#I mean it still counts

[mams-is-my-will-to-live]

Obey me MC timetravels to when Solomon was still ruling King Solomon.

(: AFAB MC although it can be read as Gender neutral for now? I will change this if ever. I have always tried to stick to gender neutral pronouns for MC so If I slip up I'm sorry and kindly tell me. Part 1 probably and will be very short. I just need to gather my thoughts maybe make an outline Uh as much as I would like to make this more inclusive the MC here grew up in a religious household as it is needed for the plot.... so sorry. NB spoiler free yay. Also sorry for the wrong grammar and the typos. I did this on my phone :)

Time travel is not something new to MC. In fact they have already done so multiples times. This however comes as a surprise as instead of anywhere in the devildom. They seem to be in an unfamiliar land instead. somewhere ancient. MC couldn't explain it however the description seems to fit.

Determined to at least find a general location of where they were. Walking along the road near the river which should lead to somewhere with people right? At the very least they hope it will. It wasn't long before they were stopped by a kind lady who looks concerned about MC's modern clothing.

"Oh poor dear! Have you been attacked by bandits on the way here?" MC looks confused but before they were able to refute the old lady's claims they were drag to the home of the lady. "No need to worry I will help you" The old lady assured them before they are able to speak a word. Privately however they thank whatever has put them there that they can understand the language that the lady speaks. Must be some kind of magic or atleast a way to appease them on whatever this is and why does this always happen to them anyways... Waking up in unfamiliar places.

MC was made to sit down as the old lady went to another room. This time carrying a bunch of clothing that MC only has ever seen worn during things such as historical plays or those Movies about the stories from the bible that plays every month of March back where they grew up. As popularized by the holy week. Not wanting to offend the kindness of the stranger they gratefully accepted the clothing. As they were ushered to an empty room to change into the clothes. They suppose it was a good thing so that they can blend in even better while thinking of a way to get back to their timeline. Now to know where in the past they are.

"Um.. Thank you for your kindness..." MC spoke meekly to the older woman in front of them. The older woman just smiled at them.

"You look very out of sorts poor dear. A long way from home I presume?" She asked MC kindly as she folded the clothes MC was wearing earlier.

"Ah you don't need to do that..." MC flushed. This lady remind her of her grandmother.

"It's fine I assure you. So what led you here to Jerusalem?" MC hoped to have kept their facial expressions clear from their shock. Alright that is one problem solved. They are in Jerusalem. But *WHEN* in Jerusalem. Will they be seeing Jesus or something? Does Jesus even exist? MC lowkey wanted to ask the brothers or even Solomon but considering the circumstances they privately kept it to themself.

"Uh... I was actually hoping to visit the temple for... uh worship..." that's a safe answer right? There shpuld be many temples for God here since it's the holy land right? Damn if MC knew thsi would happen they should've paid more attention to theology classes back in their school days. Thankfully it seems that MC has hit the nail on its head somewhat as the woman nodded her head.

"How unfortunate that you arrived here during the Sabbath." Sabbath MC knows that day of rest. Yeah ok they got this. Totally not internally panicking. God they feel like Levi.

"Uh.. yeah how unfortunate..." they trailed off.

"You came at a great time however since the temple that King Solomon has been building has been finished." King Solomon...

Well shit. Well at least now they know for sure when they are in the last but at the same time. Why does this always happen to them really...

#obey me shall we date #obey me #obey me mc #omswd #om! swd #om! solomon #obey me solomon #obey me fic #wrote this instead of sleeping #om solomon #obey me solomon x mc #gn!mc #for now atleast?? #uh reblog pls #rebagels for beel #it's ok to reblog #i swear #more people who see this more fun #obey me nightbringer #I mean it still counts #sue me loll #added some stuff. #Tbh need atleast 5 reblogs pls I alrdy have the second part. #Like I want to see if people are actually interested or not....

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

#instant conversation enders for my multiple youth pastor cousins #don’t say it (I’m gonna say it) #The Child is The Price #but i mean come on #as someone who isn't actually even christian the real-life historical version of this is still cursed as fuck #i mean we know that jesus was a person who existed. whatever circumstances he was born in #its terrifyingly ominous to imagine being so unaware of the affect your child will have on the future of humanity #time itself will one day be counted around your birth of him #and all because he will suffer an excruciatingly painful death that you will not be able to prevent #not only that. but regardless of his or your intentions #regardless of whether there is a god #for millenea unfathomable millions will have blood spilled and will spill blood in his name #atrocities will be committed that you cannot even conceive of #and all on his and your behalf #you love your child. its beautiful. but there's horror in what you've done. because everyone else will love him too #and what's more dangerous than that?

