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roberrtphilip · 2 months

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i’m sleepy…. can i get some uhh… sleepy cozy comfy philip family headcanons? sleeby… CoZee….

gosh, okay, forgive me, father, for this post is a mess of jumbled thoughts, but I did my best to organize them.

The first thing that came to mind was not really family related, but, when Robert and Giselle first started dating, they'd spend hours, and hours just talking about any and everything. They'd sit on the couch for so long, and Giselle would always notice his eyelids starting to droop, and she'd smile, and tell him he should go to sleep, but no !!!! because that means he can't talk to her anymore, and, your honor.... he loves talking to her 😔 Because he was so sleepy, the nights would usually end with them passed out awkwardly on the couch. The most common position, though, was Robert sitting on the floor, his head resting on the cushion, while Giselle was lying down, sprawled out on the couch. His arm would be bent in an awkward way because they had to be holding hands, of course, and he'd always wake up with the worst neck pain ever. But, gosh, it was worth it every time.

With his daughters, ough, they love sleeping on his chest so much, it's their favorite thing ever. Baby Morgan and Sofia would always curl up on him, and fall asleep right away.... hold on, I'm...

Sorry. Had a moment. needed to look at that image. ANYWAY.

On the topic of sleepy, ough, Robert is so, so affectionate when he's sleepy. Like, over time, he became a very affectionate man because of Giselle, but, when he was still coming out of his shell, him initiating stuff like cuddling was rare. The first time he awkwardly bonked Giselle's shoulder with his head, and then wrapped his arms around her, she was like "...??????????? are you okay???" and he was just, "yes? I'm just... hugging you 🙄🥱😴" because, of course, he couldn't admit he wanted to cuddle,,,

and man, oh man, this ask reminded me of a snippet I wrote ages ago, it was shortly after Sofia was born, and Robert was so exhausted because she's just So Loud. When he heard her starting to cry, he quickly took her into the living room, because he didn't want her to wake Giselle, and they cuddled on the couch for a bit. Eventually, Morgan woke up, and sat with them, and that led to her falling asleep on his shoulder. And about an hour later, Giselle woke up and was like ">:0 ?? you're having a cuddle party without me... how rude" and she, of course, immediately joined them.

AND AH, okay, so Robert, he works late fairly often, and Giselle refuses to sleep until he's home. One, because she literally cannot sleep without him, but two, because she needs to know he's made it home safe. Knowing he's out in the world just makes her far too anxious to sleep. This results in her staying awake until he's home, and, despite it being past her bedtime, she would often let Morgan stay up with her. Morgan was rarely able to stay awake the whole time, though, so she'd usually just end up falling asleep curled up in Giselle's arms.

And Robert,,, ough,,, coming home to that makes his heart burst with love. Seeing how safe, and loved Morgan is, and hearing Giselle's tired, "Welcome home", while they're curled up on the couch,,,,,,,,,,,,,, dare I say, he almost cried the first time he saw it??? It's literally all he's ever wanted for Morgan, and now, she has it, and he has it, and OUGH,,,,, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And (I keep saying 'and', forgive me), this is part of a fic I'm slowly working on for mother's day, but during a bad thunder storm, Morgan goes into their room, and cuddles with Giselle because she's terrified. The next morning, she wakes up to both Morgan and Robert basically on top of her, and she's just !!!!! like, she feels so Happy and Loved !!!!!!!!!!!!! And then Robert wakes up, and realizes they're in a big ol' pile, and he feels so Happy and Loved, and AH..,,,,,,,,,,,,

I just,, love this family,, so much

#exploding. tahnk you.#robert philip #giselle philip #morgan philip #sofia philip #enchanted #hc #lumiereandcogsworth #ask #certified enchanted moment™️

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bigshot-furbiestm · 9 months

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There are 3 versions of spamton in my head

the skrunkle:

3'4

silly goofy

crazy boy

post big shot, pre neo. Dumpster man era ig

like 30-40?

