#misanthropic deity

[nyokacore]

I'm not biased towards any character, what are you talking abou-

[bonefall]

Splashtail and Atheism

Hello. I am an Atheist and I call Splashstar an Atheist because he is based on widespread bigoted depictions of godless people like myself. There have now been several posts about this written as if they're trying to "correct a misconception," and I am tired of vagueposts completely missing the point of the criticism to get caught up on arguing semantics.

The misanthropic, god-hating "Atheist" character in Christian propaganda, which I feel Splashstar has some alarming similarities with, does not come from the writer's correctable "misconception" of irreligious labels. It is born from a hatred of nonbelievers.

Specifically, my point that Splashtail is a mashup of two popular anti-secular tropes common in religious media;

The assertion that there's no such thing as a "real" nonbeliever, and that Atheists are just "rebelling" against God because we're mad at him, want to do bad things without guilt, or have "lost our way."

The belief that morality itself stems from faith in a higher moral being, asserting that the irreligious are "evil" in contrast to the faithful.

Even passing familiarity with the arguments of Christian apologia seen in Chick Tracts, Pureflix films, PragerU videos, and so on, will have put these tropes in front of you. They are false and harmful, and they target Atheists.

For more on this, TVTropes has an entire article dedicated to the Hollywood Atheist and its sub-tropes. Note how many of these Curlfeather and Splashtail fall into, regardless of if you're arguing that they are "real atheists" or not.

Those that hate us do not care about semantic labels. To them, we are without God, A-Theistic, and they do not actually care what is at the core of your beliefs if it contradicts their narrative.

But, even worse, the "Splashtail Can't Be An Atheist" crowd isn't even totally correct on the semantics they're trying to have a pedant battle about.

Most atheistic organizations and online atheists define Atheism as "one who does not believe in God" and attempt to push a sliding scale of "agnosticism" on how hard of a "maybe" you're feeling about your lack of faith. In the sliding agnostic scale, Agnostic Atheists are a "probably no god" and Gnostic Atheists are a "definitely no god." Others describe that scale as "hard" and "soft" Atheism-- but there is NOT universal agreement on that definition.

There other definitions of an "Atheist," and even those who reject the "agnostic scale" completely (I am one of them). "Atheism" was historically the catch-all term for what we might now call "Irreligious," and more.

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy explores its many meanings, and proposes that what defines an Atheist is an active choice to distance oneself from faith; "Someone who rejects the premise of gods either based on lack of belief, or meaninglessness of the question." Matt Dillahunty, a prominent educator and activist, intentionally refers to himself as an Atheist when others (including religious people!) have tried to pressure him into using the label Agnostic, for reasons he covers in great depth. Historically, "atheist" simply meant anyone who denied the gods or acted impiously, evolving into use as a broad label for irreligious practices around the 1500s, until attempts to narrow it to "nonbelievers in deities" in the 1800s.

By EoP's expanded definition alone, Splashstar qualifies as an Atheist. The rejection does not have to come from a belief that Theism is false, but that the question is meaningless. He doesn't have to "believe" in StarClan any more than you have to "believe" in a total stranger. He rejects faith in it and lives without their influence.

But even more than that, "atheist" is a broad, stigmatized term with a history you can't erase. Hundreds of combinations of philosophies, spiritual beliefs, and logical positions have been called "Atheism."

"Atheist" can refer to Agnostics (those who aren't sure if there is a god or not), Antitheists (opposition to the belief in and/or worship of gods), Igtheists (those that feel that "god" is such a nebulous term that the question of belief is meaningless), Apatheists (people who just don't care), practitioners of Non-Deistic religions (such as Humanistic Judaism and some sects of Buddhism), and even heretics who spoke against religion like Diagoras of Melos (gay guy who chopped up a statue of hercules and used it to bake beans. king.)

In a fantasy universe where gods are provably, visibly real, the term "Atheist" is going to look a lot more like those historic and expansive uses.

Unless you want to argue that "atheism" by the narrow, popular definition of "believing in deities" can't exist in such a setting. So, arguing that Cloudtail stopped being an Atheist when he saw demons in OotS, in spite of this not affecting his spiritual practices. Or, dancing around using one uniting term, you could specifically say Curlfeather is a Misotheist, Splashstar is an Antitheist or Agnostic, Mothwing is Deist, etc.

You could have a discussion about how applicable these words even are in the setting. Or make up terms that satisfy yourself. You could do this forever. But I choose not to.

I think it's counterproductive to push people to learn a bunch of terms for hyperspecific branches of irreligious philosophy just to discuss clear anti-secular sentiment within the text of a book, actually. Or push people to abandon a useful word because fantasy isn't exactly the same as real life. Functionally, imo, all of those aforementioned cats are Atheists within this setting, living "without god" by rejecting belief-- and many of them invoke real world bigotry, with tropes much older than WC itself.

So the simple fact is; Calling Splashtail an "Evil Atheist" immediately communicates the narrative tropes I am criticizing.

Either by authorial accident or on purpose, Splashstar's lack of morality being tied to his rejection of StarClan invokes the demonized atheist trope, very much like the ones seen in PureFlix's God's Not Dead or Jack Chick's The Last Generation.

All the arbitrary wishing that the terms were more narrow and exclusive will not change the reality that those characters are intended by bigots as atheists. The terms of the discussion reflect that. Trying to tut-tut the fandom for calling a spade a spade is a smug way to phrase you completely missed the damn point.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Re-enchanting Humanity

Beyond any shadow of doubt, we direly need an ecological sensibility — one that is marked by a sense of wonder for natural evolution and the splendor of the biosphere in its many varied forms. But nature is not a scenic window that overlooks the Pacific coastal mountains or the New England marshlands. Nature is above all a process — a wondrous process that can admired on its own terms, not by invoking deities that are simply crude anthropomorphic projections of ourselves — male or female — in a mystified, often irrational, and sometimes a highly hierarchical form — a procedure that has served hierarchical interests for many millenia by lulling the oppressed into a paralyzing quietism and sense of resignation.

