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mercyisms · 2 years

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Niche Nona Liveblogging: Day Five - Ch. 26

All right, baby. It’s time. It’s time to unhinge the whole mind. Rip those hinges right off. Let the brain flap in the wind. Et ceterea. Spoilers until the very end of Nona the Ninth. Previous and future liveblogs are here. Apologies for unedited typos and mis-transcriptions are right here, at your feet, take them. Some comments will be in vaguely chronological liveblogged spurts, but I think I’ll group certain other observations together under their coalescencing themes and my baby thoughts about them. Just kidding, this felt too long already, so we’ll put thematic observations in the next and final post?? This liveblog now goes until Chapter 26 or page 375 in the hardcover. Also. I’ve stopped climbing the walls. I’m on the ceiling now. I’m never coming down.

“as though others were more deserving than Nona, the most deserving person on the planet” and she’s right! “But I don’t want to be redheaded. I do not think of myself as redheaded.” “She was probably quite a bit older than Pyrrha, with strongly marked features and an aristocratic, slightly hooked nose, and her face was marked with lines that showed even beneath a light layer of powder and make-up” + “She was starting to perk up, by We Suffer standards, which meant her eyes had narrowed a bit.” Sorry to be me, but We Suffer confirmed h*t. I knew it. I knew it. Hooked nose! I knew it. “meeting up with the Messenger, whom you call the Angel… we may actually survive it” fascinated by this but also as the Angel becomes a confirmed Blood of Eden / Merv wing agent, I am once again tapping the NGE mech asking if it’s ready to go… “The Angel is Blood of Eden.” (294) “Corona can’t lie to her.” (296) cf. Crown/Corona’s belief, as disclosed to Nona anyway, that she can. It is very clear which Tridentarii Camilla, anyway, thinks is ascendant. We’re also noting that “Violabeth” is such a name. (Also matriarchal lineage on the Third or…?) You know, I twigged, of course I twigged at the “very obviously dead person with fashion hair” – but I really did not piece together, until the reveal, that Ianthe was puppeting Babs’ dead body and self-styling him as a vessel for princedom. In-cred-i-ble. Everything happening here is off the charts and I would expect nothing less from the Tridentarii, evil kings and princes and girls that I love. Also unhinged and again I am obsessed that Nona mistakes Ianthe-in-Babs for Crown/Corona’s boyfriend and Palamedes is like “yeah, well. Honest mistake.” “You think we’re fighting you on Antioch.” Not our first mention of Antioch, but the first that there’s a different threat. I’m putting my chin in my hands, I’m twirling my hair, I’m asking Ianthe to tell me pretty please. “Get the fishhook out of the fish.” At which point I went, ah yes, code word, and immediately had to flip back.

