#im not religious or very learned in religion. but this seems christian to me

[geodebiome]

man i just wanted a synonym for "god-loving" right and google only gave me synonyms for "god-fearing".

which apparently, according to thesaurus dot com.

means the exact same:

#im not religious or very learned in religion. but this seems christian to me #a devout churchgoing pious righteous dedicated devoted ecclesiastical faithful. GODFEARING man #i love it ngl #wow you really live like this?

[nicosraf]

hi i have a bit of a personal ask, feel free to ignore. i developed a theology hyperfixation this year. it started with just being into the imagery and then specifically angels and then i read your book which made me start reading the bible (as well as start learning about other religions). im personally not religious, i was even raised christian but it never stuck to me, as soon as i was away from my christian school it felt right and free. i never doubted how i felt. but now that im engaging with all these religious texts and keep hearing how if i dont believe in this god or that god then im going to suffer for eternity it... has made me feel very anxious haha. i dont believe these gods exist but ive been having "what if what if what if what if" stuck in my brain and its making going about my usual life difficult. (i have ocd which doesnt help). anyway... you seem knowledgable and full of wisdom im just wondering if you happen to have advice for my situation. maybe the answer is just to stop indulging this interest but i do genuinely find it interesting lol. thanks so much for your time!

Hello! I think it's difficult to answer this without getting personal myself but I want to answer because I really get it! I go through some phases of obsessive-compulsive (+ I can really struggle with reality sometimes), and religion is a huge one for me. When I got into theology, I think I was partly motivated by the idea that if i delved deep enough, I would find something that would make me stop feeling bound by what the Bible says. As in, I would find something that would make me go, "Ah! It's all fake!" or "Ah! This god is so evil that I'm better off burning in hell!"

Well, I did do my deep dive, and it didn't really turn out that way. The canon Bible is interestingly nuanced and so is theology. So here is what helped me not feel terrified of the "What if" :

Frame theology in a way that brings you comfort, instead of just taking its warnings at face value. Interpret liberally. If it is real, then you will be okay. The Bible is pretty wishy washy about the suffering of non-believers and god is supposed to be forgiving/understanding. Maybe he'll get it. Maybe he likes you. If it's not real, then you'll be fine; you were for a long time, after all. If it is real, you'll be fine too.

On the point above — if hell scares you, then read about hell. Most theologians can't agree on it at all! When I read the theory that hell might be empty, it brought me comfort.

Read on other religions. I can't emphasize this one enough!!! Expand your horizons. Read about every religion in the world, especially smaller and indigenous ones. Read about how Abrahamic religions have split off and what motivated the splits. I think remembering the human role in what eventually gets to the final doctrines really helps. The Christian elite would want you to get the most fear-mongering version of the text; they don't want to lose you!

You can definitely take a break. My therapist recommended me to stop indulging, but that's easier said than done. And it might be the healthiest option, but I wanted to provide this advice in case you think it might help... I'm not full of wisdom!!! I make nothing but mistakes and I am still learning... but I hope I can reassure you that you're not alone! We struggle together

#mine #ask #theology

[bakurapika]

when i was a very christian kid with undiagnosed ocd and a focus on religiosity, i knew there were things required for "christian" behavior that weren't actually spelled out in the bible (i'm still not convinced that the obscure verse about spilling his seed is against masturbation). these were usually handwaved as being behavior the world thinks are inappropriate, and we need to keep our reputation clean to reflect god or whatever. with the caveat that jesus hung out with tax collectors and prostitutes so be nice to them

anyway i remember thinking very hard about why swear words aren't allowed. the closest justification i ever heard was another verse about keeping your actions/words/thoughts pure but that was so vague and arbitrary?

i realized that swear words (fuck) and words substituted for swear words (fudge, freak, eff, frig, frick, etc) were from an ethical standpoint identical. like there's nothing inherent in the word fuck that isn't applicable to the word fudge (when used as a swear)

so you'd think the next logical step would be to realize swearing is ok, right? but at that age it was still a religious tenant to trust your parents teachers etc and I couldn't call them liars.

so therefore, i decided that all swear words were morally wrong, including fudge.

i still remember there was a song from victorious or something called "freak the freak out" and i was sooo appalled (although i think i assumed it wasn't "freak the fuck out" but "fuck the fuck out" lol)

BUT, i can't attribute all of this to analytical tween me. i remember some teachers (religious private school) would be even stricter about it. I used to say "What the...!" because comics etc said that. I got in trouble for it once because a lot of bad words could follow that sentence. even when it was ok to say "what the heck" so. what the heck.

and some teachers wouldn't let you say "oh my gosh" because that was basically the same as "oh my god." even i thought that was stupid, because none of us ever prayed to Gosh. wtf

and in retrospect as an adult, i still don't really get the enforcement of censorship around the word God. because i honestly believe that most people think that's god's given name. Like God came into existence and was like "I AM GOD" the same way god might have said "CALL ME ISHMAEL" . so the commandment to not take the name of the lord your god in vain is "don't swear with 'god' because it's really rude to me, Mr. God, esquire"

in christianity we learned about all the different names of god, some being titles, some being actual names, so we knew that wasn't god's only name. but the way it's capitalized everywhere like a name... lol........

after leaving the religion, i did start using "jesus" as a swear which defeats this, because if god was god's given name, i would use that as a swear too. i know that might seem like "ohh im still being controlled by christianity, it's still present in my life" but like yeah it is. so being able to use those words casually is still big dick energy to me

in judaism btw people do censor "g-d" sometimes - my temple never does that, but i do it online as "gd" sometimes if im writing something specifically As A Jew About Judaism because i don't want to sound two-faced to someone who DOES believe in censoring "g-d." but even then, i never heard it as it being God's Real Name. just that the Name is censored for its holiness, but then the word referring to the name gets censored and people use another term even vaguer, and so on over the millennia. i really do believe that in another hundred years, people might start censoring hashem for the same reason

#christianity tw #religious trauma #yay

[emails-i-cant-send]

hey! you totally don’t have to answer if you don’t feel comfortable, but do you think joshua bassett is in a safe place right now? the church is clearly anti- lgbtqia+, and i’m worried abt his safety and well-being, given his past statements on maybe being a part of the queer community himself

Im queer and Christian myself, i think in a lot of situations being queer and Christian can be dangerous but there are people out there who are accepting and don't have a problem with queer people. You also don't always have to practice Christianity within a church, most people do but me and parts of my family practice outside of the church. A lot of queer people do too because of how homophobic the church can be. You don't have to give up your faith if youre queer. And I would also like to mention that Christianity isn't against queer people. A lot of believe that the Bible was either purposefully changed to say being gay was a sin or it was mistranslated. I think he is in a safe place btw. He seems happier now than he has been the past few months. He hasn't shared much recently but seeing him happy at Disneyland with a fan assured me that he's doing better. He has been through absolute hell and back the past 3 years and he finally seems to be doing better. He has a new manager and a new outlook on life. He has tour coming up and possibly an album!! That's for sure when we'll get to see more of how he's doing. I think we should also let him be. I'm assuming you decided to ask me about this because of my post saying to stop making the conversion camp jokes and saying queer people can't be Christian. When i first realized I was queer the first questions that came to mind were "can I be queer and Christian?" There's 2 part to this question. Is Christianity ok with me being queer? I decided that yes God loves everybody and doesn't care if I'm bisexual. The second part made me uncomfortable for the longest time because of how queer people talked about Christianity and religion in general. I understand that many people have religious trauma but there are ways to talk about it and acknowledge that a lot of religions are very harmful to queer people a lot of the time without making people who are religous and queer feel uncomfortable within their own community. As a young queer person I felt so confused and i felt for the people who had strong feelings about Christianity but at the same time I wanted to continue being Christian. I sound very holy rolly saying this but i feel this way because of how strongly it affected me and how much i know it's affected others. I think we need to learn to be kinder and more accepting. I hope josh feels loved and happy and knows everything about his identity is valid. He's had an amazing impact on my life thorugh his music and words. So yeah I think he's safe and in a good place as long as he's surrounded by people who love him <3

Edit: in light of some of his new posts some of my opinions have changed

#give up these diamonds to you #Joshua bassett #Save #Christianity #Queer #Lgbtq #Religion #Christianity mention #Religion mention #UMM OK HOME THIS HELPS #Long post #Kinda? #Not that long anyway #I DIDNT CHECK THIS FOR GRAMMAR BTW #SORRY #Anon

[transfemininomenon]

You're making me want to watch Midnight Mass again because i watched it with friends when it came out and we Hated it but you seemed so hype that now i wanna watch it again just to see if maybe it was better than i remember and i was just influenced by my friend's opinion?! I'm very curious to see it from someone else's perspective, what do you think made it so great in your eyes?

