alpine_thistle

@alpine_thistle@fandom.ink

actualmermaid on Tumblr. angrymermaids on AO3. History, literature, music, food, gardening, animals, sim and strategy games. Pastry chef by day. Ethno-cultural Mormon and Episcopalian lay minister. Weird subculture enthusiast. Grown-up US military brat. Socialist with a small s. I know a lot of words and I like to play with them.

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alpine_thistle, to random

Americans will use anything but the metric system

alpine_thistle, to random

The Madonna of Montevergine stickers came in! Unfortunately I'm super not a fan of how the holographic ones came out, so what I'll probably do is give them out as a promotion (buy any X stickers and you'll get a Holo Madonna free with your order until I run out)

I'll need to do some more product research on special stickers (maybe a gold foil option for the halo?)

duckbunny, to random
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"You shouldn't project modern gender labels back onto historical figures" OK great! I will no longer be calling them "men" or "women". Those are modern, socially constructed categories of person, and using them uncritically encourages us to assume that past cultures shared our expectations for appropriate gender performance.

alpine_thistle,

@nev @duckbunny personally I'm a fan of framing it as "yeah these people understood gender and sexuality differently than we do, but rather than throwing the whole thing out to serve modern ideologies, we have to find out what it MEANT to be 'men' or 'women' or 'gay' or 'trans' or whatever in these societies"

(relevant to me personally bc of my current "medieval gender and sexuality" deep dive)

alpine_thistle, to random

European antitheists keep wanting to "ban religion" as if the problem is "religion" and not "Europeans fighting about religion and exporting their shit elsewhere"

alpine_thistle, to random

Me: the altar guild lady asked if I was "strong" and I said "I like to think so"

Sarah: oh?

Me: she had me open a wine bottle for her

Sarah: oh???

Me: I'm being pursued by ALL the 66-year-old altar guild ladies in the Episcopal Church

Sarah: hands off!!!!

alpine_thistle, to random

Since it's Halloween season, and I'm apparently Medieval-ish History Bill Nye on like three different platforms now, have some information about "witches."

There was never really any such thing as a "witch." There were no "Burning Times." There was no underground pan-European goddess magic cult that was suppressed by the evil Christians.

Many different cultures believed in different forms of magic, both good and evil, and had different names for the practitioners of this magic.

alpine_thistle,

Often, "magic" was inseparable from medicine and religion (including Christianity). A "healing spell" might include folk herbalism, the invocation of a spirit or saint, and other rituals.

The witch trials didn't take off until the very late Middle Ages into the Early Modern period, which is when European monarchies (including the Papacy) started consolidating power and began persecuting ALL kinds of nonconformists (including Jews, Christian minorities, gay people, etc).

alpine_thistle,

The "witches" weren't persecuted for being "witches." They were persecuted for being marginalized/vulnerable in societies that were undergoing massive, chaotic transformations, with populists and mobs who were looking for someone to blame.

"Cunning folk" and "wise women/men" were often persecuted for being at the rural edge of societies that were moving away from the traditional, decentralized agrarian order. They often went to their deaths saying Christian prayers.

alpine_thistle,

The "witches" aren't your protofeminist girlboss ancestors. They are part of a dark and complex lesson about the dangers of authoritarian religion, centralized power, us/them propaganda, mob rule, and the scapegoating of minorities.

alpine_thistle,

@raymccarthy Halloween, or All Hallow's Eve, isn't the "taken-over" form of anything. The people who originally started celebrating it syncretized saint veneration with their own folk festivals, and they exercised their own agency in doing so. It wasn't "stolen" from them or "imposed" on them by the Church

checkervest, to random
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I haven't done this in a while but please tell me your "did you know??" fact that's burning you up right now

alpine_thistle,

@checkervest the main thing I've been obsessed with lately is that the Catholic Church treated gay sexuality the same as it treated straight sexuality until about the 13th century (and sometimes it was LESS strict about gay sexuality).

