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i wonder if kid ever got his music taste from justin. like it’s a thought but it haunts me sometimes while i read the manga & see scenes between them (esp their scene’s while kid’s with noah and by proxy with justin)
bc kid most likely knows all the death scythes thanks to his dad and all of them probably met kid. who’s to say justin didn’t visit from the europe branch and run into a tiny child death the kid and decide to let him listen in. who’s to say justin didn’t influence kid’s sassiness? his chill and laidback attitude? he certainly didn’t get much of that from his upbeat cheerful papa death and justin is plenty parts sassy and chill
and what if the sound of kid’s laughter was music to justin’s ears and he’d take out his earbuds to hear it because that little boy he’s watched (from slightly afar) grow into a silly pre-teen is happy. what if they’ve talked about artists they like and justin introduced kid to all kinds of music?
and bonusly:
how much would it hurt then, for kid to see justin while he’s held captive and see this warped twisted version of the man he used to know? to see justin not only turn his eye to gopher’s beatings but laugh and mock him? to have THAT what gets his earbuds off now because this version of justin is just /that/ fucked up?
though its a headcanon, it haunts me bc of the angst potential it has
#soul eater#death the kid#justin law#soul eater manga spoilers#soul eater manga#headcanon#i think about this every time theyre in a scene#tbh i have a lot of thoughts on justin law bc he’s like#he’s cool#i like him a lot#so seeing him betray the dwma is a constant whammy#give me back my chill religious blonde dude#he was one of the cool christians#justin would say gay rights#evil justin would say gay wrongs#also??? what kid goes through during his time in captivity#HORRIBLE#i would be traumatized for LIFE
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The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue
The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.
I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”
He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.
(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)
The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.
But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.
The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.
When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.
Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.
You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds me of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.
The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!
#both emotionally and symbolically i am rooting for vaggie or charlie to take out one of lute’s eyes#i was like ‘cool vaggie’s missing the opposite eye to her former mask!’#and then i went back and saw that her mask was also different#and then i went down a rabbit hole of biblical mentions of bad things happening to eyes#i know god and jesus (and the holy spirit) probably won’t appear in the show#at least not in person#but i do cherish the mental image of adam and his genocidal army hanging out#when jesus christ bursts in with a whip#and gets all ‘you have made my father’s house into a den of thieves’ on them but an order of magnitude more intense#because HE SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER#WHERE IS THE LOVE#HE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IT#i’m not christian! i’m a hardcore atheist!#religion is just as fictious to me as egyptian mythology#however i am also autistic and have major special interests in mythology and folklore#so here i am fervently writing analysis of the sermon on the mount#hazbin hotel#hazbin vaggie#hazbin hotel vaggie#vaggie#hazbin hotel exorcists#hazbin exorcists#hazbin hotel analysis#hazbin analysis
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little wolf
#while not intentional i saw konstantin korobov's 'agnus' the other day and this ended up um. very similar.#so id feel remiss if i didnt mention it.#im not christian but the painting itself is really pretty and cool#i love when things get eaten by wolves. i should repost my other Guy Getting Eaten by wolves...#epic the musical#epic the wisdom saga#telemachus epic the musical#wolves#my art#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#<- i did it on krita im messing around with the pens cuz theyre Cool. different from my medibang/firealpaca ones im used to#also#blood#only a bit but he does having a massive gaping claw mark on his thigh..#good heavens im yapping#this is a shitty birthday preasant tho wtf antinious :/ at least hell get cake
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hazbin fans who don’t know christian borle are like “why isn’t he at any of the cast events” brother that’s his whole thing. man gives the performance of a lifetime then immediately disappears never to be seen again. get used to it he is an enigma
#also he’s had WEIRD ass fans in the past i cannot imagine him wanting to interact with a fandom as big and intense as this one#it’s so cool that the cast are so in love with the show and the fandom but they don’t owe us that#let my guy remain a mystery if he wants to#playing a character as popular and thirsted after as vox he’s gonna get some crazy shit coming his way i’m praying for him#this fandom better be nice to him i swear to god#hazbin hotel#christian borle
