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i’m in this strange phase where i’m trying to explore my spirituality and to understand what divinity means to me and it’s just. hard. complex.
i was raised in an atheist family but now i know, deep down, that i am not an atheist. but atheism is still inscribed in my brain, the shame of worshipping, the shame of honoring the divine, as if it should be hidden, as if i was being irrational.
i have been practicing, or trying to practice, hellenic polytheism for a little while now. i keep going through phases of faith then of doubt. something isn’t quite right yet.
i love religions— all of them interest me. i just decided i wanted to read the Old Testament, so i’m reading the Genesis now. and i’ve been doing research on Judaism, out of curiosity. it fascinates me— but especially the rules. the constant connection to the divine, even in mundanity. the concept of every action having a purpose, of doing things a specific way and knowing why, of finding God everywhere and honoring God all the time. i see a lot of people being scared of religious obligations, of organized religion, and i understand how it can be dangerous at times, but i yearn for the order, for the meaning.
i want organized worship and i want to find God every day. i want to do everything with the intention of connecting to the divine. and yet i don’t know what the divine is, what God(s) is (are), and i still believe monotheism isn’t for me, something about it bothers me— but maybe it’s just christianity ? i don’t know anything anymore. i know polytheism interests me too and i know my autistic special interest is ancient greek religion and ancient cultures, but it’s hard to draw the line between what interests me due to my autism/simply because i find it amazing to learn about, and what interests me because it feels right and aligns with the way i perceive things.
so i keep doubting, i doubt and wonder and question and find myself irrational whenever i think of a God, or of multiple gods/Theoi. i know i believe in something. but there is this atheistic guilt, atheistic shame ?
i’m so lost.
and everyone i know is either an atheist or a usually-not-very-observant catholic. so exactly what i already know not to be for me.
#judaism#hellenic polytheism#religion#theology#religious beliefs#divinity#helpol#polytheism#monotheism#paganism#trying to figure out what religion makes sense for me#and it’s scary#quite often i wish i had been raised within an organized religion so that i could have felt the order and the rules and the meaning#and then could have decided for myself whether or not it felt right#i would never have felt good in christianity#and i know i’m lucky because being in an atheist family protected me from religious trauma#but still#i feel lonely#and purposeless#i’m still trying to find god(s)
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fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’
[text id: and is this not treason? / my soul belongs far more to you than it does to me.]
#fatima aamer bilal#i am your mould but the shape of you is true absence leaving me purposeless#poetry#literature#yearning#longing#unrequited pining#book quotations#poem#prose#poeticstories#art#dark academia#love#typography#book qoute#poetry collection#bts#franz kafka#sylvia plath#lana del rey#pheobe bridgers#hozier#anne brontë#words words words#fiction#fantasy#web weaving#jane austen#mahmoud darwish
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Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection (David Cronenberg, 2023)
#Four Unloved Women Adrift on a Purposeless Sea Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection#Cronenberg#David Cronenberg#2023#short film#body parts#swimming pool#horror#new flesh
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Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will
#svsss#scum villian self saving system#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#the fact that people think scum villain#-a series that examines and criticizes common tropes in fiction-#is somehow against criticism or being a little hater is wild to me#especially since shen qingqiu never gets punished for being a hater#heck- he's still a little hater by the end of the series#he mostly gets punished for treating life like a play and like he and the people around him are characters#(or in other words- he suffers for denying his own wants and emotions and his own sense of empathy)#I think some of y'all underestimate how much writing/art is inspired by creaters being little haters#like example off the top of my head-#the author of Iron Widow has been pretty vocal about the book being inspired by their hatred of Darling in the Franxx#I think my interpretation of Shen Yuan's transmigration is also supported by the fact that this series is an examines writing processes#side note- though i understand why people say Shen Yuan is lazy and think its a valid take it still doesnt sit right with me#i am probably biased because my own experiences with chronic pain and depression and isolation#but ya- i dont think Shen Yuan is lazy so much as he is deeply lonely and feels purposeless after denying parts of himself for 20ish years#like yall remember the online fandom boom from covid right?#being stuck completely alone in bed while feeling like shit for 20 days straight does shit to your brain#the fact that no one came to check on him + he wasn't exactly upset about leaving anyone behind supports the isolation interpretation too#+in the skinner demon arc he describes his life of being a faker/inability to stop being a faker now that he's Shen Qingqiu#as “so bland he's tempted to throw salt on himself” and “all he could do is lay around and wait for death” (<-paraphrasing)#bro wants to be doing stuff but is stuck in paralysis from repeatedly following scrips made by other people#another point on “Shen Yuan isn’t lazy” is just the sheer amount of studying that man does#also he did graduate college- how lazy can he really be#he doesnt know what hes doing but he at least tries to actively train his students#and he actually works on improving his own cultivation + spends quite a bit of time preping the mushroom body thing#+he's experiencing bouts of debilitating chronic pain throughout all this#but ya tldr: Shen Yuan's transmigration is an encouragement to write and not a punishment and also i dont think its fair to call him lazy
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I also didn’t mention this but to me, Chani As The Voice Of The Oppressed Fremen Resistance That Deserved To Liberate Itself & Chani As The Planet’s Suffering Ecology Under Imperial Rule Personified is far more compelling than the sweet, suffering, non-opinionated fremen bride that we get in the books.