long ass nose

bare cheeked up on a wednesday

no tail i think thats a lil weird but whatevs ill allow it

acid theory :)

throwable

squeeze him, he will pop

insane, completely wacko

can and will climb you

money hungry (he eat it)

nervous af

clingy as all hell

full on puppet man

very cute

overprotective

mischevious

almost cat like in his actions sometimes

bends the laws of nature and physics for his shenanigans

And... the other version

big shot awooga boy

tall like at least 5'11 (got nothin against short kings btw)

big shot era, pre mental breakdown

looks like a smart boy in his outfit :3

less puppety face? a lil more human-looking like the addisons

rosy cheeks :3

very nice smile

very sweet guy, quite narcissistic tho

loyal

rich

h-hot

less crusty? idk he takes care of himself kinda like patrick bateman in the beginning of american psycho ;)

nice hair

gets flustered easily, like really easily

cute

smug asshole (lovingly)

doofus, straight up goofball in a charming way like Phoenix Wright ace attorney or Peter B Parker from spiderverse

works long hours and is usually exhausted

very climgy and snuggly when hes sleeby

And then, the awooga crazy deranged boy

just a mix of both

stir them up iin a pot and you get thiis abommination of my conciousess

Sorry for the long ass post <3

#spamton #big shot spamton #spamton deltarune #deltarune spamton #please dont judge me #headcannons

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inkofamethyst · 5 months

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December 10, 2023

Me while waltzing (or any kind of dancing tbh): >:( *high concentration mode*

Me when the song ends: :D *cheerfully complimenting my partner bc i fully recognize that we're both learning*

I think one of the best parts about the dance thing was that I wasn't looking at a screen for several hours in a row. I actually left my phone in the coat check room, if you can believe it. And my last reflection on it all will be thus: I generally don't prefer sequiny dresses, they come off as tacky to me a lot of times. However, one of the waltz instructors looked positively radiant as her flashy dress spun around the room. She effortlessly conversed with her partner as she glided across the floor, following the prompts of her lead without hesitation. I wanted to be her so bad.

On the topic of seasonal depression, I think some years tend to be worse than others for me. I remember it being pretty bad in high school, especially during senior year when there were other things going on that negatively impacted my mood. Lockdown winter 2020/2021 was tough, but there were, again, other factors besides the climate impacting my mood. Last winter, I think I was okay? A bit anxious because of apps, but not depressive to my recollection. We'll see how this winter in a new place goes (trying to identify consistent mood triggers now that I have five years of autobiographic data lol). From a cursory analysis, regular/daily outdoor walks seem to be linked to less depressive winters. Will continue to monitor.

So I intend to read at least a trilogy over break during my downtime. I don't really want to reread something this winter (unless it was to finish a series I got halfway through back in high school (ahem, falling kingdoms, ahem, an ember in the ashes)), but I know I definitely/probably want angst blatant entertainment. I think I will be able to get back into regular reading when I treat it the same way I treat cooking/mealprep. That means having a prepared list of what's next so I don't have to deliberate over that decision when I finish a book. That's how I'll be able to beat my junior year 111-day reading streak (which was mostly The Witcher iirc).

There's a pub near campus that does karaoke on Fridays and I've never actually done karaoke because I feel like I don't have My Karaoke Song figured out, but Snake Eater from Metal Gear might have to be something I try one of these days. And, of course, Vandalize, because we were robbed.

Okay this is my actual last reflection on last night: I want to become more comfortable taking photos of myself/having photos taken of me and I think that might have to start with me just trying things out. If Gen Z knows anything it's how to take an interesting, dynamic photo, and I think I have the artistic vision to do something like that, but I freeze up whenever I'm in front of a camera. By the time of the next ball (could be as soon as February/March), I want to do better.

