#note i am not christian

[heretherebedork]

The most crushing part of Marahuyo Project is seeing how Archie has turned against himself, turned to hating himself, out of loss and fear of losing himself in worse ways, out of the fear of the friend he lost and becoming another lost soul. Archie lost Christina and lost himself out of fear of that loss, trapped himself int this relationship with religion that keeps him locked away from himself, away from any chance of his own happiness. It's just so painful to see him like that in grief and pain, trapped by a loss too big to understand by the very people he looked to comfort him.

[denyjesuschrist]

without irony: we have got to start feeding these freaks to lions again

[queenlucythevaliant]

Just to clarify my thoughts (since I've had a number of people ask me about it) re: Job and cursing God. There's a big difference between cursing God as used in Scripture and how we generally would think of cursing at God today.

Cursing someone, in the Bible, has a lot of depth to it. It's not just saying "screw you " in anger, it's got a sense of forsakenness to it. It's the opposite of a blessing, a removal of blessing. If the blessing is presence, your face shining on the person you're blessing, then a curse is absence. In some translations, Job's wife tells him to "renounce God and die," which I honestly think makes a lot more sense to modern ears.

Job says a lot of unpleasant things to and about God in his anger and grief. So do the Psalmists. A number of the Prophets. So can we. God can take it if we come to him with honest expressions of our emotion, including those not-so-nice ones directed at him. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting mad at God and saying, "How dare you, you bastard" when you suffer unjustly. You can say much worse, I think, without sinning, though I don't feel particularly inclined to give examples. But as long as it's an honest expression of your heart, I think you're doing exactly what prayer is for. You're presenting him your heart with an open hand. He can use that. Opposite of love is not hate but indifference, etc.

Job doesn't renounce God. Neither should we. But I think when you're truly suffering, you're gonna have those feelings toward God either way. He'd rather you address them with him directly than try to avoid them. Cursing at God in the modern sense is actually a great way to keep the relationship strong and not end up cursing/renouncing him in the Biblical sense.

[starry-bi-sky]

I am of the DPxDC belief/headcanon that any variation of Danny who grew up poor in Gotham during his formative years before moving to Amity Park would not be friends with Sam without friction at first. It makes things more interesting and imo allows for more exploration of different themes plus character growth for Sam that she doesn't really go through in canon.

(this doesn't only apply to a DPDC au where Danny grew up in Gotham poor, but it was the first thing that I thought of where this might happen considering my Childhood Friends au.)

Now Sam's a compassionate girl, it's one of her defining character traits, but so is her hypocrisy and judgy-ness. She's the Not Like Other Girls' girl. This is in part of the show's narrative framing that makes her out like this, unfortunately though its still showing how she is as a character since its consistent enough to be part of her character description. There are also times where the show's depiction of her activism makes it look like she's performative about it. All of this makes her dynamic with a Danny who grew up poor in Gotham very interesting.

Anyways, Sam is aware of her privilege to an extent, but still has her blindspots - glaring ones, in some cases. Her self-righteous attitude would not go over well with a crime alley kid Danny. He'd like her, at first, but then she'd do something to make him mad - personally I think her judging people for not being vegan would annoy him the most, or at least would be the breaking point for him, because it was only recently that his family started actually being able to consistently put food on the table at all, good food nonetheless. And being vegan is expensive.

Any other behavior he noticed from her he'd slowly stop tolerating - her judging conventionally attractive girls and automatically assuming they're vapid and shallow for being feminine. Her anti-capitalist beliefs start coming off as superficial at worst, and Danny would eventually figure out that Sam either came from a family that was well off, or that she wasn't aware if her family was experiencing financial struggle.

He would still be friends with Tucker, but since Tucker imo is still friends with Sam, they'd still run into each other often enough to butt heads. Sam's got a nasty habit of refusing to take responsibility when she's wrong, but when Danny is arguing with her, and counterpointing her with stuff she can't retort back at without compromising her own beliefs, then forces her to start reflecting on herself. Especially when Tucker eventually starts siding with Danny and agreeing with him.

Does sam genuinely care about her beliefs and philosophies? Survey says yes. However that doesn't mean she's not ignorant, and she definitely is at times throughout the show (like when she released the purpleback gorilla thinking it 'wanted out of its enclosure' despite the fact that it was endangered and in an urban area) and I think it'd be a real fascinating dynamic between Danny and Sam to explore.

This isn't Sam hate btw, nor am I trying to make her out like "the worst person ever" bc she's not, i wanna make that explicitly clear. Sam Manson has a lot of positive traits about her but she also has an equal amount of negative traits that I think should be explored, she is not immune to the character development.

