#urban christian

[whatwewear2church]

IMΛGӨ DΣI 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐎𝐃

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

I love showing Xena episodes to someone new who's never really watched the show and infodumping my many amazing Xena facts upon their increasingly disbelieving ears

[anim-ttrpgs]

random notes about how in Eureka, vampire fangs sometimes resemble snake fangs

-In ancient Christian and Hebrew text, the serpent is a symbol of both positive and negative connotation.

-often represents wisdom and intelligence.

-Jesus Christ compares Himself and the twelve apostles to serpents. 

-both vampires and serpents are something legitimately very dangerous but not ontologically evil

-both vampires and serpents are something that pop culture posits is diametrically opposed to Christianity and vice versa, but if you actually read the Bible, it’s really neither here nor there. Even in the bit of scripture that most famously posits snakes as uniquely Evil and Of The Devil, that’s a really dubious interpretation of it.

-wisdom?

[whereserpentswalk]

There's an orc attending your college. Your city is pretty diverse, there's a lot of human cultures represented there, and even harpies and dwarves are common. But an orc is still a really rare sight. And she's not assimilated at all, she wears the symbol of the dark lord around her neak, and the strange black cloths from the wastelands she came from, and she always seems to have a gun somewhere on her. It's strange just to see an orc in person, she's not like the green skinned monsters you see in movies, her eyes are pitch black, and her skin is so pale you can see veins, she's muscular and tell but also strangely skinny, and her teeth are sharp and spiked like a sharks, this one doesn't have tusks, just these rows of serrated teeth.

Everyone avoids her at first. There's something creepy about her. She doesn't move like a human. She emotes weirdly, being stoic during conversations, but sometimes smiling or laughing at odd times. In class it becomes clear that she lacks knowledge anyone growing up in your society has, but has extensive knowledge on things most humans will never know. She also very clearly supports the dark lord and the demons who serve him, and gets mad when his narrative of conquest and strict genetic hierarchy is challenged in class.

You end up paired with her for a class project. It's weirdly awkward. But you end up spending more time with her then most. It still takes awhile to get used to her mannerisms, and you have to convince her of evolution in a long debate (but eventually you do convince her). She seems strangely naive to a lot of things. Every time she does something that she considers a failure she goes into self loathing, and she gets really afraid she's going to be punished. You have to explain to her things are going to be ok sometimes.

You try to spend time with her. She supports the dark lord but out of a strange sense of fear more than the type of ideological support humans in nations not under his control have. When she does something that she thinks is heresy agaisnt him she becomes afraid. And while she's angry at people who follow gods other than him (which is basically everyone here) she's more afraid of them than everything. When a holy symbol you own touches her she's surprised it doesn't burn her, you have to tell her it's ok.

She has a lot more freedom here than she did back in the wastelands. You slowly help her realize she doesn't have to worry about being punished for sinning agasint the dark lord. She's able to go on the internet for the first time, you help her get everything set up. You also introduce her to your freinds, only some of whom feel safe around her, but those who do seem to like her.

It's weird just hanging out in her dorm. She can be weirdly laid back and introspective at times, at least when she's not nervous or paranoid. But when she's just relaxing she'll tell you about things, about the beauty of the desert sands, about what it was like to observe the rattlesnakes and condors and wyverns of her homeland. How she likes to observe the city, the way the diffrent people flow through it, she was scared of it at first but now she likes to explore it, and the way it lacks stars at night but the lights from the buildings replace it. She says she wishes she could stay here forever, that she wishes she could be an artist but that she was sent here to learn skills useful to the dark lord's empire.

There's something nice about showing her new things. You get to take her to a musical for the first time. Get to show her neighborhoods you like. Get to explain to her what public transport is (though she got scared feeling trapped in a subway car). You get to show her stuff she never got to experience because orcs are never really children, she loves getting to hold a plush for the first time, or watching cartoons for the first time, it's like she's finally getting to live an experience she never had. Even though she's a well armed adult she really likes plushies once she finds out about them, they weren't something she was allowed to have back home.

Over time she starts meeting people and learning things that go against her worldview. As she makes more friends, understands new things, slowly learns that she shouldn't be punished for mistakes, she slowly comes around to seeing how fucked up the world the was raised in is. She tells you she doesn't want to worship the dark lord anymore, she cries just from saying it. You hug her, and realize she's never been hugged before, she seems to really like that feeling. She bathes in the waters of a healing goddess, and she worships something out of love instead of fear for the first time.

Eventually the spawning warlock who spawned her and her siblings comes to visit her. You told her to be careful but she ended up spilling that she doesn't worship the dark lord, she ends up spilling all the things a warlock like that considers a sin. When he leaves she tells you she can't go home. Not ever. Never again will she see the shifting sands, or flying condor, or flowing serpents of her homelands. She's trapped where she is now.

