#goddless

[vacantvisage]

indulging in the age old gay tradition of "hot older experienced daddy and impressionable extremely sheltered horny young adult" with my oc and zevlor

#reinventing ancient greek concepts of homosexuality one fic at a time #i do in fact call them eromenos and erastes shhhh #ALSo. the dynamic of like. goddless paladin and a devoted cleric. i should write a tiny bit more about that in this fic before i wrap it up

[soldier-poet-king]

Extremely bad ahistorical take about [my academic area] to make an argument that while I ultimately agree with the final premise, the way in which it goes about it is SO Incorrect and Wrong

Category 5 woman moment incoming in the tags

#WHERE'S THAT POST THAT'S LIKE #misinformation is WORSE (more annoying) when its supporting a point you agree with #im just.!!! PUT THAT HISTORICAL FACT BACK IN CONTEXT OR SO HELP ME #franposting #yes. this is abt that Greco roman pagan vs christianity post #like i understand the point at arguing with neo pagans #but neo pagans are equally uneducated abt classics as you are #EVERYTHING YOU'RE ARGUING IS EITHER WRONG OR OUT OF CONTEXT #no the ancient world wasnt just like. a goddless hellscape of doom and gloom ok #and the advent of christianity didnt mean all social ills were gone and everything was coming up roses #NOT TO MENTION. THE WHOLE CONSTANTINE THING ANS CONVERSION OF THE EMPIRE #WAS A POLITICAL MOVE #like. SCREAMS. that is not how the ancient world OR early church worked SO HELP ME #i get ur point. I rlly do! but this is LITERALLY MY MASTERS DEGREE AREA #it is LITERALLY the conversation between classical and early christian philosophy esp augustine #if u reblogged it its ok i love you but im also just #.screaming

[holtbys-left-eyebrow]

HHHHRHRGHEHRJDJFKFKKG

#no goal. goddless world #caps lb

[akatsukiofthestar]

I know i am about to sound,,, probably a lil too sensitive about it but eh okay anyways.

So. Goncharov here on tumblr vs Zepotha on tiktok... Someone already commented about the unorganization but its changing a lil and etc etc but thats not what I really have personal beef with.

As many Zepotha vids I have come across, not one has tagged them 'unreality' or signalled fake movie like tumblr was pretty good at doing for Goncharov. And even with the tagging on tumblr, i may have had a minor breakdown during a bad ep and reached out to a discord server im in like "is this actually real please tell me straight up?" Like yes, i am not the pinnacle of mental health/being mentally healthy esp around the time when that was the tumblr trend *but* the unreality tag helped so so much. I am personally in a better place but like.... I am a little worried? Concerned? About others who have moments of derealization who see it, comment, then get barraged by tiktok comments about it. Idk how to phrase it specifically.

Derealization is not fun, but having a tag system helps so much? And tiktok *has tags*?? So use them. Please.

#like... i am lucky my friends know not to give me a sarcastic answer or feed into it more or double down on the fake movie when i ask for it #but these comment sections are goddless lands! #even comments on accounts who havent seen it and just.... ik its a silly haha thing #but it someone asks for no bs explanation they shouldnt even have to bring up mental health either #idk man get a effin unreality tag or smth #i am so lucky i saw the og vid and am not in a current derealization episode but boi howdy #i also have the ick for the og creator hosting a cash prize video contest over it but thats also... hm. separate. #anyways #personal rant #feel free to disregard

[funnypages]

"Goddless Commies!"

#teen titans #peacemaker #starfire #donna troy #raven #dc comics

[reynita9]

So tired of the Goddless Soulless and Nefarious time/place we’re living though

[jaegershund]

[utilitycaster]

Something I've noticed, and that I'd be curious to get your thoughts on, is that there's a subset of fans who were perfectly cool with FCG when they didn't follow a deity, but as soon as they decided that religion was something they wanted to have as a part of their life, these fans did a 180. As you said, it's fine if someone doesn't enjoy how FCG is exploring religion, but it seems to me like some people were a lot more attached to the idea of a goddless cleric than they were to him as a character who had the potential to grow and change

Oh absolutely I think this is the case, which is funny, because I initially could not stand that FCG was a cleric with no apparent source of power (and, to be clear, I am not bothered by clerics who have mixed or even negative feelings about their deities like Deanna and FRIDA, nor would I be mad about a cleric devoted to a concept rather than a god).

