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RGU pmv- Sundial (pspsps go follow the link + watch it over on youtube)

#utena #wanna check

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sneakystorms · 16 hours

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#comics

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sneakystorms · 20 hours

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You can’t let this stupid ass evil world rob you of your vibe don’t let them do that to u

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sneakystorms · 21 hours

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Btw i love this tag by @thalassous i'm trying to adapt the kuragin-dolokhov trio into classic mean girl archetypes now. On one hand fedya is the most Actually Evil of them so he could take the queen bee spot. In this case Helene would be the deceptively quiet second in command and anatole would fit naturally into the brainless bimbo slot. However Helene's socialite status also makes her a natural fit for the queen bee spot while fedya has those themes of envy and social climberism that i love to explore so he could be the resentful second in command. On the third hand anatole is the most nepobaby, doesn't have to put in any work, never experienced a consequence, effortlessly popular bitch ever and i do tend to write both fedya and helene as bitterly aware of his privilege over them in that way - so he could be his own special kind of queen bee with the other two as his "underlings". Much to ponder.

Actually the real question is who's veronica and jd

#war and peace #s

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sneakystorms · 22 hours

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I’m in love with the podcast Data Over Dogma where a biblical scholar and a comedian (both named Dan) educate the listeners on the Bible and Christianity (and occasionally related religions) in a way I love.

They explain what the original texts actually said and how they were translated in different bibles and how different versions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam interpret the stories and commands and we get explanations for little known facts like one story seems to confirm the existence of another god who beat the god of the Bible because Bible God was on their land and the other god got a power-up from a blood sacrifice. And which Ten Commandments are people talking about and what did they mean when they were written down? And does God being a jealous god insinuate that there are other gods who aren’t jealous? Can God lie and change his mind in the Bible? Was Jonah being a little piss baby?

I highly recommend the podcast if you’re interested in religion from a scholarly standpoint. Scholar Dan is a believing Christian so he takes it seriously while also being able to joke around and take the text with a grain of salt and they have guests on who talk about the Bible from different viewpoints like disability, lgbtq, non-white, Jewish, feminist and so on.

#data over dogma #wanna check

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sneakystorms · 23 hours

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Can you tell us more about Marya being a horny mess please? It's such an interesting interpretation of her character and has extra bonus points for the potential to make Tolstoy livid 🤭

Sure! Honestly i don't even feel like I'm going against tolstoy on this one because it's an interpretation i somewhat extrapolated from her canon characterisation.

One of my favourite marya moments (and there are many) is when she gets annoyed at mmelle bourienne for something or else, and her internal response to this is horror at herself for harbouring anything but the most amicable of emotions. So she forces herself to be friendly with amelie, but the repressed animosity is left to fester until it grows into disproportional hatred. A similar thread appears in her relationship to her father - because she believes she has no right to be anything less than loving and appreciative, she represses her negative emotions for him, but they continue to work their way in her subconscious. Speaking of her father, he has a very direct role in reinforcing this pattern of behaviour - when he mocks marya for dressing up for anatole, for enjoying the thought of romance or being courted, this causes such intense shame in her that she tries even harder to rid herself of any romantic inclinations, which is reflected in her social isolation once in moscow. I also love the moment where marya sees anatole making out with amelie and, rather than react in justifiable anger, appears more sympathetic to Amelie than ever, swearing to help her and anatole realise their love for each other. I read this as marya internalising shame so fully that she's relieved at an "excuse" not to indulge in that which she desires, because years of self denial have resulted in pursuit of her own wishes appearing frightening. Although i certainly am not opposed to reading this scene as her lesbianism peeking through and making her all too happy to have a reason to give up on her relationship with anatole lmao

All this to say that marya is an incredible portrayal of freudian repression a hundred years before freud, and particularly of the way one can repress shameful or impossible to realise desires and sublimate them - redirect their libidinal energy - into other, more acceptable pursuits. For freud this is most often art, but in Marya's case i think you can read her as sublimating all her shameful desires or emotions into religion, which is of course a highly moral thing for her to obsess over, providing an even stronger barrier against sinful thoughts than something like an artistic hobby might have. But as always in freud, urges that have been rejected by and banished from the conscious seep into the unconscious, where they threaten to fester and develop. Iirc the metaphor freud uses is that of a blocked water passage which causes the stream to leak through whatever other paths or cracks it can find - this is how you get repressed urges manifesting in weird, roundabout ways like dreams or odd fetishes.