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

#yuri on ice #yoiedit #yoi #victuuri #ice adolescence #anime gif #*gifs #animangahive #dailyshounenai #userkarura #usergojoana #userhanyi #useralphonse #usertorichi #usermoonz #usericybtch #userheidi #usergokalp #userartless #homuras #himawaari #this is not goodbye this is still my house!!! #devastated but not surprised tbh but i still wanted to channel my emotions somehow and just. express how much this show means to me so here #this thank you goes out to u guys. the fandom #mappa can eat a brick btw <3 #god i wish i could articulate just how special yoi is to me #it truly resonated with me like very few other pieces of media have (i can count them with one hand in fact) #it was sooooo revolutionary and ahead of its time not just in terms of queerness but also in terms of mental health #it truly changed me as a person and i just. really appreciate how earnest and kind it was above all #thank you yoi. you will be a part of me forever <3

[zlarirosa]

harry likes laying on his husband every morning in hopes of him letting the both of them call a day off for once. it's worked once, so it might work again

#drarry #hpdm #harco #hardra #come on shacklebolt let them have this #theyre still on the honeymoon phase of their relationship #i mean its been 5 yrs since they tied that knot #but whos counting #harry x draco #harry potter #draco malfoy #married life #domestic fluff #hp #hp art #zlarirosart #old art

[egophiliac]

just thinking about hair and faces

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #i don't THINK this counts as face horror but just in case #face horror #for your daily dose of me losing my mind over anime characters #i don't know why the hair thing surprised me so much. i think because i thought it was funny that lilia named silver after his hair color. #like ha ha lilia is hilariously bad at names how cute and silly! #oh. oh it's kind of a Thing. #anyway i am excited to see where the heck all of this stuff with silver's various dads ends up! #we still don't actually know who killed meleanor! #we still don't know literally anything about dad draconia! (dadconia? dradconia?) #we don't know what happened to the macguffin gem with its magical dad-saving powers! #(surely this will not come back to save a certain dad at a later point. of course not.) #man i was not expecting episode 7 to be all dads all the time #i mean i'm here for it but #hey remember when the highest stakes were who was gonna win the big talent show #then robots started kidnapping people and now we've just escalated from there #episode 8 our cat is going to turn into a drippy ink kaiju and we're going to have to mecha battle him to save the world or something #each member of diasomnia pilots a limb and we gattai into a giant robot dragon and hold on i gotta submit this spec script to aniplex brb

[ruporas]

the blank ticket in your hand is just waiting to be filled in.

happy birthday vash! (ID in alt text)

#vash the stampede #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #trimax spoilers #vashwood #i actually made it... im crying... was devastated for a bit bc i thought i wouldnt had anything for vash's bday!! #but happy birthday to the twins.. vash and knives... #no matter what i was going to make a vash centric post im sorry knives... i have a comic in progress also but it was taking too long T_T #that one would celebrate both of them slightly more fairly! but anyway. #birthdays to someone like vash must not mean a whole lot. even the first one - him and knives were like oh what... cool.. i don't think the #had the chance to celebrate much after that :pensive: and vash probably spent most of his birthdays like any other day so i kind of just #wanted to celebrate him living and being alive - living for as long as he did and the people that eventually made living worth it #keep counting the years vash!!! even if you dont have birthday parties - it's still very very special #quote is directly from rem’s speech in ch 41 also #ruporas art

[hahahalfwit]

I HATE MIRROR MIRROR IM GOIGN TO FROW UP

#this still counts as face practice😋😋😋 #IM LITERALLY GOING INSANE ABOUT THEM #star trek #star trek tos #leonard mccoy #doctor mccoy #bones mccoy #how many name variations does he have cmon #spock #mirror spock #SO ANYWAY. I HATE MIRRORVERSE IT UPSETS ME DEEPLY. I DON'T LIKE EVIL #👈niceguy #i mean like yeah im insane insane insane about mirror mirror but the evil fics make me nauseous😋😋 #i kinda like it. but anyway #bones is such a creature. ignore spock being even more creature #wait is that spones? it is yes it is btw #spones

[bbbbbbbbatman]

After Superman reveals his identity to the JL but before Batman reveals his, Clark and Bruce being in a public relationship and everyone in the JL asking Clark what exactly he sees in an idiotic spoiled rich playboy and Clark trying so desperately and earnestly to defend Bruce saying he’s not as dumb as he seems and he’s really compassionate and caring and it’s mostly a persona, and Bruce as Batman, serious on the outside shit eating grin on the inside, having the time of his life trashing Bruce Wayne every time he gets brought up and Superman throwing murderous glares bc ‘what are doing I’m trying to defend you why are you like this’

#bruce trashing batman and batman trashing bruce is my favorite thing #the rest of the JL just think clark is mad at batman for being mean to his boyfriend #clark: he’s not dumb I swear #batman: I heard he can’t count passed a hundred #superbat #batman #bruce wayne #clark kent #superman #but clark still loves him even when he’s trying to make him look bad #mine

[seagull-scribbles]

