#? idk if i's call it a religion

[bottombaron]

you know, i can handle a little bit of fun "Nandor is dumb" talk, but i have a net-zero tolerance for any implication that Nandor is not educated.

Nandor would have been incredibly educated in his lifetime.

even (or especially) as a soldier in the Islamic World. being a soldier was more like getting sent to boarding school that's also a military camp. they weren't just concerned with creating loyal fodder for war. they were building the next government officials, generals, accountants, advisors, etc. it was important that young men knew how to read, write, speak multiple languages, learn philosophy...sometimes even studying art and music was mandatory.

if he was nobility (and its most likely he was), take all that shit and multiply it exponentially. Nandor would have been reading Plato at the same age most people are still potty training. he would have been specifically groomed in such a way to not be just a brilliant strategist and warrior, but also diplomate and ambassador of literally the center of scientific and cultural excellence of the age.

so like yeah, he can be a big dummy sometimes, sure. but that bitch is probably more educated than any of us will ever be.

#wwdits #nandor the relentless #Nandor #what we do in the shadows #i think its obvious by how much Nandor loves to read that he grew up educated #it's one of my favorite character traits of his #anyways #this was just your local psa abt the depth of Nandor's character and intelligence #and how the medieval islamic world was like - so much more advanced than it's western counterpart it's hilarious how ppl mischaracterize it #(by hilarious i mean it makes me want to break something) #this was in my drafts lolol what did i read that made me vent this? idk #also 'islamic world' is just a term some historians use to describe a specific geographical location and historical age #kind of how 'western world' is used today #it doesn't mean it's specific to one religion or nation but the broader time and location #meaning that Al Qolindar or Persia or Ilkhanate or w/e you want to call where Nandor came from #the same expectations of education and it's vibrant social/cultural world remain an accurate image of the middle east in the medieval age #if you come from the west like me #think The Forum + The Library of Alexandria + Paris/Florence + and idk anything else u think of when u think of 'Western Excellence' #and then imagine of all of that in one place at one time and then u might get close to what the world Nandor was living in as a human

[fearforthestorm]

the thing they don't tell you about being raised in a high-demand religion is that everyone who you grew up with at some point will either have a faithbreak or they will continue to stay. and both of those are kind of the hardest thing ever to watch someone you cared about go through.

#.lyr #my closest friend from when we were teenagers just got her mission call. #i was so sure shed make it out. she was always one of the best and most genuinely caring people i knew. #im...crushed. by this. she cared about people more than she cared about rules and i thought shed make it out i thought she already had. #and whatever shes doing is because she really and truly thinks its the right thing #but that doesnt mean it is and that doesnt make it easier #exmo #<- i dont talk religion on here anymore and back when i did i didnt use that tag but like. idk. #added context and kind of hoping that. people who see it from that tag will understand the feeling.

[shiftythrifting]

I wanted to know why seashells glued to jesus warranted its own tag

And now i do know, omfg what in the fresh 7 layers of hell- why so many jesus shell monstrosities

ONE MORE DOWN THE SEASUS HOLE

#didi answers #seasus #religion #people love making shit outta shells idk #even jesus #I shouldn't call it a seasus hole in the future smh

[the-n3w3st-g1rl-g1rl]

I'm realizing that the fact that Rudy and Noelle call Kris "Krismas" implies that Christmas is still a thing in Deltarune's universe. Like, it's not called something else or anything. So even though their religion centres on an Angel, I guess Jesus is still part of at least a religion in their world idk I'm tired

#it's 1:00 am I'm thinking about things #I mean it makes sense that the same kinda religions would exist #I just feel like there weren't many other references to christianity specifically #idk shit about religion tbh hhhhh #like I know that the holiday family's whole aesthetic is very christmassy. #ofc I know that but like #with the monster holiday in undertale being established as a seperate thing #like with the gyftrot and all that #I guess I always felt like the holiday they celebrate would be. gyftmas or something #although I guess we haven't met a gyftrot in deltarune yet so maybe that's dumb #idk idk #I'm a mess please don't call me stupid I'm just a wreck right now because tired and foggy #thank you for reading my weird 1 am ramblings

[philzokman]

been laughing for the past ten minutes at the opening for this essay oh my fucking god 😭😭

link to the essay!

