#flame meme

This is less “modern day” so much as “what if you grew up under an out-dated kind of Christianity and then abandoned the entire notion of god” but:

I have an instinctual distaste for a significant portion of American nondenominational Christianity. I realize that as an ex-Catholic this is the height of hypocrisy---I’m well aware! But those American churches called “Salvation” or “Crossroads” or “Life” are imo some of the most inhumanly cheerful and distinctly corporate kinds of faith I’ve ever witnessed. (If you use powerpoint during mass, you’re a goddamn liar and selling something.)

I’m not saying the Roman Catholic Church is at all a good institution—it’s definitively, unequivocally, indefensibly not—but it’s an old-world terribleness. The Catholic Church is rotted through with the same  kinds of power and corruption and terror, secrecy, and violence that humanity has been lugging around since it crawled up out of the swamp. And, more significantly, that church has no idea how to be terrible in the modern day. Have you ever seen EWTN? ie, the “Eternal Word Television Network,” ie the most boring television channel ever to exist in the history of broadcast? Meanwhile, you’ve got the evangelicals retelling bible stories with animated vegetables and the Presbyterians creating bible summer camps with guitar music you can hum and megachurches out of Texas offering livestreams of their sermons.

You know what the Catholic Church of the 21st century has to offer?

Yep! The most technologically advanced thing the Catholic Church has is an illuminated manuscript minus the illuminations!!!! My horrible religion never figured out how to exist in the 21st century, how to be at all charming or persuasive post-miracle play. The Catholic Church will die within our lifetime because a) the Church is and was monstrous, and b) it couldn’t figure out how to make up for that monstrosity with 21st century marketing. 

For every “🔥” My Muse gets, their body temperature and arousal level will rise. After x8, they will start to pleasure themselves, anyway they can..Or ask another to help them..

2/8 @obsidian-informant

The next time it happens, it’s a spike of heat that reminds him of the Alola sun-

But not just that, it reminds him of the beach, the sand, of Gabe underneath him, face flush, eyes showing their reluctance to give in, only to cloud over as he bites into their neck-

Terry Pratchett does a lot of things very well, but his romances are written—as one follower put it—like an alien trying to describe the courtship rituals of humans. I still really adore his pairings in theory, but he does tend to write them as someone familiar with the general pattern of these things, but has never actually felt the emotions in question. 

it’s sad we lost such a bright star in YA firmament at the very height of her fame. 

Racehorses are famously temperamental, neurotic, vicious animals with all the common sense God gave a rock. For as good as they are at what they do, they’re purportedly difficult to work with, strangely fussy, and prone to tics---anxious behaviors when left alone, like cribbing. Even taking them off the high-powered (race)track leaves them with lingering competitive behaviors, making it hard for them to associate with others and adjust to life at a slower pace.

The book is fun, but demonstrates significant weaknesses related to when it was written (the 80s) and the author’s voice (a Terry Pratchett who hadn’t hit his stride yet.) I still maintain that you can break it down and figure out who wrote which bits, but it’s pretty clear that Gaiman was writing in Pratchett’s style throughout the process. That’s why it’s Pratchett’s weaknesses on display, and Pratchett’s strengths (Adam is proto-Tiffany Aching, fight me) that make the book so enjoyable.

I’ve already had Opinions about the adaptation.