UGH the mibsile is just SO eepie and NEEBIES to sleebie. unfortunately the missile has things to get done. sleep cometh 19 december. counting down the days. (I'm going to try to see if I can bang out my research paper in one big three-day work sesh to maybe even finish before the weekend, or only have minor edits left to do)

I spent all of today in a chair prepping for my anatomy final agh. Thankful that the semester will be over for me in a week.

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astronomical-bagel · 2 years

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🍂 leaves: what does your editing process look like? how does your wip typically change as you work on it?

!!!!!! my guy i am SO glad you asked. i LOVE my organization of my fics. this will probably be a very long ramble LMAO

so: my first step to Actually writing a fic that i am planning on finishing, is laying out the plot in an outline, usually in this form:

If it's not planned out enough to do that, then i need to go back to the Idea stage (aka listening to music and staring at my ceiling for hours) to figure out What Happens. Either that, or i ramble about it on my google docs or at one of my siblings.

after figuring out major plot details, I start mapping out chapters. In my Pirate au from Jan. 2021, I worked on an train-of-thought outline that ended up to be over 20k long, (over 50k if you count the side stories i outlined and the character sheets and everything) and took me several months. That was really fun! but horrible for actually writing the story. It'll probably never get posted, aside from when I get nostalgic and infodump about it. So nowadays, i keep my outlines very simple, and only use train-of-thought for fleshing out an already thought-out plan.

Usually, the pattern goes: Idea stage -> Outline -> Train-of-thought -> Refine outline -> start on a chapter -> listen to music and get more ideas -> have a burst of inspiration at 12 am and train-of-thought an entirely new arc into the story -> try to refine the outline but end up having to start the outline over -> continue to chip away at the most concrete chapters while putting a hold on the more nebulous ones -> repeat the cycle several more times until you are finished writing.

the trick is that, after every time i refine or remake an outline, the changes get smaller and smaller until i have everything locked down in a way that I can write without making shit up as i go. I also dislike writing in order, because that makes me focus too much on wordcount and gradual changes, and ends up spoiling the real heart of my work. i also tend to work on a lot chapters at one time.

I am currently on the third installment of my original outline in my TMA au: this one feels very concrete, unlike the last ones where it was hard for me to visualize an order. I'l give you an idea of what it looks like:

this is just the list of chapters-- i have a nother with notes next to it where i list the general gist of what goes down in it, but i didn't want to spoil too much XD

with my actual *writing* i like to have lots of different docs, all organized into folders. In my priate fic, the project was so big i divided the fic into four quarters to make folders for, and organized the snippets I wrote by determining what quadrant of the fic they were from. I also had a separate folder for my shootoff stories, that all had their own four quadrants, and so on and so forth.

My Tma au isn't as big as the other project was supposed to be, though; i have a folder for my outlines and train-of-thoughts, for my wips, and for my finished chapters.

anyways, ive rambled about this for a suprising ammount of time (I've!!! barely scratched the surface of my amazing fic organizing skills tho!!!btw!!!!jsyk!!!!! and im sleeby now so goodnight

#honk shoo honk shoo #astronomical asks #astro writes #beloved mutuals #long post

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beatcroc · 2 years

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Hmm, Dalamadur are big binches so i would not disregard the idea of them slurping up on organic rich soil as they wade through the land... But also they seem to have a nuclear reactor or something of the like in their chest that emits radiation strong enough to harm you if you get close to it. Plus, the monster hunter world is filled with needlessly large animals, and elder dragons of larger size seem to have the whole "Short burst of activity, then hundred years sleeby time" (Gogmazios a big example of this. The most Menacing Skyscraper feeds on gunpowder and petrol and sulphur and fuel stuff, raiding mines and armories at the speed of hungry godzilla only to say adios and sleep for a millennia somewhere in the earth crust)

Also i can't believe noone mentioned Gammoth as cool Herbivore monster. Biggest mammalian monster in the setting that manhandles most carnivores on the daily but noone talks about her. Cowards.