You know it hurts her a lot. She says she feels like she's in a small pocket of safety. Back home she'd be hurt for being an apostate. In human lands outside of the city she'd be hurt for being an orc. But she's safe here. She stays in her apartment for awhile, while you try to make things work. She's finally changing her major to art, and despite everything she's finally free, free to watch the starless sky, free to not be punished when she makes a mistake...

[cassiopeia-grimm]

Perfect men don't ex- 😳

[rosepinks-world]

when he’s the smoking cigars on a balcony in Italy at night whilst listening to lana del rey kind of fine

[whatwewear2church]

"Father, I pray that they can be one. As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me. I have given these people the glory that you gave me so that they can be one, just as you and I are one. I will be in them and you will be in me so that they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you loved them just as much as you loved me"

-Jesus

[margaretcruzemark]

Yves Saint Laurent at Dior, 1958.

[anim-ttrpgs]

One of my top Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy moments ever was Sister Harriet, Catholic nun, and Yvette Preux, Catholic vampire, got into an escalating argument about the worth of human life and if a vampire is anathema to Christianity. Once she learned that Yvette was a real vampire, Sister Harriet was firmly of the opinion that she should cease to be, in order to spare all future victims she would prey upon. Yvette took offense. Both were able to heavily support their arguments with scripture. This was also in a booth at a diner and resulted in them getting asked to leave or the staff would call the police, and Sister Harriet warding Yvette away with a crucifix in the parking lot outside.

Another top moment is when Yvette got peppersprayed earlier in that same campaign but that was unrelated.

[whereserpentswalk]

There was a preacher who died, and became one of the few humans to go to the heaven of his god Christ after his death. He was greeting by a golden city, filled with strange angels with firey wings and shining eyes. The sky was above him and below him, and it was black and it was bright.

When he stepped into the gates of this heaven, the golden city was massive, yet almost empty, few walked it's streets. It had been made big enough for every human to live to walk through it, yet it had been open to so very few, most of the buildings were empty, the streets always wider than they needed to be, and lights rarely on. Even most of the angels had fallen away.

A lone angel guided the preacher through the city, and the first thing the preacher asked was, "I would like to see my daughter here. She had died before me, she would be waiting here for me I'm sure."

The angel replied in a glassy and inhuman voice, "No. She is elsewhere. She was a homosexual. You had preached many times that her kind would not be accepted here when you lived on earth. I recall you had said such words exactly to her. You should not have been suprised to be correct." The angel did not understand when the preacher wept.

The preacher than asked the angel, "Still then, perhaps I may see my father. I always wished to see him again here."

The angel replied, "He is here neither. I question why you wonder this? He was an adulterer, for that you cursed him well, and gave him your anger. Why do you want him here now for what you cursed him for on earth?"

The preacher wept again, but than asked, "Than may I at least see my brother? He has committed no act of grave sin has he?"

The angel replied, "Your brother was an atheist. Did your books not so clearly say that he who rejects the lord may not be let to his kingdom? You had preached such words on earth, and said such words to him? Why have you changed so much in death."

The preacher wept again and replied, "Than I am alone here. So may I at least see Christ so that I may than have someone?"

The angel walked him up a castle with a thousand steps, past great cannons and ballistas that were used to fight non christian spirits. Past the endless hallways and the rivers of wine that was blood and blood that was wine. And Christ sat on his golden throne, with his crown still of thorns, and his eyes still black, and wrists and ankles still bleeding endlessly into the night.

And the preacher begged Christ, "Please. Send me away. Send me to whatever hell you have dammed the others. I cannot be here if I am alone."

[cassiopeia-grimm]

When you have a long list of crushes 🤣

[savoureuxx]

victims, aren't we all?

brandon lee, the crow (1994) / wesley snipes, blade (1998) / keanu reeves, the matrix (1999) / stuart townsend, queen of the damned (2002) / christian bale, the dark knight (2008)

[femalehieronymusbosch]

[krumpkin]

Akse Graffiti Artist ( American Psycho ) Christian Bale 😎

[luka-3]

Salvator Mundi

© Luka Legin

ISO-100 f/6 1/100s

[dashalbrundezimmer]

streetart // wuppertal

1 - dominik hebestreit (birne)

2 - dominik hebestreit (birne)

3 - atelier gazel

4 - marc stania

5 - martin rybacki

6 - thomas kubig

7 - marko leckzut

8 - martin heuwold

9 - unknown

10 - martin heuwold (megx)

11 -15 seifenkistenrennen by birne, christian bolte, martin heuwold (megx), felix gephart, matthias gephart, angus78, crille, sprayboy 69 , flying förtress.

16 - unknown

17 - identity by medianeras

18 - dominion by nils westergard

wuppertal is probably better known for its suspension railway than for street art, but there are some remarkable and diverse works on site.

wuppertal ist wahrscheinlich eher für seine schwebebahn bekannt als für streetart, aber es finden sich durchaus sehr beachtliche und vielfältige werke vor ort.