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*Me as a Venezuelan* THEY MADE YOU CHOOSE A SAINT?! I mean, I did my confirmation at 14, had a year of preparation y my local parish and when the rite was done, it was done by the bishop, not the parish priest. But we didnt choose a saint.

It would have been so cool for me to have chosen a saint. We did talk about their lives but my catechesis was more centered in christ life and so...

But at least, you had a criteria; may have looked problematic for some adults, but at the end, Saints life histories are told for us to know the different paths we have to get closer to god and remain anchored in the faith.

Honestly, as a catholic, I would have laughed about it and looked for that history myself to know more.

You were great.

i do feel sympathy for my parents because they often got called to school for meetings whenever i got a little too macabre. My special interests from second grade on were the Bubonic Plague and Vlad the Impaler so this happened as often as you might imagine,

so anyway my school made us go through Confirmation in seventh grade as 12 year olds, which is whack. It’s the Catholic sacrament wherein you retake the vows your guardians made on your behalf at your baptism. It signifies your transition to adulthood in the eyes of the church and God. So you should be, you know, an adult. All of my other friends did it between ages 16 & 20.

You can’t really commit in a genuine way when you’re 12 and the sacrament is written into your class curriculum as homework.

But I digress.

When you get confirmed, you choose a Catholic saint as your patron and learn everything about them and try to model yourself after their values and faith to follow their example.

You’re supposed to envision the sort of person you want to become in the church and look into saints with relevant patronages.

But I got in trouble because my teacher found me googling specifically which saints were martyred by Rome via “eaten by wild beasts” as my baseline criteria

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Amazing things happening off the coast of Spain

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imagine being a criminal in gotham doing your criminal thing and it’s 2:45am and you see a shadow towering over you and you’re like yeah cool it’s batman i have a few new toys i bought off ebay that i’m pretty sure the joker was auctioning for 12p including shipping. and then you turn around and batman’s there alright, stupid bat ears and all, let’s see if this ends with you on gotham general’s porch or comically tied around a lamp post with a sticky note on your forehead for the police. but. you notice batman is smiling. even worse it’s not the bad creepy smile you’ve heard about, the one like he was asked by the school photographer to show some teeth for picture day before he unleashes some mortal kombat left arrow right arrow, up, up, A, A, B, left arrow moves. it’s a genuinely warm smile. friendly. naturally charming even. and you’re pretty sure that’s not how it works. what is going on mr. bat. did a superman enemy decide to play tourist again with poor gotham city after the scheduled wednesday metropolis kidnapping went without a hitch and now you’ve got some brainiac type of shapeshifter in your midst? could that be it?

and then Possibly Brainiac Batman cracks a joke and it’s kinda funny. if you told bob about it he’d laugh and bob never laughs so that means it’s legit. bob’s a dick. and then Could Be Brainiac Batman does a little whirl in the air before landing in front of you with a flourish. it’s kind of very good actually, there was no leg shaking at landing or anything. that’s impressive that takes some real skill. and it starts clicking. the grace. the poise. the talent. the panache. the lull in the air giving a taste of the entailing vexation of what you know is about to be one of most annoying fights of your life because this kid has never shut up in his life no matter what

anyway i think the dick grayson batman era was terrifying for a lot of people

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why so silent?

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Athena: Wasn't icarly that guy that girlbossed too close to the sun because he was down for Apollo?

Ares: ICAR-

Artemis:*shutting his mouth* don't say his name

Apollo:*in the corner crying* I miss him so much

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It’s been nearly 3 years but I don’t think anything will make me feel the same as the first time I ever heard the phrase “He is holding a cat”

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A most epic Welcome to Night Vale moment is in Renovations when Kevin and Lauren observe "a mysterious figure holding something" appear in the studio, with the nightvale intro music slowly growing in volume until it swells at "he is holding a cat"

The most epic moment. Because there is no questioning who that is. And that is such a bad ass entrance! He was transported by an angel into the studio holding a cat, his cat, the whole reason he ended up rebelling openly against strexcorp. A masterpiece.