dalam WHAT. that rules oh my god. the dormancy thing is also really good and sensible tbh. like whales only coming up to breathe every couple hours. we love a sleeping titans lore we also love a guy who eats fuel.

gammoth i'd at least Heard of before seeing it ingame but yeah it doesn't get much attention. it's like. 10/10 but also 6/10 for me. it's a REALLY good design in general and great as a mammoth beast, but it is ultimately still just a mammoth, which feels a bit less notable next to the other absolutely batshit concepts a lot of monhun guys have. 's why tetsu is one of my faves bc it's like. frog but only kind of. and it has Tusks which is an out of left field trait for a frog-based design, AND it has Rocks as a gimmick which isn't really related to either other gimmick. monhun just really good at taking really random elements like that and making a surprisingly cohesive Guy out of them

#it's actually really funny a lot of the monsters i like a lot before i played any games just feel really middling here #nargacuga and tigrex come to mind first #neither do i care much about the rathalos.#and most of my faves are ones i'd never seen until encountering them live #kecha wacha my fucking MAN. gargwa too #bullfango/drome also grew on me a surprising amount #that being said ajanath has long been a fave and still is. i stopped playing the game good when i got ajanath #no more strategy no more matchups or s-rank. we use flame burst #NOT FOR NOTHING THOUGH the dala radiation is more or less what gods in my universe are like sjkdsjgf #they dont usually Emit much radiation unless injured but still #bweeeaaahh

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babiebat3 · 10 months

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bleeeghbloop

hai hai hai everywuuuuuunnnnnnn

this silly little girl drank too much big girl juice last night nd got rlly sick... nd i woke up feeling big huge icky icky of course :( ddy had 2 work morning shift today but he was able to feed me my baba nd giv me kissies b4 he left n i fell back 2 sleebies..wen i woke ups i was sooooo so so soo sad ddy wus still missing :< but den ddy came home on his break and gav me mor kissiess and put me in the onesie he sewed for me (yes my ddy sews me onesies i yam luckie babieee) hehe

one moar hour till ddy come home i think i am going 2 beg him 2 bring babie soem ymmy hangover food.. forgot i lowkey made big girl obligations today but hopefully i can get out of them bcoz i am... under ze weeeaaaaather nd need to heal up w my papas :3

anyhow i hop everywun has a goooood daaaaay :3

#safe agere #sfw agre #sfw little post #sfw little blog #sfw littlespace #sfw agere #agere post #age regressor #agere community #agere blog

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mysillysummerdiary · 1 year

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monday, may 15th ⋆⁺₊

woke up from a most splendiferous slumber (at like 2pm) in my BIG BED oml it is genuinely wonderful idk what to do with this power. my sunburn is WAY less red but im peeling like a mf orange so everyday is a new trial ig. i had big plans for today but did not accomplish them due to falling victim to Being Sleeby. i did clean out my entire dresser, desk, and half my closet in order to make space for all my college stuff, so hopefully i can actually commit to unpacking everything tomorrow. i dropped off a hefty load of Things to goodwill + also picked up some crochet hooks/yarn (as i began my long and arduous crochet journey today (pictured below)).

we went over to my father's sister's husband's parent's house for a little mother's day celebration and DIDN'T STAY FOR FIVE HOURS!!!!! so we stay winning. after that i just kind of relaxed in my bed and then realized that i could make this bad boy. so now i'm watching conan gray's old vlogs and making my own silly little blog. tomorrow i'm hoping to plant my cucumbers and crochet a little bit more in between my chores and whatnot. :)

goodnight—love you!!

☽

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astral-anomalies · 2 years

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Hi hi!!! I hope everything is going well for you! We had 4th of July on Monday and tbh it's probably my least favorite holiday. I could go into intense detail but to put it simply fireworks are pretty, but are loud, scary, and can hurt me. Not to mention that America is a joke at this point. But alas, doesn't matter what I think bc I worked a 10 hour shift.