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"The Bible is so sexist blah blah blah" okay. When it talks about how you can avoid doing stupid things in Proverbs it uses a man in its examples and personifies wisdom as a woman though which I think is pretty funny
#christianity#nevermind all the verses that are literally lauding women and commanding men to honor and respect them and treat them as equals...#nevermind the fact that the first three people to see Jesus after the resurrection were all women...#nevermind the fact that His first convert was a woman...#nevermind the fact that when a woman who'd been caught in adultery was being quite literally attacked and ridiculed by religious leaders#Jesus came and told her she wasn't evil or a failure or worthy of death and He rebuked the men who were attacking her...#He shoved their own issues back in their faces and told them that they had no right to think themselves any better than her#especially since she actually felt and understood the weight of what she'd done and wanted to change and they didn't...#but sure yes go on tell me more about how i'm “oppressed” by this and how God hates women#do you not think He might like women considering... yknow... He made them and included eve in the “beautiful and good” in genesis??#why would He make something He doesn't like...#please note i am not saying this to make fun of men in the slightest bit. that's not the point. i'm making a joke#but i do think the fact that it personifies wisdom as a woman is interesting#like i'm not sayin' y'all need to read it cause it's uh. it's somethin' but song of solomon??#like yeaaahhh i think judging by that one women are intended to be seen as pretty cool and good and whatnot#like i know i talk about “i love my wife”-ism in media but uh. song of solomon takes it to quite another level#anyway!#regarding the “first convert” thing a guy named cornelius is generally accepted as being the first convert#because he was the first to be converted by the time Christianity was actually established as a religion#but if you imagine that the samaritan woman at the well was actually the first non-jewish person to believe in what Jesus said#then she would actually be the first real convert.
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I'm 100 pages into Moby Dick and they just got on the goddamn boat
This book actually kinda fucks hard it's great?
#Moby Dick#Was not expecting a comedy out of this book tbh#Nor was I expecting homoeroticism#And I was NOT expecting Herman Melville to actually be cool about representing non-Christian religion in a Christian dominated society??#And there's only been one (1) woman in the book so far but she was such a cool character?#Plus there's a shocking amount of class consciousness in this??#Herman Melville Woke King??????#This book came out in 1851 and Ishmael's saying this Pacific Islander he met a couple of days ago is basically George Washington#He does keep calling him a cannibal and the guy does keep talking about doing cannibalism#So it might not hold up to modern standards for racial sensitivity in that regard#But like the man's saying that this guy wanted to give Christianity a try#Figured out that it wasn't for him so he went back to his pagan ways and literal idol worship#And Ishmael was like “Whoa based? God said to love your fellow man and this is man is as equal to me as anyone else”#Real shit here honestly#This was pre-Civil War this is amazingly ahead of its time in terms of racial justice#Also: “hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling” is based as fuck I love this guy so much#The first chapter is a masterpiece#“This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship”#THAT IS SO FUCKING GOOD#I can't believe it's taken me this long to START THIS BOOK
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ok i'm almost done with the new firmament chapter, i have So Many thoughts 👀
#keeping my thoughts in the tags bc it's late and this in not going to be very coherent#positive thing first: i did enjoy the lore!! i'm a sucker for lore dumps and i love to connect dots so it was a very fun read to me#that said. it was fun but also convoluted af in some points so i saved everything in the journal to analyse it#after the entirety of firmament comes out. i have Many Thoughts about the shames mention and the judgements#but i have Zero Braincells to elaborate them. they're all going in the red string board until further notice#one thing i did NOT vibe with were the christian references but you all know that about me by now#i'm just trying to appreciate the funky cosmic horror vibe here i don't need a gloria in excelsis deo reference#(i understand it conveys a specific vibe but. there are many other things that can do that)#talking from a character pov this chapter was SO PERFECT for my guy's own flavour of insanity. drowning him in violant forever >:)#also. he wasn't happy about erasing the prisoner's memories. he understood it was necessary but he didn't like to destroy them#(i ended up leaving him with Love)#speaking of the prisoner. what the fuck is going on with him. i need to study him under a microscope#(and reread everything when i have more braincells)#i'm also very glad to finally have a bit more info about the vulgate and the apocryphal realities#this chapter answered a few questions and i hope the nex one will answer even more#tldr: very cool lore even if it was Confusing AF sometimes (but we still have more chaoters to read so we'll see)#+ i love zenith so fucking much it's my favourite roof location so far!! psychic damaging memory beam city <333#anyway goodnight#fl spoilers#chitchat
