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'tis the season
Dec. 24th, 2017 02:32 pm
The days are getting longer again, the year is almost over, and once again we all hope that love and light and joy are going to overcome the dark. Happy Holidays!
The days are getting longer again, the year is almost over, and once again we all hope that love and light and joy are going to overcome the dark. Happy Holidays!
The Ancients Were Full Of Shit
Oct. 31st, 2017 01:02 pmAfter my pretentious rambling in the last post, how bout some shitposting! And when I say shitposting, I mean shitposting. Lots of nasty language below, skip if you’re sensitive about that.
No matter how indifferent y’all feel about the reformation, you probably know that it caused quite a fuss at the time. Luther lost a lot of friends about it and made a lot of enemies, and here’s a rather hilarious (if you don’t mind gutter language) exchange between a former student and friend, Simon Lemnius, and Teh Reformator Himself, now thoroughly fallen out with each other.
( Cut for length and language )
The next post will be less shitty (but very silly)... stay tuned!
No matter how indifferent y’all feel about the reformation, you probably know that it caused quite a fuss at the time. Luther lost a lot of friends about it and made a lot of enemies, and here’s a rather hilarious (if you don’t mind gutter language) exchange between a former student and friend, Simon Lemnius, and Teh Reformator Himself, now thoroughly fallen out with each other.
( Cut for length and language )
The next post will be less shitty (but very silly)... stay tuned!
A free day for... free
Oct. 31st, 2017 09:54 amSooo all the western federal states in my country have been given an extra holiday today in celebration of the 500 year anniversary of some crazy friar publishing his 95 theses on Why Indulgences Suck And Actually Don’t Work, kicking off the landslide that eventually ended in the institution of Protestantism. Today he'd be using Twitter but back then he had to nail it to the church door - what can you do. (The eastern states are getting a day off for Reformation Day every year so they don’t get an extra, sorry folks). Having been brought up Lutheran and still vaguely identifying with the faith, I feel compelled to do something exciting about the anniversary.
But my relationship with Luther’s persona is... complex. On the one hand, I appreciate the hard work he’s put into reforming the medieval church (rather more whole-heartedly and less selfishly than that copycat Henry Tudor, I might add) and making the whole Bible accessible to The People (TM). He brought a sense of freedom to northern European Christianity that arguably paved the way for further liberating developments. Less pretentiously, his life and work make a pretty exciting tale. And rather selfishly, considering that a whole line of ancestors on my mother’s father’s side were Protestant clergymen, I’ve got to be grateful he lifted the rule of celibacy or I wouldnt even exist. Cheers, Martin!
On the other hand, there are the Problematic Issues, some of which also paved the way for later developments - in particular the shit he’s written about women and Jews. Doesn’t help much that he wasn’t worse than most people of his time, since most other people of his time had a lot less impact on Later History and aren’t getting celebrated left and (alas) right. He wasn’t any kinder to (leading) Catholics, either, but the blatant anti-semitism has left rather more of a bitter aftertaste. Fuck you, Martin.
All that said, a 500 year anniversary is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and shouldn’t be passed over? So I’ll acknowledge the faults and refrain from adulations, and instead I’ll focus on the sheer level of extra that surrounds this religious schism in some upcoming posts. There’s going to be a Renaissance shitstorm and a silly drawing, for which I apologise in advance.
TL;DR Happy Reformation Day I guess! And Happy Hallowe’en, which we don’t get to celebrate properly here. Can’t have everything!
... when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
irony_chan posted in her get_medieval comic that she'd made a Christmas card "for anybody who doesn't like getting religion in their christmas", I was convinced that it was ironic. I mean, user name, and all that.
And then one user commented on that card saying "Happee holidayes" and how "holidays" was, after all, religious too: "But I did think the point was a card that got religion out of christmas."
*blink*
Look, I'm not a religious zealot or anything. Really. But... getting religion out of CHRISTmas seems a bit of an impossible mission to me in the first place.
