#the priest and the shepherd

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

[romajuliettemai]

Foul Lady Fortune B&N Exclusive Story (The Priest & The Shephard)

Part 1/3

[typingwithmyhandstied]

I have made my first contrabotion to the fic pool. I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it. I mean it's Halloween. It pretty much is the Damn Season now.

and thank you to @crowgenius and @writergracethepanda for looking it over (and my mom)

[teartra]

Silas, Phoebe, and Orion in a nutshell

[remusfinglupin]

- Love at 350 by Lisa Peers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Everything We Never Said by Sloan Harlow: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Priest and the Shepherd by @chloegong : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar (ARC, started)

[enjoliquej]

• It's that strange child with the priests, who always seems to make a nuisance out of himself •

[honey-and-fig]

Our priest using the homily last week to tell the parish that they *will* go to Confession if they’ve made uncharitable comments about either political side was pretty refreshing tbh

[the-ashenstreaked-doctor]

OH YEAH I WAS GONNA SHARE MY DOODLING-

An oc I plan on adapting into flondon at some point, but drawn as a Curator! Which may be eventual canon anyway, given the route I wanna take him…. He’s based off of a spotted bat, though with a bit of piebaldism and some ocular albinism!

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

[romajuliettemai]

Silas is so adorable it's pathetic he's literally obsessed with two people who are secretly one and the same

He deserves a million hugs

[typingwithmyhandstied]

Orion: Silas! My face is on fire! Silas: Orion! Are you ok?! Orion: Oh yes, I'm fine. I just said that to make sure you'd come in here quickly. Silas: But your face is on fire. Orion: Yes. It's much faster than shaving.

[sicc-nasti]

GRAHHH massive art fight DUMP im throwin all this on one THANG sorry about that yall <3 i had fun attacking as much as I could even tho i wanted to attack and revenge SO MUCH MORE THAN I DID but alas this is the case every year smh Tags under the cut in order of characters

@ottosbigtop / @1-800-deactivatednearu / @its-morbin-time /Spazweasle / @alarucha Hallbjorns / @twinflame413 / @loomfus / cvknm / @gorjee-art x2 / @mickmundane x 2 / The Scientist ( TF2 ) / Caesar / @coopster3d , @3dygma / Iris , @beepiesheepie , @the-jade-jester27 , Amoretta Michaels / @fourtyfaregates / Tobias / Arkadiusz "Patches" Dżendżera , Steven "Stalker" Trojan / @pinkdiamond0714 / Xander / @sharkk-fin / @hazardtoons / @nafohcnis

[blairbarely]

It makes perfect sense that, on the big Entertainment Weekly cover for Contact—a movie supposedly about a love so cosmic it transcends time and space—Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey look less like star-crossed lovers and more like they’re auditioning for a Gap ad. Forget selling romance; they’re selling denim.

It makes sense because for 27 years, one thing has united Contact fans and foes alike: Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey have zero romantic chemistry. Like, none. But as someone who will happily defend this movie until the end of time (or at least until we make contact with intelligent life), I’m here to tell you—it doesn’t matter.

When Carl Sagan wrote his novel in 1984, he wasn’t crafting a rom-com; he was asking big, messy, existential questions. By the time the film premiered 13 years later, the world had changed, but Contact was ready for it. It wasn’t just about aliens or wormholes; it was about us—our politics, our belief systems, and the tricky dance between science and faith. The shadow of Reagan’s trickle-down economics and Jerry Falwell’s moral crusades lingered over the story, giving it an edge that feels eerily relevant today.

Forty years after Sagan dreamed up Ellie Arroway and Palmer Joss, we’re still having the same debates. Science versus religion. Fact versus faith. Head versus heart. And it’s no accident that Ellie and Palmer—played by Foster and McConaughey—physically embody these opposites. They’re like magnets pushed together the wrong way: they don’t stick. And honestly? That’s the point.

Think about it—some of the most compelling pairings in pop culture thrive on this kind of tension. Fleabag and the Hot Priest, whose connection is as much about God as it is about desire. Jack Shepherd and John Locke on Lost, whose debates about faith and logic had life-or-death stakes. Contact isn’t trying to be a steamy romance. It’s asking bigger questions. It’s about two people whose differences elevate the story, not derail it.

So, no, Ellie and Palmer won’t sweep you off your feet. But maybe, just maybe, that’s the secret sauce. Because while Contact isn’t the most romantic love story of the ‘90s, it is a love story—between humanity and the cosmos, between inquiry and belief, between us and what lies out there. And in a world that still struggles to reconcile science and faith, that feels pretty romantic to me.

[jasondeansgothwife]

ough!

[my-life-a-reading-list]

In True Delights spoilers:

I'm so happy about these two, about time

-Foul Heart Huntsman, In True Delights by Chloe Gong

[books-and-draws-eclectic]

FOUL HEART HUNTSMAN SPOILERS

Page 468/469, oh my god THEM <3