#cozbi

[aiko-kpwc]

My pressure ocs

Cozbi is a dolphin

Esme is a shark

Cozbi looks sweet but is actually a fucking asshole

Esme is meant to look scary but is actually fucking precious

@doggyfood

@grenue

Father's do you two like my ocs

[vilaplush]

Cozbi ref finally done… sigh

[momochimchim]

Silly stuff :33

[cr0wburr]

° ( Wooo! Videooo ) °

° ( I needa get more Audios & Motivationnn.. ) °

[northstarshine]

lane . cozbi

[ask-marygoore-bos]

Most interesting thing youve seen sister do? curious abt that lady

I try to stay away from her as much as possible, in all honesty. I know she isn't someone I should be fucking around with.

But... there are times where I wander the halls of the Clergy when I know I really shouldn't be. It's a nasty habit, I know.

One time, I happened upon her talking with another Brother of Sin in hushed voices. I, uh... made a recreation of what I saw. Don't say anything about my drawing skills, I'm doing my best with a mouse.

Stupid.

Anyways, I would tell you what they were talking about, but I didn't stay around long enough to find out. Something about demon shit, I don't know. Summonings, etc. She didn't seem very pleased, but the guy- I guess I was more weirded out by him, of all things.

I've seen him before. I don't really know him, but they make me uncomfortable. They sorta just appeared out of nowhere one day.

Michaela, I think is his name? Don't quote me on that.

But yeah, seeing that really put a pit of dread in my stomach. Dunno why. Usually I enjoy knowing things I shouldn't know...

-Mary

[ask-the-different-route-charas]

So...apparently there's a limit between 14 and 124 chicken nuggets that you can get paralized from...

[qwertykeyboard045]

Kinda just messing around in Ibis Paint Animating stuff, I thought this looked cool so here is an unfinished sloppy animation. Idk if I'll finish it.

(I think this might count as body horror, if not then oh well. But keep reading with precaution anyways)

[todaywasamaritale]

silly oc textposts wit mah frens

(livi belongs to @yaboieif, rayven belongs to @jingledbell, cozbi belongs to me)

[gia-batmm-crickle22]

Thooraki couldn't beat to see his little brother dead… he needed to save him.

No matter what.

[vilaplush]

“Why must you always lie?”

Cozbi comeback….

[xtoomanytimelinesx]

☄☄ @ Cozbi

Send ☄ for one random headcanon I have for my muse! | Accepting

Cozbi loves to doodle, the wall closest to her desk is covered in sticky notes that she had drawn on. When she gets bored and doesn't need to do anything, she is doodling at her desk.

She has a tendency to zone out while talking, her train of thought can veer wildly the longer she talks. Cozbi is pretty bad about staying on topic, especially if she had been on a specific subject for a long time.

[goodnightwish-s]

Cozbi Design #3

Redesign wip of Cozbi Arguen, often referred to her as title, Ms Arguen!

Cozbi is a German woman, inspired by the culture of Germany, but something important about her is that she actually lacks her own culture. She is the head of an orphanage where she is named Mother, happily taking in and caring for children, but truthfully they never leave, only to get indoctrinated into her hidden cult when they are of age.

Alike Kanik, Cozbi is very in touch with her femininity, although she has easier access to those things. In quite the opposite fashion, she likes to wear lighter colours instead of darker ones.

Something I hadn't mentioned in my previous post is that Kaniks main attire is a mix between the Filipino Sobrefalda and a short-sleeved men's Barong Coat. Cozbi's main attire is the top half of a woman's dirndl, altered to have a peacock-like tailcoat. She lacks the culture that the other Vessels of the different regions would wear, hidden behind the appearance of a Mother. On the note of the peacock though, many creatures live nearby in the forest, the most common being a type of peacock special to this story, that of which is incredibly close to her, so she honours it in her own appearance and silhouette.

She appears to be a kind, soft woman, someone people trust. At first glance no one questions if she has bad intentions, especially as she bears the colours of her God, but in truth, the people of her region don't trust her. Although they don't know how she looks anymore, her name carries no respect. She never leaves her orphanage anymore, living just as isolated as her children, as Delaney, who she did take in, but had first personally sought her out.

