Aaron Irber

Catholic Entomologist. Story respecter. Married w/ 5 kids. Host of I Might Believe in Faeries podcast. Check out my Substack - link below

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

Happy Ascensiontide everyone!

@HarrierMagnus joins me in this episode of IMBIF to discuss his serial story, Technocracy.

This sweeping story starts small, but the scope is gigantic. Charles is releasing the story in installments, so start now and you won’t be far behind!

Check it out!

https://t.co/bfGJdIqHtS

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

My family and I are flying today to visit family.

Please pray that everything goes well and that the flight leaves on time and lands safely.

Thank you! ✈️✈️

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

Good morning

Be careful out there

[SaintedSinner @sinner_sainted]

My infant nephew has been rushed to hospital with sepsis please pray

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

How I look after being married to an amazing baker for 11 years:

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

Good morning

Be careful out there

[Fr Thomas Crean OP @crean_fr]

The creator of the very useful Douay-Rheims website is in need of help:
https://t.co/CXIATPPZ03

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C. S. Lewis

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

This is unspeakably sad.

It's wrong -- crushingly, gravely, sorrowfully, and heinously wrong.

I'm convinced what makes a difference is to pray that Christ will be known to every person invovled.

Pia and Max are gonna do that. Let's do that.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.

Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

Heard about a recently published article, lets say generally in the area of Thomism, filled with hallucinated quotations. Easy to identify for someone who knew the scholarly territory.
The journal editor, when offered clear documentation and some standard options for correcting the scholarly record, refused to address it.
I expect something will be published about this eventually, but it is bad enough that "scholars" are polluting the discourse with AI slop. Fabricated quotations in scholarship about the history of ideas are especially insidious. It's somewhat disturbing that the problem wasn't caught during peer review. But since the corrupt article was published, it is much more scandalous that an editor wouldn't take easy and reasonable steps to safeguard the integrity of a journal.

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

Rose: "Holy Father, can I tell you a joke?"

Pope Leo: "Is it short? Lots of people want to meet me. Yes yes, okay. What's your joke?"

Rose: "What do you give an Italian ghost for dinner?"

Pope Leo: "I don't know...what do you give an Italian ghost for dinner?"

Rose: "Spookghetti!"

Pope Leo: "Oooooohhhhhoooo..." *cue laughter*

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

This is in my TOP 3 of books I’ve read on LOTR. Brilliant and beautiful.

[HMS Reepicheep @HMSReepicheep]

Good morning.

[Nobody🇻🇦 @ChristianNbdy]

If you’re reading this, I just prayed a rosary, divine mercy chaplet, and asked for the intercession of many saints for you

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

Good morning

Be careful out there

[Scott Brewer ☦️ @MagisterScottus]

Great list, and I will enthusiasticly endorse any list of great books that includes Ruocchio's Suneater series. Its the best new thing I've read this decade.

[Bradley J. Birzer @bradleybirzer]

Catholics have been celebrating June as the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus since 1790.

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

“Fairy tales are unreal but they are not untrue; they reflect essential developments and conditions of man’s existence.”

-The Uses of Fairy Tales by Max Lüthi

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

@JimOsmer I love both of those books!

[Aaron Irber @AaronIrber]

Ok here we go

First off, listen to my podcast: I Might Believe in Faeries

Book list:

Walter Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz

Michael Flynn - Eifleheim

Tim Powers - Declare

Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun

R. A. Lafferty- Fourth Mansions

Christopher Ruocchio - The Sun Eater

Brian C Moore - Beneath the Silent Heavens

Hope Mirrlees - Lud in the Mist

I consider all of these to be classics, but none are for children (maybe Lud).

[Judge Creed🇻🇦✝️ @CredoMilesX]

Any good Catholic novels besides Lord of The Rings?