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Sometimes being in the show of your dreams means finally biting the bullet and making the Audrey 2 puppet you’ve wanted but haven’t had the motivation to make for years
#I’m making an Audrey 2 puppet#if you didn’t pick up on that#high key proud of it#waiting for the pot to dry to assemble it#ofc then I have to deal with the shirt and fake arm deal but I’ve got it#I’ve got faith#perhaps wrongly placed faith#but faith nonetheless#Will post pics#when done ofc#little shop of horrors musical#little shop of horrors#puppet time
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malevolent art dump here we go-- first up we got oscar
human john!! yes the blond/gray hair idea was inspired by this fic
and fractured kayne! blue one is the equivalent to John, orange = Yellow. dunno what to name the blue one but i have decided that the orange half is to be dubbed Starburst or Sunny. i love starburst dearly
#malevolent#malevolent podcast#malevolent fanart#oscar malevolent#blind faith#john doe#john doe malevolent#john malevolent#arthur lester#arthur lester malevolent#arthur malevolent#jarthur#private eyes#private eyes divorce <///3#not The Divorce#but a divorce nonetheless#kayne#kayne malevolent
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as a 16th century clergyman what does machete think of the printing press
I think by the time he was born the printing press had been around for almost a century and a half, so I'd reckon the society as a whole was largely past it's initial novelty and controversy. Machete himself is bookish and nerdy, he's very invested in gathering knowledge about various topics and trying to piece together a good picture of how the world works. Getting access to reading material would be a lot harder if every book was still copied individually by hand. His standards are pretty high though, there's a lot of poorly translated, shoddily printed and flimsily bound books around and he's prone to scrunching his nose at them.
#his relationship with faith is kind of fraught and unhealthy#but as a top ranking cleric he's nonetheless fiercely protective of the church's interests that's his job#the reformation and the invention of the printing press enabled people to start spreading bootleg vernacular translations of the bible#suddenly folks had a chance to read the holy book in a language they could understand (if you were lucky enough to be literate at least)#this was a big deal remember it used to be only in latin and essentially gatekept by priests#not to mention you could now buy a copy of your own the cost of books had crashed they weren't necessarily rare luxury items anymore#you don't just go and cut out the middleman that's not how this is supposed to work#distressing times in the catholic church#answered#anonymous
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when rewatching astrid’s c3 appearance, these descriptions matt used for her erma disguise and her real clothing caught my eye:
an archway? a green cloak? gee, who does that sound like?
it’s almost certainly coincidence, but I think it would be really funny if in the last seven years, astrid took up religion and somehow found it in the traveler, of all places.
#tbh that might be good for her lol#cult-like devotion to an empire? no—faith in a trickster god who had a brief cult phase!#unserious post but the thought gives me a chuckle nonetheless#critical role#astrid becke#eve talks
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hey! first of all, recently discovered your account and. almost binged it in one sitting. amazing quality stuff, i'm in awe! also, while i'm RAPIDLY making my way through the old content, any new recommendations on fanfiction/comics/anything at all? atp i trust you more than i trust myself. no pressure, feel free to ignore this message! tnx, byee
thank you so so much!!! also ohh wow it's like you're putting your life in my hands... a potentially catastrophic misjudgement
since you've consumed my tumblr I'm assuming you've already seen my fic recs tag, which is filled with kind strangers on the internet recommending all the good stuff, including some recs of my own! if you missed it, I also have some comic recs here
as for some recent stuff I've liked, they've all been pretty lighthearted:
another one bites by seateainthemountains is chaotic and goofy in a very comic book-y kind of way
ryanoid on the brain by firefly_ika is another goofy one but also short and sweet. peter versus bug spray
it had to be you by fancastical in which wade recognises peter every time - except when it counts. I'm just a wimp for identity fics, sorry
cross the highways of fantasy is another one by fancastical and is a special shout out because I adore the concept of peter and weasel having history (and peter and wade using that to be insufferable)
five times peter says I hate you, and one time he (finally) doesn't by bestie has a brief scene with wade wreaking havoc with photographer-on-the-job peter and that's a woefully underrepresented trope I adore
I hope you find something you like here!
#the faith you afford me is so scary omg#most times i still feel like i'm coasting at the edge of the fandom#like from my pov i am still the young padawan among gods who surely know better than i do#i have a lot of Thoughts about peter and wade but are they correct......#but i appreciate the trust nonetheless!! and hope this helps#mags answers#anon#fic recs#<3<3<3
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I don't like talking about things like this here, but I just couldn't stop myself, so here we go.
