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Hey youre not being watched, youre not being surveyed always, there is nothing watching you. I say that from the bottom of my heart, and i hipe this helps even just a little bit. No one cares, in the nicest of ways, that you flapped your heand when you got too excited about soemthing, people love to see you happy and in joh, no one cared when you posted that fic and there was a spelling error, people loved it and read it in their bus or on the train or on the bus to work and it made their day, they got lost in your words amd they fell in kove with the stories you make. They love your writing, and they csnt wait for you to post more when you can. And if you cant, they will enjoy what you have already blasted off into the universe, into their hands for them to hold and care for and cherish. Your art and your writing and your music is cherished, even if it has fallen on deaf ears or someone criticized it. Its just between you and god, you and the man who is always watching but with love. And jesus is there too i guess hi buddy lol
But you need to remember to keep creating, and resting too goddammit whenever you can because a burnt out artist feels like the end of the world i would kmow because i wrote all of this in a tangent while sitting on my toilet on my mini ipad for you to read, it may just be for me but i hipe upi touched someine today, eben if it was hust me, i love uou.
Let me say it again, if no one loves uou, i love you. Even the hyperthettical me that you see in uour dreams, that you imagine sitting beside you as you read this, but im here with you. ALways. If no one is in your heart than i am, i am the kind words that enter your mind when you think an animal is cute or you think you look hot or sexy in your new outfit or naked or just in your underwear, i love it, i think uou look hot and sexy and beautiful no matter how old you are, because i will always love you. Even on your worst days when youre mean and your zoned out and you hate your sistser or your brother or your paretns or your dad or mom or uncle died and you dont know what to do with all of the grief, i will be sitting beside you holding your hand through it.
I made myself cry with my own words, because this is what i always needed to hear. I needed to hear this. I am the kind voice in my own head and heart and i miss her so much it hurts so much and im sorry.
#unedited and untouched because i need to scream this out into the world#long post#i made myself cry with this one#i really needed to hear this#with kindness#arrow#feral-teeth thoughts#writing#a bit of#religious stuff too#weird#😐#please take only what resonates#i need to sleep#i am not religious#but like#ocd mixed with being queer#kinda pushes that onto a man#spilled ink
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One really awesome thing about being a Jew is how widely accepted it is in our people that we all have very complicated and personal feelings about the idea of a god, or any sort of religious concept at all. I love being able to explore my own beliefs as a person who doesn’t believe in a higher power, and I fucking love seeing those beliefs represented in so many Jews, in so many theological Jewish sects and schools of thoughts, in so many centuries of Jewish history. Judaism is all about those in-betweens, it’s all about complex ideas and shades of greys and personal understandings of life
Above all else, there’s always a search in Judaism for meaning, for purpose, for the human experience. And wether that manifest itself into ideas of a tangible higher power, or some vague feeling of something making existence meaningful (like for me!) or anything in between or outside of that— it’s all accepted, it’s all genuine and okay and valid interpretations of Jewish beliefs. And it’s also accepted to not believe in any sort of spirituality or religion, or to not know, or to not care! We’re all just Jews and we’re all just walking through the world together! I just love it so much, words escape me when I think about it
#I don’t want to go too into my beliefs because it’s very personal#also I’m not religious and I’m not an atheist which is too much for this culturally Christian anti-any-sort-of-belief website#but right now I’m going with ‘abstractly believing in the meaning of life and the uniqueness of humankind in a Jewish way’#it’s great#Jewish stuff#jumblr#Jewish joy
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One evening,
as the setting sun turns the sky dusty,
and the crickets in the fields remind me
that I’m home,
my father tells me he’s reading Les Mis.
I’m half way through feeding the cows
their molasses coated mystery mix,
and the air smells sweet,
and my father reaches out to connect to me.
“I’m reading Les Mis.”
He’s excited to tell me,
and I’m excited to hear.
This story is my mine and my mother’s bond,
and now my father cares to know too.
We talk about the depth of the story.
About the role Javert plays.
Villain or just another man
with his own god to please?
We talk about the words
and how they transcend time,
how they feel so close to our own hearts,
despite Valjean living worlds away
from the Tennessee hills.
The cows are happy and I drive us back,
the John Deere gator engine so loud
that we have to yell to hear each other talk.
And we do.
