend im 6’4 (@ilooklikelilbil) June 2, 2017

43.

I am an actual state someone help pic.twitter.com/160mC5j9I4

— Natalie Smith (@natalie5mith) May 7, 2017

44.

Glasses are so unattractive 😫😫💔

— K H O L O F E L O (@Ursula_Joy) May 7, 2017

We just tryna see damn https://t.co/w2ZJf4kHQQ

— 🤺 (@MylesAjani) November 9, 2017

45.

The dinner that @fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd

— Tr3vor (@trev4president) April 28, 2017

46.

Me jumping to conclusions pic.twitter.com/CVdnX6rJ7D

— That (@HeyPariss) February 6, 2017

47.

[first date] Him: Let's take the stairs! Me: I think we should see other people.

— Fickle_Filly (@Fickle_Filly) January 8, 2017

48.

SOMEONE TOOK THE TIME TO TRACE OUT THE DISNEY STARS' WAND IN THE AWKWARD COMMERICAL OUTTAKES I'M WHEEZING THE LIFE OUT OF MY WHOLE BEING pic.twitter.com/88eZ3LcLSN

— ari (@arigoggles) January 7, 2017

49.

priest: let us offer each other the sign of peace crush: peace be with you me: pls be with me crush: priest: Father: Son: Holy Spirit:

— 🎄 idabells 🎄 (@idasiasoco) January 3, 2017

50.

DATE: You OK? ME: Yeah, sure. DATE: You seem a bit distracted, what are you thinking about? MY BRAIN: pic.twitter.com/DnAxL8Y6Fo

— Brian Lloyd (@BrianMLloyd) January 1, 2017

We certainly can't wait for what 2018 has in store.

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