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icaruspendragon · 2 months

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hiii, this might be weird, but who is Lazarus? I'm not religious, so I've tried searching for who he is, but I can't seem to get a clear answer and was wondering if you could explain him?

ah yes, lazarus of bethany. a man i consider to be equal parts friend and foe.

lazarus lived in bethany with his two sisters, mary and martha. and when we meet him, he’s sick. so much so that his sisters send for jesus of nazareth saying, “lord, your dear friend is very sick.”

jesus of nazareth was in jerusalem when he received the message. and despite being only a few miles from bethany, and despite jesus loving martha and mary and lazarus, he waited. he didn’t go to them straight away. he waited. he waited until lazarus died and then said, “lazarus’ sickness will not end in death. no, it happened for the glory of god so that the son of god will receive glory from this.”

and when jesus finally made it to bethany he was told lazarus had already died. that he has already been in the grave for four days. and when martha, sister of lazarus got word that jesus was coming, she went to meet him. and mary, sister of lazarus did not. and when martha saw jesus she said to him, “lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

and jesus said to her, “your brother will rise again.”

but then mary arrived and she saw jesus and she fell at his feet and she said, “lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.” and she wept over her brother. because she loved him and he was gone. and jesus should have been there. because if jesus had been there, her brother would not have died.

and jesus saw her weeping. and he saw the other people wailing with her. because lazarus was deeply loved. and now he was gone. and they had sent for jesus. they had prayed for a miracle. and that miracle didn’t come until it was four days too late. and they didn’t know that jesus was going to bring lazarus back. they didn’t know that jesus had waited that long to teach a lesson. to prove a point. they just knew jesus was too late. and now they were forced to grieve.

and then a deep anger welled up in jesus. and he was deeply troubled. and jesus asks, “where have you put him?” and the people say, “lord, come and see.” and he does. and when he sees, jesus weeps. when he sees, we get the shortest verse in the bible. a mere two words to sum up an entire town’s grief. two words to convey the loss of a sibling. two words are offered for the preventable death of a loved man.

jesus is four days too late. and jesus?

jesus wept.

and the people who loved lazarus turned to him and said to jesus, “see how much he loved him!”

jesus loved lazarus. and then he let him die.

and some of the people said about jesus “this man healed a blind man. couldn’t he have kept lazarus from dying?”

and then jesus, who knew all along that he would revive lazarus. jesus, who let all those people mourn. jesus, who let those sisters lose their brother. jesus, who let them weep. jesus, who wept with them. that very same jesus said to those who loved lazarus, who mourned him, jesus of nazareth said to them, “didn’t i tell you that you would see god’s glory if you believe?”

and then the stone of lazarus’ tomb was rolled aside. and then jesus looked up to heaven and said, “father, thank you for hearing me. you always hear me, but i said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” and then jesus shouted, “lazarus, come out!” and he did.

lazarus the dead man came out, his hands and feet and face wrapped still in burial cloth. and then jesus of nazareth told them, “unwrap him and let him go!”

and then lazarus of bethany became lazarus of the grave. lazarus of the grave that will never be left behind even though he has risen and relinquished. lazarus of the grave who did not make good his escape unscathed. lazarus of the grave who will now check each darkened doorway as death and his sting is keenly felt.

lazarus was a man. a man whose family loved him. a man whose sisters sent for a miracle. a man whose sisters mourned him in the four days it took for that miracle to show up. a man who was made an example for no reason other than being loved by jesus. a thing that we are all told to be. loved by our savior.

lazarus is a man who makes me wonder three things. firstly, if jesus had been there that my brother may not have died. secondly, if jesus of nazareth too weeps for me. and thirdly, if jesus loves us and we in turn love him too like the scriptures command, why does he use us in the lessons he teaches.

why must we be the men he makes believers of?

so lazarus was just a man whose crime was loving jesus. and martha was just a girl whose crime was loving her brother. and they both suffered a miracle because of it.