My father tells me how much he likes
the way Hugo talks about God.
God reveals Himself
in the character’s acts of love:
The bishop to Valjean,
Valjean to Fantine.
In Les Mis, god is the invisible hand
that guides all acts of goodness.
��It feels like real Christianity,” he says (he believes).
“It does,” I reply (I don’t).
“Not the commercial Christianity we have now.”
I drive us past the barn
and the wood pile.
I think about how, to me,
the love in Les Mis feels so Human.
And how, to my father,
the love in Les Mis feels like God
To me, the Divine in Les Mis
is always just humanity and love preserving.
To my father, it’s all just God (and this is enough).
To me, Love is god
To him, God is love.
When we get back to the house,
the stars are coming out in the sky.
We both glance upwards out of habit.
Space is mine and my father’s bond.
And I know in that infinity he sees God,
and I know in that infinity
all I see is Me.
The particles I am made of,
the light that keeps me alive,
the time that gives me the chance to Love.
If given the opportunity,
my father and I would both bow down
and worship the stars,
both with our own gods to please.
My dad’s God is the Father,
and my god is the Love.
My father is reading Les Mis,
and for a rare moment,
we are on the exact same page.
#the feelings I have are big#but not too big for words#les mierables#warning: religious stuff and dad stuff#you know the typical shit#okay to rb
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Scarlet Hollow decision tree
People occasionally ask to see a decision tree for Scarlet Hollow, so a while back I put one together for episodes 1-4! It’s not comprehensive, as most scenes at this point have at least some variation due to any number of tracked variables, but it accounts for most of the really major deviations.
For those who don’t want spoilers but would like to hear about how we kinda structure the game: I like to talk about it as more of a braid than a tree, which is not a new concept or anything, but I feel like it helps other narrative designers understand how to limit the absolute vastness that you can get with branching structures. The narrative branches off at decision nodes, but instead of continuing down significantly different routes, it comes back together at key moments. So there’s a single narrative throughline to the game-- events unfold in the town and you witness them in some capacity, but your perspective on them, who you’re with, the options available to you, all these are impacted by other choices you’ve made along the way, including the character traits you chose at the start of the game.
It’s not necessarily easier than doing routes, since it means Tony and I have to keep track of a ridiculous number of little variations including one-off dialogue choices players have made AND steering players to the important narrative moments can be tricky, but I think it makes for an interesting player experience! People get so excited when, say, a line at the end of Episode 4 calls back to something they said when they first met Tabitha at the beginning of Episode 1.
ANYWAY, HUGE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, do not proceed if you don’t want to know about basically everything that’s currently in the game!
Things start to get a little hard to read from here on out....
Episode four had to be broken into four images and looks like spaghetti
I’ll make another one of these for Episode 5 after it comes out sometime next year! (I know that’s a bit of a wait but it’ll be worth it >:D)
#scarlet hollow#spoilers#visual novel decision tree#narrative structure#video game narrative#we don't use trees like this while we're in development#we tend to just remember all this stuff#or reference the game files if we need calrification!#i made this as a resource for people who don't necessarily read the discord religiously#and wanna know how to get certain outcomes#and to see if a map could be drawn without being too impossible to read#getting there with the episode four stuff.......
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the papier-mache walls of the shrine in kanqah naqshband sahib in srinagar, kashmir, built in its current form in 1633. the complex is dedicated to bukharan baha' al-din naqshband, who founded the naqshbandi sufi order, and is a mausoleum for one of his descendants. the shrine is a site for ziyarat as it contains what's said to be a lock of the prophet muhammad's hair.