OKAY spoilers for the show so if youre planning on watching it sometime look away because im gonna mention some very big spoilers for the show lmao theyre very intrinsic to what im gonna talk about

the primary reasons i like the show is that it really does use like, SO many story elements/tropes that i really like, and ones that i especially like when it comes to horror. starting at the very beginning the theme of returning home after an amount of time has passed and finding it suddenly feeling so unfamiliar & different is a trope that i already went insane over, and currently its a theme that also personally is something im experiencing very vividly. combine this with the trope of old friends reuniting after years apart and kinda Going Through It together is ALSO one of my favorite tropes and is done very very well in the show

it continues with just. i think the absolute ultimate Horror Setting is "small town where weird stuff happens." to probably nobody's surprise one of my favorite shows ive watched in recent years is twin peaks which does the same thing. having a Small Town helps make the entire thing feel a lot more intimate & personal, especially when it comes to characters because like. these people all know each other So Well. theyve grown up in the community, their parents lived in the community, they all know each other. theyve raised their kids together and worked together. it immediately creates such a good dynamic and intimacy with the characters and imo does such a good job of making you Care about them a lot quicker, which benefits a short series like midnight mass very well

that also helps to set the stakes because these are all people you care about, these are people you KNOW, these are people you can identify with. it makes the inevitable horror & tragedy that you know is coming all the more powerful. especially seeing them already dealing with every day horrors that All of us can relate to in some way in the current day like capitalism ruining a now dying community, religious persecution, alcoholism, misogyny, health issues, growing older, homophobia, and disillusionment amongst others. you can understand the desperation & sadness in all of them, and it makes what is to come make a lot more sense

then. a mysterious religious figure arriving in the community. "miracles" beginning to happen. people beginning to become more and more fanatically connected to this mysterious religious figure, and why wouldnt they! theyve all had such struggles in life that seemingly are fixing themselves daily since his arrival, and he promises more. cults have always been a storytelling subject that has gotten to me Every time and one ive incorporated into a lot of my own d&d writing because theyre endlessly so Interesting and scary and the slow build up of the one here is so well done

speaking of the religious aspect, this is the most important part of why i like the show truly. obviously the first big Twist of the show is learning about the Angel, and if i hadnt already been invested in the show this is probably what would have sold me immediately. the linking of Angel to Vampirism is in my honest opinion simply genius - blood in christianity especially is such an important spiritual thing, like linking the "blood of christ" with vampirism is. incredible. its genuinely incredible. vampires have always been intrinsically linked with religion, though are almost always portrayed as being Repelled by it. flipping it around and having a vampire be an Angel & having a priest turned vampire leading his flock slowly leading them toward that same vampirism believing that it is a form of divinity is. its insane. its genius. im obsessed with it.

the show REALLY leans into the religious horror aspect of it too, which i feel like a lot of other stories that have tried to do similar things too often like. back out of it. they pull a "oh see actually it was some SATANIC person tricking the poor unsuspecting christians" or something like that. midnight mass keeps it up throughout the entire show fully leaning into no, from beginning to end it is the christian religious leaders of the community who bring and then continue the Horror, and to the end all in the name of God

religious horror is truly what ends up being THE scariest part of the show, with Bev ending up being both the true villain and scariest figure in a show that has a Literal Horror Vampire Angel. the insidious way in which she helps to slowly poison her community and drive good, honest people into bloodthirsty monsters both figuratively and Literally is terrifying, and the way it ultimately turns into a community literally tearing each other apart through sheer religious & societal pressure is. terrifying. the second to last episode of the show where this all hits its peak at the end is, honest to god, THE scariest thing i have ever watched, and ive seen a LOT of horror in my time

and most importantly, it does religious horror without like. coming across as anti-religious. im someone who does not really buy into religion as a social construct, but i both very very deeply believe in a great big capital s Something & also respect that religion is a very important, and for many a very Healthy, part of many many people. religious based horror ive found too often ends up just coming about as either some disguised satanic panic OR as "religion all bad", and midnight mass i think did a perfect job of like. both calling out religious extremism particularly of the christian variety while ALSO being very religious in tone

like. there are characters who to the end stay very devoted to their faith and to god and that is shown to be their Strength and a good thing. i think one of the absolute strongest and most incredible moments in the entire show is with Annie Flynn as she confronts Bev, during which time Bev tries to bring up her son Riley (someone who both accidentally killed someone and who also is an atheist), as she says:

"God loves him. Just as much as he loves you. Why does that upset you so much? Just the idea that God loves everyone, just as much as you?"

this, to me, is one of the best quotes in the entire show, showing that she still very much believes in God and his love while simultaneously calling out that very particularly american fanatical christian Horror that so much of the story is based on

in the end too, after so much horror has happened, after so much death and bloodshed, it ends not with the townsfolk all casting their faith aside after being so led astray and turned into such horrible creatures. it ends with them one final time coming together as a community, as friends, as family, as neighbors, as sinners who in their final moments ask each other for forgiveness and reassert their faith Together and its. its genuinely beautiful. the ending is to me one of the most beautiful, albeit sad & bittersweet, things i have ever seen. im actually going to insert it because it. man it gets to me

especially!!! especially!! all of the characters despite all of their own sins and the way they fucked up throughout the story. they all end in peace. they all end together with those that they love, theyve forgiven each other, theyve again found Peace. all of them except Bev. the one person who absolutely does NOT deserve to have any peace ends with her so full of fear, frantically trying to struggle against the end coming, the end that the people she played a part in ruining the lives of have found their own peace with. its so beautiful, and poetic, and i love it so so much.

there's other things i really like about it too - the twist that riley, seemingly the protagonist, dies in episode 5 of 7. the slow build on the horror, especially compared to mike flanagan's other works. the INcredibly well foreshadowed twist that sarah was john's daughter. john's story arc of villain turned antihero. the incredible soundtrack, with it being i think the newton brothers' best work yet. these are all things i could also write paragraphs about, which i probably will do in time, but ive only just seen the show Yesterday and still need time to fully formulate thoughts on stuff

also! the show is scary! really, genuinely scary! as mentioned the horror is a slow build, which as said is a stark contrast to mike flanagan's other works. both the haunting of hill house & bly manor are a LOT scarier in the beginning and then gradually get less so, both in the way that horror naturally gets less scary as you get used to it and also in the way that like. with those stories the Scary Things end up just becoming kinda sad. meanwhile midnight mass really lets the horror simmer and build up before, as i mentioned above, it reaches a head in episode 6 when it becomes what i genuinely believe is one of the scariest things i have ever watched. the entire lead up to the fateful midnight mass for easter, the reveal of the Angel to everyone else, the painful dyings and resurrections, and then the ensuing bloodshed.... its terrifying. genuinely, truly terrifying

then, of course, it does also end up becoming Sad too but. its a kind of sadness that just like his previous works feels so earned & carries so much more weight after everything that has happened

theres def more i have to say about the show but again i just watched it yesterday & gotta have more time to think on it but. these are the things that immediately stood out to me!

[dionysianfreak]

hello! idk if you answer asks but i really wanna get into hellenic polytheism but all the different words and terms being thrown around really confuse me, so i just have a couple questions.

1, are hellenic polytheism and hellenic paganism the same thing or are they slightly different practices?

