#I love my religion tho

[emil1863]

The most illegal thing Koby has done is learn a divine language... Which is only a little bit more illegal than dating a God

So.

Thoughts on language/religion in regards to this au. They aren't fully fleshed out but I'll clean it up as I go.

Learning a divine language is kinda taboo, like, you can learn them, and it's certainly less frowned upon than poneglyph, but outward practice isn't really accepted. Many people who are religious or follow religious practices are well versed in divine languages, in order to feel closer to their respective Gods.

Besides, religion makes people feel at ease and the world government is pretty relaxed when it comes to punishing those for worshiping or following their Gods. With how many there are, and how deeply a lot of it is ingrained into so many cultures, it'd also be a pain in the ass to control both that and pirates.

Koby learns through the people he meets while traveling. A lot of them think it's odd but fascinating that a young, wide-eyed marine wants to learn something like that. They indulge him anyways.

He did get better at understanding the language but his pronunciation isn't great, kinda hard to make some of the sounds Luffy makes too. Especially when he isn't used to talking like that, nor are most people. Demigods have an easier time picking up on speaking the actual... Words?

Robin understands the language of the Gods, and the rest of the Straw Hats do pick up on it a little bit just through exposure to Luffy. Luffy isn't the greatest teacher, but having people who want to understand him is always exciting. He is thrilled when he meets up with Koby on Water 7 and Koby can understand him.

#one piece #monkey d. luffy #one piece luffy #op koby #cobylu #kobylu #god au #my art #this is so silly-i needed you all to understand the vibes of this #koby did NOT know wtf luffy was saying at first #unfortunately that was unacceptable so he learned how to talk to luffy #sorry if theres like-inconsistencies or smth else not really understandable with that #kinda going off of my knowledge of what 'speaking in tounges' is and my understanding of that while also not abiding by that like at all #i think religion and language are such cool concepts tho #irl too love learning abt that stuff

[ineffablehubbys]

You know in season one when we get to see Aziraphale and Crowley throughout history. Imagine if in season 3 we get to see the same except it’s going forwards in time (as in into the future) and we get to see them living happily on earth together in the south downs and in the bookshop and on holidays.

#praying to Neil Gaiman #he is my religion #imagine if Neil did the voiceover as god thst would be so funny #I love Frances McDormand tho please bring her back for season 3 #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #niel gaiman #season 3 theory #but not really a theory #screaming my head cannons into the void

[bonefall]

NGL: Stuff like Brambleclaw being a terrible namer is like. really fun but also kinda hits with the 'he;s not some meglomaniacl villain hes just a shitty guy'. like. you could see squirrelflight finding that really endearing. IDK if this is some mastermind shit, or if i'm just reading wayyyyy to into this, but i like how you give characters that are pretty bad dudes very humanising qualities. Especially when they're silly/cute. Kinda reminds you that like. theyre like. a person. well. cat but yknow. and they chose to do bad shit, with influence from their past, rather than being inherently terrible. 👍

YEAH MAN, that's what I'm SAYING

Abusers, ideologues, and other terrible people are not masterminds. They aren't born evil. They're not inherently smart OR stupid. They can love, they can be funny and polite, they do things they believe are justified and want to be good people. They don't think of themselves as villains.

Evil isn't complex. It's really, really not. I feel like that's the #1 cause of confusion when I get a question like, "Why does this person do this malicious act, when it's bad/inconsistent/mean?" The answer is always simple;

They wanted to control someone.

They wanted something and didn't mind who they hurt.

Spite and short-sightedness.

Look for anything deeper and you will not find it. Heroics are complex, being a good person is ongoing and changes over time. We're in a constant state of growing. Malice is childishly simple; it feels good to get what you want.

With Bramblestar especially... it always goes back to what I said here, when talking about the idea of an Evil!Bramble. He's a person, and you ruin everything that's so interesting about him by stripping away that nuance. Squilf and Bramble loved each other, truly, and legitimately. He can be charming. He can be nice. He still hurts her. Reconcile with this.

He is not wiser for what he went through, as a child. His pain doesn't make him better. Man's just a jerk... that's it.

