#also for the christian aligned:

[asyourshadowfalls]

Hey prolifers!

If you don't support a UBI, updated gun restrictions, free quality education, free healthcare, fully inclusive medically accurate sex ed for children who are capable of being pregnant or impregnating, mandatory child support paid from conception on; then you're not actually prolife, you're just hellbent on forcing babies and mothers to suffer :)

#prolife #abortion #reproductive rights #prochoice #anti abortion #healthcare #leftist #prolifers are scum but if you check yes on all that then atleast you've got some brain function that can be worked with #but you realize all of that should be in place first before you go on your anti abortion crusade. right? #also for the christian aligned: #did you shed a tear for all those babies killed when you were told the story of the flood? #what about all the children murdered by god when he destroyed sodom and gomorrah? #or exodus 7-12; deuteronomy 2:31-37; numbers 31; joshua 6:17; 1 samuel 15:3; 2 samuel 12:17-18? #if god can kill his own creations why can't mothers? #what if the mother's choice to abort is god's word coming to her? #christian #catholic #forced birthers #choices make life sweeter #pro choice #bodily autonomy #abortion rights #reproductive freedom #perhaps you did cry but you still support the being who did all that #why can't you support a mother making the same choices god did? #///i use mother to make a point towards those who are too idiotic to accept not all pregnant people want to use mother as a label

[anglerflsh]

"the way you interacted with your peers gave you access to the gendered world" good thing I didn't do that then

#[.art] #self #i think it's funny that as traditional as my parents were my upbringing was very genderless. My sister got a /lot/ more pressure to be Girl #my school's uniform wasn't gendered I was always called by my surname and the gender ratio never made splitting the class like that possibl #so. surprisingly for a very christian environment I was very neutrally treated (also because I didnt talk to my peers) #and as a child I reasoned it as 'well angels dont have a gender. so checkmate binary system i'm just more aligned to god' #<-objectively funny because now I can see that and realise it's just. The Delusion at it again but still #gender

[hauntedpearl]

narratively. in some weird way. lucifer and metatron want the same things. which is. huh.

#im just thinking. feel free to add/agree whatever just be nice #like just thinking about how to put villain in an AU im building and it's like. guy who wants revenge on God because he loves God and wants #his attention #and im like. well metatron. but also. lucifer. #like obviously their paths DIVULGE #especially in the canon of supernatural #idk about the Bible i am not Christian and also not interested #but like. at the core of it. as villains. their motives align. huh

[dudelynxx]

he/she hunter toh (crowd cheers)

#yes i AM projecting #i’m sorry you can’t be a clone and also be cis #of course he has a complicated relationship with gender #he’s the clone created by a puritanical witch hunter to help him destroy anything that doesn’t align with christian family values 🛐 #OF COURSE his recovery from years of abuse involves a journey of self discovery #of course that means distancing himself from everyone involved in his creation as a method of asserting his personhood #anyway transfem hunter is the head canon ever #and i finally finished the show so my brain is rotting #sorry for any hunterposting saiph. but i hope i love him in a cool based way and not an annoying way <3

[spessolus]

i'm having some sort of revelation and now i can't stop thinking about how beautiful trans people are in a spiritual sense. like god looked down at his creation and decided that he wanted humans to share in his creativity, which is why we can build things and make art and all that. but also he gave us the creative power to be who we are! what evangelicals don't understand is that trans people existing doesn't take anything away from god's ability to create. they're just proof that we share in his ability to create, and also that he wants us to be creative. the longer i live as queer the more i realize exactly how beautifully trans people fit into creation.

#ramblings #random thoughts #transness is beautiful #queerness is beautiful #and also from a theological standpoint #simply existing as a trans person aligns so perfectly with what god's will is for those who believe in him #it could almost be a metaphor #and this is what i mean when i say deconstruction has actually strengthened my faith #nothing in christianity truly made sense to me before #i was just told over and over again that what i was being taught did in fact make sense #but it didn't #and realizing that lots of what is in the bible and lots of what is taught in the modern day church is pure bs #that has nothing to do with god #i mostly realized that through my own queerness and transness #and the process of reconciling my beliefs and worldview with who i know i am was so powerful #because you realize how beautifully trans and queer identities fit into god's creation #and how beautifully those identities demonstrate god's quality of creativity and how his will for us is to be creative as well #and to share in the process of pure unadulterated creation #is just so incredible #it's a magnificent truth of the world #ok i'm rambling #i'm done now #but i love being trans and i love having a personal relationship with a god who loves that i am trans

