#Zelot

[risingsunfish]

playing FE6 again + trying to learn how to draw again after a long hiatus = Roy doodles

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[fefuckability]

QUALIFIER 2: Binding Blade

Feel free to rb/comment with your reasoning!

[bisexualdimitri]

purple zelot icons!

[are-they-in-heroes-yet]

Zelot...

Is in Heroes!

[pickledfingers]

Watching liberals on ig praise Ayatollah Khomeini for threatening Israel is absolutely surreal.

Guys. He's a warmongering dickhead who set Iran back 200 years, and he needs to posture to keep his street cred because isreal just took out an Iranian consulate.

Picture a murdering bully went and picked on a dude who commits domestic violence (and also many human rights violations). They are not better than each other. Stop praising a misogynist dick.

If there is a war innocent Iranians will die in the crossfire. Khomeini doesn't care - like Netanyahu he sees war as means to the end of securing his seat for longer.

Khomeini does not give two figs about Palestinians.

[insanityisfine]

Gotta love when people confidently spout nonesense, and other people correct them. No calling out, no rudeness, just disbelief and humor about their agenda-filled misinformation.

Saying you'll cure your multiple sclerosis by being vegan, and that cows are filled with chemicals to be forced to produce 160 litters of milk a day. ONE HUNDRED! AND SIXTY! LITTERS!!! PER FUCKING DAY! PER COW!!! LIKE IT'S POSSIBLE TO MILK 160 MILK CARTONS A DAY FROM A SINGLE COW!

Like. Maam. How big a cow are we talking???

I fully support people being vegan, you're not wrong for being vegan, you're wrong for preaching it like a religion (annoying), acting like it makes you better than people who aren't vegan (arrogant), and for spouting misinformation, either because you're unintelligent enough to believe it (no Critical thinking skills to be found), or because you're lying on purpose to prove a point (asshole).

Seriously. Develop some self awareness, good grief.

[felikatze]

in case anybody was wondering why eir is gonna be in his forging bonds, i have to step up as the sole noah fan

This Cav Has Depression (jazz hands)

bonus: noah & fir momence

[liberalthelemite]

125 Republicans have backed antiabortion bill without IVF exception - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/25/ivf-republicans-legislation/

These religious extremists MUST be stopped.

[louvay]

if you can force two FE states to be at war with each other, what will the states be, and why? bonus point, how!

P/S: you cannot say chalphy vs velthomer

South Thracia vs Ilia (never said they had to be from the same game!)

It’s actually quite simple getting two mercenary countries into going to war with each other, especially with money. Their people are destitute, reflective of the ground they live on, and there are plenty of mouths to feed at the end of the day.

[lord-here-i-am]

Hl. Simon der Zelot

gefeiert am 28. Oktober

Hl. Simon Apostel, Märtyrer † im 1. Jahrhundert in Babylon, dem heutigen Han-al-Mahawil im Irak (?)

Simon trägt den Beiname Zelot (Lk 6, 15), aramäisch Kananäu (Eiferer), weil er wohl ursprünglich der politisch radikalen Bewegung der Zeloten angehörte, die gewaltsam die römischen Fremdherrscher aus Israel vertreiben wollte. Das Neue Testament nennt ihn in Aufzählungen der 12 Apostel (Mt 10, 4; Mk 3, 18; Apostelgeschichte 1, 13), besondere Erwähnung findet er hier sonst nicht.

Simons Identifizierung mit dem Bräutigam bei der Hochzeit zu Kana (Johannesevangelium 2, 1 - 11) oder Nathanael (Johannesevangelium 21, 2) wegen der Annahme seiner Herkunft aus Kanaan beruhen auf sprachlichem Missverständnis der Bezeichnung Kananäus.

Manche Überlieferungen nennen Simon als Apostel unter den Juden und erzählen von seinem Martyrium; er sei enthauptet, nach anderen Quellen zersägt worden.