I'm going camping this weekend with my family/housemates and I'm excited. I'm gonna swim so much and eat literally only smores. (I'll add some protein somewhere...) speaking of swimming I've been spending days off at the lake, it's like 15 mins away from my house.

I also went on a shopping spree recently, I bought a tent and an air mattress for camping but the store was coincidentally next to a book store and I bought a lot of manga bc of the 4th of July sale....

Also, I've been talking to a lot of family lately since my mom passed. My grandma on my dad's side happened to send me some photos from the 2000's. Some of them had my mom in it, but most of them were just baby pics of me.

Here's two of my favorite ones, I'm the one in the middle in that second picture the literal babies are my sisters. (They're twins)

Sorry for the long ramble, I'm feeling chatty. How have you been?

P.S. I updated my dream island in acnh

Oh shoot Tumblr didn't send me a notification

I very much share your opinions on fireworks, our national day was on the 14th. Not a fan.

Hope you had fun camping! I went to the lake last week had the time of my life swimming (bonus for not being saltwater so not problem when it gets in your eyes or accidentally swallowing some). Also got ice cream :)

I spent 3 days at my bf's house, not sure if i already told you in another ask, but a lot of fun! We made like 40 pancakes too

The heatwave is still going, 41 degrees Celsius are planned for Tuesday. Have an appointment in Paris on Wednesday but we'll probably take the train this time, going in a car in this heat would probably end in a meltdown and a big fight. also i missy cat. He passed in June of 2020 and he was the best boy. Love him.

Yesterday i ate like 3 ice cream sundaes i bought from the store (chocolate strawberry and caramel) they were so good. Cause of the heat I'm having to reduce my time at the gym cause my mom is worried about me getting heatstroke or something but she said we could go to the swimming pool instead.

Also I'm sorry to hear about your mom's passing, my condolences (not sure if you already told me, sorry if you did and i forgot .w.")

Wanted to have a picnic tonight so made a tuna/tomato quiche, mini sandwiches, and devilled eggs.

Also i watch this french channel on TikTok that does live with their telescopes so here's a screenshot of the moon i took :)

Very sleeby from drinking caffeine earlier (made myself a caramel frappucino, dunno why caffeine makes me so sleepy) so imma take a nap before dinner

Also i got sad earlier because i want to make s'mores but we didn't have any marshmallows lol

Hope youre well ! 👋

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equalseleventhirds · 2 years

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said i was gonna make the post, i'm gonna make the post. sure i have only like 3 followers who listen to skyjacks, that is not relevant, this post is for ME bcos i love to overanalyze worldbullding implications on a wider cultural level particularly in regards to religion,

also important to note that while i am caught up on skyjacks main and have started courier's call, i have not listened to everything on patreon, or read the zine(s?), or backread all the official twitter posts or w/e, so if i am mistaken and this HAS been relevant in the worldbuilding then oh yes PLEASE link me i would dearly love to see!!! i am very much good faith abt this bcos skyjacks aims to be anti-colonialist and does deliver in so so many ways.

anyway. so. skyjacks, speir, the sovereign (+the luminaries a bit), and the unintentional implications when your fantasy catholicism stand-in is like, provably correct about some aspects of their god??? (subtitled: and why it's not as bad as it could be, really, and the world does leave plenty of room for this to be easily fixed and here's how)

thanks for joining me nice to have u here etc etc i write long essays deep-diving into media for funsies are u ready for a ride

so firstly, the catholic church in the real world is.... historically tied to a lot of colonialism. so much. SO much. like, i'm filipino, ok? so much. often in the supposed name of, y'know, god and missionary work or w/e.

and to his credit, james d'amato put a lot of thought into making the church of the slain god, his fantasy analogy for the catholic church, a Bad Institution and tied into colonialism (and other stuff) and a bad bad thing which the players go up against. also some cool stuff done in nordia wrt the church as an institution vs individuals in the church living their lives, etc, altho that is less of the point here.

