ZOMG Gods and Pirates
Jul. 10th, 2006 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleI'm so glad the God Auction is over. That's the last of our Really Major Obligations for a while. Now we can get back to the normal business of things, which is not to say we'll have any free time particularly, but we will be busily engaged in things that we don't have to totally stress out over.
The God Auction is one of Gaia Community's major annual fundraisers, opportunity for community service, and also the mechanism by which we choose a patron deity for the year. We stole the concept from the Fellowship of Isis, and have more or less made it our own. The event features four portrayals of different deities, who make their case as to why they should be the community patron. Then, attendees "vote" for their choice of patron by donating money or non-perishable food items, and the deity that recieves the most "tribute" gets the patron spot for the year. The money goes to run the church, and the food goes to Harvesters. It's a combination between a political debate and The Dating Game, except, with gods. So it's funnier.
The patron this year will be Hestia, which is nice, because that means we'll have to rework our ritual calendar a lot less than we would have for some of the other deities in the running. And I don't mind that a bit. We raised almost $1300, which doesn't suck. Everything generally went well, except for the bit where I was getting ready to do my hymn to Bast, and then I looked over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forceofnetjer, who had a sistrum, and I started thinking, "Hey! We should have a sistrum! Why don't we have a sistrum?". That line of thinking ate up my whole brain, and I forgot about half the hymn, so I apologize for that to everybody there. On the bright side, though, I did remember the good half. So I suppose it's all right.
Overall, I think that unless one of the deities in the running is particularly special to me next year, I would like to not be involved in the next one. And we're running out of deities that are particularly special to me. I will still shop for the donor gifts, though. That part's fun.
Following the God Auction, we were all fried, so it seemed like a good idea to go to the movies. I don't care what anybody says, the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is wildly entertaining. We actually injured ourselves laughing. And, asgamera_spinning mentions, undead monkey. Nothing's funny like an undead monkey. And, we got to see Jack Sparrow as Rincewind, I think. It did leave me wondering though.
See, when good sailors die, they go to Fiddler's Green. When bad sailors die, they get pressed into the devil's service on board the Flying Dutchman. When sailors drown at sea, Davy Jones gets them (in most stories, Davy Jones is a pretty morally neutral sort of fellow, in that he does drown men, but they don't seem to mind. Sometimes there are mermaids). Jack, having already avoided both the Dutchman and Davy Jones (after a fashion), and not being qualified for Fiddler's Green, what will happen to him? I was wondering about that, but this morning, it occurred to me that it will likely turn out that Jack has bartered his soul to at least one other group of demons, somewhere. He's exactly the sort of fellow who would sell his soul to any number of interested parties, in the hope that they'd all have to fight it out when he died, and that he could somehow slip away in the confusion.
The God Auction is one of Gaia Community's major annual fundraisers, opportunity for community service, and also the mechanism by which we choose a patron deity for the year. We stole the concept from the Fellowship of Isis, and have more or less made it our own. The event features four portrayals of different deities, who make their case as to why they should be the community patron. Then, attendees "vote" for their choice of patron by donating money or non-perishable food items, and the deity that recieves the most "tribute" gets the patron spot for the year. The money goes to run the church, and the food goes to Harvesters. It's a combination between a political debate and The Dating Game, except, with gods. So it's funnier.
The patron this year will be Hestia, which is nice, because that means we'll have to rework our ritual calendar a lot less than we would have for some of the other deities in the running. And I don't mind that a bit. We raised almost $1300, which doesn't suck. Everything generally went well, except for the bit where I was getting ready to do my hymn to Bast, and then I looked over at
forceofnetjer, who had a sistrum, and I started thinking, "Hey! We should have a sistrum! Why don't we have a sistrum?". That line of thinking ate up my whole brain, and I forgot about half the hymn, so I apologize for that to everybody there. On the bright side, though, I did remember the good half. So I suppose it's all right. Overall, I think that unless one of the deities in the running is particularly special to me next year, I would like to not be involved in the next one. And we're running out of deities that are particularly special to me. I will still shop for the donor gifts, though. That part's fun.
Following the God Auction, we were all fried, so it seemed like a good idea to go to the movies. I don't care what anybody says, the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is wildly entertaining. We actually injured ourselves laughing. And, as
gamera_spinning mentions, undead monkey. Nothing's funny like an undead monkey. And, we got to see Jack Sparrow as Rincewind, I think. It did leave me wondering though. See, when good sailors die, they go to Fiddler's Green. When bad sailors die, they get pressed into the devil's service on board the Flying Dutchman. When sailors drown at sea, Davy Jones gets them (in most stories, Davy Jones is a pretty morally neutral sort of fellow, in that he does drown men, but they don't seem to mind. Sometimes there are mermaids). Jack, having already avoided both the Dutchman and Davy Jones (after a fashion), and not being qualified for Fiddler's Green, what will happen to him? I was wondering about that, but this morning, it occurred to me that it will likely turn out that Jack has bartered his soul to at least one other group of demons, somewhere. He's exactly the sort of fellow who would sell his soul to any number of interested parties, in the hope that they'd all have to fight it out when he died, and that he could somehow slip away in the confusion.