Die Legende nennt Simon und Judas Thaddäus Brüder von Jakobus dem Jüngeren, Söhne des Alphäus und der Maria Kleophas. Nach der Legenda Aurea wirkte Simon in Syrien und Mesopotamien zusammen mit Judas Thaddäus, dann in Persien, wo beide dem Feldhauptmann des Königs von Babylon - dem heutigen Han-al-Mahawil -, Baradach, Sieg und Frieden prophezeiten, was sich tatsächlich und unmittelbar am nächsten Tage ereignete. Als Götter in Menschengestalt zu König Xerxes geführt, tauften sie ihn, den ganzen Hofstaat und viele Tausende im Land. Wiederholt zum Vernichten der feindlichen Gewalten aufgefordert, war ihr ständiges Wort: Nicht zu töten, sondern lebendig zu machen sind wir gekommen. Nach zahlreichen Wundertaten, mit denen sie die Machtlosigkeit der Zauberer bewiesen und die Abgötter stürzten, entfachten die Zauberer im Lande einen Aufstand der Priester, die beide Apostel erstachen, nach anderer Legende enthaupteten oder Judas mit einer Keule, Simon mit einer Säge zu Tode martern ließen. Ein gewaltiges Unwetter erschlug daraufhin Priester und Zauberer. Der König ließ die Leichen der beiden Heiligen suchen, bestatten und eine große Kirche darüber bauen.

Wieder anderen Überlieferungen nach wirkte Simon am Schwarzen Meer in der Gegend von Sochumi in Georgien, wo er zu Tode gemartert wurde. Hier wurde er in einer Kirche begraben, an deren Stelle später das Kloster Neo Aphon errichtet wurde.

Angebliche Reliquien werden in Rom, Köln, Hersfeld und an anderen Orten verehrt.

Der Simonstag ist örtlich Lostag der Bauern und gilt als Beginn der Winterzeit.

[fefuckability]

ROUND 1: Daddy issues vs Daddy vibes

Feel free to rb/comment with your reasoning!

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINTS JUDE THADDEUS AND SIMON THE ZEALOT Feast Day: October 28

The patron of desperate situations and cases and lost causes, Jude Thaddeus, was the brother of fellow apostle James the Less, the son of Alphaeus. He is sometimes identified with Jude, the brother of Jesus and a relative to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but is clearly distinguished from Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus prior to his crucifixion.

In the Gospel of John, he was the one who asked Jesus during the Last Supper, and said: 'Master, what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?'

He replied: 'Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'

He also wrote the penultimate letter to the Universal Church known in the Holy Bible as the Epistle of Jude. The epistle reassures its readers that these people will soon be judged by God. It is possible that the group being referred to would have been obvious to the original recipients of the letter, but if a specific group was being referred to, knowledge of the details has since been lost. The one bit of their potential ideology discussed in the letter is that these opponents denigrate angels and their role.

And thus this quote: 'Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.'

He died a martyr circa 65 AD in Armenia. Jude's attribute is a club. He is also often shown in icons with a flame around his head. This represents his presence at Pentecost, when he received the Holy Spirit with the other apostles. Another common attribute is Jude holding an image of Jesus Christ, known as the Image of Edessa. In some instances, he may be shown with a scroll or a book (the Epistle of Jude) or holding a carpenter's rule.

Simon, the Canaanean, is from Cana in Galilee, was surnamed the Zealot because of his enthusiasm for the Jewish law. Another tradition, doubtless inspired by his title 'the Zealot', states that he was involved in the First Jewish–Roman War. The Zealots were a religious and political group determined to resist the Roman occupation of Judea. They refused to pay taxes and called for rebellion.

Simon probably belonged to their party before the calling of Our Lord. After receiving the Holy Spirit through Pentecost, he went to preach the Holy Gospel in Persia and Armenia or Beirut, Lebanon together with Jude, where they received the crown of martyrdom.

Another tradition states that he traveled in the Middle East and Africa. Christian Ethiopians claim that he was crucified in Samaria, while Justus Lipsius writes that he was saw in half at Suanir, Persia. Simon has the identifying attribute of a saw because he was traditionally martyred by being saw in half in Christian art.

©2022 photo by yours truly

[ratuszarsenal]

also! at the risk of sounding rude, if I see one more movie where robespierre is a pathetic spineless zelot whose speeches are just full of keywords stacked next to each other to seem hypocritical I'm going to buy a ticket to california or florida or los angeles or wherever the fuck, and march into hollywood studios with a big tank of gasoline & crystal-clear intent

[unearthlytwilight]

there need to be preestablished couples in fire emblem again just because of the dynamic they bring to the cast. Astram has no chill, and this is balanced by Midia also having no chill when it comes to their relationship/Archanea. Juno and Zelot's support chain is all about how they're fighting to create a peaceful time to raise their daughter in. Pent and Louise' support chain is literally just them being in love with each other.

