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Had a funny thought. What if Christians approached the Bible like Muslims approach the Quran? For example: you’d say, “as St. Paul says,” then you’d recite, “Ἡ ἀγάπη μακροθυμεῖ, χρηστεύεται ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐ ζηλοῖ ⸂ἡ ἀγάπη⸃, οὐ περπερεύεται, οὐ φυσιοῦται,” and then you’d offer a gloss in English.

one promise the cyberpunk future failed to deliver on is me being a courier for 512MB of highly sensitive corporate data contained in my brain zip drive while i wear a nice suit instead of being a courier for burritos in a 2012 hyundai

Well the weather being what it is, I suppose I have no choice but to immediately move onto The Two Towers while I sip my coffee

"Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting..."

Finished The Fellowship of The Ring. I'm filled with a desire to go hiking when the weather gets a little warmer

hghghf

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Of course it’s the one day of the week that I’m actually working where I feel like I just have a ton of worldbuilding ideas I want to write down

Even now I’m not sure how much being a woman is a real positive identity for me as much as it is just a path of least resistance, as it were. idk I’d rather think of gender less but society has decided it’s The Most Important Thing, so

This is roughly how I felt pre-transition. Like there was some dissonance but vague

incorrect

The veneer of scientific plausibility is what gives a certain demographic 'permission' to indulge that desire

I'm not sure this is quite true. People don't read, say, Dune, for its psychological realism. But the appeal of sci-fi is less about scientific plausibility and more similar to the appeal of fantasy - a desire for wonder and enchantment.

Painting of a badger wizard in a green robe and wizard hat reading a book while leaning against the side of a house and precariously holding a cup of tea.

Commission for Tredain!

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societies typically talk about human cognition as working similarly to whatever is seen as the latest and greatest technology. that’s why we currently describe the brain as a roguelike deckbuilding game about characters making their way up a spire

Commission for Athalafox.
Madrigal Blackthorn, the leonine warrior.
#dnd

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

This went pretty well!

"Discussing death with children is easier than discussing love," really summarizes my issue with a whole swath of people.

St. Augustine:

"'But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.'"

Even the early chapters in the Shire feel so bittersweet right now, because part of me doesn't want the Hobbits to leave this idyllic landscape that they will never *truly* return to as it is here

Felt like the time was right for another re-read of LOTR.

I can already tell this is going to be a particularly emotional reread, what with everything awful going on right now. I'm gonna cry a bunch

Happy 34th anniversary to the original Sailor Moon anime!

#SailorMoon
#セーラームーン

Bee Princess and Wasp Knight

Also for some reason it never occurred to me that the cross would be a bit heavy to hold for extended periods of time and I suddenly regret allowing my upper body strength to so languish