#salvation is for all

[cloudmancy]

burn the incense of our innocence and in a sense we thrive

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #the rat grinders #kipperlilly copperkettle #lucy frostblade #oisin hakinvar #ruben hopclap #buddy dawn #mary ann skuttle #my stuff #fhjy spoilers #they are all so dear to me... didn't you find love or salvation in what they do...

[chillyfeetsteak]

I first became fascinated with it a few years ago when I noticed it out an airplane window on a flight from Texas to Southern California. In an expanse of endless desert, suddenly, a vast body of water. When I got home, I immediately looked it up on a map. The Salton Sea.

It’s the largest landlocked body of water in California. It sits right on top of the San Andreas Fault at over 200 feet below sea level. It is more than twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean. It is completely toxic. And I had never heard of it before then.

(photo essay under the cut)

In the early 1900s the Colorado River was diverted through a series of irrigation canals in order to provide water for the farmlands of Imperial Valley. One of the head-gates broke during a flood, and the desert basin filled with water for 2 years before it was fixed. The unexpected lake soon became a popular vacation destination; it was stocked with fish, and resorts and hotels popped up along its shores. It became known as a great place for sport fishing, waterskiing, and yacht parties. Big name celebrities visited. At one point, it had more annual visitors than Yosemite.

Salton Sea has no outlet, and is only filled via agricultural runoff. As the water evaporated in the hot desert sun, the lake became more and more saline. Chemicals began to build up from the run off causing toxic algae blooms, and mass die-offs of fish and birds started in the 80s. By the 90s, the beaches were littered with fish gills and bird bones and the resorts were abandoned. The lake began to dry up as irrigation run-off was diverted away. The exposed lake bed is also toxic, and the high desert winds kick up the dust, making the air poisonous. 

Despite the unpleasant odor, the noxious air and the summer temperatures regularly reaching 120°, a renaissance of sorts began in the early 2010s. Artist and nomad colonies began to spring up around Salton Sea. Bombay Beach, once a popular resort destination, is now mostly a ghost town, but the folks who remain have turned the ruins on the shores into an outdoor art installation gallery where the found-art sculptures are cyclically destroyed by the elements and then replaced with new ones. Many of the houses and RVs in town are themselves art pieces.

In nearby Slab City, a settlement of off-the-grid lifestylers, you can find even more folk art. Salvation Mountain is a manmade hill painted with bright colors and bible verses and maintained by a community of volunteers. East Jesus is a sculpture garden and art installation. 

This past weekend my partner and I finally made the pilgrimage to the Sea. California has the benefit of being home to a huge array of biomes. In just a couple of hours you can travel from snowy mountain peaks to lush oases to endless sand dunes. Driving the hour or so south from Palm Springs towards Salton Sea is like driving towards the end of the world.

Bombay Beach especially enamored me. The beach is crusted with salt and millions of tiny shells and bones. It smells awful, like sewage and chemicals and low-tide and rotting fish. You drive out onto the beach and park anywhere amongst the sculptures and deteriorating resort ruins. The art feels raw in a way I haven’t experienced before. It reminds me of seeing paleolithic cave art. Humans made this, with no motivation other than to create something intriguing or beautiful or sad. Not much can live out here, but what you find fills me with a great adoration for humanity. Despite the asphyxiation of the natural world, the human spirit persists.

#im sure most people know about this place but i didnt so!! #i hated writing essays in school but now in my 30s i do it for fun apparently #photos are all mine except the first one #salton sea #bombay beach #slab city #salvation mountain

[harvocel]

trigun stampede is a good show

#tristamp #trigun #before watching: who’s vashwood #after watching: the world was only ever rusting. all angels are liars or broken fools. #blind faith in humanity is our ruin and our only salvation #trigun is cool ok bye

[yuudamari]

Thoughts on DKOS's wings

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #kim dokja #demon king of salvation #my art #umm yes its notes again sorry this is fun to me #also i just wanted to draw his huge wings. EVEN IF I AM NOT GOOD #AT DRAWING WINGS AT ALL

[setewbro]

Kim Dokja Hiii

#my art #fanart #orv #artists on tumblr #brart #sete art #brazillian artists #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja #kdj #demon king of salvation #now that I have procreate I'll draw all the orv fanart I didn't

[supersapphical]

perhaps my most esoteric but very, very passionate spn take is that i truly believe if you haven't watched season 1 supernatural with the original music cues, you have not seen season 1 supernatural.