“[Blood of Eden owns] things in common, we share responsibilities and resources in common. [Wake] could’ve moved those resources at will.” Good tie-in to As Yet Unsent and Judith being mystified over their slightly more lateral chain of command. “It even scared A--. He was all, Matter doesn’t play by these rules! You’re doing bone parthenogenesis! I told him his mum did bone parthenogenesis. A—told me he’d kill me one day.” No commentary. “M—‘s nun of all people was convinced that [the soul] was the element I was missing, and that finding it… would bring us closer to God.” Sweeps Cristabel Oct crumbs into my hand and kisses them all goodnight. I cannot believe I was hoodwinked into being obsessed with a nun. “He never knew how to pick between me and P—” G1deooooon. Gideon, Gideon, Gideon. I’m gratified for each any every bit of characterization, which I think goes a long way in giving G1deon a slight degree more of agency post-HTN. “Absorption through the eyes is worse than the brain.” Cf. Augustine’s something to the effect of “That dolt. [Mercymorn] knows not to look at [RB7] directly.” Neither of which confirms whether Mercymorn actually looked at it or just knew to fake she looked at it. I’m sure she did just look at it. Even HTN is not that complex, but I remain stuck on that scene, huh? “Do you know, I miss Harrow terribly.” Nerds (bullying emoji). Nerds who are friends (teary emoji). “I have very often not had to shoot myself.” Once again, We Suffer is hot. ALSO, for that matter, so is Pash and her blue hair. Icon. Angry legend. We love them all. “Crack the sky, Troia cell.” Back in the days of 8tracks, I had a mildly successful Lin Beifong themed fanmix called break the sky, which was named after the Hush Sound song of the same name. These are just some of the fun, personal facts about me you get from sticking around. (All cops? Terrible. But I’m making allowances both Nepotism Chief Beifong and Necrotism Chief Pyrrha Dve. Unfortunately.) “[Crown] had her big beautiful hair down around her shoulders in a profusion of smoothed, rippling curls, and she was wearing a lovely pale yellow slip that left her golden shoulders and throat bare. The dress was slit all the up to the thigh and she wore soft black leather trousers beneath it…” Slit-skirt over trousers, Coronabeth is single-handedly bring back to 00’s. But also we can note the gender and Corona skewing more traditionally feminine again, now in the presence of Ianthe. Throughout, Ianthe makes several comments about Coronabeth’s hair, a fixation that seems in-line with Ianthe’s force-growing of Harrow’s hair / attempts to cast Harrow as more traditionally feminine than Harrow seems personally inclined. Now is, maybe, a good moment to also reflect on Harrow’s gender presentation versus Nona’s. Again, the hair. The hair. And Nona’s attachment to her long hair. (Which… given what John tells us later… but we’ll get to that!!!) “Teacher assumes [the Sixth] melted as result of a little domestic drama, which sets him off wallowing again.” Getting over a polycule murder-break-up is hard. “This is the last thing he needs. If he hears that yet another of his duplicitous sluts betrayed him.” I am kissing each of the duplicitous sluts on the head. I love them. I love them all. I love the broken polycule. “Cassiopeia the First left us instructions years ago… We left for a Lyctor.” At which point we were, as they say, hooting and hollering. I think it was a well-documented theory that Mercymorn’s account of Cassiopeia’s death did not feel complete and left room for doubt but yes, give me another hyper-competent mean lady. Give me the lawyer-librarian. I am rubbing my little hands together. I am desperate to learn her Homestuck typing quirk. What will be her punctuation of choice, I beg of you. Also Tamsyn, you cannot tell me the guy named Ulysses (WHERE did his soul come from?? Who IS he???) is not also returning. So like. Yum. Delicious. I want to collect two new duplicitous sluts in Alecto, pretty please. “But we’re closer to the goal than ever before.” When Ianthe DOES reveal her endgame, I am going to be absolutely wild. “Every single dead soldier’s fingers twitched.” Someone call Santa Claus from Chainsaw Man bc Ianthe’s about to crush them to the ground in a PVP puppeteering fight. “Oh, darling, you’re always everyone else’s girl.” !!!!! “It was like the scream was made of her insides” Again, filing the scream away for future purposes (338). I would very much like Nona to get into heavy metal. I think that would be nice. “and maybe [Judith’s father will] stop moaning about supply lines” again, simply attentive to who is doing what portions of the day to day management of the war efforts and general empire-running. “You challenged the Sixth for its keys” – At which point I screamed for the callback. Also, God. It was only “over a year ago”? Death comes at you fast. “… between Naberius and me, there are no more weaknesses. I took those away… and now he is perfect.” (342) Frankly, did not expect this book to be a big win for the Babsheads, but I’m really happy for them. Ianthe’s ideas of perfection and perfect lyctorhood are emergent here and relevant in contrast to Palamedes’, but we’ll touch on that later. “As poor old Augustine used to say, It’s impossible, and what’s more, it’s improbable.” (342) At which point my mind began to gurgle, but God we note the poor old Augustine mirrors Augustine’s own constant refrain of poor little Cyth. There’s an intriguing way in which Ianthe is mimicking Augustine here and through actually taking up smoking later (I wonder if we can do a certain gender thing here). But I admit my first thought was really wow, Saint of Patience completely bodied. She truly felt nothing for him, she thought he was small and old, and I cannot believe Augustine thought Ianthe would side with him over God. I know I tweet this like five times a year but truly every time I remember Augustine is canonically blonde, it really does feel like an injustice to me personally. ALSO that he’s like, what, canonically 40ish and not played by Jeremy Irons?? Ridiculous. CW // Suicide mention in the next section // “’I wouldn’t get hurt. I’d just die,’ said Crown, her bronzed throat working against the barrel. ‘You’re not all-powerful here. All you have are wards and puppets. I shoot, the bullet goes through my palate and into the brain, and then you’re the Crown Princess of Ida… like you never wanted.” (343) A fascinating threat of sovereignty and !!! “’I’m going to shoot myself and you’re going to watch,’ said Crown, with deep satisfaction. ‘Like when we were teens, but this time I’m really going to tie the rope… really going to drink the poison…’” Corona’s history of suicidal thoughts adds a riveting new dimension to her expectation/desire that Ianthe would eat her (“My heart’s own… my necromancer” !!). Mmmm Tridentarii and their psychodramas. I’m leaning forward in my side. // End CW “You’ve been training with someone who knew what they were doing.” Augustine or Gideon? Both? I cannot believe Palamedes had to pilot Naberius’ body and I would pay money for that Freaky Friday AU. “Personally? She’s the last thing I have left of a woman I tried to trick into loving me, and got played myself.” I cannot believe this is the off-screen romance. God. God! I am eating the ceiling tiles. Pyrrha/Wake Spy Vs Spy asshole edition. Pyrrha/Wake idk Mr. and Mrs. Smith only I think maybe in reverse? I haven’t seen that movie since I was a child. (ft. “Let’s not get too cute about it, though. My best friend and I punched her out an airlock. Apart from that, I was ready to commit.”) Also the incredibly me note that “Well, you’ll probably start visiting clubs and trying to hit on the dancers, and going from relationship to relationship not really being able to commit” (357) that this in did make my soul long for a single, single Augustine/Pyrrha interaction. God. What that must have been. “Talk about being the mother’s daughter… She’s him in the eyes and brows… amazed Mercymorn didn’t see it. But she wasn’t looking for it, I guess.” (361) Mercy, you beautiful fool. Also very crucial Gideon food, truly.