The colour pink is the main colour of her God, of her ability to create illusion, which is why she wears so much of it, but sometimes too much of it isn't pleasing to her. Her hair is actually fully pink, a lighter, more paler colour, one she dislikes quite a lot, so daily she carries an illusion over her head to make her hair look more pleasing to herself.

Due to her richer way of life, Cozbi also has better quality undergarments than others, similar with her clothing too. Upon her body she only has one noticeable scar which came from a child possibly a few hundred years ago, just a young one learning how to play, and just so happened to accidentally cut her ankle just above anything that would do huge damage to her ability to walk.

[inducemad]

tag dump

[tellmeallaboutit]

A couple more thoughts on hells lore and why I found it contradictory. So there are two things. There is "this was written this way in the lore book" and there is "this is the way it was actually written".

In the lore book, it says that devils are genderless and the concept of gender does not apply to them. In some other older sources, it says 1/3 women, 1/3 men, and 1/3 "other" as was pointed out me today. It also says that devils have no familial relationships and do not feel love or affection or sexual attraction like mortals do. Let’s ignore the fact that there were many re-writes and editions for now; most of them follow the statement that gender is not relevant:

And then there is a way it was actually written, which is a completely different story and which has all the real world biases and power structures. Let's look at our beautiful she-devils aka devils presenting as female (for what reason, I wonder, if gender has no meaning?):

Baalphegor (consort to a more powerful male-presenting fiend), Glasya (daughter to a more powerful male-presenting fiend), Fierna (daughter), Baftis (consort), Lilith (consort), Cozbi (consort), Benzosia (consort). If no gender identity or familiar relationships, why... all of this? Why extremely pronounced gender dimorphism, why consortship, why nepotism, why, lol, heterosexuality in all of these consortships and note the type of heterosexuality: a female-looking devil subservient in hierarchy to a male-looking devil?

The exception sorta kinda is Zariel, but not quite because she is the protege of Asmodeus. He put her in her chair. There are a couple more that do not really disrupt the general pattern for me. There is no female arch-devil that is neither consort nor daughter nor granted power by a more powerful male.

Now you can argue whether it was bias of writers, or design (I am pretty sure it is the former, but what does it matter in the end?), but there is a very obvious contradiction in there for me.

So in a nutshell, the situation is like sitting in front of all-male board of directors that point to their company codex and saying our company is absolutely gender-unbiased, yes, all equal opportunity here, IT IS WRITTEN RIGHT THERE YOU BLIND MORTAL FUCK, in fact, our CHRO is a woman, yes, daughter of the CEO but she is like totally competent.

[sapphosremains]

“i love it theologically but in my personal religion idk how it makes me feel. this is actually a super common phenomenon - christian theologians are often very liberal in their theology and more conservative in their own religion.” Can you please please please talk more about this distinction????

Of COURSE! I’m still trying to find where I got this fact but I always have like 10 books on the go not including journal articles etc so I have a lot to dig through! So firstly, it’s quite an important distinction. There is a massive overlap between theology and religion, and exploring theology naturally impacts one’s own religious beliefs, and vice versa, therefore it’s not a hard line per say. However, it is crucial that theologians can have some separation. For example, one of the first questions they asked me in a certain unnamed university interview that you’re not meant to give any details about picked up on this. I was given a few passages taken from different religious traditions, and we discussed their similarities and differences. A little into the conversation, they told me that the passages had been written sequentially, with each a few hundred years after another, and asked “Could the later ones possibly have been inspired by the earlier one?” One of the later passages was taken from the New Testament, with this question carrying the suggestion that an author in the NT had been inspired by Ancient Greek mythology. If you’re answering that from a religious perspective, no, absolutely not! This is where they start to separate. 

