#a literal murder mystery

[protestantposting]

Two excellent podcasts on the modern western church. The first is a Christian perspective and the second is a former Christian perspective but both don't shy away from the trenches nor negate the good in the midst of problematic and weird church movements.

1. The rise and fall of Mars Hill

The 1st on evangelicalism, mega churches, and when a church is a cult of personality. Specifically focusing on Mars Hill and the pastor/demagogue Mark Driscoll. If you were evangelical in the 90s Mars Hill was cool and successful until... it wasn't.

2. Heaven bent

The second actually does a different deep dive each season specifically into charismatic churches and movements. Each season actually focuses on a different church/movement. The second season is particularly fascinating because it happened mid pandemic/2020 election and focuses on Bethel which had some interesting interactions with the election cycle and COVID. But the other seasons are no slouches either. They also have great audio of the weirder sounds in charismatic churches in an educational and not belittling way.

#evangelicalism #charismatic #western church #protestantism #podcasts #heaven bent #the rise and fall of mars hill #investigative journalism #the shit that really goes down in church #mark driscoll #bethel #the Toronto blessing #a literal murder mystery #good stuff #post 3

[hayaku14]

kaito buying every ticket to every soccer game available just to see that excited look on shinichi's face

#kaishin #kuroba kaito #kudou shinichi #dcmk #detective conan #dc prattles #pls ignore the badly drawn parts lmao i just wanted to let this out ughhhh #okay but kaito takes shinichi to all the soccer games cos he wanna see him get all excited and giddy #it's something that brings shinichi joy that's outside from the usual murder and mystery and the pure unadulterated joy on his face and the #passion he has for the sport is so intoxicating kaito is addicted #plus he just wants to make shinichi happy ;-; #also soccer isn't the most interesting thing to kaito but it's not completely boring either #not when shinichi is excitedly fawning over both the team he's supporting and the opposing team #talking a mile a minute just gushing over their form and their strat and whatever tf soccer things there is to gush about LMAO #BASICALLY KAITO IS MESMERIZED AND BEGUILED BY SOCCER OTAKU SHINICHI OKAY #also i have a lot to say about a kaishin socmed au but that's for another post lmao #i was gonna go on a whole tangent here but i realized i have too many thoughts on that i'll just make a separate post LOL #also i haven't properly drawn in a while pls don't look at it too hard LMAO just know it's shinichi getting excited over a goal or a steal #and literally everyone in the venue is looking on the other side meanwhile kaito is distracted by the biggest smile on shinichi's face #OOOOOHHHH I FUCKING LOVE KAISHIN UGGGHHHH #also in this au the world cup is organized by good people because fuck fifa

[pand1on]

#top 10 dumbest ideas Ive ever had #literally just a warmup before I draw murder mystery outfits #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #nonbinary shadow truthers this is for you (and me) #my art

[fistfuloflightning]

I binge read @ruensroad’s glorious fic A Voice You Hear With Your Heart (belated congrats on surviving NaNoWriMo hon!) and because I am currently incapable of forming coherent thoughts for a review, have a rough approximation of the fic cover I had stuck in my head :D

#AHSKDJSHALSKJDHDHS #I am absolutely blown away #it’s another tiger of hu y’all!!! #murder mystery and detectives and married jiuyuan falling even deeper in love ahskfjsh #so good #ghost marriages are so fun to read/write #I literally have like a whole page of stuff I wanna say about this fic in my head #buts it’s mush when I try typing it out #so just take some visual love 🥰 #also had across the sea by lisa van hal on repeat #fantastic track for their journey together #svsss #jiuyuan #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #shen jiu #svsss art #my art #fanfic fanart

[tertain-the-original]

So… this is the third book, right?