A remarkable product of natural evolution are the human beings who people the planet — beings that are no less products of nature than grizzly bears and whales. And like bears and whales, the human species — for it is no less a species when seen from a biological standpoint than it is social from the standpoint of social ecology — has acquired a remarkable capacity called conceptual thought. In this respect, natural evolution has endowed this species with powers that are unmatched by other species: powers to form highly institutionalized communities called societies that, unlike the genetically programmed “social insects,” are capable of an evolutionary development of their own, however rooted they may be in nature.

The crucial question we face today — not only for ourselves as human beings but for the entire biosphere — is how social evolution will proceed and in what direction it will go. To deal with this question primarily as a matter of spiritual renewal, desirable as that may be. is not only evasive but socially disarming. Social evolution took a wrong turn ages ago when it shifted from egalitarian institutions and relations to hierarchical ones. It took an even worse turn a few centuries ago when it shifted from a relatively cooperative society to a highly competitive one. If we are to bring society and nature into accord with each other, we must develop a movement that fulfills the evolutionary potential of humanity and society, that is to say, turn the human world into a self-conscious agent of the natural world and enhance the evolutionary process — natural and social. All the eco-babble of Devall, Sessions, Naess, and their acolytes aside, if we do not intervene to act creatively on nature (indeed, to rescue it from itself at times), we will betray everything of a positive character that natural evolution itself endowed us with — our potentially unprecedented richness of mind, sympathy, and conscious capacity to care for nonhuman species. Given an ecological society, our technology can be placed as much in the service of natural evolution as it can be placed in the service of a rational social evolution.

To call for a “return to the Pleistocene,” as “Earth First!” has done, to degrade humanity as so many misanthropic “antihumanists” and “biocentrists” have done is not only atavistic but crudely reactionary. A degraded humanity will only yield a degraded nature as our capitalistic society and our hierarchical history have amply demonstrated. We are direly in need not only of “re-enchanting the world” and “nature” but also or re-enchanting humanity — of giving itself a sense of wonder over its own capacity as natural beings and a caring product of natural evolution. A Supernature, peopled by “earth-based” deities, must be replaced by a healthy naturalism in which, as a movement, we will re-establish our severed ties with nature by naturalistic means and heal our terribly wounded society by social means. For Greens, in particular, this means that we must formulate a new, independent, revolutionary politics, using this word in its broadest possible sense, not recycle old, shopworn, sedating deities — be they Eastern or Western, pagan or Christian, “earth-bound” or “heaven-bound”. We must learn to look reality directly in the face, not obscure it with irrational thinking and a fog of dense, obscurantist myths.

The Left Network of the Vermont Greens has already taken the all-important step of trying to formulate a truly radical program — “Toward a New Politics” — that sketches out the basic concepts of a Left Green ecological movement. It openly describes itself as an “ecological humanism” (to use this term in its best sense, not the perverted meaning given to the word “humanism” by “deep ecology.’” And it advances the basic principles of social ecology as they apply to American political life. Either ecology movements and the Greens will free themselves of subtly hierarchical “centricities” — “bio” or “anthropo” — and develop a clearly defined and coherent body of social principles based on ecological concepts or they will become a marginalized collection of privileged encounter groups — one that may learn to “think like a mountain,” as Devall recommends but one that will be justly ignored as another fad, a target of derision at worst or healthy ridicule at best.

[pushing500]

Hello There!

Welcome to my art blog! I hope you enjoy your stay. <3

To make navigation a bit easier, I'll pin the links to my RimWorld playthroughs (by far the most popular posts on this blog) so that newcomers don't feel too lost.

The Animist Alliance- A colony mostly composed of charitable vegetarians who just want to build a pretty base and raise an army of thrumbos (finished) Bonus: The "theme song" of this colony (the song that always makes me think of them)

The Children of Ecthuctu- A cult of nomadic cannibals who worship an eldritch deity and wander the planet searching for a ship (finished) Bonus: The "theme song" of this colony (the song that always makes me think of them)

A Mechanitor's Message- A misanthropic mechanitor who wants nothing to do with other people and everything to do with mechanoids (in progress) Bonus: The "theme song" of this colony (the song that always makes me think of it)

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[july-19th-club]

my absolute most cantankerous crank who ruins good times opinion is that i hate gratitude as a movement. it's repackaged religiousthinking that attempts to be secular but just can't be, because 'thanking' is an interpersonal verb that involves at least two individuals, so like, either it's a spiritual practice or it isn't. if my friend does something nice for me and i say thank you, that's gratitude. the universe can't say 'de nada' for something you write in your gratitude journal. you can be glad that the sun is shining, or enjoy the sunshine, but to be grateful for it implies somebody gave it to you/made it happen specifically, which puts it in spiritual territory. which i fully realize is an autism accuracy peeve of mine which nobody else would find annoying but it IS annoying to hear someone say that gratitude as an intangible practice is not a spiritual thing. the deity is IMPLIED. the implication is there. i can't not make it be there.