(Canas and his wife get an honorable mention, since she never actually shows up on-screen, but it's clear he loves her a lot. man describes anima magic as "wondrous" and she just happens to be a mage/sage. his first reaction to meeting Pent is to be excited because his wife won't believe it. even says that his wife thinks Pent is "the bee's knees". he clearly knows her very well)

[witchofthesouls]

If you're willing to give it, I'd love to hear your assesment of just how much psychic damage would a TFP Tarn take in a Souls=Sparks Soulmate/Sparkmate AU under a given set of circumstances. Cause virgin zelot Tarn would be having trauma feelings about the matter under good circumstances and i kinda want to put him in a situation.

So Sparkmates hear their Sparkmate when their Other half makes music. Tarn was shocked to hear when he was humming the empyrian suite to snuff a traitor's spark a soft crooning chirp badly echoing it back to him. And it kept hapening. Eventualy joined by terrible but steadily improving atempts to play some sort of stringed instrument. He has a Sparkmate! Aparently some sort of musicaly inclined newspark perhaps one of the lost colonies has a functioning hot spot? Tarn eventualy made a game as they were nearing their predictable recharge cycle to sing and improvise the Deceticon Battle Anthem with them. Just so their cargivers knew there was a correct side and his mate is brought up properly.

One day there is a single staccato burst of vitriolic trills then absolute silence. No response to anything music he makes. Since Lord Megatron ordered him to some planet called Earth for the final conflict with the Autobots he can't even search for the newspark. It's a race to beat Prime's reinforcements to the planet.

Tarn is in a poor mood when there's no room for The Peaceful Tyranny to dock on the Nemisis. The invasion of this mudball has thrown the Six Phases out the air lock. Aparently someone's ship made an emergency landing in a major city. During a planatary wide broadcast. During which they proceded to trash said city live, blaring the Deceticon Battle Anthem. Worse Megatron ordered the 'cons using the organic's language. The data download still feels wrong on his glossa. To top the bad day off, Lord Megatron wants the Autobots' personal pet squishies brought to him alive. So he has to look out for ten or so specific squishies. Several of which have been inducted into the Wreckers. Including a juvenile menace who managed to steal the Apex Armor to lethal effect.

The prospect of taking an Autobot base raises Tarn's batterd spirits just a bit. Right up untill one of the pets he's been ordered to live capture starts blaring music and explosions start going off. Of course it's a fragging trap. When the lyrics start a familiar, now intelligible, voice rusty with disuse begins to sing along bitterly inside his helm.

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Miko/Tarn.

[felikatze]

This is exactly why I feel like (without spoiling) Engage is just a weird sequel to Awakening in terms of ideas. I can really tell they noticed the problems in the other stuff and regardless of how people feel about it going BACK to examine FEA with Engage's lens is actually really useful bc it gives us a bit of a hint at what they WANTED to do. gotta remember FEA was almost the last FE game *ever* so i dont doubt they did all they could at the *time*.

good for them i haven't played engage :thumbsup:

I've osmosed some of the plot via memes and such so i know about alear's whole fell dragon situation and also that the general consensus of engage's story is "very deeply silly but at least half of it is good" which matches the consensus on awakening how "the midgame is lame but early and late are cool."

ngl despite the complaints abt awakening i've voiced i do find the emotional core of it deeply compelling. i had a blast when i played it. yeah, the midgame dragged because say'ri was suddenly the protagonist, but elsewhere i found the plot engaging (pun not intended) and brisk. brisk here is a compliment- things were always moving and never dragged.

the status of the maybe last game is a biiig influence on the structure. i'd argue that's why the midgame valm arc even exists. everything else is already a fe1 reference, so they threw in fe2 where they could. whenever i get around to actually playing any version of fe1 i can probably offer more comprehensive thoughts on this, but i feel awakening works well as a deconstruction of those early FE titles. or at the very least, it tries to be.

there's of course how the big bad dragon is actually the protagonist's best friend, instead of just some shadowy emperor. and in the valm arc, you have walhart claiming the legacy of alm as conqueror, which reframes alm in fe2, because yeah, he did take over the entire continent. (actually, comparing how awakening frames alm vs how echoes frames alm is super fascinating. there's such a drastic shift in interpretation of alm's character between the games and i love it. it's exactly the type of thing that would get twisted in history.)

if awakening were made as the FE franchise stands now- entering the mainstream thanks to three houses' popularity and with the eternal cash cow of heroes, it would prolly be drastically different.

but that's true for any game. everything is a product of its circumstances. that's why and how remakes exist and differ, after all.