[sag-dab-sar]

My morning prayer beads sit on the little cup of morning pills I set out at night. This morning I needed my morning pills and a whole chock full of anti-migraines pills. So as I sat up to add the migraine meds to the cup I moved my morning prayer beads. Then for some unknown reason my migraine fogged brain did this -> oh right I use these to pray -> to oikos theoi right ? -> good thing too with this pain I never would have remembered -> I have other prayer beads -> like my rosary -> its pretty -> oh its way too daunting -> thats a lot of prayers -> there are 7 sorrows -> there are 7 days in a week -> I could do one sorrow reading per day and it would line up with a week! -> what?!

Thank you migraine brain for this excellent idea what the actual F just happened in my noggin' ???

-Dyslexic not audio proof read-

#and im recording it on tumblr before my DRUGGED migraine brain makes me forget #*i am not christian #*but all faiths are welcomed here #also looked up novena #yes i edit the prayers a bit particularly for sin aspects #since my concept and christian concept dont align #anyways #mary #marian devotion #mariolatry #mary worship #our lady of sorrows #mater dolorosa #7 sorrows #migraine fog #brain fog #my whacky life #mypractice

[unproduciblesmackdown]

considering a particular slouchy standing pose to go with slouchy sitting poses =]

#winston billions #corned beef #don't know if his cargo pants have a second set of bonus side pockets but why not. even more cargo babey #i didn't take a lot of care Lining Up these two laterally so nice that it looks pretty aligned thusly anyways... #was trying to see if there's any like contrappostoesque term for this pose but i don't think so #closest / most pertinent art type term i'm seeing is Line of Beauty. i'll take it; love that for him lol #relevantly also ''S-curve'' is another like figure posing term but seems to refer to a curve seen head on a la contrapposto #another spontaneous blend of french & italian there lmfao....whereas Line Of Beauty is abt the visual appeal / dynamism of any S curve #hence could sure apply to a [seen from the side] Curve. and all the more relevantly i was like ''what if i drew the sorta wavy curve of his #posture as a 'background' element'' but that was underwhelming. hearts instead babeyyyy #pretend that's a Reference to the aesthetic beauty of his pose and everyone loving that rather than that i only learned of [line of beauty] #just now while looking things up. just skimmed through the wikipedia page for standing....orthostasis #oh interesting and i'd also opened the page for the agonoclita; a 7th century christian sect that only stood while praying (vs kneeling) #it's just the one sentence abt that and then one sentence re the etymology which says it's greek and for Not Bend The Knee #the breakdown of [a][gono][clita] :: [not][knee][i bend] #oh fun & if you look up agonoclita it's all results quoting the very same sentence & turns out In Turn that's b/c this is a direct quote #from one eighteenth century encyclopedia entry about it

[cangrellesteponme]

it's past midnight. let it be known that i am heterosexual. i 100% believe in holy matrimony between a man and a woman.

#can't wait to find a god-fearing person of the opposite sex to fulfill god's design for... uh. family? #soz i'm the worst christian i essentially know nothing about what the church thinks of marriage and parenthood and shit #so this joke will have to stop here smh #i would've made a 'i'm cis lol' joke but it wouldn't be as funny without explicitly stating my agab. which i don't like doing #like i know we all know and i don't hide it but like. if there is even 1% doubt in there i'm glad to let it stay #also today i am very much not aligned with the unholy gender so i'd rather die than acknowledge it i think!!

[v00bie]

#could also be an alignment chart #panromantic ace axel <3 #wkbz #we children from bahnhof zoo #wir kinder vom bahnhof zoo #wkbz michi #wkbz axel #wkbz stella #wkbz babsi #wkbz benno #wkbz christiane #christiane f #gay #panromantic asexual #bisexual #lesbian #panromantic #asexual

[vixvaporub]

Same thing. I was 12-16 when I decided to be more religious and fuck, the church I went to and the people were insane. In a way, I'm very bitter since most of them were 40+ and I was a minor. They were so hateful. The pastor's entire family were involved in the church and I had the unfortunate luck of being the same age as his niece and going to the same school. She was an awful person. Just straight up pure evil. I remember her harassing me when I couldn't go to church everyday and how one time I had so much homework to do, but I had to be at church according to her. Her dumbass was failing every class and she'd weaponize our friendship cause she wanted me to let her copy my homework. She also was so weirdly spoiled. I still remember going over to their house and asking for water, and they just gave me a coke and in the span of three hours she chugged down like 5 cokes. I was horrified. The lengths I had to go to block her on all social media and keep telling her at school to stay away from me. I had shit happen to my family and she was such a main character she couldn't show me empathy and just wanted me around to be her bitch. I honestly never want to go back since I'm pretty sure I'll meet people worse than her, especially now that I'm an adult and not a child. Ok, vent over. But yes, religious people are the worst.

