#the prince's psalm

[anniflamma]

"Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as his own soul. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that he was wearing and gave it to David and his armor and even his sword and his bow and his belt." - 1 Samuel 18:1-4

Finished my keychain idea! Now just gonna go and try to make it real. If it works then I would love to make a whole series of ancient duos. Maybe Gilgamesh/Enkidu next? Or Achilles/Patroclus? .... Rumi/Shams?...... Naomi/Ruth! There are so many...

[m4el-1t0]

From Gilgamesh and Enkidu to Achilles and Patroclus and then David and Jonathan the most prevalent thing in human history we have been warned about are homoerotic codependent friendships and yet you keep talking to the guy you met at 19

[an-hypnos-dri]

something about eyes and souls

[doc-davey]

Need to take a moment to talk about these books I have lol.

These books about David/Jonathan, I love and hate. Idk, like, I just can’t point out exactly, it’s probably the way David/Jonathan are depicted, but it really does frustrate me a little while reading this David/Jonathan trilogy.

It’s genuinely written well, like the writing isn’t corny or overly detailed lol. But it’s written with a Christian perspective, so David and Jonathan aren’t gay in this (sigh). 😞 But in these books, usually each chapter goes back and forth from Jonathan and David’s pov, and I love that.

The first two books are in David and Jonathan’s pov, but in the third book “My Father the King”, it’s in David and Mephibosheth’s pov. I get a lot of inspo for Mephi’s story from this book, but I actually have yet to finish the book because I’m too scared to finish 😭 (it’s literally just like my situation with the Prince’s Psalm atm lmaoo)

But just from reading the first two books, it’s so obviously written for them to be in love. The books are literally about their relationship. David and Jonathan meets, they connect, they share their deepest secrets and feelings, they fight side by side, and David even saves Jonathan from dying in battle!! Jonathan gets shot by arrows, and David wouldn’t stop visiting him. And you know what, Jonathan also saves David from dying in battle! And there’s a moment where David and Jonathan finds a waterfall, and Jonathan would playfully shove David into the water, and they would swim together on a cool night, just like the Simba and Nala water scene from The Lion King with “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” playing in the background if you know what I mean 😭 like AAAABABBAAAKSK, and throughout the books, even in the third book, David won’t stop yapping about how he constantly sees Jonathan in his dreams, as well as Jonathan who can’t get David out of his mind 😭 LIKE- NAHHH ☠️ hello??? Yeah, they’re definitely not in love or something… 🤔

But you know what, reading these books frustrated me so much.. The author made sure to constantly pull out the “we’re just friends!” card, so often 💀 it honestly doesn’t make sense to me ngl, from they way wanted to depict David and Jonathan’s relationship. Let me just say- if you’re going to dedicate an entire trilogy about David and Jonathan’s relationship only… there’s no fucking way you can pull it off as them just being “friends”, idk, it’s just not possible to me. The author would do this by, of course, “giving them a wife tactic”, but literally in the book, they cared more about each other than their wives LOL.

But yeah, my little review of this trilogy that I’ve been wanting to talk about. You can always check it out for yourself, I’d say I only recommend it if you like David retellings in general and if you want some Jonathan angst. Not kidding with the Jonathan angst 😭 he is so angsty in the books and a literal punching bag because every bad thing would happen to him. Like I would read about David going on some adventure, and when I turn to the next chapter, Jonathan is absolutely doomed by something 😭

And also, if you can handle the random preaching in the books where David breaks the forth wall and says that G-d is awesome or something and Jesus is coming, y’know, then perhaps you’ll enjoy the series 👍 (or maybe not)

[anniflamma]

I don’t blame authors for feeling afraid to create retellings due to the backlash they would absolutely face. But honestly, it would be fantastic to see straight people arguing, starting cancel petitions just to ending up accidentally tried to cancel the wrong person, and sparking debates on freaking news channels like this would lead to the end of civilization. It would be absolutely insane.

Also, this is so true. XD Though I’d say the opposite when it comes to Eric Swan Quinn's The Prince’s Psalm. Kinda?? Ish...?? David was twinkified to the maximum there. I mean, it makes sense to characterize him like that, buuut the sheer number of "David accidentally tripped over [insert any male character with a big chest and broad shoulders], and he was so small and delicate compared to the other’s big body!" moments.... I love it tho. Once I noticed it for the third time, mentioning another guy's large chest and how smol David was in the same sentence, I couldn’t unseen it. Aaand the book did indeed reduced David's problematic behaviors and made Michal the antagonist instead, to justify David's treatment of her, which is my biggest critic of that book.