#tmnt 2003 #Michaelangelo Splinterson #meme redraw #I edited the text on the origional meme to this like back in June and sent it to my friend #and I’ve been meaning to draw it since #and last night I decided since it was my wip closest to completion to just finish it off #this is mikeys whole 2003 arc ahahaha #in both a very funny recurring gag way and a very sad angst filled traumatic way lmao pick your poision #it is weird not drawing mikey with the biggest smile #I don’t draw him a lot but it still is #I’m not going to be able to draw any Halloween things till I do the art I owe people but let’s start the month off with a silly #and the orange mask totally counts as autumnal colours

[howtokillavampire]

do you ever see fanart so tasty that you are then obligated to join the fandom and spend all of your waking hours learning the lore behind the characters, or is that not a universal experience?

#this is how i got into batman #i mean im more into the batboys #im in it for the robins #does it count if wolfy's jesus fanart made me want to read the bible from an objective pov #technically thats a fandom #i think my entire southern baptist extended family would collectively die if i referred to them as a fandom #anyways #pretty art pavolovs me into consuming new media #batboys #batfam #batman #dc robin #dcu #coldflash #fanart #drarry #mattimir #superbat #hannigram #jonmartin #johnlock #samifer #jaydick #damijon #timkon #timbern #im totally forgetting a bunch of my fav ships bc my brain is tiny and forgets things #so please add your own blorbos #thanks for coming to my ted talk #but why tf are you still reading the tags???

[avephelis]

somehow forgot to post this for five months but DIGGING UP MY SPREAD FROM DONZINE ✌️✌️ which you can still check out btw!! donnie my garden warrior

#i'm still posting this is 2023 surely that counts for something right #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise donnie #avepharts #donzine #bad bitches (me) will work on an artwork for two months and then never post it. cough i mean who said that #eyestrain #not really kinda? in case. anyway. #you should be able to click each side to zoom it was designed for a double spread but tumblr probably gonna crunch this shit so #i won't get into why there wasn't a super public release of this zine but it IS STILL THERE! if you wanna check it out loads of amazing art

[lyoneve]

Buttons looking through telescope: No angst in sight! Only fluff ahead!

#do not hold me to that #i might go straight back to angst #i go where my rotten mind takes me #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #blackbeard #stede bonnet #edward teach #ed teach #will i ever draw stede in other clothes?? #the jury’s still out on that one! #i realised too late that i had to draw ed’s LEFT arm… man the lack of good reference photos for those tattoos scared me #but i pulled through #just don’t start counting the tentacles on his octopus/kraken tattoo #my art

[janayuga]

In celebration of PureLily being pretty much confirmed(?) with the 3rd Anniversary update I drew PureCacao 💕

Good for everyone that‘s happy over PureLily being heavily implied/canonized, but my heart forever belongs to PureCacao, sorry.

#i played through the entire chapter and it sucked #sorry #its so badly written #fairykingLily>>>>purelily #i i mean so far theyre only confirmed (?) in the costume set #still heavily implied so I guess it counts as purelily being canon #gon be honest #cookie run kingdom #cr kingdom #crk art #pure vanilla cookie #dark cacao cookie #dark cacao x pure vanilla #purecacao #pure vanilla x dark cacao

[bizarrelittlemew]

Ed + Eyes for @saltpepperbeard's birthday 💗 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JODI!!

my beloved Jodi. always with the most interesting (and sometimes angsty 🔪) words and ideas in the tags and everywhere else. and the most beautiful gifs!! my fellow warrior in the fight against gif stealers, i can always count on you no matter what. so kind and funny and full of love, it's a joy to know you and be your friend 💗 and it is always an honor to 🤡 with you! hope you have the most amazing day!!

#it's teeechnically past midnight here but i had to figure out how to do these gifs lmao STILL COUNTS #ANYWAY #love you jodi hope you have a great day!! #ofmd #ofmd gifs #our flag means death #edward teach #ofmd s2

[uncanny-tranny]

Part of harm reduction is recognizing that abstinence or sobriety, whenever these terms are applicable, is not the inherent goal for so many people. Forcing complete abstinence or sobriety can absolutely be detrimental, which is why we must not idealize either one or force it on people. It should be an option, yes, but that does not mean it is the only option or the only option worth pursuing.

#harm reduction #mental health #mental health advocacy #ask to tag (genuine) #i practice almost complete abstinence for a particular behaviour but if you forced abstinence onto me i would be livid and scared... #...and i would feel that way because the abstinence is not my choice which means i have no control or agency over if/when i feel safe... #...to engage in 'harmful' behaviour... #...yes i recognize that abstinence is my best option which is why i practice it but i do NOT want my agency over it taken away #while the behaviour i do isn't drugs/drinking which is what people typically mean by harm reduction it counts still #this is related to my 'recovery should be an option not a compulsion' post. they're cousins in fact

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol