#I love religious symbolism

[kage-mochii]

"We are our own company now. We asked to be let out. And we let ourselves out."

Any We Know The Devil enjoyers out there? Is it just me on this hill?

If you haven't seen this game I BEG you to watch a playthrough or play it yourself. It absolutely changed me, and it's such a wonderful message about LGBTQ+ and how even if people try to repress you, you deserve to be who you really are. You'll find your people, and they'll never be able to silence you again.

I'm not a religious person anymore, but this game is so beautiful with its religious symbolism, the way it portrays the way some religions see the LGBTQ+ community, how they try so hard to suppress it, mark you as bad or troubled. But there's always a little devil inside of us, aching for change, to be welcomed, to be loved. Maybe we should let her out sometimes.

#we know the devil #we know the devil fanart #neptune #venus #jupiter #jupiter wktd #venus wktd #neptune wktd #wktd #wktd true ending #I love religious symbolism #can you tell? #im always so fascinated by the metaphors #I love symbolism as a whole really #Im so normal about it #not even insane at all #fanart #sketches #kage rambling #kage art

[terristre]

I know request says closed but I just wanted to tell you that we’ll finally be getting the Glorious Masquerade event this month. Any thought pookie? You excited?

I AM COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS til i can bully this man 💥🥊

#‼️‼️‼️‼️NEVER BE AFRAID TO COME INTO MY ASKBOX TO TALK ABOUT RANDOM BULLSHIT!!!!! IM LOVE YOU FOREVER 🥺 #this doesnt count as a request bc no one would ask for nightmare sexy pinup malleus #anyhow. idk if youve noticed but i go pretty hard with religious themes with some of my ocs (hi covered mirrors in october day 1 👋) #& a good amount of my art outside The Sillies is crazy illustration stuff that goes HARD on symbolism & themes #so like. needless to say im VERY excited to finally get my hands on this asshole LOL #actually my original direction for this was going to be a rollo & idia thing exploring the false equivalence of hades & the christian devil #(that also ended in a homophobe rollo punchline 👍) #ask tag #twst #yayayayy thank u for asking it always makes me so happy ^^ <3

[mauvearts]

Caranthir

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#Caranthir #my love #silmarillion #silm #the silmarillion #tolkien #and finally the quest of completing all 7 of them goes on [epic music in the background] #i had a hard time constructing a card for caranthir and i quit all my previous ideas and just drew something that felt right #resulting in a piece that isnt really what i wanted but i had soo much fun drawing him <3 #not much symbolism going on here but #i choose columbine on his mantle - as a symbol for grief and also self hatred as columbine stands for weakling #columbine is a loaded flower in christian symbolism - and as a parallel i feel like caranthir is quite religious #like staying true to customs and traditions and seeking help in prayers to Eru as a way to control his wild emotions #i have to stop here - this is a rabbithole 8'D

[yourlocalabomination]

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.

#Do you ever think about the fact Ted held the love of his life in his arms while she died? #Do you ever think about the ash covering his hands? The dust stuck inbetween his fingernails? His tears making the ash stain his palms? #Heart in hand - interlocked with all his love between each finger - desperatly trying to not let it fade away? #Thinking about since the Old Testement ashes have been a symbol of repentance and penitence - a token of self-abhorrence and humiliation #Specifically ‘Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes’ (Job 42:6 KJV) and the entire concept of Ash Wednesday #I know that probably wasn’t the langs intention but as a ex-church kid I can’t stop projecting religious imagery into media I like #also is anyone surprised I drew this man with a clock and a halo again? I physically cannot stop myself from doing it #Anyway I’m not sorry for drawing this but I’ll go back to being a silly goofy guy with my fanart and tags….until next time :) #ted spankoffski #theodore spankoffski #JennyBear #Jenny nmt #Jenny starkid #god I feel so evil for tagging Jenny #starkid #starkid fanart #team starkid #starkid productions #time bastard #starkid time bastard #time bastard nightmare time #nightmare time #starkid nightmare time #hatchetfield nightmare time #nmt #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #hatchetfield universe #fanart #my art

[fireforember]

I just peeled a pomegranate and watched it bleed as I tore its flesh away and consumed what's inside.

I wonder if this is love.

I wonder if this is how God feels when he tears into me.

#chaotic academia #dark academia #romanticism #romantic academia #poetry #pomegranate #pomegranate symbolism #canabalism as a metaphor for love and devotion #religious imagery #i feel divine

[forgetful-river]

Sometimes being in love is like getting your eye gored in a fit of purifying violence, sometimes it's not

#I keep talking about the romance of cannibalism so much my mother has gotten so so so tired of me (my friends are more mixed) #but also she got me to watch The Hunger (1983) which was very fun and very 80s #its about consuming and being consumed!!!!!!!!!!! Eating your loved one because you cannot stand them existing outside of yourself!!!!!!!!! #being eaten because you cannot stand existing outside of your lover!!! Becoming obsessed with literally merging together in the goriest way #basically I cannot stop thinking about Hannibal (2013) #I couldn't figure out how to get Tz's horn to fit with the way I placed their heads and then I realized wough........it would be going righ #in Vris's eye if I keep their heads where they were so I just leaned in bc themes......motifs..........symbolism................ #blinding and being blinded is so central to their narrative ya know #anyway. this is an unhinged amount of tags I hope you had fun reading all of them #vriska serket #terezi pyrope #vrisrezi #homestuck #hs #my art #fantasy blood #religious imagery