#Sparkpelt deserves that scene from God The Devil and Bob #Where Bob finds out his dad isn't in Hell #And it INFURIATES him #If you haven't seen that scene btw you should. I really love that series #Especially if you're religious OR are like me where you aren't but are still fascinated by more human takes on biblical figures #Btw just... as a side note I am intrigued by how many of my followers are christian. It surprises me? I love you guys tho but like... #I really don't hold back in my critique of hierarchical religion #I'm glad that I am respectful enough to not alienate you guys though #I'm glad you're finding something meaningful too #I am an A-A-A-ATHEIST though with a hard ATH #I just never thought I would have so many religious people following along #OH BTW I hope all my Jewish followers are having a meaningful and somber Yom Kippur* #Bone babble #* = edited I'm an idiot

[just-an-enby-lemon]

The thing about "love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling" is that it really doesn't fit marriage proposals because it is actually a sad and very catholic coded tbh sentence about humility and worthiness from someone who was at their lowest and it ressonates with me for the parts I agree but also for the parts that I don't and that make me think of an anxious teen on his knees doing one ot the most important rituals (the Confirmation) for a religion he doesn't really believe and that doesn't really accept or believe in him because he wants to make his mom proud and happy (De Profundis was hard for a lot of reasons but I was not expecting my catholic upbriging to be one of them).

The other thing about "love is a scrament that should be taken kneeling" is that everytime someone points out it's not actually about romance they complete it with "is tots about bjs" and like I can see why better than I can see romance but previous perfomance does not equal future results Wilde can write things that aren't puns nor inuendos (shocker I know). So it's not about blowjobs. But like if you want to use it as so, go wild, have fun. Just don't spread it as if it was intencional.

#i just remember that before even finding a tumblr post about it as a fun fact I jad read De Profundis #and this quote as one of the ones that if the book was mine not from the public library + #i would have marked with shit that ressonates with my religious trauma #and I agree that no one should be forced to love other people that u can't be a dick and expect love that humility matters #but i also don't feel like the whole the only ones worth of love are the ones that think they aren't is good or healthy #but is very very catholic #wilde goes latin and all on this part #de profundis #oscar wilde #i 100% made this post because i found an rqg meme about it but instead of going funny my brain went #hey remember the catholic guilt this part made you feel over thinking you deserve love #i do get where wilde is coming from tho #also just want to make it clear that de profundis is not a catholic nor christian book at all #is not even a book #it just has parts where Wilde dealing with his own thoughs on religion and they are rare but i felt them

[spotsupstuff]

Since you mentioned aus, consider: swap au where sparrows is the iterator (three sparrows prob fits the iterator naming scheme) and caper is an ancient, idk how you would extend his name tho

my god!!! tryin to figure out how to make curly hair with those kind of things almost killed me. either way i have no fuckin clue what his name as an Ancient would be either,,, but i love this sm, Euros looks so much like a frat boy i can't get over it

i am so fuckin mad tho i forgot that i have lore surrounding Ancients and hand mutilation fuckin dang it- imagine that he has cybernetic grey hands

god.

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #'Euros would have curly hair' is so strongly rooted in my brain... i havent even thought bout a gijinka for him properly yet but This fact- #-i Know. hed be like... the most beauty standards complying high circle Ancient Ever... dull teeth no tail thin just right when it comes- #-to height... which i find very funny cuz normal Sparrows could snap him in half like a twig even tho hes a head taller. ah yes. love. #this was fun tho... it made me realize that A!Caper HAS to look like a frat boy ass but hed cry over the idea of havin kids out of pure- #-love. hed probably work as some communication officer. iterator Sparrows has no idea what shes doin n does Not Like This Religion #I!Sparrows: -finishes One iteration- can i go home now | somebody: you ARE home | I!Sparrows: ... | I!Sparrows: can i get a new home

[giantkillerjack]

In all my years, I've never seen a movie use non-christian pre-colonial religious imagery as a force of good against evil.

And the fact that in Wendall & Wild - a movie that takes place in a Catholic school, this type of imagery is portrayed as SO much more beautiful and powerful than the drab dreary Catholic imagery of the film... it was fuckin' rad as hell.

#wendall and wild #original #raul wendell and wild #precious perfect boy #anytime a demon shows up in a movie it's always get a priest get holy water get some crosses! #and never hey guys what makes us think that the Catholic Church as an institution is prepared to fight evil??? #like here comes a christian demon whose to say an #*who's to say (for a separate example) that a Buddhist monk wouldn't be BETTER than a priest?? #a christian demon thrives on the same guilt and shame that thr church thrives on. god has no power without the devil #for his love is meaningless without the threat of hell #so why not get a fuckin better religion in the mix??? #tired of all these movies just deciding that Christianity is right. that is so fucking bleak. if Christianity's right then we're all fucked #Christianity #Catholicism #are there catholics on tumblr? and if so. check out wendall and wild it is really good. #in case it doesn't show i obviously was raised catholic and went to catholic school. i also remember everything being vaguely puke colored #but maybe that's just my feelings coloring my memories lol #loooooootta little statues of a horrifically tortured white corpse around tho. and some big ones! #crucifixes are weird. also i thought jesus was white until like... my teen years

[romanticizingmurder]

Honestly Marius is way more reasonable about Mael than I would be because if someone kidnapped me and then held my desperate bribery to get them to release me against me and threw it in my face 200 years later after I offered them gifts?

