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blazing-spectre · 7 months

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the fatter you draw gale the more powerful i grow. thank u

Please enjoy this temporary art-block power-up. The future is in your hands now.

#been struggling to draw and then i remembered this ask... thank u for reminding me of what #is possible etc #my art #personal #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #bg3 gale #sometimes u just need fun sketchy time to get back into it #BUT THANK U FOR THE ASK #fitting bc every time i draw him fatter it is bc i have gotten that much more powerful :3c

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nicosraf · 1 year

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Have you ever considered Lucifer's disobedience to be an act of love, of obedience to God? I was just thinking about it and I think I saw something about it somewhere but what if his rebellion was him acting out God's wishes for him to be the adversary to man? To be the bad guy because that's what God told him he was. His act of devotion was his lack of devotion to the part assigned to him against his will.

I think the idea is interesting and yet sad.

I have an absurd amount of thoughts on the relationship between Satan and God even outside the Angels Before Man context aha. It was definitely a huge motivator for writing the book (and the more Lucifer and angel related content I have planned). This probably won't contain spoilers for my future stuff but anyway here's a little ramble (I'm sleep-deprived so I apologize if I'm more incoherent than usual):

I think this all falls back to Does God actually hate Satan/Lucifer? The Bible seems really clear about it: Satan is evil, he's the enemy of all the righteous, full of deceit and wickedness (Acts 13:10) and yadda yadda. But – there's a couple major issues:

1. Satan is the ruler of the earth (John 12:31). This is.... kind of a weird thing for God to allow, especially when the being-omniscient is taken into account. God created a beautiful planet, knowing it would become Satan's. It's also not clear when Satan took control: there was a world outside of the Garden of Eden in Genesis even before original sin, so did Satan already run Earth before that? It seems to be the case, since God cast Adam and Eve out of the garden as a punishment. When God is supposedly furious at Satan for pretending to be a god, why did he hand Satan the world? (He's angry at him, it says, but he's given Lucifer exactly what he wanted.) (You could argue that Satan wanted the heavens and not the earth, and that the earth actually sucks, but the earth is explicitly a sacred thing; it's literally half of God's entire creation, as the very first line of Genesis says: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth")

2. God's all-knowing goodness. This is just a general theological puzzle that even the very devout struggle with. If everything God created is good, then why does evil exist? The answer "well, Satan created evil" isn't good because it implies Satan can create from nothing (that is, create something without helpful from God), which would elevate Satan to god-ness, and that creates larger issues about the goodness of God. (Does this mean Lucifer was right that angels are, or at least he is, capable of god-ness and thus being worshiped?) So, let's say Lucifer corrupted goodness instead, rather than "created" evil (let's pretend corruption wouldn't be an act of creation) — that just leaves us with another question. Why would God create Lucifer knowing this? Unless God wanted this. (God seems to like this idea of free will, and free will can only exist if there's such thing as a "other side" to the moral compass. (I won't go into free will more because that's another rabbit hole.)

3. The loving God. God is supposed to love everybody. Jesus teaches you to love your enemies. So does God love Lucifer? In ABM, I made the case that he ultimately does, in his own bizarre way. (Insert here a ramble about what love even means.) But this is another big debate in theology with no answer. If God loves Lucifer, or ever loved him, why would he let Lucifer create evil and damnation and, eventually, his own destruction? If God hates Lucifer, then why does he let him run around? If God hates Satan, why did he hand him the world?

A lot of people will mention that the Book of Job begins with Satan visiting Heaven, which shouldn't make sense since God kicked him out. But Satan is there, and they chat. It's almost funny – sworn enemies that are just bickering, as if they're friends. It makes you wonder why God won't just destroy him right there, why he's dragging it out and letting so many people get caught in the crossfire.

It's all pretty weird and conflicting, but something I think about all the time. At the very least, God definitely feels a certain way about Satan/Lucifer that is incredibly special. (And that in itself is kind of romantic to me).

#again im sorry if im making less sense than usual #im so sweepy #but thank u for the ask #i do have a lot of thoughts on this #I think if I were God I wouldn't be able to help being... fond of Satan #he's different and he's full of himself #one time i made the joke that the Bible is just a king (God) in love with his jester (Satan)#anyway yeah #mine #ask #wont tag this as abm becaus its not really related??

