Mutuals Who Wants To Knead Dough To The Timing Set By A Flute Player With Me

a lot of people on tumblr and Ao3 seem to think Christianity (mainly Catholicism) is just a cool and sexy esthetic narrative force to make your characters guilty and repressed and I'm just like...

hey what about the grace? the grace of God? the grace God gave specifically so we wouldn't need to be guilty and repressed? God's grace? that grace? do they have that grace?

teaching latin can be a difficult thing to explain to people for a variety of reasons (mostly boiling down to "why do you do that") but sometimes in the middle of talking about my job i realize how absurd some aspects of it are. like i can't even take it seriously myself when i'm in the middle of telling someone that "he needs mouse bites to live" is an important plot point in the textbook i use

The Masque of the Four Seasons, c. 1903-1909

"My deepest joy is to write."

-Albert Camus, in Carnets 1935-1942

He said to David,

“You are more righteous than I am, for you have treated me well, but I have treated you poorly. Today you have revealed to me how you have treated me well, for the Lord had delivered me into your hands, but you did not kill me...."

1Samuel 24:18-19

Artwork: Richard Dadd (English, 1817-1886) Mercy, David Spareth Saul’s Life (1854)

Heather Horton (Canadian b.1974), David’s Studio, Sunset, Oil on canvas,

Lovely sentiment but the way it’s worded sounds like this dude got fucking killed during a little league game

Hedda Medina (1911—1951). School of Grete Gross, Study, circa 1930.