[cultivating-wildflowers]

single Christian ladies, let me be a warning. I didn't make a husband wishlist or pray for my future husband in high school, and look where it got me: alone, unloved, and perpetually single

[tired-pidgeon]

My conversation with the one Christian Nationalist has only further convinced me that the whole sum of the movement is wrong and really not Christ-centered at all

[blamemma]

Daniel Ricciardo and Christian Horner before the Red Bull Celebration Photo | Canadian GP (x)

[bonefall]

NGL: Stuff like Brambleclaw being a terrible namer is like. really fun but also kinda hits with the 'he;s not some meglomaniacl villain hes just a shitty guy'. like. you could see squirrelflight finding that really endearing. IDK if this is some mastermind shit, or if i'm just reading wayyyyy to into this, but i like how you give characters that are pretty bad dudes very humanising qualities. Especially when they're silly/cute. Kinda reminds you that like. theyre like. a person. well. cat but yknow. and they chose to do bad shit, with influence from their past, rather than being inherently terrible. 👍

YEAH MAN, that's what I'm SAYING

Abusers, ideologues, and other terrible people are not masterminds. They aren't born evil. They're not inherently smart OR stupid. They can love, they can be funny and polite, they do things they believe are justified and want to be good people. They don't think of themselves as villains.

Evil isn't complex. It's really, really not. I feel like that's the #1 cause of confusion when I get a question like, "Why does this person do this malicious act, when it's bad/inconsistent/mean?" The answer is always simple;

They wanted to control someone.

They wanted something and didn't mind who they hurt.

Spite and short-sightedness.

Look for anything deeper and you will not find it. Heroics are complex, being a good person is ongoing and changes over time. We're in a constant state of growing. Malice is childishly simple; it feels good to get what you want.

With Bramblestar especially... it always goes back to what I said here, when talking about the idea of an Evil!Bramble. He's a person, and you ruin everything that's so interesting about him by stripping away that nuance. Squilf and Bramble loved each other, truly, and legitimately. He can be charming. He can be nice. He still hurts her. Reconcile with this.

He is not wiser for what he went through, as a child. His pain doesn't make him better. Man's just a jerk... that's it.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

i have officially returned. ask me anything.

[matsuxide]

The crossover we didn't know we needed. But the one we deserve. HAHAHA I'm really really sorry for this :')

Idk why, but I thought that it'd be funny to see Ide dressed as Patrick.. I don't even understand how I came up with this idea. Well, I hope this art will make someone smile at least :>

Also, I don’t claim to be an artist! I do it for fun :D

I'm actually not even familiar with anatomy, so don't take my work seriously

I love this app because I can publish all sorts of stuff I've got..

And btw, I think it would be sooo cute to see Matsuda dressed as Jean. I love her sm!! ♡ She is the only character I like in this movie. She's so kind and caring. And imho Jean was the only one who had humanity :< (ngl I hoped that Jean would fix Patrick...)

(I'm going to cry in the morning because I had the courage to post this [I already regret it])

[licorishh]

"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

[princess-of-purple-prose]

[ID: A tweet thread that reads:

bigolas dickolas wolfwood @/MaskOfBun: love when people into my replies ask me "i want to get into trigun where do i start?" like dude idk. the bible.

el @/eucchabe: start with therapy that's where you'll end up anyway. End ID]

Haven't seen anyone post my favorite reply to this tweet yet so

[beatheprincess]

praying really calms my nerves a lot <3

[dandelionsandderivatives]

love seeing my non-math mutuals posting about infinity on my dash

[attractthecrows]

had a dream that the BLAME! deep lore was revealed to me and the secret(TM) behind all the characters and the sysadmin was that, except for the humans, every single character was once an angel, all of which were violently expelled from heaven for their failure to protect humanity from itself, and all of whom except the silicon life (who had recreated their memories artificially) did not remember this. but they all reflected what they used to be. it was fucked up. I think Killy was a Domain

[ginkovskij]

i was reading these conversations about the japanese embassy in rome and the younglings are reporting to (redacted) about the wonders of europe and they are like in this palace there was a beautiful garden with several fountains decorated with moving statues and the lord says statues don't move and the younglings go on the water makes the statues move in a way that one plays a flute and one seems to dance and one— and the lord is like statues are very much still that's kinda their thing what are you talking about and the boys say it's that wonderful thing the portuguese showed us (a mechanical clock) but with water but let's move on and the lord is like methiks you're talking shit