#the essays called “What is the Antonym of Sin?”: A Study of Dazai Osamu's Confrontation with God btw!!! #and its kinda a belter so far i love to say it #idk what id do if smn told me my view on religion was disconcerting confused and oblivious like #id sob #FHDSKJFH #lea.txt #dazai osamu #osamu dazai

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

I know it's cool to shit on BBC Sherlock now or whatever, but even at a time when I didn't know I was aroace, to have a main character of a show who was an adult with a job, who was considered attractive and was a genius, be openly a virgin and admit he had no interest in romance was really important to me? I know he self-identified as a sociopath but it was more than clear that he wasn't one and idk... the show did not handle it well at all, and some aroaces hate that people call Sherlock aroace rep but like... it meant something to me, I guess

#BBC Sherlock #Sherlock #i personally stopped liking the show from s3 but the first two seasons really were good I still stand by that #i didn't even know I was aroace I shipped johnlock and everything but yet #the FEAR in my heart that they were gonna force in a romance #the way I flinched when they treated the virginity thing as a joke #the way John indicated something was wrong with him for not developing romantic feelings like idk man #I think I related to him a lot #it's like how i related so hard to Jughead Jones as a kid #i didn't GET IT then but there was something about it #call it bad aroace rep if you want #like how apparently the mandalorian is bad aroace rep cause it's related to religions #shaming people for sex or whatever idk idk ikd #sometimes you don't think that hard about it something just calls out to ya #like sheldon cooper is also aroace coded but idk if I felt that kinship with him #aro stuff #ace stuff #aroace tag

[galactikburzt]

Shout out to my atheist uncle on the Christmas family meeting who saw me feeling uncomfortable with all the christian songs playing in the radio and then noticed that we were both doing the same uncomfortable smiles and giggling while singing all these songs out loud as an attempt to cope with all the discomfort then while everyone was eating he tried to ask me if i was an atheist on english in the middle of the table because no one in the room could speak english so it was like if we were speaking in code to identify each other and singlehandedly made my christmas way more funnier because Woah Same Damn Im Glad Im not The Only One™

#galactikburzt rambling #shout out to mi tio hes a real one #i swear the way he asked me if i was an atheist on english while we were all eating was extremely funny LOL #idk if i would call myself an atheist (im too scared to) but i definitely dont wanna have nothing to do with religion #(my parents are perfectionists) #that was actually very funny #might delete later tbh

[impossible-rat-babies]

rotating Halone in my brain case tonight fellas

#as much as she is a deity of Ishgard and has been shaped by the Dragonsong war over the centuries #there is still this deep connection to death because of war #the victorious dead. all is equal and free in death #she is called The Fury #I dunno I just. there’s something about eyrie praying to her to carry the souls of the innocent that were ravaged by the calamity #even though they are not warriors. they are not makers of war and yet they were quite often ishgardian people #there’s an element to war that includes taking care of the injustice of slaughter. the death of the innocent #even if the calamity was not a war #idk eyrie has always carried a sort of affinity to Halone #even though I haven’t nor plan to workshop much of a religious tradition for their village #it exists I know that much but it’ll be important when it is inportent #they came out worship of Halone out of an environment so saturated in it and they found comfort in the routine #of the practices and that turned to more purposeful worship #they don’t have much a thought towards religion but they are generally kindly and respectful #even being someone who has killed that which people consider to be deities #on Several Occasions #correction: they do have thoughts but they avoid thinking about it too hard bc it hurts their head #oc: eyrie kisne

[eldritch-nightmare]

Okay this is kind of random(and I may have missed it but oh well)

But like is Liu really religious? And if so what religion?

Again I may have missed somewhere where you wrote about it but I'm just genuinely curious now

i'm pretty sure he is?? a lot of the art i've seen of him involves religious imagery, and the only reason he survived is bc he was able to choke jeff w his rosary.

i personally view him as religious, at least. i view him as a non-practicing catholic, but you can make him believe in whatever religion, or lack thereof, that you want.

