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welcometomybraincomics · 1 year

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The Temple of Life and Death

Buildings are so lifeless. Wood is dead, but stone was never alive in the first place. Buildings are dark and must be lit artificially unless one wants to pay for expensively large windows, specially engineered not to break under storm’s wind. Buildings are kept clean. Dirt is frowned upon. Insects are pests. Any animals uninvited are intruders who may be killed. Plants are kept in neat and tidy pots that limit their growth for lack of space.

Buildings cannot be a temple for Life and Death.

Worshipers gather around a clearing full of plants and covered in fallen leaves. Surrounding them is life, growing and consuming. Beneath them is death, decomposing and feeding. Death leads to life as life leads to death. The never-ending cycle of reality that shall continue long past any mortal’s imagination. Plants grow beside them. In their roots and bark and leaves, creatures live: scurring, biting, birthing. The plants grow and their leaves die and the ground is covered in their corpses. The leaves decay into dirt. Within the leaves live beetles and worms and all kinds of insects that aid in their decay. They grow and live and birth upon death and the cycle continues. The bird eats the worm, the bird feeds the wolf, the wolf feeds the tree, the tree feeds the worm. Again and again, life consumes life and death begets death. The holy cycle continues forever.

A temple to Life and Death starts as a clearing. A priest directs the construction of the temple. It is a community activity involving all attendees. They bend the young trees to form arches and doorways. They are careful not to damage the plants. Children run underfoot, weaving crowns and baskets out of flowers and reeds. Some try to help, tying long grasses to the base of a tree in a messy knot. Parents laugh at the adorable sight. The temple is not made in one lifetime, nor two. The temple has been alive and growing for thousands of years. Millions of families have dedicated their lives to it and thousands of plants have been woven into it. Where once it was simply trees and dirt, it is now a towering figure full of wood windows that let in pillars of light. There are floors of live tree wood and bridges of growing vines. The temple is not a building, but a living creature, an ecosystem, alive and dead and growing.

Light shines through the leaves, speckling the ground with green-yellow light. Each layer is full of open spaces, each floor designed to allow light to pass from one floor to the next. The center of a temple is an open column of air. Laying down within it allows one to gaze at the sky, where woven fences and tree crowns frame their vision.

The temple is full of life. Animals come in and out, birthing, killing, and dying. There are no doors, there are no windows. Only arches to the world.

Each floor is covered in dirt from aeons of decay. Leaves and insects layer the floors. When it rains, rivulets of water trickle down through its many cracks, making small rivers that wet each floor. New growth drinks from these rivers and the cycle continues.

#Inashia #creative writing #life and death #gods #So uh #this came to me completely unprompted after going through a class on church construction (part of an Art History course)#clearly I have strong feelings about buildings #specifically buildings meant to represent a deity with strong ties to life and creation #but also this is about ocs #lmao #specifically the gods Life and Death #who have recently been redesigned to be faceless to fit with the idea of “Gods conforming to the viewers expectations”#Life's got a sheet over their face wears nothing else #They get the comedically convenient environmental censorship treatment whenever they've got body parts to hide #Death on the other hand has a skull for a face and wears clothes appropriate to the culture of whoever sees him #They're best friends #world building #I think I spend more time world building than actually working on plot #strike that #I totally spend more time on world building than on plot #its why I have 1 story done that has like 0 world building #and about 20 unfinished stories with a bunch of world building #at this point plot is just an excuse for world building

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nosongunsung11 · 7 months

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collection of posts for a very specific dynamic

#pallas post its #not sure how to tag this one ngl #zolu #this is about zolu #but also my ocs and me from real life #5927 #also.#web weaving #normal dynamics

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clay-pidgeon · 7 months

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im of the personal opinion you can be in a romantic relationship platonically. this makes sense to me and thats what matters

#im not talking about a qpr here #im referring to a paradoxical shebang where two people are romantically in love and also this is just bc theyre bros #its both!#btw this is about my ocs. of course #krill chirps #my stuff

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spooksier · 1 year

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me when the emotionally repressed character is revealed to have had something happen in their childhood that was completely out of their control but changed them in a way they can never come back from

#text!#did post this on twt but this belongs on the crying about characters website #and yeah this is about jarchivist and also marc spector in the mk show #idk it hit me yesterday that they were EIGHT AND NINE!!!!!!! when their respective thing happened and that ruined me #like it wasn't their fault but they think it is!!! GOD!!!!!!!!!!#holds those autistic bi men close to my chest #should've never smoked that shit* (*took my brother to a cave/read that book)#now im irrevocably changed* (*tied to the shittest god possible/destined to be the antichrist)#edit: this is getting a bit of traction so pls know that blorbo tagging and oc tagging is SOOO encouraged #thank you to the person who added the flaming text miles edgeworth thats so funny

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plasmagiiica · 8 months

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i love GAY DIVORCE, i love having trust broken and the honeymoon phase gets broken abruptly (bonus if its only for one person!) i love when the rose glasses get knocked askew and it only covers one eye! i love when things get complicated and they have to take a break, meditate on it, come back as different ppl and communicate their way back into each others hearts!! i want to see the full spectrum of emotions, the ups AND the downs, not enough gay stories with it all

#rambling #can u tell im rewatching shera #but also this is about ocs

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just-a-silent-sorcerer · 2 months

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Was practicing poses but it turned into a desperate beg for certain demon cat to not kill him

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jjk ino #ino takuma #Udi's art #please Gege let Ino live PLEASE-#I can't lose another pookie 😭#This is a bit self-indulgent I just wanted to see him blushing #I'm very normal about him......#Also first art post on this blog yippee!!#I draw fanart instead of my oc once in a blue moon so what better start than this :]

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lelelego · 1 year

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ain’t that a kick in the head

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #eyy here's my courier oc! hes eli hes early-mid 20s and hes ready to stumble around and get offed bc of that 3 END #i'm thinking about preparing an info sheet for him too but hhhhh. saints row hyperfixation.............#also no offense these go pretty hard thank u <3 #doodly thingy #oc: eli #fallout tag

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metanarrates · 1 year

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she's MIDDLE AGED she's DIVORCED she hits people with GIANT HAMMERS she has a WEIRD RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD she HAS A SQUAD OF SILLY GUYS she's tormented by HORRORS BEYOND HER UNDERSTANDING and most importantly shes BUTCH. i didn't say a name but she popped into your head didn't she

#STOP TAGGING AMY AND TINKATON THOSE ARE FEMININE AND ALSO NOT MIDDLE AGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#this post is about my friends deltarune oc.

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yeehawpim · 5 months

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