There was also a widespread "gay subculture" that left behind manuscript evidence from the 11th-12th centuries. They had their own slang and everything.

vagina_museum, to random
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OLD THREAD REPOST

It's Friday 13th. We're nearing Halloween. So we're going to take you on a broomstick ride. Hop on board! Don't mind if the seat's a little sticky. We're going to take you on a wild journey involving witches, drugs and masturbation.

alpine_thistle,

@vagina_museum fun cool fact about witches and broomsticks: the earliest-known depiction of a "witch" riding a broomstick is actually a picture of Waldensians, a Christian minority from southern France/northern Italy. It's being used for anti-Waldensian polemic purposes, possibly because the Waldensians recognized women preachers and elders (and could therefore be linked with satanic worship and sexual deviance).

https://streetsofsalem.com/2011/10/21/flying-waldensians/

alpine_thistle, to random

A document from 1031 recognizing and formalizing a household maintained by two men:

"We, Peter Didaz and Munio Vandilaz, make a pact and agreement mutually between ourselves for the house and church of St. Mary of Ordines, which we jointly own and in which we share the labor, taking care of visitors and in regulating the care of, decorating and governing the premises, planting and building. And we share equally in the work of the garden, (cont)"

alpine_thistle, to random

In the same vein as the "conversion of the barbarians" and the "ibn Fadlan among the Rus" historical comedy ideas I've written about before, there is great potential for an "odd couple" romantic comedy movie about St. Aelred of Rievaulx and his Spiritual Friend.

🧵

alpine_thistle, to random

St. Aelred of Rievaulx, patron saint of gay love and disabled queers, is now available for purchase in the shop (along with his Spiritual Friend)!

https://faithfulhereticicons.bigcartel.com/product/aelred-of-rievaulx

Collect: most patient and forgiving God, who sent us a wise leader in Aelred of Rievaulx, guide us toward charity and mutual respect in our relationships with one another. Bless our souls with strong ties of love and the sweet delight of true spiritual friendship, O Christ, our greatest Friend, amen.
Watermarked copy of the original image (two monks, one seated and one standing, holding a banner that reads "Friend Cleaving to Friend in the Spirit of Christ"

reginasbread, to random
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just saw an ad where the business was described as having "western standards". really? fuck western standards. are we in 1990 again?

alpine_thistle,

@reginasbread what does that even mean????

alpine_thistle, (edited ) to random

The Faithful Heretic Icons sticker shop is OFFICIALLY OPEN!!! Please boost to support my small business! ❤

I illustrate queer, feminist, leftist, subversive, and otherwise unusual/unconventional Christian saints (both official and unofficial). Product info is below in the thread.

Instagram: https://instagram.com/faithful_heretic_icons

Bigcartel: https://faithfulhereticicons.bigcartel.com/

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alpine_thistle, to random

Sarah was very excited when she noticed her very first bikini espresso stand lol

alpine_thistle, to random

If I happened across a pack of medieval monks who time-traveled to the future, at some point I would be like "in 2015 the highest civil council in the realm extended the benefits of Spiritual Friendship to all laypeople" and they would be like "forsooth! Truly the Lord has blessed thee"

alpine_thistle,

Me: "We even have our own adelphopoeisis liturgies!"

Monks: [excited monk noises]

alpine_thistle,

Me: Oh yeah, we still have Spiritual Friendship and Brother-Making rituals--we just call it 'gay marriage' now

Monks: how delightful! One truly feels gay when one embraces his Spiritual Friend!

alpine_thistle,

Me: yeah so about 40 years ago we noticed that a terrible plague was taking people who were in Spiritual Friendships with each other, including an important scribe who was translating documents from your time about your Spiritual Friendships. We didn't know about them before

Monks: surely all faithful Christians now ask for his intercession against this plague?

Me: 😬

Monks: 😬😬😬

alpine_thistle,

"Imagine explaining gay marriage to a medieval monk"

Skill issue. Gay marriage would be the easiest thing to explain to a medieval monk

annathecrow, to lotr

Is it possible? Am I, after more than two years, returning to my Tolkien reread?!

Silmarillion thread: https://fandom.ink/@annathecrow/105765754766323859

(The goal is to read Silm, Hobbit, and LOTR, which I have last read approx. 15 years ago)

alpine_thistle,

@annathecrow Tolkien for sure had a foot thing.

reginasbread, to random
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reading about a queer character that is a practising catholic makes me, an ex-catholic, a bit idk...unsettled. I should add that the character is also a "practicing" queer (if you're queer, but don't have sex life or any sexy thoughts, you're okay, that's just your cross). how do you... insert bisexual math lady meme

alpine_thistle,

@reginasbread if it helps, I know of plenty of queer Catholics (and pro-queer clergy) who are involved in pro-queer activism within the church, and don't care about the dogma. I don't have to understand their piety (I'm an Anglican and the idea of being a Roman Catholic gives me shudders)

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