my other beef with gratitude as a Thing that Everybody Should Do for your mental health or whatever is that yes, of course, you gotta be happy about some stuff and be glad and enjoy things in your existence or you'll fuckin die, but sometimes 'have gratitude' can sound like distraction. like, stop focusing on the negative and be grateful! (stop thinking about all the things that are wrong and need fixed. be grateful for what you have. be grateful for what the nebulous authority has given you in its magnanimity and don't seek to improve things or focus too much on things that you can't put a grateful spin on. seek, always, to put a grateful spin on even the worst turns of events). too much of this thinking will have you not just not seeking to change things for the better, but not even waiting for things to change, just ferreting out ever smaller seeds of gratitude from ever shrinking sources of joy, too focused on being thankful for what little you have to wonder whether there could be more. eat your gruel! there's a little kid somewhere who doesn't even HAVE gruel! you know. which all makes me an unbelievable pessimist misanthrope bitch, but i figure if a philosophy can't stand up to a little scrutiny or picking at it aint a very good philosophy

[interstellarsystem]

so.. when you say "nonhuman" do you mean you reject your humanity?

i've never thought about it. i'm just 'curious' :))))

Hey! Happy to explain. Confused as to what the quotations around curious mean, but I'll answer anyway haha.

So, we're a system (multiple people in one body, ours is partially due to Dissociative Identity Disorder) of quite a few individuals. A lot of these people just are nonhuman concepts--animals, deities of all sorts, fictional characters, mythical creatures.. You name it. We have a lot of diverse personal identities in here, mostly because that's how our brain decided to manifest our plurality. Nonhuman headmates are fairly known in both medical and nonmedical presentations of plurality.

Aside from that, we're also collectively otherkin--meaning someone who identifies as / is a nonhuman entity of some sort. This has a lot of overlap with nonhuman system members, but the main difference is that a kintype (entity that the otherkin identifies as) is discovered and not immediately innate and/or known. We have several differing explanations for us being otherkin--some being spiritual, some psychological, and some don't bother to think about the "why". We are a crow collectively, as well as having Hunter from The Owl House as an identity too. Our body may look human and be biologically human, sure, but inside we are not, and this is our body, so as something nonhuman we also see our body as an extension of that regardless of the "actual" biology.

I suppose you could call it a rejection of humanity? But for us personally it wasn't a choice, and was just as strongly felt as our gender not alligning with our birth assigned gender. We reject our personal humanity because we are otherkin, not the other way around. We don't personally reject human society, or living in it, or those who do fully identify as human--and we don't like the misanthropic mindset, though that's for another post haha. We just aren't human, and in the limited spaces we can, prefer to be percieved as something other than that. Honestly we're all for the normalisation of it so that we can be open about this more often--and any other nonharmful personal identity is also included in this, mind you.

Hope that explains it well enough, haha. We just got back from a work meeting so our brain might not be working at 100% after spending a lot of focus on it.

[tobiasdrake]

Oh cool, place your bets on what this one is.

TAKING ALL BETS, TAKING ALL BETS.

1 - Space Alien 2 - Time Traveler 3 - Esper 4 - Deity 5 - A secret fifth thing

Oh she brought you here to kill you. My dude, turn around and run for your life because the tone of this conversation is not very Slice of Life Anime.

Yep. That's it, Kyon. That's what she's talking about. She isolated you in a classroom super late when nobody's around to hear you scream and is asking you weird questions because she's interested in economic policy.

You know what? Go ahead and kill him. If he can't feel out the tone of this conversation after three separate talks with supernatural beings about Haruhi, then there's no helping it.

Wait, what XD

Okay, I was half-joking with the "She brought you here to kill you" bit. I legit thought this was just going to be another, "By the way I'm uh, spin the wheel, a MOLE PERSON and super interested in observing Haruhi, just wanted you to know!" talk.

But nope. I actually called it. She's going to stab Haruhi's pet in the throat and see if that John Wicks her from violent misanthrope to cosmically enraged super-deity. She got bored with watching slice-of-life anime and wants to make it a battle shonen instead.

Okay. I am here for this. And at least now Kyon's finally figured out the context of--

*deep breath*

Please kill him. He will not be missed.

[demonfox38]

Completed: Super Lesbian Animal RPG

Yep!

Did you want to see my Twitch recap for last year?

I know, right? Total loser, being in the top 10% for two categories. (To be fair, it's usually that I'm cooking while I have a speed runner on in the background.) Relevant to this image and review is streamer Punchy, pictured above in my top 5 streamers for the year. While primarily known as a speed runner for survival horror games, dude's got a myriad of games that he routinely runs. Like, over 100.

One of those games being "Super Lesbian Animal RPG."

I know. That's a fucking title right there. Instantly curious, I put Punchy on, watching him go through about fifteen minutes of the run. I probably needed less than five to be sold on the game. I've got a certain weakness for RPG Maker games, to begin with. The colorful visuals, mixed sprite/smooth artwork, and catchy music were also sellers. Probably the thing that made me snort-laugh my way into getting this game is one of the main characters sharing a name with me.

Look, man. I only see Allison come up in video games under two categories: localizers needing to fill out names for random Pokémon foes, and localizers just being weird in general (see: "Totally Rad.") Knowing what I know about Japanese, Allison is a pain in the ass in terms of spelling and pronunciation, especially if you throw honorifics into the mix. Given most of my game choices are either Japanese or built in admiration of Japanese games, I just don't see the name come up a lot. So, I was amused it came up here, of all places.

I suppose it could be a reference to Alison Bechdel, now that I think about it…

If the title "Super Lesbian Animal RPG" isn't self-explanatory as to what the game is about, I don't know what is. In slightly expanded terms, it's a game about a fox name Melody who becomes a paladin in order to aid and protect her girlfriend (Allison) while adventuring around the Sapphire Islands. Things go awry after fellow magician and literal cowgirl Claire attempts to power them up and train them, accidentally gaining the attention of both a misanthropic, anthropomorphized VHS cassette tape and the deity long since vanished from their world. What follows is an adventure in sapphic love, undead cowboy aesthetics, winter wonderlands, and some of the greatest collections of color palettes seen since the 1980s.