2, is just the term hellenism on its own a referring to the closed religion (I've heard that they were also separate practices)

sorry if these are actually really self explanatory questions lol (im a baby when it comes to all this) thanks for reading, if you are. bye bye! ^-^

i always try to answer asks, even if it takes me a while ! I have a very bad memory, haha. it takes a while to get used to the terminology—youre no baby, just a beginner ! everyone starts somewhere.

are Hellenic Polytheism and Hellenic Paganism different ?

short answer: no, not really

long answer: while they both mean the same thing—a worshiper or follower of the Greek Gods—individuals may favor one over the other because of technicalities or personal association with the terms.

generally, paganism is an umbrella term meaning "not of the major religions" aka any religion not generally practiced by a large chunk of the population. some consider any religion that isn't of the 7 major world religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism) to be pagan.

Polytheism is a description of individual or types of religions, any religion that worships more than one God or entities. monotheistic is it's antithesis, meaning religions that worship a single God or entity. Hellenic Polytheism is a Polytheistic religion because we worship more than one God, but it is also a pagan religion because it isn't one of the majorly recognized religions.

you see these terms used so interchangeably because a majority of major religions are not Polytheistic, the only one that is is Hinduism. so, many if not most Polytheistic religions are technically pagan. however, with the negative connotations put onto the term pagan, a lot of people avoid it or are offended by it if you refer to them as such. it's a case by case basis.

is Hellenism referring a closed side of Hellenic Polytheism/a separate practice ?

no, it isn't. Hellenic Polytheism as a religion is completely open and it was commonplace to both spread and adopt Gods from neighboring countries.

I've recently learned through a post I can't seem to find that Hellenism is used to refer to the people of Greece by the people of Greece. it describes the community and culture still alive today. while it can technically be a religious term, modern Hellas still use it and it's not fair to take it when we already have Hellenic Polytheism as a term—a term that actually describes what we are.

the term "Greek" was actually coined by the Romans after their invasion and conquer of Greece. before that the people called themselves the Hellenes (sing; Hellen), and that never went away. so, Hellenismos, Hellenism, and Hellenic are all terms that refer to the people of Greece, not their ancient religion.

I'm also gonna bring up another term for you—Hellenistic

eventually you'll run into this, so I may as well cover it for you too while I'm here. sometimes you'll hear people call themselves Hellenistic pagans/polytheists. this is not used interchangeably with Hellenic.

Hellenistic refers to a specific time period within ancient Helpol. the Hellenistic period spans from the death of Alexander the Great to the completed rise of the Roman Empire. this time in Hellenic worship is so different from the rest it is considered its own category of Hellenic praxis. it's incredibly interesting and a lot of wonderful changes to the Theoi and Their worship happened during this time. people who focus their praxis on this time period are Hellenistic pagans/polytheists.

I hope this helps you, my friend !

#helpol #hellenic polytheist #hellenic polytheism #hellenistic polytheism #hellenism #paganism #polytheism #ask #anon #resources

[babysfirstpentagram]

Small Compliation of Witchy Tips (#1)

The only difference between a pentacle and a pentagram is there is a circle around the star in a pentacle. That’s it. Both give you protection, both are used in rituals.

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Dont bury spell jars, its bad for the environment.

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When writing your spells, be very specific. Don’t just put “I want happiness.”

Instead put: “I wish to be happy, surrounded by friend and family that love me.” or “I wish to be happy, living comfortably in my easy going job.” The more detailed, the better.

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Some crystals bleach in sunlight, some crystals dissolve in water. Please research before buying expensive crystals and letting them lay around.

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wiccan/witch sabbats are not real, the word they should've use is "solar holidays" or "wheel of the year"

Esbats, wheel of the year/solar holidays are real and fine!! Though, sabbats aren't. Their origins are anti-semetic. https://twitter.com/honeybeebuggy/status/1373334936225075203?s=21 https://www.jewitches.com/post/witch-history-jews-and-the-witchcraze

Except for: the Christian Sabbath which is a day of 'religious observance and abstinence from work'.

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Seal your spell jars with wax. The corks that come with the jars are porous and let in moisture, that will make any herbs in your jar mold. On the same note, don’t add liquids to spell jars, your herbs will mold.

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REALITY SHIFTING IS BOGUS. There is no evidence behind it, and the way people teach you about it on tumblr/animo/etc. basically ends with you committing sewer slide (its play on words, you know what i mean). Don’t do it, you’re just going to get your hopes up and possibly get hurt. This is also very offensive to people that have maladaptive daydreaming tendencies. It’s basically mocking them. “ shifting (reality shift) an insult to astral projection, it also is highly insulting to those with maladaptive daydreaming-- a psychiatric condition in which people (commonly those with ADHD, depression, OCD, or C-PTSD) compulsively daydream in order to cope with reality. Unlike the myth of shifting, maladaptive daydreaming cannot be controlled and is usually triggered by situations reminiscent of traumatic experiences. Shifting perpetuates the offensive idea that daydreams like those with maladaptive daydreaming have are something that can be controlled, which leads to invalidation of those with maladaptive daydreaming and their experiences.” Written by someone that has Maladaptive Daydreaming tendencies, and backed up by people with ADHD and PTSD

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Stir clockwise to attract, counter clockwise to drive away. This works with cooking and spell work

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Zodiac Signs don’t define a person or your compatibility with them 95% of the time. However, its fun to learn and sometimes you can make accurate assumptions about people, just don’t let it over power your own thoughts and opinions.

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Bay leaves are good for attracting money. Put a money sigil on one and stick it in your wallet.

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Starseeds and Indigo children are basically cults. Just stay away from them. This is based on the few servers I joined that were labeled for Starseeds, and it was basically anti-government propaganda and preparing for the end of the world to destroy all non-starseeds. (note: im anti-government, but this was v v extreme and violent.)

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There is nothing wrong with being a Satanist, but some organizations are very cult like, so be careful when studying this. (This goes for all relgions, but Satanism and Christianity seems to be the big two religions with the most cult like activity.)

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#baby witch #witchcraft #witch #witches #wicca #witchblr

[0h-c0mely]

having a lot of Thoughts this evening and i made this blog to vomit thoughts so, uh, if you’re interested a little rant on possibly rejecting organized religion or want to help a kid out please journey under the cut.

ever since i really grasped that mormonism is not for me i’ve been doing what every kid raised in a high demand religion does, looked elsewhere with or without knowing it. nothing really sticks- wicca, hellenic polytheism, et cetera. even fucking hare krishna. i could be pagan, but the true religion of my ancestors has been lost to time, christian colonization, and the incomplete histories of early catholic monks. ive been excited about judaism for a few months but the more i learn about it the more i know that for myself, i could try but i would eventually be as unhappy as if i stayed mormon. most exchristians seem to struggle the most with the historicity of the bible or the morality of religious exclusion. i understand why both of those things exist, this has never been my problem.

another thing that’s happened as i look at religions is that i’ve both come to grasp what i believe more firmly as well as realizing the lack of religions that follow what i need. im not an atheist. i’m not particularly agnostic either. to reduce something big into very few words i find spiritualism in the first law of matter- nothing can be created or destroyed, so everything is a piece of each other. in the incredible miracle of human consciousness and communication despite the bloody and often evil story of humanity. and so, so badly i want a way to express this with others freely- through a god or through ritual or maybe even not. in a group who is honoring something bigger than themselves.

maybe i have to settle for not having that. not settle, exactly, but maybe i have to blaze my own path, through research and reading and maybe just knowing within myself that i don’t need other people who believe what i do. the prospect both scares me as i type this and excites me because it fucking finally sounds like an answer.

#exchristian #apostate #exmormon #exmo #solo spiritualism? maybe? #if anyone actually read that and has advice please let me know

[azritesx3]

Coming Down - Lucifer & F!Reader

Anon: Hey I don't know if you do fics based on songs ( im kinda new here after suddenly thirsting for Lucifer— ) But I was wondering if you could a Lucifer x Reader based on ‘Coming Down’ by Halsey? Maybe this had been done, I don't really know. Nothing specific just whatever speaks to you if you do make this! Thank you!!

Description: You married a religious man to get away from the abusers. Who knew that he'd not only turn out to be one too, but that your savior would call himself the Devil and you agree to be his lover?