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cryptidmads · 11 months

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🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

1. less than 40 pokemon away from completing the dex in violet

2. routinely curse myself for not posting more pics of my animals, especially bingo

3. didn’t know chainmail asks were a thing in the year 2023

#i am Sleeby so I will not be passing this on unfortunately #but thank u for the ask #ask madison #anonymous

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skiploom · 10 months

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tumblr ate the ask before i could publish it 😭

#thank u for the cute ask!!!#columbo #peanuts #snoopy #my art

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hiraeix · 10 months

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to hold me like water,

or christ, hold me like a knife

#IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR #PLS I JUST NEED THEM TO HUG LIKE THIS #anyways #good omens #good omens fanart #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #crowley fanart #aziraphale fanart #good omens spoilers #art #my art #SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THIS OH MY GOD THANK U I DIDNT EXPECT THIS

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disgustinggf · 2 years

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Is everything ok

nothing has been ok since i turned 12 but thank u for asking!

#nah genuinely thank u for asking i'm just going insane #novembers r always especially shitty for me #i'll get over it #i think #asks #°

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inkskinned · 11 months

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so while i was writing the book, i became violently suicidal.

this was mostly due to the fact that i had a very bad reaction to some meds and my brain stopped producing any serotonin. also i was in the last semester of grad school where it's actually illegal to feel anything but dread. so it wasn't going well.

somewhere in the fog of it i became aware i needed help. nobody was taking clients or my insurance. i didn't want to do inpatient care - it wasn't right for my needs. there's not really an "in between" stage between "inpatient" and "no care," but i was trying to do the right thing. i was trying to activate the chain of command that was my emergency plan. i knew i needed help now.

i used betterhelp.

i know, i know. i'm a straight-A student and so smart and so clever, how could i ever use something so blatantly bad. to be honest with you, i didn't feel particularly keen on it from the getgo - things that seem too good to be true usually are. also, if something online is free, the price is usually your privacy.

the thing is that there was kind of a global pandemic happening at the time and i worked 5 jobs alongside of being a fulltime student and also like writing a book on the side. it is a miracle that i even thought about getting help. i would love to tell you i had the mental wherewithal to like, process whether this was the right choice for me. mostly i was desperate. i was so suicidal that i was trying to find a reason to stay inside of fortune cookies. i was the kind of suicidal that looks like splatterpaint. i hadn't been that bad in an entire decade.

they took my data. i gave them it freely. somewhere out there, they have a dossier on me. on everything i survived. my story in little datapoints, scattergraphed beautifully.

the first woman told me that really i should be grateful, because (and this is a direct quote): "at least you're not anne frank." i said that i felt that statement was antisemitic, as anne frank's life and experience shouldn't be compared to like, a nonbinary lesbian in western massachusetts. the therapist said that i should try to use lucid dreaming to try to picture myself in an actually scary situation, like running from nazis.

i applied for another therapist. i was willing to accept the possibility that there was a bad apple in the bunch. the next therapist and i even laughed about how inappropriate that statement was. and then, in our next session: the new therapist said if i was struggling with body image issues, i should just work harder on my appearance. she spent 3 sessions in a row talking about how she was grieving, and made me memorize facts about her grandmother so "she can live on through my clients."

i am a three's-a-charm kind of person. okay, so what if the last person made me uncomfortable. i figured it was just a misunderstanding of priorities - she had felt she was sharing with me, i had felt like i had to take care of her. i applied for another therapist.

the last woman asked me to help her pray. she bowed her head. i stared at her, frozen, while she said: lord, i beg you: cure her. take the pain of being gay away from her.

i spent somewhere between 2.5 and 3 months on betterhelp. in that whole time, i was not getting the professional help i so desperately needed, even though i was fucking trying.

in the end, i survived this because i finally could get off the meds that were literally killing me. a request for a real therapist finally went through. i survived because my friends saved my life. because nick let me sob myself dry in his arms. because maddie took the razors out of my room when i asked them to. because grace slept over in my bed for like 3 weeks in a row since nobody trusted me not to hurt myself when i was alone. i survived because i got fucking lucky. because even when i was desperately suicidal, i was too old and too self-aware to take "you need to be prettier" as good advice.

