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it was a long while

#loki #marvel #art

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Important PSA:

#star wars #the manadalorian #tv theme tunes

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[ID: a digital drawing of reyna avila ramírez-arellano and nico di angelo sitting in front of a white background, both looking tired. reyna is to the left of nico and leaning back with her left leg crossed over her right one. her right arm is relaxed and her left hand rests on the hilt of a golden sword. nico is looking straight ahead, leaning forward. his black sword is resting between his legs and he’s holding it by the hilt. reyna has scarred brown skin and dark brown hair pulled into a braid. she’s wearing an unbuttoned blue floral shirt covered in lemons and white flowers. underneath she’s wearing a purple camp jupiter t-shirt. she’s also wearing jeans and purple converse, and her visible ear has several silver piercings. nico has scarred pale skin with freckles, and has shaggy dark brown hair. he’s wearing an unbuttoned multicolored floral shirt over a black t-shirt that reads “i went to tartarus and all i got was this t-shirt.” he’s also wearing ripped black jeans, has several bracelets, a red bandaid on his chin, and his nails are painted black. End ID.]

based on this post 

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#loki

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A #Sixfanarts request from my Instagram: Nico Di Angelo 💀 I admit I know next to nothing about this series, but I really love Nico’s design!

I took these requests ages ago, but I’m still planning on doing as many as I can :’)

#nico di angelo #pjo #percy jackson #ghost king #fanart

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okay ive got to talk about kō no mono, the episode where freddie lounds’ supposed body is desecrated and posed like “shiva.” im hindu and generally pretty chill about my religion, but this set me off so badly, and i’m angry that i havent seen anyone on tumblr talking about it

there are a handful of things wrong with the hindu motif of this episode. first of all, to use desecrated body parts to form a representation of a god? what the fuck! how can this not be seen as insensitive? idols in the form of pictures, statutes, and other iconography is essential to hindu worship. we set these idols up at an altar to show that that god is there with us, in the home. they’re an honoured guest. statue idols are cleaned and dressed and pampered, and showered with gifts. the idol is the central part of a hindu home or temple. to create an idol, mockingly, out of exhumed body parts is practically the biggest disrespect you could show to the hindu religion

if that wasn’t telling enough, it’s clear that the writers did little to no research on the subject of shiva. lets start with representation (which, as i’ve said before, is extremely important to hindus)

this depiction and the desecrated body are depicted with three arms on each side. what this says to a hindu is, “ah yes, they see multiple arms and think that’s all there is to it.” shiva and most other hindu gods are almost always depicted with either two arms on each side or one on each side. in fact, it’s more common to see shiva with just two arms than with four. i dont think i have EVER seen a depiction of shiva–or any other god–with six arms. i’m sure they exist, but the point is that it is not at all representative of the hindu image of shiva. that’s just blatantly laziness in their research (if they did any at all), as it would NOT take but a moment of looking at hindu depictions that they are almost always shown with four arms. this is a megalithic statue of shiva at the  shri murudeshwara temple in india:

in this episode, shiva is referred to as “the creator and the destroyer” and “the benefactor and the destroyer.” this is also just? completely incorrect? the three topmost hindu gods are brahma the creator, vishnu the preserver, and shiva the destroyer. the idea that the writers are trying to convey is that shiva is both good and evil. well, that’s just not right either. brahma creates mankind. vishnu protects mankind. shiva destroys mankind, but it is not an act of evil. shiva destroys mankind at the fated time, because the universe/mankind can only be regenerated if it comes to an end. shiva destroys so mankind can be born anew (reincarnation is central to hinduism, if you didn’t know). shiva does not destroy in malice, and he does not create. if you wanna read between the lines and twist it around all meta so the script actually DOES fit the correct info about shiva, fine, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s written in a blatantly misinformed way. if it was meant to convey the correct narrative of shiva, they would have done it correctly instead of twisting it into nearly incomprehensible meta.

i tried not to come off as super angry in this post, because i’m sure people just don’t know. but i can’t help how irritated i feel. if it was ANY other major religion, people would be infuriated by it. if it was antisemitic or islamophobic, it would (rightly!) ruffle feathers. hinduism is the 3rd most practiced religion in the world and yet hinduphobia is never spoken about. the biggest reason i’m upset is because this religious defacement simply doesn’t garner any attention. i’ve never seen anyone on here talk about it, which is surprising because tumblr usually has “problematic” things pinned the second they’re released. our gods are not just fairytale characters with which you can play with; they are sacred religious figures.

anyone can rb but i am begging you not to go off with that “well no one REALLY knows what he looks like bc he’s not REAL” or “all religions are fake/cults/etc” jargon because i will go feral

#hannibal #hinduism #hinduphobia

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reading chaos walking be like "i am reading about death, loss, political corruption, hunger for fame and pain to get away from the real world… you know, e s c a p i s m.“

#chaos walking #isn’t this a mood

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Grogu refusing to get out of Mando’s helmet and Din, being the soft dad he is, just lets him have it and uses whatever he found first instead 😌

#star wars #the mandalorian #din djarin #grogu

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The next morning, she’d been called to Tante Heleen’s parlour. She’d been sure another beating was coming or worse, but instead Kaz Brekker had been standing there, leaning on his crow-head cane, waiting to change her life.

sometimes you get an urge to redo a thing you did 2 years ago

#six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa

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#the mandalorian #din djarin #grogu #star wars

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Lucasfilm Holiday Card 2020

#the mandalorian #grogu #disney #din djarin #star wars #christmas

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The knife of never letting go sat on my book shelf for YEARS before I read it when I FINALLY got my shit together it changed my LIFE. The whole trilogy is incredible.

listen. listen.

“We are the choices we make.”

“Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.”

“In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.” (haha yeah anyway)

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”

“Faith with proof is no faith at all.”

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”

“Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch, its because she's doing something right.”

“Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.”

“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”

“Cuz that's it - That's the nasty, nasty secret of war - When yer winning - When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -”

#chaos walking #the knife of never letting go #quotes

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I keep seeing people say that Din broke his Creed in Chapter 15 but I think that is a misread of the scene and the show overall. I think what happened was that Din re-ordered the collection of tenets his follows so that the child’s safety supersedes all else.

The two most important parts of the Creed (as represented in the show) are wearing armour and protecting foundlings. In Chapter 3, Din is faced with a moral problem - does he protect this foundling or reclaim his peoples’ armour? His chooses the latter, and then goes back on that decision to rescue the child. That episode is titled The Sin for this exact reason - he made the incorrect moral decision, but he was no less of a Mandalorian for it.

In Chapter 15, he is then presented with the exact same problem, but this time he chooses the child over the armour. This is why that episode is titled The Believer - Din is in the process of reorganising his religious priorities, not abandoning them. Just as he was a Mandalorian when he decided to forsake the child, so too does he remain a Mandalorian when protecting him.

#the mandalorian #din djarin #grogu djarin

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I drew Violas because.. do i even need to explain

#chaos walking #viola eade

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#chaos walking #ben moore

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mako mori. “remember, don’t chase the rabbit.”