"Super Lesbian Animal RPG" is also the professional, copyright un-infringing descendant of a title called "Super Lesbian Horse RPG," a "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" fangame. I only bring it up to give some kind of epiphany/explanation for the aesthetics going on here. The main tower, hometown protector Faith, and the main female villain Verena may also remind you of a few characters from that show. So, if you were like, "Hey, these vibes are—" then YES! Yes, the vibes are.

Being an RPG Maker fangame (specifically, RPG Maker VX Ace), the gameplay is pretty intuitive to anyone familiar with this engine or genre. Battles are telegraphed with moving dark, glitchy blotches on screen (although, dens with random encounters are also made available for grinding.) Combat is taken in turns, allowing the player to input commands before the enemy and your party take swings. There are some considerations here that I find both unique and extremely helpful! For example, the game rewards you with using the party members as their role dictates, granting Star Power for actions like Melody healing, Allison and Claire attacking, and fourth party member Jodie defending others and tanking damage. This Star Power allows access to more powerful combat maneuvers, so it's important to get as much as possible to maximize both damage output, defense, and recovery. Additionally, acting as the game wants you to will also adjust the combatants' actions to be most beneficial to you. Like, Melody will always move first when healing, but last when attacking. Similarly, Jodie will also break through enemy defenses before Allison and Claire can attack, allowing them to maximize their damage. It's a super rewarding system, and I appreciate its consistency!

Outside of combat, standard RPG obstacles await the player. This can include challenges like locked doors, ice skating puzzles, bridge manipulation, finding passcodes for safes, and generally what you'd expect for traversal threats. It's not the roughest challenge in the world, but should you need help, the game's creators have your back. (Additionally, lead creative Bobby Schroeder is also on Tumblr, if you want to learn more about her!)

This game really does go out of its way to try and help the player. It offers two difficulty settings (normal and easy), as well as a quest log to help keep track of any pending jobs or story beats. Frankly, I'm tempted to say the game is almost too easy. Like, it was a rare instance to have a character get knocked out. About the biggest threat I faced was a set of side bosses (the VHS tape's sons), and even with them, I was able to squeak by on a first attempt. I also maxed out levels super early, so the final dungeon was more about getting enemies cleared out of the way than actually grinding for strength.

Not that I don't think things aren't trying to kill me! I just think adhering to each character's strengths goes a long, long way. Also, putting the Powerhouse Pin on Melody and having the Amorous Paladin track makes recovering MP a breeze. I've heard rumors of a hard mode being developed, so perhaps this criticism has already been noticed or taken to heart. But, if any tips for hardening the product are needed, nixing the Powerhouse Pin and the Amorous Paladin route as an option would definitely be an easy way to make things harder.

I probably should explain the whole "paladin route" thing, shouldn't I?

The major gameplay style adjustment you make early on is by selecting Melody's paladin specialization of choice. This includes Woodland (granting regen abilities to characters), Amorous (sacrificing Star Power to restore MP or Star Power for your other characters), and Resolute (inflicting damaging seals on enemies.) I haven't experimented with the Woodland or Resolute paths, but considering the amount of money I saved on not having to purchase gobs of healing items, I found what I picked to be pretty darn helpful! I would suspect that Resolute would be the next best option, but maybe I'm just not seeing much value in the Woodland's Nature Nurture ability (healing everybody the amount of health that Melody has.) Or, maybe I see that as a risk, if she gets hurt.

Despite being a stickler for character classes and the roles they play, this game is anything but orthodox. I mean, if the "Lesbian Animal" part of "Super Lesbian Animal RPG" was any indication. It's been a while since I've been as consistently amused with a game's sense of humor as I was with this one! Its characters aren't above calling bullshit on the game's circumstances, and enemies are just as quick at handing sass back. If you have an inborn sense for riffing bad movies and don't mind taking a few potshots, this game will be right up your alley.

Additionally, this is one of very few games that I felt motivated to talk to all NPCs as much as possible. Like, "Tales of Symphonia" got me to pop up to a 50% ratio, and that was only by bribing me with money and goods! Everybody's some degree of weirdo, whether it comes down to capitalist machinations, a family's fascination with world domination (and everyone treating that as cute/sweet), hidden aspirations for competition, or just generally people with urges to do weird things. The NPCs feel very unique, feeding into the motivation to talk with them as much as possible. It's rewarding even before going on missions for them.

Also gotta love an RPG that gives you a quest to get a knife for an 8-year-old, then contemplates on whether or not that's good to do (and even gives the player an exit strategy, if they're narcs.)

Honestly, if I got tired of anybody, it was Melody. But, it's in that way where my own mental defects have made me into a calloused, hardened bitch, so I lack patience with people who succumb to the mind's tyrannical nature. I'm not saying she's not right to have a breakdown or two! It's just one of those things where I go, "Okay, fine. I'll ride out your anxiety attacks/relationship squabbles until you're ready to go again." And then, "Wait, are you seriously being pissy enough to drop some of your most useful skills? GIRL, GET IT TOGETHER."

I want to highlight that the emotions I had were a minor irritant and resolved relatively quickly. Like, I go through this with most RPG leads, if they aren't mute protagonists. It's a part of the cycle. Find a problem -> whine about it -> go solve the problem when no one else will. About the only lead RPG character that didn't trigger that cycle and response for me was "Tales of Vesperia"'s Yuri Lowell, and that's mostly because he reacted to injustice and being pissed off with murder. (It's not the healthiest coping mechanism, I admit! Satisfying, though.)

