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what are your thoughts on your religion stealing every single one of its holidays from pagans? xo
That in order to relieve themselves of guilt and discomfort, white people create and believe narratives that deprive their European ancestors of any autonomy whatsoever. Casting their ancestors as victims of the church rather than active participants.
#three things to keep in mind:#1 a lot of christianization was peaceful in europe. my german and irish ancestors willingly converted.#european christianization was nothing like the colonization of the americas (as supported by the church)#2 most supposedly ''pagan'' traditions reach back maybe reach back to the middle ages. long after christianization happened#so most ''pagan'' traditions are really just folk beliefs created and maintained by christians#(there really wasn't a huge distinguishment between ''pagan'' and ''christian'' most of the time)#3 most of these narratives about the church stealing from paganism comes from puritans and victorians#who both uhhh literally loved to make up history
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they're matching costumes.
#personal headcanon that yomiel never dresses up for halloween because nothing can top the getup he wears on the daily#also my personal belief that sissel and yomiel went into halloween 100% confident in their “costumes” and saw zero problems with them at al#nothing can break the bond between a dead man and his dead cat#this is perhaps the stupidest looking cat ive ever drawn in my life there is ZERO thought going on behind those eyes#jowd is gumshoe because obviously but also it was the only costume he agreed to wear because “he's a detective? i'm a detective.”#lynne is luffy because nigh invincible + looney tunes ahh situations + untamed appetite + i think they'd be friends :)#ghost trick#ghost trick phantom detective#ghost trick spoilers#jowd#lynne#sissel#yomiel#ghost trick sissel#ghost trick lynne#ghost trick jowd#detective jowd#my art#fanart#art#comic#coloredart#halloween 2024#at this point im just not putting a signature or watermark because i like how the final products look cleaner without#but don’t repost or you're gonna be the one without a good costume next#every year i fulfill my ghost trick post quota (1) by making the unfunniest joke known to mankind and releasing it on halloween#ignore yomiel's veiny ass hands it's just another personal hc
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rewatching orym’s visit with the wildmother and i’ve just gotta say that some of y’all really let your personal christian trauma get in the way of a beautiful, heartbreaking, terrifying scene
#like my goodness not all religions treat people like christians do#in fact some of them have much more egalitarian conceptions of the relationship between god and human#some of them don’t even ask for your faith or belief to be a good person#critical role#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#orym of the air ashari#the wildmother
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For work reasons I had to find a particular picture I took while playing Gotham Knights recently and...
Fun fact! The news that Tim is bi came out like... a WEEK? before complete lock.
So they scrambled to put in EVERY. LITTLE. TIDBIT. they could.
Including Dick supporting his bi brother with a mug.
I knew the timing was close but I didn’t realise it was that close!
Also that mug is hands down one of my fave details in the game — that and all the pictures of everyone’s friends around the Belfry. Particularly the one of Tim and Kon
#the ghost ship answers questions#daughterofscotland#Gotham knights#although I will say between dick’s mug#and the interview email where he played the pronoun game#I definitely read it more as dick being bi himself which is my personal belief anyway#but supporting his baby brother is also very very good
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🦇: "You know, your grandmother disapproves of you visiting your lover's private quarters before marriage."
🐉, scoffing: "That boomer."
🦇, gasping: "Where did you learn that term? I cannot believe you, Malleus. I did not raise you to be like this."
🦇: "I did not raise you to use the wrong term in a sentence. Because your grandmother is not a boomer,"
🦇: "She's a fossil L-M-A-O."
🐉: "Is she?"
🐉: "She's probably older than the very first dinosaur. Do you reckon she was there to witness how the world's crust was formed?"
🦇: "Maybe she could confirm through first-hand experience if the Big Bang theory's real, don't you think?"
Ah, the joys of pouring wine and late night conversations.
#althought mal is a good boy i like to think he has disagreements with his grandma due to the huge generation gap between them#especially when mal grows older and forms stronger personal beliefs#twisted wonderland#malleus draconia#lilia vanrouge#maleficia draconia
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what an incredibly normal and not at all autistic thing to say! (lying)
#truly this is SO funny#casually questioning his bestie's religious beliefs and then genuinely being like “what?? did i say something??”#and then he KEEPS GOING with that train of thought#not because hes an asshole. in his head he is genuinely just making conversation. theres just something so autistic about him#also complete tangent but is it just me or is that glass of water between hotch and jj massive. is it the communal water cup or something#why is it so big#full disclosure these images are slightly out of order. the last image here is before hotch and jj's reactions#but it was funnier to order them like this#reid: hmm morgan do you think the reason youve never feared satan is because youve never actually believed in god?#everyone: ...#reid: :)#spencer reid#autistic spencer reid#not fic#criminal minds#criminal minds rewatch#criminal minds s03e08#lucky#this is NOT a hate post by the way. pre-diagnosis i absolutely would have done this.#even now knowing people consider it offensive i could see myself saying something like this#shoutout to offputting autistic people!!#criminal minds 3x8
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"Jin Ling wasn't abused! Jiang Cheng was the perfect uncle to him, and Jin Ling would never doubt that—"
Hey, quick question: how come Jin Ling hesitates to go to Jiang Cheng during the second siege despite all the other boys immediately and unhesitatingly running to embrace their relatives when the adults arrive?
