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hobbitsetal · 2 months

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Oooh yes I always enjoyed your faith media and art tag discussions

So one thing that I consider very important to art is its role in reflecting the world and in reflecting truth. In its various forms--poetry, song, prose (from fanfic to novels to essays), movies, tv shows, what have you--art has the gift of allowing us to feel seen and heard, or of allowing us to see and hear those who are different from us.

I have never been a nineteenth century aristocrat, but I know random facts about the French Revolution because I was obsessed with The Scarlet Pimpernel and with Rafael Sabatini's oeuvre as a teen. I've never been on a life-changing trip ala LOTR or Narnia or what have you (though visiting Ireland was really cool!), but I have traveled extensively through books.

The use of books and stories in developing empathy is a well documented one. Books allow us to identify with others and to gain insight into other ways of thinking and being.

Whether you want to explore the excesses of the early 20th century with Gatsby, the backwoods and Mississippi River and growth out of racism with Huckleberry Finn, or the drama and sly humor of the Georgian period with Jane Austen's characters, whether you want to struggle with Sam Vimes of Discworld, or learn to trust and grow with the Pevensies, media can help you do that.

Which brings me to the spicy take. Growing up and for many years thereafter, I met (and was taught to meet) any depiction of queer characters with disgust and outrage. When Shiro in the newer Voltron animated series was revealed to be gay, I and other Christian fans lamented what we perceived to be a disgusting corruption.

Since then, I've changed my views. Queer people exist. That is a fact of life and society. And if art is to reflect truth, art should reflect the reality that LGBTQ people exist and have existed for documented human existence.

Personally, I think the best art can include other people's points of views in a neutral way. There are queer people who consider themselves Christian, who seek to love and honor God and to care for their neighbors. There are Christians who believe being queer and Christian are mutually exclusive. Both of these views, and the range in between, deserve to be examined.

And there are plenty of stories in which Christianity simply isn't a factor, like Voltron. The story is concerned with other things, and deserves to be engaged with for those other things.

A prime example of this is the show The Dragon Prince on Netflix. The show contains multiple queer characters, and I know that fact alone is enough to turn many Christians away from ever watching it. But they are missing out on a truly beautiful story.

The core of The Dragon Prince is good versus evil. It is about good people struggling against their own potential to do harm as they fight a far greater evil. It's about seeking to bring peace to a suspicious and angry continent, about love and mercy triumphing over hate and violence.

It is, frankly, a show so soaked in Christian values that it is one of my favorite shows of all time, though it is not a Christian show.

And it contains queer characters.

Queer people, shockingly, are people. They are not a monolith, and their values run the gamut of other people's values. Too much of Christianity shuns them and others them. So there's my spicy take: Christians should consume media with queer characters and engage thoughtfully with the depictions and the values, rather than saying "ew LGBTQ" and closing their eyes.

Why do we believe what we believe? What are the implications of our beliefs? Why do others believe differently? And how can we engage those questions meaningfully unless we engage with the Other?

#art faith and media #here ya go anon #spicy saturday

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indoorscreamingvoice · 10 months

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Some moths :)

#art #drawing #traditional art #mixed media #alcohol markers #colored pencil #moth art #insects #bug art #luna moth #cecropia moth #io moth #faithful beauty moth #autistic artist

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hussyknee · 4 months

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I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

#this is one of the reasons why #although i would kill antis in real life if i could #i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship'#it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique #art doesn't exist in a vacuum #it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes #because that's what it means to be created by human hands #we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm #if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it #just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible #doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith #anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers #it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not #it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it #this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only #lol #knee of huss #fandom wank #media critique #pop culture #fandom discourse

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dyke-in-crisis · 28 days

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dear followers today I present to you: terrible screenshots of WIPs starring Oscar. tomorrow? who knows

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#how much religious & floral imagery can you put into one fanart until it gets weird #my art #mixed media #malevolent #oscar #oscar malevolent #malevolent fanart #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #blind faith #angel eyes #oscar x arthur #idk how to tag this #but it will be gay and sad trust

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fizzzyz · 5 months

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Arsentropolis masterpost

2D dystopian horror game concept

This is the masterpost for my current project; Arsentropolis. It’s my point and click horror game concept that takes place in a sinister dystopia cut off from the world. It’s mainly religious horror but also contains a lot of body horror and weird stuff, along with uh …medical horror? Idk what it’s called but it refers to surgery, needles and disease and such.