We’re filing away all comments on Gideon, and Gideon’s body, and where we find her for the end but god “a big purple bloodless puncture wound, with white teeth peeking out coyly from within” (366). Explain the teeth! Please explain the teeth! Why does necromancy lead to teeth!!!! What is up with the stoma!!! “I’ve never much seen the allure of an evil cougar.” (368) Your loss, Sextus. Cytherea ): Gone but never forgotten ): ): ):

“Judith Deuteros for some reason” is a great laugh line. “Those are my speed holes. They help me go fast,” is an abomination.

Gideon. Last stretch will be here soon. I am still on the ceiling.

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"This new 'virtual' community allows women to think of themselves in new ways and, for a moment, outside of household relations where their role and position was subordinate to that of men. The supplemental form of identity provided by the metaphor of the city allows women to develop a sense of themselves in solidarity with a new transhistorical community of women who have shown great qualities and who have done worthy things. This solidarity with an alternative community of virtue offers women a deeper sense of their true capacities and more meaningful models of fulfillment. So Christine adopts the metaphor of the city from Augustine to motivate and encourage women who suffer from the same feelings of despondency as the character Christine at the start of The Book of the City of Ladies [1405]. Since women are invited to identify with this new community, they can find the support and inspiration needed to counteract further misogynist arguments in wider cultural venues—arguments that had undermined their confidence and sense of worth. In addition, and this is a crucial distinction, whereas entry into Augustine's city is in the hands of divine judgment, Christine the author places responsibility for the continued growth and maintenance of her community in the hands of women themselves. Members of the City of Ladies will remain unknown to one another unless women themselves do the work of keeping alive their reputations. In other words, their ultimate destiny as a community lies neither in divine intervention, nor in fate, but rather in the continued acts of virtue and the continued efforts of mutual recognition and remembrance. [...] The building of the City of Ladies is presented to us as an ongoing enterprise—one that can be sustained and strengthened through constant additional acts of virtue and solidarity on women’s part. Christine depicts her city not simply as a community but more specifically as a fortress—one that provides, all at once, deterrence against future attacks, security, healing, and consolation [...]"

