Lent 2026 - Throw your vices onto the pile

[Legalize Asbestos]

I gave up cranking it and nicotine. Been tapering off ciggies and onto gum past two months. Now just gum. Will be off the gum shortly.

Null gave up caffeine and promptly died.

Remember kiwisisters it's much easier if you pray for help and let anonymous people on the internet berate you and hold you accountable.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

I'll give up gay sex like I do every year.

 

[Sooty Soot]

I didn't have much to give up other than food, but I am fighting against my vices and successfully at that. I feel like I'm cheating since I swore off everything bar bread, fruits, and vegetables, but made some fries. Technically, they're potatoes but that's like calling beef wellington a steak, very "letter of the law" thinking.
If anything, it's not my vices I'm having trouble with but the hunger, since I'm trying to keep to regular meal times instead of eating my daily meal and going on with the rest of my day. I'm trying to keep abstaining from meat, but by God those Catholic "mini-Easters" on Sundays are tempting.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

I didn't have much to give up other than food, but I am fighting against my vices and successfully at that. I feel like I'm cheating since I swore off everything bar bread, fruits, and vegetables, but made some fries. Technically, they're potatoes but that's like calling beef wellington a steak, very "letter of the law" thinking.
If anything, it's not my vices I'm having trouble with but the hunger, since I'm trying to keep to regular meal times instead of eating my daily meal and going on with the rest of my day. I'm trying to keep abstaining from meat, but by God those Catholic "mini-Easters" on Sundays are tempting.

The only time I managed to adhere 100% to a church fasting schedule was the Nativity Fast the other year and my reward was hemorrhoids and an eyelid that wouldn't stop twitching. Or rather, my reward was the discovery of how quickly I burn through Vitamin B12. Most people have enough B12 stored in their liver to last over two years. My eye was jumping after only two weeks.

You best believe I ate fish on the days that allowed it.

The one time I managed to quit caffeine was... mixed. Everything felt like it took twice as much time to do - but the day also felt twice as long. I generally hate my jobs, so I always went back to coffee to speed up the workday. I feel like in a different scenario I would take the longer days as a blessing. Especially as I get older and time speeds up.

 

[Red Saltire]

I want to focus on reducing phone usage.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Lent for me doesn't start til Monday, but along with the traditional Orthofast (vegan with no oil or alcohol on weekdays), I'm gonna read more and limit internet usage.

 

[Linx]

Failed Lent already. Not cut out for it. Truly I am dust.

 

[147573952589676412927]

I gave up cranking it and nicotine.

Masturbation is never acceptable under the Christian faith, just FYI. (well, it's more forgivable if you're single or a teenager, but it's still not seen as good)
I also gave up nicotine however, and it's been annoying, but not as hard as I thought.
My Catholic Parish also gave me a little guide book of things to do every day during lent, today was the offering of fragrance, so I burned Frankincense and Myrrh and prayed for about an hour.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Null gave up caffeine and promptly died.

“He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him.”



“Who will help me carry him?”





“…..well don’t all volunteer at once.”

 

[Skitarii]

Time for my sacrificial meal of penance

 

[Diet Coke 4 Life]

Not giving up anything for Lent - instead I'm taking on a new habit for Lent.

Bible I picked up on my 2nd ship had what's called the E100 challenge in it - 100 days of reading, hitting the major highlights of the old and new testaments with select psalms and many of the letters. I started with E001 on Ash Wednesday. Gonna see if I can keep it up throughout all of Lent.

Giving up Diet Coke every year's gotten boring and easy. And then our priest talked about adopting a new habit for Lent that would bring a person closer to their faith and to God, and my brain said 'hey, there's a novel idea!!'

 

[beautiful person]

I gave up Instagram for Lent. I tried to give up a few other things, but I already cheated on those.

I'm not an actual adherent of any religion, but I thought it would be neat to practice some self discipline by abstaining from/limiting consumption of slop.

 

[honse]

The only time I managed to adhere 100% to a church fasting schedule was the Nativity Fast the other year and my reward was hemorrhoids and an eyelid that wouldn't stop twitching. Or rather, my reward was the discovery of how quickly I burn through Vitamin B12. Most people have enough B12 stored in their liver to last over two years. My eye was jumping after only two weeks.

You best believe I ate fish on the days that allowed it.

The one time I managed to quit caffeine was... mixed. Everything felt like it took twice as much time to do - but the day also felt twice as long. I generally hate my jobs, so I always went back to coffee to speed up the workday. I feel like in a different scenario I would take the longer days as a blessing. Especially as I get older and time speeds up.

You may have the MTHFR gene mutation if you struggle with B12. Apparently super common.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

You may have the MTHFR gene mutation if you struggle with B12. Apparently super common.

I later learned that's true after running my genome through one of those ancillary tests. The elites will know when my kidney is ripe for harvesting - but the info on SNP mutations was very helpful.

 

[honse]

I later learned that's true after running my genome through one of those ancillary tests. The elites will know when my kidney is ripe for harvesting - but the info on SNP mutations was very helpful.

There's a lot of overlap with that specific mutation and a lot of interesting coincidences. Fortunately it's easy to remedy.

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

Null gave up caffeine and promptly died.

Isn't Null Jewish?

Thread tax: I gave up running for lent.

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

I'll give up gay sex like I do every year.

let's hope you don't break that lent

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I've given up candy and slurs. Its not a joke I've gotten to used to just saying them so I've given up saying and typing slurs so I can better control my power and don't accidentally say it in a place that'll get me fired.

 

[Skitarii]

select psalms

Read the entire psalter. Bet u won't do it no balls

 

[shan state lesbians]

Last month I saw lots of people celebrating their birthdays on around January 18. Feeding their birthdates into these online conception calculators it showed that their calculated conception dates coincided with the week around Easter 2001. In medieval times parishes would sometimes notice that there were less baptism numbers than usual 9 months after Lent only for them to recover in the 9 months after Easter