#crimez

yeah haven’t been here in a while, i’ll be doing ArtFight this year so i’ll be drawing more at least then lol

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

We have been plotting. One of these days, me and my sister-in-conspiracy, Dymphna, are gonna march our apostate asses down to a church and raise a ruckus about getting properly-gendered confirmation names. For kicks.

See, excommunication ain't what you think it is; it's not a clean and complete cut-off from the Church. The bastards lay eternal claim on your Catholic soul forever. So, when I heard Dymphna's plan, I immediately liked its revolutionary potential. Either we have our demands met and bust this keg of eels open. Or, more realistically, this scheme won't work. In which case, I'm gonna draw up some excommunication documents of my own ahead of time and serve them if need be. The point is to run up to the lectern and declare myself. In either case, it'll be fun and we might have some official documents on file.

So I've been researching lady patron saints. I think I've found my odds-on favorite: Saint Catherine of Alexandria. There are two reasons:

1. Patron Saint of: millers, philosophers, preachers, scribes, stenographers, students

2. This ridiculous(ly awesome) account:

Of noble birth and learned in the sciences, when only eighteen years old, Catherine presented herself to the Emperor Maximinus who was violently persecuting the Christians, upbraided him for his cruelty and endeavoured to prove how iniquitous was the worship of false gods. Astounded at the young girl's audacity, but incompetent to vie with her in point of learning the tyrant detained her in his palace and summoned numerous scholars whom he commanded to use all their skill in specious reasoning that thereby Catherine might be led to apostatize. But she emerged from the debate victorious. Several of her adversaries, conquered by her eloquence, declared themselves Christians and were at once put to death. Furious at being baffled, Maximinus had Catherine scourged and then imprisoned. Meanwhile the empress, eager to see so extraordinary a young woman, went with Porphyry, the head of the troops, to visit her in her dungeon, when they in turn yielded to Catherine's exhortations, believed, were baptized, and immediately won the martyr's crown. Soon afterwards the saint, who far from forsaking her Faith, effected so many conversions, was condemned to die on the wheel, but, at her touch, this instrument of torture was miraculously destroyed. The emperor, enraged beyond control, then had her beheaded and angels carried her body to Mount Sinai where later a church and monastery were built in her honour. So far the Acts of St. Catherine. ...The spiked wheel having become emblematic of the saint, wheelwrights and mechanics placed themselves under her patronage.