(from Sophie Bourgault and Rebecca Kingston, Introduction to The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2018), xxiii–xxiv)

*quote by Gerwig in image taken from Abby Aguirre, "Barbiemania! Margot Robbie Opens Up About the Movie Everyone's Waiting For," Vogue, May 2023, online.

cf. Lady Reason to the character Christine: "But, to return to the creation of the body, woman was made by the Divine Craftsman. And where was she created? In the Earthly Paradise. And from what? Was it a vile material? On the contrary! It was from the noblest material ever created, the body of man, that God made woman." (Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, I.9)

#barbie #greta gerwig #barbieland #barbie movie #christine de pizan #le livre de la cité des dames #the book of the city of ladies #la cité des dames #the city of ladies #vogue

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raisongardee · 6 months

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"Il n’est prétendu nulle part que la beauté du corps puisse être une mauvaise chose en soi ; la beauté corporelle étant plutôt prise comme signe extérieur d’un bien-être, ou santé, intérieur et constitutionnel. Que pareille beauté et santé, bien qu’étant un grand bien en soi, puisse aussi être appelée vaine d’un autre point de vue, cela sera évident pour tout le monde : par exemple, si un homme est tellement attaché au bien-être du corps qu’il ne veuille risquer sa vie pour une bonne cause. A quel point la philosophie chrétienne conçoit peu la beauté naturelle comme quelque chose de mauvais en soi, cela peut se voir chez Augustin, qui dit que le beau se trouve partout et en toutes choses, "par exemple dans un coq de combat" (De ordine I, 25 : il choisit le coq de combat comme quelque chose d’une certaine façon méprisable de son propre point de vue), et que cette beauté dans les créatures est la voix de Dieu qui les a faites (confessio ejus in terra et in coelo, Enarr. in ps., CXLVIII), point de vue qui est inséparable également de la notion de monde conçu comme une théophanie (comme chez Erigène) et de la doctrine du vestigium pedis (comme chez Bonaventure). D’un autre côté, être attaché aux formes telles qu’elles sont en elles-mêmes, c’est précisément ce que l’on entend par "idolâtrie", et, comme le dit Eckhart (Evans, I, 259) "pour trouver la nature elle-même, toutes ses formes doivent être brisées, et plus complètement cela se fait, plus proche sera la chose actuelle" ; cf Jami, "Si tu as peur de boire le vin du flacon de la Forme, tu ne peux drainer la liqueur de l’Idéal. Mais cependant, attention ! Ne sois pas retardé par la Forme : efforces-toi plutôt de vite traverser le pont"."

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, La Théorie médiévale de la Beauté, trad. Jacques Thomas, 1946.

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anastpaul · 9 months

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Quote/s of the Day – 24 August – St Bartholomew

Quote/s of the Day – 24 August – St Bartholomew the Apostle and Martyr – 1 Corinthians 12:27-31, Luke 6:12-19 “Yes, the Apostle chosento be His co-worker,merited to share,the same Name as Christ.They built the same Building together –Peter does the planting,the Lord gives the increaseand it is the Lord, too,Who sends those,who will do the watering (cf 1 Cor 3:6f).” St Augustine (354-430)Father…

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angelomorphix · 11 months

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Angelomorphism and Christianity

We wanted gender to be abolished.

Our infernal plan for a sexless being

In piety's dreams of piety is fulfilled.

"Faust."

Some people that using data from previous chapters, are tempted to say that any contact between the sexes should be categorically discouraged. At one time Christians came to similar conclusions when they decreed that original sin was the sin of Adam and Eve's sexual relations.

