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noknowshame · 1 year

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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

#instant conversation enders for my multiple youth pastor cousins #don’t say it (I’m gonna say it)#The Child is The Price #but i mean come on #as someone who isn't actually even christian the real-life historical version of this is still cursed as fuck #i mean we know that jesus was a person who existed. whatever circumstances he was born in #its terrifyingly ominous to imagine being so unaware of the affect your child will have on the future of humanity #time itself will one day be counted around your birth of him #and all because he will suffer an excruciatingly painful death that you will not be able to prevent #not only that. but regardless of his or your intentions #regardless of whether there is a god #for millenea unfathomable millions will have blood spilled and will spill blood in his name #atrocities will be committed that you cannot even conceive of #and all on his and your behalf #you love your child. its beautiful. but there's horror in what you've done. because everyone else will love him too #and what's more dangerous than that?

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kasterarts · 15 days

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Moving Forward. (Spoilers for YTTD up through 3-1b)

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daily-hanamura · 6 months

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#p4 #persona 4 #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #EVERYDAY IM HOWLING. EVERYDAY IM SCREAMING.#for context this comes at the heel of yosuke charging at mitsuo kubo in rage because of his flippance towards killing saki and he's hit har #but souji and kanji jump in to protect him #like ok a lot of things going on here such as the obvious OH MY GODDDD yosuke being yosuke and taking things on for himself #because he doesn't want to bother people?? because he's made it his own responsibility? because his survivor's guilt is still lingering?#i mean don't tell me he doesn't look at how he surrendered to his shadow like apart from his self-sacrificing propensity #i low key feel like everytime yosuke demands answers about saki's death from the murderer/god/etc there's this undertone of how #he would rather it have been him #he cheapens his own life so much and for what #BUT ALSO!! ALSO!! not just souji jumping in because we know he would he's down bad for yosuke BUT ALSO KANJI #listen you've all heard me talk so much about how i adore kanji yosuke friendships #i can't really tell whether it's kanji or souji that says “haven't we earned your trust yet” but it's a line that hits SO HARD #regardless of which one of them was saying it and i think it hits hard in slightly different manners #it's kanji's admiration and how he looks up to yosuke and how he wants to be closer to yosuke as a friend/kouhai/whatever you want #tatsumi “who's your partner now!” kanji has so much respect for yosuke he wants yosuke to rely on him too!!!#and this stands out because kanji is very conscious of social hierarchies and such but as a kouhai as yosuke's junior #he's so specific about wanting yosuke to treat him as an equal #i smtimes feel bad for kanji because he has a bit of that vibe of a poor puppy trailing after souyo because he wants to be in their convos!#he wants to be included! but critically he also just! wants them to SEE him!!#going a lil off tangent but i think kanji's attitude towards souji is very much one of kouhai respect like he understands his place #of like deferring to souji or getting advice from him and just generally regarding him as a reliable mentor #and it's the same with chie and yukiko? but idk man. with yosuke. guys. with yosuke i always feel like kanji wants to break that hierarchy #that convention. that social norm. to cross a line and be closer to yosuke.#he's more willing to tease yosuke in a way he doesn't with the other 2nd years. and this isn't coming from a place of disrespect either #AGAIN. KANJI REALLY LIKES YOSUKE. he wants to protect yosuke!!! he jumps at the opportunity for yosuke to rely on him!!#i'm getting delulu but there's those hints of “yosuke senpai i want you to see me as a man!!!” kind of energy here and i'm it's yknow hmm

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godbirdart · 6 months

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if there's one [1] thing i will be forever grateful for in the internet era it's the vast variety and availability of pose / anatomy references supplied by photographers and models

i can go online and find PERFECT references for how fat folds crease the skin or how muscles wrap around the body and as someone who habitually draws most of his OCs ~modestly lean~ and wants to hone his skill in other body types, it is literally a godsend to have those refs so readily available

seriously, thank you all models and photographers for providing me the resources i need to expand my art skills i owe u my life

#drawing other body types is important to me #not just for my own Art Skill but for my audience and clients too #i've seen many a post in my many years on the internet of people saddened for not seeing themselves or their OCs represented in artists wor #esp when it comes to fat characters when it comes to body types #and i can imagine it's Super hard when you wanna comm someone but you're worried they'll slim down your OC #and regardless of whether the artist does it intentionally or not - it still sucks!!#i have a couple OCs - one fat and one meant to be kinda strong-bulky and i wanna use them more for example art #i also wanna play more with different skintones and hairstyles so i think i may make some human OCs to work on those with #ppl have called my art godly / called me an art god and while i'm iffy on being called some kind of god in any sense [despite the username]#i can only ever hope to live up to that praise by having my audience feel properly represented when i draw something that relates to them #obligatory mention that the username is solely bc of an OC of mine who i love dearly

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pocketgalaxies · 7 months

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That is true freedom. (C3E40 || C3E76)