Rating: Mature Warning(s): Domestic Abuse, Implied Smut, Fluff, Angst, Angst but with a Happy Ending

AO3, FanfictionNet, Wattpad, DeviantArt

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Tighter and tighter. Cold hands on your throat.

"Why won't you just do what God made you for?!" John, your loving Christian husband, hisses. His hair falls in front of his face as he leans over you on the bed.

You claw at his hands. Your eyes begin to water. Cold sweat drops from his brow and falls into your agape mouth.

This was it. This was finally it.

"LAPD! Open the door!" John whips his head up, then snarls back down at you. He releases his hold and slaps you hard across the face, almost knocking you out.

Thinking he knocked you out.

You listen to him walk down the hall and open the door. There's chatter, and you hear people walking in. You hear footsteps coming back towards you.

"Excuse me sir, please don't go in the bedroom! My wife is sleeping." You hear John call out.

"Detective! A 'home search' is searching the entire home, correct?" A different voice calls out in the hall, a British voice. You don't hear it, but the British voice gets a reply, "As I thought. I shall ever be a gentleman around your wife."

"Please take no offense, sir. I was simply weary because-"

"Of my name, yes?" You hear footsteps enter the bedroom and the British voice becomes loud and clear, "Your decor taste is quite poor."

You listen intently as the new man looks around the space. His last stop is coming to your side of the bed. He doesn't look at you.

Please.

Before he leaves your sight you manage to grab hold of the man's finger. He stops and finally looks down at you. You pull on his finger and he kneels down to face you.

"Sir please-"

"Shut up." The man says to your husband. He stares at your face, taking in your red cheek, dry lips, and tear streaks.

You move your mouth, but your voice is too dry to make a sound. You mouth:

Help me.

"Detective! It seems the call in on violence was correct!" The man calls out. He stands and starts to gather you in his arms.

"Don't you dare-" John is cut off by a punch to the back of his neck and knees, making him fall face first on the floor.

"You're under arrest for domestic abuse." A woman's voice says. In the man's arms you see her cuff your husband.

You begin to cry again.

"Hey now, darling." Voice so soft. You look up at the man. His eyes are sparkling and his smile is comforting, "Rest now, dear. You're safe."

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"A toast, darling!" Lucifer cheers. He raises his wine glass and gives you a bright smile. You laugh and follow his lead, "To one marvelous year of being together!"

"And to being free!" You add in. Both of you cling your glasses together and take a sip. You begin to giggle causing a sly smile to pull across Lucifer's lips and a perfectly teased brow to raise, "Penny for your thoughts, my dear?"

You continue to giggle, "Oh, just thinking of the irony of all this."

"Oh?" Lucifer smiles and takes hold of your empty hand across the table. He kisses the top of it, "Do tell."

"Oh you know," you blush at his actions and smile joyfully, "Being abused by a Christian husband for many years, only to be saved by a man who calls himself the Devil and having a better life with him."

Lucifer chuckles softly, then turns your wrist to kiss your palm, "A beautiful irony indeed."

After the celebration dinner he takes you to his lavish hotel suite in Las Vegas, and enjoys the wonderful dessert between your legs. You sigh in bliss and relish in the pleasure, the feeling of real love. You thank God for sending you such a savior, even if he does claim to be the Devil.

No one's perfect, after all.

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It was true. Everything he said was true. He didn't lie, after all.

And now here you are, in a room that was now being swarmed with demon possessed dead humans.

They crowd around you and Lucifer, taking hold of you to pull you away from him. You scream and reach out to Lucifer. He stretches his arm too you, but the demons keep a strong hold against you. You watch his arm fall, and despite the shock on his face, you see a painful decision cross his eyes.

He turns from you and stands on the stage. He releases his full Devil form, causing his shirt to tear off. The demons around you stand frozen and look up to their King. You do the same, memorized by the scarred beauty.

"YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE. GO HOME!" Lucifer yells to them, and they listen. The bodies fall instantly.

You stay standing and just watch as Lucifer returns to his normal self. He studies your face. After regaining yourself tears well up in your eyes and you run up to him. He lifts you in his arms and cradles your body against his.

Back at the penthouse, after what you learned too late was one final night of passion, he tells you he loves you and returns to Hell to keep you, all of earth, safe.

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You've been a broken soul ever since that night.

Every day after sleepless nights you wake to see your Lightbringer's sun rise, and pray for his return. Every night you pray that when you wake it won't be alone. That he'll be with you once more to watch his star rise together.

Years pass. The prayers don't work.

You now lay in a hospital bed, not very old but with a heart so broken it can't last any longer. You and Lucifer's friends surround your death bed, and cry when you let your heart shatter completely.

You wake in a sort of limbo space, in a queue with other dead souls. You teleport to the front of the line and are in the presence of the Angel of Death.

She looks at you somber, "You died far too early."

You stare back at the angel, "I couldn't take it any longer."

The angel nods, "You're destined for Heaven-"

"No!" You interrupt her, "No, please. He cannot be with me there! Please, send me to Hell instead!"

She looks confused, "But you are guilty of nothing. You'd be tortured for nothing."

"Being without him even in death would be torture itself." The angel studies you. Then looks up where a blinding light shines down on her. She closes her eyes and seems to listen to the light.

The light disappears, and she looks back at you, "Very well."

The next moment you are in a dark, hot space. Around you are stone black pillars with doors etched into them. Some doors were chained up, some unlocked but shook from inside.

"Y/N?"

Your breath hitches at your name being called by the voice you loved and missed so much. You look behind you to see Lucifer in the same suit he wore when he left, but he looked older in the eyes. Hell affects every being.

You run and embrace him. He returns the embrace hesitantly, "You shouldn't be here, love."

"I cannot be in a place without you anymore, Lucifer." You move back slightly so you can look him in the eyes. Your tearful eyes shine with joy and you smile at him, "You are my savior. The one I made into my own personal religion." You cup his now tear streaked face, "I love you, Lucifer Morningstar."

He embraces you back with just as much passion and kisses you passionately. He then buries his head in your neck, "I love you too, Y/N, and I've missed you terribly."

You scratch the back of his neck lightly and whisper, "So, you're not angry that I chose to be here?"

He laughs in your neck, something he hasn't done in thousands of years, "Are you kidding?" He removes himself from you and smiles while getting down on one knee, "I have my Queen with me again. How could I be mad over that?"

You laugh in joy and tackle him to the cold, yet hot, cracked ground. You both stay like that. Crying and laughing together at your eternal partnership.

#lucifer #Lucifer Morningstar #lucifer x reader #lucifer morningstar x reader #lucifer netflix #song fic #writing requests #fanfic #fanfiction

[tobacconist]

ill put it here since its hard to have a proper discussion through replies

@solomonjones 

God’s will is mysterious, and we as humans cannot know it. i dont pretend to, but i can aspire to atleast attempt to understand it. regardless of your religion; either you believe: God ordains all events throughout history as part of his greater unknowable plan, and that it is He who causes the rise and fall of nations, peoples, ideologies, etc or, you believe: when good things happen to you God is blessing you but when good things happen to your enemies it is satan who blesses them. if that is the case, you do not worship the One True God. you worship an imposter deity who presumes to call itself “θεός”, or “Бог” or “ الله ”;  who is caught in deep rivalry with all the other pretenders to the throne of God Almighty.

this is what the story of the old testament is fundamentally about. even though the israelites were God’s chosen people, they were continually overtaken and oppressed by pagans. as it is written, the LORD hardened the pharaohs heart. in my opinion, it is impossible to understand the wider context of the bible (old and new testament) without understanding it in relation to pagan history and mythology (and in relation to the modern world) they didnt include, say, the odyssy in the holy canon of course because the pagan peoples being converted already knew these stories intimately. they did include the scriptures of the jews however (even though they were in many ways just as spiritually flawed as the pagans) because people were less familiar with them and the scriptures of the jews are very important to understanding the significance of the life of Jesus Christ (as he fulfilled prophecies of both the pagans and the jews)

when i say i have deep respect for the orthodox churches, please understand that i am being completely earnest. but i see it for what it is, an imperial religion of temporal power, like any other. this is going to sound quite harsh, and im writing this from an antagonistic perpective because, i presume, as someone who is quite devout; you do not need to be convinced of the deep need for religion in the world (now more than ever) that said... throughout history, kings and theologians have torn the Body of Christ, the church herself, into pieces. like DOGS they have torn the body of christ to pieces! like some horribly blasphemous tug of war. catholics pulling the head and protestants pulling the legs. baptists pulling out the intestines, the orthodox snarling and territorially guarding the heart, and the gnostics scooping up the spilled brains. and yet they are all convinced they know best, that they are the ones with grace, that they are the only true pure and correct church. this is what i mean about spiritual pride, and everyone knows it. especially when their actions and morals are in so many ways clearly at odds with what Christ actually taught. the only reason atheism exists is because of centuries of corrupt religious leaders; you can blame no one else for this godless world.