the thing is that there's a 19 year old me who isn't like that. who would have heard "just think about how grateful you should be" and said - oh, i see. i would have assumed that is what it means to be in therapy: the same thing my abusers used to tell me. that i am just pretending and lazy. that i am ugly and unworthy.

betterhelp positioned itself to take advantage of an incredibly vulnerable community. it preys on desperation. it knows it is serving people who are not doing well mentally. it saw that there is a huge need for real, immediate, compassionate mental health care: and then it fucking takes your money and privacy.

i still get their ads on instagram. last night i watched as a woman in a pool pretends to talk to a different woman. they discuss her anxiety.

there's a 19 year old version of me, and she didn't survive this. she was too tired, and drowning. i almost fucking died. this thing almost fucking killed me.

in the ad, the woman playing the therapist takes a note on a clipboard and then nods once, sagely.

i have to admit it's a pretty scene. the steam and light coming off the pool water lands on the actresses. like this, it almost looks baptismal, holy.

#writeblr #the book....#coming soon #hey so if ur someone who has ever said “you need to write a book”#i wrote the book #it's ... probably the best thing ive ever written #this is maybe too honest lol #okay to reblog thank you for asking i love u i am in love with u our wedding will be in may

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smthaboutuss · 1 month

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Some V doodls, they make me feel fuzzy like an electrically charged balloon..

First pic was for u anon, I imagine Vel is kinda protective of him lol!

#I love them guys #thank u for the ask<3 #vox hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #vox hazbin #hazbin art #velvette hazbin hotel #velvette hazbin #valentino hazbin #valentino hazbin hotel #staticmoth #voxval #doodlez

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beescake · 3 months

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ik ur the sollux and karkat blog but would you ever draws a nepeta ? if not thats perfectly fine :)) (also!!! ur probably in my top ten favorite artists ever. you just . do em so good!!!!!)

🫴 a nepeta

#👋 thanks mate i recognize u in my notes i rlly appreciate it :}#ask #cautionszz #homestuck #nepeta leijon #2024 #vioart #babbling no no nep listen its the fault of the system.. the infrastructure.... the society......#overreliance of network and electricity for everyday life..... expensive fees for adult playgrounds..... loss of third places etcetc.......

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doginacafe · 2 months

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There's something deeply fucking wrong with you for having a gay character turn bi, especially after all the shit you wrote earlier. I hope you die screaming and alone, you fucking miserable, worthless, degenerate piece of shit. Absolutely nauseating. People like you are the worst possible part of the queer community and I wish I could kill you myself.

Fuck off.

first tumblr hatemail!! does this mean ive officially made it you guys

#ask #im fine also u guys but thank you to everyone who sent very sweet messages #this is not my first run in with people bein rude which is shocking because of how tame my comic is

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star-wrld · 2 months

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gorgug had to drop the Jock identity so they could pick up Mean Girl

he saw that fig decided to drop off the social scene and said well SOMEONE has to serve cunt around here

#d20 #dimension 20 #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high junior year spoilers #gorgug thistlespring #ask #this was my first ask thank u whoever sent this

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bovineblogger · 3 months

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Hi Barley!

So apparently people have bred mini micro cows? As house pets? This seems insane to me and I was wondering if you knew anything about that/ had any thoughts on it?

not good!!! very very not good!!

ahhh i try really hard to keep this blog as a positive space but this is a really really important thing to me that i feel really strongly about, and i think id be silly if i didnt at least try to warn people, so here goes!!

cattle are not dogs! please do not keep them as house pets!

cattle have very specific needs and if you're not knowledgeable about those needs and not equipped to raise cattle, please do not keep them. i understand that "micro minis" look cute, i completely understand seeing one and wanting one as a house pet if you're not super knowledgeable about them but i really have to warn you guys that cattle can not be happy and healthy under those conditions!

im going to pass it over to my good friend @horse-reviews for the writeup because im not very good at expressing myself when im frustrated and also he is literally an agriculture science guy so watch this space!

photos from here and here

#asks #cattle #thank u for this ask ive been meanign to talk abt tthis

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araneapeixes · 2 months

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