#six pillars

[queersatanic]

After looking at all the evidence and considering things , i decided to forgo becoming an official member of The Satanic Temple, but i still closely relate to and appreciate their values and tenets. In your opinion, is it morally sound for me to use these tenets as a guiding tool in my life and also consume media from people supporting them (buying books for information, watching videos, etc.)? I'm not considering myself a member, but i am heavily influenced.

Short answer: No, you should not.

The Seven Tenets are the intellectual property of a shit organization owned by shit people who do shit things, and you should not support them.

If you are drawn to the idea of specifically Satanic moral guidance, give the Global Order of Satan's six pillars a gander.

Long answer going into more about the intellectual property stuff below.

First of all, the Seven Tenets aren’t really anything special.

You can see in their history how the different things The Satanic Temple has been has shaped what now are the “Seven Fundamental Tenets”, and like lots of things, the fact that Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko control what TST is and ever will be is a fatal flaw that can’t be got around.

This latest version of the tenets aren’t necessarily bad, and if they weren’t proprietary intellectual property of two specific men, you would want to have various local chapters/congregations come together to revise them collectively every so often to—by consensus—create principles that spoke to the people actually involved and doing the work.

In another world, in a better version of TST that recognized it had become more than a prank documentary and stumbled into a genuine religious movement, and rather than trying to enclose as much of the commons as possible and profit as much as possible, the founders could actually have stepped aside and created a federation more like the Quakers/Society of Friends to grow beyond their control.

But we live in this world instead.

The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.

Type of Work: Text

Registration Number / Date: TXu002170560 / 2019-10-24

Application Title: The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.

Title: The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.

Description: Electronic file (eService)

Copyright Claimant: The Satanic Temple. Address: 64 Bridge Street, Salem, MA, 01970, United States.

Date of Creation: 2013

Authorship on Application: The Satanic Temple, employer for hire; Domicile: United States; Citizenship: United States. Authorship: text. Rights and Permissions: The Satanic Temple, 64 Bridge Street, SALEM, MA, 01970, United States

Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.

Names: The Satanic Temple

Now, it’s not clear whether they mean the for-profit corporation or the tax-exempt church here.

It's probably the for-profit because most TST stuff is registered under United Federation of Churches LLC dba “ ‘The Satanic Temple’ ”.

However, the above entry is registered only as “The Satanic Temple”, full stop, which was also the previous name of the church before they renamed it “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” and still appears on lots of documents that way.

Along with the use of pseudonyms on official documents and other instances of perjury, it ought to be a red flag to supporters of TST about the two owners and their business practices but so far largely hasn’t been.

"Oh, all religions do this."

We can assure you they do not, and it's not just some box they needed to check. Per Joseph Rose of the Hail Satan Podcast, The Satanic Temple threatened to sue him over him selling something with the Seven Tenets on them. Forget which episode.

But imagine the Catholic Church suing someone over selling a pamphlet with the Nicene Creed or Ten Commandments. It's ludicrous, but TST is, among other things, a for-profit corporation and its owners want their money.

[bdbdhdjdhdh]

The pillars of total defence, the protectors of our land.

idk honestly

[s0fter-sin]

kneeling is a broad term for what ghost does with price

surrendering is slightly more accurate but even that doesn’t hope to touch the sheer desperation in the way he clutches at him; his body bowed low at his feet, his legs latched around one of his, hugging it so tightly to his chest his arms shake as he digs his face into his thigh

it’s only here that he can finally give in to the screaming; to the distant voice he strangles into silence every day of his life. the one who begs him to make himself as small as possible; do everything he can to hide from the ever encroaching demons growling and salivating at his heels

it’s only here, in the dark of price’s barracks, hidden by a bed at his back and a wall to his front, that he finally lets himself stop running; only between solid combat boots and worn fatigues does he let himself tremble and admit to the choking fear

he’d break open price’s chest if he could; crawl past his gushing viscera and curl up under his ribs, hidden in the warm dark

ghost clawed his way out of the grave with broken nails and gritted teeth but he wouldn’t mind being buried again if it meant being cradled in the safety of price’s insides. his warm blood and soft lungs would blanket him, mask the stench of his rotten flesh until he could even convince himself that, maybe, he too was still alive

he shifts, unnerved by his own longing, and price runs his hand over the crown of his mask the same way he’d card it through his hair until he settles once more

he grounds him over the long hours it takes for his white-knuckled grip to relax into a loose hold; for his face to stop grinding into the meat of his thigh and simply rest in his lap, his bracketing legs the only thing holding his lax body up as he floats, untethered by fear

