#the sodality

[sigillum-s]

The Sodality “Unburdened Underpass” CD is now available on Bandcamp, with also streaming / download.

“Premiere�� copies will be available at the SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS performance in Milano on November 10, 2023.

“Unburdened Underpass” includes two brand new, very long and mostly instrumental tracks, completely different from the “Schmooze & Sleaze” 12”.

While visually related to the previous release (thanks to the striking artwork of Petulia Mattioli), the audio content provides a radically alternative angle of The Sodality’s extreme existentialism, obsessed with the ageing of libido and the intoxicating stench of death.

#andreacernotto

[anexistingexistence]

Listen I want to fuck Morgan as much as the next guy but I still think he and Seer should just become besties instead of a couple

[specialagentartemis]

Chaco as a military state- what?? What grounds is that theory using??

Steve Lekson is a genuinely respected Chaco archaeologist with a... very idiosyncratic proposal about its social organization, which I am never sure how much he seriously believes and how much he puts forward to be provocative on purpose.

I think he put forward his idea of Chaco Canyon as the seat of a true state with the ability to muster a military to enforce the alliances with other Great House outliers back when it was more popular to view Chaco as a much more communal religious pilgrimage location. He posited the Great Houses as elite spaces akin to palaces, with their displays of wealth and power and evident ability to organize vast amounts of labor to build them, and the Chaco Roads serving a similar function as Inca or Roman roads: allowing the ability to muster forces and move people and supplies across the landscape quickly. He interpreted elite control over exotic and valuable goods as evidence of a much stronger and more centralized control over the political sphere, and outlying Great Houses not as individual organizations mirroring and claiming Chacoan power for their own communities but impositions of a Chaco worldview from the Canyon as center. and this was even before the DNA study where we learned about matrilineal elites/rulers!

Genuinely can't tell how much he believes it, vs. how much it's the academic version of performance art where he' says's saying to the Establishment, "you wanna believe in hippy-dippy Chaco soooo bad. What if they were a state? What if they did rule by imposed hierarchical coercion? What if the outlying Great Houses weren't a voluntary alignment with Chacoan ideology but an imposition of it by force? Why do you think there couldn't be a North American empire? Does that challenge your ideas of Chacoans as peaceful religious noble savages too much?" He has a very well-written and thought-provoking chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology about the need for scientific imagination and narrative history. It begins like this:

A colleague once told me that it was impossible to write a narrative history of the ancient Southwest. So I wrote one. In my narrative (Lekson 2009), there were rises and falls, triumphs and tragedies, nobles and commoners, war and peace, cities and countrysides—tropes of history everywhere in the world—but these almost never appeared in scholarly accounts of the ancient Southwest. And that was the polemic of my history: American anthropological archaeology denies to Native societies north of Mexico any significant history (Lekson 2010). Just a few notable events, mostly natural: a drought here, a collapse there, a migration or two, and so forth—but no kings-and-battles history, nothing for narrative.

It's a political stance as much as it's an archaeological claim, and he has been annoying other Chaco specialists for decades with this.

[damistrolls]

pov ur xuange and u just got done 'experimenting' with ur fellow scientist ;)

[linktheacehero]

congrats, Ace!!!!

hmmm.... for my request, I can't choose between the two, so I'll let you choose which to draw. Mulan Link simping for Sheik, or greek Zelink making out having their sweet first kiss.

They’re so aaaaaaaaa

[whatevertups]

Individualism is poison I live to love and care

[angeltreasure]

Praise God! I have joined the Eucharistic Adoration Sodality at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament!

You don’t have to be Catholic to join. Spread the word and keep the faith! If you go to Eucharistic Adoration and believe Jesus is truly present body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Eucharist and want to join, here the link:

[beingcouy]

Poor Garey is losing his mind.

[sunnetrolls]

plus quam sodales worm please.............

"It depends. Are you now a worm with a doctorate or just a regular old annelid? I would probably keep you around at the least."

[etheirysbunny]

Current paladin glamour! I love the intense transmasc vibe of the streetwear crop top on boys. Rein is cis, but the aesthetic of it suits him I think, and it makes me pleased to have him running around as a femboy tank without being too flowery.

[dimas-favorite]

It definitely would.

I actually have a fanfic in progress in which Seth (the main character), being an artificial human, will live a few centuries if not destroyed in battle because he cannot physically age. He has a romantic partner who is human, so finding out about his longevity throws Seth for a loop…

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (September 5)

The Church celebrates on Septermber 5 the feast of Mother Teresa, a universal symbol of God's merciful and preferential love for the poor and forgotten.

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia, the youngest of three children.

She attended a youth group called Sodality, run by a Jesuit priest at her parish, and her involvement opened her to the call of service as a missionary nun.

She joined the Sisters of Loretto at age 17 and was sent to Calcutta where she taught at a high school.

She contracted tuberculosis and was sent to rest in Darjeeling.

It was on the train to Darjeeling that she received her calling — what she called "an order" from God to leave the convent, then work and live among the poor. 

At this point, she did not know that she was to found an order of nuns, or even exactly where she was to serve.

"I knew where I belonged, but I did not know how to get there," she said once, recalling the moment on the train.

Confirmation of the calling came when the Vatican granted her permission to leave the Sisters of Loretto and fulfill her calling under the Archbshop of Calcutta.

She started working in the slums, teaching poor children, and treating the sick in their homes.

She was joined a year later by some of her former students. They took in men, women and children who were dying in the gutters along the streets and cared for them.

In 1950, the Missionaries of Charity were born as a congregation of the Diocese of Calcutta.

In 1952, the government granted them a house from which to continue their service among Calcutta's forgotten.

The congregation very quickly grew from a single house for the dying and unwanted to nearly 500 around the world. 

Mother Teresa set up homes for AIDS sufferers, prostitutes, battered women, and orphanages for poor children.

She often said that the poorest of the poor were those who had no one to care for them and no one who knew them.

And she often remarked with sadness and desolation of millions of souls in the developed world whose spiritual poverty and loneliness was such an immense cause of suffering.

She was a fierce defender of the unborn saying:

"If you hear of some woman who does not want to keep her child and wants to have an abortion, try to persuade her to bring him to me. I will love that child, seeing in him the sign of God's love."

Mother Teresa died on 5 September 1997.

She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003. She was canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.

Mother Teresa once said:

"A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace."

She also said:

"Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness." 

Mother Teresa is the patron saint of World Youth Day, the Missionaries of Charity, and co-patron of the Archdiocese of Calcutta.

[the22ndcj]

This is the sticker set I did for my indie novella's launch. Boy howdy, there are a lot of them. Made all in Inkscape in vector so I could export them at HUGE sizes without losing any details. Left to right: Bowen, Todd, Charlie, Laraine, (spoiler), Ashely, Sadie, Patrick, and (spoiler).

(Pst! I'm still moving over here from Instagram and Twitter. Hi! I'm CJ. I draw and write things. I drink a ton of coffee, I game, I ghost hunt. Yeah. That's me.)

[damistrolls]

also did you literally steal xuange's lab coat.

"Ya."

[linktheacehero]

Wedding Week: Crowns

Decided to draw Hades Link and Persephone Zelda from an rp with @aheavenscorner!!

[wisteriawug]

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