additionally, prior to the beginning of the campaign itself, in one of the tales from speir, it is set up as just one of many churches, one which happened to gain notoriety and power. the concept of a single god is mentioned pointedly, as though other churches had more gods. it's even explained to the listener, as though it is not ubiquitous among speir's citizens, as though one might hear a priest preaching about the slain god but not really know about it at all. furthermore, the narrator notes that even if he was religious, he wouldn't worship that god; the slain god is presented as an option, a belief, but not a fact.

of course, over the course of the campaign, things develop as they do. currently in canon, we know that the sovereign was real; that he really was pretty close to all-powerful; that he did die; that his death did cause the calamity that befell speir and made it what it is now; that his angels (those that did not fall) do direct the current church, in some way or another.

this is actually provable bcos of the way canon and our knowledge of things has developed. (vitally to my respect towards & enjoyment of skyjacks, the details show that the worship of the slain god, as practiced by the church as a whole, is incorrect in its methodology and morality; and, furthermore, although the sovereign existed, we are led to believe that he was not necessarily a just god. not necessarily a good god. and that there are options besides following a god just because he exists. killing him, for instance.)

further, we know that even amongst people who are not part of the church, knowledge of the sovereign and of the whole 'the sovereign's death caused the apocalypse' thing is common. common enough that when people (hildred, the crew of the uhuru) who are demonstrably not part of the church learn that gable killed god, there is. a bit of a Reaction there. it is widely known.

now, the only other gods really mentioned or worshiped so far (in all the places we have been!) are the luminaries (ok yes fine i believe they are defined as 'not quite gods', but, semantics; they function as a pantheon of deities, albeit not in the style of the sovereign), so let's talk about the luminaries.

it is, perhaps, plausible that the luminaries might be the other gods of (one or more of) the other churches which the narrator of tales from speir obliquely refers to. but let's take a moment and examine how they function and interact with both the common people of speir and the church of the slain god.

first the common people: altho the luminaries may demand sacrifices, altho there are shrines around to them, there doesn't seem to be any sort of organized worship of them? folk-magic invoking them, certainly; widespread belief in them, certainly. other churches dedicated to the luminaries and excluding the sovereign? ehhhhhhh.

as for the church: no one in the church seems to regard the luminaries as competition, as heresy, or as belonging to another organization at all. people who believe in the sovereign seem totes cool with invoking the luminaries as well. perhaps to them they function as lesser spirits who serve(d) the sovereign in some way; it's not really addressed at all.

additionally, the sovereign himself is mentioned as interacting with the luminaries (altho, uh, obvs not currently). notably, the moon belongs to the forest queen (who refers to humans as 'children of the sovereign' i think?) but the stars belong to the sovereign. there is sharing there! bargaining even perhaps?? definite mutual acknowledgement; regardless of levels of power, it would appear that the sovereign and the luminaries (at least the forest queen) are part of the same large pantheon.

the luminaries are also, once again, gods (or 'gods') that are provable. they and their power definitely exist. they are also ubiquitious; universally, at least among the various locations and cultures we have experienced so far, the luminaries are both known and invoked (if not worshiped in quite the same way as the sovereign).

if, as i posited, the luminaries and the sovereign are part of the same pantheon, this means that there is one universal (apparently) pantheon in speir. (occasionally we'll have bits of folk magic where ppl are sorta kinda almost worshiping an element, like fire or wind or trees; this is cool, but not made clear as a religion separate from the sovereign/luminaries at all. also still no other gods. tales from speir narrator tell us abt the other churches with other gods PLEASE.)

taking a step away from skyjacks in particular, it's important to note that this is a common enough occurrence in a lot of high fantasy. you make some gods; those gods have actual impact on the world and the story; of course they are the only gods around. if there were other gods around, they'd just be. y'know. part of the same pantheon.

