#deconstructing gods

[hitlikehammers]

For the Wednesday wip meme, I'd love to see a bit of 'feelings freeze' ? :")

Ooooo, do you mind more than a MINI snippet, if it's still just a snippet?

“Nancy called him paranoid,” El carries on, mostly thoughtful; clinical. “I thought he was smart. He wanted to keep track of everyone. So, we had to check in.” Her eyes fix on Eddie then, sharp with it. “Morning, afternoon, before bed. With the radios.” And right. Yeah. And you know what, Eddie’d been feeling softer for Wheeler for a second there, largely for the sake of sheer intimidation for her skill with a firearm but you know fucking what? If she wanted to think Steve was paranoid, he hopes she’s been fucking paranoid about someone decking her, maybe. Because someone, named Eddie goddamn Munson, would very much like to. Right fucking now. “Dustin didn’t check in.” That shakes Eddie back to the present. Squaring with Nancy being a shithead—possibly where he brother learned the basics—can wait. This is about Steve; and just thinking it at the fore of his mind again, when it never left the bulk of his mind, or any single part of his heart, makes him feel a little…faint. The whole of his head that hadn’t had a reprieve like his brain did—and rightly fucking so, because there is not reprieve from this feeling, this, this shattering fear underneath the bone deep resolve— “The salt had a hole in the bag.” Eddie blinks at her, again: this time because he cannot follow, and doesn’t think he wouldn’t have been able to on his best day, but more pressing for the way her voice is kinda far, kinda background-based, against the way his pulse is thrashing again, all of a sudden, but then: no reason for it to have stopped, either way. Steve, he’s; Steve’s still— Eddie heart doesn’t deserve the fucking luxury of calm until Steve’s next to him. Until Steve’s safe. Until he can tell Steve— Say it now, please, please say it now because by fucking god I will bend heaven and earth and every alternate reality that dares to poke its fucked up head in our way, I will burn the whole goddamn universe so that it fucking lasts, please just say it it, if you still mean it, if you ever could still— “How they found you in the boathouse.” Eddie blinks toward Eleven then, his heart painful in his throat all of a sudden and okay, okay; they’re moving. They have a plan. They’re getting closer to what’s left of it, the fissures in the ground, the remnants of the gates Eddie’d scouted from below; exploited to be here and then: the radios. The checki-ns. The salt-crumbs leading to them. Right. Right.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ghouls night out

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[mandareeboo]

Nimona really said no no big final boss battle we're gonna have a prolonged segment of Nimona marching through town for the sheer purpose of committing suicide and I am SCREAMING this is it this is peak cinema

[rejaytionships]

cannot believe i gotta say this but please don't follow me if you're comfortable selfshipping with canon racists. i don't care if you headcanon them as otherwise, because if their racism against a real group of people is a key facet of their character (much less incredibly important to the telling of the story that this character is a racist) then i do not wanna see it. this is not the safe space for you

[otaku553]

Have you seen this man???

Now you have

[adarkrainbow]

I just clicked what my favorite adaptation/version of Cinderella is. I mean, I kind of knew back then, but I didn't realize it because at the time Cinderella wasn't a story I was really interested about, and I hadn't gone into the entire Cinderella rabbit hole. But if you ask me what my favorite Cinderella retelling is, it is definitively the story of Emberella as presented by Terry Pratchett in his "Witches Abroad" novel.

Yes it is kind of a parody and deconstruction of the Cinderella story (and a quite excellent one at that), but it also works very well as its own fairytale - plus it literaly predicted/foresaw Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" 18 YEARS before the movie was released.... and while slapping so hard the face of the Disney company.

Yeah, Emberella is my favorite version of Cinderella.

[ohholydyke]

I’ve received enough asks and messages about my process of balancing Christian bigotry and its harms with my queerness and love for god, so I’m going to make a blanket post, though ofc I still always welcome asks and questions and all:

I was raised Protestant fundamentalist. I’ve known I was queer since I was a child. Trust me, I’ve been through every process you can think of coming out of that. I prayed the gay away, I spent nights soaking my pillows in tears begging God to change me or my family, I wrestled with God and faith and Christianity over and over again, I was angry and bitter and broken and depressed and traumatized and wounded and spiteful and all the emotions that arise out of the grief those circles will put on you. I walked away from God and religion entirely for several years. I spent that time deconstructing, letting myself feel my rage and my grief, tearing out the jagged shards of fundamentalism chaining me down and embedded into my soul piece by bloody, painful fucking piece over and over again. There are still some pieces lodged deep inside me. Things I either can’t quite reach yet or don’t know are there because when fundamentalist Christianity is all you know and all you are raised in it touches every single thought and concept and aspect of who you are and how you exist. Sometimes I still find myself back in that place—screaming and sobbing at the weight of it all, at the childhood and family and life that was ripped away from me and replaced with a CPTSD diagnosis and broken relationships.

The difference is that now, I have found my way back to Christ. Through Catholicism, I was able to pray to Mary and the Saints when I thought God had shut his ears to me. I was able to sit in mass and it was the first time in my life I could go through a Christian service without being dissociated and immediately triggering my CPTSD. I was able to find Catholics who showed love and support and respect for my queerness and my politics and my pain. I am eternally grateful to them. When I was buckling from the weight of it all, I found myself (an agnostic with Protestant roots at the time) sobbing alone in a chapel in the middle of the night, feverish and delirious with grief. And there, in the depths of my despair, like Job I felt God’s presence and heard his voice. I felt Christ sitting by me, holding me, not denying my pain but embracing it and taking it unto himself.

