[third eye opens]

Professor Boswell will eventually become a canonized Roman Catholic Saint. It might take them a stupid long-ass time to make it official, but he's not in a hurry anymore.

[third eye closes]

It's so telling that a lot of saint-honoring Christians (yes, this is @ my beloved Episcopalians as well as the Romans) would rather consider noted colonizer Damien of Molokai the "patron saint of AIDS patients" and not someone who actually had, or ministered to, people with AIDS

Yeah! There's a lot of parallels between people who had leprosy in the past and people who had/have AIDS in the present. But we need to not be squeamish about this

Something that no one tells you about converting to a type of Christianity that venerates saints: you will start to collect patron saints like Pokémon

Going to watch The Dark Crystal for the first time. I watched a lot of weird 80s fantasy movies as a kid but there are still a lot I haven't seen

Imagine yourself as the main character in a movie (that someone else is directing) about your life.

What genre do you think it would be? What would be the main plot? This doesn't have to be your "whole life story," it can just be a segment of your life, or a movie about something that happened to you once.

Is it quirky? Edgy? Funny? Sad? Horror? Action? Romance? What music would be playing in the background? What would be the color palette/lighting/camera angles?

Since I occasionally get people asking me where they can start to learn a more complex and nuanced understanding of the European Middle Ages:

The Bright Ages (by Matthew Gabriele and David Perry) is really good. Two thumbs up, highly recommended, a great intro to "everything was more complicated than you think it was." It's both informative and delightful to read, and the chapter on the First Crusade (on which I did a deep-ish dive recently) had me going YAAAS! YAAAAS! at every other sentence.

@sigaard I learned about it from a docuseries called Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

One of my favorite facts for introducing people to "everything you think you know about the Middle Ages is a lie" is that at one point in medieval Wales, a woman could divorce her husband for having bad breath

This tells us a couple of important things:

1. Divorce existed
2. Women could initiate it
3. Bad breath wasn't just accepted as a fact of filthy medieval life

Hot take of the day: "organized religion" is neither good nor evil

@platypus @Cyborgneticz I think it's the latter. The "Hebraic Christian" church that followed me (???) was like, a ~progressive church that celebrated Hanukkah and had a shofar but approached scripture like just liberal evangelicals

So I'm guessing it's messianics who think they're better than messianics. To their credit, they didn't pretend to be Jewish, but it was just appropriation which isn't better lmao

@ "muscularchristian" (yes, really), a fitness fanatic who takes pictures of himself either shirtless or wearing shirts with slogans like "Jesus is my spotter," interspersed with pictures of his bone broth and random Bible verses

Naturally, this guy came out of the woodwork to condemn queer-affirming churches for being "comfortable with sin"

Crickets on the sins of pride and vanity, of course

- 18yo tradcath who thinks aesthetics = piety

- 18yo evangelical who considers themselves an authority in "biblical Christianity"

- apparently adult evangelicals who consider themselves authorities because they have a podcast

- "Hebraic Christians" (some new kind of messianic, apparently)

- "evidence??? evidence????" (denomination-neutral)

- salty pagans and atheists who think they're above criticism

4:30 pm: monthly meeting with the anarchists

6:30 pm: me calling my mom to bitch about the anarchists

I am no longer accepting plant advice from people who live in California

Had my "screening interview" for the solar company. I'm getting the weirdest pod person vibes from this hiring process 🤷♀️

might go full Quaker and start using thee/thou pronouns