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[sugarcarnation]

taking back everything i said about bones not giving me mushitaro covered in blood and using this as an opportunity to thank them for all they’ve done for me

[cimicherrychanga]

Complicated Relationship with God (As Seen Through Lyrics in the Character's Playlist)

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I am returned! Crazy things happened on hiatus, and here is a play-by-play:

Spent the bulk of September with our dogs at my great-aunt's lake cottage (which is a 15-hr drive from here), due to the abundance of birthdays this month.

Shortly after arriving, I got a cold from my sister, which as per usual, turned into bronchitis, which lasted the entirety of the vacation (I still have the cough).

Around midnight on the eve of our departure, I had a gallbladder attack (first one since early spring).

Except it was way worse. Like, I couldn't breathe, couldn't speak, couldn't even cry.

Called 911, got in the ambulance, and the pain suddenly vanished in the space of a minute.

The wee mountain hospital didn't have imaging equipment beyond a CT scan and the Dr. was like "If the pain is gone, you shouldn't expose yourself to that much radiation" (which I appreciated)

My labs were normal, so we conclude this must've been the passing of the gallstone. Big, if true.

I take hydrocodone and we all go to sleep.

In the morning, my mom and sister pack my stuff for me and my parents and I drive the 15 hours back home so that dad can make it to a job interview the next day.

During the last 45 minutes of the journey, my mom's very very old & frail chihuahua experiences a sharp decline in his already poor constitution.

I'm knocked out on hydrocodone, but my dad is up all night with the dog, and in the morning, he takes him to the vet to be put down.

My mom is devastated, this dog was adopted to be her bedside companion during chemo twelve years ago.

My dad's interview goes well.

I still have bronchitis.

Two days later, my sister (who stayed longer at the lake house to clean up) drives back to her home in Southern GA, but for hurricane Helene reasons, the highway is closed and she gets lost.

She finally makes it home to find her power is out, for hurricane Helene reasons (it's still out)

Three days later (last night), I have another brutally painful attack (clearly I'd NOT passed the stone), so my parents drive me to the ER.

Am able to get an ultrasound there, which confirms I still have either many gallstones or one huge one, but my labs are still normal.

Unfortunately, this makes sense because I underwent some rapid drastic weight loss after my attack in the spring.

ER Dr. thinks my pain is instead being caused by gastritis for genetic reasons (which reminded my mom that as a teenager she passed out at work from gastritis).

He prescribes me a trio of gastritis drugs.

I'll be going to a trusted functional medicine doctor next month because my dad got the job (an amazingly good job, praise God) and we can afford it at last. My hope is that this Dr. can point to causes beyond genetics for the gastritis and also get rid of the stones once and for all, even if that means going on Ursodiol.

My dad's new job requires him to move to the Middle East in three weeks.

Oh, and my personal Instagram account (which was about to become the cornerstone of my small business) was inexplicably terminated during my hiatus and I have no means of getting it back besides writing to the state Attorney General.

[1singulargrape]

I would sacrifice a kidney and half of my liver to have the next Splatoon concert in Europe

[daughterofsarenrae]

eek

[iusedtohavesixtoes]

Seteth using faith:

Goes by the books. Meaning, saying a prayer in his head and closing his eyes to focus (the way his daughter retaught him.)

“To our heavenly Goddess, please lend me your faith to heal these wounds.”

Byleth is proud knowing he is trying his hardest and succeeding.

Compared to Byleth:

She was taught on the streets.

Says whatever she feels like. Out loud.

“Hey, Sothis. This guy’s hurt himself and I need to borrow some power. Yeah. Ahuh. I won’t ever do that. Yep. Amen.”

(At this time Sothis was able to talk to her personally. But no one knows this. Yet.)

Seteth is shocked that it works.

[sundays-mutt]

idk what ramadan is gonna look like for me this year lol

[itspileofgoodthings]

sometimes you overstay your welcome in a place but it’s okay life is not about a perfect scorecard of vibes

[bbgoffic]

Just gonna say it, "Like a Prayer" doesn't fit DPxWolverine as well as "Cherish" could have.

[archersartcorner]

Someone holds me, safe and warm

Horses prance through a silver storm

Figures dancing gracefully

Across my memory…

Hi I finished a resisting Durge user with Bela and I have. Thoughts.

[movedto-mrs-bluemarine]

"damn it's storming hard. Too bad it's almost finished and we didn't get to hear any thunder" :/

Wes: oh, worm?

[yuri-is-online]

Ok. Have you heard of folk catholicism? It's basically a branch of catholicism that still includes more pagan like traditions. Like tarot cards and spell jars etc.

In Christian witchcraft, there's a belief where angels and demons are in a "two sides of the same coin" situation. The devil is an agent of the lord. Angels, Jesus, and demons and lucifer are like the lawyer and the prosecutor, but they're still working on the same case in the same court, and you can learn and work with both sides. To understand what God is, you have to understand what God isnt.

If you want to use this concept and have more questions feel free to ask, if you don't then no problem.

Oh I will absolutely ask more questions. I was raised Baptist so outside of some light reading on Dorthy Day I'm not familiar with radical branches in catholic belief. That being said I don't think God is going to feature too much in the story, it raises too many philosophical questions and I'm not actually planning on setting it "in our world." Just one like it.

Most of my current writing is based on my own personal research on medival demonology because I was curious about what medieval witches actually believed, or at least what people who started the witch trials thought they believed. What I've found is:

Most accused "witches" were just Christians who included "pagan" rituals in their prayers. People had very specific beliefs about magic. Some magic was good, some was bad, and they had specific names for it, when Christianity became popular people just swapped up what gods they invoked in their prayers and no one really had a problem with this until around the protestant reformation.

And the publishing of the Malleus Malificarium, but oh God, that's another can of worms.

99% of the time when I looked up how a witch hunt started it was because someone wanted something (money, sex, land, or just to win an argument) from the other person and they said "no" so they accused the other person of witchcraft and got them executed or just tortured a tiny bit. Tee hee.

Lots of women made money by acting as cunning women and casting spells for people and making tonics for them. If you were bad at your job (ie if your customers decided they didn't get what they wanted) you could be accused of being a witch. And then they were in fact entitled to sue you and take you to court for invoking the powers of Satan to curse them, which is not as funny as it sounds.

I'm going to cut myself off here before I gallop off into pointless exposition territory but yeah. I know a stupid amount about 16th century witch hunts and that's what brought me here (here being both playing obey me and working on this project)

[madamescarlette]

why don't you watch babette's feast and weep silently in front of your computer clutching your heart and go to dinner with two of your best friends and hug them both at once and feed your father and brothers shortbread fresh out of the oven and listen to the rainstorm slowly dripping its way outside of your window for the past 24 hrs and maybe you'll calm down!!!

[lady-stormbraver]

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[sandinthepipes]

Do you think I should make a separate blog just to rumble about baldur’s gate 3? Cause BOY OH BOY

[daisies-on-a-cup]

done with the sacrificial son bit. will probably never see the light of day but i am glad to be finished with the maddness <3