I would simply not just quietly resent them and occasionally violently fantasize about murder let me tell you,

#marius de romanus #on a blood & gold kick #this isnt mael hate btw i adore mael i think he's hilarious #victim blaming champion of all time kissing his forehead #'how could my captive do this to me' #i would love to see present day mael and marius discuss losing the religion you devoted your life to tho

[chewwypepsicola]

TALK ABOUT YELLOWBLUE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UHM UHHH UHHHH yellowblue after ep 30 are very much inseparable from each other, the gang has just been made aware of how fucked up Blue was left after The Lava Incident and yellow has become slightly more protective of him, they move in together as in they now properly share a room and it’s all so domestic and sweet yellow decides he’s might be too young in stickman standards but he doesn’t care he’s going to marry blue cause something something celebration of love also he is deadly afraid of losing her so he wants to make their relationship as meaningful as possible and so he proposes, he tells Blue to meet him at the portal wearing his best clothes cause it’s a date a whole day just for them, they go to a new different place which is a minecraft flower field/forest and as they hang out and are being their usual lovey dovey selves yellow proposes and blue has to take a moment to process it all, he definitely cries a lot and for a minute cause of how happy it makes her and aauuughhhhhhhHhhH,,, they are engaged now,,,, they lay on a nice clearing and watch the sunset before going back home, they’ve decided the rest can know about it when they notice the promise rings,

#sorry i just love romance #THEY ARE YOUNG YES BUT THE PROMISE OF BEING LIFE PARTNERS MAKES ME FEEL ILL CAUSE OF #HOW CUTE IT IS #Sticks don’t have religion i think but they do have these concept of life partners and bonds made for life that’s my own headcanon tho #second is the last one to figure out whats going on but that’s because he doesn’t know jack shit about regular stick culture #the rest have to explain it to him #spoiler alert he lies saying he gets it (he really doesn’t) #i got shy at the end so if it seems like i cut my own train of thought yes i did #avm #ene answers

[tin-can-iron-man]

GOD sometimes it genuinely irks me that stories like Orpheus and Eurydice or even Adam and Eve are criticized under a purely logical and heartless eye. "Why did Orpheus turn around" because he loved her. "Why did Adam eat the fruit" because he loved her. They both chose love over God. And they were punished for it and eternally cemented as fools.

Do you really think that Adam doesn't know what the one goddamn thing he's not allowed to eat LOOKS like? Do you really think that Orpheus would feel better if he hadn't turned around only to find Eurydice's cries for him were real? These stories are about pure love. They're about being punished for the sin of a love that conquers all else. They're both about forsaking God(s) to that end.

TLDR: If a God is going to forsake you for love than they are not a loving God. And they are directly to blame.

#it's controversial thoughts like this that got me time outs in empty dark rooms in primary school! #jokes on them I'm neurodivergent I liked being left alone like that #tw: religion #just in case #not marvel related #good news for the gays tho #diversity win! God hates EVERYONE! including the straight couples! #anyway this is a wildly different genre of post than I normally make but I've literally been bugging myself to make it for *years* #I could go on to talk about the blatant disrespect these stories give Eve and Eurydice #(ahem their importance in the stories boil down to women = bad women = weak women = stupid women = evil seductress) #but there's so many posts like that already I'm sure so I just wanted to shout out my boys Adam and Orpheus #who just love their wives. so goddamn much.

[curtwilde]

It's so funny how sanghiblr will selectively criticize NCERT. They will harass them for sources about medieval and mughal history, but will parrot the "harappan and vedic civilisations are one and the same" bullshit in NCERT that has been proven to be false. Because that one fits their agenda and the ridiculous claim that aryans are indigenous or whatever.