#kashmir#interior#details#worship#muslim#nmenam#papier-mache kashmir#religious tombs#my posts#i forgot to mention in my post on kanqah-e-moula that papier-mache was brought over to kashmir by the same guy who brought#over islam. which is why papier-mache walls in kashmir are in muslim places of worship a lot#of the time. and also in iran and central/northern south asia there's some papier-mache decals on muslim places of worship too iirc#but the papier-mache is mostly on items because it's easier to do it on items than whole walls#kashmir is well-known for papier-mache stuff#the fancy technical term is ''lacquerwork'' but i already used papier-mache so
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Hiya, question... What the McHeck is going on here on Priest AU Home? (Also sorry about the other ask, brain can't read -_-)
LMAO there’s a lot of ya who think Mob!Home is Priest!Home (which makes sense, he’s very religious coded) but he’s part of da mob lol (or the “God Father” if you will)
also the markings on his body are straps that kinda simulate the look of a skeletal structure, eyes being rosary and so on JHDDHDH
#I would do a cult au or some shid but that would be too much religious trauma for me to dig up JDHHDHHD#So instead ya get half and half- the mob au is a lil mix of everything but it’s main core is mob#But it has a bunch of other things like cult stuffs grotesque body horror manipulation brainwashing etc etc#All sortsa goodies
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Jesus is canonically simultaneously 100% god and 100% human, so that means even if the human part of him was cis, he’s still 100% gender non-conforming because a god can’t subscribe to human binary definitions of gender.
Therefore happy pride to the nonbinary king (of all kings)
#I have a religion degree btw#christianity#gay pride#lgbtq positivity#lgbt#lgbtqia+#queer pride#pride 2024#nonbinary pride#nonbinary#gnc#gender nonconforming#gnc positivity#religion#religious trauma#progressive christianity#religious studies#religious stuff#also canon originated from theological studies too fun fact#trans pride#transgender#transgender pride#trans positivity
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got curious after a convo about finding artists through fandom tags, of course you don't have to sweat it if you followed me for so long that you don't even know anymore, buuuuuuutt if you happen to remember-
#my tagging 'rules' are such that i don't use too many tags bc i find it infuriating exhausting and not really effective#like i personally don't check ffxivart for example and so i don't tag my stuff as that#i do however religiously use character and ship tags because i also view those tags on the daily basis#i might be an outlier though idk how many other people have the same browsing habits#and i believe that someone's reblog has much more value than 20 tags on each post#but idk let's see
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Anxion. ー Requested by 🪼!
Pronounced like Ank-shun. From ANXious and religION
An alter that is very religious due to religion-based trauma. This alter may follow strict "religious" rules, partake in religious practices, or anything similar. (This might be due to paranoia, anxiety, fear of punishment, etc)
This alter might front to "protect" others in the system from being ridiculed or scolded for not acting, looking, etc, "correctly".
[pt. Anxion. Requested by jellyfish emoji anon! Pronounced like Ank-shun. From anxious and religion.
An alter that is very religious due to religion-based trauma. This alter may follow strict "religious" rules, partake in religious practices, or anything similar. (This might be due to paranoia, anxiety, fear of punishment, etc)
This alter might front to "protect" others in the system from being ridiculed or scolded for not acting, looking, etc, "correctly" .pt end]
#cw religion#cw religious imagery#cw religious trauma#„ absolutions ✝︎#this one..... hit a little too close to home...#/silly!#did system#dissociative system#osdd system#plural system#sysblr#system stuff#system coining#system flag#system things#traumagenic system#system term#did alter#did osdd#actually did#traumagenic did#mogai#system mogai#actually osdd#actually traumagenic
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"It was something I could fix" Sevika Jinx brotp sooo real i need this i need them I need the "I’m gonna exterminate the family i have left" to include Sevika because of an accident during battle I want the girl Sevika always called a jinx to jinx her and for her to not even be mad, just tough as nails with even tougher love even in her dying breath.
#The poetry of Jinx’s prose…. Also love the mysterious lil scamp girl. ALSO. EVIL ROBOT JESUS????#Well not evil yet Viktor my sweet man but the like. Even the staff damnnnnn the religious imagery will be banger to look at#Gonna be the leader of a faction n now mel should go out to meet him for negotiations even more <3#I was also so pleased the green stuff was a scifi medical aid thing i loved that worldbuilding and then when we see it used again for the#Heart???? Peak#Love the politics so far love how both sides are in chaos and can’t agree to consolidate within each camp there’s infighting#And the solution is fascism. Sigh. Too real. I do find the political climate within which season 2 is releasing to be rlly interesting#As a contrast and parallel. Ok that’s enough from me#Sevika & jinx#Arcane#sevika#Spoilers
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After so long...
#It's been too long honestly oml#also... I gotta add that religious imagery to them#vincent sinclair#bo sinclair#house of wax#house of wax 2005#slasher#slasher fanart#messy sketches#this is still a#wip#I want to add more stuff later on#solmuse art#my art#You know I gotta give Bo the snarky face and Vincent the 'innocent baby' face#religious imagery#religious themes#eye contact#Beauregard Sinclair#how 2005
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Listen. I don’t know if any of the Rat Grinders are gonna survive the season. But. If Buddy survives. I really think that he and Bucky should become friends.