#cw religion #yeah it’s always time to religious trauma post on main #lazarus was just a man #lazarus was brother #and my brother was a man #and i am a sister #and i too loved jesus as martha and mary did #so why did he get to come back when my brother did not?#i also tend to think of lazarus as dean winchester before i think of him as lazarus from the bible lmao #hence the title of my book being ‘lazarus rises (amongst other things)’#bc of hit cw show supernatural #and the bible too ig #but mainly supernatural

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lunallaa · 2 months

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So potentially hot take....

Jason Todd doesn't need to or should be that much a pretty boy. Not saying he should be super ugly or something but I am a firm believer of the rough and really just average appearance Jason agenda.

I know we all love how Dexter Soy draws him but let Jason be just a lil ugly a lil beat up yknow?

This post is all in silly goofy fun pls don't get mad 🫣

#the man died and came back to life thank to superboy prime punching a hole in the wall that is reality and time #and then in his zombie like state was thrown into a Lazarus pit #and he gets fucked up pretty regularly in his fights as red hood #let the man be a little roughed up #dick is the pretty boy #jason is the brick shithouse #jason todd #red hood #dc #jason todd x reader #this is probably me just venting cause people are so mean about jason in gotham knights:(

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thesadboy · 8 months

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If I had a nickel for everytime I read and enjoyed a webcomic that has some toxic homerotic subtext between a human and some demonic creature that they're tied to, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

#dexreadswebcomics #dexreads webcomics #dexreads ava's demon #dexreads lonely man's lazarus #ava's demon #lonely man's lazarus #ava ire #wrathia bellarmina #audric charon #gremory erebus #grim lonely man's lazarus #some scenes in the comics are just OOZING with toxic homoeroticism #is it intentional?#am I perhaps “reading into it too much”?#Idk but I found it interesting and a bit funny #mine own postsss

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aftout · 5 days

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You guys say “hey nico we already saw your Chandrelle redesign yesterday” and i go uhm what the freak? Her boyfriends are literally here now as well :/ you literally have to look at them or i will wail and also drawing vallamir made me almosg pass out (Lazarus’ helmet reveal under the cut baby!)

Idk how any of these fuckers get onto that motorcycle

#THANK GOD ALL OF THEM ARE FINALLY COMPLETE THESE WERE SOOOOO SILLY TO DO #drawing armour is a riot and a half but i would do anything for that man #their divorce is about to change the trajectory of the world permanently and forever. thats just how powerful these people are #maybe the real freaks of legendaria were the friends we made along the way #i swear i have legitimate reasoning behind why Lazarus’ helmet obscures his entire face but it’s almost 4 am here and i am so exhausted #and my throat hurts!!!#so blessed be. that thought will be shared another day #my art #the hex #daniel mullins games #chandrelle stormblaze #lazarus bleeze #vallamir #Spider Cereal (au)

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tainted-esau · 5 months

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Woa

#tboi #tboi fanart #tboi au #israel au #dark esau #tboi azazel #tboi lazarus #tboi abel #tboi magdalene #tboi maggie #tboi cain #jacob and esau #i don't watermark my things all that often anymore but this is something that made me go damn. i should do that #i wanted to add a few of Israel's unlockable items onto the background wings but i think this is already enough of a clusterfuck lmao #anyway i love this au sm i love building characters up just to traumatize them in the worst ways i can think of lmao #for now they're all relatively chill and having a good time #but oh man when i eventually draw the truth I'm going to feel terrible #shoutout to Esau though he's a good brother and i did him dirty he deserved better #omori au

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puppetmaster13u · 7 months

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Meat Marionette #11?

Thinkin about the rogues in this Au, and like, the difference between their relationship with the bats vs this Au.

For example, Selina. I’ll admit I take a bit of inspiration from the 2022 movie and mix it with comic depictions along with the different cartoons, which honestly isn’t too different from each other by too much. Now, I don’t think that Catwoman would flirt with this version of Batman, what with his body being a meat puppet that is visibly not human and off putting. There’s also the fact that she would have been an early-ish rogue of his, at least in order of encounters. Which means that she probably encounters the Bat for the first time while Bruce was still getting used to said gifted body, which in turn was probably terrifying. So there’s still a cat and mouse game happening, but it’s more akin to Selina doing her darn best to avoid the Bat no matter what, because to her it isn’t above trying to kill. It’s like seeing a lion where you figure you’re safe at this distance, until it starts moving and you realize that you are definitely not far enough away.