#it’s literally like a murder mystery tho it’s so fun #warrior cats #warriors cats #fireheart #firestar #GreyStripe #SilverStream #forest of secrets

[snabulous]

now why would i write my paper when i could read my gay little boat mystery instead

#i’m reading a ruthless truth by freya marske rn and this series is consuming my life #the first book knocked my socks off and the second one is gearing up to be even better #it has LESBIANS it has BOATS it has MURDER MYSTERIES it has CHAOTIC BISEXUALS it has OVERT REFERENCES TO SEX THAT REMIND ME THAT THIS IS #AN ADULT GAY STORY AT ITS CORE!!!!!!! #if any of y’all read this series literally message me instantly bc i’m being so normal abt it rn #the last binding #the last binding series

[todayisafridaynight]

whatever og text i had in mind for this post about ko shibasaki looking like sayama in this movie is completely cancelled on account of utsumi (this character)'s first name being kaoru and i only found this out cause i was looking up her name just to be sure when making this post

like jesus christ i legally have to make this post now

#snap chats #they literally never say her first name in the movie. i think lol LIKE WHEN I FOUND OUT I WAS JUST 'NO FUCKING WAY' #i do have to be tbh and say her face /is/ a little more round than sayama's #and its absolutely predominantly because of how her bangs and wardrobe are so close to sayama's that i think she look like her #BUT I CAAAANT THE WHOLE MOVIE I WAS JUST THINKIN ABOUT SAYAMA... i miss her... #OH RIGHT THE MOVIE THOUGH noooo fuck you this movie was so good it actually made me want to write a summary for it LMAOOO #LIKE I LIKE WRITING SUMMARIES BUT IVE JUST BEEN SO LAZY ABOUT IT WITH THE PAST FEW THINGS IVE SEEN BUT GOD. #ignore the fact i finished this movie two hours ago i was too busy fiddling with a card holder kit but. ill make a post about that next-- #THIS MOVIE THOUGH NOOOOO IT WAS SO GOOD //SCREAMS AND YELLS AND DESTROYS A SNOWGLOBE// #god the part where ishigami and yukawa are walking by the homeless and it just lingers on an empty spot.. LIKE I THOUGHT I WAS WACK #CAUSE I WAS LIKE 'hang on wasnt there a guy there last scene' and obviously there was since the shot lingered right #BUUUUTT WHEN IT WAS REVEALED DOWN THE LINE SHUT UPPP I LITERALLY YELLED IM SO GLAD. my roommates arent home.. #on god i thought the movie was gonna end with utsumi and fukawa's convo from the beginning #and i was gonna make a gaf about how fukawa was acting irrationally because he was too in love LMAOOO #BUT THEN IT KEPT GOING AND. im so glad it did. ishigami valid tbh #id also cover up and take blame for AND ACTUALLY commit murder for a girl if she said hi to me and made me lunch while i was trying to kms #while fukawa and ishigami were talkin that first night tho i just thought of after the rain.. lol... maybe the mangaka was inspo'd by that. #anyway. this movie was great. it reminded me of sherlock but if it was directed well and actually let you solve the mystery too #CAUSE WHILE I WAS WATCHING THERE WERE POINTS WHERE I TOO WAS JUST 'hang on' AND I JUST POCKETED THE INFO FOR LATER #i kicked and screamed when ishigami was talking abut how he formats his tests LIKE I SAID 'oh you fucking slipped' #when ishigami called and told her he had a white envelope in there bitch i knew it was gonna be the stalker letter i YELLED #LIKE I LIKE HOW THE MOVIE SETS THINGS UP SO ABUNDANTLY. IT'S FUN SEEING IT FIT IN THE MOVIE LATER ON #the twist of there being two bodies was so fun tho cause at the start of the movie i was sure two murders happened the same night #so when it was played off as just one i was like Oh. Ok. im still stumped on how he snuck a body out of the apartment #but yk what one detail is like. whatever in comparison to the rest of the movie being fun to watch #god im running out of tags POINT IS. PLEAAASE watch this movie if you got two hours #ive left some minor warnings on my Watchlist doc but there's nothing. TOO extreme ?? #i mean there's an aforementioned suicide attempt but aside from that it's nothing too grotesque. for an rgg fan ig #ok bye i have to ramble about the card holder i got <3

[sophiethewitch1]

undersharer!reader x desperately needs to know literally everything about you!tim now fight

#sophie speaks #tim in what we want whenever he finds out he missed something about you: i am going to commit mass murder again <3 #hate this mfer <3 <3 #dont be mysterious around him its his catnip #and by mysterious i mean not immediately info dumping literally your entire life story on him the moment you meet #hed find that hot too if we're being realistic he'd just think you're hiding something #is not satisfied until he knows everything about you and only then will he accept that maybe he can chill a bit #what do you mean you want to leave how will he know about your life developments WAIT NO DONT GO-

