#saints

[tomicscomics]

12/20/2024

More like Joan of Way-Too-Many-Story-Arcs!

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Continuing from the last few cartoons, an angel is running a fantasy RPG for some saints in heaven, namely Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, and Nicholas of Myra. They're each introducing their characters now. I'm sure they'll all be normal. 2. As Joan introduces her character, we're met with a few common pitfalls that catch many new (and even old) players. FIRST, the character is an obvious "self-insert." Joan made a character that's just an idealized version of herself, but with superpowers. I think all characters are self-inserts in a way, but using yourself as inspiration rather than a blueprint leads to more interesting characters. SECOND, the character is overpowered, vanquishing armies and demons in her backstory with ease. As a character beginning at level one, the lowest level in the game, it's considered uncouth to add impossible victories to their backstory (their past before the game begins). THIRD, the character's backstory is lengthy and filled with conflict, but every conflict is resolved in full. A good backstory tends to be concise, with some unresolved conflicts or vulnerable elements that the Game-Master can use to build up and personalize the actual game's stakes. If your character already handled all their baggage before the story starts, that can work, but it's usually boring. 3. All of Joan's character's backstory moments are based on either events or legends from her own life. The orc refers to a soldier on a bridge who mocked Joan and took the Lord's Name in vain; not long after, he fell off the bridge to his death. The witch refers to Catherine de La Rochelle, a woman who claimed to have visions, and who tried and failed to replace Joan as the coolest mystic in France. The arch-cleric refers to Bishop Cauchon, the vicious, conniving, monstrous prelate who threatened judges and orchestrated Joan's criminally biased heresy trial, leading to her secular execution.

[dramoor]

“If I am in God’s grace, may he keep me there. If I am not, may he put me there.”

~Saint Joan of Arc

(Image author unknown)

[myremnantarmy]

𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘳.

[ranminfan]

You lost your keys again?

A pretty gnarly thing is they got the jaw of St. Anthony of Padua as a relic, and the reliquary goes hard af.

So I had this idea and I drew it as fast as I could

[oleandro-drag]

saint sebastian tended by saint irene but they're both drag artists

felt like this might be something this site would enjoy

on stage: oleandro & delfi oraakel, photographer: peroksiid (on ig as oleandro_drag, delfi_oraakel and peroksiid)

[rabbitrah]

St. Xenia of Petersburg, by Alexander Prostev

[cuties-in-codices]

st. catherine of siena drinking from christ's side wound

in a hagiography of st. catherine of siena, alsace, early 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, ms. allem. 34, fol. 43v

[psalmlover]

mary in a flower crown, st gabriel of the sorrowful mother, pennsylvania, usa

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Erin's character here is a real Catholic saint after whom you can now name churches and whom you can take as your confirmation name and stuff. Wild.

but yeah seriously. have you ever had a blorbo from your shows get canonized

[tragediambulante]

The Ecstasy of Beata Ludovica Albertoni, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1671-74

[rabbitprayer]

Ethiopian Orthodox icon of Saint Michael the Archangel.

[hexnovo]

Hey folks, I can finally release a few illustration I made last spring for Casket Dealer's debut EP Letters from the dead, featuring some martyrs.

You can find prints here and preorder the album here

[theaustinstollhaus]

I think we non-Catholics are really missing out on the idea of saints. What a galaxy-brain idea. Not gods, but little authorities to consult on even the most niche topics. Like a bureaucracy of faith. Praying to the almighty Creator feels overwhelming, but my favorite fifth-century Greek bachelor just gets me.

[amidstsilence]

do you know your holy relics?

prints

[aqua-regia009]

Legend of St. Hubert, oil con canvas. — Samuel John Carter (British, 1835-1892)