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West Side Story (1961 & 2021)

Robert Wise & Steven Spielberg

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disney still owes me emotional reparations for this movie

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Kaça:...it can't be! You were dead!you had turned into cosmic dust

Ikki: heh, it has been clear from some time now that the lord of hell doesn't want me there

I like to think of Ikki as some sort of reverse Sisyphus: he won't die because they keep sending him back

Given Pandora's reaction when she felt his cosmo, and knowing the whole HadesShun thing, I'd say he could as well be speaking literally here. Still this post is here solely because of my sense of humor

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"Respeto tu decisión como caballero de Atena, pero reafirmo mi autoridad como hermano mayor partiéndote la madre de todos modos"

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Aldebaran: you can come into my home any time you need food aioria

-Aioria hissing like a hurt cat-

Aldebaran: Fine....but i will let my door open

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Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the Saint Seiya anime. So here’s a promotion poster of the boyfriends kicking ass together.

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Alright, tell me about saint seiya.

YESSSSS THANK YOU BESTIE THIS SHOW IS SOO NORMAL I PROMISE <3

SO LET’S START WITH THE FACT THAT THE PROTAGONISTS ARE JUST A GROUP OF 13-YEAR-OLD BOYS WHO DONT FEAR DEATH AND ONE (1) 15-YEAR-OLD WHO THINKS HE’S THE SHIT (HE ISN’T). AND ALSO GOD IS THERE IG. GOD IS A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL.

the power system and worldbuilding are soo good and the show will Not let you forget Anything unless they do. one episode has a character say “five bronze saints defeated a silver saint?” literally five times because you Need to understand that five bronze saints defeated a silver saint. on the other hand there’s some shit they’ll say one (1) time and then just think you’ll remember it and bring it up fifty episodes later. never forget how they introduced a rival character only to put him on the bus for the rest of the series. the main character’s whole ass character motive (finding his sister after they were separated so he could become a saint) was forgotten until the very goddamn end of this show it’s so funny

THIS SHOW IS LITERALLY THAT ONE POST THATS LIKE “WHEN THE SHOUNEN SO MISOGYNISTIC IT’S JUST GAY” AND WHILE I HATE THAT THEY DONT TREAT THE GIRL CHARACTERS WELL IT’S SOO FUNNY TO ME.

i also find it extremely hilarious how so much of this show is just these grown ass adults trying their goddamn hardest to kill these children. they just. can’t. like they just can’t fucking kill these kids it’s so funny to me. saga spent like the bigger half of the original 80s series trying to kill saori and he just couldn’t fucking do it this almost-30 man was just completely unable to kill this 13yo girl. because she’s god. thats why he couldnt kill her.

ALSO SDOIVHSFPDOVSHFD THESE 13YOS GROUPED UP AND KILLED THE CONCEPT OF DEATH. LIKE THEY KILLED HADES, THE GUY WHO’S BEEN ALIVE SINCE BEFORE THE WORLD, THE GUY WHO FINDS A NEW HOST EVERY 100 YEARS, THE GUY WHO KEEPS HIS HOSTS FOREVER AND KEEPS THEIR BODIES STASHED AWAY AFTER THEY DIE, THE GUY WHO IS LITERALLY DEATH. THESE 13YO BOYS WHO HAD A BIT OF A BAD DAY JUST FUCKIGN KILLED HIM. IT WAS SO FUNNY.

one of the boys just constantly removes his armor to get stronger which?/??? ok king. that’s the opposite of what removing your armor would do but ok. go off

the designs in this show are sooo fucking good except when they aren’t. trust me there’s a reason why a solid chunk of the gold saints never wear their helmets.

ALSO THE MUSIC FOR THIS SHOW FUCKS SO HARD?????? LIKE. PEGASUS FANTASY MY FUCKING BELOVED THIS SONG FUCKS SO HARD IT DOESN’T SURPRISE ME THEY REUSED IT FOR THE UNOFFICIAL SEQUEL (WHICH I ALSO LIKE DESPITE IT BEING REALLY BAD)

since this is me making this i need to say: andromeda shun is the best character in the entire franchise (this includes every spinoff, not just the actual series) and he’s the strongest of the bronze saints you people just don’t wanna admit that he’s stronger than ikki because he’s the “girly” one. also if you say shun is the girly one i’ll kill you all he did was wear pink and cry a little bit.

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Stop me from making memes, I'm awful at it

We all know Shun cannot be in Kiki's place after Hades, fight me.

Also I'm bad at memes, bye

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Before they knew Saori was Athena

Seiya, talking about Saori: So I sent her a picture of my cosmo...

Shiryu: Okay.

Seiya: And she sent one back. What do I do?

Shiryu: I-... What do you think you should do?

Seiya: Ask why it's bigger than mine.