These cultivators, including Jiang Cheng, all bathed in blood, their faces tired. All of the boys rushed outside the cave, shouting, “Dad!” “Mom!” “Brother!” They were embraced into the crowd. Jin Ling looked left and right, as though he still hadn’t decided yet. Jiang Cheng’s voice was harsh, “Jin Ling, why are you so slow? What are you taking your time for? Do you want to die?!”
—Chapt. 68: Tenderness, exr
#mdzs#canon jiang cheng#a child who had just been kidnapped#and then rescued by the man HE stabbed after being raised with the belief#that said man intentionally murdered his parents#hesitates between running to one of the uncles that raised him#vs. staying at the side of the man he thinks orphaned him#totally the behavior of a child raised in unquestionable love#'jin ling loves jc so jc couldn't have abused him!' yeah well jin ling ends the novel#still loving jgy#and jgy spent his last moments in life ordering his nephew's dog to be killed#admitting that HE is the reason his nephew is an orphan and that he actually doesn't like him#and then almost killing said nephew#so maybe we shouldn't be going for low bars
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maybe I should just reveal the fact that I want to make vick randy's biological daughter in fatal flaws. yeah
#I'm still trying to figure out like. how old they are#randy is probably going to have to become older again lol#fatal flaws#dreamswap#random stuff#vick looks very similar to randy#and it makes an interesting dichotomy between their personalities#vick is definitely one of those kids who did absolutely nothing her parents told her#her getting into fights and joining the military versus randy's belief in being peaceable and kind#I'm interested in what her upbringing was like#and I think bunny was adopted after vick already grew up. so they're a bit estranged
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Some of my thoughts since the last episode of Agatha All Along:
The most earnest show of religion in an MCU property is being done through a queer kid. I like that the wider world is learning about the intersectionality of identity. I believe that Billy is as Jewish as William because a) the only family he knows has 'raised' him Jewish and b) his love of witchcraft and ritual and finding ways to explain his world intersect with the rituals and traditions of his faith. Even William was deeply fascinated with magic and witchcraft and journeys of discovery.
Marvel fans are aware that Wiccan is a strong character. The fact that this symbol of masculine strength can be found in a witch boy who is raised to be strong in his sense of self by women in his coven, is awesome. He is drawn to feminine strength as inspiring instead of looking for male heroes. He is attracting feminine forms of protection (Alice), feminine disruptors of the status quo and stereotypes (Lilia), strength in the feminine aesthetic and belief in your innate power (Jen), feminine quest for knowledge and ambition (Agatha). He is being shadowed by death (Rio), but even death gives life in its reincarnation (as we return to earth and feed the earth with our life-force to continue on in new forms).
I believe that Wiccan is/can be as important to the MCU as Spiderman is. Spiderman is a teenager who could be any and everyone. Spiderman looks up to Iron Man, especially but also seeks male role models and approval. (A big part of Iron Man's humanity and softness came from mentoring Peter Parker - I see parallels between Agatha Harkness and Iron Man in this way too).
I believe Wiccan is a version of masculinity to teens that can see that women hold the depth of knowledge and power that he is more interested in unlocking and that their experiences with adversity will be better guides for him as he grows to be the most powerful magic user in the MCU. He is also chosen as a witch and not a sorcerer/wizard/warlock.
Will we be getting little boys and girls and theys aspiring to be wiccans and spidermen equally?
