#thecla

[snartha]

Severian & Thecla but it's a giant robot anime 🤖❤️

[magicraygun]

read book of the new sun read book of the new sun read book of the new sun

also I started weaning myself off of traditional art via ms paint

wahey

[mrsq8geek]

The Talos Principle 2 + cheesy pick up lines ❤️

bonus below the cut:

Mayor ruins environment! Read all about it!

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A cool thing about Thecla is that she's accorded as the female protomartyr, but in her legendarium she miraculously escapes all the attempts to martyr her and lives to be an old desert healer (and eventually miraculously escapes a group of men sent to assault her by vanishing into a divinely-provided rock, instead of dying)

[cymorilcinnamonroll]

WAIT. BUTCH MARY MAGDALENE, FEMME YOUNG GNOSTIC MARY SALOME, AND YOUNG THECLA LESBIAN MINISTRY FIC

HELP ME HELP ME I ALREADY AM 4K WORDS INTO MY NANO

[jpegsthatmove]

Here’s my particular brand of brain poison: Mythal possesses Flemeth (and her daughters) like Severian incorporated Thecla and the Autarch incorporates all the other autarchs

[zakhartong-root]

~ SEVERIAN and THECLA ~ The Book of Fuligin Kickstarter is going on right now!

This anthology looks like it's going to be an amazing book with an incredibly talented crew lined up. Some of my recent favorite artists have stories in here and I can't wait to get at them!

I am not part of it but wanted to do a piece just to point some people in that direction. But please check it out if you enjoy extremely weird scifi/fanstasy worlds.

[itsaskingquestions]

...Then the women cried out together with a loud voice, and with one accord gave praise unto God and said: There is but one God, who is the God of Thecla; the one God who has delivered Thecla. Their voices were so loud that the whole city seemed to be shaken, and Trifina herself heard the glad tidings and arose again, and ran with the multitude to meet Thecla; and embracing her, said: Now I believe there will be a resurrection of the dead; now I am persuaded that my daughter is alive. Come home with me, my daughter Thecla, and I will turn over all that I have to you.

So Thecla went with Trifina and was entertained there a few days, teaching her the word of the Lord, whereby many young women were converted. So there was great joy in the family of Trifina.

The Acts of Paul and Thecla, Chapter 9 (trans. Jeremiah Jones, c. 1693-1724)

[beedok]

Update on ‘could estrogen save them?’ for Severian: still leaning no, but it would help Thecla while she’s stuck in his head, and I’m sure we could convince him to do it for her sake.

[probablymoons]

Une Martyre (Saint Thechla) by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1891

[ortie-pnk]

Thecla Mary Sue

[snartha]

When you're a senior citizen but the dress code still says "no shirt"

(Idk if I'm going to keep this design for Palaemon's mask & "protruding optical device" but I just really had to get this comic out. Still trying to figure out designs for characters/clothing etc and that's been a huge reason why I haven't drawn more art for these books yet)

[succubusempress]

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Mosaic of St. Thecla from the apse of the Euphrasian Basilica, 13th century

[janusfranc15]

Does he mention Thecla anywhere in the text? Or is her existence too dubious? (Thecla being an early female saint who followed him thanks to the ‘no sex / marriage teachings who is very assertive. And still a thing in some Christian communities.)

i finished reading damascus by christos tsiolkias (his novel about the apostle paul and early christianity) and was very pleasantly surprised by how it manages to be such a nuanced and complex look at such a controversial figure without descending into the saccharine preachiness of Christian fiction (and in fact, being written by someone who is not a Christian and also filled with enough shits, fucks, cunts, and reference to arse-fucking to instantly kill the average Christian fiction writer)

he manages to balance contrasts very effectively; a cruel, profane world of crucifixion and rape with a genuinely subversive religion of love and solidarity; a Paul flowing with genuine kindness and faith but also struggles with streaks of pride and jealousy.

but what impresses me most of all is the way the novel holds both Paul's apocalyptic gospel of resurrection in a world to come and its radical rejection of the injustice of this world with Thomas' naturalistic gospel that the kingdom has come and is among us already in Jesus' teaching. especially the way Tsiolkias acknowledges that even as Paul's gospel sits awkwardly with our modern scepticism it has heirs in any revolutionary tradition that wishes to change the world; it is this gospel that stands in condemnation of the systems of the world as they stand, and that spread the teachings of Jesus to the entire world (notably Damascus takes the interpretation that none of the other apostles bar Paul would fellowship with Gentiles). it would have been very easy to tap into the zeitgeist of scepticism and write a novel where Paul is a charlatan or crazy fundamentalist, and the gospel of Thomas marginalised and ignored as heretical and Gnostic is rather the true faith buried by orthodoxy. Paul is a very acceptable scapegoat to bash; if we can blame all the uncomfortable bits of the Bible on him (or the bloodthirsty and primitive Old Testament) we can maintain an unsullied image of pure Christianity. [and i don't mean to say this is entirely unjustified, especially given the way evangelicalism in particular loves to deploy isolated verses rather than entire texts! When your primary mode of engagement with him is not actually reading his epistles as works of literature, but throwing Romans 1.27 at gay people to convince them to stop being gay 100 times, that is naturally going to deeply warp your perspective of how much of his corpus is actually problematic (which, imo, when we account for 1) cultural norms re homosexuality and pederasty 2) the fact about 3-6 'Pauline' epistles were probably not written by him and 3) some verses possibly being interpolations, is really not that much).] But such a novel purporting to expose Paul as a fundamentalist charlatan would be just as didactic and simplistic as pious Christian fiction where Paul can do no wrong and harbour no doubts and is a direct mouthpiece for 21st-century evangelical doctrine. And so I very much appreciate the thought and empathy Tsolkias puts into this novel to understand Paul, rather than taking a few soundbites as an excuse to dismiss the man entirely. His Paul is flawed - a man who falls victim to jealousy, who sometimes makes his heart stone to avoid doubt - but also a man who believes in friendship and love across barriers of male and female, slave and free, Jew and Greek, one who hopes that this world mired in empire and oppression and crucifixion need not be the only way. and also a man who has a homoerotic relationship with Timothy that also has v queer-coded parallels in him bringing home an uncircumcised Gentile to the apostles in Jerusalem who he fears will reject this pagan. which is cool imo

[huariqueje]

Doubting white - Thecla Renders

Dutch , b. 1956 -

Mixed media on paper on wood without frame, 24 x 33 cm.