#litany fanart

[nachocheezos21]

ok last one and then i’m off to do my assignments (some headcanons + dumbass doodles)

[silliestmanfr]

Grace art on artboard lol (the Dozer on the left is @d-alva45 !)

[ranibwsprimklez]

Them biiirds

[megsdoodletag]

all this mortarion talk has me thinking about him in Juno's canon.

[nikkiizo]

Cuz you sleeping on the job

[evilejfan]

Gunslinger Litany. Woodburned and colored with colored pencils. Thankee Sai for lookin.

[francizca]

grace update is AWESOME. anyways heres dozer, redesign from my other dozer drawing (+ doodles of those other losers)

i shouldve added stars to dozer's robe but i forgot...

¡¡squishy dozer keychain and transparent image of dozer design under cut!!

paper squishy dozer keychain

dozer design transparent png

[markxi-the-artist]

ᴅᴏᴢᴇʀ & ʟɪᴛᴀɴʏ ! ɢᴏᴏʙᴇʀs

[whosname]

[Id. Acrylic marker drawing of the Leukocyte King as one of the white fluffy cats with large ears of the merchandise. He's standing there, just posing holding his sword. end id]

[realuityisntreal]

gace

[rawliverandgoronspice]

This is blood he's meant to step in. This is the road he was born to walk.

(my first actual attempt at a canon-compliant OoT Ganondorf yeee I Greatly Suffered)

[nachocheezos21]

finally i can share off my own trio designs (kookoo was inspired by @fatherof500 ^_^)

[starleska]

i just had an ancient fandom memory unlocked which i need to share with you all 🙈 many of you are far too young to remember the halcyon days of early-2010s-Tumblr...particularly a pre-Once-ler Tumblr. so there may be a good chunk of you who weren't present for the insanity that was the Portal fandom, and specifically the fixation around Wheatley: one of the earliest Tumblr Sexymen 😳 so strap in for a little Tumblr Sexyman History...!!!

meet Wheatley, your companion and later-turned-antagonist in the enormously beloved Portal 2. bumbling and never able to shut his digital mouth, Wheatley is a Personality Core: a type of artificial intelligence housed in a metal sphere, developed by Aperture Science. specifically, Wheatley is an Intelligence Dampening Sphere. he was developed to attach to GLaDOS, the main antagonist of the whole series, to distract her with a litany of terrible ideas 😂

however, Wheatley doesn't remain amiable for long. in a scheme to dethrone GLaDOS and escape the facility you (or your playable character, Chell) are trapped in, you perform a core transfer, placing Wheatley in GLaDOS's chassis. the sheer power of being in control of the entire facility immediately goes to Wheatley's head, transforming him into an evil, sadistic, Machiavellian figure who forces you to perform test after test for his own satisfaction. also, he has a British (Bristolian!) accent. you can see the recipe for obsession, right? 😂💖

however, this was a time wherein fandom tastes were a little different. while today we are delighted to obsess over characters with unusual designs (and particularly thirst over characters of the robot/android/objectum/etc. variety), 'White Twink Humanisation' was rife in the early 2010s. if you've seen humanisations of Bill Cipher and ideas of what Cecil Palmer looked like, as well as the site's preoccupation with pale gangly weirdos (David Tennant and Matt Smith's Tenth and Eleventh Doctors come to mind), you can imagine that the urge to humanise Wheatley was huge.

enter Stephen Merchant: Wheatley's actual voice actor, who just so happens to be a six-foot-seven, gangly, nerdy British guy. fanfic author Wafflestories wrote an extremely well-known Wheatley redemption fic called Blue Sky, wherein Wheatley is able to control a hard-light human version of himself...who bears a striking resemblance to the real-life Stephen Merchant. the Portal fandom unanimously decided that human Wheatley looked just like Stephen Merchant—a design trend we still see today!! 😳 here's where the cursed forbidden memory comes in. we were so goddamn obsessed with Wheatley. we wanted to see him as a human so badly. so we went through Stephen Merchant's filmography, and...