you claim the tsar held grace by his ceremonial anointment; but God hears the cry of the oppressed. thousands dead for your cause seems very reasonable compared to thousands dead for your enemies cause. but God gave people a rational mind, and although we are all misguided, he gave us wisdom enough to (eventually) see through deceit - whos author is the devil. it took centuries, but he taught us the ignorance of idolatry. the foolishness of worshipping kings. many more centuries it took until we abolished slavery. when the LORD let loose his hand and upturned the entire order of civilisation; throwing the chess pieces everywhere. fortuna’s wheel made such a global revolution; scarcely ever seen before. the nobility of the world, once so proud, learned through the bitterest chastisement the desserts of one who believes he can do no wrong.  i cannot question the judgement of the LORD, but i do wish history had been different. less bloodshed, less mess; but God knows best.

on the topic of miracles, you can believe whatever you like, my friend. jesus said blessed are those who believe what they cannot see; but in my opinion you are as naive as one who believes hindu swamis can manifest gold rings out of thin air.  all religions are guilty of this chicanery, but the spell only holds as long as people still want to believe. God gave us the power of reason, and His essence is truth. a great spiritual mystery; that (atleast for the past hundred years) Gods chosen people have been the atheists who knew him not! contemplate it! deny it if you want! there is great wisdom to be found there. not that they are blameless. the very opposite. i do not deny the horrors of communism which i assume you as an orthodox christian will know intimately well; but communist movements (and growing secularisation in general) cannot be thought surprising when one considers history. but has not the LORD advanced their science? has He not given them the power to perform many miraculous (and diabolic) deeds? babylon, rome, and america all play their part in His great plan. Blessed are the Naive, for they will not be punished as severely as those who should have known better. you can bring up some (rather weak) scientific validation of miraculous events to prove that God is on your side, but every single religion does this. and if you look at who is actually out there curing the blind, deaf and lame, who is it?

do you feel a deep spiritual calling in your heart which demands your soul to cleave unto the orthodox church? good. listen to it. that is God talking to you. that is God telling you what role you must play here in your lifetime. in some peoples hearts, that voice tells them to cleave to islam, or to buddhism, or to fucking wicca some people it tells them to ardently support nothing but science and secularism and to reject any fairytale from the past that they cannot prove. to some it tells them not to worry about any complicated theological or scientific shit that they would never understand anyway; and instead to simply follow what they know and try to be a good person by whatever ethical system they follow.

to some of us, it says we must always, always strive to be wise. that it is our sacred duty to solve every great paradox and to unveil every mystery that while the rest of the world argues in the dark, we must take our small spark of light and study deeply what we see within its radiance; and combine our little lights whenever we can. that we will be punished for our failings, as we will never be truly wise. no man can be omniscient. we will be punished for everything that we know, and for everything that we dont know, and that we must accept this. for being lukewarm and middling, for being passionate and taking a side. but we must do it anyway. that it is our duty. because ignorance is a condition which feels disgusting. that voice, it tells me that this is the task, the monumental task that all mankind undertook when we chose to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when we had been warned not to; to become like gods. and God himself, the LORD almighty said to us: okay.  but you will die. you will die thousands of times. thousands upon thousands, upon thousands of times. and each time, you will become just a little bit wiser until maybe, just maybe, you will become like i. my “only begotten son” who will reign with me in paradise when you finally realise what a profound responsibility it is to be God.

#pardon this is rather long and rambling #but this is my thoughts as best as i can convey them #fuck i spent like 3 hours writing this; i hope you actually read it lol #earnestly; i await your response

[raisinchallah]

not to be extremely controversial on jumblr or anything but i really do think the entire like line of thinking i see here a lot in various flavors of extremity of christianity being inherently antisemitic in a way that in some way damns it as a religion or various levels of it has stolen from judaism and thats also like unforgivably bad well... i just think are wildly unproductive and downright concerning ways of thinking about religion as a whole because it inherently places judaism as a somehow more ethical and “better” religion in comparison and doesnt actually address the ways that dominant religions can wield power and the way religion is a common tool of nationalism or i think actually engage with like the modern institution of christianity as well as like.... the fact its a truly massive religion with far more variation than i think u can begin to consider like idk where people are getting this feeling of religious superiority for judaism as somehow a more original or ethical or better religion when you are approaching it from a historical viewpoint that obviously it borrowed from and emerged from other religions around it like i literally just gotta point and laugh at this point when people talk about christianity stealing jewish theological texts like man... youre like a thousand years late here but i think in general its frankly mental and far more worrisome when people genuinely seem to act like christianity is unique as far as being utilized for truly terrible things like it sure does have a grander impact on the world than judaism its far far larger but like please can we look at the call coming from within the house judaism is at this very moment being used in violent and horrible ways there is always a complicated dynamic of any religious majority in any country and like idk its genuinely mental to me sometimes the way people wanna just frame it as like there is something theologically wrong with christianity when frankly a lot of stuff is more like... political rather than the contents of religious books and im like can we have the tiniest modicum of self reflection you would not like it if we put various jewish texts and literal modern interpretations under a similar microscope and like i swear if people learned about various oppressed christian minorities i really do wonder if their fucking heads would explode like idk this makes very little sense but i swear i really do feel insane how people try to frame judaism online sometimes like lets not let our heads get too big here my god this is really a totally nonsensical ramble and like i know people may interpret it as me being like christians did nothing wrong but its more i am concerned about the version of a religion we are constructing to make ourselves seem more ethical as like a way to dodge self reflection or actual understanding of the complicated historical and political forces that have shaped these realities over time.....

[unintentionalgenius]

you're post about buck converting was very insightful and i was wondering if you could maybe share what that process looks like?

so, im not sure if you mean about the process in general or about buck specifically - if I guessed wrong feel free to pop back in and tell me!

so, all this is with the caveat that there is a TON of difference between denominations, different synagogues, and even just individual rabbis. No two people will have the same process, or even the same general steps or ""requirements"". Also with the caveat that I am a fairly well-educated jew but I am not a rabbi. For context, I would say my background is conserva-form, or Masortiform (some mix of conservative/Masorti and reform judaism).

an important note here before we begin: jews don't proselytize. it's not a fully closed religion like Zoroastrianism, but we don't recruit, and there is an extensive formal process in Jewish law for transitioning from a non-jew to a jew. We also don't believe that everyone needs to be jewish; if your only frame of reference is christianity, that might seem very weird. there is a very small subset of moral laws called the noahide laws that we think all people should follow, and you don't need to/have to do anything else if you're not a jew. becoming a jew means exponentially increasing your moral/religious obligations!

if one decided that despite all the good arguments against it, they still wanted to formally begin the process, it would start with an expression of interest - most people have done something jewish or gotten at least marginally involved in a jewish community at some point, just kind of poking around. You have to know something to even begin to think you might want to convert, you know? and so at some point you go from a person hanging around a jewish organization to someone who has spoken to a rabbi and is Officially Exploring Judaism.