#i actually try not to think about it too much because it fills me with an unreasonable amount of rage #like so many people are out here just experiencing season 1 WRONG #no highway to hell at the end of the pilot??? #no fear the reaper WHILE the reaper is attacking someone??? #no sugar we're going down playing in the background while high school girls chitchat in bloody mary??? #no in-a-gadda-da-vida at the opening of skin??? #NO bad company NO boston NO bob seger #no carry on my wayward son which in the original run was first used in salvation #no can't find my way home in route 666 #AND THE BIGGEST CRIME OF ALL NO BAD MOON RISING AT THE END OF THE SEASON FINALE

[loki-us]

Mobius offered him something better

#and who’s to say it wasn’t Loki’s salvation after all ?? #Lokius #loki #mobius #mobius m mobius #loki show #Loki tv #loki season 1 #loki season two #loki s1 #loki s2 #gifset #loki-us blog

[buqbite]

Clean Hands

#Having an art funk rn #Anyways I'm thinking about demon world arc kdj again #He's the revolutionarhh ok rq i need you to know that the tag auto suggest suggested “He's gay” #thank you tumblr. anyways #He's the revolutionary #Usually someone who's noble and kind and whatever #lord knows he isnt #But his hands are? Technically clean? Aren't they? #Has he killed any significant innocents? That will stick with you in your memory? #And dont the constellations love love LOVE killing those nameless extras #hehe side story reference. anyways thats all #orv #omniscient readers viewpoint #kim dokja #orv kdj #orv spoilers #demon king of salvation #my art

[egharcourt]

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot saying that heaven and hell are a state of mind and nothing can obstruct you from salvation and the love of God except your own guilt. And despair being such a dooming force that even if Jesus were to appear in front of you himself and repeatedly remind you how much he loves you, hell, he'll try to hug you and wash your feet even, you can't be let free from the prison of suffering that you've confined yourself in. All because you're so disappointed in yourself that you're gripping the bars refusing to let go. How you cannot love God without first forgiving yourself. How the ultimate tragedy in this poignant dark comedy of a play is that Judas' damnation comes not from the fact that he betrayed Jesus, but from his self-disdain and perceived unworthiness that he basically condemned himself into an eternity of solitary anguish. I can go on about this play forever and ever. Do you get it.

#the last days of judas iscariot #text #on salvation #judas iscariot #jesus #thoughts #philosophy #i have so many thoughts #about this play #it's so...deep #I can't put all of it into words #but there are so quotes that literally floored me #holy shit #this is insane #go read it #NOW

[lotus-pear]

what is childe doing in bungou gay dogs😟

#finally finished reading this manga after it sat on my to read list for a couple years #a good friend finally convinced me into reading it and i buckled and read the whole thing in three days (i'm not ok <33) #anyway she neglected to tell me childe was in it otherwise i would have read it sooner!!!!!! #NO NO HEAR ME OUT #murder gingers with dead blue eyes that are part of dark antagonistic organizations and happen to be executives in said organizations #relatively similar color palette and cocky confident personalities that are instantly shed when in the heat of battle #tragic pasts where both were mercilessly tormented until salvation occurred in the form of an invitation to their respective organizations #childe has so many siblings that one of them left and infiltrated another anime #i better not see any chuuya stans @ me in the tags and be like ''stop comparing zhongli's wallet to my pookie chuuya'' #i will fuck you up #i'm so sry to anyone who actually sat and read all the tags im so mentally ill abt this mf i can talk about him for hrs if given the chance #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #lotus draws

[campfireofdreams]

"... hatred, friendship, jealousy, indignation, emptiness, love, sorrow."

#why did he have to say the word 'love' like that 😭 #it's like. he can't help what he feels #and what he feels among all the other emotions is LOVE. he's surrendering to it. helpless. #his love for guts is his doom but also his salvation. dark. but also light. #screaming about every version of griffith's monologue 😩 #the anime isn't perfect obviously but i think griffith's voice actor did a great job portraying his feelings in this scene #griffith #anime #griffguts #berserk 1997

[corallapis]

No, never. Missy! I will never stand with Doctor!

#simm!master #missy #gomez!master #tenth doctor #twelfth doctor #doctor x master #doctor who #dwedit #dw #* #not even trying to consistently color this one soz ✌️ #so i was thinking abt the change in simm!master's attitude from eot (“get out of the way”) to s10 (“i will never stand with the doctor”)... #and like. what if you voluntarily saved the doctor by throwing yourself back into the time war #the war that you made yourself human to escape from the first time round #dragged back to gallifrey at the mercy of the ppl who you just opposed? (the people who engineered your insanity in the first place?) #when missy asks him to go to gallifrey with her & 12 says ''you'll be clapped irons'' yeah i'm sure it was a great deal more than that #for the deserter. for the person who they cursed as a child & still failed to bring about their salvation #for the someone who tried to kill the founder of all time lord society #and then when gallifrey is saved... does the doctor (again: whose life you saved!!! when you last saw each other) come looking for you? no #you have to get yourself out. and when you find yourself trapped & the doctor finally does appear... what does he say to you? #''so they cured your little condition and kicked you out'' !!!! #like. yeah. i think simm!master is totally in the right for not listening to a single thing 12 says past that point. lmao.