#i love the nuance between dark and light in this show - that nurturing comes from accepting all parts of ourselves and each other#witchcraft is being so well showcased#it being not exact science but about belief#wanda's magic is partly about shaping reality#which if wiccan has inherited that - his balanced sense of belief is very important for humanity#both lorna's version of the ballad as well as the original are good rule books for Billy Maximoff-Kaplan#agatha all along#agatha all along spoilers#billy maximoff#william kaplan#billy kaplan#wiccan mcu#agatha harkness#ballad of the witches' road#billy kaplan as an anti-incel insert into male nerddom#lgbtqia+#intersectionality
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Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple and how “ability users” (opposite to “normal people”) learning to accept themselves through the acceptance of their own abilities is a queer metaphor of acceptance of own's sexual orientation and gender: an essay by me
#bsd#bungou stray dogs#About: Dead Apple. Watched this a while ago with a friend and it was a lot of fun!!!#If you're reading this: thank you so much for hanging out with me I had such a good time (ㅅ´ ˘ )♡#Next to general considerations: wow they were right that Bungou Stray Dogs movie sure can Bungou Stray Dogs#It's always nice to see the detailed animation and elaborate backgrounds of movies. The animation quality compared to the manga is–#definitely noticeable and it's nice to see. That said... I still like the season 2 art style more? And I'm speaking strictly of art style.#The s2 one looks more soft and smooth while the da one is so much more rough.#The plot is... Very bsd-esque I don't think there's anything to add.#In my opinion Kyouka's arc is the one that turned out best tbh. I really like her narrative development and personal growth in this movie.#I like the complexity of her state of mind. how full of contradiction she is. I especially appreciate the recurring small changes of–#expression that indicate how she thinks differently from Atsushi even if she doesn't voice them. The fight between her cynicism and her–#kind nature. It's all very interesting.#Atsushi's development is interesting too. Although all the open questions about his ability we still have kind of leave me frustrated#I don't feel very strongly about Akutagawa in this movie? I mean‚ he's there. The ss/kk scenes are always great and in character and a joy–#to witness no matter what they do. He just doesn't shine particularly? Or at least personally I dont find the “proving my strength against–#myself” narrative arc to be particularly interesting. Imo it was a lot better flashed out in the da stage play! With the complexity that–#the dialogues with Chuuya added to the character. Dazai attacking him. And especially Aktgw understanding that Rashomon wasn't testing Aktg#but rather only expressing that unstoppable rage that is also Aktgw's own. About that I checked out the play and I really liked it!!#I only watched highlights (aka: ss/kk and chuu/aku scenes) but there's some stuff I really like. I like the conflict between Aktgw and–#Chuuya and how Chuuya messes up with Aktgw at first maliciously and then amiably. It's interesting how Atsushi himself observes that Kyouka#and Akutagawa get along. And especially the sskk almost-handholding and Atsushi saying Akutagawa has a nice profile were cute akjdhbsawhjb#Next. Da really is shipping paradise (╥﹏╥) Sorry but... It is. oda/zai. daz/atsu. ss/kk. s/kk. fuku/mori. chuu/aku. It really has everythin#and the moments are so good!!!! What else. Wish we'd see more of Tsujimura. And Christie. And women in general tbh.#Also‚‚‚‚‚ Atsushi's tiger form in this movie is ATROCIOUS. I've said it before but it's crazy how a franchises that relies so heavily on–#fanservice came up with something this hideous. Man the movie overall was pretty but Atsushi sure wasn't. Firmly stand by the belief–#that only Akutagawa would find that form attractive.#Oh last note. honestly if we're ready to accept a movie where an antidote has effect AFTER the person has effectively died then we really–#can't complain about any kind of insanity the manga brings up#random rambles
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Playdate in peril, the homosexual thoughts be upon ye.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#MDZS#poorly drawn mdzs#lan wangji#wei wuxian#lan xichen#I subscribe more to the belief that LXC saw an opportunity for his brother to make a friend his age than him wanting to play matchmaker#in his perspective wwx is clearly going out of his way to *try* and interact with his little brother#and he reads the signs that lwj isn't objecting to it#sometimes you gotta facilitate a friendship between people by setting them up to hang out on a lake together!#how was he supposed to know the levels of tension between the two?#If it were not for the several feet of cursed water between them they would be fighting with fists not words#wwx has incepted a thought into lwj and its not going away!#dear god i hope the boy you like doesn't fall into the water and you have to pull his sopping wet body into your arms#It took every ounce of restraint in me to not pull a quote from the linked song#so now its just a bonus for people who like to click links#I have to continue the pre flashback joke somehow#lets make it soft canon in this comic that wwx has been humming and singing boat drinks the entire time they've been out on the water
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wtf is it with so many preg kink blogs getting increasingly right wing and coming out as transphobes. i really do hate some of y'all
#non hornypost#txt#mine#like obviously there's a huge difference between kink posting and real beliefs that should be acknowledged#but it's been blurring lately with some blogs. i don't tolerate actual misogyny transphobia right wing views etc
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this is mean but. the thing is that nothing about 911 on abc is that deep because it’s 911 on abc but i do have to say that being in this fandom alone has wholesale lowered my expectations for the general capacity of people to engage not just critically but base-level logically with the world around them. like i kind of thought we were all on the same page here but i was wrong
#if you do not immediately start hearing alarm bells when you see villains that are#a shadowy group of elites who molest children and require child blood sacrifices to maintain their power. you probably should start now!#this isn’t even about lfj because i do not actually think he’s into Qanon but this is a movie validating Qanon beliefs. like#you should be able to identify this stuff. it’s really scary that so many people cannot#and this doesn’t touch the other stuff like. If it’s not said explicitly then it’s not real. what?#are you reading between the lines on things that aren’t network procedurals? or??????