[ali-borsch]

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[kuslalumonka]

your favorite elves can tell a lot about your past and your future

[indecisive-dizzy]

I love Latter Pillar so much you don’t understand i adore him have have some headcanons for him

Daisey literally pulls Howdy BY THE ANTENNA and makes him give Latter a hug. They like Latter, he’s sweet. But him being dramatic sometimes gets on their nerves

Daisey and Lizzy do partake in the Latter teasing, but they usually shut it down if it gets to mean (Latter protection squad say what)

Latter and Eddie besties real, Latter reads his poetry in the post office and Eddie just listens while doing his mailman duties

Honey’s mean to him, but secretly like his poetry. He thinks it’s so bad it’s funny

He runs a poetry club, he’s made a few friends from it too :3

Lizzy loves her brother, she really does, but she cannot stand to hear his bad poetry. She send him ads for poetry lessons and he gets sad about it

Also randomly put in but I love those little bee kids (I don’t know their names :,) ) they look so cute I love them

Latter has 6 arms me thinks, idk if that’s confirmed lmao

I’m mentally I’ll and that update destroyed me so I’m focusing on Howdy’s dramatic, flamboyant brother :3

The Howdy's nephews (the cater-bee children <3) are Howdo and Youdo! I can't remember if its one "o" or two tho haha

But yes Latter is just,,, he's so,, Soo ajdhjssj <3 I love him and his silly dramatics and bad poetry

Forcing siblings to hug is hilarious! I should know as a Certified Annoying Sibling Who Likes Hugs >:3 so good Daisey lol Howdy needs to hug his brother

Lighthearted teasing is fun, and I think if Latter was genuinely friends with whomever he'd go along with it, maybe do improv poetry to tease them back dramatically pff

Yeah you think Howdy would be upset that his brother is friends with the mailman? Bc Latter and Eddie besties Is real and in your home <3 They could write each other letters when it's not the holidays and Latter send Eddie his poetry for approval bc Eddie is too nice to say it's bad <3 (cough Latter getting a crush on Eddie? whaaaatt cough)

Howdy secretly enjoying things feels on brand lol. but him enjoying it for the wrong reason (so bad it's funny) is hilarious

Sorry but my oc CJ would be apart of Latter's poetry club <3 They're friends now Speaking of the poetry club, I imagine they do slam poetry and Latter is really bad but trying his best lol

Not the Poetry Lesson ads 😭 sobbs why she gotta do him dirty like that sjdbsjdhj lmao

[herearedragons]

Our Captain The Deadwoman (Deadfire sea shanty)

spoiler warning for the second half of POE1 and the beginning of Deadfire

Our captain the Deadwoman,

She sails through storm and thunder,

She sank beneath the waves three times,

But Ondra didn't want her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Ondra didn't want her!

Our captain the Deadwoman,

Her keep did fall and break her,

She lay beneath the rocks three days,

But Berath didn't take her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Ondra didn't want her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Berath didn't take her!

Our captain the Deadwoman,

She has the eyes of Watchers,

She walked three paths through the Beyond,

But Rymrgand won't touch her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Ondra didn't want her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Berath didn't take her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Rymrgand won't touch her!

Our captain the Deadwoman,

She saw Duc Aevar's murder,

She saw Defiance Bay in flames,

But Magran didn't burn her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Ondra didn't want her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Berath didn't take her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Rymrgand won't touch her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Magran didn't burn her!

Our captain the Deadwoman

The Hollowing did conquer,

Gave back the babes their little souls,

Now Hylea, she guides her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Ondra didn't want her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Berath didn't take her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Rymrgand won't touch her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Magran didn't burn her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Hylea, she guides her!