[master-missysversion]

I love this exchange, it took me so long to realise that Clara was saying vastra was lying here. And I love how Clara was so certain that the doctor was kind, that he would help her out of kindness. It leads nicely into the doctor saying in the series 10 finale that he helps people out of kindness. She knew him so well right from the very start

#also ''not your salvation not you protector'' #the irony of this technically being correct at this point in time because the reality is the other way around #this version of Clara was literally born to protect the doctor #but we all know that protecting Clara would later become the most important thing to the doctor #doctor who

[bruhstation]

you deserved better from me than an oversized uniform and a world full of troubles

#this is tugs #tugs zorran #tugs zip #fortezza bigg city #senjart #quick doodle before bed (1 am) #when you're only 18 and got force-fed a world full of crime and shady hard-to-trust folks #and the middle aged man that you adore and treat as a paragon of salvation is distant and cannot love you ''normally'' #while the person that berates you is the one that genuinely loves you but your brain automatically registers any ''insult'' as ''bad'' #and you don't know that he cares for you #family'd so hard they started to develop genuine traditional family problems #we're not beating the complicated doomed familyhood allegations with this one 😂😂😂 #the faint ''have to'' in the background is like. #''do I care for you because my boss handed you to me as part of my duty'' #vs #''do I care for you because I don't want you to end up like me even though I am NOT warm or nice'' #also them without their hats. the one thing all z-stacks have in common that indicates them being from the same group #theres lots of details and themes and whatnot in this doodle but my brain is a mush..... erm..... have fun staring #(fixes my glasses and grins like an ape)

[celestiall0tus]

Alix Appreciation

A silly idea turned into just a full-on appreciation of Alix.

The ones that aren't mine are:

Bunnix and Canine Girl - Canon

Queen Cobra - @adventuremaker21 AU Alix

And, again, there is a surprise in here more so for my followers. If you know it, you'll know it.

I will also likely do a different character, just don't know who yet.

#miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #miraculous au #au #alternate universe #fanart #miraculous fanart #digital art #alix kubdel #alix #mlb alix #miraculous alix #alix miraculous #salvation au #paradise au #all that remained au #absolution au #bloody bug au #queen cobra #bunnix #canine girl #alix appreciation #mlb alix appreciation #celestiall0tus #my art

[midnight-mismanagement]

I’ve been thinking about That Church SceneTM and idk I think what hit me hardest was how Spike is talking about his former pre-soul mindset and how naive it is. He says “and she shall look on him with forgiveness and love and everyone will forgive and love and he will be loved” because while pre-soul he knew he was a monster and he knew he had done horrible things, he was okay with those things, he was a vampire after all, but he felt horrible for what he did to Buffy, but even then he still had a bit of hope. From the outside looking in, Angel’s soul seemed like the “button” for the “be good” switch. It would be the “piece that would make [him] fit” so he would be the “kind of man who would never [hurt her].” The “be a man not a monster” switch, that would make him be able to tell right from wrong and never hurt the people he loves anymore. But...the soul is not a “be good” switch. I don’t really know what the soul exactly is, since it’s never really concrete in the lore, but it doesn’t just make him fit, it doesn’t turn him into what he wants, but what it does do, is make him much more aware of himself and what he’s done, and he comes to the realization that no, there is no forgiveness. There never will be, he will never be worthy of it. He is condemned. He says “it’s okay now, right?” with hopeful despondency because he knows it will never be okay. Spike has always wanted acceptance, and love, and he sought it from places he would never get it, and now he knows he will never get it because he shouldn’t.

So when he goes up in flames by the end in heroic sacrifice and all that jazz, he’s happy he even got to have an ending like this, he’s finally doing something right. And when he comes back in Angel, as a ghost with no ability to affect the world around him (except annoy the crap out of Angel) he feels he is on borrowed time. In the moment of burning up, he didn’t have to think about if he would end up in hell or the aftermath, but with Pavayne toying with him, tugging him in to hell, it’s a slow torture of what he’s known all along, even if he didn’t fully want to face it. He is still condemned. And yet, given what he believes to be the one opportunity to stave off the inevitable for however longer and get a body, he still chooses Fred’s life over his own. And Fred tells him “you’re someone worth saving.” She doesn’t condemn him. She believes in him, like Buffy did, and this time it’s someone he doesn’t have a rocky past with or romantic feelings with, she just sees him for him and wants to help. And in the end he gets a body while she loses hers, and it’s because Angel and Spike did the “right” thing because it’s what Fred would’ve wanted. I think soulless him would’ve saved Fred, even if it meant condemning so many others. 

And on the day he thinks will once again be his last before the big suicide mission showdown (which he was the first to volunteer for), he doesn’t call Buffy to give her the pain of finding he’s alive only to die again, instead he goes to a bar and reads his poetry, the window into his shameful, soft soul that was stamped on and laughed at the last time he was a human, and hopes for acceptance. And he gets it.

#I just have a lot of Spike feelings all of a sudden #this is how I procrastinate is by falling down eighth grade rabbit hole obsessions #but yeah just very much the whole #will this fix me oh shit nothing can #and it was me who did that #is very much oof #the soul doesn't make him a good person #it just holds up a mirror he hasn't seen himself in since he was a human #and it's on him to figure out what to choose from here #to keep going or sink into his inevitable condemnation #and accept there is no salvation only living #or unliving #btvs #spike #spike btvs #buffy the vampire slayer