Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the âlance of longinusâ and responded, word for word, âLike from Evangelion?â One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as âDominicanâ and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didnât meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but thatâs a weird way to say that and Iâm pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.
This but itâs my partner taking an art history class in college and the professor looking at them like they grew a second head when they answered âWhat came out of Jesusâ wound when he was stabbed on the crossâ with ââŚBlood?â
Additions that prove my point by mystifying me because what on earth would come out of a nail wound besides blood. Are you telling me it was something besides blood. What was jesus full of that wasnât blood. You guys are scaring me
Apparently it was water?? I guess he was also stabbed on top of being crucified (which feels like overkill imo) and water came out, which was a huge deal in medieval symbolism and also to my medieval poetry professor, who was genuinely shocked and upset that I didnât know. This man fully docked me points because I, a whole ass Jew, hadnât somehow heard about the secret waterballoon Jesus lore that I guess everyone is supposed to like⌠intuit
On the plus side, it does lead to some absolutely wild medieval Jesus art of angels tapping him like a fucking keg
a friend of a friend went to go see passion of the christ for kicks without knowing anything about the story
when jesus was hauled up on the cross he turned to my friend and said, in all evident sincerity, âi know theyâre not going to kill the main character but howâs jesus getting out of this one?â
Research in the jungle of New Guinea reveals two species of birds that carry a powerful neurotoxin.
“These birds contain a neurotoxin that they can both tolerate and store in their feathers,” says Knud Jønsson of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, who worked with Kasun Bodawatta of the University of Copenhagan.
The bird species have each developed the ability to consume toxic food and turn that into a poison of their own.
The species in question are the regent whistler (Pachycephala schlegelii), a species that belongs to a family of birds with a wide distribution and easily recognizable song well known across the Indo-Pacific region, and the rufous-naped bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha).
“We were really surprised to find these birds to be poisonous as no new poisonous bird species has been discovered in over two decades. Particularly, because these two bird species are so common in this part of the world,” says Jønsson. The findings appear in the journal Molecular Ecology.
i think they should put pickman in toronto i want to see her react to our varied and numerous forms of trains and train-adjacent transit. how would she feel about streetcars? the most docile and gentle of the betracked beasts, i can’t imagine that even if you did evoke the shape around one it would be particularly malicious. now the subway? the go train? those are another story entirely and i think she’d be right to be suspicious of them
got some enticing chewable items for yam to put her mouth on, for her dental health, but even though normally she loves putting her mouth on stuff shes like. oh i am just going to sniff these and then wander off :3
update: renewed yam interest in silvervine dental stick, but only because she wants to bat it around my desk. meanwhile stanley LOOOVES chewing on a rabbit ear. yam made no move to interrupt but watched with rapt attention the entire time
obviously dietary requirements aren’t a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she’s up to today and she said extremely seriously “ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia”
