I made a mistake.
I have a crush on a nun.
This isnât a bit or a joke in waiting I literally have a crush on a nun, let me explain.
My grandma is slowly starting to go, sheâs currently housed at a catholic hospital and Iâm one of the last few people alive that care for her. I spend everyday before and after work at the hospital with her and today was the weirdest day. A nun came in, something I hadnât seen before and said she was here to provide prayer or whatever I needed. We talked for awhile and I couldnât help but stare into her auburn eyes. She was very sweet and of course me being the fucking idiot I am asked her if she had ever heard of warrior nun. Of course she hadnât so I explained the show to which she was highly entertained by the premise. Then I made *the mistake*⌠I asked her if she was apart of a secret society of ninja nuns and no joke her immediate response was to deadpan and say âIf I told you the answer then it wouldnât be a secret.â She got up with a smile and left giggling to herself and now Iâm swooning. WHAT THE FUCK IM LITERALLY LIVING THE DAMN REDDIT AVATRICE FIC RN WHAT US WRONG WITH ME
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HEY! I know I said that I would take a break until July, but #SaveROTTMNT TRENDING ON TWITTERâŚAGAIN!
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More on WARRIOR NUN and their inspiration in female saints. Battle mode engaged aka Margaret of Antioch demon slayer
The thirteenth century work, The Golden Legend, by Jacobus Voraigne was an accessible collection of saintsâ lives. In terms of popularity it only takes second place to the bible in terms of medieval circulation.
Little potted biographies of the saints (its technical name and the study of which is hagiography) were handed down over the ages and retold. In his tome, he has girls who defy their fathers, ignore the husbands and generally are completely badass in the name of God.
Premier among them is Margaret of Antioch, the third century wrestler of dragons.
The martyrdom ascetic is pretty grim folks and Voraigne is nothing if not typically explicit as to how she is treated. When the local provost wants her for a wife she refuses him for his paganism. Despite his threats she said she was willing to undergo any form of violence against her body for her faith:
> âChrist gave Himself over to death for me, and I desire gladly to die for Christ.â
> Then the provost commanded her to be hanged in an instrument to torment the people, and to be cruelly first beaten with rods, and with iron combs to rend and draw her flesh to the bones, insomuch, that the blood ran about out of her body, like as a stream runneth out of a fresh springing well.
Sorry to anyone thinking the fight scenes in WN were much too gory, you clearly havenât read the original source material. Carding is a particularly barmy form of torture where a rod with a number of sharp hooks or teeth that several inches long are used to flay skin and flesh off the bone. Nice.
Lilithâs search for Vincent where she slashes dozens of guards is pretty much carding on steroids.
As a teen, like Ava, Margaret got her hands dirty and it is told she subjugated a dragon by being swallowed and used the cross she was carrying to explode out of the dragonâs stomach.
I would argue that this is the precursor to the cruciform sword. A powerful relic in the hands of a young woman who can slay the devil in the form of a dragon. And she rises out of evil reborn.
Hilarious side bar. Margaret also happens to be the patron saint of pregnant women and childbirth. Considering she burst out fully formed in a reverse Alien out a dragonâs stomach you can see how skewed clerical ideas were of all things maternal and female.
In another episode Margaret was recorded as getting a demon to the ground in a choke hold,
> She caught him by the head and threw him to the ground and set her foot on his neck, saying: âLie still, thou fiend, under the feet of a woman.â
So basically saying hah, defeated and by a girl too, how embarrassing for you. This image remind you of any SMOL half Scottish nettle tea drinking nun having a go at demon vanquishing?
In terms of demon slaying the activity is not unusual amongst saints. Sorry I do not have Vauchezâs number crunching book on saints to hand to give specific numbers [relevant aside trying to write this from a phone rather than a library as I broke my leg on a ski slope and this passes the the time until I get repatriated].
Remember what I said about inductive reasoning in the first essay? When you read enough saints lives all the tropes tend to stick out. This is the medieval version of verisimilitude since the monkish reader would (and often did) scribble in the margins of the text, wow this must be true as this happen to this and that saint etc etc. They saw precedent as an endless reassurance of Godâs will in action. An army of female and male saints battling the devil and winning was meat and drink to the medieval world view. A means of seeing agency in some select individuals where for most of time people felt shat upon from a very great height.
Addendum request for technical help.
Later in the series I wouldnât mind digging into a deeper reading of the warrior nunâs journals along with the demonology tome that Beatrice and Father Vincent were reading in series one.
However I am struggling to capture decent screenshot of both pages so if anyone can help, I can furnish you with the benefit of my non private education where I did still learn Latin (Just a lot later than all the annoying kids who were able to translate Virgil off the hoof at tutorials while I spent hours in the library struggling through the vulgate.)
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TV Shows
Another big year for that show that hasn't aired since 2020.
Good Omens +20
The Owl House
Stranger Things -2
The Last of Us
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles +15
Our Flag Means Death -3
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir -1
Succession +2
Adventure Time +72
Supernatural -2
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
Ted Lasso +48
Shadow and Bone +35
The Mandalorian +15
Doctor Who
The Eurovision Song Contest +16
Interview with the Vampire +11
Danny Phantom +12
House of the Dragon -14
Heartstopper -7
The Witcher -12
Wednesday
What We Do in the Shadows -16
Warrior Nun
9-1-1Â -7
Hannibal -1
Yellowjackets
Merlin +18
The Sandman -17
Ahsoka
Young Royals +33
Avatar: The Last Airbender -1
Sonic Prime
One Piece
Loki -2
South Park +11
Teen Wolf +20
Lego Monkie Kid +31
The Dragon Prince
Percy Jackson and the Olympians -16
Steven Universe +3
Andor +28
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
The Bad Batch
Bridgerton -18
Abbott Elementary +50
Ninjago +8
Arcane -44
Obi-Wan Kenobi -33
Breaking Bad -7
My Adventures with Superman
Riverdale +4
The Legend of Vox Machina -2
9-1-1: Lone Star +8
Star Wars: The Clone Wars -14
KinnPorsche -39
Gravity Falls -31
The Untamed -19
The Winchesters
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine +4
The Rookie
House MD
Castlevania
Golden Globes
Game of Thrones -21
Criminal Minds +5
The Academy Awards -14
The Muppets
Outer Banks
Ghosts +18
Daisy Jones & The Six
Star Wars Rebels
The Simpsons +13
Amphibia -61
The Bear
Lockwood & Co.
Willow
Star Trek: The Original Series +1
Love in the Air +11
Inside Job
Community +3
Velma
Better Call Saul -34
Only Friends
Columbo +12
The Grammy Awards
Buffy the Vampire Slayer -17
Gotham -16
The Screen Actors Guild Awards
Phineas and Ferb
My School President
Clone High
Supergirl -56
Moon Knight -84
The Walking Dead
The Sanremo Music Festival
Moonlight Chicken
Black Sails -22
Invader Zim -14
The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles werenât on the list last year.
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