#i may be stupid...

[dailydemonspotlight]

Ahriman - Day 182

Race: Tyrant Arcana: Tower Alignment: Dark-Chaos June 10th, 2025

...Look, I didn't say it had to be good gay rep, okay?

Finally, I'm talking about a boogeyman I've been avoiding for quite a while. Zoroastrianism is one of the most interesting rabbit holes of a religion out there, with several different ideas working together to create a massive, winding narrative. Being one of the oldest religions in the world, its tales are many and storied, and most of them originate from one man: the Iranian prophet Zarathushtra, better known as Zoroaster. Interestingly, Zoroastrianism can be seen as the source of many of the most prolific religions in the world today, such as Islam and Christianity, as it's essentially the ur-Abrahamic faith. It could even be seen as the first ever popular attempt at a monotheistic religion! However, just because the practitioners of this faith worship one god doesn't mean that there aren't more- in fact, the gods of the old Iranian religion were merged to become aspects of Ahura Mazda, the primary god of the religion; all except for one. Today's Demon of the Day, and the primary evil of Zoroastrian faith: Ahriman.

In Zoroastrianism, there are two sides: Good and evil, locked in an eternal struggle where good is destined to triumph. The good side is headed by Ahura Mazda, whose omnipotence is restrained only by this struggle, and with enough help, he can overcome his shackles to defeat evil... eventually. Meanwhile, his eternal rival is Ahriman, whose original name (Angra Mainyu) literally translates to evil spirit. I'm sure you can guess what he does. Ahriman is the source of all negativity, conflict, confusion, and controls all demons by his own will.

Now, why is he being spotlighted during pride month? Well, past the, uh... pridemon shirt (which I love and want really bad), Ahriman stands as representing evil, and it's not hard to see that one of the oldest religions in the world could represent homosexuality as being evil. As such, on top of being pure evil in every sense, Ahriman also became the patron of homosexuality. I am not kidding. He essentially sponsored gay sex, and in a story that I can't find for the life of me but desperately want to find, outlined in the book 'Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods' by Ronald E. Long, he... okay, bare with me for a second, I'm just gonna copy and paste off the Wikipedia article on LGBT themes in mythology because I think it's really fucking funny.

When Ahriman, the "Spirit of Aridity and Death" and "Lord of Lies", seeks to destroy the world, he engages in self-sodomy. This homosexual self-intercourse causes an "explosion of evil power" and results in the birth of a host of evil minions and demons.

He self-fucks and causes an evil explosion that spawns a ton of demons. Or maybe he masturbates? I don't know man lmao

So, yeah! If you're a homosexual man who's capable of doing that, tell me if you're capable of summoning minions to do your will if you do, okay?

Now, in SMT, Ahriman takes on a variety of forms- the one I personally most associate with him is his Reason form as one of the final bosses of SMT Nocturne, but he's also got a really fantastic design in Dx2, of all games.

Both of them capture the lord of evil thing well, and I love how they both share common traits in having horns and bug wings; it's a really nice connecting thread through both designs.

even still, i can't get over the burst of evil energy. god imagine jerking off and when you finish you give off such a malicious energy that demons follow you thats so fucking funny

[lapiseditscorner]

nightly ptv posting meets the ptv appreciation week!! honestly this was just a shitpost cause all i could think of for day 5 was this fucking gif of vic yeeting a guitar into the ocean (prompt: sky / sea)

(64 days left until i see them live!!)

[aria0fgold]

Me after using the pliers and hurting my character's self just to add a singular tooth to the scale: I'm so gangster, aren't I?

Also me, proceeds to accidentally click end turn even though all I have on my board were squirrels to be sacrificed: No I--

[yuribait]

just realised right now its called kingdom bc his last name is king #dailtheory

[marsixm]

god i need to get better about writing my grocery list because why do i have 29 sticks of butter and no dish soap right now 😭😭😭

[konoa-t]

My dad was talking about some new fast food chain or something and at some point he said "the first one's gonna be in [location]," but I misheard it as "the first waddle dee's gonna be in [location]" and for a solid 2 seconds I thought scientists discovered waddle dees

[amiga-os]

was anybody gonna tell me that i didnt have my askbox set up 😶

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

[teaboot]

Any tips for being a suicidal 15 year old?

When I was a suicidal 15 year old everyone told me “it gets better”, and it sounded like bullshit. And frankly, it still sounds like bullshit. Like oh, what, I’m living in hell and you’re not gonna help me or *do* anything or give me any useful advice and I’m supposed to just hang in there on the nebulous, pithy promise that things are just gonna work out on their own? And you can’t tell me how or why, I’m just supposed to take it on the faith that I don’t have that something might change in ways I haven’t considered?

But yeah. It does. And it’s frustrating as hell.

Yes, things are gonna get better, and they’re gonna get better in ways I can’t describe even after experiencing it myself. Things you don’t even know CAN be different WILL be different. One day you’re just going to step outside and realize things got better somewhere and you didn’t even notice it happening.

And there’s really nothing I can say that makes that sound even a little bit believable.

I guess all I can tell you is that you have to want to believe it.

[ohsleepie]

I have no excuse for this one. I woke up from a fever dream with this prompt in my notes app. I think Neil just really reminds me of a scruffy scavenger animal you'd find in a trashcan. Anyway bonus panel:

[happybunnykat]

I was wondering why there was a tag for Mag 65 specifically when the other episodes don't seem to get that treatment because I genuinely forgot Jon and Martin are trapped in the computers now.

[cart00nmilk]

SONADOW CONFESSION STORY PART 9!

Now with Shadow being a nerd in love Last part: here

[the-prince-of-the-ravens]

i’m gonna be so real with you guys. before i looked through the tag i thought that hbomberguy was some sort of Goncharov D.B. Cooper. i’ve never heard of hbomberguy in my LIFE before today i genuinely thought this was tumblr’s new made up meme of the week.

[asturlavi]

drew these after finishing replaying devil may cry 1...

[gabelew]

scanning the horizon

[egophiliac]

the moral of the story is not to waste time angsting when you could be drawing Kamui instead

extra shitty art goooooo