What the actually hell... she sounds horrible. Thankfully she is no longer in your life

#im grateful nothing major happened to me personally #but it was mostly things i observed that made me go yea this isnt for me #but also feeling super isolated always with christians #which goes back to my morals doesnt align with them #askvix #nonny

[bardkin]

musing in the tags, don't mind me!

#ensiger #been on and off drawn to the idea of heathenism / norse paganism for like. years at this point #so i finally decided to start researching #& a lot of stuff i'm reading aligns a lot with what i already believe - Animism mainly #because of how my auDHD affects my emotions & bc ihave hyper empathy i personalize all manner of.. everything. objects concepts plants etc #i think about the 'feelings' of objects & how my actions affect them pretty much all the time. #also something something trying reclaim the spiritual exploration i was denied at a young age bc christian upbringing something something

[drdemonprince]

In a piece for The New Inquiry from back in 2017, George Dust states that when queer people complain about there being a top shortage, what they really mean is “nobody is fucking me the way I want, and I have no agency in that.” Alongside co-authors Billy-Ray Belcourt and Kay Gabriel, Dust suggests that many queer people align themselves with a passive or “bottom” position because they believe that role will absolve them of the guilt of really wanting things. They present themselves as what they believe to be the sexual party with zero power; the receiver, the accepter of action rather than its cause.

This position is drawn in contrast to the bottom-identified person’s idea of a top: the one who approaches, the person with hungers and desires, the person who decides which sexual activities will happen and how intense they will get. The top, from this perspective, is the stronger, more capable, more dangerous person. They’re the only one who can ever be guilty of intruding or harming somebody else. This power is scary, but it’s also compelling.

Dust calls this fantastical version of a top a “brute” — and they are the most cartoonish stereotype of what it means in society to be a man. Because it’s a cartoonish stereotype, no human actually lives up to it — and we’d probably revile a person even if they could.

Though queer people know we are harmed by the gender binary and heteronormativity and all the social scripts those things force upon us, its biases are still embossed on our brains. Without meaning to, we reproduce tired gender stereotypes in our relationships. And so we see expressing a sexual want as masculine, and being masculine as being more capable of violence and coercive control, and thus bad. We see failing to communicate one’s desires openly as desirably feminine, as well as a sign of blamelessness and purity — because on some level we still feel it is wrong to have desires.

But this entire worldview is a complete lie. Desire is not evil. Expressing attraction is not a violation. Failing to express oneself can be just as dangerous as not listening to someone else’s limits. Women can be abusive. Bottoms can sexually assault. No matter our gender, presentation, or sexual role, we are each capable of harm. And the only way to make a safe, mutually pleasurable sexual encounter happen is by going after it, actively, and communicating from a position of inner strength.

So how do you do that, if society’s been telling you all your life that you’re meant to date by acting like a deer passively snapping twigs in the woods, waiting for some hunter to hear you, and pursue you? (That really is dating advice that Evangelical Christian counselors give to women, if you can believe it).

By not fixating so much on what you’re doing or not doing to draw other people toward you, and instead thinking in terms of what you want and what you observe beyond yourself.

[infohazardouz]

DEMON WALLY DESIGNS! im still working out his design but here’s a general vibe hehehahe as well as some thought provoking sketches... HUUUGE infodump about the design & demon wally au below!

below i explain my choice of representing hindu designs as opposed to christian ones! if you want to skip to the relevant information pertaining to the actual au, jump to the big bold JUMP HERE paragraph!

alright, to address the elephant in the room: no, this isn’t the typical demon/devil design you may be used to! i was originally going to keep within the red-horned pointed tail kind of mythos that generally stems from christianity/christianity aligned concepts, but then i realized i honestly don’t know much about that stuff and don’t really feel qualified to handle it in a narrative. i also know that, especially within the welcome home fandom itself, a lot of people have religious trauma that generally tends to be from various branches of christianity, so i thought this would be an interesting solution: seeing as i know a fair amount about hinduism, wally’s design is inspired by concepts about demons in hindusim in general! that way, it’s easy to write and hopefully refreshing/non-triggering to the audience! also it’s fun!

