#churh

[muxas-world2]

I just saw a men so pretty and started crying

[muntzerism-diggerism]

To the musician Doechii, I am kind of sorry that I pronounce your name as "Douchi", like the bean.

[royllowarch]

Bath Abbey (Explore) by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Bath Abbey is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Abbey

[faggotry-enjoyer]

I don't use Spotify, but here's my most played song of the year.

last year when i posted this people melted down and went out of their way to misinterpret the purpose of this exercise and just say insane racist shit; the goal is to get you to reflect on whether or not you engage with black music and black art and artists, and if you seem to avoid doing so, to ask yourself why that is

if you would like, feel free to share the song/artist in the tags to share recs! always easier to begin or continue diversifying your listening habits with suggestions :)

[lavender-town-radio]

Arceus gave us the infinite capacity for invention so we could build cars and bridges, so we could travel without needing to fly. I don't want to be rude but you should read scripture before you lecture people.

I have and nowhere does it condemn flying. It condemns hubris. You're the one who decided flying is hubris.

[churchyaoi]

churh

[randomthefox]

I half suspect that most of the Netflix DMC fans are, like, refugees from the Frieren fandom who are latching onto it because it gives them the sympathetic misunderstood demons they want and call DMC's canon lore bad because it's basically the same deal as Frieren where the demons in that show are also not capable of love and are Always Chaotic Evil.

Which means that if you did point out to them that "The theme of Devil May Cry is humans are better than demons because they can love and Dante and Nero's strength comes from their humanity instead of their demon blood," They'd call you racist. Because Orcs are black people and the very concept of an entire species of evil sentient non-humans is racist against non-whites or whatever so we can't have that anymore.

Yeah I see discourse about Frieren all the time.

It doesn't really look like my kinda thing.

It's so fucking asinine because Devil May Cry already had nuance with its demons. It has human characters who sacrifice their humanity to become demons like Arkham Agnus and the rest of the churh, and it has straight up full on 100% born from hell Demons who side with humanity like Trish and SPARDA HIMSELF.

Clearly the series is already not as simple and black and white as Humans Good Demons Bad. The defining factor is love. And love is intrinsic to humanity. That's why characters like Agnus are said to have GIVEN UP their humanity. While characters like Trish and Lucia are implied to have humanity imbued into them by those who are willing to fill their dark souls with light, i.e. love and have trust in them DESPITE their nature as demons.

Humanity and demonity are not biological traits, they are matters of the heart. Credo is given a demonic body, but he never loses the love that he has for his sister and Nero that drives him and thus never truly becomes a demon. While Arkham appears human, but on the inside is anything but because he was willing to sacrifice those closest to him in the quest for power. Nero's entire conflict is that he has the demonic thirst for power, but he tempers it with the human motivation of wanting to use that power to protect those he loves.

"not all demons are bad!" "humans can be jerks too!" you're MISSING the POINT. Being evil is what MAKES you a demon, in the world of Devil May Cry. If they are capable of love, then they are BY DEFINITION NOT a demon. Because Devil's Never Cry. Despite being born of hell, Sparda Trish and Lucia ARE HUMAN because they have the capacity for love. Their ability to love LITERALLY makes them human.

THE NUANCE. EXISTS. IN THE VIDEO GAMES. ALREADY.

[versacethotty]

CHURH GIRL DONT HURT NOBODY! 🙏🏾📿🧎🏻‍♀️

[lifedoesntdiscriminate]

My old "church" was definitely a cult (confirmed by police bc they were under their radar for a while) and they kicked ME out while my parents stayed, does that make ME a sinner even though it was definitely a cult???

no but my churh wasnt a cult

[royllowarch]

Wells Cathedral by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Wells Cathedral in Somerset England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Cathedral