Like...this is also touching on what I want to talk about later but there are a lot of fans who just...hate that the characters (and, uh, by extension, the cast) have free will and are not just puppets to play out and validate their (the fans) own personal beliefs, but are instead here to tell a story, which is why they hate change (because they fixate on the characters most appropriate as these puppets in the first few episodes and so change obviously fucks with that perception and forces them to have to think).

I think it's just people who, as I said, haven't gone to therapy about their religious trauma or at least learned the basics of "how I feel about religion is not necessarily how other people feel, nor is it directly applicable to a fictional magical world" and who are mad that a character they believed would prove that they are right is instead exploring religion. Which already didn't make sense because even if FCG did remain godless, they probably would still have rushed in here. Not to tap the Brennan Lee Mulligan "personality pre-dates ideology" sign yet again but the martyr complex and the altruism both came well before the interest in the Changebringer for FCG. FCG already did not really trust himself to make decisions; he just now has a way to outsource it to someone else. Which makes their speech on the Grand Disc fascinating, because it is essentially FCG asserting that in the absence of a god, one must aspire to goodness on one's own. I mean...folks, that's literally humanism, in a world where gods objectively exist.

Speaking of Brennan, he told a great story on the WBN fireside chat this week. He said it was a Hindu parable although I haven't tbh been able to find it, but anyway, it's about an atheist who meditated constantly, with the mantra that the gods weren't real. Upon their death, they were taken to the side of one of the gods, upon which they said, essentially, "what the fuck is going on" to which the god replied "you never allowed the gods out of your mind. You are one of the most devout people who ever existed." I think about this a lot when it comes to people who are desperate to overlay their own atheism (which, I should note, is fully valid in the real world, just not in Exandria) because, truly, they are constantly thinking of the divine and trying to make stories about the gods being wrong instead of just hanging out and watching the story.

When we look at people who are taking out their religious trauma, they are often recreating many of the same harmful group dynamics of organized religion, just dedicated to ideals other than a deity. It's that old discussion of how ex-fundamentalists still practice so many of the same thought patterns unless they put in a lot of active work to relearn it; they think removing the religion will fix them when the problem was always the behavior that people used the religion to justify. It's why (for example), and this is getting rather harsh, people who would rightfully be horrified by conversion therapy will, without blinking, remark things like "wow, I hope Jester nearly getting killed will make her realize she's a lesbian". The problem is not a belief in god; it's the belief that one's sexuality can be changed; that only some sexualities are correct to have; and that it's completely reasonable to say that a way to change a woman's behavior to what you want it to be is to threaten her life. They have not unlearned any of those beliefs, and instead of making the slightest effort themselves to grow and change and heal they look for fictional characters to prove their own rightness in perpetuating the same harm that was visited upon them, just in a different direction. So yeah, a character like FCG, who is growing and changing and exploring religion in a nuanced and neutral manner is a fucking threat to them.

#answered #kerosene-in-a-blender #critical role spoilers

[mr-up-on-a-downer]

warhammer 40k fan politics in a nut shell

Imperium simps are godless fascists

Chaos freaks are edgy try hards

Tau weebs are goddless tankies

And orks wuz made for fightan and winnin

everything else, irrelevant

[sproutysprout]

a short recap/analysis of 'the pale princess and the six pygmies'

i've been re-reading the in-game books and i'd like to remind you of / introduce you to the wonderful anomaly that is 'the pale princess and the six pygmies'!

BACKGROUND

it's the book that an abyss mage is trying to steal during lisa's quest (which is not optional!), claiming it held an important secret relevant to the abyss order; at first, everyone was kinda confused by it: why are they looking for a/that specific fairytale? yes, it could be real, but what's so special about it? WELL, after this most recent (3.3) archon quest we know why - fairytales can survive irminsul memory erasure!! so the story in this book is highly likely to be one of those parables like the one nahida tells

THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK

the first (and only available) volume provides a character description: the Night Mother (with no heart and no mouth, sin incarnate) who rules over the Land of Night and the Pale Princess who rules over the Moonlight Forest (where pale, blonde, blue-eyed people lived)

the previews for the other volumes introduce the other characters:

the Light Prince and the Six Pygmies. the former teams up with the Pale Princess to "*save* the Moonlight Forest". the pair then meets the six pygmies. however, the subsequent volumes insinuate that the pygmies are the antagonists/traitors - vol 5 describes the pygmies' plot as "sinister", and vol 6 describes their plot as "nefarious". this is a far cry from snow white and the 7 dwarves which the title seems to parallel (the dwarves weren't generally evil)

nevertheless, the "meeting" between the princess, prince and pygmies (vol. 4) seems to indicate an attempt at a truce. the last volume (vol 7) is just said to include the Night Mother's prophecy (which is most likely the main part relevant to the abyss order)

ANALYSES

NOW, there are so SO many analyses (and i'll cover some), but before I do I would like to point something out:

the fact that so many stories from vastly different periods could somehow fit this one story outline is VERY interesting, especially given the new context provided by the samsara quest, and the idea that "in this world, everything runs in a loop"

could this be the tale of the overall loop of teyvat?

anyways, i'll cover the following analyses in more or less detail:

the recent past

the current-ish events

the distant past

note on abbreviations: NM - the Night Mother, PP - the Pale Princess, LP - the Light Prince, 6P - the Six Pygmies, MF -the Moonlight Forest

NM - celestia*, PP - gold, 6P - archons, LP - ?albedo/dain/7th pygmy, MF - khaenriah

the Night Mother could be symbolizing Celestia. the best piece of evidence for this would be the quote "her punishments were always unexpected", which could be alluding to the celestial nails (at the same time, after a few of them you'd think they'd be more expected lol just don't make progress and try to know more than you should, and you should be good, ok? /j)

also! it has not been said that the night mother doesn't have eyes (unlike a mouth and a heart), which is interesting because visions have been described as "the heavens' eyes" by nahida

it is then possible that the moonlight forest could be Khaenri'ah. some evidence:

not ruled by the night mother (Khaenri'ah was said to be a goddless nation ruled by the people)

there was a "constant lack of sunlight" (Khaenri'ah was underground)

additionally, the following quote:

"The only thing she could not bear was the occasional ray of moonlight that made it through the clouds. The light that penetrated the walls of darkness always irritated her."

that light could represent human achievement / progress / arrogation, which we have repeatedly seen irks Celestia (most prominently in the case of Orobashi and Khaenri'ah)

this would make the Pale Princess someone like rhinedottir/gold, a.k.a. albedo's creator, as a master of the Art of Khemia and Alchemy (which has been shown to possess the ability to create life)

the Light Prince would then be someone who would be willing to help save Khaenriah, like dain or pierro or albedo (aether could also fit the description, especially after the most recent archon quest, but this wouldn't work for lumine so i'll discard it for the time being); alternatively it could be another Khaenrian (the king) or the 7th pygmy, but that means it would have to be either Venti or Zhongli (the only two male archons)

2. (the current-ish events) NM - ?; PP - 7th pygmy (tsaritsa?); LP - a khaenrian (pierro?); 6P - archons; MF - a nation (snezhnaya?)

the trouble here is the NM, bc Celestia does rule over the tsaritsa, so MF would be a part of the land of night, and i currently don't have an alternative

3. for the distant past it could be telling the story of the second who came and the seelie demise, and the seelies definitely match the description of the "light" inhabitants as well, so the LP could be the "master of the heavens" and the 6P would be the second who came (for some more "fall of the seelies" lore, please refer to this artifact set)

note that the analyses also heavily depend on how you answer the following questions:

are the Six Pygmies under the Night Mother's or the Pale Princess' juristiction, or are they independent entities? if so, which land are they native to?

is the light prince an inhabitant of the moonlight forest?

so, yeah, much to think about! (i also wanted to include a cross-referential analysis of the Night Mother/Pale Princess and Nottfriga/Madgalene from Hex & Hound, but dw we'll leave that for another day lol)

and that's a wrap!! that was a lot, and if you made it all the way here kudos to you, thanks for reading - here's a flower!

do let me know of any mistakes i made or any alternative analyses you enjoy!