A good part of theology requires looking at religious texts as a piece of literature. In my Extended Essay for IB I wrote about Cozbi, and a significant chunk of my work looked at word choice in a variety of translations, including the original Hebrew. This meant looking at how she had been named (Cozbi was probably not her real name - it means ‘to lie’ and ‘lies’, and the Akkadian equivalent of her name, ‘kuzbu’, means ‘voluptuousness’, ‘sexually vigorous’, and is a euphemism for genitals) to convey a message, and the use of grammar and vocabulary in order to pin the blame on her as opposed to the Israelite man Zimri. So in this, I’m looking at the Bible as literature, and making arguments which are quite tricky to make from a Christian standpoint - to look at my religious text and say ‘The author of this text has chosen these words to manipulate the reader’, when in my Christian head, the author of the text is God (as discussed in earlier posts, expressed by humans). So, I think that interview question aimed to very quickly sort out those who are not able to have that distinction. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it would make it very difficult to study Theology, and be taught Theology, I think.

But this distinction is where the liberal theology vs conservative religion comes in. My argument in my Cozbi essay, that the Bible deliberately uses women as plot devices and scapegoats, is liberal, and, honestly, not something I really want to believe! And arguing something academically, especially in the field of Theology, doesn’t necessarily mean you have to believe it. If you’re arguing something in Chemistry, that’s a bit different! Do I think my Cozbi essay is academically compelling? Yes. I am academically persuaded by it. Do I believe it religiously? Do I think that’s what God’s word is really trying to say? No. Do I think my icons essay is academically compelling? Yes. Do I think it justifies the use of icons in the Church of England? Yes. Would I have icons without it? Also yes. Writing that essay, although informative, did not alter my personal religious beliefs.

I think there’s also this weird overlap in the Tumblr-Christian-Theology little niche that you and I like to sit in. You do it much better than me. Your theological arguments persuade me, and I do think I often believe them religiously. However, my theological arguments aren’t meant to do that. Mine are often purely academic. This also links back to a post you made a few months ago that I wanted to talk about but didn’t have the words for. You talked about not liking people distinguishing between ‘theologies’ ie ‘feminist theology’ ‘liberation theology’ etc etc. And I agree and disagree, once more based on this distinction. If ‘theology’ is your personal theology, what you believe about God and religion, then yes, this idea of ‘feminist theology’ is really weird. However, when I say I’m a ‘feminist theologian’ or I’m interested in ‘liberation theology’, I mean I am interested in the niche in the academic subject Theology that belongs to ‘feminist theology’ or ‘liberation theology’.

So, why are Christian theologians often more liberal in their academic theology and more conservative in their personal religion? I think because we’re not compelled to believe it. You can try out ideas, and argue for them, and find evidence to support them, but none of this means you have to believe it. This gives Christians the space to figure out ideas that they may not agree with religiously, or might get push back from their religious community, in an academic sphere.

[Throwback to this great conversation with my (LDS) coursework supervisor:

Her: *finishes reading coursework* Oh no, you can’t submit this. I hate it, I really disagree.

Me: Oh gosh, sorry! Which arguments are the weakest?

Her: Huh? Oh, no, all your arguments are really strong. I can’t pick holes in them.

Me: Oh, that’s good. How can I improve it then? What’s wrong with it?

Her: I really disagree with it.

Me: That’s… that’s fine… You don’t need to agree with it.]

Also, I think it’s a lot easier to be liberal hypothetically! And academics can argue whatever they want. You could put a claim I hated in front of me and I could still defend and support it just as strongly as something I agreed with. Also, there’s less responsibility. If you’re consciously publishing a religious opinion in a religious space, that’s something people might take away and believe, which comes with an element of danger! Obviously you don’t have control over how people use your academic work, they might well go away and incorporate it into their religious beliefs, but that likelihood is lower, so this throwing out of ideas and ‘what if God meant this’ and ‘what if Paul meant this’ is a little safer, and comes with the understanding that it’s not necessarily your belief or a belief you endorse! 

Anyway yes this was actually a very difficult question to answer and, despite it being true of me, I don’t really know! But this is an attempt for now, and I’ll come back to it after I’ve done some more Theology!! Definitely next academic year after I’ve done some uni :))