From a graphical and musical perspective, this game is fantastic. It's a mix of synth instruments and Lisa Frank-esque color schemes alongside smooth illustrations and modern audio samples. Like, if you like "My Little Pony" adjacent palettes, you're gonna like this game. Pretty obvious, considering its development heritage. Approaching this as someone whose favorite furry media includes "Star Fox" games and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" properties, I thought the visual and audio design here was pretty solid! A little unusually colored? Sure. Not quite full sparkledog. At least, nothing that made me cringe like "Dust: An Elysian Tale"'s Fidget. (Though, I may hate that character more for her accidentally getting the player killed in a subquest more than anything else…)

Having zombie cowboy elves is sure unique! Gotta give it up for that call. Can't say I see that every day.

If you'd like some musical sampling, give the following tracks a shot:

Ancient Machine

Scrap Metal

Labyrinth Rave (Original 998 Mix)

Fighting in the 990s

B.A.D.

t r a n s c e n d

Given the game's subject matter, aesthetics, and ease of gameplay, I'm surprised that "Super Lesbian Animal RPG" isn't a Tumblr darling akin to titles like "Dream Daddy" or "Undertale." (Not to call "Undertale" easy, mind you. It could be called "Super Lesbian Animal RPG" for one subplot, though…) I mean, some of the playable characters are even bi and trans! Isn't that worth something? That's at least 3 letters out of LGBT getting represented! Maybe the ratio is lower in other acronyms, but I still think that's gotta count for something!

I never had to think about what it means to be a trans-passing cow prior to this game, but hell. A good game will help you generate those kinds of thoughts. Feel new things.

If you are equally entranced by the bluntness and audaciousness of this title, you can pick it up online for the current price of $14.99. It's often on sale as well, if you're feeling the need to pinch some pennies. But, honestly, for a 16-20 hour game with multiple route replayability? That's a good deal right there.

And if you need a twisted recommendation—this game pairs quite well with "Space Funeral" and "Hylics." Maybe not in the funky appearances or message. Definitely in the RPG Maker games doing cool shit way.

[sophieinwonderland]

another 10+ year system here 👋, felt like chiming in with the weird 2022 system claim lol. I started using system Terminology 2 years ago, but we didn't form 2 years ago lol.

The thing that happened to ours is we had a small group of alters all oblivious of each other, unknown DID system. and even when we figured out were a system it we still had no idea about those original people, it was just a misanthropic deity (I don't he likes being called a system headmate or alter so ill leave it at that) who made us realize we were plural. until suddenly some of them became undormant and it was like: what do you have?

alter whos been gone for years and no one knew existed: a smoothie

also even back then we were a mainly fictives system :p, since anti endos like to claim fictives are just a "faker" thing.

Thanks for sharing your experiences! 😁

I find this is true for so many systems! Even for people new to the terms, they aren't new to the plurality! It's just that the system community gave language to describe their experiences.

[doodleferp]

Sorry if me and other anons are overloading you with these asks it's because you've got such good ideas, writing and drawing skills and your doing your AUs which are amazing and we don't want to add anymore pressure on you. Again sorry.

No, you guys are fine! All these asks have actually gotten me back into my Trigun fixation. It used to be just cleaning out my drafts and inbox, but now I’m actually having fun making stuff for it again! Even my Hellsing OC didn’t have this many people asking about her, and I’m so glad that you guys love Ari and my AUs so much! I’m working on putting together an illustration for some Ari lore that should drop soon, too!

I don’t have a problem with you all sending me asks — I just didn’t really vibe with the worm au for whatever reason. Maybe I’m already content with the naga au (which I’ve been sketching all day, lmao), I don’t know. I just didn’t vibe with it. PLEASE don't stop sending me asks about them. You guys are the reason I’m back and I don’t want you to leave.

If it’s more AU content you’d like to see, I’m happy to throw out other AUs I’ve got hidden away! I, oh...oh, god. I have so many. Alternate dimensions, alternate timelines, alternate futures...you name it. They're all shoved into a fun Google Doc because I'm VERY meticulous about how I log my stuff so I don't lose any of it. I'm happy to share the doc when I'm done updating it, but for now I'll list a few of my favorite AUs.

We got...

Gods Walk Among Us: Rather than being used as objects, the PLANTs are worshiped as deities and have more supernatural aspects to them. Because PLANTs are treated much better, they are able to flourish and create large, lush oases for humans to live in. As such, they must periodically withdraw into themselves to replenish their power. While Knives is worshiped, Vash is feared as a dark god, and has become so beaten down by humanity’s treatment of him that he’s almost suicidal. Thankfully, he has at least one person on his side -- his lovely wife Ari.

Kitty AU: Mostly everyone in the show is a cat. Vash and Knives are twin Maine Coons and Ari is a Havana brown owned by Rem, Milly and Meryl are a Turkish Angora and a Siamese who are owned by the sweet old Mr. Bernadelli, Wolfwood is is a black cat who's famous at the local orphanage, the list goes on.

Ocean Man AU: Rather than a desert planet, No Man’s Land is largely covered by water (a la Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet), and PLANTs are large mermaid-like entities called Hydrophytes, which keep the human settlements afloat or sustained underwater. Vash and Knives are more human-like Hydrophytes who can speak for their kind, but they're still BIG BOYS. Ari is now mutated by Hydrophyte DNA instead of PLANT DNA, which gives her Hydrophyte abilities such as speaking to the rest of the species, breathing underwater, etc. It's mainly Ari and Vash navigating everyday life with their spouse being radically different in size compared to them and trying to keep Vash from being hunted down by bounty hunters.

