#it is. so fucking christian
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i don't have the words to articulate it at this moment but there's something about the way that people have specific expectations for "authenticity" and will dismiss anything that falls outside them as a mangled, anglicised version of the thing when actually that is the older and more traditional form of something, it just doesn't match their expectations. obviously in my personal experiences i'm mostly talking about medieval literature here especially medieval irish literature
sometimes this is as simple as spelling – i've had people argue that the name "finn" is anglicised and it should always be "fionn" to be Really Irish, but "finn" is an older spelling, glide vowels are later, if you wanna go real far back it'll be "find" (nd in place of nn is an older spelling pattern). or they'll hear someone say "ogam" and assume they're mispronouncing "ogham" due to lack of knowledge of irish and not consider the fact that medievalists tend to use the older form of the word. or they'll Well Actually you about "correct" terminology which wasn't standardised (and/or invented) until the 20th century
a lot of this is defensive and the result of seeing a lot of people ACTUALLY get this stuff wrong and have no respect for the language. in that regard i understand it, although it becomes very tedious after a while, particularly when people sanctimoniously declare something "inauthentic", "fake", or "anglicised" without doing enough research to realise it's not trying to be modern irish and is in fact correct for older forms of the language
more often however this search for the projected "authenticity" is ideological and has much larger flaws and more problematic implications. "this can't be the real story because it's christian" well... that's the oldest version of the story that exists and it postdates christianity in ireland by about nine hundred years, so... maybe question why you're assuming the only "real" version of irish stories can't be a christian one? this is especially true when it comes to fíanaigecht material tbh, but in general there seems to a widespread misapprehension about ireland's historical relationship with christianity (i have seen people arguing that christianity in ireland is the result of english colonialism which took their "true" faith from them... bro. they were christian before the "english" existed. half the conversion efforts went the other way. please read some early medieval history thank you)
however i also saw someone saying this about arthurian literature lately which REALLY baffled me. "we'll never have the Real arthurian stories only the christianised versions" and it was in the context of chivalric romance. buddy you are mourning something that does not exist. this "authentic" story you're looking for isn't there. that twelfth century story you're dismissing as a christian bastardisation is as "real" a part of this tradition as you're going to get
#in general if you do not want christianity in your medieval literature maybe arthuriana is not the best choice#it is. so fucking christian#as for fíanaigecht. did they think st patrick was there by accident#the arthuriana comment took me out though.#the christianised versions. of chivalric romance.#YOU MEAN THE CHRÉTIENISED VERSIONS?? IS THAT THE PROBLEM?#anyway this is not a pro christianity statement this is a pro historical accuracy statement#medieval#medieval literature
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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!
#humans are good actually#humans are strange#hopecore#honey prose#respectfully do not fill my mentions w Christianity references this is NOT a capital G god friendly post#fuck the concept of original sin and also Thomas Hobbes#also for all the vet ppl in the tags saying don’t take a wild animal to the vet pls refer to ‘just so it doesn’t suffer’ IM A VET TECH.#THERE IS ONLY ONE THING WE CAN DO FOR A SMALL WILD ANIMAL THAT IS INJURED .#I’m talking about humane euthanasia for a creature that is clearly suffering when there’s no wildlife conservation for 60+ miles#I’ve actually never had a client that didn’t call to ask to bring it in that didn’t already know and understand euthanasia was all we’d be#able to do.#that’s the kindness part. that’s the love. ‘I can’t do anything except make sure you don’t suffer any longer than u already have since some#asshole ran over your back legs’
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Silco was born in the dark. Home to him is the greasy green of oil-lamps and the buzz of the electrics, powered with bunched cables that trailed overhead and fanned out at the tunnel junctions. It's the smell of coal and tallow, stone dust and diesel backwash. It's the crunch of grit between his teeth. It's thirst. The fissure folk were always wary of miners, said they could see in the dark. It's true. Silco can. --- Silco endures wounds upon wounds, and still he doesn't die—but he's not the only one. Don't all monsters come from the dark? Tell me about Zaun again, Vander.
Howl Right Back on AO3
Pairing: Silco/Warwick, Silco/Vander Rating: Explicit Chapters: 1/3
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This is a gift for the amazing @wishfulsketching and their bomb ass Silco-meets-Warwick fanart. I was sooososo inspired by the image of Silco screaming the fuck back into Warwick's face! That's a love language babey! I think Silco deserves a werewolf boyfriend who eats people!
