#{The Roman Coven}

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starry treasure / treasured stars stimboard !!

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[moondeew]

What if you drew the sides in the owl house? Like as witches and what covens they'd have!

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN :D

The covens :

Logan - Oracle + bard (cuz of the rap lol)

Virgil - Oracle + bard (he’s a poet)

Patton - Healing + Beast keeping (it makes sense to me)

Roman - Bard + Abomination + illusions

Remus - Abomination + illusions

Janus - Illusions

Janus is the same race as Vee but I forgot to give him the ears lol

I think they’d be like 16-17 so I tweaked their designs a lil

The light sides are the besties ever

[noomyguts]

half way through the vampire armand, and he loves love and god and family and the world, like can't emphasis enough how his love for others is repeated to be the direct connection to his humanity

hope nothing bad happens to rock the foundations of his very being

[nastyphoenix]

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Dir. Roman Polanski

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Nibbly Roman devotee x Pokey Charles devotee stimboard

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[myshipsmyotpmylifeistrash]

Yeah I’mma need more writers and artist to start shipping my ship. I ran out of content. Thank you very much

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

“because he never accepts that it's never been about righteousness--it's about repentance.” except javert killing himself IS repentance.

well, it’s like 12 different things, because bro had gone days without sleeping and very little food and water and he already had low self-worth and kept asking the amis to kill him and just assumed he was going to die AND THEN valjean upended his understanding of the world and morality. he was really going through it & there are a lot of overlapping reasons for why he jumps into the seine.

but javert is like Number One Most Responsible guy in the whole story. taking responsibility is his Thing (forever bitter the musical doesn’t include the punish me monsieur le maire scene). how else, in his derailment, could he atone for his conceived misdeeds other than by handing in his resignation to god? in the brick he had already left a note urging his superiors to treat convicts at toulon better, which is another step in his repentance (and another crime the musical commits by not including it). jumping into the seine was another step.

honestly a lot of ppl who like the book think the musical was dead wrong to exclude him from the big heaven group sing, because it COMPLETELY undermines the themes of forgiveness and compassion threaded throughout les mis. like the musical was simply wrong lol.

This is helpful context! I am still finishing the brick, although I have fully read the abridged version, and that detail about the letter wasn't included, so I didn't know that occurred! (And thank you for the message--this is a long response but I'd love to hear more of your thoughts!)

I agree that Javert is certainly deeply distraught and remorseful; like you mentioned, his worldview is literally falling apart, and his actions reflect his mental state. But his death isn't really repentance--in the sense that it's not what God would have wanted. To me it reads like a Judas situation: a desperate realization of a huge mistake, and doing the only thing you think can make it right, namely, ending it all. That's the just punishment for someone so wrong, isn't it?

But true repentance, meaning the repentance that the Lord desires, is about changing your ways, not "paying a price." Had Javert really understood the beauty of Valjean's mercy (an image of Christ's, just as the bishop's undeserved mercy was to Valjean himself), rather than killing himself, he would have lived to also become "an honest man"--in heart. One who could forgive and understand forgiveness, for himself as well as others. One who could recognize that he is not The Law, that he can fall, but that he can also be "brought to the light." One who could accept that men like Valjean, and men like himself, CAN change, and be changed.

It's tragic to me because so much of "Stars," and his character in the book as well as the musical, is about wanting to be righteous, to rise above his birth and the sinfulness he associates it with. It's about wanting to please the Lord by his actions. But in his end, he shows he never understood what God really wanted from him, and that's where my original phrase comes in: not righteousness, but repentance. To live, and face the man you were, knowing it's no longer the man you are. That it's never been about what you've done or can do, but about what's been done for you. That's the Gospel that he could never fully accept.

To use another example you mentioned, that misunderstanding drives why he asks the Mayor (Valjean) to punish him--in his worldview, mercy is unjust, or at the very least, unfair. Evil must be punished; "those who fall like Lucifer fell" receive "the sword." But "as it is written," God "desires mercy, not sacrifice" (Matthew 9:13). God would have wanted Javert to live, and Javert couldn't see that, and that's why it's devastating to me. In his misunderstanding of the heart of God, he misses what would have set him free from the chains of sin he's always been trying to escape.