Jonathan, on the other hand, started off as this dark, calm badass but eventually turned into the depressed damsel by the end. So, I guess the roles switched???? 👀

it’s really a waste that no one will publish a mainstream David/Jonathan novel because it’ll offend people when instead they should EMBRACE the discourse! do they know how much time gay people on the internet spend arguing about how TSOA ruins Homer’s characterizations? now imagine that but straight people actually never mind that sounds like hell

[anniflamma]

Had a little cute idea for a keychain or something. Only have made one of the sides so far.

[peninsularian]

Tuff toasting, 1975

[sidvic1ious]

David and Jonathan

okay! I finished The Prince’s Psalm about a week ago and I've dug my nose deep and now it's all I could think about.

This is my first post on here and my first time using Tumblr because it's the only media l could find people talking about the book and the tale of David + Jonathan

These are designs I came up with early into my read and they're bound to change later :)

I have plenty of sketches of them that l'd love to share soon 🫶

[walkswithmyfather]

“TESTED BY GOD’S PROMISE”

“His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.” (Psalm 105:18‭-‬19 ESV)

“The life of Joseph began with great promise. Earlier in his youth, the LORD gave him a dream that showed him that he would be elevated to a position of great authority. He would rule over his brothers. Even his father and mother would come bowing down before him. What happened next? The very opposite of what God had promised. His brothers betrayed him, sold him as a slave into Egypt, and, because he was faithful to his Egyptian master, he eventually ended up in prison. He was in fetters, his soul was in iron.

How did Joseph respond to that situation? Did he say to himself, “Everything’s gone wrong! The LORD’s promise will never come true”? No, I don’t believe that. It says, “Until the time that the promise came, the word of the LORD tested him.” How important it is to see that when the LORD gives us a promise, many times everything that happens next will seem to be the very opposite of what God has promised. It’s so important that at times like that we don’t give up on the promise, we don’t say, “God has forgotten; God has failed.”

You see, that promise that God gave us is testing us. It’s testing our faith and our constancy to see if we’ll hold on in the darkest hour. And when we pass the test, then, like Joseph, the promise will be fulfilled. —Derek Prince

© Derek Prince Ministries

Via: “The Spiritual Encourager” (FB)

[anniflamma]

Omg you drew David and Micah! T.T And love the "Immaculate jawline" comment

But seeing your sketches of David and Micah made me wanna do something more with them. Miss them.

And that pupper. TO FLUFFY.

Random sketches that were inspired or had the poses used by @anniflamma in Come Give Me Love animatic (which i loved and it got me to read Prince’s Psalms on google books because, i’m broke 🥲) side by side comparison. idk if it’s technically plagiarism because i’m using screenshots but i’m willing to take them down if i get told.

Honestly Anniflamma’s art is amazing and i’m lowkey envying how good hers looks. :’)

Also, have a grainy picture of my tutor’s doggy (Barney, because we couldn’t call him Babi the Bitch/hj) because he’s a menace when he bites my ankles and i love him for it >:)

[jclovely]

WHAT IS FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS ???? 🌾🍂🍎🍞🍷

On the first day after Passover, farmers would go out to look at their harvest to find the buds that sprang first. They would have special ribbons to mark those buds, and for the next fifty days they will tend their crop, paying careful attention to the ones they had marked. On the third day after Passover, the farmer would walk around again, and those buds that were ready to be presented would be cut right away, taken to the temple and waved before God. Of course, this speaks to us of Yeshua rising again on the third day, the firstfruits of those to be resurrected.

INDEED, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE FIRSTFRUIT OF THE RESURRECTION.

Amen.

📯👑📯

🇮🇱👑🙏

🙏💖🌺🦋🕎✝️👑🇮🇱📯🕊️🕯️🧡

[anniflamma]

Guess I have good and bad news now!

The good news is that the David & Jonathan keychains are here, and they look so lovely!!! I was freaking out and so happy when they arrived! They’re a bit darker than I expected, but still gorgeous, the hot gold stamping works perfectly!

Now, the bad news: The reason I made these keychains was that a friend and I planned to share a table at Artist Alley this Närcon Summer… but we didn’t get in. No Artist Alley for me this year. :(

Here’s the funny part, though. While we were discussing Närcon, my mom jumped into the conversation and decided she wanted to apply for a table too. She had this sweet idea to make dice potions, and guess what? She got a table! So now, I’m going to Närcon after all… as my mom’s helper, selling her decor and dice potions!

I’ve thought about selling these keychains online, but I gotta do some research first before opening a shop! Or simply figureing out how the process works.

