#i love church men

[chocochiptrip]

what if i'll turn your priest into a party priest (he doesn't even know how to hold a sword)

[sharlinefreire]

committing all possible crimes being bisexual consumer of ao3 fanfiction cannibalism as a metaphor for love and homoeroticism old man yaoi queerbaiting tv shows with homoaffective subtext hozier sufjan stevens good omens christianism.

[saucerfulofsins]

I love the juice bar scene as much as the next person. I especially love the juice bar scene in conjunction with the confession.

And yeah, the "I'm straight" is chekov's gun, and the chemistry between Eddie and father Brian too. I love the meta/spec/headcanons!

That's not what I want to talk about. Instead, I want to talk about how sensitive Father Brian has been to Eddie's needs. He offered Bobby help in the church, face to face, and that worked for Bobby because he's a religious man. Eddie went to confession, and got his grievances aired, but -

we know Eddie's relationship with the church and religion is more complex than Bobby's. It doesn't work.

And then Father Brian runs into Eddie, recognizes him although he probably only saw Eddie through the confessional's grate. He remembers Eddie's name, too. He cares! And I don't think that's a sexual/romantic thing at all - and I don't think it is religious either. Yes, religion is the context within which he works, but it's not the only context.

He's not technically on the job when he sits down at that table; he's away from the protection by the grandiose rituals embedded in going to church, confession, wearing robes. He does it out of personal care, affection for humanity; he fills the role of a social worker, a guidance counselor - and religion is one of his tools but it's clearly not his only tool. It's also his ability to observe, and to listen, and to reflect on things - putting his finger on the sore spot in ways no one else in Eddie's life has done. That takes guts, especially because he knows Eddie's in a vulnerable place.

And he does it not because he's interested in Eddie romantically/sexually - that is not the reciprocity he seeks, nor the reciprocity that fulfills him. He does it because he cares.

The setting certainly helps too. Eddie doesn't feel as intimidated, not like a fish out of water. Only his title marks Father Brian as a religious figure; he uses it to break the ice and mark himself as safe ("I am celibate"), and then finally invokes his position to speak to Eddie's Catholic guilt and get him to do something for himself.

I don't know. It just felt deeply human and caring and I enjoy that a lot, and I love how it all connects back to Eddie first realizing his Catholic guilt in 7x05.

[i-used-to-be-an-anti-feminist]

I am not anti-marriage, but I have to say I am personally losing my faith in it. The number of marriages that look healthy and supportive to me are so few. All the time, I am seeing women give everything to their husbands only to be belittled by them and joked and complained about when they become overwhelmed. I am seeing men become increasingly more radicalized by online misogyny and treating their wives with even less respect. As they age and need more love and support, they are getting less and being treated as a commodity that's been used up and has no value anymore. This is happening to varying degrees around me, and I'm just definitely never going to risk sharing my life with a man only to find out his love wasn't real when I'm going through menopause.

[eddis-not-eeddis]

I keep seeing this thing where guys swear up and down that they want a good Christian girl, but then balk if that means she wants to be anything more than a wife and mother. Like, my guy, you do realize that there's a lot more to Christian women than being married or having babies? Yeah? What about a woman who works among the homeless, or runs a bible study, or volunteers to teach refugees a new language, or who takes part in the prison ministry, or who spends a lot of her spare time in another city street preaching? I see a lot of guys who claim they want "a girl who loves Jesus" but don't want anything to do with a woman who does more than just go to church and lives a life of active ministry outside of her home.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

questioning sexuality is so exhausting

[isfjmel-phleg]

🤨

[happytyrantsubmarine]

no one will understand me for this sorry 💔💔💔

[the-poppy-outie-effect]

RED VS BLUE FANS!

I was thinking about trans hcs in the rvb fandom, tiering the levels of average to bonkers and the popularity of each character being trans in my brain, but i don't know if my opinions are universal

Rb for sample size and, if you feel like it, drop everyone you hc as trans in the tags!

[creatrixanimi]

i think the funniest thing about the new rvb season teaser is the implication that all of the grif’s character development (and also all those grimmons scenes) was in Church’s head. Kinda gay tbh. 

[asha-mage]

I just beat the Royal Academy section of Metaphor: reFantazio and I just. I had to sit there with the revelation that we've passed the point of 'this is a GOTY frontrunner for me' and have entered the territory of 'if this sticks the landing- and god I think it's shaping up to do just that- it's going up there with Shadow Hearts: Covenant and Final Fantasy X as one of my favorite video games of all time.'

[gratiae-mirabilia]

pls reblog + explain your answer in the tags!

[chainlink32]

Here's my X-men OC Faust! He can turn into a shadow ✨️

I made a Bluesky!

[papertowness]

twenty year old purple haired she they them volunteers to give a lesson to their father’s 70+ aged sunday school class of old men , 20000 inhured 272938 dead

[lovecolibri]

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[forbidden-interlude]

Wait I have a take about Tyler and Ashley which is more of a take on religious couples in general. Let me specify it by saying Christian couples because I think I can speak on that. But it’s also a reason why I tend to stay away from guys who share the similar mindset of “I want a god fearing woman and I want kids because the Bible said be fruitful and multiply etc”

People tend to use that as a fail-safe. Walk with me now. It’s already easy to get trapped in marriages but a union where the answer is God everytime? Oh you’re there forever ever like an Andre 3000 verse.

You cheated but my church teaches against divorce so let’s work through it in Jesus’ name. You had a baby on me but Jesus said to forgive seventy times seven so we have to work through it. He’s showing signs of abuse but according to the Bible my duty as a wife- you see what I’m saying? Tyler didn’t tell me about his babies but I know through faith we can - stop ✋🏽