[ more on my twitter @glazelilybloom ]

#genshin impact #genshin lore #genshin books #teyvat literature #the pale princess and the six pygmies #book analysis and recap #this was like a little schmoop take on this book lol #pp+6p #khaenriah lore #celestia lore #seelie lore #so much freaking lore i love it #ALSO i hope we get the other volumes in-game soon i want to read them and see how this parabola develops further!!! #原神 #genshin analysis #genshintwt

[lyxthen]

Review of Goddless World 2, Rage and Reason:

WHY ARE MIRANDA AND MILKA NOT DATING ARE YOU KIDDING. BRO MILKA LITERALLY GAVE HER A RING WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME. THEY ARE LESBIANS AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE. MILKA LIKES WOMEN. MIRANDA HAS PINK HAIR AND PRONOUNS. LESBIANS. YOU HEAR ME?

If they are not canon by the end of this I'm writing super-niche fanfic about them they should end up together

[sydns]

i am on a journey.

A journey to get FULL UR GEAR FOR DERIERI

it's a pain in my ass, and I'm going to be broke left by the end of it... But it's for Derieri.

their next

Assault meli AND SARIEL USE THE SAME FUCKING GEAR AS DERIERI, so i now have THREE SETS of atk crit gear. Goddless liz just needs the ring upgraded and everything engraved.

Halloween Gowther is a pain because nobody released a vid about the gear you should give him.

Melascula for unique proposes (revival) and Gloxinia cause why not.

#nnt #7ds #sds #nanatsu no taizai #seven deadly sins #7 deadly sins #7ds grand cross #grand cross #hikari to yami no grand cross #derieri #melascula #gloxinia #meliodas #gowther #elizabeth #goddess elizabeth #sariel #i'm crying internally #WHAT GEAR DOES GOWTHER NEED #shitpost kinda

[seumascowan]

BBR • P1W3D4 Pull2

Damn I love pull day! It was a bit rushed today because rugby, but had to get in some pulls. Just clips of mantle chins, where I lowered the ring a small tad. My timing really needs more work before progressing, however. Finished with a sloppy set of ring pull-ups.

A-Z cat today is Danzig, naturally, "Goddless" off of their third record. Aside from him being a pretty abrasive douche — I've never met him, but a few second-hand stories as well as what's been reported over the years — Danzig's music has always been in my top faves. At least up to III. Kinda dropped off after that for me, but '77-'83 Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig I-III are damned near untouchable.

#fitblr #body by rings #bbr #calisthenics #bodyweight training #bodybuilding #training #vegetarian lifter #workout #dungeon gym #fitness #health & fitness #olympic rings #rings #fitfam #danzig #godless #danzig iii #misfits #samhain

[caelumangeli]

I've been spending a lot of the past few days creating a character, and art, for a Gods of the Fall runthrough I'll be joining this next week. The gods have fallen and died many years ago and the world is a goddless hellscape. Now sparks of divinity, the essense of the old gods have awoken in certain individuals, some who embrace it while other try to push it away and deny it. Some individuals, gifted with nothing, play divine knowing the hope people have for the gods return, while not knowing the dangers of those hoping to snuff out the lives of those rising gods before they ascend to godhood.

I'll be adding her and posting a lot of stuff about her soon. Probably adding her to my blog for funsies.

Asaka Bela,(Rising) Goddess of Death.

#oc #oc art #my art #wooo #i love her concept ok #asaka #asaka bela #my favourite thing about it is these gods become main/relevant in another campaign the DM does #i love the fact my character is going to be GOD in another capaign #concept art #i want a better outfit for her but i have to wait to make it fancy until she levels up and stuff #goddess #goddess oc #god oc #gods of the fall #cypher system

[vinod1992]

#SpiritualKnowledgeOnNavratri

#WednesdayMotivation

Does Goddless Durga hold the power to provide complete salvation to her devotees,

To know more must read the secred book "Gyan Ganga"

Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj ji ?

[lilllium]

—Outbreaks by Kitchen McKeown

#outbreaks #kitchen mckeown #goddless #poetry #chaotic academia #light academia #literature #books and libraries #cottagecore #dead poets society #dark academia #quotes #poetry foundation #theme: god #theme: lost #poetry aesthetic #tumblr poetry #tumbmr poet society #light academia aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #literature aesthetic #book quotes #quotes aesthetic