Like I keep thinking back to that moment with Bucky and Kristen where Kristen sees potential futures for Bucky and they’re like “and maybe some of those friends even are followers of Helio and that’s okay” to paraphrase that moment
Like, think about this: neither one of them has been “betrayed” by Helio necessarily at this time. Buddy was betrayed by non believers, so if he is to somehow revert to his old beliefs it wouldn’t be that difficult to do so. Helio is still “there” for him. But he knows Helio also… wasn’t there for him specifically when he needed him. So maybe he’s got some questions about things.
Bucky still believes in Helio, but he’s being more and more exposed to a world where hey, maybe Helio isn’t all that and a bag of chips. He’s still a Helio guy, but like maybe it’s okay to question that a little bit.
And Kristen isn’t a good person for them to necessarily reach out to in terms of questions of faith, because she’s a straight up deserter in their eyes. She doesn’t GET it.
I just think these are two kids who in a way maybe aren’t ready to leave this safety net of a religion that’s like, actively harming them. But at the same time… maybe it would be nice to have a friend who kind of gets like “hey, maybe we can still believe in this guy… and maybe asks a few questions about him” but still have it be a bit of a safe space to question. Because it’s someone else who gets it, y’know?
Anyways obviously there’s some complications with this idea for obvious reasons but I keep thinking about it
#ramblings#dimension 20#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#fh#fhjy#listen I didn’t grow up religious but I was SURROUNDED by Mormons in my little town#and you could not say how things were messed up but other religious kids could do it#and like expose them to ‘huh. maybe that’s not cool?’ kind of stuff#anyways. just thinking bout that. sad about buddy.#also I agree with my friend there’s too many gd B names it’s so confusing
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Lasombra fashion show?
Now how did you know I've been meaning to draw fashion 'shows' for all the clans…?
But! Here's some Lasombra fashion stuff for you!
+ bonus because I love bullying Lasombra abt their tech issues (:
#vtm#vampire the masquerade#clan lasombra#lasombra#outfit design#mine#*24#ask#lasombra is kind of interesting/difficult imo in terms of making a fashion 'style' for them bc they're very varied internally#from corp goth shadow ceos to religious leaders to streetwise survivors. theyre unlike their counterpart ventrue in that their appearance#isnt rooted in sociological reasons as much as theyre personal ones imo. if that makes sense lol. but i tried to do a few different things!#something classically lasombra and then some more modern discreet + showy stuff. hope you like em? <3#for me lasombra is like dark fuschia-violet-purple and gold. silk velvet and dark lace. and ofc religious symbols#none of these guys have backstories or names or anything btw i just threw shit together. its easier to make up styles for chs#that have a story or a personality but like. i cant put rafael in this stuff or whatever lol he's kinda boring fashion wise#i thought abt doing shadow fashion too but i was like. thats way too impractical.#i kinda wanna finish those tremere fashion 'sketches' too. and maybe do some of deja's outfits bc she's a fashionista. there's also my#outfit wips for rose who's a ventrue... but also i wanna do freaky sabbat outfits... and a toreador look book... and finish the new#nikifor tzimisce fashion looks... help mee. at least the tzimisce one is like 85% done i just gotta work on the extra stuff a little -_-
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making an astronomy/meteoritics iterator oc when i know fuckall or at least just very basic things about those things was maybe a mistake. Looking up stuff for reference/inspo like haha i like your funny words magic man
#currently trying to figure out if it could work to make them be built in the center of an impact crater#there is one in canada that has a circular lake i might just steal that#still thinking about what even their deal is and what exactly they do.#they probably studied the rocks n minerals in the crater if their creators havent done that extensively already#and analyse any other material brought to them?#i think they would also do stuff about planets n such they observe their cycles/routes or something like that#I dont think they'd be puuuurely scientific i think there would be a lot of religious or spiritual stuff too#they dont just do the science bits but also how it would/could connect to spirituality and such#they are really really old even by iterator standards so sometimes their theories and research can be a bit outdated#“no stones this spiritual theory is wayyy outdated you cant base your calculations on that. No we will not start working with it again -#-just because you refuse to switch to the new model. Stones please we had this discussion already just give me the star charts i requested"#something like that#carpsounds
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“Are you ever angry?” You ask quietly, head resting in Bakugou’s lap. His thumb pauses where it strokes your cheeks, the far away gaze in his eyes suddenly snapping into focus as he looks down at you. He looks…different than you remembered, before you both were cast out of the pearly gates.