Now comes the weird part - i know people for whom this section was less than a year, and people for whom this section was a decade+. All you do is learn. that's it! there's no guide for when you've learned enough. You might take an intro to judaism class, you might take other classes about judaism, you might just go to services a lot, you might do Torah study... one thing that's almost guaranteed is that in this period you meet every so often with the rabbi who is guiding you through this process. The key is to integrate into the community and functionally live like you're Jewish before you actually formally become Jewish. between the two of you, you decide when you're ready. Some things a rabbi might want to see at this stage include:

indications that you understand the seriousness/permanence of your decision

a shabbat practice of some kind

a tzedakah (charity) practice of some kind

some form of personal prayer practice

engagement with jewish community

overall acceptable level of factual jewish knowledge and knowledge of jewish theology - if you don't know all the major holidays, or if you don't know what kosher means, if you can't name any mitzvot (commandments, the things you're obligated to do as a jew), those would be bad signs.

some denominations will test you on rules about keeping kosher, which blessings you say when, etc. but that tends to be more orthodox

some consideration of keeping kosher or at least engaging with the moral underpinnings of it

commitment to living a jewish life publicly, including in front of your family

commitment to renouncing any other religion traditions you might have been raised with (this gets fuzzier when it comes to the blurred line between religion and culture; every rabbi will interpret it differently)

most rabbis will also want you to have done one full jewish year cycle, so that you've hit each of the holidays

it all depends, really! but at some point your rabbi is going to say to you "hey I think you're ready". This will often come as part of an ongoing conversation - much like getting engaged, it shouldn't surprise you. At this point, if not before, you'll pick your Hebrew name. [Hebrew names are one to two personal names and then a gendered word for child, and then the names of your parents. Unless they have a good reason not to, converts usually format their names as personal name(s) bat/ben Avraham v'Sara, child of Abraham and Sarah, the first jews.] The Hebrew name-choosing process is deeply personal and also a lot of fun! Some people who were raised jewish never got a Hebrew name, or some folks will add a second personal name after a major life event, so there are a lot of ways to end up picking part or all of your name.

After you and your rabbi agree you're ready, the final step is a beit din - a religious court, but it's not as scary as it sounds - and then immersion in a mikvah, a ritual bath. the beit din is a small group of learned jews (though in modern conversion processes they're almost always rabbis) who talk to you and ask questions about your conversion until they're satisfied. They will ask about many of the things in that bulleted list above. No rabbi ever sends someone to the beit din if they don't personally think they're ready, but I have heard of people being sent back from a beit din, so it's not a guarantee. The vast, VAST majority of people are not sent back, though, and at least in the reform movement, the formal beit din concludes with a series of questions that everyone gets asked, almost as a formality; the rabbi definitely already knows your answers to these. Once that's done, you immerse in the mikvah; some places do these immediately one after the other, but I've heard from people whose beit din was on a different day than their actual immersion.

there is a whole separate post about immersing in a mikvah but basically a rabbi or mikvah guide walks you through it and after you come out of the mikvah is the moment you're officially jewish! mazel tov!

Crucially, at any point in this process before the mikvah, you can back out - no one will be mad. We love people exploring judaism and it's great to learn about even if you ultimately decide you were not meant to join the tribe! However, once you've immersed in the mikvah, it's permanent - there is nothing you can do to "un-jew" yourself. there's a teaching that all of the souls of all jewish people forever were together at Sinai when Moses brought down the ten commandments, which is a beautiful teaching that also embodies a lot of the modern approach to conversion - you were always jewish, it's just that your jewish journey looks different from someone else's!

i hope this was helpful and not just massively confusing 😅

#judaism #technically about #911 #but only barely #anon #asked and answered #this got so long and i promise you I cut out as much as I could #it's not a simple process! #nothing about it is easy #conversion #I almost put my hebrew name in but I thought #nah I don't want to go up for an aliyah and have someone recognize me from fucking TUMBLR

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Hey there. I dont know how to word it, but like can u tell a bit more about how ancient greek deities and religion is still relevant in todays greece? I mean it is obv since culture usually doesnt just stop but like the practical examples. u obv have a lot of museums and touristic things, but how else is it integrated in the normal life of greek people? (Ie are streets named after a religious figure (god or hero or whatever) or buildings? Do you have festivities where its picked up again? 1/3

I mean without people who are practising that religion actively anyway. Thats a small part right? But what about the general perception?) Also damn thanks for mentioning it again about the word race. Like i hate that word when it is meant for humans. After ww2 and the nazis how can people still use it comfortably?Also there is no biological prove of the definition of race being applicable to the human species. Just biologically speaking. Ugh americans are sometimes kinda weird. I mean idk maybe its because im german and growing up you quickly learn how horrific the race discourse and what followed was. If one uses the word race for people here everybody would think that person is a nazi. Anyways sorry for my rambling. Hope no ask gets eaten by tumblr. Have a good day and thanks for your patience (:

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Yes there are streets, people and franchises named after Greek ancient heroes and gods and sacred places. They are also in the symbols of our national institutions – Like Hermes, the symbol of our modern post office. I have also seen Athena in educational books, if I am not mistaken. Aphrodite exists in Cypriots’ coins and passports. Dionysos in our wine bottles – or the wine firm can also be named Dionysos. Oils with the face and name of Athena. And many more.

Some more stuff that have stayed in the culture from the ancient years:

1) The art style of Christian Orthodox agiographies is based on the ancient Greek art (the style close to the coming of Christianity in the country)

2) In Christmas or in Carnival (depending on the area) men smugde their face with coal to imitate bad spirts (or to chase them away). They drink A LOT, dance and have fun, like more tame satyrs - the Church doesn’t approve :P This custom has Dionysiac roots. Speaking of festivals, the ancient celebration of Phallophoria has been revived in Athens the last few years.

3) We have Protomaya (the first of May, which we celebrate by making wreaths from flowers). Ιt’s an ancient tradition, marking the beginning of spring.

4) Greeks never stopped believing in creatures of the forest, spirts and elves (we have our own elves, Kalikantzaroi). What was naiades are now “neraides” and nymphs are still… “nymphs”. There are also re-enactments of stories which include those creatures or other darker ones. People are dressed up as demons or ghosts, wearing pelts and bones on them (something tells me that didn’t come from the Christian faith :P)

5) We decorate the Epitaphios (the tomb of Christ which is set up every Easter) with flowers and the process kinda seems like the adornment of old ancient statues (I remember there was the ancient celebration of Plintiria where people washed and adorned the statues of the gods with flowers). Plus, each traditional house has a section with images of the saints and candles, like a small shrine. 

6) In ancient years people we leaving a gold or marble piece with the ailment engraved in the temples of Asclepios or other gods in order to be healed. Those pieces had carved on them the body parts that they want healed. This tradition holds till our days in Christian churches. 

7) In our recent tradition we refer to Death as Charon and the Afterlife/Place after death as Hades.

8) Many Christian religious sites are sites which were connected to the ancient gods. Unfortunately I have only learned that by word of mouth and I haven’t done more research on it.

9) We have more pagan stuff like hiding coins in our Christmas pies, worshipping bones or whole skeletons of saints. Some of them are said (or “proven” to produce myrrh). We also keep holy oil from the church or small pieces of the cross of Christ. I don’t know if all of those trends were happening in ancient Greece but certainly not all of them were created by Christianity. 

10) In funerals we still have “offerings” of wine to graves (we straight up pour wine into the hole. We also eat koliva, which is an ancient recipe. Another ancient recipe is melomakarona which were served in ancient funerals but are now a Christmas dessert. 

11) We believe in the Evil Eye, which was present in ancient Greece as it’s evident from ancient vessels. It was an orange and black eye then but today we have it as blue and white (as some middle eastern cultures). 

12) Greeks are in general close to their ancient past since there are ancient sites and archeological museums everywhere. It’s very hard to avoid history. For example, I spent most of my summers next to mt Olympus, in Pieria. And yes, half of shops or brands in the area were named after the old gods or Olympus. I also grew up next to Pella and I grew up singing “Macedonia the Great, the land of Alexander” in school. Others might have grown up in Sparta, in Amfissa, next to Delphi, or close to the Acheron river.

There are probably some other small pieces of ancient culture that I have forgotten. But that’s all for now! If you know more ancient stuff continuing in Greece today feel free to add them to the list!

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Also, I agree on the race thing. It’s a deeply insulting and racist notion and people need to learn it …

#answered #greek gods #greek tradition #greek culture #modern greece #greece #Greek Mythology

[kendrixtermina]

We’re you getting harassed for reblogging that anti Christmas post from that Jewish person? Because I did.