(Thank you to @withercrown and @spicedrobot for the beta and edits! Mwah mwah!)
#zaundads#vanco#silco#vander#warwick#silco x vander#silco x warwick#arcane#the thing is. i love them#i care so much about zaun and early revolution days actually#i care that it was their vision. i care about how much they suffered#and what they endured to try and make zaun real#i care that they were the people to carry that torch and make that vision real#and what that really meant for them#and what it says about them#and what it cost them#i just fucking love vander and silco SO MUCH you guys#dare i say it... s2 critical#let me make it make sense#'outta my way straight boy' but i'm speaking directly to christian linke and elbowing him in the nuts
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The other thing about discussing harmful things about the christian church and getting "that's not what that verse really means/that's not how that doctrine should be applied/that's not actually supported biblically/etc" back is that... at a certain point it doesn't matter. Yes there are varying beliefs within christianity (understatement with 45,000 different denominations lmao), but you don't get to claim that christianity is separate from any harmful beliefs when a lot of harmful beliefs are the majority.
You can say "the bible wasn't ever talking about gay relationships in [xyz] verses" but that doesn't make the average church actually safe and affirming for queer people. You can say "actually hell doesn't have any biblical backing" but that doesn't mean very much when like 75-80% of christians believe in hell. You can say "men and women are equal in the eyes of the Lord" but it doesn't erase the rampant misogyny in christian culture.
If the members make up the church, if members are the church, then at a certain point the cultural beliefs or majority beliefs have precedence over what was intended. You can't say "oh just ignore [belief/doctrine/interpretation/etc]" when that would be dismissing the church's most predominant collective beliefs. You don't get to just disregard harm because that "wasn't the intention". You don't get to look at the result of said harm and decide it doesn't matter because it makes you look bad.
#part of the “what kind of church did YOU go to?” that's so fucking annoying to me#half the time they are beliefs that the majority of christians hold#trying to frame it as a “fringe out there nobody with a brain could possibly believe this” belief#is just dishonest most of the time#ex christian#religious trauma
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okay but like. I just had the weirdest thought about that ‘don’t look I’m naked’ comic. Which is that that’s essentially the same thing Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit of knowledge of good&evil. So I feel like the theological implications of that could kneecap Gabe if he doesn’t think V1 is a being with free will.
yeah ok. i dunno man. is this anything
((side note. this isn’t necessarily meant to be in-character or story-accurate or take place at any particular point in time, just a way to explore some Thoughts. i was also imagining more that V1’s words aren't actually spoken, more like Gabriel’s more articulate interpretation of whatever garbled mechanical noise V1 is using to communicate. I think an angel could do that.))
and then they fucked nasty the end
#my art#my writing#who fuckin sent this. fuck you. come off anon so i can kick your ass. (the thoughts this ask sparked consumed almost 3 days of my life)#i dont know what this even is#i just work here#disclaimer i don't come from a particularly religious background so like.#most of my knowledge of christianity comes from when my mom sent me to vbs for cheap babysitting in middle school or absorbed via osmosis#so i have no idea what im talking about except for when i do! hope this helps#i love how i say that like i expect biblical scholars to tear apart my ultrakill gay fanfiction#if you are a biblical scholar and you want to tear apart my ultrakill gay fanfiction please know i am not going to read the bible for this#ultrakill#v1 ultrakill#gabriel ultrakill#gabv1el#blood#love tagging ultrakill stuff with blood. hmm yes the floor here is made out of floor
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a glass sun 1/2
#my art#my stuff#this is really fucking long so im gonna have to break it up into multiple reblogs#(howling) WAUGHHHHHHH#i love aishang by xiaoshiguniang#i love to implicate my alma mater in my art about being gay in the shittiest most conservative corner of singaporean society#by some terrible trick of fate i ended up in the conservative chinese christian cishet circuit from primary school to end of hs#obviously i am not most of these things but there i was. Depressed#and there i was after that at Liberal Arts College. the 4 years i spent there were a clusterfuck#but like a good and outrageous and lively clusterfuck#and i graduated in may this year and when i came back it was for the first time in 10 months. it was like. what da hell#like i love being here in specific ways but there is also the pain of being seen as something you're not constantly#can i blame them? i ask myself this every day. for most of my ex classmates and relatives i Am the only not cis person they know#idk my lottery number was bad this corner of society really is that bad#and so its like. idk dawg anyway i aint offering solutions but u get it like it fucks with your head to be misgendered either which way 24/#but to leave them behind would be to leave the only people who knew me for the first 19 years behind. and thats a lot of my life#i am 23!!!!!! ough#anyway. whatever. if u liked it i have a ko-fi#reblogos appreciated
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ich, heute morgen: schlimmer kann's jetzt auch nicht mehr werden
ich, jetzt: achso okay ja natürlich
#who we voting for#cdu x afd auf bundesebene oder so#this is a fucking nightmare#deutsches zeug#german stuff#christian lindner
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the universe will keep getting colder and larger...
