i listen to this podcast by two priests who talk about what life as a priest is like because I find their stories interesting, and one of the best moments was when the younger priest, baby priest we shall call him, absolutely lost it on the podcast because he had been preaching, then he saw someone do a full body sigh, shoulders up and down, then look at their watch, and then shoot baby priest a dirty look. Because priests are human too, this priest found it irritating on a human level, which, okay, I can see that–and then, he spent several minutes vehemently (and jokingly, but also, vehemently) proposing that Catholicism should update its rules so if anyone does that, the priest is allowed to come down from the altar and challenge the person to hand-to-hand combat. He argued that more people would come back to church if there was a chance of seeing the priest getting in a fistfight and in fact they might go to church multiple times a day. He stubbornly refused to allow exemptions for little old ladies. he was fully and passionately committed to the idea of Catholicism allowing priests to fistfight parishioners in the middle of mass, and I’m going to say it: i think he was right
i love how the first thing we learn about Cherie is that she steals everything she has (not because she needs to just because it’s fun), and the first thing we see her do with her power is literally her saying
(cognitive behavioral therapy sister i just wretchified in brockton bay) think positively. she is probably in a rush for a reason. maybe shes late for a job interview. maybe her wife is taking over earth shin
One thing that never stops being funny in Worm is the contrast between how Taylor Hebert (and by extension the reader due to most of the story being written from her POV) sees herself vs how the wider public sees her
She’ll be here thinking she’s just a little girl in way over her head, meanwhile the local government is printing and distributing PSAs which describe her as an “unpredictable young woman” prone to “bursts of sudden and extreme violence towards those she sees as her enemies” and the entire city is high key terrified of Little Miss First Horseman of the Apocalypse
