Me: *thinking about Christian memes* What if Jesus had come in 2017 instead of back during Roman times? Would He, instead of using parables, have spoken in memes?
Roommate: I hate you. You aren’t allowed to have any more thoughts about Jesus.
Me: It’s not like its heresy! It isn’t insulting!
Roommate: Yes, it is! Memes are inherently sin, a sign of the Devil’s influence on this fallen world!
Satan: turn these stones into bread
Jesus: bold of you to assume that man can live on bread alone
a fig tree out of season: *no figs*
jesus: then perish
Ok but from a purely theological standpoint, based on the way Jesus communicated (he talked in ways that would be understandable to at least some extent by the general public, and had a lot of respect for children)…
Theologically speaking, Jesus would almost certainly have spoken in memes.
“Whenever you crack open a cold one with the boys in my name, there I be in your midst”
The Knights of Catarina are the best for many reasons:
Their armor is “quite practical, “and “effectively deflects physical attacks.” Despite it’s bulk, they are consistently described as booking it, “courageously rushing into battle.” It also has the great trait of looking both adorably goofy and strangely cool.
The armor has crazy good resistances and defences even when compared to many in its weight class, including against lightning, so Catarina would have the best chance at a war against the gods. Which apparently happen every once in a while in the Dark Souls universe, so that’s cool.
Every knight of Catarina can not only rush around in that set, they consistently manage to wield zweihanders with ein hand, enough to carry a piercing shield. These people are not to be trifled with.
Sieglinde managed to make it down to Ash Lake and just outside the Duke’s Archive. She is not undead, just the biggest badass around.
In DSII, it’s implied by the item descriptions that Catarina continued to exist and linger on in the memory long after its contemporary nations.
You can’t outwit the onion.
Plus they’re consistently described as jocular and jovial, even in the most bleak periods of the setting
Meanwhile, the kindest word anyone ever has for Carim is “dubious” and the overwhelming consensus is that it’s an entire nation of rat bastards
Carim: dubious
Thorolund: obviously corrupt theocracy
Astora: lame part of Queens filled with hipsters and $$$ bars
sometimes I remember that I’ve had the same blog for my entire tumblr career and that there are backlogs and backlogs of cringey shit from my various regrettable phases just there for anyone to see if they want and I feel as if someone has tred across my grave
Good Backwards World Building: In the Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery mobile game, your player character must learn the charm Silencio, which causes the target to temporarily be unable to make any sound,during their fifth year at Hogwarts. During the class, it is revealed that one of the side effects of a failed Silencio charm is for the target of the spell to begin to swell uncontrollably. For players who are clever and remember the books, this will ring a bell- it was never explained why Aunt Marge in The Prisoner of Azkaban started swelling up when Harry got angry, only that he accidentally did magic. This reveal shows that in anger, his subconscious was likely trying to “shut her up”, causing a mis-cast Silencio charm, and therefore the side-effect of swelling. The reveal doesn’t change anything about the characters or their motivations, or add anything in particular to the plot. It’s just a neat bit of trivia.
Bad Backwards World Building: JKR tweets that [x] was part of [x minority group], even though there was no indication of such in the text, simply because it adds representation in hindsight.
If you have over 1,000 photos on the image-hosting site Flickr, this is VERY IMPORTANT. You need to download those photos NOW, or they will be DELETED. Yes, that sucks. It sucks a lot! You don’t want to lose your photos, so pull up your big boy pants and actually log in to Flickr and take care of this TODAY. IAM YELLING AT YOU RIGHT NOW! DO IT!
Here’s the rundown: In April 2018, Yahoo sold Flickr to a company called SmugMug, which has been around a long time, mainly as a professional photographers site. All was well and fine, at first.
Then, in November, SmugMug-owned Flickr announced that it planned to end the free unlimited image storage the site offered users, starting Jan. 8 (that’s today, bitches). From now on, Flickr will only host 1,000 photos for free, and if you have more than that uploaded to the site, it will stop displaying them. You also won’t be able to upload any more photos to your account if you’ve hit that 1,000 limit.
As of today, you have two options: Keep your photos up and pay for a Pro account ($50/year).
Or, download them and be on your merry way, to do whatever you want to do with those weird photos you had on there in 2009. Unfortunately, if you had meticulously organized your photos on Flickr with albums and sets, all that organization will be lost. You’ll just get your photo files and some basically meaningless .json files with metadata.
For the next few weeks, Flickr won’t delete your extra photos, but it will hide them. But starting Feb. 5: IT WILL DELETE YOUR PHOTOS!!!!! Starting with the oldest photos, it will purge them from the site, and you won’t be able to recover them.