(Yes, I know how it's meant. It's just a little pointless, isn't it? Either you don't celebrate Christmas but something else, like Yule or Hannukah or whatever that coincidentally takes place around the same time, which, however, is religious too. Or you celebrate Christmas even though you're strictly non-Christian, which sounds a bit pointless to me [simply because of the name], but hey, to each their own. Still, in that case people usually call it "holidays". Because you know what? Sending festive cards for no reason at all isn't all that common. - You should simply take over the German word for "holidays", that's what you should do. It's Feiertage. feiern means "to celebrate", Tage means days. Feiertage, the days that you celebrate. No religion in that!)
You know something really pointless? Now I want to make Elvish holiday cards. *facepalms*
... I guess Eärendil or Maglor or Daeron or Maglor/Daeron could work.
irony_chan posted in her get_medieval comic that she'd made a Christmas card "for anybody who doesn't like getting religion in their christmas", I was convinced that it was ironic. I mean, user name, and all that.And then one user commented on that card saying "Happee holidayes" and how "holidays" was, after all, religious too: "But I did think the point was a card that got religion out of christmas."
*blink*
Look, I'm not a religious zealot or anything. Really. But... getting religion out of CHRISTmas seems a bit of an impossible mission to me in the first place.
(Yes, I know how it's meant. It's just a little pointless, isn't it? Either you don't celebrate Christmas but something else, like Yule or Hannukah or whatever that coincidentally takes place around the same time, which, however, is religious too. Or you celebrate Christmas even though you're strictly non-Christian, which sounds a bit pointless to me [simply because of the name], but hey, to each their own. Still, in that case people usually call it "holidays". Because you know what? Sending festive cards for no reason at all isn't all that common. - You should simply take over the German word for "holidays", that's what you should do. It's Feiertage. feiern means "to celebrate", Tage means days. Feiertage, the days that you celebrate. No religion in that!)
You know something really pointless? Now I want to make Elvish holiday cards. *facepalms*
... I guess Eärendil or Maglor or Daeron or Maglor/Daeron could work.
- majinbakahentai, the parcel arrived here today! Thank you so much! *hugs*
... I sit here and squee like a child whenever I understand a word or a phrase or even a whole sentence ('miite kudasai!'). I'm such a loser. *amused*
- becauseeliathanis likes to play with it, I tried ArtPad too. I fail at digital media. But I think I'll blame it on my mouse and the stupid paintbrush sizes they have there. Want to see the sorry results? There you go. Put it on 'fast', otherwise it'll take ages and be boring. iPhail. But it's fun.
I think it might be my NaNo villain.
Because, in a moment of madness, I signed up for iNaNoWriMo (although the FAQ say that just doesn't have the same ring as NaNoWriMo, I think that in this Year of the iPod, iNaNoWriMo works just fine). We'll see if anything comes of it.
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This is going to be a fun month.
Also, happy Samhain! Or happy Hallowe'en. Or happy Reformation Day.
Apparently, kids here have decided that we now do have trick-or-treating in Germany too. I missed the memo.
majinbakahentai, the parcel arrived here today! Thank you so much! *hugs* ... I sit here and squee like a child whenever I understand a word or a phrase or even a whole sentence ('miite kudasai!'). I'm such a loser. *amused*
- because
eliathanis likes to play with it, I tried ArtPad too. I fail at digital media. But I think I'll blame it on my mouse and the stupid paintbrush sizes they have there. Want to see the sorry results? There you go. Put it on 'fast', otherwise it'll take ages and be boring. iPhail. But it's fun.I think it might be my NaNo villain.
Because, in a moment of madness, I signed up for iNaNoWriMo (although the FAQ say that just doesn't have the same ring as NaNoWriMo, I think that in this Year of the iPod, iNaNoWriMo works just fine). We'll see if anything comes of it.
...
...
This is going to be a fun month.
Also, happy Samhain! Or happy Hallowe'en. Or happy Reformation Day.
Apparently, kids here have decided that we now do have trick-or-treating in Germany too. I missed the memo.
