#I HAVE NO WORDS JUST WORSHIP

[lokilysolbitch]

sometimes the godspouse tag has those posts calling it hubris bc "a god would never _____ a human"

and god does it make me so mad and sad bc the implications behind it are so ??????

like to believe that being in a relationship with a god, be it platonic/romantic/sexual, (i never really see familial or teacher/mentor get shit on) is hubris implies that:

-humans are so lowly that the idea of a human being close to a god somehow dirties the god

-platonic relationships are the lowest tier of of relationships. those posts that are like "gods are not your friends" are always saying friends like it's a slur and it makes me so fucking mad. how do you view your friends????

-that sex is dirty, that lust is dirty, and beneath a god to experience esp with a human

-that marriage/romance is a higher tier relationship than familial, platonic, etc

like those posts almost seem to portray their gods with a sneer every fucking time. like it comes off like they think their god is handling them like a dirty dish they don't want to touch. like "sure i GUESS help you with your craft, human, but i don't want to be your friend" "i suppose i'll teach you to love yourself, human, but don't think that means i want to know you" "i'll tolerate hearing about your deepest traumas, human, but don't you dare tell me about your day"

it's sad to view your gods that way and it's maddening to see that rhetoric pushed onto others

like. i want to ask the people who post anti-godspouse posts "have you considered their god just loves them?? have you considered your god just loves you????? do you realise your god does more than tolerate you????? do you understand your god is not holding you like a bug they think is gross, they're not holding you out gingerly pinched between two fingers, they don't run away when they see you, they like you. they want to be close with you. they want to sit with you at the lunch table. they like you. they like you. they like you. okay???"

and sometimes a deity will wanna kiss you about it. and it's fine. it doesn't mean you're better than anyone else. it's just means they fucking like you. bc they don't like you because you're gods favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world/ref. nothing changes about you when a god loves you. they love you because you are you. because of who you are now. they love you so much they feel it's safe to assume they will love you forever. that what godspousal is. it's different flavors of i love you forever except with a more formal agreement.

okay ? so chill!

tldr be normal about godspousual and be normal to godspouses bc ur god loves you and does not see you as dirt

[ladsofsorrow24]

a little comic of my favorite trope for these two haha

[lady-merian]

I'm curious-- why did Til We Have Faces fall short in your book?

Ooh yay I get to rant. XD

Short version: I’m not the target audience for it. I’ve never been a fan of mythology (and this myth is in particular is abhorrent to me for the sheer reactionary ICK I feel when thinking about a woman sleeping with someone she’s not even allowed to see).

Longer version: it’s probably influenced by how little I like the myth, so do take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I found most of the theology iffy at best. Trying to make a story with not only multiple gods but multiple gods with opposing goals (at least in the original myth, I don’t remember getting a clear understanding of how Ungit and the god of the mountain even work but it did still seem like their goals were not aligned) and make it say anything True without muddling things just doesn’t work for me.

Aside from the myth, the story itself depressed me and I only kept reading because I thought “this book is so highly praised it *has* to get better” and to me it just kept getting worse. I was reading it initially for a reading group but I decided to go ahead and finish it early rather than drag it out a chapter a week because every time I finished a chapter I would end up in such a bad mood, hating everything. I was hoping the ending would make up for it somehow, only the ending itself was deeply unsatisfying to me. It may have worked better if it’d shown something like Ungit being a false god, and falsely attributed to being the god of the mountain’s mother, but the god of the mountain being the true God. Maybe. I probably wouldn’t have liked it any better, but it may have helped the sense of wrongness I had with the book that I consider separate from my vehement distaste for it. Or even something like Ungit not being someone to be worshipped directly but a forerunner in a sense of the god of the mountain in the same way that Lewis saw the pagan beliefs as being preparation for the acceptance of Christianity. It could be that him setting Glome within our world is also not helping matters.

In short, it doesn’t completely destroy my opinion of someone’s taste if I find out they liked it, and if God has used it positively in someone’s life that’s great! But you couldn’t pay me to reread it and put myself through that again.

[snekdood]

anyways ppl with vaginas are amazing and not inherently less than anyone with a penis and if you disagree you can jump off a bridge <3

[moeblob]

Ohiwe

After Oh is split into two, their power is halved/divided. But! Other traits are not necessarily divided evenly. So she holds all the romantic love (unrequited) for Ymber. She also has the rhythm/ability to dance while the other half cannot keep a beat for the life of him.