#anon #archived mind of v: thoughts and opinions. #liu and jeff r just Southern. to me. #and my family is catholic. and southern. #i am southern. and agnostic. #it's projection for me mostly but #yeah liu is religious to me nd jeff seems like the type of guy to like... #idk i think jeff was religious at one point too but now he strikes me more as #an atheist #i don't think he's disrespectful towards religions tho #his mother raised him better than that #and sully doesn't believe in anything period. i don't think he'd call himself an atheist?? #he's very anti-religion tho. #i am Not an expert on religion btw i've been to church maybe 3 times in my life and it was awful for me personally #so idk if i am using these terms properly

[britneyshakespeare]

throughout the series of drake and josh it pretty consistently implies that josh nichols is a christian (josh peck is jewish) and in the finale of the series helen (played by yvette nicole brown, not jewish[?]) is portrayed as a practicing jew

#i dont have a problem w either of those things necessarily i just find it interesting #if i had to guess. drake and josh was a mainstream that didnt wanna touch on religion generally #but josh was kind of a dork and usually when josh's religious beliefs are implied it is in dorkish ways #such as praying and thanking the lord after he has his first kiss. #but since dan schneider is jewish perhaps he wanted to make helen have a jewish wedding in the finale? #not that there needs to be a reason. but u do notice occasional jewish-related jokes in d&j but none of them are what you could call #offensive. in good faith that is. 'eric is a pacifist' 'i thought he was jewish?' like come on #text post #i have been rewatching drake and josh recently and i have had so many thoughts #im almost done. i just have left that stupid dance episode that they premiered last for the stupid reason #of a special dance-themed premiere night in fall 2007. they premiered the third episode of icarly and a new zoey 101 on the same night #which i think is so stupid. they should've aired really big shrimp last. it messed w my understanding of the series at the time lol #i remember not really knowing that the show was ENDING. like i knew icarly was starting & miranda was doing that #i thought really big shrimp was like just another special like go hollywood. #and then like two days later they premiered the helicopter episode for some reason #and i was like why is drake not famous in this. he just had a number 1 song in a superbowl commercial #and then a month later the dance one. which. if anything is satisfying about that as a final episode it's just that #that unnamed girl from the blues brothers episode who is obsessed w drake shows up again and congratulates them #and the very final line of the series is 'who is she?' because. because really who IS she? #that's a funny enough throwback to wrap things up with i suppose #drake and josh wasn't a highly serialized show so i can see how they could air those after the intended finale and act like it didn't matte #but i have to tell you it did fuck with my brain a bit at the time. lol. i still think of those episodes as having 'happened' after #and on paramount plus those episodes are still placed after really big shrimp. the injustice #but thats kinda messy. what a weird way to end such an influential and popular sitcom #season 4 had a few lowpoints while still also having some VERY solid episodes. #idk. ill have to continue my series review another time im getting way too longwinded here #helen dubois is jewish

[imwritesometimes]

the "I already bought tickets to go see Indy again next week" moodboard

#actually factually finalized the purchase it's happening same seats and everything lmfao #I am being very irritating abt this I'm not sorry I had so much fun today and I loved this movie to bits #and I'm so happy this is how we as fans get to close Indy's adventures like. #it didn't just feel like half-hearted fan service bullshit it was really well done which I'll be honest #I was not expecting. there are def call backs of course to the previous films #but it didn't feel like heavy handed or cheap #they really did a good job of like. making it feel authentic like. not just a shitty rehash idk for me #it felt like. so appropriate. like he's an old man now. time has passed. they don't just like wallpaper over that #it just has idk so much heart. like the old og movies it's fantastical but there's so much heart #idk I really liked it. it felt like watching the old ones. the old ones had so much heart. that's why you loved indy! #he was a smart ass but he was earnest too and he had heart and he cared and like ahhhhhhhhhh!!! #it's just. idk idk idk I feel like it's such a great close to the adventures for massive Indy nerds like myself #lmao I asked my mom tonight like when was the last time you watched any of the movies #cause you mught wanna rewatch before we go #and she was like well it has been a while cause you don't live here anymore #and I was like I know. I'm never like six months removed from the last time I watched an Indy #and she was like I know it's your religion I know #I just. I loved it. a lot. I really did. as a massive Indy nerd I really did just enjoy it a lot. more than kotcs #but I firmly believe w/o kotcs it wouldn't have been so fuckin good like omg #erin explains it all

[carsickcrow]

still having art thoughts but not actively making art so i will ramble into the void some more. i really like the way i’ve begun to think about my art in the past few months. i feel like i used to be solely focused on “getting better” at art which is. not a bad thing but now i feel like i’m using art as a way to explore ideas more and it’s just really fun and works with how my brain works and i want to do this for the rest of my life. also along with that like making art with meaning behind it point i’ve actually started titling my pieces which used to be a struggle and still is sometimes but i think i’m getting the hang of it. i’ve already named a piece i’ve barely started. anywho. i love art sm