Nerd rant below
When some people criticize the inclusion of top surgery scars in Veilguard by saying that this is a fantasy game and it's unrealistic that someone would go through surgery instead of using magic, I have to roll my eyes.
You just know these people know fuck all about how magic works in DA.
Dawg, Dragon Age doesn't even have revival magic. Sure, there's a spell called 'Revival' but it might as well be called 'Anti-KO spell' because it just heals knocked-out companions enough so they can get into the fight right away. If you don't 'revive' them, they get up just fine after the fight ends.
The best you can do is create an undead akin to what happened to Hawke's mother, and even then the magic needs to be continuously sustained by the caster (she dies right after Quientin is killed) AND there's blood magic involved.
So imagine what resources must be used to fully alter someone's body, creating one set of organs and erasing another, changing the whole endocrine system, and god knows what else, and then making sure all of this works on its own without any sort of sustained magic source, if even a simple revival is out of the question in this universe.
Even if it works, it would probably require a shitton of lyrium or blood magic of an impressive magnitude. Not only that, but it would probably need to be performed by a highly skilled mage and a couple of other people in the room to possibly fight off demons who'd get drawn to such a magic nexus. The magic itself might even be highly risky due to the amount of intervention the caster must do to their body, probably even severely injuring the person the spell is performed on if something goes wrong. This is not even mentioning exactly HOW the process is achieved. It might require a spirit possessing the body to change it or entering into the Fade physically to make the body more 'changable', which are yet another risk.
And if you want to say 'Shapeshifting', don't. Not only is it not permanent, it's not even how shapeshifting works. Go listen to what Morrigan says about turning into other humans.
This isn't Forgotten Realms. We don't have a Wish spell, or Changedance, or a Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity. This is Dragon Age, where people not only have little to no access to magic depending on the region, but also where magic requires a lot of resources, a lot of knowledge and skill, and it's also the more dangerous the more complex it is.
So out of all the fantasy universes, DA is actually the one where I can see more people preferring to go for a top surgery and then some magical healing at best rather than seeking out a magic powerful enough to alter your body perfectly. Because I'm pretty sure magic like the one I described is exactly the one Krem said he doesn't want anywhere near his body.
#I know arguments like these are not made in good faith to begin with but the inaccuracy annoys me nonetheless#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#veilguard
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Dear Readers:
Thank you very much for your patience while I took a break!! I can confirm that my brain is no longer cooking like an egg in a drugs PSA and the hiatus will be coming to an end soon <3
Expect the following updates coming to an AO3 near you (in order that they will likely drop):
2024
My Friends Call Me Richard Part III (18+)
New Years Eve Oneshot (1-3K words)
2025
Very Mysterious Unnamed Oneshot™️ (18+)
Unbound Chapter 7
#thank you all very much for being so patient and understanding#im sorry that unbound will be on hiatus for a little bit longer#it takes a lot out of me to write because i have to reframe mtop in a way that feels fresh and compelling#whilst staying faithful to the same continuity#nonetheless#by '2025' i almost certainly mean january#so the wait is almost over 🙏🙏#dbh#dbh fic#detroit become human
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ahhhh fellas my friends and my God saved me from a terrible bout of unprecedented anxiousness
thank the good Lord for all the aforementioned things
#the talkies tag#catholicism#that was baddddd#i was panicking for no good reason#luckily! a friend sent me a cover of a song called Turn Out the Lights and it is. well let's just say it's been my go-to comfort song for#the past months XD the song is really pretty and the way she sings it is oddly nice‚ probably because it's like from a friend rather than#JUST the song‚ yknow?#so yea :D! that‚ a couple prayers made in desperate faith‚ and the thought of all my friends really pulled me out of it right quick#i had been having a weird evening overthinking-wise so i can gander that that may be where it came from?#nonetheless: I love you all very much <3 have a wonderful sleep and a great day
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My Father and His God
We climb the mountain
And I know we did not bring a lamb to sacrifice
Your God has demanded I die
(Is He really my God if He wants me dead?)
And I am scared
Because I know you are a faithful man
And your God is above all
Even family, even blood
You do not look at me as we climb
Please, just look at me
I want to see my father's eyes
Know a little love before I go
Even if it is not enough to save me
Even if it is not enough to defy God
Let me have the semblance of care
And as I lay down upon the rock
At the top of the mountain
I bare my throat to you
(Do you love me a little for making it easy?)
(Is there any hope for the sacrificial lamb
that goes willingly to slaughter?)
I shut my eyes when I see the glint of the knife
(If I die like this will God forgive me for existing?)