Another rogue that I am thinking of is Harvey and Two-Face (Which DC, give Two-Face a proper name :/ he’s his own dude even if they share a body). Harvey was best friends with Bruce, hell they were practically high-school sweethearts in some cases! And Bruce still visits him in Arkham, canonically still talks and interacts with both his friend and TF. Now if anyone is going to notice the changes to Bruce, it’s going to be Harvey. He’s going to be the first to notice how Bruce’s movements are now dangerous and downright predatory, with too much grace even for a dancer or martial artist. There’s something familiar about that movement, and Harvey isn’t an idiot, TF isn’t one either. They know there’s something wrong with Bruce even if he insists he’s fine. In canon Harvey straight up broke down and cried when he found out Bruce was Batman, so I’m wondering what their reaction to this version of the bat would be…

There’s also rogues like the Riddler and the Joker who are downright obsessed with Batman, but would they still be with this one? I could see Joker slowly becoming obsessed as the creatures continue to thwart him over and over again, but I’m still rotating Riddler.

But y’know who would definitely be obsessed with the batclan?

Scarecrow. The man is obsessed with studying fear, with the effects it has and how to cause it. So the bats, who bring terror wherever they go, with something about them continuously tingling at the back of ones’ more instinctive mind that this is something to fear? He would be utterly enthralled, he’d need to know more, he’d need to know Everything. Especially if his fear toxin doesn’t work right on them. After all, how would a gas effect something without lungs? How can you inject something that doesn’t have blood, that’s not quite alive, not in the way that we as humans understand? How can you cause fear of something that has stared into the Tunnels’ heart and lived? Or something like that lol.

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AU is a combo of my cryptid batfam and @phoenixcatch7 's Possessed Doll au, go check them out, they're amazing

#rambles #meat marionette au #batman au #I am just pondering how the dynamics with certain rogues are effected #Like Harley and Bruce both went to medschool around the same time and definitely could've shared classes #Like mans is surprisingly connected directly to so many of his rogues #Not to mention the main thing that got me pondering this being the Al Ghuls #Like in my Genesis story I have Damian created from stolen blood since they don't know that the bat is the same as bruce #But idk if this would also happen in this AU or not seeing as the meat puppets don't exactly have blood per se #But maybe it could have something to do with them literally drinking lazarus water too #hngh i have no idea what to do with them :/#batman #batfam #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #wayne family #gotham rogues #But seriously pondering about their relationships #Not just the rogues but I'll probably elaborate more on that later #like for example would Dick found the Titans when he doesn't have a falling out with Bruce?#hm

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mezzyb0nb0n · 8 months

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Forgot to post this

#Mr.smart #Christopher smart #that one video #lonely man's lazarus #lml #shitpost #also I just found out this guy is named christoper wtf #he kinda looks like one

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art-appreciation-dog · 4 months

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Behind the scenes by lonelymanslazarus

-> Full animation on YouTube and TikTok

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themistas · 3 months

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idk. there's something about sam winchester. as soon as he's born it's like fate itself punishes him for it. cursed to be The One, vessel of lucifer, sacrifices himself so that the apocalypse doesn't happen -- but he's raised soulless, and when he gets his soul back -

suffering clings to him, everything haunts him.

it's like he's not allowed to be at peace, not allowed to breathe. he's born and he's robbed of a normal life because desperate people do desperate things, and all he is is collateral damage. he's robbed of a normal life, because - actually - he wasn't ever supposed to have one. he's so smaller than god and he runs around in his palm, desperately trying to get off it. it's not a comfortable ride.

and at first he gets to avoid it. as a young stanford dropout he gets to squeeze through it. but fate catches up and catches him by the collar, and people die, and people drown around him, and he can't even surface himself.

there used to be a time dean could take it all for him. but once he's back from hell, it's as if everything screamed at him to go back there, to never rise again. dean wants the trials, and man - sam doesn't even get that. the promise lies empty, devoid of any hope on the floor.

all he gets is a hellhound, standing above him, pouring out a bath, a touch of you're it! down on him. it's hateful. it's disgusting. it's horrible.

and i haven't seen more, i'm for now stuck with a sam that's starting yet another quest that begs for suffering, but.

this man sees a light at the end of the tunnel. he has hope. he has faith. fate will have him again and again and again. but they will never own, not even touch his soul.

it's been reclaimed.

