#and then is like wtf is a catholic???

[impishtubist]

In 25 years of reading SBRL fic (yes I took a 17-year break but best believe I caught up real quick on all I had missed when I came back in 2020), I've only read one fic that actually addresses the fact that godfather has religious connotations to it. Like, it really is intended to be someone who guides your child in the faith. It is not automatically someone who has guardianship of your child after you die.

Idk, I'm not a religious person, but I think that should actually be explored more in fics.

[peppermint-whiskers]

Wait I just realized something. Alice is part of the God Possessed Pentious AU. However, she’s also a part of your Zestious fic “A Hundred Years and Many More”. Does… does that imply that, at least in your fic, Zestial had a crush on Pentious. Then Pentious died and got possessed by God. If so, I cannot WAIT for that reaction!

“The guy I had a crush on is, not only alive, but is also GOD’S VESSEL!!????!!!” [insert Catholic Guilt here]

Hi, thanks for the ask! "A Hundred Years and Many More" was more of a test run for the backstory, and the backstory (with Alice's glorious presence uwu) is actually part of the au

BUT

I think it'd be hilarious if Zestial and Pentious had this lingering crush on each other the entire time XD Maybe Zestial's was born out of intrigue more than romance, but they both had CRUSHES

And now god's over here like "what's with you and crushing on people who could destroy you??? what the fuck, man???" because he knows. Pentious can't really hide his massive crushes because he can't hide shit XD

[vaugarde]

people pearl clutching about preteens knowing what sex is is so wild as someone who was given the talk at age 6 because i asked my mom if she bought me from target’s secret baby compartment. and literally just took it like “oh okay. gross. :(“ being more sad that it affected my fantasy of being bought from target

[mikereads]

“You and Tommy have the right idea. Hang out with the boys!” -Gay, that is gay sir!

[tipsy-on-lore]

Can the pope please just come out and admit that Luce is literally just Momoko from ghost stories (dub) with blue hair??

[stinkrascal]

also im gonna try to post more than once a week when i can so i can speed this along bc maaaan this is taking way longer than i thought. it usually takes me like a week to complete one post though so we will see 🙈

[thelittleprinceconfirmed]

I'm obsessed with her. Also pfp

[in-asterism]

Submarine Catholic: surfaces twice a year and in times of crisis

[eraserheadbabyfever]

dante and i disagree about where certain sins should go in hell. in what universe is counterfeiting money the worst thing you can do, worse than murder

[croix-meridies]

Blah blah blah Alecto is a Barbie, whatever I have always pictured her as the incorruptible body of saint Victoria

[thislittlekumquat]

I have to be real, the expectations vs reality that nobody wants to talk about is that the average catholic church in the US does NOT entail a confessional with privacy screen. You are looking that priest square in the fucking face and telling him your fuckups.

[sforzesco]

"when you marry off a son to the church, they're married to god's vicar on earth" lives rent free in my mind now, thank you very much! also, can't stop thinking of rodrigo borgia and giuliano della rovere as a bickering divorced couple, and it's too kinda your fault -_-

absolutely CACKLING at the idea of rodrigo and giuliano as a divorced couple because I've always envisioned them as two different types of monsters that despised each other and were intent on eating the other along with anyone else that got in their way, with giuliano coming out of that war winning. and it wasn't enough to get the throne (the papacy), he also kicked cesare to the curb after luring him back in. we love to see it! you can't buy that kind of hate off the shelves, you have to curate it and let it fester like an open wound! an absolute masterclass in driving in one final nail into the coffin of a family you despise. (there's a kind of dynastic rivalry subtext in regards to inheritance etc, between these two that makes them incompatible with the divorced framework to me. it's more of a eat or be eaten, destroy the pretender to the throne, etc etc in my mind)

ascanio sforza and giuliano della rovere on the other hand. they have an adjacent kind of divorced energy, to me. those two were rivals for so long (ascanio kneecapping della rovere by backing rodrigo in the papal elections, and it escalating from there), and only came together in the end (della rovere visiting ascanio every day on summer for conversation, hello??), and even then: that came with a hefty side of deeply unbalanced power dynamics of the julius caesar-clemency variety (fun fact! when giuliano della rovere became pope, he took on the name julius II in reference to julius caesar!)

wait--- you want to know who's literally divorced, though? ascanio and rodrigo. ascanio was one of the major players in setting up the lucrezia borgia-giovanni sforza marriage, and that annulment had implications, especially with how rodrigo kept trying to shut ascanio out of vatican politics. that didn't stop them from sharing the pastime of gambling together, though.

[cgogs]

Ok this whole ask was long as hell and i dont really want to dissect it it wouldve been exhausting but this part is like 😭 "you cannot have a character--" yeah they can they wrote it and fiction isnt supposed to be some moral fable cautionary tale its a story and its purpose is to be entertaining.. like if at any point dream had turned to the camera and said "abuse is awesome and sam was actually incredibly based" and then went in for a hug w his warden i would have been like ok cool at least its interesting and has sustenance.. fiction doesnt have to hold up to moral standards thats kind of the point of stories. u can just do whatever

[kaoharu]

actually being asian to me is having been made fun of for lots of asian things i did before it got cool and now its like. hrmmm ok white people

[seasicksilver]

it’s my birthday, so here’s a trigun oc

[beauzos]

thinks about publishing SOBR and realizes if i do i'll definitely get some 1 star reviews because there's gay people in it