Modernity: A futuristic “modern” No Man’s Land in which PLANTs are used as a source of clean energy. Ari is an orphan unofficially adopted by her mother’s coworker Rem Saverem, and grows up alongside Rem’s officially-adopted children, a pair of Independent PLANTs named Vash and Nai. The children turn to each other after Rem’s death, and form a polycule for several decades. Eventually, Nai’s controlling nature and misanthropic attitude leads him to cripple Vash in an argument, and Ari takes Vash and flees. Nowadays, Vash and Ari are drifters living on the run with Ari taking freelance PLANT servicing jobs to help them get by, while Nai grows his business empire and endlessly searches for them. The couple are forced to flee their apartment after Nai oversteps his boundaries for the thousandth time, and take to living in a trailer while they raise their children.

Sinister Vash, of course. That boy needs no explanation.

Satyr AU, based on this awesome fanfic by @triplesilverstar. On a far-future Earth, humans have gone extinct, with the species of the future being gender-segregated satyrs and nymphs. Children are typically one or the other depending on their gender. Vash and Knives are exceptionally-powerful satyrs, while Ari is a nymph with satyr mutations. Vash and Ari live together on an orchard that they fixed up from scratch, and they are soon blessed with four beautiful hybrid children. Unfortunately, their happiness is shattered by Vash’s past coming back to haunt him, and they are soon targeted by some of the strongest satyrs that Ari has ever seen.

I have more. I have so many more. I have so many that it hurts. AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

[witchofthesouls]

First off, I want to thank you for answering my emergency request, it meant a lot.

Second, I’m still trapped in the airport that might as well be an off brand sea world, I got a runny and stuffy nose, and my period just started.

I have started to document my journey on Snapchat like a off brand, Gen Z, autistic, misanthropic, female David Attenborough where my friends and family are either laughing in hysterics at my pain or are becoming my increasingly concern over myself slowly loosing my sanity.

What deity did I piss off to earn such a punishment? Can I rectify it my sacrificing my fellow prisoners? Can I sacrifice the crying 4 year old for an arepa con queso, just until I can get a plate of my mom’s lechon and arroz con salchicha?

A cousin of mine with a big ass truck that should require a special license to drive because the thing is that damn big, is gonna try and pick me up, hopefully I don’t get trench’s foot trying to get out of here.

Also I’m just picturing Optimus, Ratchet, and Megatron growing increasingly worried and so turned at receiving multiple snapchats a day of their kid ‘jokingly’ contemplating murdering the other people stuck with her (mostly the ones kicking up a fuss and fighting and occasional the crying children throwing tantrums), cannibalism if only to eat something else besides the shitty food, and other disturbing commentaries in the background of a dark selfie with dark and heavy under eye bags framing half crazy eyes that are red from lack of sleep and crying, a result after being stuck at an airport for four fucking days.

Shoot, I didn't see this one! Sorry about that ^^;

Side note: Okay, is it terrible of me to think that Ratchet and Optimus would have a hard time with Snapchat or social media in general? Optimus was a feral thing that was eventually domesticated by the Librarian Prime (aka Alpha Trion), and Ratchet is Ratchet. He got no time for anything else but keeping the base operational, especially with everyone else breaking his shit.

On the other hand, Megatron would eat it up. He vibes as does Soundwave. Dark/gallows humor along with memes? Sold!

But all three would be really understanding. It's a highly stressful situation of a disaster. Mayhem, chaos, and uncertainty eat away at a person. Let alone a group of people trapped in a finite space. Individuals react to stress in a variety of ways...

Optimus: uses his Leo Cullen holomatter to send words of affection and encouragement, and then responds in a deadpan manner to said questions, like "Don't forget to consider your surroundings for an ambush. Maybe make a trap. Perhaps you shall have better luck than Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner."

Ratchet: "I know it's a joke, bit. But no! No, no, no! Do you even know about kuru disease from human consumption of infectious tissue!?!"

Megatron: (sends back a snap that swings tabs between the "Human Cannibalism" Wiki page and Binging with Babish: Clay-Roasted Thigh from Hannibal (feat. You Suck at Cooking)): "I have preparations to consider. You shall tell me if it's bussin."

[empyrangel]

We’ve seen some posts going around recently talking about how alterhumans who think humanity is evil or immoral or shouldn’t exist or should be wiped out are exhibiting unacceptable behavior. And I agree. Misanthropes and nihilists can suck my dick. Making generalizations about anything that expansive and diverse is unacceptable. But the problem is all the posts also lump “alterhumans who think they’re superior to or higher than humanity” under the umbrella of everything I just stated, and it really rubs me the wrong way.

The posts certainly don’t explicitly mention deity or divine alterhumans, but the undertones are there, and I’ve heard this kind of rhetoric enough times to pick up on it. I don’t think I’m intellectually superior to humanity as a whole. I’m definitely not morally superior to them. But being a deity I simply am a higher life form, that’s kind of how it works. I hold no distain for humanity. I understand it’s complexity. I judge everyone as individuals not as a whole. I love observing and interacting with humanity. I love having close relationships with some humans. I definitely don’t love having to live like one, but that’s only because it’s not who I am, not because I have anything against humans.

Yes, there are some divine alterhumans who use their divinity as a lame excuse to harbor hatred for humanity, but that’s not all of us. Claiming that being a higher life form inherently puts you on the same level as being a misanthrope or nihilist is both untrue and offensive. Being higher than humanity is just part of one’s existence, it is not inherently a moral stance.

This kind of thing happens all the time. I know how many in the alterhuman community see divine alterhumans. I have been called selfish, egotistical, self-absorbed, vain and much much worse for being divinekin. Yes, some of that was from outside the community, but most of it was from other alterhumans. It’s a bias that I’m constantly on edge about. So it’s hard not to take being compared to actual assholes as yet another knife in my back from the community I know doesn’t care for me.

