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hikes are very good yes but a deluxe hike is when you are accompanied by a freak with niche nature knowledge. they’re like omg stop there’s a horned valerian varmint beetle here and then you both get to crouch down and look at a bug like :)
Bonus: you don’t have to cover a lot of ground. I can turn a three kilometre walk into a three hour adventure. Five if there is a small rocky stream or a few ponds.
It seems there’s some strong contenders here. After review I also thought of St. Peter Martyr being struck on the head by an assassin and writing “Credo in unum Deum” with his own blood on the ground, as well as St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows scaring off bandits with his handgun skills. Bl. Miguel Pro also T-posing on the haters when he was martyred as well
In this Bible story (Matthew 14:24-31), Jesus's disciples are stuck in a storm-tossed boat until Jesus approaches, walking on the waves. He calls Simon (later called "Peter," meaning "rock") out onto the water to join Him. Peter does as commanded, walking right on the water, but suddenly, he's overcome with fear. His faith fails him and he sinks. As he falls, he cries out to Jesus, Who helps him back into the boat.
This cartoon follows from Friday's, and in it, Simon is sinking, like in Matthew 14. In the cartoon, Jesus notes that he's sinking like a rock, then leans close and begins a quote from later in Matthew 16, where He renames Simon "Peter" (meaning "rock") and says, "...And upon this rock I will build my church." Mashing these two moments together in this cartoon implies the possibility that Jesus's new name for Peter was informed both by his negative present attributes of being a little dense, slow to change, and quick to sink, but also his positive future attributes of occasional spiritual clarity, sturdiness as a leader of the early Christians, and fortitude as a martyr for the faith. As with all believers, Peter is a competition between the part of him that struggles with God and the part that wants to follow Him to the end.
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Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune, Strasbourg, France - although originally medieval, it was massively overhauled in the 19th century to conform to neo-gothic standard
St Francis of Assisi Church, Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel, Cracow, Poland - neo-gothic decoration from the 19th century
Cathédrale Sainte-Marie de Bayonne, Bayonne, France - I assume 19th century wall decorations (as the church was "restored" by a pupil of Viollet-le-Duc, the man who famously wanted medieval building to be "more medieval than they were when they were built")
(2 photos) Sainte Chapelle, Paris, France - 19th century restoration of original paint
Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento, Guadalajara, Mexico - a neo-gothic church from the 19th century
So why am I hammering on the "neo-gothic" a wee bit? Because there is so much to unpack in the original post.
Warning: long rant about the originals of the word "gothic" incoming.
All the examples of "non-dark and gloomy" gothic architecture here display characteristics of the late-19th-century neo-gothic decoration paradigm. There are many medieval gothic churches not restored according to this school of thinking, some which were left in their whitewashed protestant state, their deteriorated medieval painted state, or something else. Some neo-gothic churches aren't brightly painted at all to begin with.
"Gothic" is an architecture style that originated in medieval France and is characterised by tall ceilings, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and as much glass as they could afford. It's pretty well established that these churches were brightly painted inside and out.
These buildings did not survive the centuries unchanged. Through use, destruction, (re)building, enhancement and restoration, their current look cannot be taken as a faithful representation of what the building looked like as intended by its medieval creators. Do not take these photos as accurate representations of medieval wall-decorations.
In European thinking about history, the middle ages got quite a lot of shit. Pretty much everyone, through the ages, fancied themselves some kind of descendant from Classical Antiquity (mostly Rome) - even the medieval people. However, the Italian renaissance thinkers particularly saw the middle ages as a stain between Ancient Rome and their Glorious Rebirth of Rome, and best left forgotten - italian architects coined the derogatory "gothic" (~german) to describe what they saw as un-Classical buildings!
And so, "gothic" entered the European lexicon as a word for all things un-Classical, un-enlightened - in other words, dark and gloomy. And it persists as such today!
To be fair, through years of candle use, a lot of these church interiors were probably pretty soot-covered and gloomy after several centuries. If not outright ruins through disuse (esp. in England)
Neo-gothic/Gothic Revival has its roots in all kinds of movements which wanted in some form to return to Europe's medieval roots, whether out of religious feelings, anti-industrialism, romantic thinking, anti-Renaissance sentiments, or nationalism. I would argue that churches is this style actually tend to skew darker (colourful, but dark).
To make a sweeping statement about "gothic architecture" and then to show only a very narrow representation of that architecture does it a disservice, in my opinion.
Tl;dr "gothic" is originally a derogatory term used by Italian Renaissance architects for the un-Classical architecture that flourished elsewhere in Europe in the preceding centuries. Later uses of the word did nothing to improve the image of "gloomy" gothic architecture, and probably neither did soot-covered or ruinous buildings. However, to use only a very narrow set of late 19th century, neo-gothic decorated buildings as counter-argument to the supposed gloominess does, imho, a disservice to the lovely breadth of both gothic and neo-gothic examples out there.
Oh so it examines things like the emotional toll that sort of lifestyle would take on someone, the distance it creates between them and normal people, how society would actually deal with the knowledge of gods walking among them, basically just a really genuine look at the reality of superpowers?
"What no it means the heroes swear and have sex and graphically murder people."
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i love housesitting because it’s the opposite of rent…like ur gonna pay me to pet your cat and eat your perishables and shower in your fancy bathroom? ok?????
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