this is fine for simpler fantasy worlds, where a universal, provable religion is not even the biggest issue of cultural same-y-ness in the worldbuilding. not ideal, but also not a big deal, comparatively.

however! speir is intentionally built to be a wide variety of cultures, with inspiration drawn from many real-world cultures (and many of those locations worldbuilt by incredibly cool freelancers often pulling on their own lived experiences). and part of cultural variety is religious variety.

yes, the sovereign and the luminaries provably exist in speir. but if worship/knowledge of them is universal across speir; if they are the only gods ever encountered in all these various cultures; if they are the only gods that do exist and hold power; then like. oof. bcos you've got, on the one hand, fantasy catholicism; and on the other hand, folk-magic-gods which, let's face it, are based around songs made by the decemberists, who altho they do cool music are also... p much white americans drawing mostly (altho not entirely, shoutout to the crane wife) from western history/stories (and lbr does tell even the crane wife through a white western lens, but also i am not here to analyze the decemberists)

and the implications of that being our canonical true real only universal pantheon sure are implications!! like god yeah i love that gable killed god, i love the luminaries (hit me with capricious deities!!), but also i am metaphorically throwing rocks at james d'amato's window to point out stuff abt history and religious variety and cultural stuff. u kno.

but algie, i hear some of you saying (especially those of you who have followed me for a bit and Seen Some Stuff), why would you do this to yourself? why would you willingly deep-dive into this particular flavor of analysis when it has burned you so badly before with other media that you love? have you not learned from tma and fear soup and robert fucking smirke? why would you once more do the thing where you point out that a white man has accidentally incurred some weird colonial implications in an unthinking moment of fairly standard worldbuilding??

well, imaginary audience member standing in for the bit of me braced for horrible disappointment, listen. yes it's similar, but the situation is different. firstly bcos skyjacks, unlike certain other media, bills itself as anti-colonialist, and so this is important to the actual goals of the show. and secondly, bcos given other elements of the worldbuilding and the overarching narrative, it is both difficult and unlikely for the show to ever say no, actually, the sovereign and the luminaries are the sole and only deities (or deity-adjacent-beings) in the entire world of speir.

the world they've built for skyjacks is vast! and lost!! so vast and lost that it is entirely plausible that there are other religions and deities in other cultures, just as powerful and real and true, that the party just hasn't run into. maybe they are hidden from the rediscovered world; maybe they are part of the rediscovered world and just haven't made it into the characters' paths. it is so so easy to imagine that entire other pantheons exist, and are worshiped, and are real functioning gods... elsewhere in speir. and the story does not at all seem to be heading in the direction to blatantly and completely contradict this.

so that's why it's not as bad as it could have been. shall we discuss how it can be even better?

first, the thing i would not like to see: i am so utterly and entirely disinterested in some kinda 'oh other cultures worship the same pantheon but with different names/faces/whatever'. that's not religious variety of the type the real world has (and the type that colonialism tried to stamp out). none of this with fantasy catholicism still having the True God but y'know, other ppl might have a different name for him. that rubs me wrong in so so many ways. that is not cultural religious diversity at all.

(note: it's been mentioned that the luminaries, at least, may have different... relationships? vibes?? with different cultures. that's neat! i do like to see capricious gods showing different sides of themselves to different people!! as long as that's not all we get. i am cool & chill with the bandari people having a bargain with the forest queen or w/e it was that was brought up in that one worldbuilding ep abt the luminaries; i am even chill with the grand fire giving ppl stones that appear to correspond to the luminaries. clearly the bandari were part of the broad group of cultures falling under this pantheon. that's fine, as long as we aren't told that EVERY culture, without exception, aligns with this pantheon and no other.)

