#I cherish these images

[inamindfarfaraway]

The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue

The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.

I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.

(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)

The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.

But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.

The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.

When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.

Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.

You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.

The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!

#both emotionally and symbolically i am rooting for vaggie or charlie to take out one of lute’s eyes #i was like ‘cool vaggie’s missing the opposite eye to her former mask!’ #and then i went back and saw that her mask was also different #and then i went down a rabbit hole of biblical mentions of bad things happening to eyes #i know god and jesus (and the holy spirit) probably won’t appear in the show #at least not in person #but i do cherish the mental image of adam and his genocidal army hanging out #when jesus christ bursts in with a whip #and gets all ‘you have made my father’s house into a den of thieves’ on them but an order of magnitude more intense #because HE SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER #WHERE IS THE LOVE #HE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IT #i’m not christian! i’m a hardcore atheist! #religion is just as fictious to me as egyptian mythology #however i am also autistic and have major special interests in mythology and folklore #so here i am fervently writing analysis of the sermon on the mount #hazbin hotel #hazbin vaggie #hazbin hotel vaggie #vaggie #hazbin hotel exorcists #hazbin exorcists #hazbin hotel analysis #hazbin analysis

[daresplaining]

Scott Terra as Matt Murdock and David Keith as Jack Murdock in Daredevil (2003).

#LOOK AT THEM! I cherish this image. #Daredevil movie #Daredevil #Matt Murdock #Jack Murdock #ID in alt text

[grimeclown]

When you want something really silly done to somebody that really deserves it you go looking for the silliest bitch lurking in the darkest (and silliest) corners of the city.

She doesn't even get high she just smokes to make the room reek like weed (art by @goatpaste)

#bonk #art for me #my ocs #THANK YOU SAMMIIIII IT TURNED OUT SO GOOD #it is kinda funny to spend so long going over cock and ball specifics just to post a crop publicly but its ok. i cherish the full image

[to2llynottoby]

#to2lly not images #somehow i hadnt seen anyone do this yet #f-35 #zach and cody #how do you lose a woman #you forget to cherish her

[danganronpa96]

is my birthday today!

here is one silly from each fic drawn with my new tablet I got 💪

#bday is jan 4 btw jic its already the next day for some ppl #guys I am so old oh my god I am like Walter asking Skyler to make the bacon into his age /j #also ik this image is very specific to me but I mean any Hayasaka and Miku fans can cherish this when it's their bday too lol #bro it's so weird having a tablet with a screen but I did get minimal experience with Rexx's #(that they never use /lh) #speaking of Rexx gifted me a sakura Miku figure hehe

[karsite-grip]

what were ketheric and durge arguing about in the memory? wrong answers only

#durge #the dark urge #i bet it was gortash and durge having some petty argument about something they didn't actually care about #just because getting ketheric riled up was one of their most cherished past times #they also liked to threaten each other. it's how they bond #at the mind flayer colony scene outwardly gortash is like: maybe we shouldn't have dug your daughter up #and inwardly while orin is doing her own thing he's like i wish durge were here to try and one up me like they used to #orin can only make death threats. duge was much more creative than that. (sighs dreamily) #bg3 spoilers #gortash #ketheric #durgetash #in all seriousness ketheric is so fucking smug in this dialogue #if you just watch silently you miss this gem #like you KNOW he was so fed up with your ass and it feels good to see you beneath him #sorry if this is blurry? the image isn't on my computer but it is on tumblr. idk what happened

[decamarks]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like every day i've been checking the date so i don't accidentally miss today LOL we are getting so old though !!!

TRULY, WE ARE... You still get to be a cool teen for like a month or so more, I think. Savor every moment. In the meantime I must do my duty of finding a cool nautilus GIF to respond to this with.

I couldnt find any. These are pretty dope though

#The word 'nautilus' did not appear anywhere on the webpages of these images... I suppose these represent more of the mind of the nautilus. #Unrelatedly I still cherish that spamton image you made last year. It's the best ever. Thank you syd.

[normalbrothers]

tommy loves horses of course, and there's a lot going on there (re trauma), but he has a pretty utilitarian view on them most of the time; it's not as much of an affectionate relationship to the animals as i think fandom seems to believe. there's also rather a greater symbolic meaning in general to him than bonding himself emotionally to a single horse, the way it tends to be with most horsey narratives

#he *uses* them and i think it has something to do with his self image and - as i said - trauma #horses as vehicles as tools in war race horses etc etc #dunno where i'm going with this; i think there's some opportunity to do something w that in the movie #he surely was different here before the war and you can clearly imagine little tommy spending all the time at the stables #and talking more to the horses than to any of the people around or in general but yeah #his overidentification with something that he tends to objectify & then again not all his horse comparsions or metaphors are positive or #positively connotated either #& it's also a class thing even as there's an affectionate layer to this he wouldn't look at a horse and see a cherished coddled pet #they are animals bred for use and not leisure and that's the sentiment he grew up with as well

[metagalacticx]

"Sometimes… Scott thinks about how soft and crushable and insignificant he is inside compared to everything else."

inspired by: When the Body Forgives by @theoceanismyinkwell

#teen wolf #scott mccall #scott mccall fanart #teen wolf fanart #twgs #my art i guess #um. so it’s not roscoe and there are no stars and his fingers are not where they’re supposed to be but. i #could not get this image out of my head #from the day you posted and i read the summary and the first paragraph i felt compelled to do something??? didn’t know what at the time but #this happened and i hope it’s okay #don’t look at it too closely pls i will cry #but i like it?? <3 #ANYWAY CONGRATS TO ME #AND CONGRATS TO SCOTT MCCALL #WE MADE IT #also if you read tags thank you for gifting this fic to me i’ll cherish it forever and ever <333 sometimes i think about it and wanna cry <3 #✨♥️.stuff.♥️✨