#outer wilds#outer wilds spoilers#hatchling#hearthian#christian pointed out this line and i havent stopped thinking about it#its so incredibly ironic and fucked in every way#especially since it is from solanum#truly evil#such an evil game
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PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc
to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.
in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.
so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!
that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.
all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.
and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!
Seeing Knights For The First Time
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
The Temptation of Perceval
Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)
The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
On Perceval and Gender, etc.
Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey
On Wounds
Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges
The Red Knight
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice
The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell
#long post#GOD IS IT A LONG POST#i am so so sorry for that.#knights knights knights!#komiks tag#blood cw#if it wasn't clear: i dislike galahad so much. he represents so much i cant stand and worst of all he ROBBED MY MAN#OF HIS NARRATIVE#but like. what's christianity but theft acting uwu innocent about all the shit they did tbqh#fucking. la croix jesus christ over here.#sir perceval
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Let me tell you I was beyond disappointed after leaving christianity and going to "alternative" spirituality to learn that "alternative" spiritual teachers believe a lot of the same crap about sexist gender roles that the christians do.
#religion#spirituality#spiritual bullshit#religion is garbage#there is no god#there is no easter bunny or tooth fairy either#spiritual woo woo#christianity#Like I literally left christianity because of the homophobia and now the spiritualists are out here talking about “masculine and feminine”#It just so happens that most “masculine” people are male and most “feminine” people are female#oh and it's the highest expression of “God” for them to be together#Get out of my fucking face#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminist safe#sexism#sexist bullshit
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I love playing dress up with the blorbo
#I saw that display on the left a few weeks back and it just really reminded me of mark so I had to draw him in it#also it’s trans flag colors <3#and then I saw Yourlocalabomination and CowardlyKrow’s drawings doing dress up with Ted and I had to do it with mark#so on the right- that is a shirt I do in fact own- as well as the socks#unfortunately I do not own jorts#but I do have a pair of jeans that color#anyways I love drawing Mark Chasity#what a guy that guy#can’t believe one of the characters im obsessed with is just a middle aged Christian father who has five minutes max of screen time#it’s great#oh yeah also apparently I have to say not to repost my art#a beloved mutual pointed out that someone on Pinterest reposted something I did without permission so now we gotta have precautions#yippie#OH FUCK I almost forgot my fun fact yall#fun fact: Australia is wider than the moon#mark chasity#Curt mega#nerdy prudes must die#Npmd#starkid npmd#hatchetfield#hatchetverse#hatchetfield fanart#Starkid#team Starkid#my art
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Having unhinged thoughts about a foursome between Bruce, male Reader, and the older version of themselves. Dilf Bruce fucking younger (current) Reader while current Bruce fucks the older version.
Older Bruce is hopelessly endeared to see you this way again. He looks at you and sees the face he fell in love with in the first place. You're so soft and wide-eyed. He takes delight in putting you through the mattress and making you shake. He's had twenty-something years to learn your body after all. He's just giving you a taste of what's to come. Meanwhile you're trying not to cum just from the sight of Bruce with salt and pepper hair and a full beard. His muscles are now covered in a slight layer of pudge that just makes him larger and more imposing. You really think he could break you in half if he wanted.
Pan to current Bruce being ridden into the mattress by your future self. Normally, Bruce is in control (as we can see with the other two). But seeing him in his twenties again just makes you go feral. Over the years, Bruce has matured so much. He's become a father, a founder and leader of the JL, and still handles business as the ceo of Wayne Enterprises. Not to mention his regular batman responsibilities on top of it all. All of this has culminated into a protective and grizzled man. Seeing him so young and energetic and unaware of what the future holds makes you want to coo and take care of him. Him losing the ability to speak while you slam down on him is also a plus.