now for a thing i WOULD like to see: would love the players to actually encounter a culture where worship of (and perhaps even common knowledge of) the luminaries and the sovereign is in the minority. a culture with their own gods, gods that are worshiped in different ways to the sovereign and luminaries, but which demonstrably have power. (magic is in the story, this is canon; enough stories about other gods mean the other gods do exist. or vice versa.) maybe they have their own explanation of why the stars fell. maybe they don't have an explanation, but their gods have been doing their best in the meantime. (maybe they wave their hands dismissively; 'oh yes, our gods know about your sovereign. they foolishly did not intervene before things got bad, but they're making up for it now.' there are lots of ways people interact with their gods.)

if we are digging deep into colonialism and implications and drawing on history wrt the catholic church and colonialism: i would kind of like to see a place where religion developed under colonial rule in, say, the style of the philippines (yes yes yes i'm biased shhh). a place where the red feathers and the church came and took over (not by war, since that's not a thing in speir as it is now, but y'know... they've got ways), and the people there with their own gods already said, well, okay. sure, we follow and believe your religion; we just also have our own spirits and even minor gods and so on that don't quite follow your rules, because they are ours. and those spirits and minor gods have adjusted and changed to accommodate the ways the colonizers are making us live, because we must adapt; but still they are here and they are ours.

(in the latter, ofc, they would need a rly rly good freelance worldbuilder and probably another cultural consultant. these ties to real history and cultures and pain need to be treated with respect; eg i would hate for this to be a place that the main cast come in and free from the church, bcos outside saviors are not the needed thing. but y'know, it'd be an interesting culture to see represented and explored.)

ofc the big meta problem with introducing other pantheons with real power is: does this break the fucking game?? if there are other gods on par with the luminaries, can the players call on them for help? and the easiest answer (and lbr the culturally sensitive one) is: no, these are not their gods. they may witness their power. but they cannot use it. play continues the same for them.

but they know stuff now. it maybe won't drastically change their lives and how they live them. but no longer are the people who worship this pantheon the only right ones.

#long post #skyjacks blogging #am i putting this in the main tag FUCK no!! i know the official campaign tumblr tracks that!!#yes i think this is important NO i'm not gonna on purpose show this to them!! fuck!!!!#anyway here u will find a big ol discussion of religion and culture and unintentional implications in fantasy stuff #and also i started this like two hours ago i am SO sleeby now. perhaps even incomprehensible. we'll see if this is readable even.#anyway tho i pulled a lot of my viewpoints and examples here from like. my own experience with stuff.#both my experiences with christianity and my knowledge of history and catholicism being colonialists #and also my experiences in learning abt precolonial polytheism in the philippines #and how that has adapted and changed and been reconstructed a bit today. a bit. u kno.#.....so MOSTLY i am coming at thsi from a polytheistic viewpoint #wrt specifically having gods that most of the rest of the world does not #and how to make multiple pantheons function in a fantasy world #i have previously seen some good good discussion of how to incorporate judaism in a fantasy world with provable deities #but i am uncertain how that would work wrt speir bcos surprise surprise i am not jewish #could be fun discussion tho. not for right now bcos did i mention i am SO sleepy.#but in general. love to see discussion of things. it's very deeply cool.#...............uhhhhhhhhhhh anyway um. warning for discussion of colonialism and catholicism #but not going super in depth on either #also i do rag on white ppl a bit for being so. u kno. one viewpoint on things. easily forget abt other cultures things.#oof i am VERY tired. ok. ok. ok.#OH ALSO i enjoy skyjacks so so very much. on a surface level this is very easy to skim over and continue enjoying the show #it's just that SOMETIMES i overthink things and realize deeper implications of surface-level stuff #................uh. clearly. u kno. (gestures at all of me)#anyway will i be deeply disappointed in james and the rest of the group if they do not make other pantheons canon?#no not rly! i do not expect it of them!!#do i think it would be neat and show a deeper understanding of some stuff? hell yeah i do!!#but also i am satisfied with just. being allowed the space to imagine they exist elsewhere on speir.#as long as they do not take THAT away from me. i can tell myself a little story.#and that's where the magic is. u kno.

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