[licorishh]

OH YEAH ALSO finally watched the FNAF movie with the coolest person on Earth, 11/10 movie, Mike looked ready to curl up into a fetal position on the floor and burst into tears at all moments, he is so me, would watch again

#fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #mike schmidt #anyway. i loved the end scene where the four of them do the thing with afton #i was also extremely glad the springlock scene was very palatable and not gory or overly vivid because i can't and won't watch that stff #when i tell you i HOLLERED when cory showed up. almost cried. my BOY #cory is the king of youtube fr fr. nobody does it like him #he's on a hiatus again but we the samurai will patiently wait for the shogun's return #i am getting off-topic. matpat's nametag said “ness” which was extremely funny #afton was in literally two maybe three scenes tops which i was not expecting but he stole the show ofc. very spazzy. dig it #vanessa was so mysterious?? #i kinda loved her and mike's dynamic though. so very silly the pair of them (running from real-life manifestations of fictious characters) #I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW FOXY WAS IN THE MOVIE. THAT MADE ME SO HAPPY #foxy's always been my favorite. my boy. he can have a little murder. as a treat #VANESSA HAD A GUN!! VERY COOL AND GOOD #she barely even shot afton though. honeybun literally had the upper hand by a mile #that man did not have a long-range weapon. he was entirely at her mercy. if she'd shot him all the animatronics would've instantly helped #still like her for some reason though. she permanently has the default sim expression etched on her face #also i don't know if y'all saw but in the credits it says foxy's humming was my boy kellen goff!! #mike was so STRESSED and so DISTRACTED the ENTIRE TIME i see so much of myself in him #can we also agree josh hutcherson looks great with a goatee like that is eons ahead of the peeta look (never read/watched himger gims ok)

[mamawasatesttube]

just thought abt batman unburied again and god holy fuck. okay. im normal i swear

#rimi talks #AUGH. AUGH. AGHHGHGH i love a good mystery and its sooooooo well done. #and winston duke is literally the batman EVER. my god. the part where he apologizes for what happened to the arkham inmates #thats it thats what bruce SHOULD BE!!!!!!!!! #ahufhafhadffghjhg #im listening to taz vs dracula but the murder and ominousness in ep3 just slightly reminded me and. AUHRHGH

[venus-is-thinking]

So the David MV huh

We're still figuring out all of our theory-based thoughts, but...

accirax and I made this huge notes document with our thoughts throughout the MV. It's still a work in progress and we'll have some bigger theories coming out of it as a result, but please please please feel free to read and tell us your thoughts!!

#drdt #danganronpa despair time #drdt spoilers #fanganronpa #david chiem #theory #link #accirax collab #mark my words i WILL say more on this today #but rn we need to take a break so you get to unpack whatever we have so far if you want #real talk though any of you who find this mv analysis stuff interesting should check out milgram #it's a video series where literally like all you're doing is analyzing mvs to solve murder mysteries #kazui drop is next wednesday so!! get going!!

[arvoze]

you don;t get to learn about this one either (you will). if i tell you this thing is about death and murder you would have to trust me

#luwel #mike #my art #the only reason i never posted abt this one before is bc theres like. #a lot to work out. #its a murder mystery thing but the murder and mystery literally doesnt matter at all #and they both leave before the case even gets explored :sob: #its literally just abt mikes reaction to being in a dangerous enclosed space with somebody who he #cares very dearly about and doesnt know how to deal with it #bc he's been near death so many times and killed someone himself so he's like. #in an absolute nightmare realm. but he has to just liek . #unfortunately forces himself to put his own worries and stuff to the side #(luwel has not been anywhere as close to actual violence like mike has and detaches himself from reality to the point where he just . #thinks that everything is fake and a play and wants to get involved with solving it bc he wants to believe it's fake #and mike's like hey uh. no. this is real i Cannot let you out of my sight) #the last image is outdated btw its when his outfit was based on primarina instead of flapple #luwels was always based on serperior