There is no angel from the skies
No heavenly trumpets to stay your hand
And all the same
You drop the knife
I hear it clatter to the ground
"My child"
You say
"My God will not tell me to kill you"
I think you are delusional
I know you heard His message
You have obeyed His every creed why think this is any different?
You shake your head and embrace me
"A god who would demand this of me is no god of mine"
I want to pick up the knife
Thrust the handle to your hands
Demand you finish this
I am already lost!
God has already decided I should die
But you are not, you have a chance
Do not let me drive you to sin
But in this moment I am just a child
Clinging to their father's shirt as I cry
How can I balance this in my soul?
Failed sacrifice, both holy and ruin
How could I, child meant to follow
Have led you astray
And why can I neither grieve nor rejoice
At the loss of your godliness
That delivered me from the blade?
#original poetry#religious imagery#religious trauma#exvangelical#this is about how i felt before i came out to my dad#and the years since in which he seems to have lost his faith in god#we have both left the church that i grew up in#me out of things in me i cannot change#and him because he cannot embrace any of it like he once did#I don't think that he left solely out of love for me there's a lot of wrestling he's done#but there's a guilt there nonetheless as ive watched him lose his faith in god altogether#also to clarify the imagery i am still very much a Christian#god here refers not to actual god but to the image of god that would shun a queer child#queer christian
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sometimes i remember it’s not technically confirmed that imogen is gay or in love with laudna….. haunting
#imogen temult#critical role#imodna#like what if someone’s watching the show NOT thinking the purple one is sick with pining over her best friend#ps i have faith in our collective media literacy and laura baileys Acting#but i am full of fear nonetheless#mine
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What do you find most beautiful about your faith or practice- or, alternatively, what do you wish people knew about it (or you can answer both)?
The sense of childlike wonder and awe it fills me with. How deeply and profoundly it allows me to touch and know the world, my spirits and my ancestors.
I wish more people understood that the Gaulish Gods aren’t so much embodiments of things, like how Selene is the moon, but rather they’re beings of great skill, knowledge or magic. I also wish people understood Christianity has very deep, rich and beautiful traditions and there’s a difference between the church as an institution and the faith itself.
Thank you for your ask! This has been a lot of fun to think about.
For reference I have a dual faith observance, Catholicism and gaulpol.
#ask#catholicism#gaulpol#animism#traditional witches#traditional witchcraft#spirituality#the Catholicism is more of an ancestral thing#not so much a personal one#but nonetheless I’m saying the words and doing the things#even if it’s mainly for ancestral veneration and folk magic#gaulpol and animism I’d consider my personal faiths
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i don't think people talk enough about how shoddy the dothraki are as a fantasy counterpart culture of horse-riding nomads
the cultures grrm mentioned as inspirations, the central asian steppe nomads and plains indians, are not only very different from each other in very important ways, but very different from the dothraki in ways that betray some very questionable beliefs and assumptions about real-life nomadic cultures
i personally trust his judgment here. even a cursory reading of the dothraki came off as odd to me: what do you mean these fantasy nomadic characters supposedly based on real cultures have no personality beyond raping, murdering, and enslaving?
#devereaux's blogs in general are fun but the comment section is significantly less so#watch out for the tangential politically charged squabbling between the same 6 or so commenters#and others going “but what about [point that devereaux already addressed]?”#and just straight up bad faith interpretations of the text#racism#<- yeah it gets bad#look i find dany fascinating and all and find her s8 stuff to be botched in execution at best#but you can't ignore the white savior shit baked into her storyline#fandom media sites noticed it back when got was popular#got#asioaf#maybe grrm was trying to do something with the inherently problematic parts of danys character arc but the dothraki remain a huge blindspot#nonetheless that doesnt seem to tie into her white savior overtones the way it is for the other polities under her rule#the dothraki are not the only ones who misrepresent their rl counterparts#but theyre pretty egregrious#asioaf and got have always been weird about sexuality and non european culture & the article touches on that intersection where they collid#dothraki
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Got to all the dragon tear memories and noooo whyyyy did my guess with zelda doing it had to be right. More than dragon tears were shed oh dear hylia. Idk if I am just more emotional lately or if that close up with her dragon form crying got to me. She looks absolutely radiant as a dragon but whyyyyyyyyy. Idk if I like or hate it. It is interesting but my emotions </3 Let me at least get close to her as a dragon. I will fail but I will absolutely try to speed after her now.