#he is the most heartbreaking tragedy to ever appear on my tv screen i will NEVER get over him #just saw the hellhound ep and man i am soooo. soooo. he is soooooo. i love you sam winchester #sam winchester #supernatural #spn #textmistas #also maybe im too naive too hopeful but i do believe that sam no matter how broken he is always manages to rise.#he is lazarus. to me. he is jesus. to me. he is everything. to me.

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carpetcat2 · 9 months

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#Carpart #oc #original character #I have to give this man another name besides just Lazarus #Anyways hii this is my oc Lazarus he is a monster hunting merc

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gallifreyvn · 10 months

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its been so weird rewatching tenth doctor episodes after getting diagnosed with autism earlier this year cos like as a kid, and even later as an adult, i had no idea whatsoever that ten was actually kinda rude, apparently. like he can be perceived as arrogant and he says and does things that are off-putting and his companions often have to give him looks or apologise on his behalf or explain his behaviour to others.

ive seen a few people point stuff like this out more recently as reasons for not liking his character which im fairly certain is the only reason ive noticed it this time round. and im pretty sure this might actually be part of the reason ive always loved him and connected with him so much tho cos apparently i also say the wrong things and come across as arrogant and i had absolutely no idea about that either until very very recently.

there’s a social awkwardness to him that i had no idea i was even connecting with all this time. little ten year old me just thought he was the coolest guy in the world.

#doctor who #tenth doctor #autism #the tenth doctor is my original blorbo as it were #and he is still the coolest guy in the world tbh #i think you could probably say all of this about any doctor tbh as well #i have a lot of love in my heart for twelve and his cue cards and thirteen not knowing what to say to graham at the end of can you hear me?#oh man there’s this bit in the lazarus experiment (ive just got to lottl in my rewatch)#where francine is grilling him over what he’s been doing with martha all night and he says they’ve been ‘busy’#which she interprets in a veeery specific way and he is so! uncomfortable! and he can clearly tell he’s made a faux pas of some sort #and it’s like he’s literally boxed in and he’s got no idea what to say in this situation and it’s soooooo so so relatable #lol i said i was gonna be rambling on this blog look at me go #is this even coherent? does any of this make any sense? who knows?

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kettlefire · 1 year

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Danny knew something was horribly wrong the moment his sense's came back to him.

The air felt off. The smells and sounds that slowly came into focus was completely different. Everything felt so strange, but also so familiar.

Before he even tried opening his eyes and facing the people before him, he turned his focus inwards. Trying to piece together the hazy memories he had.

First was the evident moment everything started going downhill. A normal day suddenly shifting as the sky started to turn purple and green.

Harsh winds, and ghostly beings filled the air. Danny remembers sending Sam and Tucker to his house. Told them to find his parents and sister, get to the ops center.

He'd contact them when he can.

He doesn't think he did. It was a vague mess of fighting ghosts, teaming up with Vlad, and tracking why the living realm suddenly started looking like the zone.

While also getting the worse bruises and injuries he has had in ages.

Then he found the source. He's 97% sure he found himself up against Freakshow, but at this point it felt like he fought all of his rivals.

There was a strange pool, different from regular ectoplasm. Even with Freakshow's monologuing, he had no clue what it was.

Then he got shoved in.

Shoved in.

He didn't resurface. Some unknown energy pulling him deeper. He felt like he was drowning, being crushed, then oblivion.

Which left the question of who pulled him out, and where he was. This wasn't home. He didn't need to open his eyes to see that.

When he did finally open his eyes, he didn't expect what he saw.

Seriously, why are there so many people? And why do they have so much sharp and pointy things pointed at him???