#leaning over and kissing your respective partners#watching them fuck a different version of you#its so good#current couple is like 27#aged couple is like 47-50#voyeurism and exhibitionism all in one#the moral conundrum of fucking another version of your partner#smut#bruce wayne#batman#batman x male reader#bruce wayne x male reader#male reader#bruce wayne smut#batman smut#fully imagining current christian bale as dilf bruce btw#that man is so fucking hot with a beard#i want his old ass so BAD
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(I'm sorry for) the person I became
I talk to absolutely no one; couldn't keep to myself enough / And the things bottled inside have finally begun to create so much pressure that I'll soon blow up
Lorelai would probably cry to Relient K a lot
#babs does art#epithet erased#lorelai blyndeff#prison of plastic#Krita has been so fussy with me lately. maybe I should get a newer version#as an ex-fundie christian I am terrified for Lorelai because she has the perfect concoction of mental fuckery#to be extremely susceptible to grooming#and I am Looking Directly At [spoiler] About It.#and Bliss Ocean more generally#(fuck me if this goes the way I'm thinking it will. she is going to hate a certain character SO MUCH. I can't wait)#also not too happy about this one I got lazy halfway through shadimg it and decided to drown it in fire effects instead#lazy but oh well.#didn't want to spend another week rendering a piece#epithet fanart
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We as a society need to lean into Mario and Peach’s noblewoman-and-knight dynamic way more than we presently are.
The tenderness! The chivalry! The elegant nobility eased by comfortable familiarity! These two are the living embodiment of all those fancy paintings of 13th century knights and their lovers and I for one want more.
#like c’mon mario is literally a modern medieval knight#except instead of slaughtering innocents in the name of christianity he battles a fire-breathing turtle-dragon every so often#this man is down so fucking bad and would do literally anything for peach and she’d do anything for him in return#‘but peaches all this emphasis on romanticism is cringe’ THEN LET ME BE CRINGE THEIR DYNAMIC SLAYS ME#peaches has opinions#mareach
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now who’s gonna have to tell christian linke that you can be asexual AND gay AND disabled. you can even be gasp an asexual that partakes in and enjoys sex! while also having your sexuality not be erased by your disability!
who’s gonna tell christian linke that asexual is an umbrella term, and asexuality is a 🌈spectrum🌈 and NOT a way to take away validity from a same-sex ship. maybe learn the difference between ace and aro first before attempting to speak.
asexuals can and do experience romantic attraction, so even if viktor was ace he is still madly, deeply, pathetically, and all consumingly in love with jayce talis.
trying to use an identity you don’t even understand or barely comprehend just to get back at queer fans is disgusting and insulting to both the people you’re mad at and the people you’re using and throwing under the bus.
it’s just your own homophobia, abelism and acephobia showing christian
#jayvik#arcane#viktor#christian linke#league of legends#arcane critical#arcane spoilers#asexuality#this man thinking he can use asexuality to bring down jayvik#DEMISEXUALITY EXISTS WHITE BOY#even if he was he would still be in love with jayce so fuck you
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Nomura was insane for that statement he made. I know I should be focused on the foreteller part of it but I'm stuck on the inspiration for so much coming from the story of an American blues musician meeting with the devil to get guitar skills.
Like on one hand. Darkness/mom, mom/foretellers, marluxia/sora, mom/xehanort and xehanort/terra all being the devil and guitar player throughout the series imo. But also all I can think about is the devil went down to gerogia because that is so xehanort and sora to me in kh3 like is that literally not their vibe and it's also such a hysterical vision in my mind. I'm sorry like:
"Well, that ol' Devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat
And he laid that golden fiddle down on the ground at Johnny's feet
Johnny said, "Devil, come on back if you ever wanna try again"
Also "this means demyx is mom" I will kms if that's the truth. I think its funnier if demyx also somehow "made a deal with the devil" but he's the only literal interpretation of this story in kh and that's why he has a sitar it would incredibly hilarious
[Edit] tumblr mobile is being a dick not letting me add a link here's what Nomura said irt BBS 15th anniversary on twt:
#also bbs com and ux are my favorite games so him talking about them specifically like. im fucking WINNING#nomura drawing from american music also not new since he's reaponsible for frank sinatra in stranger of paradise lol#my friends know I went down the rabbit hole of christian game reviews of kh and christians love kh as a god honoring game#so those guys are winning too#anyway later I'll go back and put this all under a microscope for foreteller purposes#SORRY I FEEL INSANE I WANTED TO SAY MORE ABOUT SORA AND XEHANORT BUT DIDNT WANT TO LOSE THE PLOT#kh#khux#im rambling#khux essay#kh3
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