...since you’re on anon and using the loaded term/framing “anti christmas” im a bit worried that you’re that same troll but in case you’re just reluctant to private message me for some reason I’m gonna answer because it’s important to stand with harassed ppl. If obvious troll answers follow though they will be deleted. 

 I wouldn’t be surprised if they harassed multiple ppl seeing how systematic they were with their new accounts etc. I ignored them & they went away (or maybe reporting them for spam so many times led the mods to do something, idk - if you’re a real person & still being harassed then obviously not), the threats very pretty much transparent manipulation/ big talk.

Are you asking me for some reason? Do you propose some action or did you just want to confirm you weren’t the only one? Are they harassing everyone who reblogged that post or something? In that case it seems like organized trolls from some far right website

IDK what their problem is. 

This is why I believe it’s important to like just question about universally worshipped holy cow values; Because you quickly find out what big string of unrelated strings ppl associate with them. Question everything - not because everything has to be changed for changes’s sake. But the things that you keep should be kept out of deliberate choice not just trudging along with conformism.

This is why there’s value in phrasings like “defund the police” - gets ppl to think about the fundamentals & realize such base assumptions that they took for grated. 

Like if you say “Hard work is overrated” or “Soccer doesn’t interest me” they will react like you attacked their self worth when you are merely protesting exploitation or expressing that you are indifferent about soccer; Nor is indifference or annoyance the same as “hate”. 

“I don’t drink” =/= “You are a bad person for drinking“. After all, drinking is to have fun. If it doesn’t cause you fun, there’s no point in doing it. You don’t gain anything from it. If you’re abstaining for health reasons or past addiction it might even harm you. But you don’t need a reason other than just that you don’t enjoy it. 

“I’m aromantic & perfectly fine without a partner” =/= “You are bad for desperately wanting a partner“

“I don’t care for christmas” =/= “You’re not allowed to like it“; (but don’t bully ppl who don’t - I mean as an atheist I'm relatively lucky I could “join” if I wanted; Muslims and jews would have to leave their entire culture & family behind, of course they’re offended.)

Or they believe their religion, (or cultural convention, if we’re talking about purely “secular” Christmas) is the same as, say “morals family & togetherness” so when someone says “I don’t care about christmas”, “I’m annoyed at being bombarded with Christmas stuff”  or “I don’t like christmas” they feel it’s an attack on morals family & togetherness themselves. But it’s not. 

If you’re neither Christian nor from Northern Europe (and historically Christmas didn’t use to be a thing in, say, spain or optic communities; Orthodox Christians celebrate a completely different date!), that’s just a day in the calendar that you associate with nothing. Cold maybe. Or hot, if you live on the southern hemisphere. Maybe you associate family & togetherness with Chinese New Years. 

Maybe you associate family & togetherness with Jewish or Muslim or Hindu Holidays so it annoys you that you don’t get time off for it (precisely because you DO care about family & togetherness), or are accused of not caring about family & togetherness because you don’t happen to commemorate it on December 25th. Maybe this harassment & discrimination leads you to eventually associate “normal day in the calendar” with harassment so you hate it. 

Or, you are from a traditionally Christian north or central european background, but your family was full of abusers or religious bigots, so now you associate Christmas with bigotry and abuse. Or no need to go that far -  commercialism & false, forced cheer aren’t that great either. You don’t need a reason.

So of course you don’t like it! But does that mean you hate everyone who celebrates it or that you’re against family & togetherness? Not at all. 

It’s really just like the drinking example above: If Christmas makes you happy, great, do christmas (just do not bully anyone over not doing christmas, much like you shouldn’t drink and drive), but if it doesn’t, why on earth would you participate?

Personally I mistrust anything where you’re told that everyone has to like it, because it’s so unlikely to be authentic. There’s hardly anything that everybody likes aside from extreme things like “not being murdered”, & the older I get the broader I’ve learned that this is true.  Even sex or chocolate or being touched aren’t liked by everyone!

#feelings

[theworldguard]

Name: Adam Frankenstein

Age (appearance): 35

Age (actual): Around 200 to 250 years old, depending on how you want to look at it

Sexuality: Bi – strongly leaning towards women, but sometimes attracted to men (especially if he’s built a strong emotional connection)

Gender identity: Cis Male

Face claim: Luke Goss in the 2004 Frankenstein miniseries

Species: Reanimated Human, but there’s really only one ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’: tall, ugly, and articulate.

History:

*His very early history, more or less, at least after he was brought back from the dead, is common knowledge.

*Lived a nomadic lifestyle in Europe and then America, surviving in the wilderness at first, then joining a circus for a couple of decades in the mid 1800s.

*Railroad worker in the 1870s

*Went west with adopted family

*Gathering secret allies within the scientific and medical communities eventually leads him to develop skills in both fields.

*Allies join him in starting a biotech company to bring innovations to the world without ever mentioning Victor Frankenstein’s name.

*Finally attends university starting in the 1960s

*Alternates between working towards scientific advancement and leaving for extended periods of time to live in the woods, or abandoned buildings, or out on the streets.

*Someone who could read him well would note he shows guilt when the start of the apocalypse is mentioned.  It’s unknown whether he feels he had any sort of responsibility in starting it, or if it’s merely the fact that he didn’t prevent it.

*Unless it’s proven otherwise, he will assume it was somehow related to humankind’s quest for the secret of resurrection.

*Led a small group of survivors in search of others.  They were eventually incorporated into the larger group.

*Adam has worked very hard at making sure they are fully integrated, rather than staying as their smaller clique within a bigger group of survivors who weren’t quite ‘us’.

*With a leader hostile to mentions of religion, and especially Christianity, conflicted-but-essentially-Catholic Adam feels it is important to be someone people feel comfortable having religious and spiritual discussions with.  He may personally feel somewhat estranged from God, but he knows exactly why faith is important to so many people.  Adam applies this to any religious person among them, regardless of what their particular faith is.

Position/job: He was, for a time, the only one in the group with extensive medical experience, and thus became their doctor by default.  The exact nature of his job has varied over time, but for the most part, he is still a doctor and a scientist.  He does likely serve in an advisory role, at least at times, with a special focus on improving the overall health of the community.  

Skills:

*Medicine

*Biology

*Biochemistry

*Foraging

*Tracking

*Hunting (but he’d so much rather leave this one to others!)

*Wilderness survival in general

*Tailoring

*Shoemaking (usually a moccasin style)

*Cooking

*Restraining people when necessary with minimum use of force

Languages: French, German, English, Russian, Italian, Cantonese, various others

Military service: Adam desperately wanted to be a pacifist, but could never quite manage.  He’s fought in three wars, two of which he can remember; unfortunately, the only one where he was officially enlisted is the one he has no memory of.  He doesn’t mind fighting to protect others, but strongly prefers not to kill opponents, instead simply disarming and restraining them whenever possible.  This isn’t a strict rule, though – when leaving someone alive would put others in immediate danger, he’s quite willing to kill.

Allegiances: His smaller group (former. anyone who wants to have been a member is welcome to just say so)

Physical description:

*7’8”.

*Seems slightly ‘off’, as though something much more dangerous is engaged in an almost-perfect attempt to pass as a human being.

*Even his breathing pattern is slightly odd.

*Over time, he’s learned to minimize the effect, but among other things, these ‘tricks’ make his walk a little stiff and ungainly.

*His skin tends to be warm, not cold, to the touch.  

Species specifics:

*Enhanced strength, speed, durability, and endurance

*Doesn’t age

*Immune to any disease he’s encountered so far

*Skin oils contain an antiseptic agent.

*Will eventually heal from most injuries.  Generally speaking, the more severe an injury is, the more quickly Adam will recover.  So breaking his back, for example, would put him out of commission for a lot longer than shooting him in the head.

*He can’t regenerate limbs, but if he loses an arm, let’s say, he can stitch a new one on and eventually nerves and such will extend and mesh it with the rest of his body and slowly change it to look like the arm that was there before.  In theory, he could use any organic matter, but the less it’s like his old arm, the longer the process will take.

