wolffyluna

Everyone should praise me for my FIVE FIGURE DONATION to the Against Malaria Foundation, even though it was VERY SCARY.

The sensible context is that I had miscalculated my charity budget and made it too low, and I decided to 'pay back the shortfall.'

The slightly less sensible context is that I read a lot of Medieval history in 2025. And something that came up, both in majority Christian cultures and majority Muslim cultures, was that the standard response to any good news was 'give a donation to charity.' A baby was born? Charity donation. Found a commentary on Aristotle that finally explained it properly? Charity donation.

Apart from the, uh, exciting bits at the end, I have had a pretty good 2025. And I wanted to properly honour that. And you know what? I think the various Medieval people are right, a good response to good things happening to you is to give to charity.

... Also, assuming I have done my back of the envelope maths right, I have now gone over to a whole Negative Moist Von Lipwig.