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@actualmermaid / actualmermaid.tumblr.com

Amanda, 32, she/her. History, literature, music, food, gardening, animals, religion. Socialist with a small s. Don’t be a stranger!
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Now open: the Faithful Heretic Icons Sticker Shop

I specialize in illustrating queer, feminist, leftist, subversive, and otherwise unusual/unconventional saints and streams of thought in Christian history and mythology. I also have a static website where you can find detailed profiles on all of these saints, and eventually others as well!

Every sticker comes with a short prayer and a QR code that takes you to the saint's profile on my website. I ship worldwide!

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The people most likely to complain about their pure untainted pagan holidays being stolen by Christians are also the ones whose ancestors most likely converted WILLINGLY to Christianity

"We're revitalizing an ancient pagan custom that was stolen and/or suppressed by the Church!" Ok we looked into this ancient pagan custom and whoops it's just Romantic German Nationalism again

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The people most likely to complain about their pure untainted pagan holidays being stolen by Christians are also the ones whose ancestors most likely converted WILLINGLY to Christianity

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You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

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genderyomi

i think a lot of people would be happier if they viewed labels like homosexual and transgender as social technologies rather than identities

that is to say, "transgender" is a useful way for me to convey how i move through the world to others rather than some essential qualia. i am of a class of people with an infinite number of relationships with their genders

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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

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kurtbusiek

Yes, this. Trains, please.

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alex51324

Sign me up as well!

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Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

can't keep that in the tags

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I love stories of pagan converts to Christianity during the Dark Ages because most often these warrior kings and chieftains would listen to the story of Christ's crucifixion and without missing a beat they'd be like "If I was there with my boys we would've saved him."

Hes a little confused but hes got the spirit

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nyancrimew

what's so striking to me about younger queer generations rn isn't the lack of knowledge about queer history, but the complete unwillingness to engage with it, when confronted with an identity or history they haven't heard of before they react with disgust rather than curiosity. (for example) instead of asking where the leather pride flag came from and what the leather community is and represents they immediately question the need for something like that to exist, not even willing to listen and learn from both elders and peers. this is also more broadly a problem in leftist spaces in general, being reactionary is somehow the default now, and anything that's different or unknown must be an attack and bad. really hoping y'all manage to grow out of this deeply conservative way of interacting with the world.

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I just now learned that you’ve written TOG fic so pardon me while I dive in headfirst! *delighted shriek*

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Ahhh enjoy! I recognized your name from TOG posts btw

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Hi! I wanted to share a few things, and have a question if it's ok!

  1. Thank you for writing Holiest Among the Living. I actually read it before I watched the Old Guard, and now I dearly love both.
  2. I re-read Holiest last week and it hit me like a train, it was so so good. It holds up //so well// to re-reads.
  3. I really like the way you talk about spiritual stuff/your spiritual path, and find it really inspiring. Also your stickers are neat.
  4. Would you be open at all to a saint(s) picture commission? My patron saint is woefully non-popular and I'd really like a drawing of her. If you'd rather not, no worries at all!
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Thanks for the message, and I'm glad you liked both the story and the stickers! ❤ Unfortunately I'm not taking commissions right now (that may change in the future, but I don't have any plans for it in the short term). But thanks for your interest!

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Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

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I still think about during my last semester of undergrad I took comparative religion as an elective and this was during covid and a bad wildfire season so everybody around me was losing their jobs, homes, health. And one day during Zoom class someone explained the word “yeet” to my comparative religion professor as the opposite of yoink

And without any hesitation she said “Ah, so the lord yeetith and the lord yoinkith away”

And when I tell you that kept me going for at least a week

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did I ever tell yall I used to think charlie chaplin was a drag king. for like three years straight

we watched modern times in seventh grade n I saw this shot n just took it face value that he was a twinky butch. for three years

I only found out he wasn’t because in tenth grade the topic of old hollywood leading ladies came up w my friends n I went “I think it’s so cool how charlie chaplin did all those drag roles. she was cute too haha” n they all looked at me like I’d said something just truly fucking insane. which for the record I had