I’m working on this all by myself at the moment, though I really hope I’ll have a game development team a few years in. Some credit and special thanks to my friend for helping me with opinions and decisions… (you know who you are 🧍)

Here’s all the posts with content and information.

More content will be added so stay tuned :D

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fyther · 5 months

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First fully rendered drawing on Ibis yippiee!

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regular-another · 1 year

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Holding On To Heartache - Louis Tomlinson

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love-songs-for-emma · 2 months

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im actually amazed i cant find this;

SPN FRIENDS HII

do any of u know where i could find a gif of dean saying the iconic quote of "You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people. And douchebags." from s9 e5 "dog dean afternoon"

i SWEAR i had it saved years ago but i cant find it. pls help. xoxo

#yes theres a supernatural gif for everything and every moment #if it doesnt exist anymore thats okay one day ill make it myself #but i feel like this comes up a Lot and i'd love to be able to send this regularly #thank u gif makers btw. u literally make the world go round #i dont have an income rn but if anyone who makes fandom art (gifs fic etc) ever wants pics of my cat cas my dms are OPEN #always ready to send cas pics. always.#also for context. when watching the s1 ep ''faith'' my partner /immediately/ made fun of the faith healer for wearing sunglasses inside at #night and i responded so deadpan ''john hes BLIND''#ajchskncksjx #thinking abt that always and whenever we see someone wearing sunglasses in a piece of media this moment comes up #i sent him the lady gaga gif where she goes ''incredible. show-stopping. never been done. completely original. [etc]'' and #he responded ''is she blind'' KAJXKSJX #for ONE: that is LADY GAGA so NO U CANT MAKE FUN OF HER EVER and for TWO: AKCHKSXJKD #he just had to make sure. just had to check.#anyway. im done now #spn #dean winchester #gif search #supernatural #may delete later if anyone ever finds it #thank u for checking if u do #<3<3<3 #much love to everyone ever. yk yk

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tatzlyip · 10 months

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this has been something i wanted to draw for a hot minute now and well, now's a good time for it, this is inspired off of a titlecard from ice age of scrat

#tatzl art #art #happy tree friends #htf #nutty htf #nutty #im honestly not really interested/have no faith for new htf content #idk if thats too grim but i've been here for quite some time #i remember when the mondo media account got hacked lol and we thought it was going to be revived #i dont really have much trust in the company since well.. the 3d garbo #generally in fandoms i just sit in my corner and do my own thing and i specifically chose htf because it wasnt active at the time then-#-it bload up

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hobbitsetal · 1 year

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why shouldn’t christians swear? I understand not taking God’s name in vain, but some swear words are just expletives and aren’t related to God’s name

You know, if you had asked me this question 3-4 years ago, I'd have answered very differently and more legalistically.

I swear. A lot. My husband and I keep saying we gotta tone it down because our son is about to learn language, and we will be dead ducks if our son says the S word in front of either set of grandparents. And yet today it slipped out in front of my Sunday school kids because I dropped something. (I don't think they heard me, which is good because they would be way too delighted...)

I didn't used to swear. I used to believe (not least because I was raised to believe this) that swearing was a moral offense and forbidden by the Bible, and I'd point to Ephesians 4:29 as my proof: "Let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but if there is any good word for edification according to the need of the moment, say that, so that it will give grace to those who hear."

But this begs the question: is swearing necessarily unwholesome? If I use the S word rather than "poop" or "crap" or "oh phooey" (depending on context), how is that worse? If I say "screwed" rather than the F word (whether referring to the act or saying "we're toast), how is that worse?

Language evolves. What was considered shocking and foul a hundred years ago is acceptable nowadays, and what was a common phrase a hundred years ago means something vastly different and may indeed be offensive nowadays.