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gayanimebitches · 6 months

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YURI HAS WON. YURI WILL ALWAYS WIN

#THE LINE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE SCALES OF LOVE AND GOD ACKNOWLEDGE ME I STILL LOVE YOU IS SO METAL #YURI WILL ALWAYS WIN #wataoshi #i'm in love with the villainess #screencaps #wataoshi spoilers #RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #YURI HAS WON YURI HAS WON YURI HAS WON YURI HAS WON

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shiikiyun · 5 months

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the futa mahiru tl convo... i know a lot of people are flipping and flying about him mentioning salvation again but i think its concerning for totally different reasons

theres a bit of differences between the translations ive seen, sometimes it comes off as futa wondering if treatment will be enough for mahiru to be saved (could be because he was treated yet doesnt feel saved because of his several mental health issue), and sometimes it comes off as him wondering if treatment is helping at all. Regardless i dont think this is him showing signs of Amane affecting him

The biggest reason I believe this is that he starts the conversation asking Mahiru for a way for him to help her. I dont think Amane would let him do this, as per her experience, helping broke a rule and got her punished.

However, I do think his "kinder" attitude now has to do with him trying to make amends for his past behavior, and it could be in hopes to be deemed redeemable in the eyes of God or whatever. Sure, he's a sinner, but he repents and is actively working on being better... that should work, right? That could save him, right?

#i dont think it can though!#i dont think he'll feel any better #regardless of whether he becomes crazy insane about god or if im right #fuuta kajiyama #fuuta milgram #milgram

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wifegideonnav · 2 years

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honestly it would be so fucking funny if alecto = nona and that’s just her personality. everyone’s like she’s crazy shes evil she’s gonna kill god and then you pan over to alecto and she’s making a daisy chain. turns out the ogs didn’t like her bc she was too nice and that was actually the outlier. she made them all presents by hand and they were like that’s it she’s gotta go

#oh no… my mortal enemy… a girl who is Nice…#get that shit out of here #begone! you with your compliments and general cheer #anyway I think alecto has gone through too much shit to actually be that happy regardless of whether she’s nona or not but god.#part of me would like to see it #op #tlt #tlt memes #alecto the first #alecto the ninth

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feathered-serpents · 9 months

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Hot take: if someone wants to call themself a lesbian you should let them without worrying about whether or not they’re lesbian enough for your standards :)

#personal #honest to god I think we should go back to the OG definition of lesbian where it was a catch all #for all women who felt attraction to women REGARDLESS of whether or not they ALSO felt attraction to men #it would help with the separation bisexual girls feel from the rest of the sapphic community

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mortiscausa · 4 months

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first few pages from a long abandoned comic project

#wip #comic art #personal project #adrestia project #if i ever return to this project i probably wouldn't start with this bit because it's become less and less relevant to the story #how aurele lechance and the ballantynes first met #so this would get cut regardless of whether i pick this up again #god you can see the way i draw hands has changed so much since drew this #there was actually more dialogue on these pages lol #i just never got around to doing more than that one sb haha

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pinayelf · 2 months

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I know fans joke abt how the warden is more competent than the inquisitor bc they did all that w/o much help but the funny thing abt amihan is she actually isn't

she was 20, angry and hated herself and the world, she ended up in the situation she was in bc she was...a petty snitch. she also hates being a grey warden and continues to hate being one through dai - she actually leaves but then decides to search for the cure

for most of the Blight, it was fuck up after fuck up. like I play it so that I have enough ppl to help me fight the archdemon, but in my personal headcanon, she pissed off a lot of potential help (whether it be Circle mages who overheard her saying she was "gonna annul this shit" out of anger, eamon's men who did NOT like her, bhelen who didn't really trust the fact that she knew nothing about politics), left a bad taste in people they came across and picked a fight with anora

which I think makes sense for a 20 year old ill-adjusted young woman who had to learn how to be more selfless. beating the archdemon was pure luck mixed with people just NOT WANTING the Blight to destroy ferelden and realizing joining the fight was the only way to stay alive

amihan does grow, but it's slow, she has to process trauma, understand she hurt people and ruined their lives and to actually experience what it's like being loved (both platonic and romantic)

I tend to not post so much abt how much amihan fucked up and almost let a Blight swallow ferelden bc I tend to feel anxious abt how ppl will receive it but I think it's important to her character and it's fun and interesting for me to play with it in this case

immy is 100% more competent than amihan, in spite of her own flaws, but I love both my messy and my scaredy cat girl all the same

#amihan amell #my first pt of dao was a mess tbh lmao and i messed up so much and amihan's canon is pretty similar #after i fucked up and left amalia possessed ive been thinking abt playing the rest of the game where i'll pick what amihan would actually do #regardless of whether or not thatll end up being a good thing in the long run lmao so watch this space #i also wanna talk abt her friendships w morrigan and zev #god i love morrigan to death but lmaoo i know them being so close they just enabled each other's bad habits #which i think why it was good that morrigan and amihan drifted after dao bc they needed to grow apart #its v important to me that they meet again #zev is extremely important to amihan learning how to be selfless #im sorry to zev tht he had to deal w amihan's bs during a blight 😭😭😭#also there are companions and other characters that just straight up hate amihan and lol 😭#anyway just rambling bc i love an incredibly flawed female character and thts what i wanna portray w amihan