That's why he's contrasted with Valjean, who (though he carries guilt about his past till the end of his life) is eventually able to face it and confess what he had done to those he loves. He knew there was mercy to be found, if only it was asked for. Javert was too blinded by pride and shame to realize it, and so, while broken, he never was able to truly repent.

For that, you must go on.

[whatshehassaid]

Did yall notice that the minute Armand and Louis are occupied in the other room with their fight the first words Daniel types in are Marius de Romanus

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I tried AI digital filter on Caius and the results were interesting

Modern disney character

As a Roman Warrior

As a Jedi

Should I do every AI filter separate?

Part 2

[raspberrysmoon]

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[pluresque]

riccardo i think is a pretty uncomplicated guy emotionally and is really committed to "it's in the past"-ing a lot of what he went through and i don't necessarily think he'd have beef with, like, members of the children of satan or any other covens necessarily. but i do think he's got beef with santino and allesandra for the part they played as leaders in the murders of the children from marius's estate. more than that though i think he's furious with marius for never telling any of them that this threat was out there and gunning for him specifically and for — in riccardo's view — deliberately provoking them by "saving" all of the boys and being openly "a magician" in venetian society, and for not dealing with the roman coven when he (in riccardo's view) could have done so. i think more than he blames santino and allesandra for the deaths of the kids — which is still a lot — he blames marius for turning them all into collateral damage.

[sanderssideswriting]

Vampire Logan au where he owns a blood bank.

No one’s sure exactly how long he’s been around, if you ask anyone, they’ll simply say he’s always been there. Logan and his blood bank. It’s gained notoriety for paying better than anywhere else for donated blood and is far cheaper and faster than going to a proper lab for blood work. Whenever asked about his methods Logan would smile and say he’d perfected his craft years ago.

If asked how the blood bank was able to stay open while not seeming to be able to turn a profit Logan had an explanation for that as well: he has a vineyard up in California, his family has had for generations that makes more then enough to keep him comfortable and the blood bank open and cheap.

The secret to how well and accurate Logan’s tests are? He’s good at tasting what’s wrong with blood, he’ll drink it and slowly narrow down what’s wrong until he has the answer, waiting a few days to give the illusion of proper testing going on.

The vineyard does make wine and has for decades but if you know were to look you’ll find the secret selection of blood, packaged the exact same as the regular wine and delivered to even the most difficult of places all of Logan’s clients are more than happy to pay for his services especially as he was part of the Sanders coven. 

When the industrial revolution began Logan quickly came to realize that times where changing. With humans creating new technology much faster and much more advanced than ever before hunting would need to adapt as well. Founding the vineyard first it’d take in victims like usual and take their blood before dumping them some miles away in a random town. As modern medicine advanced it became less and less necessary until finally blood transfusions were discovered and the blood bank opened under the guise of new medicine that’d save lives.

I did save lives, just not the ones people particularly wanted to be saved. 

[milady-mothman]

wouldn’t it be funny if i went to bard college. like, the bard college. hilarious

[mindfulldsliving]

Trusting the Lord in Times of Suffering: An Expository Study of Alma 14

In our journey of faith, suffering can often feel insurmountable. It's in these moments that we must remember Christ's example and His ultimate sacrifice.

Alma the Younger and Amulek are led away from the fire that has consumed the believers in Ammonihah. Suffering is an inevitable part of the human experience, especially for believers striving to walk the path of righteousness. In Alma 14, we find a profound example of enduring faith amidst unimaginable trials. Alma and Amulek faced severe persecution and witnessed the martyrdom of the faithful,…

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[wrenwinchester]

Millie Wren has a habit of befriending witches by accident. (She honestly has no idea how it happens.) It pisses off her dad and occasionally brothers, but she just shrugs it off. Plus they always give her knives, so she’s not going to complain. She doesn’t use them usually, just in case they’re cursed, but she does keep them with her at all times in a second bag Bobby helped her make specifically for witch knives.

Bobby just decided it was better not to ask questions about the mildly mystical knives (sometimes more than mildly) the kid started showing up with and make sure she was safe instead.

They were tools, invites.