#fr i reseached this a lot #its possible that harappans migrated south and in that case its dravidians that have the claim to indigeneity #aryans migrated from central asia they are foreigners as much as mughals are #and vedic culture is aryan culture by and large #ofc it is influenced by dravidian folk religions as things will influence each other but dravidian folk religions existed first #and in time got overshadowed by vedic culture #tho some aspects still survive. and that explains why south indian hinduism is so different #same thing happened with austro-asiatic religions in east asia #which is why bengali hinduism has a distinct flavour of tribalism and tantrikism #its so interesting fr id love to study it more #im too tired to source all my yapping in the tags but if you want to learn more then hmu with an ask ill happily recommend books/articles #sanghi bs #anti hindutva

[pponk]

misc mspain art

#sponk art #misc #the first one is unfinished #i wont finish it tho (lazy) #ok random ramblings ahead: #yall i don think going back to a Catholic school was very good for my #religious crisis uhm #bc im sitting there in my religious subject class #everyone is like whtv or half asleep #my ass is there near tears bc oh my ogd... religion is just about love and im so mean everyone is so mean they made it so bad #and im like i wish i were so nice but then my brain is like ??? idk girl we r so bad too #so thats why i have two personas now: an angel and a demon #they battle a lot in my brain but ultimately they are both me and we're all just broken and confused trying to figure out whats what #and why everything is so that #but honestly it just is and youve gotta keep going despite it all #i have thoughts about religion as a concept and all but its 12am i have school #and school works that ive piled up again sorry

[flash-from-the-past]

Submachine 10: the Exit

#submachine #flash #i wanted to put off posting this because. i honestly don't know what to say. but if i do i'll probably just never post it #it's so huge it's intimidating to play like. isn't it bigger that all the other games combined. wasn't this said somewhere #and i haven't replayed it properly because time and energy #but aight i'll ramble about what i remember and everyone'll be free of me sooner #which isn't much. i barely remember the plot. this is my least replayed one too because of [see above] #gotta love revisiting old locations... some of them for yet another time. very fitting for the finale #and it also shows how much the artstyle changed between games which is neat #speaking of which i love the art in this part. it's so detailed and varied and i love how many animated bits there are #the reveal about structures repeating and looping infinitely was amazing and tying to what we already knew so well #i also liked the supercomputer reveal! really cool and fits the series' focus on tech #and also i like the theme of technology and spirituality mixing so there is that. tech advanced enough to seem like magic or religion etc #also the ending! nothing really shows that the game is over like seeing actual people lol #of course there's more to it but that's actually what hit the hardest for me #and that's the end of my submachine posting v_v tomorrow it's back to anime girls or whatever #will come back to skutnik games tho! i still haven't posted daymare town or covert front

[blueeashh]

I am obsessed OBSESSED with the hc that stiles became fluent in japanes after s3b.

sure. It was useful, he just became fully fluent in a new language, like it was downloaded to his brain, but he hated it. He hated it. He didn't need subtitles when watching anime, and now had access to a whole new world of information. But he hated it because it was a constant reminder of the void, that the void had changed him forever.

#this is my roman empire #i am completely completely in love with this hc #i didnt create it tho! #stiles stilinski #teen wolf #stiles speaking japanese is my religion #imagine the other figuring it out like “since when u speaks japanes???????

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

275. The Gathering (2002)

#the gathering #the gathering (2002) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #i enjoyed that so much #it was deliciously creepy #and i loved the religion angle #and the combo of robert hardy and simon russell beale #and the very pretty combo of christina ricci and ioan gruffudd #even tho i kept wanting to shove a big sweater onto christina for most of it #give the girl a jacket you creeps #and yes of course that felt like a midsomer murders ep #since it was written by the guy who did the early season adaptations #kinda makes me wanna go back to the beginning of the show #there was even a barnabyesque eminently rationalist character #bless #also gave me such X Files Fight The Future meets religious ep vibes #i just liked it so much #a good time was had by all

[l1ttl3-l0rd-g4y-b0y]

"I don't believe in God, dad. But I believe in you. And i believe in us."

Um ok I guess I'll cry about it

Glee S2xE3 Grilled Cheesus

#yea we dont really do religion #so can u not push it on me WHILE MY DAD IS IN A COMA #glee #kurt hummel #burt hummel #glee season 2 #this episode is a fever dream #finn singing losing my religion by R.E.M is so fire tho #tbh most finn solos #didnt appreciate all the shit kurt got tho- girl his dad was in a coma and he was like and nobody listened #like can the characters in this show plz 4 the love of god respect the other characters boundaries omg #anyway im done #i also watched the britney episode #i dont have anything to say about that one cuz everyone knows its the best one.

[synagoths]

I can’t wait until I feel safe enough to be unapologetically Jewish

#I started conversion years ago at this point and I’ve been on and off as far as practice but #living with antisemetic roommates who tease and mock me about it doesn’t help #I miss buying candles and reading and studying #I miss talking to rabbis and asking questions #but when all I hear is ‘kanye was right’ or ‘why couldn’t you have picked a cooler religion’ it’s like #idk #I don’t wanna subject something that I genuinely love to folks who’d disrespect it to my face #that being said tho I’m getting more books and might reach out to a nearby rabbi to talk about stuff so that’s exciting #jumblr #✡️ #vent