#Martydom

[y2kas13]

ill be taking a break from posting for a bit just strictly reposting. I know a lot of these anons are just trolling and miserable but being told to die is kinda affecting me so I wont post for a bit but I will be repsoting and boosting others posts about palestine

[secular-jew]

The Satanic cult of death reveals itself every day in every way.

[orthodoxicons]

“Let yourself die while striving, rather than living in laziness. For those who die while trying to keep the commandments are just as much martyrs as those who died for Christ’s sake.”

— St. Maximos the Confessor

[icarus-suraki]

DID YOU KNOW...

Damien Hirst created a statue of Saint Bartholomew in 2006 titled "Exquisite Pain"? And it's some Hellraiser Cenobite Clive Barker Cronenberg shit:

I mean, yeah, Saint Bart is often depicted carrying his skin around but zoowee mama. Please observe the intact ear on his removed skin. And they peeled his dimpus like a lil banana. I'm not sure why he's holding a magic wand but that's not the part I want to talk about. I wanna talk about the back of this statue:

They peeled his ass like a grape.

(It is so hard to find a picture of the backside peeled-orange-ass of this statue, let alone one without a watermark.)

And, yeah, that's his bellybutton and peepee skin hanging off his hide there. Delicate work.

Anyway, Damien Hirst wishes he were Francis Bacon but he isn't lmao.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

what is the source Standing Together supports Hamas?

They don;t support Hamas but one of the members like a post about how the IRI is the best ally of palestine and another tried to get his daugther to martyr herself

they don't support hamas, they do support and recreate the martyrdom culture and supporting dictatorships

they might not be aiding and abetting October 7th but they aren't strangers to supporting terror either

but their deradicalization only works one way and their solidarity is perfomative

[stigmatam4rtyr]

The Martyrdom of St Agatha (c.1756, oil on canvas) | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

[theskeletoninthegarden]

Sometimes all it takes is a few minutes with a new/revived interest in a piece of media for my brain to think, "Okay, but what would my goblin child of an original character do?"

[navramanan]

no good alone. isolation is easy; living is hard by Rayne Fisher-Quann

[inkeyjay]

Content warning: Blood, Gore, body horror

Diseased Relicary

Weird autopsies

An mild ailment corroded the streets of Arca two decades ago. The fevers were believed to be contracted throught the ingestion of contaminated fish and water. The vercals, renown healers, rose to power to ensure it wouldnt erradicate the city, but it ended making it worse. Health potions administered by Saint Trina's order were only capable of stopping the synthoms for a few days, and then they returned and so on. Anger festered in the streets, as only a few were able to afford such care and any attempts to replicate or look for a cure outside the order were crushed just as the poison filled vials between the teeths of their perpretators.

Queen Consuelo Vercal herself got the infection, but she endured years, for the monarch had the saints beside her. As the queen stood proudly on Arca Altus tall towers, the city withered at her feet. And another disease took the city: rebellion.

Only when the queen stepped down and took off the crown, as a final act of martydom, the plague was expelled from the city's lungs. The Nerón family then swore to legislate towards peace so the city could recover, not just from the epidemy, but also from the deep wounds that divided it.

The disease is now known as the Saltpeter fevers, due to its origin in the salty waters of the estuary, and the white residue pilling around the mouths of the ill. Just a few medics and forensic were able to see where it came from.

[halfagone]

Master List

Hyperlinks to Major Fics

lex luthor's ascent from supervillainy to fatherhood | lex luthor's guide series - Based on Father-Son Relationships between Lex Luthor and Danny Fenton. [CURRENTLY UNDERGOING MAINTENANCE. ACCESS RESTRICTED]

Off With [the Demon's] Head - The hot mess that is the Al Ghul-Wayne family. Includes: Dad!Danny, Young!Ellie, my OG Danny and Ra's Paradox Fic. [NOW LOCKED TO USERS-ONLY]

what was lost, found again | lost and found series - Where Danny finds Jason digging his way out of his own grave and brings him home.

down the rabbit hole (goes the throne) - No One Knows AU, Major Canon Divergence. Amity Park has many secrets and Batman Inc. are left to discover them.

bloodlines | born from flesh and bone, clay and stardust series - Danny is the biological son of Diana (Wonder Woman) and Bruce Wayne. A prophecy is involved.

billy batson and the phantom - Adventures of Billy Batson and Danny Fenton. Oh, and Vlad is there too, I guess.

all I am to you is a tragedy, right? - In which a grieving Bruce Wayne brings a Danny Fenton from another universe back with him. This has consequences.

