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catsconflictscopicsandchamomile · 7 months ago

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After SO many attempts to get my sculptures glaze-fired at the local free kiln, and failing, I scheduled a kiln rental ($$$) at a paid place, took my un-fired stuff and called a lyft home. In the lyft, I was bitching and whining a bit about how all this could have been avoided if I hadn't gotten sick at the wrong time and missed the last week of open studio at unm, when the driver said "wait, open studio? my daughter is 13, she DESPERATELY wants to learn to do pottery, I've been looking everywhere for an affordable studio" and I said "well, she's a little young but people do bring their kids to the UNM pottery studio all the time. They have lessons, membership is $20 for non-students. The studio won't re-open til September though, do you want me to give you their insta?" when I said "$20" she was overjoyed, and said "God must have put you in my car today." I, for some reason unable to let shit slide, mentioned that while I wasn't raised Christian OR currently Christian, I'm studying medieval manuscripts which is basically bible-study-by-proxy, so am now stuck halfway into an Early Medieval Christian worldview, less as an actual Faith and more as something that inevitably affects how I view the world because I study it non-fcking-stop. The lyft driver laughed and said "well hopefully you will get out of that Phase soon", I also laughed and said

cut to today, almost exactly a week later, I'm at the paid kiln place doing some last-minute overglazing ($$$!!!!) and chatting with an employee abt my archeology/history studies. They mention how active they are in fandom, and it comes up that they used to be in the Supernatural fandom, left early-ish but kept up with spoilers. They love folklore and don't only AGREE with my comments about Grendels/Pookas/etc being in the show, but immediately pick up on WHY I made these connections without me having to explain, which is amazing. Then they mention that they left the show because, having been raised EXTREMELY Catholic, Cas' portrayal was so inaccurate that it made them angry.

I was confused by this, both because Cas' portrayal in spn is RIDICULOUSLY lore-accurate (like most good & interesting things in spn this is by complete accident) and because afaik Cassiel NEVER shows up in Catholicism- he's primarily Islamic and Kabbalistic, with later appearances in Hermeticism and broader Esoterica/Angelology. But the employee, named Crash (seriously) says, no, Cassiel (spelled Kasziel/Kafziel, both variant spellings I've seen before) is mentioned, and even described, in a book they were forced to read as part of homeschooling growing up, and Cas is NOTHING like in spn.

At this point, we realized that our difference in opinion on Cas came from how we were raised, and that arguing it was about as useful as actually arguing about religion. However, when they mentioned that the text was a book on angels by St. Augustine, I sat up straight, because I'd had to read St. Augustine for SEVERAL classes this past year (talky, tormented medieval guy with a thing for going hand-to-hand w demons. I think he's the Hilariously "Falling In Reverse"-Coded Saint but maybe that was someone else), and I'd never heard or seen of any works by St. Augustine on angels. Given that this fell SO neatly into SO many things I'm annoyingly obsessed with and also promised 11TH CENTURY CANON CAS, I googled it as I waited for the glaze to dry- nothing. A bunch of texts, scholarly essays and articles ABOUT St. Augustine's descriptions of angels, but no primary source mentioned aside from "St. Augustine, at some point, described angels".

So on my way out, I say hi to Crash, and ask them what the title of the book was. They say that while they don't know, since I'm coming back tomorrow to pick up my fired pieces, they can call their mom and ask the book title, and that "[their] mom would just be happy that its a Catholic Question for once".

So idk what all this led to, hopefully some decently glazed pieces, plenty of new things learned abt clay that they don't teach at the unm studio, and maybe even the bonus of yet another Weird Ass Early-Medieval Christian Text to fuck around with. And medieval Cas.

MEDIEVAL CAS

...anyway, OP's post just reminded me of it. This has been my oddly specific, Anglo-Saxon Christian guided quest to fire my (perhaps unsurprisingly, Anglo-Saxon- and Norse- inspired) ceramics before the medieval fair. Normally I wouldn't say "God is looking down on me" under any circumstances, but if SPECIFICALLY THE PRE-REFORMATION GOD OF EARLY MEDIEVAL NORTH EUROPE WAS LOOKING DOWN ON ME

idk I just think thats funny

If I had a nickel for every time I was debating the value of early-medieval Christianity over this specific box of semi-glazed, unfired sculpture pieces...

Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?

Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.

Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?

Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.

#what?#spn #what a niche.#I do kinda consider “old english God” to be one of multiple #i mean He's not. He's God. The God. but also like??? Saturn is there????#“Saturn is human tho bc there's only one God” ok sure thats still Saturn #anyway.#tw religion #religion tw

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black-quadrant · 1 year ago

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sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating

#I have 1 person like that with my jn and 1 person like that with my joshaz and their aggressive acclaim means I’m writing more 😂#I mean there’s a few more of y’all too and I have said before I enjoy niche but big passion #I’d rather share in those with the handful of genuine enjoyers of Very Specific ships and dynamics #it’s what makes fandom so memorable and fun for me #anyway #rebloggable

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mr-malumm · 3 months ago

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Something told me yall would like this

#2013 vox is so cute but what if i gave him depression #hes a bug bro #this is so niche like you have to know the origin of the bug vox and of dark mode vox and also know undertale HAHAHAHAHAH #this is content for nobody but the real ones #anyway #dark mode vox #i fell for the fucking tv #hazbin art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #vox #hazbin vox #my art #radiostatic #undertale