[izloveshorses]

dmitry + boyfriend behavior (act i)

#anastasia broadway #dimya #broadwayedit #anastasia musical #anastasia #derek klena #christy altomare #my gifs #my edit #he's like 'is anyone gonna love and cherish this girl? no? okay i guess i'll do it' #i forgot there was a 10 image limit so i had to split it up #tumblr said girl be quiet asklhdf

[sagau-my-beloved]

I feel like if the reader tried shoving venti outside to make him have new friends, it would be like trying to give a cat a shower lololol

Yes this is an appropriate comparison

Non-corrupted Venti would just whine about how you're just trying to get rid of him, pouting that you better not leave if you want him to go talk to others, stating over and over again that he doesn't need anybody else in his life and you're more important than them all anyway

Of course if you just really, really wanted him to go talk to people he would, but reduce any and all expectations of him actually making friends to zero, he would never let a normal person get that close

Now corrupted Venti is a different story—

There are two ways he could take it, one of which as a direct order from you that he go socialize with others, and it would be incredibly unpleasant and painful but he would do it in a heartbeat

Your wants are to be fulfilled no matter what, so if that involves him having to deal with an incredibly splitting headache from listening and piecing together the mindless small talk coming out of random tavern goers mouths as you give him an encouraging smile then so be it, he'll gladly fight back jerking away whenever someone goes to exchange a friendly touch if that's what you want, you'll touch him and praise him after right? Is he being good enough to earn a kiss?

Now the other way is him interpreting it as you no longer wanting to be around him...

Yeah that's when things get messy—

#genshin impact #genshin venti #sagau #venti x reader #yandere genshin au #yandere genshin x reader #genshin x reader #brainrot #it wouldn't end well and I'll stick by that #but now I have a mental image of poring a bucket of water over Venti and him just looking mortified #thank you I'll cherish it

[koimurocho]

ugly fucking thing appeared at my doorstep today. what do i do with him

#images #(gift from my dear dear friend ily jack!!!!!!!) #nishiki plush i cherish you forever and ever #kissing him on the head #hes so teensy i love him #sits in the palm of my hand #microbe #RAHHHHH RAHHHHHH

[bittersweetresilience]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @ninadove 🎉💕

i wrote you a silly fluffy something featuring sentitwins and félix's relationship with horses. there is NO angst... unfathomable. such is the power of friendship.

silky brightsky lion's mane, my beloved.

concept from anarchist gang and made with this picrew though i added the color dye because i think in a world without parental rule, félix would want his horse to live up to her name.

#miraculous ladybug #🌃 #🕊️ #🦚 #so my take on the horse debate is i think félix is terrified of them but loves his own end of story #okay not end of story i'm a rambly kind of guy #silky brightsky lion's mane cares for félix so much and he cares for her too and there's something so personal to me about loving something #you're scared of and choosing to continue cherishing and being with it anyway #honoring and giving yourself to a relationship you've found yourself with when you didn't initially want or conceive of it #amélie félix parallels up the wazoo! #and just the image of him sharing this special and strange relationship with adrien someone he loves and cherishes with no questions asked #félix! god! félix! i love you! i am cradling you in my hands #this stance brought to you by my desire for félix to be soft with horses combined with how funny it would be for him to be scared of them #and then combined again with my need to make meaning out of something that's supposed to be a bit because i am silly this way #hhjghnghngnghhggk félix... okay happy birthday nina i didn't forget what this was for #ml fanfic

[effielovesapples]

guy who is so excited for these two cds to come in the mail so i can listen to them in my walkman

#IM SO EXCITED. THE MAYBELLINES!!!! #i also think i need to use my schools scanner to upload images from my the murmurs cd #BECAUSE THERE'S LIKE 0 info about the murmurs like anywhere i got the cd at an antique mall and cherish that album so much

[rpfisfine]

kvido look its a pic of U btw U are so lovely and sweetie teeheheheheee. um no but for real how did they get this pic of U scrolling thru naked men image on your laptop. Actually quite crazy..

AVERY.....NOT the sweetie king and father of all small silly creatures virself i am so incredibly blessed on this evening......UMMMMMM..... what the hell.....that is an actual image of me in my own home scrolling through naked men image on my laptop i am honestly quite concerned as to who might have snapped this candid photo of me actually to be honest.....and it appears i am looking directly into the camera as well......really makes you think when you think about it

#🌷🌞💗🌸🐟🪼🦋🪿🍦🥂🚙💛🪩📺📀🏖️🎲🎨🎮🎸🪁🛝 #I LOVE YOU AVERY……ITS A PLEASURE TO HANG OUT WITH YOU ON THE DASH ALWAYS……thank you for this profoundly beautiful message I will cherish it #asks #also while I was scrolling through my sweets reaction images I reaized I actually don’t have that many cutes reaction images at all…….. #no wonder my life sucks balls sometimes that is clearly why…..I need to fix that IMMEDIATELY…..by finding some on your blog!!!!!!

[jdmara]

like to slap his big forehead reblog to slap his big forehead

#my most cherished and valued image #he’s so shaped. beautiful bone structure #walton goggins #text.dee #the shield #i think i’m watching this show wrong