[wellthatsclever]

"Love one another, as I have loved you." Prince of Peace

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[doc-davey]

I’m soaking wet sobbing

Been drenching my phone screen with my tears…

Right before my 10 hr trip to Louisiana.

Dude… I can’t.

David and Jonathan…

I don’t know if I can handle reading another David and Jonathan book 😭

Expect a review

[anniflamma]

It reminds me of David and Jonathan’s last meeting in The Prince’s Psalm. Jonathan has a full-blown emotional breakdown and begs David to help him. David's way of comforting him is to shush and start making out with him. To make things worse, David waited for Jonathan to fall asleep so he could sneak away and leave.

This pretty much sealed Jonathan's fate. He ‘chose’ to stay with Saul, which eventually led to him not running away during the final battle, even though he had the chance. From Jonathan’s perspective, he had no one to turn to, because David made it clear that he didn’t want Jonathan to follow him.

From David’s perspective, he was just comforting Jonathan with physical affection. His way was simply, 'Don’t think about it.' It wasn’t his intention to push Jonathan away.

I had a random idea of David trying to comfort those he loves.

with Jonathan when he’s in pain, Jonathan accepts the comfort as David hugs him and tries to tell him everything will be alright.

with Bathsheba, she swats away his hand when he tries to comfort her from her pain, calling him a murderer and monster, and David says nothing back. Nothing at all.

[eyehunger]

020. — chest burster

❛[ HORROR WRITING PROMPTS ≻ accepting!

PROXIMITY; THE LANGUAGE OF TOUCH. It spoke and understood it // FAR MORE FLUENTLY IN TIME, IN EXPERIENCE. But the whispers of affinity sometimes were ever too quiet for the din of its mind; lost in the background where others it joined with the constant tune. It wanted it as a primary performance, and Hermaeus Mora would orchestrate it to be.

SLITHERING LIMBS, A NORMALITY FROM IT. There is more flesh overtaken // PAINTED WITH LINES OF ITS RESIDUE // then that which the air is allotted. Vacancy hadn't the right-- - not here, not now. But it still existed // SPITEFUL CONCEPT. Under swath of cloth, frail and utterly meaningless boundary between itself and Vile, press crawled. The nook at underside of ribcage; welcoming. Ever greedy was the Knower, however // FOR THE EXTERNAL OFFERINGS DID NOT SATISFY FOR LONG. A worming knock, and the door opens. Flesh parts for its intrusion. A broken suspire.

TORTURE NOT INTENT; NAY EVEN A SMALL SUBSET OF ACTION. Tenderness laces the tentacle that traverses the warmth squeezing it-- - muscle and viscera softly shoved side without rupture, ichor fallen from entrance made siphoned into the atramentous ooze pressing externally. IT WOULD ALL BE ITS // ONLY ITS OWN. The slats of ribs finally met the end of tendril, momentary pause to trace 'long the underside. ONLY SUCCINCTLY. Continuing-- - more of self filtered into the internals of its most Prized Treasure.

PERHAPS THERE IS SOMETHING MERCILESS IN THE ACTIVE LACK OF PAIN GIVEN. Each inch unwavering should withdraw vivid shocks of unmentionable anguish // EVEN BETWEEN THEM, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN THEM. But the Old Antecedent made active effort to deny it. Only the sensations of its movement as it curls and coils around the shape of bones, its slick membrane melting with the internal fluids // BUT NOT LOST WITHIN ONE ANOTHER. Separate but together. Voidial chill an oppressive shade in the warmth of Viles center. Eyes flickering to the shapes its body crafted beneath the thin corium-- - IT DOES NOT CREATE AN EXIT WOUND.

WHEN THE THRUM OF HIS HEART IS WITHIN ITS GRASP, PRIMARY OPTIC SLIDES CLOSED. Another stilted noise of satisfaction, the rumbling vocalizations of self growing at the sensation. Vibration and pulse meet, and they become a song. POETRY. Something Hermaeus Mora would slot 'pon a pedestal, beyond being another book into the endless shelves. Precious // UNIQUELY ITS OWN TO HAVE. Once almost lost. A reminder, AN ANCHOR. Teeth open 'pon the side of what ensnares, and there is the urge to bite. TO CONSUME, TO TAKE HIM INTO IT. It is always there-- - this desire to have all of him. And in pieces does it always take. But the mouth merely settles brushing against valves and arteries branching off favored flower. It murmurs something // AT HIS CORE, AGAINST THE HEART. Not in any mortal tongue, not in Daedric. Sole its own.

@lordvile