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

ok if youre doing caledonius and simon go all out. some important characterization about cal to me is she

is delighted to impart the beauty of history onto little minds

yet is completely disconnected and casual about killing them if it means bringing about the apocalypse she religiously believes in

knows that that's not okay and is willing to lie to the close friends of the kids she watched die when they are trying to find their dead friends

is truly worried about the well-being of her vulnerable students

words her concerns in a way that intentionally guilts her students into trying to go out and fix things themselves. things that, again, she helped cause (oh, i just hope we can find [pep, who is being blamed for spader's disappearance, which she witnessed] before the wiz cops find him first and blast him on sight... <- after claiming she can’t find pep herself and that she and Deb are the only people who care about him. like. she wants to find him to use him in a sacrifice ritual.)

like come on i just know she is lying about not being able to use some kind of locator spell to find him. she wanted deb to find him for her. why. insidious beastie.

ignores the kids that the other teachers like most in order to give preferential treatment to some kid no one else likes. like, as in, she ignores them as though those kids do not exist.

to be fair the reason the other teachers give spader preferential treatment is just because they want to put their god inside him. and she thinks hes not the right vessel. but she is also with those teachers. this is such a funny stupid little thing to me. the few teachers who don’t want to make any kids into a god-vessel, also generally give spader good treatment, because hes noisy and charismatic. but cal literally walks through him as if he is not there which is INTEGRAL to her character to me can you imagine the first time they tried to bring the second age of terror in. her sulking in the back. rolling her eyes when he explodes into viscera. called ittt. can we try my kid now

near-religiously worships peppermint butler. full back tattoo of him. as soon as she got a student that looked like him and/or that she knew used to be him, she could not keep her hands off of him. she begged the other teachers to let him in even though he set the whole stage on fire during auditions. she keeps picking him up and touching his hands

let the kid she was planning to sacrifice bring his friend with him to the ritual sacrifice chamber, instead of leaving her froze in the alley with the other kid she incapacitated, and only LATER ripped the two of them apart so they could yell at each other all weepy and scared in the dark. to be fair this worked in her favor because the only reason pep really wanted to drink the shit was because he wanted to be strong to protect deb but it was kind of insane that she let pep bring his friend along after all the work the teachers had gone through to get spader alone. they turned his cousin into a rock and never turned him back.

despite the phd she does not think or do things smartly. i could have been EASILY convinced she had killed blaine right there in front of everyone and lied about them being fine (what, are you planning to come GET them later?? theyre a liability for you! as soon as they get up they have SOOOOO much shit against you now you are a TEACHER WHO ATTACKED THEM)(uweh. if. anyone believes them.) if they werent just like, sitting there later. hanging out

sorry. okay. also.

teases bufo for being old in front of all her students and winks at him.

runs so fast she makes fire behind her and expects her students to keep up. shes like 12 feet tall and they are all like 0.5 feet tall

calls her lecture over her shoulder while she runs. after coming to class 5 minutes late. while screaming.

she seems to be the only one taking the cult thing seriously and she knows it but she does not do anything about that fact. she lets them kill some kid who probably wasn’t going to survive their ritual and then keeps bringing up the fact that he’s missing with other kids to encourage them to keep their spirits up (he’s dead. she watched him die the night before.). her fellow cult members dealt with it way more awkwardly (bufo told everyone spader had run away to a non-magic farm upstate to live it up) and she, as the fun and welcoming teacher, probably had to field dozens of upset teenage wizards while LITERALLY knowing that he was actual dead twenty feet away

This is everything I know about doctor caledonius love and light

[habitina]

oh, of course! it's kaiser who sees god in ness, not the other way around 🙄 obviously

[missus-paint]

mother of mine

[shurisneakers]

ok and if i wrote harmless in a different font. so what

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Bedtime but oh how I wish I had coherent thoughts about. Amaris.

[19catsncounting]

Hey does anyone still think about the thematic differences between Supernatural and the Wayward Sisters and how self-isolating male hunters are compared to community-building female hunters and how this was shown from the Harvelles to even arguably Missouri Mosely and even Samuel Campbell who is his daughter's father almost more than a man himself (especially in Season 6) is not immune to this?