His hair doesn’t shine as bright as it used to, and it falls a little flatter without the halo pulling it up, soft. His eyes still hold that hardened gaze as a battle angel, but they’re deeper now. More sunken in and hollow, the flickering ichor now a stained crimson. His face is scarred and his hands are rough after the fall but he’s just—different.
“About what?” He asks, his lips pursed in confusion. You reach a hand up, stroking over his bottom lip, smooth a hand through his hair. You can almost feel the throbbing light radiating from him, can almost see how broad and ivory his wings would spread and hold you tight to him.
“It all. Everything. The fall.” You whisper, try not to shrink into yourself with the way Bakugou’s lip curls back in disgust. He pulls away from you and you sit up, resting on your knees, looking at him in such a way that his heart pangs in his chest.
His heart, something he’s never had a reason for when he still had his fists bathed in heavenly fire and no ounce of rebellion hidden under sinless skin. It aches in his chest at the mention of life after being kicked out with the only thing he could hold onto—you.
“Why would I miss my thoughtlessness? My inability to make a decision for myself? Why would I miss being a pawn?” Bakugou is all snarls, all snapping teeth and jowls, but it doesn’t scare you. He’s never scared you, even when his gait was limp from the impact of hard soil, and his hands grew rough, and his back grew jagged from ripped feathers.
“I miss it.” You whisper so carefully into the humid night, hands reaching for his own trembling ones. “I want to be holy again, Katsuki.”
He hisses at you, snatching away like you’ve burned him, like you’ve seized his halo and ripped it into two until it split into horns. Looks at you with such heavenly fire burning in his gaze that you want to shrink beneath him.
“Well—well I don’t. Find someone else who will, cause it sure as hell ain’t me.” You wonder who he’s trying to convince here, with his shaky voice and fluttering eyes and trembling mouth. You stare at him for a long while, lips wobbling at the gravity of it all. Your head hangs low, gathering yourself in your arms, head bowed to him—it’s the only thing you’ve ever known.
“Just hold me for now.” You murmur, eyes low as you settle yourself in his arms, forcing your way into his hold. “Please?” You tack on, unafraid of his bite, his snarl, his growl. Bakugou sits there stiffly for what feels like a century, but you’re used to waiting.
He gathers you in his arms slowly, pulling you into his chest, his body covering yours completely. And if you let yourself relax enough, you can almost feel the warmth of his wings surrounding you again.
#can you tell I watched the first season of good omens today AKSJDKDJD#this is actually my favorite subject matter to write about!!#Ive been writing about it since I was a teen and it’s just so cathartic and relaxing and melancholic in a sense#but I don’t tend to write it for fics bc I usually just write p*rn ajdkdjd#I know this kinda stuff isn’t everybody’s cup of tea but it means a lot to me#at first I was gonna make you guys on either side of each other#but didn’t wanna do the bad boy demon x innocent angel reader thing#and I feel like somebody did the vice versa version too???? I can’t remember but I didn’t wanna unintentionally steal lol#so I just did both fallen angels which I love a shit ton lol#I’m rambling sorry!!!#bakugou treats! 🍬#—new treat in the streets! 🍫#cw religion#cw religious imagery#tagging just to be safe!
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Xtianity putting so much weight in self sacrifice means you can't complain when putting your all into the church god causes you harm, because "Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice and we're called to sacrifice things joyfully and graciously and complaining and being ungrateful is a sin"
#i still get upset that people would rather me dead and xtian#than alive and non xtian#it's. wild#what people believe. what xtianity makes people believe#ex christian#religious trauma#the thing is too like... for me at least this was more of a culture thing than a said out loud thing#and that kinda stuff is insidious bc people will deny that it's real bc it's so ingrained in the culture#that they can't actually see it or it's so normalized that they can't see anything wrong with it#idk im angry about xtianity tonight what's new
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