With all that said, I do think Paul's injunctions from Romans for believers to be mindful of each other's convictions would apply to this. I don't swear around my in-laws or my parents because I know they would be offended. I don't swear in front of my Sunday school because I know they would take that as permission to curse, and I don't think their parents want them cursing at their age.

I censor posts with swear words and I don't use them on Tumblr because I know I have followers who are offended by swearing.

But personally? I don't care. (It would've been stylistically funny to say I don't give a $&%, but it would've undermined my point about being mindful of others...sad day.)

Follow your own convictions, my friend, and be aware of social settings and the needs and preferences of those around you.

Or, in other words, do to others as you would have them treat you, and live in peace.

#art faith and media #swearing and Christianity #Christian liberty #one could also look at the bigger question of what IS unwholesome talk #but that's a longer post and not directly relevant to the question #also i am so sorry i took forever to answer this

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jennicatzies · 5 months

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Hey chat guess who got into yet another thing [ dumps almost all of my sketchbook Faith doodles on the table ]

not a fan of drawing mouths sometimes 🧍

#jennicatzies art-chive #im sorry I keep bouncing between media I am not immune to the voices #faith the unholy trinity #faith tut #faith john ward #also theres the lamb from cotl just because I thought that was funny #faith father garcia #one (1) father garcia amidst the father wards #I drew these at school. a christian school.#yelling into the void IS ANYONE STILL LOOKING AT FAITH CONTENT BC IM LATE TO TJE PARTY #faith fanart #uagejsgeuwhj

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neotaissong · 4 months

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#free gaza #free palestine #praying for rafah #but nah lets talk about deadpool marvel and usher #i love movies i love music i love life but they are inventing new ways to kill the human spirit and playing in our faces about it #they are brandishing anyone who speaks out as anti-semetic whilst testing new weapons on civilians fufilling murder quotas compiled by AI #doing all this under the cover of the spectacle of mass entertainment national holidays and now the superbowl #i mean no disrespect to palestinians in posting the above photo of a body decimated and hanged i mean no disrespect to the victim #their family or friends but i had to show it i had to this is horror #the first thing that came to mind was lynched broken and burnt black bodies hanging from trees #and years of nfl kneeling by Kaepernick and the ways black media elites tried to hide him away after his calls for justice #the sun is shining here after how many weeks of weighty greyscale atmospheres and all i see is blood in between my breakfast #in between catching up with friends and fam in between scrolling music art and lifestyle i see blood blood blood blood blood blood blood #i feel guilt and shame and loss and grief and powerlessness and the sun is shining on my face and there's congo and sudan #and there is love and love and love and love and love seeping under the cracks of all this death hate conquest and loneliness #i have to believe it i have to believe in my belief i have to hold onto faith with blood on my hands for not doing enough pls forgive me #pls god forgive me god pls forgive me #pls god strengthen the resistance strenghten my capacity for love resistance rebellion and defiance in the face of their death & conquest

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dkettchen · 5 days

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me, procrastinating on one project with another one: it's fine they're both for content I do this for the people and the people will receive SOMETHING sooner by me working on either one 😤

#*6 more pages to finish for next lemon chapter (issa long chapter cause last one was shorter than usual)#10+(I think) insert illustration linework and 30+ colour left for next matriarchy video (and then the rest of the remaining editing too)#something about lemons #matriarchy #both have some bits of art so far that I am really really happy with bc they look cool as hell #(and I can't post YET BC OF SPOILERS AAAHH)#as part of my recent to current crisis of faith and identity and disillusionment with media industry among other things #I have arrived at a point of not measuring my content by industry standards anymore #as in like it is not about whether it's marketable or will ever be monetiseable #it's fucking art #it's not supposed to be marketable or monetiseable #it's about making it cause it's fun and you want to and the people enjoy it #and by that measure any content I post is of equal value regardless of production quality or subject as long as y'all enjoy it #and no amount of industry recognition or lack thereof will ever change that #that's the point of being an online creator #fan work original work academic theory work big budget industry work etc etc etc all of equal value #even if I ever do get a budget for something it won't change a damn thing about the worth of the resulting piece of art #even if I ever get it more widely published than my own pond it'll merely make that pond bigger for all my work