[fangirlfortress]

I'm watching Murder Mystery 2 (2023) and you know what I love? That the people from the first movie (those that came back) are just like bffs with the Spitzes??? Vik invites Nick and Aubrey to his wedding, like all expenses paid. The Colonel is at the wedding, and they share a lil joke about Nick betting on him if he ever got into a fight with Vik's new bodyguard. Them: we didn't do this!! /// Him: yea I know that! /// Them: stall for us? //// Him: *sigh* I guess //// And like Detective Delacroix helping them out and letting them borrow his car whilst tied up so he can have a plausible alibi for why he did this? Thanking them for the Christmas gifts they sent? Comedy.

#murder mystery 2 #Murder mystery #jennifer aniston #adam sandler #Movie #Like I'm obsessed with these foreign rich ppl being bffs with literally this chaotic American couple they met at a (some) murder(s) once #Trauma bonding I guess

[hussyknee]

KJ Charles is an absolute liar, pass it on.

#death in the spires #this is literally one of the most aching love stories she's written lmao #she also says it's a hate letter to oxford university while writing descriptions of it more involved and evocative than alexis hall's #then again she's an anarchist writing regency romance so the lines between love and hate for her are clearly as blurred as they are for me #kj charles #book reccs #book reccomendation #queer historical fiction #queer historical romance #historical fiction #historical mystery #murder mystery #knee of huss

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

I mean, who hasn't lovingly grabbed their best friend's hips while reassuring them of their innocence

#extremely heterosexual behaviour i tell you. completely and utterly straight #this is one of my absolute favourite episodes!! i couldn't make a watch thread because i'd stop every two seconds to comment something lmao #but i just had to point this out #like she goes for the elbows but then she full on hugs blanche's waist. and i don't blame her but also #wife behaviour #blanche & dorothy especially are very romantic in this episode i think. they spend entire scenes touching / in close contact #i also saved another screenshot where they are in such a married pose lmao #this is just a Really Gay Episode in general. murder mysteries are already gay culture in my book #at the beginning Dorothy quotes a passage from a book and she chooses the one that describes a beautiful woman. girl idk how to tell you... #and it's gay for me because i literally ascend every time i see blanche's shoulders. who allowed her to wear that frilly dress #because she makes me 500% gayer every time i see her in it #i have even more gay comments on this but. i'll keep them to myself. #anyway yeah enjoy the blanche/dorothy of it all #this is S7E2: the case of the libertine belle #the golden girls #golden wives

[cookinguptales]

now that I'm done imagining a jar of peanut butter, can I just say that I love that Shane and Ryan have shifted away from traditional true crime to just shootin' the shit about weird-ass mysteries?

I always liked the "let's talk about weird mysteries" aspect of buzzfeed unsolved, but being real with you, I'm uncomfortable with true crime and the culture surrounding it. like... as someone who lost a loved one to a violent (and temporarily unsolved) crime, I've seen firsthand how internet theorizing can make a traumatizing time even harder and like. it's fucking rough, man.

I get that it makes money and all (which... is a whole other can of worms) but when you view human suffering as entertainment, it's so easy to forget about the real people who will actually be affected by what's put out there on the internet.

so I'm happy that Shane and Ryan seem to be leaning a lot more into "wow, some unhinged shit happened! how fucked up is that?" on mystery files. more of this, please!!

#watcher #mystery files #also like... anyone can make money off true crime if they're charismatic enough #which means that often those narratives end up mirroring real-life prejudices #I remember when my friend died people online were accusing his wife of doing it #solely because she was an immigrant #people kept talking about her shady accent and how she probably married him for his money and to get a green card or whatever #and how her wording was sometimes confusing so she must be lying #what money??? number one #she was ESL number two #but also this woman literally watched her husband bleed out and people all over the world were accusing her of murdering him #they figured out what happened later (shocker she was telling the truth the whole time) but it was so heartbreaking to watch #I hate that people feel entitled to the worst moments of strangers' lives y'know? #and to make MONEY off that... #bruh if someone ever tries to fucking make money off my murder while putting on makeup or whatever #I will haunt the fuck out of them #I don't even know if I believe in curses but I'll find a fucking way