Insomniacs Anonymous - Three-way crossover between DC, Danny Phantom, and Miraculous Ladybug. Social media and chat fic. Now with plot!

pay your dues - An exploration of politics in the Infinite Realms, and the debts that must be paid in full.

weekend wonders - A character study into Stephanie Brown and her resolve as a hero, especially when a close friend comes into suspicion.

present, future, past - Time travel fic in which Bruce falls into the future where everything seems perfect, better than he could have hoped it would be. It doesn't last.

trust no one (trust me) - In a world where the GIW are more competent than in the show, Danny draws some unwanted attention. The people he leaves behind search for him.

bones and all - Inspired by horror films, video games, and fiction. A ghost story set in the DPxDC crossover.

all of this is temporary - Reverse Robins AU, set during Brucequest era. Damian struggles to uphold his father's legacy. Danny intends to make his own legacy.

Other Ongoing Series

Please note that some fics may overlap on more than one series.

Readable Arrangements - Short Works for DPxDC, mainly romance.

It's All About Presentation - A collection of gift fics.

Writing Problems? I Say Writing Solutions - A collections of works from "Who Wrote That?" games.

Martydom - Stories exploring heavy topics, such as gore, violence, etc. Must check tags for each work.

oh, the (in)humanity - Hazmat Suit AU. Now featuring multiple timelines.

Our Gentle Sin - Centered around a romance between a Danny from another universe, where the end of the world has come and gone, and Bruce Wayne who helps him relearn what it means to be human.

Blood is Thicker Than Water, But So Is Ectoplasm - In which Danny is a clone of Batman.

Co-Written Works

Born to Make History | written alongside NightShiftShenanigans (@nightshiftshenanigans) - Patrol Partner Event; No Capes AU, Ice Skating AU, featuring Enemies to Lovers Danny and Jason.

For more completed works and series, explore here:

[thoughtfulchaos773]

How did Richie do the math?

You don't think I can do it made a 💡 in Richie's head.

He already spent the morning psychoanalyzing Carmy. Now, he has another clue about why Carmy is acting the way he is.

When Carmy asks, "You dont think i can do it?" did Richie remember the conversation Carmy had with Sydney in 2x01?

Richie is thinking- all this because Sydney wants a star?

Who gives a fuck about stars...

Sydney does and Carmy wants to get one.

Interesting

Then richie remembers Carmy is like Donna.

Like Donna, Carmy doesn't know how to show and be loved in a healthy way. Like Donna Carmy will martydom-build resentment - have inappropriate outbursts- make sure they don't enjoy things or people they love.

And Carmy loving someone has him acting out in the only loving way he knows. It's not the way he was acting with Claire - I think Richie realized this. It's how he's acting with Sydney that Richie observes throughout season 3, which makes him see more of Donna in Carmy and what's holding him back.

I'm sure he also remembered that Carmy knows he loves someone and something, but he doesn't know how to have fun with what he loves because of Donna. So, Richie sees the person he loves (Sydney) and Carmy sucking the joy out of The Bear and he wants to help Carmy but knows he has to do the self discovery himself.

This is why Richie, although he is against the star system, is still letting Carmy do what he needs to do. But he's also trying to show him you love her and it doesn't mean you can't have fun doing this with Sydney. It's why he makes suggestions of the razzle dazzle, Open hearts, and the dream weave.

If I'm betting on anything, I hope Richie is the one Carmy talks to once he sorts out his feelings.

[secular-jew]

DAILY CALIPHATE NEWS RE; RELIGION OF PEACE

Dearborn, Michigan Activist Tarek Bazzi In 2021 Pro-Palestine Rally: Martyrdom Must Be Sought; Israel Is Absolute Evil, There Is No Way To Deal With It Peacefully; 'From The River To The Sea' Means The Annihilation Of The Zionist Regime

London-Based Senior Palestinian Journalist Abd Al-Bari Atwan: The Resistance Axis Should Also Attack U.S. Targets

Houthi-Yemeni Animated Ramadan Series 'The Temporary Entity' Teaches Children About The Evil Nature Of Jews And The History Of Zionism Seeking To Control The World Through Corruption