JUMP HERE: Wally’s design in the demon AU is inspired by Asura in hindu mythology! That’s why he’s got like a billion hands- I’m looking at adding jewellery/a tail/other stuff, but it’ll fall in that general theme. in terms of lore relevancy: asura in hindusim were not strictly evil, which you will find reflected in my story. wally isn’t evil per say; the neighbourhood is his turf, and he will protect it from outside threats. that being said- he is generally self-serving for now and may not always have the best intentions for his fellow neighbours. what his overarching goal is and who exactly his enemy is (as well as Home’s relevancy to the story) is being left to you to discover as the comic goes on! themes of puppetry, where wally darling ends and the asura begins, and stuff like that is left ambiguous for now! puppetry will also play a role in the story, as well as self-awareness and meta themes. hinduism and religion WILL NOT play a role in the story itself. anything i think might need contextualizing will be contextualized in the description of every update; honestly im just pulling the asura elements for Wally’s design and part of his character! this will still be a very accessible comic to people of all backgrounds. if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to send them to my askbox or leave them in the comments!

#welcome home demon au #welcome home fanart #welcome home comic #welcome home au #welcome home wally #wally darling #wally darling fanart #my art #infodump #hope this isnt too much guys i feel very corny rn HAHA #this isnt really anything serious! just a fun comic i wanted to give context to #i dont see myself doing any more longform info posts like this in the future either btw! #welcome home arg

[cryptotheism]

It is interesting watching Alex Jones, (and the broader conspiracy right) try to square his support for Israel with his history of blatant antisemitism.

He is in a position where he must simultaneously vocally support the IDF for his Christian supremacist and extreme anti-muslim views, but at the same time, he has to denounce the ADL, who have been correctly describing him as a reactionary antisemite for years. BUT he also can't align himself too closely with the Biden administration on their pro-Israel stance, because his audience has to think Biden is the spearhead of the New World Order.

The result is a frankly bizarre conspiracy narrative, even by conspiracy standards, in which New World Order elements are present in the American, Israeli, and Iraqi governments, (Alex thinks Hezbollah and HAMAS are the same organization) all attempting to [??? Alex hasn't figured this part out yet ???] Something something killing Muslims is good. Remember 9/11? Please buy alphabrain bone meal broth pills.

[collectivenothingness]

Me when I am just aesthetically progressive: oh yeah I love extended families yeah yeah and atheism is sooo cringe and christianity-aligned and also I came up with a really funny meme, "being violent is so amab and being an innocent flower is so afab" and uh please no kink at pride, also I am a virgo btw

[ghibli-collector]

For anyone who’s already seen Boy and the Heron i found this really interesting article where Ghibli Boss/Producer Suzuki was interviewed recently by indie wire and explains the background of the characters from the new Ghibli film, I’ve copied the full article below or you can click the link to go to the interview but once again it contains so many spoilers

‘The Boy and the Heron’ Is So Personal, Hayao Miyazaki Needed a Year to Grieve Before Pivoting in a New Direction

Miyazaki came out of retirement for his first film in a decade, about his friendships at Ghibli with the late co-founder/director Takahata and co-founder/producer Suzuki.

When Hayao Miyazaki pitched “The Boy and the Heron” (GKids, now in select L.A. and NYC theaters) to Studio Ghibli co-founder/producer Toshio Suzuki in 2016, he asked permission to make the story about himself. This took Suzuki — his friend of nearly 40 years at the time — by surprise; the legendary anime director isn’t known for getting so personal. And yet this aligned perfectly with the notion that Ghibli films are devoted to reliving memories.

“I agree that it is Miyazaki’s most personal film because he actually told me,” Suzuki told IndieWire over Zoom through an interpreter. Not only is “The Boy and the Heron” inspired by Miyazaki’s childhood (he endured the firebombing of Japan during World War II and his father was director of the family’s aircraft manufacturing factory), but also his career at Ghibli with his two closest friends: the late studio co-founder/director Isao Takahata (“Grave of the Fireflies”) and Suzuki.

