#ON CHURCH STEPS?

[lighthousegod]

Me finding trigun/trigun:stampede and actually getting attached to 2 characters after only caring about steddie for a while: oh hell yeah new ship just dropped and half of it isn't even dead!

Me immediately finding out abt the couch scene b4 i finished the 98 or the manga:

[statisticalcats2]

I feel like there's this weird like... mirroring of white man's burden where instead of the burden being to "civilize" non-whites, the burden is to help preserve their culture but in the most racist way possible by acting like BIPOC would never come up with concepts like democracy or gender/race/class equality or secularism on their own and it's not just bad for white people to force themselves into BIPOC cultures and try to change, it's also bad for the BIPOC cultures themselves to try and change and all the human rights activists, democracy supporters, and secularists are traitors brainwashed by the West and it's right for their governments to suppress, abuse, imprison, and murder them.

[treviso-nights]

everyone say thank you to brianne battye who wrote for both cullen rutherford and neve gallus, two people who would rather fall on a sword than develop crushes but ultimately can't resist the indecipherable yearning of their huge, disgustingly soft hearts

[hinamie]

we may not get forever / but forever is far

[illustratus]

Gothic Church by the Sea by Karl Friedrich Hampe

[ghcstao3]

ghost who knows a lot about catholicism because at one point in his life, for whatever reason, he had a bit of a fixation on the mythology and aesthetics and history of it vs. soap, a confused, sort-of-ex-catholic who initially mistakes ghost as super religious because why else would he ever know that much about the saints that soap himself doesn’t even know much about

[iztea]

i think you're mistaken

[tenderjock]

The end was soon To Bethlehem, it slouched And then, must've caught a good look at you

[dramoor]

The Virgin's first seven steps, mosaic from Chora Church, c. 12th century

(Via Wikipedia)

[emaadsidiki]

Fountain of da Boat ⛲⛵

[galaxseacreature]

Step 1: Get severed

Step 2: Get a second soul

Step 3: ????

Step 4: Heaven

[alcordraws]

Every time I see this scene I end up thinking about the whole. Spider and butterfly conversation. Nai is the spider with the butterfly (Vash) caught in his web of knives. To save his kind, he must consume everything that makes Vash and in turn, make him into spider too. The roots, then, are Vash's own web, ensnaring their butterfly sisters, who must be devoured to create new spiders (the forced pregnancy to create new independents).

Which is like, purely my interpretation, but I do like driving myself insane

[dailycamart]

blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

[moeblob]

Sorry I forgot Hanneman suggested Byleth undress after they show up with a different hair color. And I miss Hanneman. And also while swapping between Houses and Hopes and seeing Hanneman pop up to help in a Hopes paralogue is just devastating since he doesn't ever actually join you at all and I am denied my old man rights.

So I had to draw this. Thank you for understanding.

[strang3lov3]

merry xmas!! i hope you're doing good. would it be okay if i request priest!roman? i was watching fleabag last night and kept thinking about him. i could imagine as a reallyyyy corrupt sexually frustrated priest 😭

Merry Christmas to you! I hope it’s been a good holiday 🥹🎄and also, I hope you know how sacrilegious this was of you to send this particular ask on Christmas Eve of all days. You’re going to hell non, and so am I ���

I imagine you visit Father Roman when you’re down on your luck and it’s been a long time since you went to mass. You go to mass, it doesn’t do it for you, just like it didn’t do it for you before. Oh well. But Father Roman pulls you aside after the service is over to say it’s been a while since he’s seen you in his church. You get to talking and you’re totally charmed by him. He’s funny, he’s cool and relatable and like human, he’s Roman. You tell him you’re struggling but that truth be told, you’re not into this stuff. Not even really sure why you went to mass. He doesn’t judge you.

“Humor me for a second. Confess something to me.”

“What?”

“I’m serious, here—” he leads you to the confessional room and shuts the door, “if you don’t believe in this shit anyway you’ve got nothing to lose, right?”

“I mean…I guess. I don’t even know what to confess.”

“Oh, come on. Yes you fuckin’ do. What’re your vices, huh? Lying, cheating, stealing?”

“No.”

“Okay. Drinking, maybe? Drugs?”

“…a little,” you answer.

“Or sex, how about sex?”

You hesitate, “Yeah.”

“Ahh,” Roman says, smiling behind the little screen. “Naughty, very naughty. We’ll start there, hmm?” His words go right to your core. Fuck, you’re going to hell.

Roman says a quick prayer and helps you with your own. “Forgive me, Father, I have sinned. It’s been….I don’t even know how long since my last confession.”

“Oh, you’re so fucked,” he teases, only to be met with an uncomfortable silence from you. “Joking - I’m kidding. God’ll forgive you and all that - shit, I don’t know. Just - just go ahead, sweetheart. Tell me what you’ve done.”

You describe in detail your sins to Roman. Your sexual habits, the many toys you’ve purchased, the dicks you’ve sucked. Roman quietly unzips his pants and pulls out his leaking cock, stroking it surreptitiously as you confess. “I see. Keep - fuck - keep going. What else, hm?”

[arcdiris]

Hiiii interest check!

Since I've been playing Fields of Mistria I thought abt making charms of the romanceables so far! With flower color-coded frames. Would you guys be interested? 👀