The image is framed from the hips up. A middle-aged man with greying dark brown hair, a thick mustache and blue eyes, wearing a white button-up shirt, brown pants, suspenders, an over the shoulder book bag, and a pinkish red tie with light green leaf patterns. He is standing with a cigarette in his hand and a brown suit jacket on the other, held over his shoulder. Smoke from the cigarette obscures his hand and part of his arm.

João Afonso Fortunato Guimarães D’Ouro | Lisbon

I do have my Hetalia hyperfixation on my bio, but I did forget to mention that it is very much not about the canon twinks and more the general idea of it all

#originalcharacter

I am bothered and disappointed

Oh, this app looks terrible on iPad

Title page for God, Slavery, and Early Christianity with Cambridge University Press

Screenshot of the first half of the book’s table of contents. Introduction 1 Goals and Thesis of the Book 5 Chapter Layout 13 Slavery: Definitions and Debates 17 Doulology and Moving beyond Mere Metaphor 20 Overview of the Shepherd 30 Why the Shepherd of Hermas? 36 Translating the Enslaved and Enslavers 40 Chapter 1. Usefulness, Loyalty, and Property: Characteristics of God's Enslaved Persons Slavery and Usefulness for the Tower 48 Enslaved Loyalty and Coerced Obligation 59 Enslaved Persons as Property 75 Conclusion 90 Chapter 2. “Give Me the Little Book": Enslaved Literate Labor in the Shepherd 91 Hermas as Copyist and Inscriber 99 Hermas as the Assembly's Copyist 106 Hermas as the Shepherd's Taker of Dictation 113 Hermas as Enslaved Messenger 116 Hermas as Enslaved Lector 121 Conclusion 129

Second part of the book’s table of contents. Chapter 3. Possession and Enslavement through the Holy Spirit 131 The Human Body in the Shepherd 135 Enslavement to the Passions & Spiritual Affect 141 The Enslaving Holy Spirit 148 Passion-Causing Spirits 156 Conclusion 164 Chapter 4. Enslaved Surveillance and Spirit-Flesh Symbiosis 166 The Enslaver's Presence & Enslaved Surveillance 166 The Spirit & the Flesh in the "Slave Parable" of Sim. 5 177 Conclusion 198 Chapter 5. Instrumental Agency and Ecclesiastical Unity 200 Agency among the Possessed/Enslaved 201 Masterly Extensibility and the Enslaver's Instrumental Agents 208 God's Enslaved Persons as God's Prostheses 215 Impossible Choices and Death 230 Ecclesial Unity and Chipping Away at God's Enslaved 241 Persons Conclusion 255 Book Conclusion 257

✨ proofs day ✨ for God, Slavery, and Early Christianity! I’m thrilled that the dissertation-turned-book will be out in the world some time this fall, and hope that folks enjoy wading through hundreds of pages about the Shepherd, slavery, spirit possession, and the formation of Christian ethics.

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

[pearl jam voice] rAhaAhuhhhhh babyyyyy - what're gonna do - bout all this cum [guitar riff that goes DA nah - DA nah - DA nah nah nah nahhhhh nah] oh babyyyyyy - there's too much cum [same guitar riff as before]

I was checking the tags and that's honestly such a great thing 😩

It'll probably be more interesting when I dedicate the time to learn digital painting and I can post my progress.

I have no actual idea how tagging works here, but I've heard that it at least does work so here's hoping

✨ them ✨

[Mar. 2022]

#strangerthings #buckleway #robinbuckley #heatherholloway #wlwart

[Nov. 2021]

#strangerthings #steveharrington

He said, I've been dead in your highschool bed since you met me 🎶

[Sep. 2021]

#strangerthings #harringrove #billyhargrove #steveharrington

This might still be the loveliest thing I've ever drawn.

#stephenkingsit #reddie #richietozier #eddiekaspbrak

these fever dreams leave me shaking in the head

[Apr. 2021]

#stephenkingsit #stanuris #pattyblum

XVIII — THE SUN

This card represents the dawn which follows the darkest of nights. It's the success of the conscious mind in overcoming any obstacles and fears through the attainment of knowledge.

You deserve the sense of accomplishment you feel. Rejoice.

[Feb. 2021]

#stephenkingsIT #mikehanlon

I wish there was a good way to transfer my IT art from Twitter to here. I'm not even sure what the general consensus is about art made as a commission, when I'm so far removed from the people that paid me for those that I can't even really ask them about it.

I hate starting out in a new social media but I want to do art for an audience again so let's fucking go I guess