#biblical themes

[candycane969]

I hate explaining to people my love for TBOI because how do I say that it has one of the saddest and cruel storys Ive ever experienced in a video game, how Isaac didnt deserve any of this, how amazing its religious themes work, THE FUCKING MUSIC, at the same time showing them the gameplay and its just me shooting a poop for a solid minute

[artistcalledbella]

Am I my brothers keeper?

[acronym49]

[Hello?] Hello. [Hello!]

[skepticbeliever-bookclub]

Hiya there, shippers & readers

After our usual game/watch-along round was profoundly derailed by some recent fandom events, we really feel like our response and the time we spent spilling our hearts in our fandom-vent channel made us that much closer. We got some new members and we've had a lot of new fun times. It feels like we're ready to embark on a new chapter of reading fic and discussing it together. It also brought about another sentiment; a special desire to interact with something in our beloved fanspace that doesn't always get a lot of love. That is, the steven fic.

And there is a lot of it, surprisingly. Ranging from the early years in the background of shyan or featuring in his own peculiar way in pairings and threesomes, either way, we decided that it was really time for us to show some love for fiction!Steven in hopes to inspire more. Due to that, we voted in 9 nominations and decided that the top 3 would stand as milestones in our Steven season journey. Among those three, the top of the vote was a very particular favourite of this mod's

under thy tongue by makemadej (santamonicayachtclub)

The book club as a whole seemed to agree that this fic is holistically a beautiful piece, that it reads like what it must feel like to observe the iconography of classic artists painting god and the angels in all their mythos as Steven navigates an ephemeral opportunity to be intimate with Ryan.

Rating: E

Summary: Ryan sprains his ankle because basketball and ends up staying at Steven's place. Guess how many beds there are.

Book Club Thoughts

First off, I'm a shyan shipper but…. this fic really sold me on this pairing we don't get enough opportunities to talk about steven/ryan as a pair esp since ryan is such an open book but he's the kind of guy who feels a lot of guilt about purchasing big things for himself and mean while Steven is more reserved but there has always been something so wonderfully hedonistic about him the setting of it feels very liminal, and it adds to the tone The nature behind Steven almost feeling like this is something he may not be allowed to have as the thought of Shane lingers over his head even though the dude is on the other side of the world, yet Steven is still there to take care of Ryan in all the terms. It's just how beautiful Steven's character and personality is written in this fic. i love stevens religion being used as a tool of indulgence rather than restriction. he is fully worshipping ryan. a man so beautiful you gotta experience him in a biblical sort of way And all of this being from Steven's pov just really fits his love of the nicer things and his appetite so well his saying "there's nothing wrong with wanting" feels so poignant to how he operates here to the end of the fic. He has always had desires but he doesn't steal and he didn't want to feel like he was stealing Ryan so when Ryan starts to ask him to do things that he--Steven-wants to do, it's surprising to him. it's about the devotion to god and Ryan's godlike physique that can't be anything other but the manifestation of god's love on earth i adore the dream-like quality of this fic. the liminal energy of the timeline and that they know they wont be staying together, yet it's still so intimate and loving There is such beauty in the way he is written; a kind, quiet, methodical individual. His language of love being acts of service is so fantastically written. It’s true service… and yet there’s the quiet self satisfaction Steven indulges in as he’s…. servicing Ryan….. This fic is a quiet, calming, dare I say meditative read. It’s comfort, somewhat bittersweet in the way their entanglement is temporary.

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[fromthesenuts]

HEADCANONS

warning: biblical themes.

okay so. i've been super into biblical lore lately. and one thing i just realized is that humans who die don't become angels. angels are their own completely separate race created by the big man upstairs. humans who end up in heaven are just that: spirits, souls, probably milling about doing whatever they please.

since adam was a human in his life, he does not automatically gain access to angel-hood. but since he was the FIRST man, he still gets some sort of special privileges.

so my hc is that while he's not an angel proper, he still WORKS with and for them, being granted special permissions that other human-based spirits do not get. he was given a special pair of wings and a halo that allow him to fly around and have some magic powers, but if those are taken away, adam doesn't get any zappy lightning, he's just a human soul without wings, halo and anything that makes him stand out from the rest.

he doesn't like the fact that he's not an angel, but the people of hell don't know that -- and he's not about to correct them. if they think he's a high and mighty angel, he's going to HEAVILY lean into this belief, because even he can almost believe it's true.

