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monstrousgourmandizingcats:

> monstrousgourmandizingcats:

> > monstrousgourmandizingcats:

> > > gideonisms:

> > > > gideonisms:

> > > > > Actually I’m saying this with my chest girls from tlt are so holey it’s like everywhere you look there’s another gaping cavern a tomb if you will and almost none of these tombs are locked in any way. Girls will share all their tombs with the world. has a tomb ever actually been locked in this series because it seems like it’s even debatable how well that original tomb was shut

> > > > this started as a horrible sex joke but now I’m thinking. The empty place where gideon’s heart used to be, the empty tomb, the empty place in the original lyctors’ memories, the place harrow carved out to keep gideon, the ninth house itself. What do these things have in common well they are all tombs. Can they be cough. Filled again or should they remain empty? Are empty tombs an invitation or a sign to look elsewhere, nothing’s here? questions I love to ponder at 3 pm on a thursday

> > > #emptys just another word for clean!!

> > > (from @carys-the-ninth)

> > > Yes, but consider:

> > > “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”

> > > (Matthew 12:43-45, RSV)

> > > In other words: fill up that “clean” heart with love, sicknastybadwrong though love is in this series, or else.

> > #better get filled with love fast or something else will come fill you…

> > I love this fandom because real priests and deacons fumble over this passage from Matthew in their homilies for their entire adult lives whereas Tumblr user @gideonisms knocked it out of the park in one sentence.

> Reblogging because just yesterday Pope Francis had a major speech on this passage that I think speaks to TLT’s themes and especially its (controversial within the fandom) depiction of revenge and forgiveness:

> > Dear brothers and sisters, it is not enough to condemn evil, including the evil that quietly lurks among us. We need to respond by choosing to be converted. Mere condemnation can give the illusion that we have solved the problem, whereas what really counts is making the changes that will ensure that we no longer allow ourselves to be imprisoned by evil ways of thinking, which are often those of this world. One of the most helpful virtues to practice in this regard is the virtue of vigilance. Jesus uses a striking example to illustrate the need for vigilance, attentiveness to ourselves and to the Church. He tells us: “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’. When it comes, it finds it swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first.” Our initial conversion follows a certain pattern: the evil that we acknowledge and try to uproot from our lives does indeed leave us, but we would be naïve to think that it will long be gone. In short order, it comes back under a new guise. Before, it appeared rough and violent, now it shows up as elegant and refined. We need to realize that and once again to unmask it. Let me put it this way: they are “elegant demons”: they enter smoothly, without our even being conscious of them. Only the daily practice of the examination of conscience can enable us to be aware of them. Hence the importance of the examination of conscience, to keep watch over our house.

> > In the seventeenth century, for example, there was the well-known case of the nuns of Port Royal. One of their abbesses, Mère Angélique, had begun well; she had “charismatically” reformed herself and her monastery, even banishing parents from the cloister. She was a very gifted woman, born to govern, but then she became the soul of the Jansenist resistance, intransigent and unbending even in the face of ecclesiastical authority. Of her and her nuns, it was said that they were “pure as angels and proud as demons”. They had cast out the demon, but he had returned seven times stronger, and under the guise of austerity and rigour he had introduced rigidity and the presumption that they were better than others. The demon, once cast out, always returns; albeit under another guise, but he does return. Let us be attentive!