this is Tracy, Stephen's character in Tooth Fairy (2010), starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson 😂 Tracy is a wingless caseworker fairy assigned to the Rock's character Derek, an ordinary man who becomes a tooth fairy against his will. Tracy is...unhinged. bizarrely intense. a delightfully weird and memorable character in a movie that can only be described as a fever dream, played with idiosyncrasies only Stephen Merchant is capable of. i recently found out it was directed by Michael Lembeck, who directed both The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3 🙈💖 yes. for some ungodly reason, plenty of us Wheatley simps decided that not only was Stephen Merchant the faceclaim for human Wheatley...but this specific iteration of Stephen Merchant as a wingless tooth fairy. Tracy had his own little dedicated fanbase complete with ask blogs and fanart and extended Tooth Fairy lore. of course Tracy's popularity was helped along by his dapper dress sense and his...interesting personality. there was even a joking trend called 'Tracy Goes Insane 2011', wherein fans made a significantly more yandere, knifemurder-esque version of Tracy after he finally snapped. truly incredible 👏 so there you have it. we all started simping for a silly little metal ball who got drunk on testing juice and went full Joker mode, decided that he needed to resemble his tall, handsome voice actor, and consequently became obsessed with his stint as a deranged tooth fairy. and so it shall be written. thanks for reading 🙏💖

[cityofmeliora]

Hello again!

Anon who asked this question: https://www.tumblr.com/cityofmeliora/784818568710799360/the-second-papa-was-a-party-animal-i-ask-this?source=share

Thank you so much for answering! I read this post here that seemed to do a quick summary of the lore: https://www.tumblr.com/cityofmeliora/784805227430887424?source=share

And I only read it once... and while I did get a little bit of it... the rest was so... it left me like 😵‍💫 😵‍💫 😵‍💫 by the end of it. Not op's fault of course.

Do you know why the people who really run the ministry want the papas to be musicians?? I'm guessing they believe music will make spreading the word of Satan easier? (Did certain Papas know they were being used???)

Speaking of the devil, I'm guessing he's a character in the universe?? Does the ministry want to take over the world with Satan?? And if so, have they ever thought that he might double-cross them??

Qwertyrytu sorry if these questions are too silly. 😅

Also, THERE ARE GHOST COMICS???

Were they popular / are they still being made?? There's so much lore /story in different medias (music videos [i think?], interviews, regular videos, lyrics, performances [maybe?] possibly that one 2024 movie, etc, etc etc. 🤯)

Since you likely consumed a lot of it, I'm guessing the fandom's fanart / fanfics don't 100% follow the lore?? It also feels like it be impossible to. Most people are maybe canon divergent?? Are people in the fandom picky about people who don't follow the lore?

hi again!!!! thank you so much for sending another ask, i really like answering these (though it takes me a while) :3c

i'll answer this in parts.

1: Do you know why the people who really run the ministry want the papas to be musicians?? I'm guessing they believe music will make spreading the word of Satan easier? (Did certain Papas know they were being used???)

this is a quote from Ghost's old Myspace page from 2010– the earliest piece of Ghost lore / worldbuilding that describes who they are and what their mission is:

Ghost is the name of a devil worshipping ministry that – in order to spread their unholy gospels and, furthermore, trick mankind into believing that the end is ultimately a good thing – have decided to use the ever so popular rock music medium as a way to achieve their ends. …. Standing motionless and anonymous beneath the painted faces, hoods and robes which their sect demand, the six nameless ghouls of Ghost deliver litanies of sexually pulsating heavy rock music and romantic lyrics, which glorify and glamorise the disgusting and sacrilegious, with the simple intention to communicate a message of pure evil via the most effective device they can find: Entertainment. Ghost official Myspace (2010)

basically, Ghost has always been the efforts of a satanic cult to spread satan's influence through rock music. their specific goals / beliefs / presentation have changed over time, though.

in Era 1 (2010), the cult's goal was to hasten humanity's demise, so they wanted to further corrupt humanity by spreading evil messages. in Era 2 (2013), they shifted away from the overtly evil presentation and focused more on entertainment and social commentary– wanting to free and enlighten people by criticizing and satirizing the hypocrisy of christianity. Era 2 didn't say much about the Ghost cult itself and its beliefs. Era 3 (2015) kept the main messaging of Era 2, but made the Ghost cult itself relevant again. their goal seems to have changed from 'convince people the apocalypse is good' to 'world domination'. this is when the character Sister Imperator was first introduced as the boss of the clergy, and she described their failure to achieve those goals in the Era 3 lore video series, The Summoning:

SISTER IMPERATOR: Brothers and Sisters, you know why you are here tonight. This Ministry is now seven years into The Ghost Project. Seven long years of work. Two Papas, two albums, one gold. These are indeed some respectable numbers, but let me give you some others. Churches opened: zero. Governments toppled: zero. World leaders converted to the cause: zero. You call yourselves salesmen? Masterminds? You have done shit! And don't blame the music. The music is the very manifestation of His Dark Majesty. The Summoning (part 1)

however, the new Sister Imperator comics (2025) show a different in-universe backstory of the band Ghost. the comics reveal that The Ghost Project was entirely Sister Imperator's idea. she created the band and designed the character of "Papa" to be played by Nihil, and there's no mention of a satanic church / ministry at that time. Sister Imperator created Ghost because she loves music and wanted their concerts to spread positive messages and be a safe space free of religious oppression (this explanation is much like TF's actual IRL motivation behind Ghost). we don't currently know how the idea of the satanic cult / church / ministry started in the timeline of the Sister Imperator comics.

as for the question of whether certain Papas knew they were being used... yes. most of them know. they all have different feelings about it, though.

Papa I / Primo didn't care. he honestly saw himself as a humble servant of satan and was happy to do the work. this is shown in early Primo interviews, and it's something i talked about a lot in my old post about my notes and thoughts on Primo's characterization.

Papa II / Secondo also didn't really care. he was a bit disappointed but fully accepting of the fact. he was 100% aware that he was there for a good time, not a long time.

PAPA EMERITUS II: I wasn't here in the beginning, and unfortunately, I won't be here until the end. It kind of blows that I am, in many ways, making the bed for someone coming after me. But hey, that's life. Ghost B.C. - The Olde One - Papaganda Ep. 1

Papa III / Terzo... i think he knew and was very upset by that fact, but tried to push back against it as much as he could. i believe this was ultimately his downfall. i talked about this in my very first lore analysis post about Terzo, and in my post about Terzo being deposed.

Cardi was not aware he was being used until he was nearing the end of his time as Papa. he had a brief moment of realization that was quickly shut down by Papa Nihil and Sister Imperator. i'm not sure how much he understands what's going on now that he's been promoted to Frater Imperator.

PAPA EMERITUS IV: One thing I do not understand… All these things… here, all of this stuff, and all of these things we’re doing, where we go, and when, and to where… Who decides these things? I mean, who’s calling the shots? RITE HERE RITE NOW (2024)

Papa Nihil doesn't give a fuck. he does whatever Sister Imperator asks him to do <3

2: Speaking of the devil, I'm guessing he's a character in the universe?? Does the ministry want to take over the world with Satan?? And if so, have they ever thought that he might double-cross them??

answered the stuff about the Ministry wanting to take over the world in the previous question. anyway, the actual devil appears to be a character in the Ghost universe– in Chapter 5, he calls Sister Imperator on the phone and tells her it's "the Old One" calling. "Old One" is one of the names for the devil that's used in Ghost's music. it's a bit difficult to interpret this scene because it was a funny joke scene. like, is the devil real? it seems so. maybe, since there are supernatural elements in the Ghost universe, like actual ghosts. he seems to be on the side of Ghost / the Clergy, but we don't know what's really going on with the devil.

3. Also, THERE ARE GHOST COMICS??? Were they popular / are they still being made??

Yes! the comics are a new thing. what we have so far is the Sister Imperator mini-series from Dark Horse Comics. it's 4 issues and it came out this year. #4 is going to be released in a few weeks from now. unfortunately, they don't seem to be super popular with fans on tumblr– probably because the new information in it is changing parts of the established lore and going against popular fanon ideas. also, a lot of people here dislike Sister Imperator as a character. but comic #1 sold out and got a reprint, so at least some people are reading it! i think the comics are 100% ABSOLUTELY WORTH READING. THE SISTER IMPERATOR COMIC IS REALLY GOOD. it's the only piece of Ghost lore media that takes itself 100% seriously and is actually trying to tell a story, which i appreciate SO MUCH. the pacing is insane because it's only 4 issues and it's hard to understand sometimes because of that (and also due to the fact that almost none of the characters have names), but i PROMISE it is worth reading. i LOVE these comics. i hope we get more comics in the future.