[beevean]

hey so ftr i am muslim, and i'd like to add that even giving that trait to n!isaac in particular is hella questionable imo if game!Isaac's whole deal is that he is so fully, mindlessly devoted to dracula's cause that he's willing to commit genocide on his lord's behalf, no questions asked, and because they do mostly keep that characterization with him in the show's version, once you tack on the 'muslim' trait it gets problematic, fast. it basically amounts to a really stereotypical post-9/11 islamophobic caricature of all muslims being war-mongering jihadists, so blinded by and justifying atrocities committed with 'faith'. and the fact that they also kept n!isaac as being especially sadistic doesn't help with the comparisons to the taliban or ISIS - if they were trying to be clever and expand from "CHURH BAD" to "ALL RELIGION BAD" message, they well and truly fucked it up and n!Isaac ends up being terrible representation

like, i used to be just kinda "meh" towards n!Isaac in that he's not really as impactful as the original Hector and Isaac's characters since he has such a middling stance and really not much on-screen development to even get to that point, but after connecting these dots i actively dislike him. just...what the hell was Netflix thinking??

Thank you for your input! I don't want to speak on behalf of others so I appreciate your insight :)

Another thing is that it gets emphasized in the mangas that Hector and Isaac are heathens? Blasphemers? They create life which is literally copying God's work?? Hector in the MF manga goes for a whole page about his disillusionment with God:

And Isaac in the PtR manga sarcastically reassures Hector that all the people they've killed "will go to Heaven soon", with an implied "we won't".

They're both sinners, and they're aware of it. Hector feels guilty about it, Isaac couldn't care less because Dracula comes above all else. Neither of them have a reason to believe in any religion - not even Hector regains his faith in God, even after falling in love with the religious Rosaly.

Sure, this is all about the Christian God, but I doubt N!Isaac would be treated any better by other Muslims of the time, would he? He's still a necromancer. He's still sinning left and right. Why would he believe in Mohammed's teachings, profess his faith with pride, and still accept to devote himself to a monster hellbent on killing innocents? This kind of deep seated hypocrisy needs care to be explored!

Anyway... yes, you make a good point. As I said, in a vacuum a Muslim anti-villain would be an interesting concept, especially since Christians are not afforded the same intended complexity. As it was done in NFCV, a Muslim villain who twists his Prophet's teachings to justify his self-imposed extremist mission of eradicating human life to "purify the world" is... yikes. Actually, now this quote feels particularly gross:

"Dracula will bring a pure world into being. I believe that. I believe him. I want, of all things, a pure world. A clean world. Where there is only loyalty and only love."

Yeahhhh I can see why he comes across as a jihadist. ew.

Now, sure, he allegedly grows from this, he eventually decides that life is worth living and he'd rather leave humans alone. But it doesn't help that his religion is mostly brought at the forefront of his character in S3, when he's in "humanity sucks" mode, but in S4 there's no mention of his faith.

[leonardalphachurch]

churh

LITERALLY so fucking true

[cacaitos]

rich churh ppl are so boring bc they’re neither disenfranchised enough to remember what their job is relative to a poor and as in need as they are/were community or isolated and understimulated enough to be mentally ill messy in a new fascinating way.

[midnighthopeblog]

I went to this thing at my friends church and it actually sickened me. The pastor guy wa talking about how if you have depression, anxiety, ect and you don't do anything about it you are borderline physcotic and you should decide "I'm not gonna be depressed!" YOU CAN"T CHOOSE THAT. It pissed me off so fucking much you can't choose to not be depressed, to not have anxiety, to not hav ADHD that is ridiculous. Okay theres my rant, am I overthinking this or was this just a very odd thing for someone to say to a bunch of teenagers at a churh?

[elizahsdiary]

My 17th Birthday (⁠◕⁠દ⁠◕⁠)

My 17th was my calm birthday. I went to the churh alone, prayed and thanked God for another year of my life. After that, I bought myself my favorite milktea as a gift for another year of my life. Then, I went home and spent the rest of the day using my phone. Many of you would think that my 17th birthday was lonely because of how I chose how to celebrate it. But for me, It was simple and peaceful. I was with my love ones during that day and I did the important thing everyone should do during their birthdays. Later that day, my parents brought me a cake and it was delicious. I am thankful for my parents, always, because they are the one who took care of me all my life. I love them endlessly.