[canisalbus]

Religious trauma anon again! Im genuinely serious when i say hes been a major sort of comfort, especially as someone who has one side of family that is catholic, and the other evangelical. The imagry you use is fantastic especially in your more thematic and symbological pieces, i love picking out the different aspects like where bandages and wounds are placed, what kind of background may be going on, the colors and the emotions associated with them, etc. Even if its not all intentional, its good food

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#ahh thank you! #I love it when folks look at my art with intent and try to analyze it #themes motifs symbolism overtones and whether there's something to be read between the lines #I do consider details carefully more often than not and quietly hope that maybe someone catches the implications I'm not saying out loud #it's very flattering that you consider my art worth your time like that #religious trauma can be extremely rough I don't know you or what you've gone through but I hope you're doing better nowadays #answered #anonymous

[riddleboxez]

destruction in the name of salvation.

#god i love the religious imagery in marble hornets #also i havent posted my art here in like 4 years how does it work #marble hornets #alex kralie #horror #religious symbolism #religous imagery tw #ask to tag #alex kralie mh #marble hornets fanart #original art #bucks artz #btw if anyone wants to write an ID for this go for it /nf #old art

[sadgirlbadpoems]

I never meant to harm you, I never mean to hurt anyone.

I am gentle, kind, but never harmless.

My claws are made to catch and to keep.

My teeth made to crush and tear.

So when the sweet, metallic taste of you exploded against my tongue I cursed a god I did not believe in, for placing this animalistic rage deep within my bones, far too deep to cut out or burn.

I begged the moon to take pity on me, to free me from the pull of her cycle. But much like the tides I remain her loyal servant.

So run,

As fast as your legs can carry you.

Take your soft, warm smile.

And your beautiful flowing hair and run far away from me little lamb.

#original poem #writeblr #writers and poets #girlhood #poetry #love poem #religious trauma #sapphic love #teeth #bite #tw cannibalism #canibalism #symbolism #im not a violent dog i dont know why i bite #werewolf imagery

[thefawnfallacy]

Abigail is the Jesus to Hannibal and Will’s, well — they could be Judas or Mary or even God but ultimately, she dies for their (for Will’s, specifically) sins, simultaneously pawn and victim and martyr.

#I love her #abigail hobbs #garret jacob hobbs #will graham #hannibal lecter #nbc hannibal #hannibal series #hannibal meta #religious symbolism

[luhman16]

Skee-ball

#luh's drawings #art #drawing #rain world #rain world downpour #rain world hunter #rain world artificer #artihunter #im so arcade pilled rn i love the arcade and going there to play piu theehee #i hc that arti is just wayyy too overconfident and is just very bad at it #and that hunter had a secret past where they became extremely good at it like so good they regularly managed to get 90 000 points #im pretty sure 90 000 is the max points and usually the high scores i see on the machines are around 20 000-30 000 so 76 000 is very good #Im doing my part to help the artihunter drought #i also hc that the karma symbols are like swear words in rain world kinda like how religious words irl sometimes become swear words too

[glassonthewall]

religious themes save me...

religious themes

save me religious themes..

#i love symbolism #religious themes #religious symbolism #writeblr #writing #creative writing #writers on tumblr #writer #my writing #writerblr #writerscommunity #writer things

[anachronistic-falsehood]

oh my god the annihilation pool scene is so fucked up <3 the way kane and the other two act like this is something Necessary for their survival.... the way the third guy gently holds the guy being cut open to comfort him.. the way kane smiles when he touches whatever the hell is moving inside the second guy.... the way kane lays the knife down in the pool and washes his hands almost reverently.... THE WEIRD RELIGIOUS UNDERTONES <333

#annihilation #annihilation 2018 #I LOVE FUCKED UP RELIGIOUS THEMES I LOVE WHEN RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM IS USED IN A REALLY WEIRD FUCKED UP SCENE <3 #whiskeys word soup

[drowned-hubris]

Anyway y’all think the moon children would assign the higher members with animals? Anyway I’m drawing BEN so I made a list because I procrastinate

Matt = Fox (I always imagined him to be fox-faced + the bright orange hair. Foxes are cunning and fast, Matt is both)

Ben [kid] = Lamb (I live for sacrificial lamb symbolism)

Kelbris = Owl (my phone thinks he’s one, also he would take pride in declaring himself as “the smartest of the birds” + owls are seen as a bad omen - like black cats)

BEN = Four horned goat (I love religious imagery, also is seen as the ‘demonic’ opposite of a baby lamb)

Rosa = Monarch Butterly (a symbol of Endurance and renewal. She helped Sara fix and renew the cartridge)