And how the Wayward Sisters could have been built not on sacrificing yourself to this singular all-consuming relationship with your brother and sacrificing yourself for the world second or in name only, but instead on what it takes to cut yourself into useful and digestible pieces for the sake of keeping your place in that community because you're almost certain that it's This Community or Solitude Forever (Alex you can never escape the life no matter how much you don't want it you've gotta pitch in do you want your family to die on this hunt Claire you know you'll never find anyone to love you unless you make yourself softer and then are they really loving you are you even worthy of love anymore Jody your husband and son would still be alive if you listened and learned you can't lose another child in every sense you can't quite let your children be defenseless children either and you know so well how sick this fear makes you and how you're dealing with it the wrong way your son got to be a child but your daughters can't be that vulnerable Even Donna you have Your Role to play here you're not good enough as a hunter but you're funny and happy and you don't take up that much space so that's exactly how much space you're given to exist in).

And yes, a lot of these things are echoes of Kripke Supernatural but instead of too-intimate and dark and quiet confessions that the Winchesters share and know that no one else could ever have the context to fully understand it's Community it's All Our Problems the humiliation and shame is all-encompassing because there is no privacy Everyone Sees You Everyone Knows You Everyone Wants To Fix Help You.

[drybonesarcade]

i feel like the song "Tiny Gods" by Shayfer James has insane potential for a Worker ENA animatic but i am not currently skilled enough to turn my idea into a reality 💔

[duracel-battery]

in my last dnd campaign i played a cult leader who was trying to make a cult based on worms and now we're in another campaign with different people and whenever worms come up i open my mouth to say some Religious Worm Bullshit (pavlovian response to worms) and then remember i'm someone else now. reincarnation is hard.

[underwaterspaghetti314]

In my head, there are three different categorizations of Link from LoZ:

The General Link. This is the vaguest concept of Link. He’s a guy, usually dressed in green, who wields a sword and a bunch of funky tools and gadgets to beat up the bad guys and save Hyrule. Generally goofy in some flavor or another. Yells, otherwise doesn’t talk much, and typically has some beef with pottery. Each one of the Specific Links carries the General Link within them. Cool.

The Specific Links. These are the ones from the different games. Each Link, while a reincarnation of the same General Link, is still an individual person. Twilight Princess’ Link is not Wind Waker’s Link is not Zelda II: The Adventure of’s Link. They all have different personalities and people they know and goals they pursue and things they do. These guys are awesome.

The Powerscaling Link. This is a horrible Frankenstein’s Monster of Links whose strongest things have all been stitched together in order to prove he can beat Bungo Shlumpo or whoever the hell in a fight. He has every ability from every game regardless of how long there was between them or the unique circumstances that made it possible for him to get them in said games. Every Link’s greatest feats taken from their original context and stitched together to form a Link that never truly existed and never will, and who is well beyond the scale that the humble Link was ever meant to tread. Carries the spirit of neither the Specific Links nor even the General Link. All has been lost for the sake of power. I don’t like this one.

[jrueships]

Is there a reason why sauce refuses to follow more than 99 accounts on instagram ? He’s such a control freak lmfao

LOL yea ive always noticed that like wtf 😭 okay 😭

he only follows 99 people on Twitter too, and i think i remember seeing him post on his twit like during the beginning of his first season in the NFL abt who he should follow to reach 99 bcs I think he had 98 at that time? And he wanted 99?

And on his insta i think (less sure on this) he posted a story that said like 'ok... who to make my 100th following 😻' but i think he only wanted it to be a stupid idk a 'fellow famous internet influencer' like he is , so famous, so self-loving, so empath .

so like. he either didn't follow anyone or he quickly unfollowed to remain at 99

he is... so strange. Such an odd critter. but my guess is he's keeping 99 as his ideal number rn and will unfollow whatever normie/less famous person he needs to in order to keep his precious 99 when he has to follow a more famous person,

or he's just holding out for a special someone to make his 100th follower ( and then later unfollow someone else he doesn't care abt rn to keep his number 99) bcs he WANTS to make ppl feel special, but also. He is weird. And he likes the number 99. And he's weird. And im going to give him a wedgie

[wickedhawtwexler]

yeah it's important to create a character who's flawed but likeable, realistic, interesting, dynamic, etc. but the most important part of creating a character is asking yourself: will the people of www.tumblr.com go insane about them?