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The Tournament, Page 1
#art#artists on tumblr#drawing#comic#grayscale#alien universe#Korosa#the tournament#I started this two months ago thinking I'd be able to finish it in time for the Christian oc tournament to start *sobs*#I just finished one page the day before Korosa shows up in the polls#anyways#the tournament inspired me to make a lil comic based on it#if peeps are cool with it I might include the ocs he goes up against if I can get that far#as it is though I'm so slow his round will probably be over by the time I get to the page where his opponent would be XD;#I'm excited though#maybe a little too excited XD;#christian oc tournament#tournament propaganda#gonna try to schedule this so the oc propaganda post on the tournament page and this post around the same time#that way it's not /as/ spoiled XD
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ok ok hear me out arthur lester is the pearl poet
#he's in the 14th century!!!#fUCK im going insane#blorbo from my ba and blorbo from my shows are one and the same#i know he's not christian but. it could still work#the narrator spends most of the poem arguing against biblical concepts#heaven can't actually be that cool come back to me dead daughter#no? ok i'll kill myself and come to you#i'm either stupid or a genius#how do i find the medievalists on tumblr? they'd like this one#or rather people who are both medievalists and malevolent fans#malevolent#arthur lester#faroe lester
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also i realised i double hate that take because it takes away fjord's agency. fjord who threw ukotoa's falchion into the lava in the forge and went to pray to the wildmother in the snow, fjord who made his oath to the wildmother on the sea. i like fjord so much so im booing everyone with the take that cad evangelised him even more now. boooo booooooooo 👎
#kiddo say#wildbrothers so cool 2 me .. . i have somewhere a post abt them. how its so fairytale-y i love it. like the sword and the forge#and eveyrthing. fjord u are so epic 2 me#ALSO . theres so many other better takes about that storyline that are more fitting and interesting. like th one about fjord discovering#softness and not forcing himself to be tougher and hardened and ultra macho due to his trauma basically .#he learned he can be soft and to worship the sea that he loves and have nice weird friends and u want to pretend its something so boring an#with no evidence instaed . 🤨 take off ur raised american christian goggles besties#ok wow sorry got passionate abt fjord LOL
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It feels weird to say because it's such a popular song and it was also a big meme song back in the Vine days, but I think Mad World is very Commander Cosmo-coded
Specifically the Pentatonix version because I don't associate it with the meme and also it sounds a lot more intense compared to the original which sounds very soft. I feel Commander Cosmo is more intense than he is soft. Also, I just like their version more
#where has Pentatonix even been lately actually#idk maybe I was more exposed to them as a child since they sang so many christian/christmas songs#but they were like a massive part of my childhood#it was one of those things that was like the default in my life. like they were just THE BAND I thought they were the most popular band eve#it surprised me when I realized they're less popular than mitski. than hozier. than taylor swift#they were just THAT popular in my mind for a VERY very long time#like they were barely even a christain band#if I remember correctly. Kevin was the only reason they did so much Christian music because he was the only christain one in the group#but y'know the songs kevin wanted to cover were pretty good and suitable so I can see why they weren't objecting to playing christian music#but that's besides the point#they're cool#but commander cosmo is depressed and all and I feel like their cover of mad world applies to him especially#like it's a general depressing song already but he's a special case. like it's almost on the nose with him. the chorus especially#steam powered giraffe#spg#commander cosmo#pentatonix mention#my stuff
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imagine you don't watch youtube mutch, and your friend has been begging you to watch this certain youtuber. After awhile you break and decide to watch them...and for some reason they seem REALLY familiar to you, you don't know why though. You watch them for a few years and then you learn a piece of information that explains everything: They were a teacher at one point, They were YOUR teacher
#hermitblr#hermitcraft#mcytblr#mcyt#zombiecleo#solidaritygaming#i'm using the ones i know but they're are probably more#this happened to me but it turns out he was making christian remixes of rap music#so not as cool
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I’m working on a presentation about Moulin Rouge for a class and i found this picture and im sobbing
like what is the context. what is jacek playing that has ewan and nicole so amazed. I’m looking at the costumes and trying to guess what scene they were filming and if this is during like a break during Roxanne bc of jacek and ewan’s fits thats somehow funnier. “funky recorder”.