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regular-another · 1 year

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All This Time - Louis Tomlinson

Printable poster here

#all this time #louis tomlinson #lt #lt edit #lt art #faith in the future #faith in the future edit #tomlinson #fitf #fitf lyrics #faith in the future lyrics #WAOYF #Bigger Than Me #Lucky Again #louis tomlinson art #art #illustration #traditional art #mixed media

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urb4nglitch91 · 5 days

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March of "The Faithful"

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hobbitsetal · 2 years

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I saw your post on the entertainment debate floating around, and read the tags, so I was wondering if you did end up writing a post on storytelling and God?

Not a separate post as such, but I had a few under my "art faith and media" tag that probably qualify!

But for you, dear anon, let me go off just a bit because I'm procrastinating editing and this is a worthy writing project.

What has storytelling to do with God, first and foremost? I would argue He is the original Storyteller, that the Bible is the story of humanity's quest to understand and follow this Great Being Who reveals Himself to us in many ways and through various means.

Jesus taught through parables, in the tradition of various Jewish rabbis, as a Jewish rabbi Himself. God affirmed and continued the human yen for storytelling while He walked this earth with us. I find that eminently lovely.

The first followers of Christ were charged to go and spread the news of what God had done--charged to become storytellers and forth-tellers. Storytelling itself was changed by the presence of God. I've seen a post on Tumblr talking about the old story form of a man who loses his lover to death. The Greek myths end with him losing her forever. The stories post-Jesus end with him recovering her. Take that one with a grain of salt--I am no scholar and I can't find the post again--but it's a beautiful thought.

So, do we now go on to tell you to write stories with good Christian morals?

Absolutely not. If you set out to write a moral, you'll probably bore everybody. Write a good story and your own values will filter into it. Art is terrifyingly revelatory. I've laughed with my husband before over how various life changes and events and struggles seep into my characters and storytelling, whether I want them to or not.

And that brings me to what one might consider the heart of storytelling: knowledge and understanding. Those who read more widely are, apparently, more empathetic. Reading puts us in the shoes of others, in other situations and other worlds. Reading humanizes other people to us, and that is a valuable weapon against selfishness.

Storytelling gives us a safe way to work through questions and struggles. Some scholars apparently believe that the books of Job and Jonah don't describe historical events, but are records of the ancients Jews grappling with the problem of pain and with the idea of a God Who is willing to embrace even our worst enemies.

Storytelling gives us a medium to examine our world in a way that removes it from us just a bit, just enough to study issues with a little more breathing room. What makes a god? What is worth fighting for or dying for? How does one determine right and wrong when everything seems uncertain and you don't know who's lying?

What does hope look like in the face of great darkness? Read The Lord of the Rings. What might God's love look like in another world, in another place? Read C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, or his Space Trilogy. Is morality contingent on gods? What is the responsibility of those in power to defend against oppression, racism, abuse of power? Read Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

You don't need to agree with everything you read. I adore Pratchett, but he was an atheist and it shows in his writings, and I am very much a theist to my core. Nonetheless, he makes important observations about human nature and right and wrong.

If you read through a Christian lens--that is, through the mindset that there is a God, that He cares about us, and that objective right and wrong exist--everything you read has the potential to teach you important things.

Why am I talking so much about reading? Because I'm a writer, and reading is what I think of first. Movies, tv shows, podcasts, oral stories--all qualify equally as storytelling. I think art--paintings or web comics or whatever else you would like to name--can be storytelling. They all have the potential to move someone emotionally, to point them to insights about humanity, to provoke the imagination.

Storytelling, then, is a way to understand ourselves and the world around us better, both as it is and as it relates to God. Storytelling is a reflection of the Great Creator, the original Storyteller, the One Who knows us most intimately and perfectly...the One Who created us for joy.

Embrace imagination, my friend. It is created by God.

#art faith and media

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