TL;DR: adam not an angel. fake halo, fake wings, angel given powers of lightning. if his wings and halo are taken away, he's just a regular ol' soul who'll pout for eternity.

[solar-satan]

Inspired by the glass animals song Cocoa Hooves. In my head when I hear this it sounds like a confrontation between a guardian angel and an adventurer who keeps running away from adventure.

[thebibi]

gnostic adam and eve remind me of like the dawn by oh hellos

He'd put me deep, Deep under so that he could work And like the dawn You broke the dark and my whole earth shook I was sleeping in the garden When I saw you At last, at last Bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh, at last

also man. you calling the sealed journal the fruit of knowledge and van helsing the serpentand breaking the seal = biting the fruit is galaxy brain fr

Nice song, anon!

And yes, the journal is the forbidden fruit because Dracula thrives on ignorance. Jonathan couldn't even remember if it really happened. But the journal is proof that it did.

And Van Helsing tells everyone that for the rational, scientific world, Dracula goes by unnoticed because he thrives on the assumptions that he doesn't exist. Kind of like the Usual Suspects and the line "the greatest thing the devil did was trick everyone into believing he doesn't exist". Because Van Helsing tells Mina that the diary is factual and true, it changes their life.

[humorwithatwist]

Book Review: Show Me Your Glory (Idestrom)

This book review recently appeared in JETS 67.1. My thanks for the editorial team at JETS for providing a review copy. Show Me Your Glory: The Glory of God in the Old Testament. By Rebecca G.S. Idestrom. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2023, xviii + 326 pp., $44.00 paper. When Indiana Jones encounters two U.S. Army Intelligence officers in Raiders of the Lost Ark, he shows them a picture of the ark of…

[midorishinji]

Armillaria solidipes

— Do you know which organism is the oldest to inhabit this planet, Sakura? It’s a fungus, Armillaria solidipes, 8650 years old. It’s in Oregon, in the United States, and it’s also the largest organism to live… Inside the earth, its hyphae spread for miles and miles, as far as the eye can see… To give you an idea, humans live an average of 72 years. And we are also absolutely insignificant creatures.

Sakuino ｜Oneshot｜Also published in Portuguese and on AO3

— Do you know which organism is the oldest to inhabit this planet, Sakura? It’s a fungus, Armillaria solidipes, 8650 years old. It’s in Oregon, in the United States, and it’s also the largest organism to live... Inside the earth, its hyphae spread for miles and miles, as far as the eye can see... To give you an idea, humans live an average of 72 years. And we are also absolutely insignificant creatures.

I smiled back at her. It was Saturday morning and I was accompanying Ino on her research in the college's biology laboratory. While she observed something beyond my comprehension under the microscope — I was a mere math student, thank you — Ino rambled on about the most random topics.

— I don't think 72 years is that insignificant... And by the time we reach that age, life expectancy will have increased, of course... In Brazil, it's already higher than that, because an average measure is prone to distortions, some countries will always pull the mean score lower: wars, famine, high infant mortality. — I replied, trying to remain optimistic.

She clicked her tongue in annoyance, without taking her eyes off the lens of the microscope. That wasn't the answer she wanted to hear: — Do you know why I chose Botany, out of all the branches of biology?

I could say yes and give common answers like "because you like flowers" or "because you want to run your family's flower shop," but I knew they were simply inappropriate. Ino and I had known each other since we were kids, and yet, if I had to walk inside her soul in the dark, as one does within the familiarity of home, I would stub my toe on a corner. Understanding her veered on the impossible. — No.

— Because fungi are fascinating, but they scare me. Plants are easy to understand, methodical even… But not fungi. They're not plants, they're not animals, and they're a little bit of both, so we had to create a new category to classify them. Some can save lives, like the genus from which penicillin is extracted, others can kill with their toxins, like Amanita phalloides... Some form symbiotic relationships with plants and are what sustain entire forests, connecting trees and sharing nutrients, while others feed off death and destroy everything in their path. They are both life and death, two sides of the same coin, and putrefaction exists regardless of everything. It's what started life and it's what will end it, closing the door and turning off the lights when there's no one else here.