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lesbianshadowheart · 2 months

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Tumblr is crazy bc not only is your follower count a mystery to others its also a mystery to yourself. the nearly 7k on my artblog means absolutely nothing bc I’ve been amassing dead blogs and the occasional bot for over a decade. Then there’s people who barely log on and people who are just too lazy to unfollow. The actual number could be anywhere between 200 and like 2k but theres no way of knowing. blessed site

#then theres ig where im at 220 and it feels soo different #and u get like stats on how many people SAW ur post regardless of whether they interacted ir not #thank god i grew up on tumble bc that ig shit def makes u obsess over it way too much #everyone there is always on about engagement and numbers and i feel like ive been thoroughly vaccinated againt that

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crow-ooc · 26 days

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hey can we be fucking NORMAL.

#crow talks #the way some of you fucks send asks is like #there isn't another person on the other side of the screen #READING that shit.#god. absolutely fucking disgusting.#this is not about casteism.#this is about shit that you SHOULD NOT SEND to people REGARDLESS of whether it's in-character or not.#be. fucking. normal.

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namisweatheria · 5 months

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I understand most people aren't very conscious of these things but gender is a huge, huge mode through which people connect to each other, especially in youth. (Think wanting to imitate gendered features, or participate in gendered activities together.) Yamato didn't have peers or a real parent to connect with, so it makes perfect sense he would connect with his hero through gender instead. To invalidate that is just insane to me.

What do people who do that think gender is.... no don't tell me, because if someone doesn't respect the language people choose for themselves, (and trust me, there have been and continue to be plenty of real people who describe their own trans experiences as "choosing to be x" whether you like it or not), I am not interested in anything they have to say on the subject. Yamato is a man!

#yamato #one piece #my posts #you either support gender liberation and autonomy or you don't. it is honest to god that simple hahaha #regardless of one's personal discomfort with people's “unclear” or “problematic” language! it's not anyone else's business!#and how a person reacts to yamato's clearly stated and untroubled gender identity says a lot about their ideas of gender.#whether they realize it or not.#I've seen a couple assholes but we're mostly past this discourse right. I'm not.. gonna get death threats or something..#i was just thinking of how gender is a social activity and how yamato substitutes his hero for what he should have had. it's sad :') but #also metal as hell. ok just decide that then. I love you.

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chialattea · 1 month

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today I dreamt da4 came out and it had a wlw tal vashoth romance option but they’d gone and made her dainty and petite and I was so pissed off I immediately woke up with the biggest migraine I’ve ever suffered

#da4 #dragon age #I swear to god if that happens I’ll burst a vein #IF WE DONT GET FEMALE 7FT BURLY TAL VASHOTH LOVE INTEREST #THEN WHATS THE FUCKING POINT #(points at Iron Bull) my problem is he isn’t a men of wö #I. WANT. GIANT. WOMEN #at this point I try not to think on whether it’ll actually be a good game I’m playing this shit regardless #dragon age fire emblem and rune factory I’ll take you three to my grave #I can’t fucking believe the game actually… exists #will exist at least #as in we’ll actually be able to play it??? this year????#insane #I am beating solas to death with a hammer (slightly affectionate)#(dreamily) isabella appearance…..#i love women

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satanic-faggotry · 1 month

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For fuck's sake, r/Atheism, you make it really hard to defend you.

So there's an (actually very good) post, and yet nobody in the comments seems to understand to concept of a hypothetical statement. 90% of the comments ate "But there isn't any evidence for god and never will be."

MOTHER FUCKERS IT'S A "WHAT IF" SCENARIO

ID: A reddit post from the atheism subreddit, titled Evidence for the Existence of God is not Enough

Just a note about the idea of evidence. And for you lurking Christian evangelizers, this is for you too. I have heard many times some Christian apologists or evangelizers will say something to the effect of "oh you sound agnostic so I can show you enough evidence that god exists, then you should convert." Well no.

Its not enough to establish compelling evidence for the existence of your god. It also needs to be shown that this god os worthy of respect and worship. The god of the bible as presented in those books does not meet those criteria for me. At all. I do not worship power. If I have free will, sufficient information on the realities of this god, the realities of the consequences of not worshipping him, I should be able to make an informed decision. Any evangelizer needs to meet these criteria to convert me. And none has come close.

And yes evangelizer, I do think I am more morally defensible than your god. Its not even close

/End ID

#worship is immoral regardless of whether the being is real or imaginary #i despise self worship just as much #anti theism #satanism #atheism #no gods no masters

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