“Miyazaki is Mahito [the 12-year-old protagonist voiced by Luca Padovan in the English-language version], Takahata is the great uncle [voiced by Mark Hamill], and the gray heron [voiced by Robert Pattinson] is me,” Suzuki added. “So I asked him why. He said [Takahata] discovered his talent and added him to the staff. I think Takahata san was the one who helped him develop his ability. On the other hand, the relationship between the boy and the [heron] is a relationship where they don’t give in to each other, push and pull.”

Collectively, it’s a lot to unpack: Miyazaki came out of retirement for the second time after “The Wind Rises” (2013) to make his 12th feature — the semi-autobiographical, hand-drawn fantasy for his grandchildren. It’s about destruction, loss, and rebuilding a better future through imagination, inspired by the novel he adored as a child (“How Do You Live?”).

Mahito loses his mother in the firebombing of Japan and relocates to the countryside, where his father (voiced by Christian Bale), who runs an air munitions factory, marries his sister-in-law, Natsuko (voiced by Gemma Chan). Traumatized, angry, and confused, the boy encounters a talking heron (part bird, part man), who tells him that his mother is still alive and guides him to an alternate world in a magical tower shared by the living and the dead. There he encounters his great uncle, the architect of the tower, and reunites with both his mother (voiced by Karen Fukuhara) and Natsuko.

At first, Suzuki resisted green-lighting “The Boy and the Heron” because of Miyazaki’s age (he’s 82) and the great expense (it is arguably Japan’s most expensive film but has made the equivalent of nearly $80 million at the country’s box office). Yet Miyazaki wore down his resistance with his enthusiasm and impressive storyboarding. The film took seven years to complete, and Suzuki needed to hire some of Japan’s most talented animators outside of Ghibli to handle the task (including supervising animator Takeshi Honda of “Neon Genesis Evangelion” fame). With diminished stamina and failing eyesight, Miyazaki was unable to oversee the production in the same manner as when he was at the height of his creative powers and relied on Honda to draw, redraw, and review under close advisement.

But with the death of Takahata in 20018, a grief-stricken Miyazaki was forced to scale back the role of the great uncle in the story, who had previously been more central to the boy’s life. “After Takahata passed away, he wasn’t able to continue with that story, so he changed the narrative and it became the relationship between the boy and the Heron,” Suzuki continued. “And in his mind, initially, the Heron was something that symbolizes the eeriness of the mansion and that tower, even ominous, that he goes to during war time. But he changed it to this sort of budding friendship between the boy and the Heron.”

Miyazaki first toyed with the idea of exploring the theme of friendship in “The Wind Rises” (inspired by real-life fighter design engineer Jiro Horikoshi during World War II) before abandoning it. “So this time around, when the Heron became the centerpiece of the story, and he came with the storyboards, I was careful for him to not portray me in a bad way,” Suzuki said. “Having said that, I’ve known Miyazaki for 45 years. I remember everything about him. There are things that only I know. There are things that only the two of us know. And he remembers all these small details, which I was very impressed with.”

For example, when Mahito and the Heron sit and chat at the house of Kiriko (voiced by Florence Pugh), a younger, seafaring version of one of the old maids, it is a recreation of the way Miyazaki and Suzuki would meet. “The place that we do our meetings, where we have our conversation is at his studio, his atelier,” he added. “And he has this like large table, but we don’t sit facing each other, we sit next to each other, and we never look at each other when we talk. And what we discussed was very similar.”

During production, Suzuki became impatient to see the new storyboards with the great uncle. It seemed Miyazaki was intentionally stalling while grieving about Takahata. “My question was: ‘So when is the great uncle going to appear?'” said Suzuki. “He built this great character, but he never appears in the storyboards that he would bring me. But it took him actually about a year after the passing of Takahata that he was able to draw that character into the storyboards in the second half of the story.

“And the most surprising thing for me was when I saw the storyboard where Mahito was asked by his great uncle to carry on with this work, this legacy, and he says no — he declines the offer. Miyazaki was someone who followed the path of Takahata for so many years, and I thought it was a huge thing for him [to follow a different path].”

Meanwhile, Suzuki confirmed that Miyazaki has not retired. The film has given the director renewed confidence to keep working on other stories. However, Miyazaki can’t focus on new ideas while “The Boy and the Heron” remains in theaters. “He needs to empty his mind again,” Suzuki said, “and then when he’s emptied his mind with a blank canvas, he usually comes up with new ideas. So we have to wait a little more.”

#studio ghibli #ghibli #hayao miyazaki #spirited away #boy and the heron