So when I find myself back in the valley of the shadow of death, I breathe and remember I’ve been there before, and I know God is with me. I may not understand why we endure suffering, or why hatred is allowed to exist in the world, or why evil and sin and the fall occur at all, or why God allows bigots to cause such violence in his name. But I can no longer deny that he exists, and that he loves me, and suffers with me, and I love him.

[babyb1ues]

… oh xavier my beautiful lover boy tortured with decades worth of consciousness and nostalgia and accustomed to building a house and tearing it down every time the world changes around you and having no one else to share it with !!! spilt ink on aching fingers writing to try and remember fading memories and the ghost of someone you once knew haunting a place you’ve yet to know oh i’m so obsessed with you!!!!

[currymanganese]

Legacy. You think about it?

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Genesis 2:21-23~

"Wait, so what was the best one?"

"Best what? "

"Best meal you ever had."

"Yeah, it was, it was Carmy's."

"I knew it. I knew it, yeah."

"Sydney: Hmm. He is really, really... really good."

"High praise."

"Yeah, but he's still a little bitch."

Inspired by my add-on to @espumado's thread here on the supernatural and mythological references in The Bear. @thoughtfulchaos773 @glitterslag @moodyeucalyptus @vacationship @ambeauty @lecham1644 @tinfishlove @whenmemorydies @brokenwinebox @glitterslag @tvfantic87 @augustmonsooning @devisrina @imliterallyjustablackgirl @angelica4equity @outmakingmoonshine @blackjack-15

[jesusinstilettos]

“I know god is real because he blesses me. He protects me 🥺”

Cool thing to say to someone your god couldn’t be bothered to protect ever. Wonder what 4 year old me did that made god choose not to protect her? :) good for fucking you though

[finalgirlgretchen]

if one more person tries to claim that the oh hellos are no longer christian i am going to lose my shit

[heartslobbf]

hater alert! far too many people say that juri’s character arc ‘isn’t about her being sad about being gay, it’s about being sad about unrequited love that happens to be gay’ and. well. that is not true and by saying that you are completely flattening the brilliance of juri’s character arc which literally culminates in her being able to accept her own lesbianism despite her unrequited love, despite all her shame and self-loathing, despite this pursuit by Some Fucking Guy to try and ‘save’ her from these feelings. like if you think juri’s entire character is just ‘sad about shiori’ how do you appreciate even a modicum of the emotion packed into that final juri duel. it is both about shiori and, even broader, her lesbian identity and what that means to her intrinsically as a person, removed from romantic relationships and just purely as like. you know. Who She Is. the idea that even when juri’s locket is cut from her neck she is still a lesbian that’s still who she is and she cant change that and, crucially, she doesn’t want to even as she is agonised by these feelings. that’s why she forfeits the duel!!!! she’s clocking out she’s quitting she’s saying no!!!!!! this is me and ive got to be ok with that this is me and i can accept that this girl might not love me and i can keep living despite that. like. god im so normal arisugawa juri im so sorry that no one understands you and your intrinsically unapologetically lesbian storyline like i do

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

Racoon Lore that I even I forget about sometimes.

I was literally supposed to be a missionary when I started my tumblr.

Like I had an assignment and everything. Covid shot the trip dead and that was the beginning of my deconstruction from religion and the unleashing of my whump writing on the world (I had written it before but deleted it fearing that it was sinful.)

So anyway be gay do crime if god is real he’s done nothing to deserve worship!

[starlight-dnd]

It is a great day to be a Pike Trickfoot fan

[theshoesofatiredman]

"God deserves the right to pass judgment"

And why is the verdict almost always bloodshed? Why is your infinitely loving and powerful God not capable of a solution where nobody has to die? It feels like he's more interested in punishment than restoration, which isn't a very loving thing to do.

"Israel was set apart!"

Genocide isn't okay just bc you're God's specialist little boy

"This wasn't a demonstration of proper ethical warfare it was a drastic one time action to retake the promised land"

I question the moral perfection of a god who can't always wage war in an ethical way and avoid needless loss of life. The intentional killing of noncombatants, including children, makes him no better than some of the worst human warmongers

"Actually the women and children were better off dead in that society because of how they would've been treated"

Are you saying God couldn't have created a society out of his chosen people where the foreigner is protected? Interesting...

"you are only saying the genocide is bad because of the Christian morals you were given to begin with!!!"

So you agree, genocide is a break from the moral principles your god claims to uphold?

[fandom-blahs]

For a shonen jump manga the Todoroki family were very delicious and messy yet their story was handled in an impressive way, it was funny and understandable how people kept jumping and accused the BNHA of forgiving Endeavor and assuming the story was telling you to forgive abusive or absent parents.

Now with the end of BNHA I can safely say that whole family was my favourite part of the whole manga and I think if it were in a seinen instead it wouldn't have received as much backlash as it did. I know this is a bit mean but a lot of people were projecting their own upbringing and trauma while making massive assumptions. I was confused when people said that the narrative forgave Endeavor because I felt like it didn't, there was always tension between Enji and Shoto the tension was even more obvious between Enji and Natsuo which itself had a very bittersweet conclusion, I feel like Enji and Fuyumi wasn't that developed.

Rei is also such a tragic mother and I feel like while the show could have focused more on her, I understand why it didn't. BNHA isn't the story of the Todoroki family but my heart breaks for her. She could have been cast aside and been nothing more than just pain fuel for the men in her family but no she tried to save her baby, despite not being a hero. It's still weirdly more than what other shonen manga has for mothers.

I'm glad BNHA never had Endeavor becoming a villain because he's a shit father, it would have been too easy to go down that route. I'm glad it kept firmly in the no he's still a hero, you can sympathise with him but he's still a shit father and his family are under no obligation to forgive him. I honestly wish we spent more time with the Todoroki family but BNHA is not their story unfortunately.