#remy rambles #i’m calling my hand/star tapestry piece stigmata / spark of creation. both of those titles? i think? cause like. #its not obvious that it’s meant to be inspired by the idea of stigmata so titling it that makes that clear and then spark of creation as #like a play off of like spark of creativity but using creation instead to tie back to the idea of divinity/holiness with the stigmata #so like. its a little sacrilegious but. i am a sucker for religious imagery and i can be a little blasphemous as a treat. #though with like. my use of religious symbolism in my art..it’s not like purely being edgy about christianity it’s more like repurposing #some ideas and visuals originating from it and tying it back to my own personal view of the world and what i could maybe call my religion? #although i don’t like defining my beliefs it makes me anxious. i do think so many things could be seen as divine such as making art #and the art i make related to those ideas comes from a very genuine place and i think a positive one much of the time #idk if any of that made sense. can you guys tell i had a weird relationship with the idea of god growing up. and now

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

one thing i always find disturbing about xianity is how they try to get people at their lowest moment and use that to convert people. like i usually laugh at the 83-for-truth billboards because there’s just so fucking many and all of them are ridiculous. but ive recently become aware of ones that say something along the lines of “ALONE?” in big letters and then “find community at church”/“find community in jesus” or something and it’s just. sinister. i’m sure some people do get through loneliness by joining a church and that helping, but targeting people who are going through rough times because you think they’re more likely to join your religion is strange

#idk it’s just. to me religion is about joy and duty. judaism provides guidelines to my life that i like and also give me things to work #towards if i can’t quite get there yet #joining because of loneliness and desperation and such. and trying to target those people because you want to exploit those vulnerabilities #it’s just kinda sad to me. like you’re taking on this big part of your life and instead of going into it with hope and joy and excitement #it’s out of. i don’t even know what to call it #but i don’t like that xians seem to be targeting vulnerable people. or at least some xians #i mean they’ve always done it i suppose but this was just so blatant #xianity

[butchjess]

a canticle for leibowitz a book that is like a vaccine in getting you to forgive fictional christians for being annoying. i love you religion prevailing after the world ends and then starts again i love you the cyclical nature of man and empires and nations

#yes i cried reading abbot zerchi talking about killing his dying cat with a gun and then a shovel bc it refused to die #and kept trying to escape and kept trying to wait and die with dignity. and that he thought he should've let it #and it was unnatural to not let it. #this books christianity is less the death cult that it is in real life and more life is the most important thing in the world #and of course it would be. to a faction of belief that is the only one that cared to remember what led to the deaths of billions and to #protect the knowledge that was being destroyed because of it. #because of this it's less any sort of meditation on actual christianity so it's not as insufferable to read as something like. idk. ben-hur #and walter miller jr definitely does a good job of establishing this by having the characters have such different stances on religion/the #purpose of it than most christians do now. he called the 'poor artists' of before and their popular more feminine 'pretty' depiction of #jesus christ as like. basically blasphemous to him. very interesting indeed. #abbot zerchi in particular says this it's a good line #plus its very funny . genuinely witty and charming and made me laugh out loud #anyways. brother francis my stupid monk boy dont be dead girl be alive #a canticle for leibowitz

[supercantaloupe]

also today i learned about catholic on catholic racism (aka apparently some people have been giving my coworker a lot of shit for being eastern rite instead of roman rite)

#sasha speaks #literally even the church itself recognizes the eastern rites as being fully in communion and 100% legit versions of catholicism #(guy who had to take mandatory theology classes in undergrad at catholic college voice) #but roman catholics literally talk about it like they're completely foreign religions or something #like idk sorry you don't speak arabic or slavonic or whatever but that doesn't make it not catholic anymore #or give you an excuse to be a dick about it. lol #i don't have a dog in this fight outside of having someone who is frustrated by it as a friend/coworker i'm literally jewish #but i do think it's interesting nonetheless. (roman) catholics who try to go on about acceptance and diversity and unity within the church #the call is coming from inside the house #okay anyway

[thatfuckinjester]

praying to fuck rn

#jester rumbling #idk what religion i am but i'm calling it fuck so