This is kind of what i see happening to marya - both with her anger, which escapes in her teaching nikolushka, and with her desire for sex and romance. But I'm also throwing in a half-serious observational tidbit about how christians who have an unhealthy relationship with their own faith and repress their "sinful" urges sometimes go on to attach so much importance to rituals of self-protection, self-cleansing or self-punishment in hopes of saving themselves from sin that those very rituals end up as subconscious escape routes for the repressed horniness and other undesirable things. This is how you get jokes about medieval catholics being little too into lashing, or about people for whom the religious bliss that comes from prayer borders on the erotic, or about those who are a little too obsessed with staying virgins until marriage...

That's kind of what i was alluding to with the "kinky in that way some xtians are" comment (or however i phrased it). But that's only an aside, the main point is my girl is pushing down all her horniness and one day, hopefully, that bottle is gonna burst and as far as I'm concerned it might as well burst in Helene's nimble fingers. I also think she'd find it fun and gratifying to mess with Marya's head by convincing her that the wild gay sex they're having doesn't count or isn't really sin or something like that, which is obviously a narrative marya would cling to if she did ever slip up and give in to the throes of sodomy

#s #war and peace #maryalene #marya bolkonskaya #helene bezukhova #basically the bolkonskys are repressed as hell and could both use a kuragin to help burst that metaphorical dam.#but then of course theres the shame #and for the record please take everything i say abt freud with a grain of salt i never properly studied his theories #only a few bits here n there #but i figured he'd be useful for the purposes of explanation here so #ask #mynameisemma #isnt is funny how i sat down on my train prepared to listen to music and then spent the entire ride crafting this reply

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[JUDAS] You mean betray what I love? [JESUS] But I need it [SATAN] She needs it [JUDAS] Surely not I, surely not I, surely not I [JESUS] It’s okay, Judas Betray me one cheek at a time Betray me one cheek at a time

please listen to clown bible by dave malloy

#clown bible #wanna check

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Them 😏✨ 2nd picture: *angry welsh screams*

#hmc

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favorite ship dynamic moodboard

#prev i love you for saying andretole and i have referenced two of these in andretole art in the past #but i seeked this out rn because i will suck you off in an interesting and peculiar way is sooooo maryalene

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#war and peace #WAIT THIS NIKOLAI IS SO CUTEEEEEEEEE

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Dennor week 2024 - survey 2

Hei, Hej! Thank you for all your votes in the last survey and for the general interest! Here's another survey for you, if everything goes well, it's going to be the last survey about Dennor week 2024.

I'll post when exactly all will be taking place and the exact prompts a month before the event.

I know that there's a lot of prompts given in the survey, but you had a lot of ideas and I also wanted some kind of varierity, so please be patient!

#aph

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I just want to say I really loved how much Laios stood up for Marcille this week. He really said I'm not about to let y'all shit all over my friend for doing what she could to save someone we all care about. I'm not about to let y'all shame her for her talent and genius. I'm not about to let her hard work go unacknowledged while the rest of you wouldn't ever have the balls to do what she did. Because unlike all of you she isn't a little bitch. It was beautiful man.

#dungeon meshi #I LOVE THEIR RELATIONSHIP FR!!

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sneakystorms · 2 days

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the twins (mostly mackenzie) masterpost

little progress gif..... maybe one day i will be strong enough for speedpaints............

#AWESOME

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oh hey for anime onlys/ppl who havent read the adventurers bible, a bit of trivia for yall. this isnt super spoilers bc it doesnt really. come up at all? it doesnt appear in the main series At All (that i remember) but does inform a lot of the way they interact: Maizuru (the lady with the cool wing-sleeves who was cooking shuros meal/doting on him) is his governess, and also his dad's mistress. it was apparently an open secret in the household.

because of this, shuro kinda resents her, tho its pretty subtle in the series (kinda hard to tell from him just being world weary and upset at being babied)

so uh. yeah no its not just "ugh im an adult stop treating me like a kid", theres also. this. I would really reccomend reading the adventurers bible if you can, its got so many little things that add depth to the characters, even ones we barely get to see in the series. with this, im pretty sure it doesnt come up at all otherwise! warning tho that the bible DOES contain spoilers for some pretty late series stuff (like, literally up to 10 chapters before the end or some shit) so if youre anime only thus far, i would rec either reading the manga or WAITING for the bible.

also, gonna throw this in too: this part is SLIGHT spoilers just for izutsumi's backstory, but yep, the family literally bought her. and didnt treat her amazingly for that matter (mostly in terms of being super controlling and trying to "discipline" her). ill also include this bit on inutade bc it sheds a bit more light on the dynamics among the group (inutade also having been bought)