Our captain the Deadwoman,

When she sleeps you can't wake her,

But when she wakes she knows no rest,

And Eothas won't shake her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Ondra didn't want her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Berath didn't take her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Rymrgand won't touch her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Magran didn't burn her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Hylea, she guides her!

Hey-oh-hey,

And Eothas won't shake her!

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

Rewriting the last 2 seasons of mlp:fim, cause I'm bored and I need to get my ideas out.

I warn you: This is a collection of cluttered ideas, so don't expect it to be perfect o anything XD

Story of season 8 rewrite:

Instead of there being a School of Friendship, have the Student 6 be assigned to study under one of the Mane 6. 

Twilight Sparkle does what she did in the show and asks each of the different leaders to send a student to study, learn, and live with them. The student paired with each Mane Six member is:

Strength (Rockhoof) – Honesty (Applejack) – Yona (?)

Healing (Mage Meadowbrook) – Kindness (Fluttershy) – Sandbar (?)

Hope (Somnambula) – Laughter (Pinkie Pie) – Silverstream (Enthusiasm)

Beauty (Mistmane) – Generosity (Rarity) – Ocellus (Change)

Bravery (Flash Magnus) – Loyalty (Rainbow Dash) – Smolder (?)

Sorcery (Star Swirl the Bearded) – Magic (Twilight Sparkle) – Gallus (?)

I believe that this makes more sense than a school.

Give the two villains of the season (Cozy Glow and Chancellor Neighsay) actual reasons/backstories for the way they act and what they do.

Examples:

Give Cozy Glow a more believable motivation. In the original finale, Cozy's motivation for stealing the magic of Equestria is... I forgot honesty, lol.

A more believable motivation could be that Cozy feels neglected and overlooked by the other ponies, specifically unicorns, and she wants to screw with everyone by creating a level playing field (disregarding how it'll fuck up everyone in Equestria).

For the Chancellor, let's say that he recalls all of the times throughout the series where ponykind had been attacked or come into conflict with other creatures, etc. That's a more believable motivation.

Season 8 finale: 

I actually don't know how to write this in a way for it to make more sense, I just know that these specific plot points need to happen in the episode:

The Mane Six are put out of commission in order for the Student Six to be revealed to have a connection to the Elements of Harmony 

Cozy is revealed to have a connection to Tirek in some way. And we actually learn her backstory.

The Mane Six talk to Tirek and learn more about his past, and he mentions Scorpan of course

Chancellor Neighsay gets a realistic redemption, but after learning his backstory of course

Cozy Glow is sent away, not to Tartarus, but to stay with Shining Armor and Princess Cadence in the Crystal Empire to learn how to be good and get whatever the f*ck help she needs XD 

At the end of the story the Mane Six are praising their individual students and are happy that they have the same connection to the Elements and each other that they do. 

Story of season 9:

In order to understand what happens next, I highly recommend that you watch these videos by DrWolf001 on YouTube. These videos were the ones that inspired all of this:

ok, here we go!

Premiere:

Everything that happened in the season 9 premiere happens, the only difference being that Grogar is the REAL Grogar, not Discord in disguise.

Oh, and… a very special guest shows up at the school. 

Everyone in the room, the Mane Six, Spike, the Pillars, Celestia and Luna, the Student Six, everyone else is in utter shock at who it is: 

Scorpan, Tirek's younger brother, carrying a staff made from the Tree of Harmony! 

Following episodes:

Scorpan has made his reappearance to the characters. The Pillars and the Royal Sisters are ecstatic to see their old friend, especially Starswirl. Scorpan asks Celestia if the dragon egg he gave her hatched yet, and everyone is shocked. Scorpan meets Spike, and explains himself: 

When Starswirl and Scorpan first became friends, Scorpan was carrying Spike's egg with him. He explains that he found it by itself, and wanted to find it a home. He asked Starswirl to take care of it, but he refused, since he had more important things to do. Starswirl instead gave it to Celestia and Luna to use as a test, similar to Twilight Sparkle's test in the School for Gifted Unicorns. After the Pillars sacrificed themselves to stop the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan went back to his homeland. His brother was in Tartarus, and his friends were gone, so he had no reason to stay. 