4. Since you likely consumed a lot of it, I'm guessing the fandom's fanart / fanfics don't 100% follow the lore?? It also feels like it be impossible to. Most people are maybe canon divergent?? Are people in the fandom picky about people who don't follow the lore?

fan art and fanfics in the Ghost fandom are everyone's own interpretations / understanding of the lore, which includes intentional canon divergence, alternate universes, popular unofficial fanon, and common misconceptions / misinformation about the lore. nobody in the Ghost fandom 100% follows the lore. as much as i try to, it is impossible because the Ghost lore & worldbuilding has historically been 1) very hard to find because it's scattered across so many different sources, 2) inconsistent because Tobias Forge didn't have a plan for a long time, and 3) difficult to interpret due to the fact that a lot of the lore is presented in a humorous / joking way. very little about the lore actually gets explained, and it has all changed a lot and will continue to change over time. i'd say that probably 99% of Ghost fans are not picky about people not following the lore because they don't even know the actual facts of the lore themselves, but that's okay. and the people who do know the lore are nice too. i'm picky about people not following the lore, but i promise i'm still nice!! i have friends who have crazy AUs and have headcanons that are absolutely not aligned with the canon lore at all, and i'm chill with that. in this fandom, people tend to just make up whatever they want. personally, i'm not a fan of doing that because i like having a certain amount of rules and guidelines to base ideas & headcanons on, and i take more of an analytical approach to the lore rather than a purely creative approach. i'm really picky about the official / canon lore because i honestly think it's really really interesting! i wish more people would talk about it and acknowledge the interesting and funny and cool things in the official / canon lore. it is really disappointing to me that a lot of people seem to be uninterested in it and ignore it. i think people could make a lot of interesting and fun headcanons and AUs and art and fanfiction and stuff if people knew more about the canon lore to draw inspiration from! so this is why my main thing here is posting Ghost lore stuff for other fans to see.

[petricorah]

CORAH HAIKYUU ERA REAL????

gwuhhh uh do you have any other ships apart from iwaoi and bokuaka??

haha, yes! my brain is currently a volleyball. 🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐

and yeah! i like kuroken, kagehina, matsuhana, and oikuroo. There are some others i like, and i can usually be persuaded by a good fic or fanart, but those are the main ones. what about you? while i can make no promises with my current to do list, i can be open to some suggestions!

some misc wips from the litany i'm buried under: [ids in alt]

[dyke4zayn]

this is a "my opinions on Regulus Black" post.

(for context, i talked about this with a friend, when they reposted a fanart of Regulus seeing James, Remus and Sirius on the mirror of erised [no hate to the artist i like their style actually] and i said that i hated that headcanon and they said that i hated him, which is what inspired this rant)

I like the complexity of his character and that's why i hate it when they reduce him to a needy younger brother who turned evil because his little brother didn't love him.

He didn't give a shit about Sirius' friends, he didn't give a shit about Sirius himself, he wanted a brother as exemplary as himself, he genuinely believed he was superior to others because he was Black, he believed in blood supremacy and he IDOLISED Voldemort and literally changed his mind last minute because he felt sorry for his only friend (the family slave, aka Kreacher) and because he didn't believe anyone could be that powerful (at least, not immortal) and I think his character would have a lot of potential if people just accepted that he despised Sirius' friends, he despised the person sirius became he was abused and went through the literal same litany of manipulation and supremacy that sirius was fed only he believed he gave in to everything from his family and even went further, because he CHOSE to be a death eater.

The Blacks didn't force him to be part of it because that would tarnish their political reputation, they didn't want him to be a death eater because they had already lost the heir, regulus needed to be alive and be a politician to keep the lineage alive. They were very influential in the Wizengamot, their dream was for the regulus to marry a pure-blooded cousin and have more pure-blooded children and take his father's seat in the wizengamot, and their only (proper) heir to be a criminal. And that was my dissertation on why I hate the regulus vitctim speech, its time we accept he is morally gray and that someone being a bad human being who did A SINGLE good deed is so much better than a boring abuse victim who was rejected buy his brother.