*New scars disappear after a few years.  Scars from injuries he had at the time of his reanimation will remain forever.

*Can go without food for long periods of time and survive extreme subzero temperatures, though prolonged periods of either will send him into a dormant state; for all intents and purposes, he will appear to be dead.

*However, electricity can revive him again.

*But if he gets into this state, or is badly injured enough, he does have to rely on others to revive him.

*Most drugs, including painkillers (but also including poisons), won’t work on him.  However, electricity can speed the healing process and help with pain.  Getting hit with too many volts can make him act very strangely, but electricity won’t hurt him.  

* His blood type doesn’t fit into the recognized system for humans, but it’s close: he’s both a universal donor and a universal receiver.  Receiving a transfusion from him wouldn’t affect someone in a major way, but might help boost someone’s immune system and slow the aging process a tiny bit.

*If he knows someone’s non-human or immortal, and they’ve told him so, he’ll share at least part of what he is with them, too.  Given the name he’s going by, he’s obviously not that secretive, but he’s careful about exactly what he says.  If asked directly about his moniker, he’ll say it’s a stage name, which is not entirely false.

Family: None starting out, but he’s adopted children at various points in his life, and if anyone wants to claim that sort of familial relationship with him, feel free to come plot it out with me!

Relationships: Subject to plotting

OOC INFORMATION: Kathryn; @fromgallowsandgraves; she-her; ims / discord.

#BIOGRAPHY. ( gv twg. )

[foxymuses]

do it! share the spn opinions!

aight, but i aint gonna go super into detail here, okay, and i’m putting it under a cut just so people who don’t want to SEE THE SALT can avoid it, so this is your LAST WARNING don’t read further if you’re easily offended/have strong feelings about spn. also, i say it several times, but it should be enforced here that just because i dislike a character on the show does not mean i dislike someone’s portrayal. oftentimes, the tumblr rp world writes characters better than shows do and it redeems these characters in my eyes, so. keep that in mind

i can’t stand sam at all. i think he’s a whiny bitch baby and he gets far too much love in the show. i prefer the later seasons when dean becomes the plot focus. this isn’t because i like dean better (but i do), it’s honestly just so... like sam’s writing is so off putting and it grinds me. i usually skip episodes that are sam focused, and i very much can’t stand most of s3 and s4. i also don’t like soulless sam at all *** i usually adore sam rpers. this isn’t to say i hate the character. i hate the way he’s written in the show, but how tumblr people write him is the Right way and i love them for it

i Strongly Disliked s6 and s12. i can’t even tell you what happened in these seasons aside from a vague recollection. s8 is also a bit of a fog, but that’s mostly because s9 is when i started watching the show on tv so i sort of skipped through s8 to be ready for the premiere.

i will forever be salty that they did dean dirty at the end of s5. having him go to say yes then essentially being all ‘jk sam asked me not to so i wont’ will forever irritate me. like. they were all ‘no dean, you can’t say yes to michael’ and ready to lock him up for it, but then literally like an episode later were like ‘nah it’s cool if sam says yes though, whatever’

sort of following that, i really hate that sam is oftentimes implied to be the ‘stronger’ or ‘nicer’ brother. i think he’s a huge hypocrite and like. he causes so many problems, and he’s so mean to dean a lot of the time? but dean would do anything for him? that’s annoying

i did not like mary being brought back at all. that was random and made super little sense to the overall plot, and i did not like how she was written

i also don’t like jack. he seemed a kind of... mmm there’s a word for it. but like the writers seemed to just throw him in for the sake of a plot line, and he’s annoying and i don’t like how OP he is. again, most jack writers are better, but within the show realm, he annoys me to no end, as does the immediate like... love for him that everyone but dean has, and the pushy insistence that everyone shoves at dean to like jack as if he’s not the spawn of the devil

i dont even think this is controversial, but how they handled demon dean was Disappointing, and great part of the reason i stopped watching in s10 and didn’t catch up until i learned dean got possessed by michael FINALLY. but that disappointed me too, so. here we are, living on my blog with my own rules about the possessions and shit

can we talk about how dean’s ptsd is never addressed at all. 

uh, john was an abusive asshole. no forgiveness here. there’s no excuses ‘he was a drunk, he missed his wife, he wanted dean to survive’ no, he was an abusive asshole that royally fucked dean up for good, and i will have none of the john apologist bullshit here, thanks. bobby was more a father to dean than john ever would’ve been

don’t really care for the claire arc all that much. i like her with jody, and i like jody’s little family with alex too, but the arc for claire is just.. really odd

donna is incredibly annoying. i’ll keep saying it, but tumblr writers do her so much better. show donna just. ugh.

i wrote a post about it once, but the episode i Hate the most is on the head of a pin, and i won’t super go into detail, but that whole episode is s shit show and i Do Not acknowledge it happened, thanks

I THINK THERE’S MORE BUT I’M BLANKING

the samulet and handprint both still exist, thanks. there’s a post about it somewhere on one of my blogs that i should bring out again

can we stop treating dean as either an angry fisticuffs player or an overall childish goofball? he has more to him than that

i’m still bitter over the ruby arc, honestly. it annoyed me in all the wrong ways. we can just assume that i’m fine with ruby writers at this point, nothing i say in this list pertains to writers on tumblr, just the show

the god is chuck thing is fine, but the whole direction the show took with it after amara is just fucking bananas. i mean sure, what else could they end on other than a fight against god, but still. fucking bananas. lets go back to the days of ‘maybe chuck is god’ in like s5, yknow?

um can dean and cas just kiss now? or how about like several seasons ago, but starting in like s11, even though i adore cas a lot, he started to get a little irritating. again, show writing, not tumblr writing. but he kinda started to become like... high and mighty and it does not mesh well with things, i think

ben is dean’s son, i dont care what you say.

um im trying to go through the seasons in my head to remember things that annoy me and are controversial, and aren’t just things that spn needs to fix, like andy’s death (still bitter)

what was that crowley and blood addiction shit that happened in like s10 or something? what was that supposed to be? was that supposed to mean something i am so confused

um are the ghostfacers even still alive, like this isn’t salt, i’m just genuinely concerned because if they are, why aren’t they in more episodes please

yo, maybe because i write pride and chronos and whatever, but the treatment of non-chrisitan deities is absolute Shit, thanks. like i get that the show is going for the christian religion is the Main thing, because most people get it, but like. as someone genuinely interested in religion, the utter disdain for other religious entities or even the idea that all demons are bad demons simply because demons is ridiculous. show some love to other entities. like for fuck’s sake, you can’t just kill the god of time? what the fuck? some of these gods were around long before any recorded history of the christian god, so i guarantee you at least half of them could kick god’s butt and call it a day.

s9 mark of cain dean was the best, that’s the end of that argument

wtf with the gabe storyline what even, gabe deserved better

imma go so far as to say lucifer did too, that was a bunch of nonsense. all of it that happened after s5, it’s all bullshit

actually the only angel that deserved what they god was metatron, thanks, the asshole. 

also can we talk about death, like. dont get me wrong billie is cool, but i want my original pizza-loving death back please, he and dean had a cool thing going on. also tessa, can we bring back tessa

honestly rowena annoyed me in the beginning. she grew on me, but i feel like a lot of her character was forced. 

the dean and pie thing has gone a little too far at this point

*claps* i *claps* don’t *claps* like *claps* sam! literally half the things in this post are me dancing around this idea, but most of my salt for the show stems from my dislike of him. 

idek the general opinion on this, but i did Not like the crazy cas & meg situation. like all of that. it was weird. i mean i didn’t even really like meg, to be honest. but that whole arc was fucking weird, and that relationship (one kiss?) felt super forced.

actually can we stop having cas just. fucking switch personalities all the time? s4 cas was the best.

dean does Not put sam above everyone else. he will try to save sam, yes, but sam is not the most important person to dean, and dean will not choose sam above cas or bobby or charlie or jody or literally anyone.

IM RUNNING OUT OF THOUGHTS BUT I KNOW I HAVE MORE so. we’ll come back to this.

#;;fox answers #oops spilled the salt #i don't apologize for anything #Anonymous #delivered