Aurelius Augustine definitively linked original sin to sexual attraction through lust. Between 395 and 430 he states three times that lust through sexual intercourse transmits original sin. Beginning with the children of Adam and Eve, it is bequeathed to man through the sexual act. The earliest Christian congregations attached great importance to it, much more than the present-day catholic churches do.

For the true church, virginity has always been preferred, but since the church is not a closed cult for ideal people, the earliest Christians decided not to impose virginity and monasticism on everyone. In fact, that is why there are laymen and those who do not have families, but devote their lives to God. White marriage, that is, marriage without sexual relations, is preferable to marriage where such relations exist, although modern Christianity tries to make concessions, if not to all, then at least to heteronormative couples.

It should be noted that while Christianity tabooed any sexuality, that is, any manifestation of the activity of your sex as something that has its own sexual desires and willfulness distinct from your own desires, feminist movements prefer to distinguish between same-sex and unwanted sexual relations with the opposite sex. Both positions are dictated by an awareness of the determinability of internal and therefore social processes (the personal = the social) by the fact that there are genders.

However, feminism is wholly materialistic, and although it has popular occult practices among young girls, this fascination is rather related to its opposition to the Christian worldview, which is demonized thanks to the policies of the Catholic churches. In reality, the Christians of antiquity were the ones who professed the most correct attitude toward women in their communities, where, unlike in pagan society, they were not reduced to a mere reproductive function. For Christian women, secular marriage was not an obligatory act.

"They turned their eyes to their members and felt in them a movement of lust they had not known. They could not help but be confused, for it was the same movement of the flesh that pushes animals to copulation, a manifestation of "the consequence of sin" and "the flesh resisting the spirit." The Holy Apostle, in his Epistle to the Romans, distinguishes the two sides of man's existence as the law of the mind and the law of sin found in the members (cf.: Rom. 7:23), and in his Epistle to the Galatians, as spirit and flesh: the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh (Gal. 5:17). If we compare the life of the world today with the life and teachings of Christ, it is clear and obvious that most people's lives are the exact opposite of Christ's.

God's words at the creation of the world, "be fruitful and multiply," also did not carry the meaning ascribed to them by the canonical interpretation of the Bible. The Hebrew words have a similar meaning, the former meaning "be fruitful" (fruitful, bearing fruit), while "multiply" can be translated more as "increase, multiply. We can see the analogy with spiritual growth and self-improvement, for immediately thereafter God wills people to reign over all earthly creatures. However, modern churches twist this phrase by commanding people to have more and more children and raise them in the traditional social order.Christ says that women can overcome the limitations society has placed on their gender by becoming spiritually androgynous.

It is worth noting that in the writings of Clement of Alexandria we find the postulate that the same transformation is necessary for men, who "will not enter the kingdom of heaven until they cease to be men." Through these lines we see that Christianity does not condemn men's desire for liberation from both social and biological gender.

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, on the other hand, said, "When you have made man and woman one, so that man is not male and woman is not female-then you will enter the kingdom of heaven." The motif of the deprivation of sex, and consequently of corruptibility, the restoration of the soul to its original sexless state is a well-known Gnostic theme. The Gnostics interpret the essence of the demiurge as the androgyny, who created humans in his own image, but at the same time, divided them in two, into male and female.

Also, Russian Christian scopists of the 19th century believed that, at Christ's coming, he would give scoped humanity a new way to multiply without sin. Therefore, by removing their "sinful genitals," they were certain that humanity would not disappear but would be transformed. They believed that Paradise on earth is ensured by one thing and one thing only: universal castration. The presence of sex and the sexuality that follows is the only thing that prevents the establishment of world justice.

"There is something sacrilegious and terrible about carnal union. It is terrible, as terrible as a corpse." - wrote the famous Christian writer Leo Tolstoy in February 1870. His obsession with sex and depravity make it impossible for him to have a relationship with a woman as a human being. "A fraternal relationship with a woman," as he called it. There is a strong connection between sexuality and aggressiveness. This is especially noticeable at the stage of manifestation of sexual desire. This was written about in more detail in the chapter on sexlessness.