Basically, fuck alterhumans who use their identities to shit on humanity, but leave us out of this.

[jr-verse]

Real J.R (Fully known as Justin Cameron Richard) is the overarching character, better yet, the overarching antagonist in the J.R franchise. Serving as the final "character" when the true secret is discovered. He is known as the creator of his universe and multiverses. Aside being the creator, he is rather fond and grew attached of himself being a villain instead of a hero, possibly due to him being zealous. It's also revealed that all the other J.R's throughout the franchise were just the creator's fictional incarnations or avatars. It's also revealed that Real J.R responsible of countlessly resurrecting his numerous various fictional incarnations after a series of deaths. J.R creates fictional incarnations/avatars of himself out of self-interests. From describing as varieties of mischievous, notorious, villainous humans, to evil, ruthless, chaotic, cataclysmic and misanthropic demonic nor cosmic beings, all with free-will and self-awareness. J.R then started his first, original and dark prophecy. Known as "The Aftermath". Stating that if The Creator Of All dies, all his creations as well will suffer the same fate. The gifts of all natures will rot in decaying death, All beings in life will be destroyed, All Worlds will be ignited in chaos and destruction. The universe will be in eternal blackness with endless silence.

Occupation: The Creator Of All. (Primary Title) Former Prodigy Of Mischief "Universal" Being Of Life And Death The Former Side Of Heroism The True Deity

Quotes: "Fascinating... my fictional-selves are taking action."

"I like acting as a villain. But to be honest... I'm not evil in reality. Just... in my head."

"You absolute fool. Do you think KILLING ME would grant you a happy ending?"

"You know... this computer... is partly MY universe... right?"

"Here's a thing if you're pissing me off. You play with fire and sometimes you'll get burned! ...Do you even know what that means?"

"I assure you. Those J.R's are merely fake incarnations nor avatars of me. Facades... that I control and work on their AI and other stuff for my own ambitions."

Info: The true mastermind behind everything. Creator of universes, Life, Death, Matter and Purpose. As well as creating varieties of himself in anyway he wants them to be. He cannot be physically harmed by all traits of attacks due to him being special. But, there are only two weaknesses of his that are hidden.

Personality: Unlike his fictional incarnations/avatars, who are described from mischievous and infamous to pure evil and chaotic, with the desire of take over the world or cause cataclysmic destruction and death, Real J.R isn't any of those. He isn't an evil nor bad person in reality, but he is considered one in his mind and conscience. Aside from being a creative, self-centered but pessimistic most the time. Although can be comedic at times, he is downright serious. He doesn't like being messed with nor being manipulated. If so, it will cause him to temporarily become angered nor vengeful. He doesn't want to become famous anymore - and for good reason. Real J.R also has a life outside of his place, meaning that he isn't reclusive. He is also presumed to be a bit xenophobic and judgmental as he briefly startled by The Player themself and views their status and experience before interacts about them. 

HOW TO FIND HIM (ME):

Step 1: Use all of the protagonists (the ones I created or the one that were brought from others) to make an experience.

Step 2: Defeat all my non-real incarnations (which are fragments of the lock to my entry) If you have defeated all of them, The lock will be stably revealed.

Step 3 (Final Step): Find every last of all the grayish keys that are hidden around my universe. Gather them all to created a grayish colossal key.

Once all three of the main plans are genuinely completed, A secret can be finally unlocked.

Gather all the protagonists and use their experience to create the true controller. YOU.The PLAYER themself.

Once you've revealed the PLAYER, you will fight a penultimate boss called "The J.R-dian". A guardian with all of my fictional incarnations' consciousness into one.

After the penultimate boss's defeat, The entry opens... but - judgement awaits... depending on the good, neutral or evil.

You will meet me and will let me explain all my reasons and purposes. Thus, there is a very rare chance (15%) of a final boss fight to appear.

After hearing my story (aside the fourth-wall breaks), The PLAYER has to make two choices. Spare Or Kill.

If the PLAYER chose spare, Real J.R will continue on with his universe of creativity and fictionality.

If the PLAYER chose kill, Real J.R quotes a variety of his last words before dying. (Similar to the Desk Man's death from FNAF World.) The computer then detects Real J.R's amount of blood, causing the computer itself to permanently shutdown, before implying that all of Real J.R's creations will be eternally erased. The entire room went to pitch black. Leaving the PLAYER themself to live on in endless blackness. As the PLAYER finally kneels down in despair, they disappear into the endless darkness. After five minutes, a message of blood-red text occurred in the screen replying:

"You killed the creator. There is nothing left in this universe now that he's gone. Because of you. Do not return to this game anymore."

The game then shuts itself down. Leaving it unplayable now that there's nothing left.

During the very rare final boss fight. The PLAYER fights Real-J.R in a very intense fight. This is most-likely non-canonical.

If Real-J.R wins, all of The PLAYER's progress will be entirely erased.

If Real-J.R loses, The PLAYER will have to make the same two choices.

If The PLAYER hacks the game, and when reached to the true end, even in a fastest rate of time, Real-J.R detects The PLAYER's hacking antics and then replies that he's very disappointed and upset at The PLAYER. Real J.R then punishes The PLAYER by kicking them out of the game, making them unable to play again. A text message appears, replying:

"Next time, Do not act reckless! I don't care if you known nor seen this before or not!!"

It's likely implied that Real-J.R sent that.