Many years have passed, and Celestia still couldn't open the egg. She didn't know why, since she was a powerful alicorn. So when she built her school, she created the egg as the final test. (Even if a Unicorn couldn't open the egg, they wouldn't be judged on that alone.)

Scorpan explains what inspired him to come back to Equestria: His magical staff, which was made out of a branch from the Tree of Harmony, alerted him to the fact that more creatures were now connected to the Tree, so he came there to see. Scorpan meets them all, but is confused about something: There are only six elements for the Mane Six and the Student Six. 

Scorpan demands to see the Tree of Harmony, and storms off with the others following him.

—

Scorpan sees that the Tree is destroyed, but he is still trying to find something. The others are confused, but Scorpan says that it's "nothing". They leave, except for Spike.

Spike asks Scorpan where he found his egg, and Scorpan says he "doesn't remember". Spike is disappointed of course, but eventually says that he's accepted it. Scorpan starts asking Spike about his life with the ponies and all that jazz, and after hearing Spike talk, he realizes that Spike is exactly like him: 

He's the only non-pony member of his group of friends, he has a closer relationship with the main element (Twilight Sparkle) similar to how Scorpan had a closer relationship with the main element in his day (Starswirl), and even though he feels out of place sometimes, he's accepted his life and his duties to help his friends. Scorpan tells Spike that he believes he's the 7th Element. 

Tolerance (Scorpan) – Acceptance (Spike) – (?) (?)

Who is under Spike? That remains to be seen... meaning idk

Spike tells him that it's impossible, as when the ponies found the Elements, they only found 6. Scorpan tells him that only those that are connected to the Elements can find them. Scorpan and Spike search the Castle of the Two Sisters, but can't find the missing element anywhere. Scorpan asks Spike to try to remember if he's ever taken it or even seen it, and Spike remembers:

In the episode Secret of My Excess, when Spike was going through his greed-induced puberty, he was taking random things and hoarding them in the library. One was an orb that he found in the Castle of the Two Sisters. 

But after Spike had turned back to normal, he had returned all of the items he took. Spike didn't know what the orb was, so he just kept it in the basement. 

And then… the library was destroyed by Tirek. So the entrance to the basement was lost underground. So Scorpan and Spike start digging, or they find a way to teleport down there, idk

They find the orb in the basement, and Spike tries to get it to transform into a jewel. Scorpan says that it can only transform in the presence of the other Elements. 

That's all I've come up with. Feel free to add, suggest, or rewrite something, please 😅

[jesstasticvoyage]

Sam “I love being a slut.” Claflin, everyone 😂🤣

bonus

[soni-dragon]

this year’s planner cover! quite happy with how it turned out, especially since it’s been a LONG time since i’ve done any traditional art.

[my-little-pony-theories]

Man, that theory about Scorpan/Spike being the 7th Element is so spot on, the amount of evidence pointing to it...

Even if the entire thing is just a huge coincidence, it fits so perfectly, and it makes me wish they had gone with that instead of whatever the school of friendship thing was supposed to be

I don't wanna take credit for the theory, since DRWolf001 came up with it first. I only looked for more evidence and whatnot :p

And you know what? The whole point of the School of Friendship was (besides selling toys) to show that non-pony creatures are equal to ponies and should be respected, and that they are capable of wielding pony magic. That's actually not a bad message, since for a good chunk of the show the other creatures have been portrayed as either antagonistic, or less sophisticated than the ponies.

The problem isn't the message, it's that the School of Friendship was a stupid, boring, uncreative, and ultimately poorly thought out and written idea.

They could've used the concept of Scorpan contributing to the Tree of Harmony with the Pillars and having his own Element, which is now Spike's Element, as a way to tell that same message. They didn't have to create 6 new characters in order to tell that message. They already had a main character that was a non-pony… the whole thing was so stupiiiiiiiiid.