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tbh my thesis on the astronomical clock in prague might just become a redo of a tenth grade thesis i did about the history of clocks. like the question i want to answer is "why does this clock fascinate us so much" and i think the surface level answer is that it looks cool as hell and is in a touristy part of a touristy town - but on the deeper level it's like. well it's one of the oldest mechanical clocks in the world that's still ticking, and it barely looks like the clocks we have now. it's like pshaw of course i can read a clock, you just look at the dial and the hands, right? and then this clock is like. unreadable because the upper dial shows no less than four kinds of time: babylonian time (twelve hours of day + twelve hours of night, but the length of the hours varies depending on the place and time of year), bohemian or italian time (24 hours that start at sunset, good for seeing how many hours of daylight there's left), old germanic time i think it was called (that's just like what we use now except it doesn't account for daylight savings!), and sidereal time (uhhh is this the zodiac circle thing?????? i should know this)
because the thing about how we count time is, WHY do we count time the way we do? why Twelve hours specifically. what matters more, exact measurements of time units, or following the ebb and flow of daylight? has the way the shaped clocks shaped our lives?? MUCH TO THINK ABOUT. or at least i think about it when i see a clock like the orloj.
#the good news is i found a book about the history of clocks and timekeeping which will hopefully be a hugely helpful source for me#i just need to. read the relevant parts but it helps that i am genuinely deeply fascinated by this topic#and maybe i will manage to close the scope on my thesis a bit bc it's soooo tempting to bite off more than i can chew#its like ohh how does this signify the cross section between religious belief and the hard sciences and how maybe they weren't that separate#that's just. that's way above my paygrade#anyway from an anthropology perspective i love to be confronted with how what we're used to is far from universal and eternal#that's the good shit
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#shoot from the hip#sfth#99% chance someone did this already but what the hell#we stan andre beetroot in this house#it is my personal belief that after the somerset fire he fled the country#hence why he is now hosting a bobsledding tournament in sweden#although how being a celebrity beetroot farmer makes you qualified to host bobsledding tournaments is beyond me#burglary and bobsleds#almost tagged this as beetroot and bobsleds#now that would the ultimate crossover#it would have to be about andre and would bridge the gap between the two plays#hang on that should be a fic#i can't be arsed but if anyone is reading this far into the tags and is inspired i would love you forever if you wrote it
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Monkey MK: "There's something inside you, that you can't control. You know what you are, deep down. A beast, a monster—harbinger of chaos! This thing, that wants to hurt, that wants to destroy, that wants chaos! You're so terrified to let it out! But the truth is, you like it. It makes you feel strong. It's who you are!"
(5x04 The Storm Within)
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Nine: "No, I told you, I get out either way! But, I have had enough of control, enough of watching people put themselves in cages! Of...watching them push away the chaos, when the chaos is what makes them who they are!"
(5x09 Sacrifice)
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*sweats*
#*cough* didn't uh#Didn't realize these were so on the nose as parallels. Like that each line is the opposite of the other#oh we're fucked in s6#oh hello#lego monkie kid#lmk#lmk parallels#lmk theme: identity#lmk MK#lmk Nine#lmk spoilers#lmk s5#*cough*.....eamk for s6.....in a way. In the way that matters to me#Like I've been thinking about the difference between like#Yellowtusk wanting to believe in Azure (''But at the cost of the world?'') and the gang wanting to believe in MK#and how there really is no difference. but YT's belief was framed as ''bad'' and the gang's was framed as ''good''#''I'm sorry pal. But ain't nothin` worth that price!'' uhuh and then it was. Pigsy u little hypocrite#everyone was happier to die with MK than to live without him??? Because they are insane???#and I'm like#bro#the rammies#the rammies next season bro#like MK. MK did kinda choose his friends over the GUARANTEED safety of the world.#He's so funny like that#I just am assuming the open door to chaos is going to have rammies
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