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hypernixation · 9 months

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quit ur job join my lazarus troth

#i regret to admit i am obsessed with this menace #would LOVE to know what he did to deserve being murdered . can't wait for this fruit to get what's comin to him in the reboot #did some experimental shading shtuff on this one just cuz the shading in the comic was so compelling 2 me #lonely man's lazarus #lml #audric charon #nix.txt #nick's art !

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citruslllad · 1 year

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NOT my usual stuff but this animation of The Mind Electric on youtube literally would not leave my head so i had to paint a favorite frame. like i physically could not focus on my work in school because of how hard i was thinking about this animation. fuck me

OG frame next to this under the cut

#lonely mans lazarus #<- the animator #fanart #artists on tumblr #jays art #PLEASE i got so lazy at the end but i just needed to get this out i’m OBSEEEEESSED with this animation you don’t even KNOW #also i spent way too long on the face. can you tell?

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illusion-of-sea-axes · 11 months

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current scene in ch. 3 of Lazarus Left the Tomb.

#Red vs blue #RvB #Lavernius Tucker #Lazarus Left the Tomb #man is not doing too great hes also. not dealing with it.#Agent Washington #tw anxiety attack #Wash has no clue he's freaking Tucker out ok. hes just there.

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teddysatan · 1 year

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Jason Headcanon:

The white streak in his hair isnt actually from the Lazarus Pit

When he gets dunked in there, his hair is still all black. The only thing that changes are his eyes going green (and maybe glowing, i like the glowy eyes), but his hair stays the same. (idrc if he has scars from the wounds or whatever but I am a big fan of the autopsy scar for the angst)

Instead, the white comes in over time. (If we’re going with the resurrection where he was braindead for a while before being dunked in the pit, it starts there, but the point is it’s not actually a pit effect) Slowly, as time goes and his hair grows out, the white starts coming in, and everyone assumes its because of the Lazarus Pit only because they only saw him again years after, Talia is the only one besides Jason that knows exactly why that spot of hair is going white (Damian knows its not the pit either but he doesnt know what else it is)

The real reason is trauma. That spot on his head? Thats the first spot the Joker hit him with the crowbar. Its the first hit he got in, when Jason was tied up in a Robin costume in a warehouse in Ethiopia, with his mother smoking to the side. He still remembers looking over to her silently asking for help and knowing it won’t come, right before the crowbar hits him in that spot with the Joker laughing over him. after that it gets a bit blurry, the Joker hits hard and he mostly remember the laughing and the Forehand or Backand? A or B? and the smoke wafting up from his mothers cigarette, her face only lit up by that tiny glow when she takes a drag and her cold eyes that dont care and how relaxed she is watching him get beaten up and the laughter and cackling and pain pain pain

He knows everyone thinks its the Lazarus Pit that gave him that white streak and the green eyes, and he knows that everyone thinks he probably hates both of those

But he actually doesnt

he likes the eyes because that means they dont look like Sheila’s when she was watching him die, uncaring and unconcerned with the violence bestowed on her son

and he doesnt mind the white because he looks in the mirror (with eyes that arent Sheila’s) and he sees the spot where the first hit landed and he sees the white and hes reminded that he survived and he came back and one day, one day he’ll pay the Joker back for it, for the white in the hair, and the trauma and the death of everyone else that didnt survive and the pain of the unlucky ones that did

and maybe he likes the white streak too because its a visible sign of his death, of that trauma, something that cant just be shoved to the side and ignored, its a reminder that there is trauma from it that he didnt just bounce back to normal with his resurrection that his death did matter and change at least something even if only himself and the only sign is that white bit of hair and maybe that thought…. well maybe its a bit comforting surrounded by people that claim family but would rather he just go back to before to being that kid in green shorts so they dont have to feel guilty about his death and that make him question himself any time hes angry over his own death

(i also like the idea that a bit of his eyebrow and eyelashes are white too - the Joker took great fun in dragging the crowbar across his face from that first hit - the cut wasnt deep so it didnt scar over (or only lightly) but the trauma is still there just like in that spot in his hair)

anyway i think i might have to write a fanfic for this now

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