The School of Friendship was also meant to show more of the culture of the other creatures. But, once again, it wasn't done well. There was one episode where the Young 6 talk about their winter holidays...

And another where they bring in important objects from former leaders and hang their pictures on the wall... and that's about it :p

There have been episodes from previous seasons that do a much better job of showing the culture and societies of the other creatures... by having the characters actually travel there and spend the whole episode there.

Griffon episode: The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone

Dragon episode: Gauntlet of Fire

Yak episode: Not Asking for Trouble

Changeling episode: To Where and Back Again, and To Change A Changeling

There are only two episodes from post-movie where that happens.

Hippogriff/seapony episode: Surf and/or Turf

Kirin episode: Sounds of Silence

And its not world building for the sake of looking cool and epic like it was in the season 10 comics. At least one character learns something and improves by the end of these episodes.

I've got a whole long list of issues I had with the School of Friendship (and just everything that came after the movie in general). This is just one of them.

[bdbdhdjdhdh]

So I decided to name the six pillars and make headcanons for them, so:

Economic/Sunda

•Loves numbers

•Loves to do complicated math problems even more

•Balances everything around mathematical equations

•Loves to stargaze and predict different astronomical positions of celestial bodies

•Can't read maps

•Can't draw

•Loves classical music (particularly 'Four Seasons')

•Is a marketing executive

•He makes double of what Esse makes (since he keeps murdering his patients)

Digital/Mendax

•Loves gaming

•Is also a hacker

•Loves programming games too

•Oh and he's also a white-hat hacker

•He loves coding too (no surprise)

•Unless you've gained his trust, or proved yourself to be a trustworthy and reliable comrade, 99% of what he tells you are lies

•He doesn't even care if the lies end up killing you

Social/Laju

•She loves socialising (no shit)

•She cares a lot for her 'friends'

•But really she secretly manipulates them into doing her submission

•But she does it very subtly over the course of a really long time

•And she likes to observe her friends more

•And slowly change them into good people

•But manipulating prevents her from observing their true nature so she doesn't like it

•She would never do that to any of the other pillars tho

•Oh and she's a dog person, and argues with Sicarius all the time about whether cats or dogs are better

Civil/Sicarius

•Really loves animals

•Oh and drawing too

•Likes drawing animals

•And humans with animal features too

•She once tried taking the form of a half-human-half-animal creature but the humans kidnapped her to do experiments so she decided never to do that again

•Argues with Laju all the time about whether cats or dogs are better

Military/Pertama

•Chose to take the form of a middle-aged man cos he looks more 'macho and senior' that way

•Is one of the top secret byt very powerful people in the army

•He does all the dirty and hands-on work (hunting down criminals, torturing for information, etc)

•But what he does (that he actually shows people) is nothing compared to the other pillars

•He actually has a sweet tooth and loves sweet and fluffy stuff but because he wants to appear macho to his colleagues, he always eats the most bitter stuff

Psychological/Esse

•Is a therapist

•Is actually a murder therapist

•Likes to drive his patients to suicide

•Then drink all the blood fresh from the dead body

•He's also a masochist

•Loves manipulating people

•Loves observing human behaviour even more

•He displays part of his patients in his room like some sort of collectible champion

So that's all! Idk if you're as crazy as me and are really raging-simping for the six pillars right now you can request a fic or something idk

[snirtsnirkarts]

Alright, to unpack my concepts for The Six Pillars. Just rambling tbh since I didn’t have too much on them, but I did have some ideas.

So these were so,e of my concept designs on The Six Pillars and what other creatures they would be. Starswirl the Bearded isn’t here because I mean. I’m not changing him much or at least I didn’t plan to. I didn’t make it far enough to really decide, I just know he’s still a unicorn.

Flash Magus would be the first creature they find out to not be a Pony, although they can’t yet find his magical idiom. Finding out all their stories and where they came from would be the first step, they have to find out along the way that they’s also hunting after their idioms to protect them and other against the threats that are appearing along the way.

