#atheists ship

[cvbullshit]

As always;

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[roses-ink-dipped-pen]

Mad scientist Villain who doesn’t believe in supernatural beings meets their new archnemesis: an archangel

[meowdred]

i forgot i drew this LMAOOOOOO this is essentially how i write galahad and mordred's dynamic

[dearhartselfships]

matryoshka siblings for the deviantart tropes! now technically, it was supposed to be a romantic prompt, and it was magnet pose. and to give myself credit, I tried! but um,

[draculapizzaart]

Reach Out Touch Faith

[thethiefandtheairbender]

thinking about how one of the core tenets of proshipping / being anti censorship is "you have to slow down, stop, think about what's actually happening (or not happening) in / because of the work of fiction, not judging it solely just by how you feel about it" but sometimes how rarely that gets transferred over in actually engaging with the text before labelling it as bad / unsatisfactory. this doesn't mean the text can't be 'bad' or dissatisfying, but... taking time to get there and remaining grounded, with the caveat "this isn't for me but that doesn't necessarily mean it's Bad™" y'know?

[i-eat-deodorant]

Tell me about your onions.

here's an onion. i'm so funny.

ahem.

ok real talk though i've been doing a couple brief dives into the reincarnation aspect of buddhism/hinduism, which haven't been super applicable to COTL so far. which is a shame, bc it has such an interesting take on rebirth and resurrection within the nature of religion.

in COTL, death is seen as semi-permanent and a boon. lamb uses it to their advantage via the nature of game protagonists being able to restart from a save point when they died. the ritual of resurrection is groundbreaking for followers, and i headcanon that the ritual of rebirth is the main reason why TOWW got imprisoned. it is very much a loaded gun in the COTL world.

but buddhism treats rebirth as not only a nature of living, but something that needs to be escaped from. literally something that one must fight to be unshackled from, to break past samsara and reach ascension via nirvana. it's such an interesting viewpoint to consider and explore, especially bc my interpretation of lamb has them never being willing to become this resurrecting figure in the first place. as much as the red crown has been a boon for them, it's also acted as a bind. they will always have both their mortal and godly vices.

in both hinduism and buddhism there are multiple schools of thought that tackle the continuuity of resurrection, aka "what is carried over when one is reborn?"

now suppose narinder did not carry everything he had as TOWW to his mortal form. what is lost, and what is gained?

if i were to adapt samsara into my cotl fics i'd focus less on actual death and more on metaphorical ones. which, ok bear with me here, is a huge part of my personal philosophy.

humans are not static; we grow and develop, and in doing so we shed prior versions of ourselves like metamorphosis. a sort of ego death lite, if you will. when faced with a traumatic event, the person you once were is not the same as the person you are now. that is the kind of metaphorical death i'm talking about; the death of a former self.

but what exactly marks the new self and the old self? nothing, theoretically. we can make the boundary as low or as high as we want.

consider the ship of theseus: if a huge portion of my body is replaced every 7 years, can i definitely say i am who i was 7 years ago? what part of identity and self stays constant, when my personality's changed drastically? am i a stranger with the memories of someone else?

now narrow the boundary. if the self is physically static, then every time a cell dies, the self dies.

using that technical definition, technically i die and am reborn every single second. a metaphorical death and a metaphorical rebirth, and what gets carried over?

something something life and death are two sides of the coin of change.

that's why i kinda keep emphasizing lamb's impostor syndrome crisis about themselves dying in both soul and body during the execution. that's why i divide narinder's life into such stark epochs (mortal, bishop, imprisoned, mortal again). that's why i love treating their afterlife not as a continuity of their character development, but a second chance. ship of theseus, broken down and rebuilt anew.

it's not nirvana. but it's making the best out of your own personal samsara.

and just. there's something so poetic about narinder and lamb reincarnating as gods of death, because the only way to die repeatedly is to live again after each one. a taste of permanence in the impermanent, without ever reaching that finality that they embody as gods. they represent the very thing they are and aren't. it's a paradox that makes perfect sense the moment you remove the black-and-white boundary of life/death that dictates they must be opposites.

and this is what i love exploring. breaking down the barriers of identity and death in the metaphysical sense, in two characters who are defined by so much loss in their lives. (metaphorical) death, treated as redemption, treated as healing.

lamb, offering a hand up to a newly reborn narinder. i died, i got up, and i live.

[athoth-from-athoth]

I’m self shipping with worlds worst mother I’m sorry.

[brionysea]

mike wheeler's story is about mike wheeler. will byers is important to mike's story. these are both true. it's still about mike, will is just the catalyst (and vice versa)

[cvbullshit]

I finally got an order delivered, four of the things in it were Doki Doki Literature Club keychains!

Sayori and Yuri are already planning a date <3

And Science is being a simp

[starmonsterrr]

Hmmmm so... If Io has long wings she can fly...

Ink would totally ask for a piggy back every time because he actually wants to fly

YEHAHHHHHYEASH YESYES FLYING TOGETHER AS A METHOD OF BONDING

Alternatively, Ink can kinda sit on Broomie and ride on it kinda like how witches are tipically depicted doing?

Basically this

And then they kinda fly and do cool stuff together in the air and!!!!!1!1!11!!

How To Train Your Io (oh god the urge to draw that)

[blvvdk3ep]

If not meant to be shipped why create so much underlying psychosexual tension hmm????

[angelicselfship]

Thinking about my inserts and f/os that corrupt overtime with the sheer amount of love and need we have for the other. Becoming something feral bordering on horrifying devotion. Like rabid dogs trying to hide foaming mouths from anyone who'd come between us.

[knivesrey]

The way you win at DnD is making your friends CRY!!!¡

[jelliselfships]

Finally forced myself to make a psychonauts oc, she was taken into custody by the psychonauts after accidentally causing a biblical scare with her psychic abilities (she wasn’t aware of) she’s been allowed to take care of the campgrounds until she can control her abilities

[justassorted]

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