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hinamie · 4 months ago

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spiraling

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #megumi fushiguro #fushiguro megumi #gojo satoru #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #the minute i realized how tg coded the composition n colours were i decided to turn it up to 11 #i was racking my brain trying 2 figure out how to get the layered tissue paper look tht i talked abt ishida's cover art having #cycled through all my usual layer modes n nothing ws Quite right #until wouldnt u know it . divide n subtract!!!!! i NEVER use divide or subtract bc theyre impossible #but fr this??? its like they were made for it oh my god #it makes the greys look translucent n all my textures pop in a way that makes them appear splotchy n Bruised #which ws the whole point thts the Look god i am so PLEASED #when the layer modes tht notoriously get No love finally find their niche <33 peace and love <333 #filing this away fr later i am going 2 have a lot of fun with this new information i think #im very happy w how the colours look n i dont think anything else wld have kept the right Mood #but i am always so >:/ when i have to use a palette tht forces me into giving megumi blue eyes #had to set aside th green eyed megu agenda fr the Aesthetic unfortunately #anyway i knew from the minute i saw it that i wanted to do smth involving the opening panel of 268 #bc that panel is S tier #i figured tht if nothing came 2 me i wld just redraw it as-is bc it's alr so good but as i ws sketching i was like #u know what u havent done in a while? art tht looks like u r going Insane #art tht makes ur family ask whether everything is ok #so i once again tucked megumi's knees up 2 his chest and apologized insincerely to him fr making the third megumi angst piece in a row #:)

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flawlessflesh · 6 months ago

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the devil and the angel tugging on your shoulders will tear you in two.

don't worry guys he hasn't started smoking. delgal hates the smell, so thistle would never!

#thistle #thistle dungeon meshi #the winged lion #falin touden #dungeon meshi #∞#i hope this site enjoys my increasingly niche thistle fanart bc ive no idea what its like seeing it without also seeing my 1000 tweets #my art

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trainwreckgenerator · 10 months ago

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MY FAVORITE IDIOTS ON PLANET STUPID

#zoom in on their kandi for a cute detail ^_^#southern bitchy jailbird soulmate friendship is my lifeblood <3 #my art #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #fleki #lycion #pattadol #cithis #canaries #cithidol #<- no clue what its called. its niche i know but on the offchance...#sorry to otta likers that she is the one missing she is muffdiving offscreen i promise

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cozylittleartblog · 5 months ago

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Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

#columbo #knight rider #art #michael knight #kitt #comic #highlight reel #crossover #telebeast #there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public #this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy #if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo #this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them #niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet #not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao #stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio #cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps #this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march #is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool #ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN #COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page #i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier #action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write #more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3 #there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty #i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes #the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔

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morsmortish · 7 months ago

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barty crouch jr is “DARLINGGG GUESS WHOS BACK FROM JAILL!”

evan rosier is “DARLINGGG GUESS WHO JUST ESCAPED THE PSYCH WARD!!!”

#t #rosekiller #barty crouch jr #evan rosier #carrington is bcj confirmed?#they’re both the rich kids parody videos idk if anyone knows what i mean #is this too niche #t: rosekiller

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hija-ck · 4 months ago

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🎢⁣🍔🎸say cheese!!! 🚁🧟‍♂️🪓

#my art #left 4 dead #left 4 dead 2 #left 4 dead fanart #ellis l4d2 #nick l4d2 #rochelle l4d2 #coach l4d2 #l4d2 #what’s this I drew something that isn’t bully??????#it’s ok it’s still a niche fandom ❤️

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haliaiii · 6 months ago

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Please tell me I’m not the only one who sees this

#please tell me I’m not going crazy #literally what I thought of when seeing this ship 😭😭#a weird niche to die on I know #btw this is for pure aesthetics #but I think you could see the vision right #RIGHT???#hsr #honkai star rail #argenti #Boothill #argenthill #night at the museum #natm jedtavius

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lucabyte · 8 months ago

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i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking.#nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose.#isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #----------------------------------------------------------------------#anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!)#which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around)#and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt)#and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine)#the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly.#but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief)#as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

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chloesimaginationthings · 6 months ago

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Maannn, the tape girl design is so so good!!!

She's so pretty!!

IM GLAD YALL liked Tape girl’s design!!

#ask reply #I was so nervous to show off her look ngl #cause I wasn’t sure what everyone else considered her to look like #so shot in the dark just my own take #IM SO HAPPY IT WORKED OUT TOO..#I didn’t expect this much love on her and that comic #seeing I think tape girl overall is pretty niche #SO YEAH IM SO HAPPY y’all like her 🩵🩵#shout out to more doomed yuri in fnaf 🙏🏾

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new-austin · 28 days ago

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Dragon age is back, I love going in the tags it's awful. Emmrich is enslaving Manfred, wanting to fuck spite makes you a pedo, Taash is child coded, Killing Harding is racist and more to come I'm sure

#Datv spoilers #What a wonderful fandom so normal ❤️#My personal favorite has been Emmrich dick soft discourse but that's niche to insane Emmrich fuckers so it doesn't go on my list

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tommdale · 8 months ago

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