Another famous writer F. Dostoevsky wrote: "Man strives to be transformed into Christ as his ideal. <...> We will be - faces, without ceasing to merge with everything, without encroaching or marrying, and in different ranks. Everything will then feel and know itself forever. <...> Man is a creature on earth, only evolving, therefore, not complete, but transitional. We know only one feature of the future nature of the future being: "they neither marry nor trespass, but live as angels of God. For his words, moreover, Leo Tolstoy received condemnation from the Russian Orthodox Church, and accusations of heresy.

St. Gregory of Nyssa wrote: "If anyone has difficulty in asking about the mode of origin of men, whether it was not necessary for man to have the assistance of marriage, then let us also ask him about the mode of being of angels: why do they form innumerable multitudes, being both one essence and numerous? For we give the proper answer to the objector: how could man be without marriage, when we say: just as the angels exist without marriage. And that man before the crime was like the angels, proves this restoration of him again to the same likeness." The topic of humanity's transition to an angelic state has been touched on since the very beginning of the birth of Christianity.

There are indeed many passages in the Bible that are of interest to us, here are some of them:

There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal 3:28).

Let them all be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, [so] let them also be one in us. (John 17:21)

"And to the woman He said, 'I will make your pregnancy painful: in suffering you will bear children. Thou shalt desire thy husband, and he shall have dominion over thee." (Gen. 3:16) - Here we can see that already at that time people were aware of all the negative aspects of sex and sexuality, and they explained it through the fall into sin.There is also an interesting passage in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "For the Son of God became man in order to make us God. ( §460)

Clive Lewis states the purpose of the Christian life from an Anglican perspective: "The commandment 'Be perfect' is not merely an idealistically high-minded call. Nor is it an order to do the impossible. The point is that He is going to transform us into beings who can do this command. He said (in the Bible) that we are "gods" (Psalm 81:6), and He will prove His words right. If only we let Him - we can stop Him if we want to - He will turn the weakest, most unworthy of us into a god or goddess, into a dazzling, luminous, immortal being, pulsating with such energy, such joy, wisdom, and love as we cannot now imagine."

The present churches, however, are not interested in this. Their merger with governmental institutions has not resulted in anything good, and now people who consider themselves Christians often lose any idea of perfection of body and spirit because of such influence, delving deeper into worldly life. And they also speak of a very unmerciful attitude toward people much closer in their morality to Christians at the time of their appearance.

The bottom line is that if we go deeper into the history of Christianity, in many ways Christians have always been negative about sex, social gender, marriage, and natural reproduction, and they have always had popular ideas about the transformation of man into a more exalted being in direct communion with God. However, modern Christians are as far removed from this as the other movements mentioned earlier in our texts.

#transhumanism #angelomorphia #angels #nonbinary #agender #asexual #enby #gender #postgenderism #angelomorphism #genderless #gnosticism #radical feminism #evolution #publication #artificial reproduction #christianity #jesus christ #religion

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27th May >> Mass Readings (Except USA)

Monday, Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop.

Monday, Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II))

First Reading 1 Peter 1:3-9 You did not see Christ, yet you love him.

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth as his sons, by raising Jesus Christ from the dead, so that we have a sure hope and the promise of an inheritance that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away, because it is being kept for you in the heavens. Through your faith, God’s power will guard you until the salvation which has been prepared is revealed at the end of time. This is a cause of great joy for you, even though you may for a short time have to bear being plagued by all sorts of trials; so that, when Jesus Christ is revealed, your faith will have been tested and proved like gold – only it is more precious than gold, which is corruptible even though it bears testing by fire – and then you will have praise and glory and honour. You did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him, you are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described, because you believe; and you are sure of the end to which your faith looks forward, that is, the salvation of your souls.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 110(111):1-2,5-6,9-10