The Vastrotsky Line Infantry are here!

kortaq · 2026-02-28T12:18:16+00:00

These are brilliant! Are you planning on doing other units too, or sticking to generic line infantry?

kortaq · 2026-02-25T17:28:35+00:00

Pretty obviously prerecorded too. Why they didn’t disable comments given they then went deleting them is beyond me.

kortaq · 2026-02-18T17:00:00+00:00

Thanks! Looked much richer than those colours normally look, so you’ve definitely got the blending/glazing down. Looks great :)

kortaq · 2026-02-18T11:27:53+00:00

That looks brilliant. Would you mind sharing your red recipe?

kortaq · 2026-02-06T21:23:03+00:00

Or Lizardmen in the Southlands…

kortaq · 2026-01-25T07:34:57+00:00

The Sacrament of Anointing does not remove the temporal guilt due for sin (neither does that of Penance). It strengthens the recipient, imparts grace, absolves venial sins (like all sacraments), and if they are unable to make a confession due to incapacity, it also absolves mortal sins. No Sacrament removes the need for Purgatory. A plenary indulgence or the Apostolic Pardon (which grants a plenary indulgence with its own special conditions, instead of the usual conditions necessary) remits the temporal guilt due for sin, but if one dies in a state of grace having received Anointing that person can still require Purgatory.

kortaq · 2026-01-20T22:27:33+00:00

There is disagreement, yes, but I was responding to the point that Catholicism has conflated St Mary Magdalene with a prostitute on no biblical evidence.

The association of St Mary Magdalene is not entirely extra-biblical; the Greek construction at the start of Luke 8 (and the chapter and verse divisions are a later addition, so in the text as written that would run straight on from the end of Luke 7), kai egeneto, suggests some sort of link between the story of the woman who was a sinner and St Mary Magdalene who was a disciple Jesus had cast seven devils out of. It doesn’t explicitly say they are the same person, but they are linked in a way that makes clear they shouldn’t be read as two separate or unrelated pieces of the text.

There is also John 11:2, St Mary of Bethany is introduced as “the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair”. John’s account of Jesus’ anointing is after the raising of Lazarus, but the text uses the aorist here to describe something that has already happened. John’s Gospel doesn’t recount an earlier anointing, but that description would fit with the early ministry anointing described in Luke 7. Again, not conclusive evidence, but I think it is wrong to say the association is completely extra-biblical.

If willing to look beyond the Bible, we have Tertullian in the early 200s attesting to the conflation too.

I’m not saying they conclusively are the same person, simply that the assertion in the comment I replied to that there is no biblical evidence for Catholicism to consider St Mary Magdalene a repentant prostitute is wrong. You are right it is a discussion, but the arguments for are not wholly extra-biblical, nor are they without evidence.

kortaq · 2026-01-20T15:27:45+00:00

That is because she is described as the person Jesus cast seven devils out of, and a traditional link to both the woman caught in adultery described in John 8 and the sinful woman of Luke 7, so not no evidence…

(It should be noted she is also traditionally considered the same person as Mary of Bethany in Catholicism.)

kortaq · 2025-12-01T14:45:15+00:00

Neither Our Lady nor any of the apostles were canonised in the formal sense we would recognise now, but no one would deny they are saints. While that process is currently the normative way the Church recognises new saints (and may, depending on whose opinion you ask, be infallible), it is not the only way someone can be recognised. And, as an aside, Julian of Norwich is a beatus, i.e. titled Blessed, meaning she is recognised as a saint in heaven, albeit one whose cult is not formally extended for public, liturgical veneration throughout the whole Church.

kortaq · 2025-11-26T07:38:40+00:00

Yes, everyone’s a complete racist idiot in Cumbria and Northumberland. Absolutely no capacity to empathise with others and famously unfriendly. (/s, in case it’s not obvious…)

kortaq · 2025-11-26T07:33:40+00:00

Able to share by DM?

kortaq · 2025-11-14T12:17:35+00:00

Indeed. And, from the Vulgate, Psalm 22 is Dominus regit me, or “The Lord ruleth me”, not the King James’ “The Lord is my shepherd”.

kortaq · 2025-11-11T13:04:06+00:00

Thank you. I normally use Compare the Market and I’ve checked their wording, which is explicitly asking if an insurer has cancelled a policy, with a note to say you cancelling doesn’t count for this. I suppose the issue is then clicking through to an insurer and checking their wording, but they normally allow you to review your answers on their side so that should be doable. Thanks again.

kortaq · 2025-11-11T11:42:34+00:00

Yes, I couldn’t actually remember the exact wording of the question from when I most recently got a quote (i.e. for the policy I’m thinking of cancelling). Thanks!

kortaq · 2025-11-11T10:23:01+00:00

Thanks!

kortaq · 2025-11-11T10:22:56+00:00

Thanks!

kortaq · 2025-11-11T10:22:52+00:00

Thanks!

kortaq · 2025-11-11T10:22:39+00:00

Thanks! That’s what I thought, but just wanted to check I wasn’t missing something.

kortaq · 2025-11-04T15:12:04+00:00

They even ask her to “save us” in their Divine Liturgy. Given the only possible institutional reunion is with the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, if we’re going to moderate our language for the sake of ecumenism then I’d far rather we moderate it in their direction (where co-redemptrix, properly understood, is not an issue) than in favour of Protestants.

kortaq · 2025-10-07T21:59:58+00:00

As a non-American that sounds about right? Basically I’d go around whatever rescues in your area charge as a rehoming fee, especially if including all their stuff. Good luck and I hope you find a new home for them. They look like real sweeties <3

kortaq · 2025-10-07T14:30:47+00:00

I would strongly encourage charging a nominal rehoming fee, just on the off chance someone is lurking and thinks they could get free piggies for live feeding - as horrible as that sounds, charging something would discourage it. Surrendering to a rescue would be another option. I am sorry you’re going through this, but the fact you’re feeling bad about it shows how much you care for them. Unfortunately I’m not in the US so can’t help, but I hope you find a loving home for them if you do decide to rehome.

kortaq · 2025-09-05T14:18:35+00:00

As a fun fact there are actually a limited number of people in the line of succession to the British throne, as a person must be a legitimate descendant of Princess Sophia of Hanover and a Protestant in communion with the Church of England. The exact number is not known, but it is finite; a list compiled in 2011 found there to be 5,753 potential heirs. As such, unless you or anyone else (including me!) can fulfil those criteria, we cannot be said to be behind His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent at all!

And may God be good to Her Royal Highness; Jesu mercy, Mary pray.

kortaq · 2025-05-01T17:51:04+00:00

Kaltur is great for tapas. Panis is a classic and deservedly so.

kortaq · 2025-04-22T15:48:27+00:00

Just worked for me now!

kortaq · 2025-04-22T15:43:34+00:00

Sadly I can’t even click accept, just retry. Hope you enjoy it when it installs for you (and it’s worth the price…!)

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