amanda, chicken theologian @alpine_thistle@fandom.ink

I'm having a great time assigning super obnoxious personalities to real-life historical figures who appear in my WIP

I've never met a Messianic "Jew" (that I know of) but if I do, I'm gonna fight em

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2021/05/03/orthodox-rabbi-nj-accused-double-life-missionary-israel/4868837001/

WIP is at 55k and I just put a bunch of scenes into an order that makes sense! We're hopefully approaching the end!!!

I solicited Catholicism beta readers on tumblr because I knew I'd want someone to do the same thing if they were writing a heavily Mormon story. Like britpicking, but for Catholic stuff

I am in an all-day, 2-day-long training from hell

Luckily, my boss is like "just keep using the old system unless they force us to switch" so I'm just kind of being a warm body behind a keyboard for this (and getting some writing done)

It'll just be a normal religious chant video and then suddenly there's a commenter that's like "I love Orthodox music. It's so ~~~traditional. Not corrupted with the (((modernism))) of (((Vatican II)))"

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The latest kind of shitty tradcath I've learned to spot: the kind that tries very hard to ingratiate themselves with Orthodox Christians in youtube comment sections

Every time I try to do WIP-related research I discover a new kind of shitty tradcath

I haven't done my duolingo Spanish in a couple of weeks because they kept adding lessons and it pissed me off

I was so close to being done!!! Stop adding lessons!!!

There was a podcast episode I wanted to listen to and I had to ask my wife "I can't remember, do we like [podcast host]" because it's a Mormon-adjacent podcast and the Mormon podcast world is full of bitches

Every helicopter is a magic envelope with a secret inside

I think mainline protestants have been/are doing this since their 20th-century decline

I think I'll go collect some maple seeds today and roast them

Churches that do not reckon with their past (and present) will have no future

Shoutout to this lady at Target who has the ear loops of her mask pinned to the sides of her hijab

Women in hijab are truly innovators (compliment)

On one hand, I love my little car and I love driving around in it

On the other hand, FUCK car ownership

Also I maybe accidentally built a prime cozy habitat for mice by letting vegetation grow wild next to the house

One of the things was easy for the guy to fix but the other thing is going to cost like $500 because they have to order a part

And there's also a nail in one of my tires and it isn't fixable so I'm getting a couple of new tires which is like $300

You know the cool thing about public transit is that it isn't your problem when a MOUSE EATS THE WIRES or you get a NAIL IN YOUR TIRE FOR THE THIRD TIME