[strangecloud]

Character Bio - Thistle the Antlerthorn

"All I see is all I dream, animals and tambourines, and all I can hear is night"

Some gods see the affairs of mortals as some bizarre spectacle, a good show that must go on. Not so much Thistle, who sees beauty in all of the unchosen creatures: the rabbit, the rose and the fishes and trees. The squabbles of humans always ends the same, she thinks, they either kiss or kill one another. There's much more drama in the unseen world of flora and fauna.

She is the supernatural nature specialist, an unrepentant misanthrope who will not hesitate to throw a man into the wolf's den to save a few pups. With a thirst for knowledge only matched by her love of all of the land's critters, she nonetheless employs acolytes to carry out research and aid operations targeting the woodlands.

Her one mission is simple: make sure all of mankind knows, the natural order has a ruthless deity on its side.

[tobiasdrake]

I don't know why I keep expecting low-continuity shenanigans episodes when this show is actually very tightly-plotted.

Seems like a fairly low-stakes setup to go do some shenaniga--

Oh. Okay. This guy, uh... this guy has a connection with the club. Alright, guess we're spinning the wheel of supernatural things. is he, or has he been affected by:

1 - Alien robot 2 - Time traveler 3 - Esper 4 - Deity 5 - A secret fifth thing

The show seems almost to be deliberately baiting us into #1, with Haruhi even drawing a connection between this boy's vanishing and the cold case of Ryoko Asakura's vanishing.

It's a solid connection for her to draw. Lived by himself, no contact information, parents conspicuously out of the picture, and then suddenly dropped off the face of the universe? Since Haruhi doesn't buy the official story that Ryoko moved to Canada (nor should she), it makes sense that she'd think this.

Of course, we know what happened to Ryoko even though Haruhi doesn't, so that only makes this even more suspici--

OH

OH SHIT

IT'S THAT GUY

WHAT

I legit did not think we were ever going to see him again. Is this episode going to be about reckoning with the consequences of Haruhi's actions and the effect she has on other people?

I mean. Probably not? This show is Protagonist-Centered Morality to the extreme. The violent misanthrope is literally the center of the universe and surrounded by a supporting cast whose job is to cater to her every whim lest she kill us all. Tonally, this has not thus far been the kind of show where Haruhi learns a valuable lesson and improves herself as a person.

But I'm hooked all the same.

[deadlyredheartbreaker]

Rehabilitation // Closed

@misanthropic-deity

Cautious.

The people of Death City are afraid, and cautious. For good reason, really--a string of missing people and suspected murders would make any citizen a little more wary.

It’s getting harder. Less people out and about, and if they are, always in groups, hands clutched around keys and pocket knives and pepper spray. As if those could really stop the monsters.

Better than nothing, though.

Better than walking alone, through twisting alleys and dark corners, as the laughing sun sinks lower and lower in the sky, taking its light with it.

The people of Death City are cautious now.

Not cautious enough.

He’d have thought, with all the commotion about missing people missing Deathscythes that the person he was now shadowing would have invested in calling a taxi. Perhaps they were short on cash, or perhaps they were just brave. Another word for foolish.

Either way, they were here, alone, in the slowly dimming back streets, the cobblestones under their feet tinted orange in the light of the setting sun. None the wiser to the new stalker they had that followed just a dozen feet behind them. Soon, that pretty face would be splashed with red.

He smiles, a twisted sort of expression that doesn’t quite fit. Too wide, too sharp, too wicked for the usually charming face that it sat on. A darkness that makes him almost unrecognizable has settled into his features, alongside the ugly scarring that marrs the skin at his temples.

He withdraws his hand from his pocket, and there’s a small flash of light as his fingers turn to blades, their once shining silver surface now stained a sickly red. His arm swings back behind his body as the person he follows glances back. 

He’s cautious, too.

And yet, he just can’t help beginning to hum a pleasant tune as his steps come quicker, closing the distance between him and his new object of affection. Perhaps now, they notice just how alone they are, alone save for the man with pretty red hair just behind them. Their pace, quickens, too, along with the beat of their heart as adrenaline begins to pump.

They don’t stand a chance.

He takes one stride, then two, long legs spurring him forward at a speed that is almost unnatural. His target takes a breath, knee bends to launch into a run, but then his blades come down in an arc along their back, and they fall with a cry of pain.

He catches them before they can hit the ground, sharp edges now sinking into the tender flesh of their arm, and there’s vile pleasure in his eyes as he feels his blades hit bone.

He wrenches backwards, pulling the person’s arm from their socket as he yanks them back and lets them fall to the ground with a pained yell. There’s a splatter of warmth over his cheek, and he laughs.

The person hits the ground this time, and slides along the street for another foot or so, the wind knocked out of them from the sheer force of the impact. His pace is leisurely, now, as he walks to their prone body, blood already starting to seep out of them and run between the cobblestones like ruby red rivers. He knows by now they won’t have the strength to stand, and so he takes his time, humming that tune once more.

          “Pretty, pretty, pretty. I knew you’d be pretty in the moonlight.”

He skips once before letting himself fall to his knees at his victim’s side. His already stained dress pants take on another blemish, and the black fabric is stained maroon.

The person before him whimpers, a soft cry leaving their lips, and he coos, his unbladed hand moving down to gently wipe the sweat from their forehead. The touch is gentle, too gentle for the man that had just mortally wounded them. He pulls them into his lap, ignoring the sounds of pain as he aggravates the gashes in their back.

          “Shh, hush now, don’t cry...I’d hate to see you cry, ruin your lovely complexion.”

He smiles once more, and there’s softness in it that seems to fit his face much more than the cruel sadism that had come before it.

          “Don’t worry, okay? I’m here...Spirit’s here. I’ll help the hurt go away. Just let yourself            fade. Trust your Deathscythe...”