I think Mage Meadowbrook would have been next, but I’m still on the fence about her being a Zebra, as I thought about making her a Kirin, since I don’t have representation for that party. But I’d designed the Zerba version first, and it wrapped in better to allow Rarity to speak of her legend, or at least the childhood story of it. So I’m still on the fence about it and I’m willing to sway either way.

I think Mistmane may have been next. Now this one I had a few ideas for. As Dragons and Ponies will specifically have a past with one another. An alliance that was broken years back, but is really the only break they have record of. As Ponies and species don’t really like one another, but it isn’t offend that species will make sure to cut all ties, Dragons being one of those species, another being Yakyaks, and the last being Hippogriffs(although it wasn’t actually anything against ponies, just other dangers pledged them and forced them to the seas.)

As it would turn out in dragon lands, they’d completely forgotten or lost their ability to hatch dragon eggs, which was why they previously had an alliance with Ponies, as unicorns, namely Starswirl the Bearded, knew how to hatch the eggs. All dragons were alive when Starswirl was, and knew of Mistmane. But only until she disappeared, not long after the alliance was broken. Since then, no new hatchlings have come about. So Spike, would be a rather important being, making Twilight important if she’d been able to hatch a dragon egg all on her own. This was due to her studies of Starswirl the Bearded. And he did try to train others or take on an apprentice, but ponies found dragons terrifying creatures, and rather them fade into history. The Main Six would of course fix this problem, and Twilight would vow to hatch dragon eggs once more if they could make amends with Celestia and have a royal decree over it.

The order of actually fully learning the other three Pillar’s legends, Mage Meadowbrook, Somnombula, and Rockhoof hadn’t been decided. I was planning to rework the map of Equestria to better fit their travels, and I had thought about turning it into dnd formatting to help with storylines in between. But once more, I lost the motivation for this plan and storyline. Maybe I’ll pick it up another time, but for now. Enjoy my concepts!

[starlightcleric]

Cal's adventures in Deadfire have returned after a couple month break! All she has left to do in the game is the Forgotten Sanctum and Ukaizo, so today we murdered our way through the Archives! We found a book for Llengrath, some imp spray, and had to turn the difficulty down a step after dying to the boss fight six times.

I perhaps do not recall the intricacies of max level combat after a break and just wanted to continue the story :P

[mediapen]

me when i invade another country and am rewarded with an immediate narrative shift to ‘victim’

[incorrectmlpstudentsixquotes]

the student six aren’t direct parallels of the mane six or anything, but there have been times where the elements of harmony have been applied to the students, but the two times have been contradictory (although most ppl will go with the s8 finale vers). if u were to assign them elements, which would u go with? i personally liked gallus as magic for literally no reason other than i thought twi vibes made perfect sense lmao. i’m a big fan of character parallels so i’m interested to hear ur thoughts!

So I brought up in an earlier post something about this as well. (I can’t remember if it was this blog or the previous one, but I digress…)

Basically, I had the idea that, because Twilight and her friends had different Elements than Starswirl and the other Pillars of Equestria, the Student Six would naturally gain their own unique set of Elements too. Similar to the Pillars and the Elements of Harmony, but tailored to whatever virtue the Students would embody.

I ended up calling these new elements the Elements of Unity and that each student would get the following Element…

—-

Gallus - Connection

Silverstream - Wonder

Ocellus - Discovery

Yona - Pride

Sandbar - Humility

Smolder - Acceptance

—-

Now, your question is who would get whose Element? But with this headcanon, the question becomes which Element from one set becomes which Element in the next set? In my opinion, it shakes out to something like this…

Sorcery - Magic/Friendship - Connection

Strength - Honesty - Pride

Healing - Kindness - Humility

Hope - Laughter - Wonder

Bravery - Loyalty - Acceptance

Beauty - Generosity - Discovery

—-

If you want to take it one step further, there’s a popular fan-theory that Sunset Shimmer is the wielder of a seventh Element of Harmony, which most fans refer to as the Element of Empathy.

If we’re ascribing to this fan-theory for this particular headcanon, then I would have Swift Foot inherit this seventh Element, but for her it would become the Element of Reflection.