#the meetinghouse

[emperorofthedark]

I keep hanging around your kitchenette

And I'm gonna get a pot to cook you in

I stick my fingers in your biscuit jar

And crush all your Gingerbread Men

[kamiiri]

Annie’s eyes darted from the carved name to the metallic chain hanging off the top of the stone, its pendant glittering in the moonlight.

“That’s my…” she trailed off, her voice beginning to shake. She instinctively grabbed at the area near her collarbones where that necklace used to sit. She looked up at Ophelia. “I…I gave it to him for luck.”

[revanchistsuperstar]

Speaking of GNC AF grandpas, I’d like everyone to meet mine.

The most bisexual sitter of all time, OG Gay Liberation activist and Unitarian Universalist Minister, Rev Randall Lee Gibson III.

Found this photo today while looking for a good one to put on a sign for our local Pride March this weekend.

Shout out to everyone else out there with bisexual and cunty grandpas.

And RIP Randy, you were a true original.

[seasidesandstarscapes]

@crushribbons BULLYING ME

[mykingdomforapen]

The trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is already haunting me. The camera pushing through the hallway of the elderly women scrambling around a secret is just stunning cinema. The quiet blend of magic, nature, and an earnest examination of grief and growing up. The chilling references both realistic and figurative of the (presumably) firebombing of a Tokyo. I’m going to throw up.

[mysteriouscam]

[superpte]

Morality Of War: Greater Power Must Counter Attack War Criminals

The Nuremberg tribunal in 1945-1946 determined that “the ultimate war crime and crime against humanity is to wage a war of aggression”. War of aggression is certainly what Hamas did on October 7, 2023. Some top Nazis got convicted and executed on the “war of aggression” charge alone.  During World War Two many civilians died in the counterattack of the democracies. And not just civilians from…

[litfeathers]

In all the excitement over the HD Hollow Mind paintings getting released, and in the resulting discussion and theorizing of the Wittebane story, I haven’t seen anyone bring up something that is potentially a HUGE part of the puzzle. Which makes sense, because it only appears for a split second in Yesterday’s Lie:

Hopkins shows this picture, says “disaster struck”, and then tells us a bit about the Wittebane brothers, namely that they met a witch and were lured into another world.

There are two options here.

1) The meetinghouse caught fire and started the witch hunt that we see in the HM paintings. The same one that ended with this:

…and it’s entirely possible that Evelyn is the one who blew up the meetinghouse. Why? *shrugs* The witch hunters pissed her off? In any case, that sequence of events would track what Hopkins said (meetinghouse catches fire, witch hunt is called, Caleb and Philip are separated from the pack, and they find Evelyn).

But if this sequence of events is slightly off? He says exactly this:

We know that Caleb was sneaking around with Evelyn for a while before he left. Look at Philip’s hair here vs his hair in the above painting. Time has definitely passed. He even has his ponytail and adult hair noodle.

Further evidence that time has passed? Masha says “they used codes to travel between worlds.” Which I take to mean that the lovebirds traveled back and forth a bunch.

This is where theory two comes in.

Hopkins said the brothers were lured into the BI. We know Caleb left with Evelyn first, and some time later Philip followed them. We don’t know the exact details, but keeping in mind that the fire could have happened at any point before the “luring” (ie Caleb leaving)…

What if this is our scenario instead:

2) Caleb got caught hanging out with a witch, and was arrested. Evelyn blew up the meetinghouse to save him, spiriting him away in front of the whole town. Philip spends years trying to find a natural portal and finally succeeds, entering the BI at Eclipse Lake. He tracks down his brother and the witch.

We know what happens next.

And here’s the kicker: in that new painting, we see Philip watching his brother leave through the portal all happy and carefree.

This seems like just one of many trips. Caleb might or might not know Philip is there. But in any case, it is probably not what Caleb expects to be his last trip. He doesn’t have any possessions with him. He’s not under any sort of duress. And unless he was a MASSIVE jerk, he does not seem to be concerned that he is leaving his little brother forever.

But. What if this is an important memory because it’s the memory of Philip finally catching Caleb in the act?

What if this is the moment that led to Caleb getting caught (perhaps the next day when he returned home), setting into motion the events that required a rescue from his cell in the meetinghouse and for him to escape to the BI permanently?

I mean…what if Philip rattted out Caleb?

[auroraborealis22]

Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts - 1799

John Ritto Penniman

[feyd-meowtha]

A PSA regarding MOTA and propaganda:

So.... as much as the show tries to make out like the US didn't do carpet bombing, it is a lie, and I feel the need (as someone currently living in Tokyo) to highlight one event in particular - the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo by the US military. Officially the most destructive bombing raid in history.

Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia:

The raids that were conducted by the U.S. military on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, are the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.[1] The atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945, by comparison, resulted in the immediate death of an estimated 70,000 to 150,000 people.

I'm not saying that any of us should stop enjoying the show but we need to be aware of the fact that any US reluctance to kill civilians VERY MUCH only applied to white, European people. I also urge you to go and look into what happened to Tokyo because while the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are widely known, this bombing was just as deadly and is hardly ever spoken about outside of Japan. I had never heard of it until I came here.

The US firebombed a city made of wood that was full of children, most of the city had to be rebuilt and there are still pushes to declare it a war crime due to excessive loss of civilian life.

So go on liking the show, I certainly will, but don't accept everything it says at face value. It is a part of the US military propaganda machine and it's important to remember that it has an agenda. It is especially important to remember this in light of the US support for the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Links to more info and donations below the cut

[merueeet]

I just want to randomly drop my dominic newlow hc there

my hc is that Dominic's parents were religious religion is present in TSM, and they were Jacobans whose religion is based on the fact that the Watcher is vengeful and merciless and thus must be feared and appeased by submitting to a strict moral code, lest It decide to punish them in ts2 psp Ophelia lives in an abandoned meetinghouse and I think that's where little Dominic could go pray with his mother therefore, Dominic was ALWAYS afraid of the watcher, but it was shortly before ts2psp that he realized that he was being controlled 

[nonsensical-pixels]

If its not too much trouble... could you post the floorplans for your strangetown builds. TIA

if you're talking about strangertown rather than strangetown (which is mostly untouched so far in my tocc playthrough 😅), sure! here is part 1/? of the lots i've renovated so far, there are too many for one post...

community lots

clockwise: 94 road to nowhere, 88 road to nowhere, and paradise place

residential lots

kine dairy farm (kine society)

nighthowl saloon (howell)

old library (broadsheet)

the meetinghouse (zombie)

roadside cart (florica)

silver rocket service station (service station)

division 47 (division 47)

[kamiiri]

Ophelia led Annie to one of the tombstones and stepped to the side. She didn’t know how to break it to her, so she thought she would just let Annie see it for herself.

Annie read the name: Nervous Subject.

“What is this? Some kind of sick prank? Well, it ain’t funny,” she said, growing agitated.

“I’m sorry, Annie. It’s not a prank. This grave has been here since I started staying in the Meetinghouse two years ago,” Ophelia explained. “I didn’t realize it was actually somebody’s name.”

[thepaintedroom]

Barbara Ernst Prey (American, 1950s?) • The Meetinghouse • Watercolor on paper

Official website

[usafphantom2]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are seared into memory - but did you know the deadliest bombing raid in history wasn’t atomic? On the night of March 9–10, 1945, Tokyo endured Operation Meetinghouse, in which 334 "stripped" B-29s dropped 1,667 tons of incendiary bombs on the city. 1/2

@RealAirPower1 via X

[churchsideblog]

i'm not sure i've even been in a meetinghouse with a single-occupancy restroom outside the nursery room