#totk spoilers#Got to the last then her dragon flew by and I just said 'oh that looks way too close to zelda oh please not tell me I'm wrong'.#Went to the last tear but wasn't sure I was ready. Man.#There are still mems n story I wonder if that like changes or if she truly stays one and that's it#Hnnnnnnnn#Was smth w the last one I got being the 8 one w the three having a nice tea time#and then her dragon form flying above me and reveal the last one#Didn't cry much bc it's genuinely hard to let myself cry but nonetheless totk now counts as a game that made me#Which is an achievement#ganondorf sexy yadayada yes I agree but MY GIRL TURNED INTO AN IMMORTAL DRAGON SO THAT LINK CAN SAVE HYRULE#I might. Have stronger emotions abt zelink/zelda than I think huh.#I am an empath but only with fictional characters /hj#Link and zelda became like children to me. My darling daughter why did you do that. I get it but WHY#I could try to talk abt all this more eloquent all I say is I get why and support her decision. She knows what she does.#Link and me will not let it be in vain but ik you already have absolute faith in him#her dragon eyes truly mesmerize me they feel so full of emotions#a wild lux appears
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Hunter from toh and Five from tua have always been the two characters i felt one hundred percent safe to hc as aroace from day one because i was SO SURE, i was so sure that with everything else that they have going on the writers will choose to use their limited screen time to talk about their insane identity issues and world shuttering trauma. Because they have to, right??? Right???? Surely they wouldn't waste the little time we do have with those characters on half assed romance plotlines. I always get disappointed but i never seem to learn my lesson.
#Al's ramblings#chewing on cardboard as we speak but good god thank GOD i lost all faith in the tua writers after s3#thnak god i wasn't excited for s4 because i don't think i would have been able to survive this if i had even the most basic of expectations#hunters case was less ludicrous but it still pisses me off nonetheless.#dana i love u but i will never forgive u for giving me stupid teenage romance instead of the existencial horror you promised me.
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i talk and post sm about miquella because as someone who was originally like. soooo crestfallen and disappointed about the apparent writing direction, my 180 into Understanding was nigh a moment of philosophical catharsis. and if anyone else can gain that extra insight and understanding like i did then i want to help…. handing out all of the other “miquella is good” truthers a flower… do not worry, there IS a way… fromsoft did NOT fail, also this direction really IS super fun and intriguing and compelling
#txt#sote spoilers#like its fiction. on one end its not that deep#and again having that trust broken and expectations subverted WAS still a rly cool diagetic experience#nonetheless it was also sooo. disappointing and upsetting#thinking that they did follow through with an arc that didnt feel quite right or worse#and reading other ppl’s takes that took things in good faith rly did help me. SO#also i just plain still love him….!
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I know I JUST apologized for the Yokoyamaposting, but as Anon wishes, other favorite moments:
Mineposting at 5am just like me frfr
He had a dream where he "danced wildly" with Hijikata (I believe this is in reference to Wild Dancer, but incredibly funny mental image). He says "It's terminal... (T . T)"
Apparently, one-third of the applicants to the hostess auditions were men, because the guidelines don't specify any particular gender. So a GNC man made it to the first live audition (although unfortunately wasn't a finalist), and Yokoyama said if he were a real hostess, he'd request him. He notably did not say anything like that even to the actual hostesses who auditioned
He's talked about being excited to read BL manga, and his "favorite manga character of all time" is OG Depraved Bisexual Tokai from Sanctuary (having picked it up it's really obvious which characters Tokai inspired, but the most obvious one right off the bat is that Ishioda looks exactly like him lol)
He has apparently "consulted the fujoshi(?) [question mark his] on the team" about eyebrow-raising scenes, and was met with "a barrage of surprising answers." He said it's not intentional on his part, but he figures he shouldn't try and make it intentional, since the more he tries the more he feels he's missing the mark. So he has tried...?
there's a lot to unpack here but i think my favorite bits of these is having 'honorary fujoshis' in office to ask about the Suspect scenes in your game
#fave#snap chats#ALSO i looked up the manga and omg ryoichi ikegami drew that manga !!! he's such a big inspo to me that's so neat :]#prob not easy to see since how i draw's also influenced by. A Lot Of Other Shit but VERY epic nonetheless#also yeah tokai does look near exactly like him LMAO#also yeah yoko. don't try to do it intentionally#its not that i have no faith in him it's just that things that aren't meant to happen also happen to be The Best Bits yk what i mean#let the subconscious guide you king... you'll get there by accident and it'll be fire#also what kind of dancing were you up to mr yokoyama.. im going to be forced to imagine club dancing if you said 'wildly' ☠️☠️#ALSO BIG PAUSE ON THE HOSTESS BIT ?????? sir you're not beating these allegations#but yes thank you for more bits about the man and the legend himself#i promise you don't need to apologize- i/and im sure a lot of other people/ are absolutely living for these#at the very least i am im certainly reading these in earnest
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