Thinking about it made me shiver. Being in a grave, devoured by organisms without any awareness (at least that I know of!) of what they do, of what they are. Little by little I would become part of the land and part of the Earth. It’s beautiful, even if in a somewhat macabre way. — Someday I'll be a really cute red and white mushroom, and some biology student will pick me up and slice me up to analyze me under a microscope. — I replied, as I dodged the air conditioner and got closer to her.

— What happens after we die?

Another one of her existentialist questions. — Come on, if you wanted to discuss philosophy, you should have called Hinata, it's her area. I don't understand anything other than numbers and equations. To me, life is a series of formulas, chemical reactions and concentration gradients that cease when we die.

— Don’t you believe in heaven, hell, purgatory, reincarnation?

— I don't know. Should I?

— Wish I knew. Maybe we’re already in purgatory, or hell, and this life is nothing but a punishment. We have to atone for our sins, correct our mistakes, to move forward. When we die, we become free: free from conscience, free from weight. Just a white light surrounding us that erases everything.

I wish I could argue back and say that this could be heaven, but I'm not that optimistic. — Who knows…

— Wouldn’t you like to know?

I remember, during my time studying for confirmation, they told us that the forbidden fruit was an apple. But I also remember sometime later coming to the conclusion that the forbidden fruit was knowledge: ignorance is bliss. As much as I disagreed with this stupid saying, Ino's proposal made me stop for a second, with bated breath: wouldn’t I want to know? It was a tempting proposal, as much as it was a deal with the Devil himself. I always wanted to know everything, of course. I would have bitten the damn apple without thinking twice, like Eve did.

— Does it matter if we know?

The words flowed out of my mouth so easily that I even got surprised. Ino was also taken aback by my comment: — As expected of miss Sakura Haruno. — she said, laughing and turning to me, finally looking away from the stupid microscope — To you, knowing doesn't matter because you would keep fighting and moving forward as if nothing had changed.

— In heaven or hell, my definition of ethics does not change.

— Ah, you're right about that. If I knew I was in Hell now and that I was damned to spend eternity here, it wouldn’t matter if I found my existence comfortable before, I would stall like a spoiled kid and follow the advice from that old saying that says “if you are in Hell, embrace the devil”. But you would go on with your life, doing what is right even if you knew there was no salvation, simply because you do what’s right. Nothing beyond that.

— If you say it's because I'm as stubborn as a mule... — I already threatened to get up from my chair, a little annoyed.

Ino laughed. She had a truly infectious laugh, and it was impossible not to like her, you know? Even more so when she laughed like that, without worry, without limits. — If you say so, then I won't say it... By the way, do you know something that's also very interesting? Did you know that humans and fungi have a common ancestor from around 450 million years ago? This is why psilocybin works on us, because it’s pretty similar to serotonin, and acts on the same receptors. That's why it makes us happy.

I knew the name psilocybin. — Tell me you didn't take it before getting in here…

But Ino Yamanaka laughed again, and returned her gaze to the microscope, without answering me.

[rongrii]

Angeltober day 5 - Chalice

Artwork for @ultrainfinitepit’s angeltober again!

Why is there a snake in my apple juice chalice smh

[piffle--paffle]

Yea please, I will read!!!

Does anybody here on Tumblr potentially have an interest in reading a Snape-fanfiction that also contains biblical themes? Im looking for basically a little test-audience.

Thanks!

Hat jemand hier auf Tumblr eventuell Interesse an meiner Snape-Fanfiction, die auch biblische Thematiken enthält? Die Geschichte ist zuerst einmal auf Deutsch geschrieben. :) Ich suche sozusagen nach Probelesern.

Dankeschön!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 2 month anniversary of this blog! Here's all the main MTXT couples to celebrate.

[painisforsundays]

[comikbook]

The Son of Man, 2024, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence

[ultrainfinitepit]

Priest Angel

[solar-satan]

I disappeared for an even longer time and now I'm studying animation in college and even better at art. Anyway I colour picked the pallet from the glass animals album Zaba