#And why is jacek so FOCUSED#also matthew looks so uninterested in this which makes it funnier#in my mind this is typical christian satie and argentinian behavior#Does he have a name in the movie?#I know he has one in the musical but those are two very different men so santiago does not apply here#does moulin rouge (2001) have a fandom#If so can we please give the Argentinian a name#I vote Dante bc how cool is that#moulin rouge#moulin rouge 2001#el tango de roxanne#ewan mcgregor#nicole kidman#jacek koman#matthew whittet#baz luhrmann
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having a parasocial relationship with the other people at church who i think might be gay too
#guy that reminds me of charles ryder#two guys that look too cool and i think they're together but maybe they're just friends who knows#preppy upper middle class american who's definitely gay and also he's very Christian#trans guy barista#Christian charles ryder is probably straight but who knows. barista guy probably too#holding out hope for the 2 guys that are intimidatingly cool#we deserve to have a gay couple too. morning service has one#my church isn't explicitly affirming but there are some queer people and i go to the evening service so that's mainly young people so i#assume they're not homophobic and all
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ugh it’s just. i really do love arcane so so much. which is why s2 is stinging so bad. i’m disappointed in a lot of it and i think i’m always gonna mourn the potential it had. but all i’ve been doing since act 3 dropped is stewing over it and talking with my friends about it and airing out our grievances and i’m tired. i’m tired of being grumpy over it. i just want to love it for everything it did right and accept it for everything it fell short in. but it’s gonna hurt for a while
#i’m never gonna get over how sidelined vi is specifically#and i saw a tweet by christian linke where he addressed how she got less screen time s2#and he literally said ‘yeah as writers we were interested in other characters idk what else to say’#LIKE HELLO???? YOU WROTE THE SHOW ABOUT TWO SISTERS AND THEN YOU STOPPED CARING ABOUT ONE OF THEM?????? HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE#i’m just. UGH. as soon as i feel like im getting over it i remember something that makes me grumpy again#but then it’s also like. god i loved when me and my friends were watching together and we’d all react to how gorgeous a shot is or how cool#a fight scene was or smth. and even after when we were talking about what we liked and didn’t liked it still was just like.#wow i love how much this show has brought all of us together and made us think and feel in ways we never have before#after all of this i’m still like i love you i love you i love you#anyways i just needed to get this out#other people have made posts that say shit better than i have so im not gonna bother trying to write my own in depth rants#i’m just gonna leave it here#my posts#personal
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Which games did you work on when you worked in Webelinx? /nf
LMAO OMG the momentary PANICK when i saw this ask come in like HOW DID U FIND ME and then i realized i started writing on my old blog as a portfolio to my game writing apps LOL.
idk if ur still curious nonny! but i did the fire-fighter story and.... its not my best work (but then again... that's not what the company asks for sO.) like. its a funny lil game, with cash-gated sex scenes and a lot of overwrought "romance" tropes that make no sense, but they paid me for it, and it was during pandemic.
the funny thing about that era of my life was that i was literally being paid to write like smut. and then as a wind down, i would open tumblr. and write mORE SMUT as relaxation sldkfjsd
#🌧 raindrops#im dEAD tho thats such a deep cut like miss maam whERE#the burnout was kinda real tho like. towards the end of all my contracts i was def suffering a bit there.#but it did open a lot of cool and interesting doors and i now get to say that i was a 'professional game writer' at one point in time HAHAH#my bf's current fav thing to say is that he's waiting for riot to hire me as a game writer after discovering my vi fics L O L can u imagine#@ christian hmu tho if u see this HAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA#arcane#webelinx love story
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