#MY PLANET ARRAKIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN THE SUN IS LOW!#text#I don’t think the jessica/chani comparison was entirely purposeless. I just think this one is more powerful and actually bothers giving her#and the fremen more depth than the books bother initially.#dune
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free at last, hey guys
#feels nice but im purposeless yet again o(-(#vintagebeef#ethoslab#pauseunpause#team canada#artstump#it might be 5 am rn can you tell
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klapollo gets me so bad. to be made into tools for others. to be used and manipulated by everyone around you. you are not a person to them. not really. you are a means to an end. what happens to you doesn't matter. even when your strings are cut, you were still a puppet. you never learned to move on your own. can you even do so? were you ever really alive, or was it a facsimile by the one holding the crossbar? does it even matter? maybe tomorrow we will be gone. maybe tomorrow we will find that, without purpose, we fade from this earth. but can you hold me close tonight? can you hug me as we revel in meaningless. tonight can we pretend that this is freedom?
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fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’
[text id: your clavicle is touching mine and / i am holy because of it.]
#fatima aamer bilal#i am your mould but the shape of you is true absence leaving me purposeless#moony moonless sky#poetry#poeticstories#book quotations#literature#yearning#longing#pining#poetry collection#web weave#web weaving#art#prose#poem#love#fantasy#bts#franz kafka#sylvia plath#lana del rey#mitski#hozier#poets#lit#typography#jane austen#mary oliver#ocean vuong
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I always feel like people over look the physical abuse Jamie probably faced. We’ve seen just a glimpse of what James would do in public, imagine what it was like when Jamie was young and behind closed doors.
Plus like literally almost killing Beard?? Like he and his friends are seriously scary and probably did a lot of damage to Jamie. 😕😕
I know :(( people don't understand how serious and terrifying domestic violence is
And YES thank you. Beard After Hours was such a horrific and enlightening glimpse into how violent and scary James can really be. The way he said "goodnight, son" before trying to bash Beard's skull in with a tire iron actually gave me chills. It's terrifying that he's capable of murder regardless, but the implication that he was thinking about killing Jamie is just. Sick
We too easily gloss over how SCARED Jamie is of James, also. It's not like he just thinks he's a dick or a bully, he's ACTIVELY terrified of him. In Mom City, he describes James as "fucking terrifying" and says it "really freaks him out" that he can't see him in the stands. James isn't just an asshole, he's a very real and present threat to Jamie's safety, and Jamie fully knows that.