At International Al-Quds Day Rally In Dearborn, Michigan Protesters Chant 'Death To America!'; Speakers Say: America Is One Of The 'Rottenest Countries' On Earth; Israel Is ISIS, Nazi, A Cancer

[abu-obe1da]

Abu Shujaa, the commander of the Tulkarem Brigade, ascended to martydom

Glory to the beloved Martyr

[rotzaprachim]

Everything about a current discourse is aggressively very bad but uh. It is interesting to see where current leftists have decided to align themselves on an endlessly messy discourse,

but it is also interesting to see how a) “the no Israeli civillians” crowd have erased the political positionality of a U.S. serviceman killing himself while in uniform, an issue obviously not disconnected from US military imperialism and also stark in lack of leftists’ general failure to reckon with soldier suicide rates as a significant issue ( https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009846329/military-suicides-deaths-mental-health-crisis#:~:text=A%20new%20report%20on%20U.S.,than%20four%20times%20as%20many. ) beyond the general banner of Die Fascist Pigs. It’s very bad when anyone dies and it’s bad when anyone kills themselves and there are complex circumstances involved in bushnell’s suicide, those circumstances are seemingly contradictory and tied not only to I/P but internal U.S. violence and imperialism. b) yeah very true many cultures have concepts of martyrdom. Doesn’t mean I can’t critique them! In particular the glorification of martydom is extra weird, in discourse land, when so much of the pro-martyrdom content in the I/P air is definitionally military-Zionist - it’s better to die for Israel, like the martyrs at Masada, then set down your rifle and go home! This does not mean martyrdom talk is inherently Zionist or tied to one side, it’s not, but it’s also not inherently liberatory either. The ideology that it’s better to die than live to fix the problem - that what you can do with a single death is more important than what you can do with your whole life - is a complex one, bound by an incredible number of social factors, but it is not inherently one in support of liberation.

In particular the ways in which the US military and U.S. culture have a specific cult of martyrdom is in fact a very very relevant conversation to be had right the fuck now! Even if for Bushnell it took the form of something that would be read by progressives as a positive cause, such ideology has also been part of the enlisting and deployment of US soldiers of the military-industrial-imperial complex to Iraq and Afghanistan! It’s better to die for your country than live for it IS a part of us Christian and military culture and it needs to be critiqued! The flattening of this into a linear understanding of decolonization limits an analysis of the military imperialist factors themselves.

[adracat]

Schwarzette: The Goat in The Room

With the mystery of Aerial solved and Pharact sidelined by the plot, we can't help but wonder about the remaining and newest gundam. Who will pilot, and why does it look like a weird goat person with horns and hooves?

The first thing that comes to mind is the tales of witches and ritualistic goat sacrifice. Ominous but I don't quiite think that's the intended message. If we peer deeper into witchcraft, mysticism, and the animal itself, a diffent pattern is revealed.

The goat was one of man's first domesticated creatures and is oft associated with mysticism, nature, and myth. But it's also a deeply motherly animal, hyper vigilant and caring to their young. Studies have shown, goat mother's do not forget their children. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.0986

Goat milk itself is easier to digest than cow milk for children. It's common to find stories of adopted children nursed by goats. Like the story of Amalthea and Zeus--

The goat is a wild and motherly creature, and was only demonized later as servants of devils/demons for their cloven hooves/horns. Naturally, the animal was linked to witches because of this. Yet witches are wild and inherently symbols of feminine power themselves.

Now why do I think this is significant?

Because GWitch is deliberately associating goats and motherhood. Ep19 sees Suletta, following the rebirth imagery in 18 and her mother's abandonment, regain strength from Tycho's milk. Tycho the goat is her Amalthea. Since it's doubtful Prospera weaned her as a baby, this might be the first time she's drank from a living creature's teat.

Let's return to Schwarzette, a powerful name and stature but one that sounds unmistakably feminine. Then link its goat coloring and design, this is blatantly a witch's mobile suit but also a motherly one. When we remember Notrette, a mother with a similar sounding name and a direct call to the Giantess Nott from norse myth (yet another mother personifying night) the tie is strengthened. The halo surrounding its head is another interesting visual cue, bringing to mind martydom/angelic protection.

*Another point, the Schwarzette horns are explicitly that of a female. The steep incline, lack of curve, and wide gap indicate this.

I can't help but think this read is intended considering we might see Suletta pilot Schwarzette to reach Miorine.

After all, goat mothers do not forget their children.