#idk who the others would be #anyway I love animal symbolism #I might give BEN ram horns in the sketch #it wouldn’t make sense in the bigger pitch turn #but who cares lol #ben drowned #matt hubris #ben drowned arg #kelbris #creepypasta #hyperfixation #jadusable #rosa hubris #animal imagery #religious imagery #imagery #art

[scopekale]

i think Bestie will say the most unfunniest shit (and knows it’s unfunny) just to see Blake laugh at it because he thinks the sun rises and sets on them

#guys what if Bestie and Blake and religious symbolism #that’s unrelated to the post i just thought it #yeah #i’m not watching the new Balance video for my mental health and in order to maintain my Blake loving mindset #redacted audio #redacted bestie #redacted blake

[i-did-it-35-minutes-ago]

When Jason and Dick first fall into bed, it’s all haste and urgency and fire fueled by Dick narrowly escaping alive after a botched undercover operation.

Also, it’s not on a bed, but looking back, it was never going to be.

Jason’s on comms that night, in the Batcave only because Bruce’s away on League business while the others are… wherever they are. He honestly doesn’t care. It’s only Jason and Dick, working on something that Dick’s planned and put together, and sure, Dick resorted to asking for his help because it was his last option, probably, but it still makes him want to prove that he’s not always going lethal—not because he regrets that, never that, but because he just wants to prove them wrong. There’s maybe this… hope that if they just for once look at him, they’ll actually see him.

He’s not really holding his breath on that, but who knows, stranger shit has happened.

When Dick arrives right after having been made and having his cover compromised, there’s no fucking time to even consider going upstairs—not that Jason would have accepted, either way. One minute he’s shouting at Dick and condemning his recklessness, trying not to think how much that’s a Bruce move and whatever the fuck that means, and the next Dick’s all over him. His first instinct is thinking that they’re going to fight, which, fine, he likes that, but what happens is much, much sweeter.

Instead of punches or kicks, what he gets are Dick’s lips on his, a point of contact that sets him alight. It’s insane, almost surreal, and it takes his brain a few seconds to catch up.

Once a bat, always a bat—for better or worse, in Jason’s case, or in all of theirs, to be quite honest—and they don’t do shit like this, without planning ten steps ahead and scheming. Which means that either golden boy’s been thinking about this for a while, or that he’s not exactly in control now. Both ideas are exciting for different reasons, but he’s betting on the latter.

Jason gets it, is the thing. He gets wanting to feel something just to reassure himself that he’s alive. He gets that, and besides, Dick is the one person other than Bruce whose attention Jason went out of his way to get—not to the same extent, but still. So that’s why he doesn’t even think of doing anything else other than corresponding when Dick’s mouth finds his, when Dick’s hands reach beneath his t-shirt, when they stray lower.

It’s infuriating how goddamn good Dick is at this. A few touches of his hands and expertly applied bites that are also half-kisses have Jason singing in no time, spreading his legs and bucking against the other man without any sort of control to a point that should be embarrassing.

When Lucifer fell, he dragged with him a third of the angels. That’s the hysterical thought that passes through his mind when he feels Dick’s hard cock pressing against his thigh, the evidence that the whole thing is turning Dick on as much as Jason—and well, it certainly should, since it is Dick who initiated it.

The metaphor may not be completely adequate here, and Jason definitely doesn’t give a fuck about the proportions, because there’s only one of Bruce’s birdies that he cares about, but when Dick kisses him until they’re both breathless, presses him against the rough wall, the thrill of thinking that he’s corrupting Bruce’s golden boy is a delicious, dark thing.

In reality, he knows that Dick’s not a fucking saint, by anyone’s standards, but this is the person to whom he used to be compared and found lacking even before he died and came back a thing that maybe shouldn’t be—he’s not dumb to think that they would want him dead, per se, but when given the choice of never having him come back, Jason knows what they would all pick.

(It’s okay, he’d make the same choice.)

This is the first of the angels, the one they’re all shaped after, one way or another and whether or not they want to. And to know that he’s all hot for the one who was cast away, well, it does things to Jason. It has him dropping to his knees, looking up through his lashes and licking his lips with clear intent. This is something that Jason has never dreamed he could have, even in his wildest fantasies of a better and kinder world, and he wants to keep it, to reach beneath Dick’s ribs and make a place for himself there, drag Dick to hell with him, even if he knows the other man doesn’t deserve that, just so he’ll be less alone.

And Jason understands another thing about Dick: he’s ripe for it, really. For falling. He might not be a control freak at the level Bruce is, but he’s still reeling from having his own op botched, from having the carefully controlled environment and situation going haywire, and Jason knows how to use that to his favor, how to give Dick what he needs while taking a little bit for himself. Demons trade in souls, and, by the end of it, he’ll have Dick’s.

Fair is fair, right?

#dickjay #jaydick #jason todd #dick grayson #i am once again playing too much into the religious symbolism #leaving this here because i dont think i'll finish it to post to ao3 #anyway love the dickjay flavor of jason thinking 'hehe im corrupting the first robin' #this man is already corrupted jason!! #my stuff