Georgie has also never been at a single one of Jamie's matches, including the match in Mom City (at which point they had an actress cast for Jamie's mother and could've easily shown her in the stands) and the World Cup (at which the audience was offscreen and could've easily included Jamie's mom) despite clearly being a very devoted and loving mother. There's obviously something keeping her away from Jamie's matches, and I think it's more than likely a fear of James. Most men who abuse their children abuse their children's mothers. :(
All this to say, yes, James is actually terrifying and physically dangerous and I think everyone (including the show runners) just kind of forgets that
#ask#jamie tartt#james & jamie#child abuse#i know that 'abusive parent as violent purposeless sadist' is kinda an oversimplification but that's. kind of how they painted James in BAH
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all fun and games having an oc hyperfixation and having to make all the content yourself until you lose the ability to make anything lol
#wrist issue has not improved#have a soft diagnosis of bilateral carpal + cubital tunnel and waiting on nerve testing to confirm rn#this semester has been the Tough Love From God semester and i’m kind of over it#if i have to put my comic on hiatus again it may not go well for my brainmeats methinks#vent#i guess#sparks speaks#such a petty complaint in the grand scheme of things but it’s weird to suddenly feel so aimless and purposeless#any time i think things are improving my hand is suddenly too shaky to draw for days
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Obligatory redesign bc I was complaining and had to put my money where my mouth is.
Idk why you wouldn’t push the aesthetic of him further when his voice is already so 100% committed to the bit, make him vaguely static-y and grainy! Down with technicolor!
Also, deer regularly shed and regrow their antlers, I think it would be really cool if his grew when he goes all radio slenderman and then melt away in a bloody, viscous goo when he chills out.
#myart#hazbin hotel#alastor#redesign#the tiny purposeless monocle pissed me off so much#also here’s what deer ears look like#bonus hair style mimicking a deer tail
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fatima aamer bilal, from ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’
[text id: you and i, blur into one]
#fatima aamer bilal#moony moonless sky#i am your mould but the shape of you is true absence leaving me purposeless#poetry#literature#longing#yearning#poeticstories#pining#lit#typography#book quotations#writings#quotation#poem#prose#art#bts#franz kafka#sylvia plath#lana del rey#jane austen#mahmoud darwish#pheobe bridgers#mitski#hozier#web weaving#web weave#words words words#poetry collection
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Do you guys ever wonder if Armand just wanted a boyfriend and when Louis was telling Lestat how they're going to spend eternity together he was standing there like shit I've made another involuntary commitment and I'm going to let it go on for way too long (again) because his entire life has been him taking on someone else's porpuse as his own.
#I know he cares about Louis but he didn't care enough to choose him over the coven he didn't really care about#And in the books he loves Lestat more#I don't know if he really loves Louis or is just being his clingy self afraid of being alone and purposeless#Armand#louis de pointe du lac#Loumand#interview with the vampire
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I think it's all about care, in the end. My cat is curled up on the bed I made for her, and the yarn used was made by people I never met, and the machines that they operated were invented by people who are perhaps long-dead. The electricity that courses through the veins of those machines were maintained in ways I never have witnessed, and it's about care, and pain, and care again. It's always going to be about care and community. Nothing that is built without that in the forefront of its mind will ever hope to live forever - only we will, and our care will. The only thing that will remain immortal - even with the pain even immense - is our care.
It's about care. It's about curling up on a warm blanket made by somebody who loved you enough to want you to be warm, and there won't be a shortage of that kind of care and love - it isn't a finite resource.
#positivity#we are not an island#we were not born alone - we won't have to die alone#the idea that you can survive alone is part of how you are alienated from not only the world but from yourself#will anybody who made this yarn know that it is warming the best friend love of my life#will they know how much she loves this blanket when she is cold and weary? will they know the love that went into the blanket?#will they know that their labour went to something soft even when they themselves didn't get that treatment all the time?#it does sometimes make me sad to know i will never be able to prove to the people who have done so much that they aren't unnoticed#maybe it's hubris or maybe it's being afraid that purposelessness is pervasive and seemingly unavoidable in a world that often devalues...#...who and what you are
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Despite my physical and financial limits, I've made the decision to endure grad school for a second time.
My current graduate degree is in biology, and (if accepted) I'll be focusing my studies this time around in sociology, social work, or psychology.
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"Whumper is gone. So...I guess that means you won't need a caretaker anymore, huh?"
"You really think that's all you are to me?"
#whump#whump prompt#writing prompt#dialogue prompt#caretaking#aftermath#angst#caretaker feeling purposeless after all is said and done#whumpee assuring them that they're more than just their services#<3
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