#30 days of them

[abyssalpriest]

30 Days of Them #7

Your God is hungry. What meal do you cook them? Where do you eat the meal? Describe how you would set the table.

18/4/24

The table is laid, red velvets worn and rough at the edges, spoons polished but still rough. The feast: bodies upon bodies. Gutted enemies, slain deer with their skin flayed open, fish from the clearest rivers.

He is always hungry. I know, behind straight-faced etiquette and royal elegance, there is a fire that never stops burning fuelled by the black of the Void itself. Like the groan of stars inaudible to human ears, a part of him constantly sings for feeding and I am one of a few who hears its persistent, luring song.

Many would chain the endless mouth. I live, allured, entranced, to feed it.

[paracawsal]

30 Days of Them, Day 18

Out of all the names your God has, what is the name you call them by most?

Great Queen

[wolfhowlwitch]

30 Days of Them (Day 26)

Day 26- What incense scents do you burn for Them?

sage, patchouli, a handmade blend from some witches I trust called “wolf spirit”, dragon’s blood

strawberry, patchouli, satya’s money blend, frankincense

black cherry, dragon’s blood, satya’s stress relief blend, wild berry’s fairy dust blend

myrrh, patchouli, sage, black cherry, those same witches’ blend called Jamaican rum

[zoneofsmites]

Im of the full (possibly delusional) belief that Durge is not the species that they physically appear to be.

You’re telling me this being crafted from nothing but bhaal’s flesh and his blood - this demigod - is actually a dragonborn/tiefling/human/elf/etc.

No. This thing is bhaal’s flesh and it just happens to look like that. They’re an imitation of a species, they’re not truly a (full)mortal being, they have no heritage aside from bhaal.

As a result I’m sure there’s some…oddities.

For example, a demigod child, not fully mortal. I doubt they adhere to the lifespan of whatever species they look like. Looking younger than they should. (less so perhaps with long lived races like elfs and half-elves where that is par for the course).

A dragonborn durge that by all accounts looks like a blue dragonborn but their breathweapon is acid. A tiefling durge that seems to be a Mephistopheles tiefling but they cannot cast mage hand, instead smiting like a zariel bloodline tiefling.

An elf or tiefling durge that doesn’t read as fey or infernal trough identification spells. Because they aren’t either of those things. Perhaps they could read as divine but not quite.

Members of a race that durge is supposed to be looking at them and sometimes when making eye contact they read as wrong. And some kind of uncanny effect triggers in their brain.

Give me more freaky durge who isn’t really what they appear to be at all. Just a little murder demigod crafted from dead god flesh to be the shape of something else.

[mostlyghostlyy]

[funkle420]

no talk me i angy cant stop thinking about my girlfriend who's been kidnapped by a crazy powerful ancient magician

[edorazzi]

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[stolen-stardust]

why do people want a cookie for not harassing random jews living their lives. “the people i racially profiled were nice to me, peace is possible ✊” is a fucking INSANE take

[aenslem]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER || 'Caretaker'

[deoidesign]

Doing master studies the only way I know how: Stealing them and making them my guys.

(Barberini Faun)

(The Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel)

(Covent Garden - William Bruce Ellis Rankin)

[boojangs]

I fully believe that after a long day of existing, Wednesday crawls into Enid's lap and takes a nap. Doesn't matter what her wife is doing, she's just creeping her way up into Enid's arms and taking her little kitten nap to recharge from having to socialize. Enid is fully used to this and often wears big comfy sweaters to make her wife more comfortable. Yes, she beams the entire time, and kisses Wednesday's head because that is her hard-earned right.

[abyssalpriest]

30 Days of Them #6

Why has your God taken you under Their wing?

Think about the beginning of the world, where God set in motion a duality: Atomic substance - Something - and the playing field of Nothingness. Think of the left and the right eye, the human and the predator animals skirting their settlement. Think of how the ocean throws itself on to the rocks and bleeds into the sky, how the sky sends distant, avoidant love letters mimicking her by spearing itself on mountains. Perfume of night gardens drifting in open bedroom windows, the tangible salt and tang of electricity on the beach air moments before the storm starts, and strikes.

Set in motion, orchestrated, yet isolated. Terrarium, experimentation in a sterile laboratory late at night when the head researcher takes off his own gloves and sinks his raw hands into the experiment itself. The moment of pure communion as his skin meets its flesh, necessity, madness, and pure revelatory, scholarly, scientific confidence and understanding of what needs to be done. The earth itself shaped by the path of a great Serpent.

Why has he taken me under his wing? Because I was always under it. He skirts the surface of the waters in bird form and I am there in its reflection, he is equally under my wings as I am under his. Narcissus' curiosity, the tangibility of the next breakthrough can be traced across my skin.

I give to him as much as he gives to me. He has as much choice in the matter as he lacks it, he chooses me eagerly and could not rid himself of me if he tried. His teaching me, his patronage, is ultimately an expression of something deep that is alchemical, and biological. We are two beings inseparable and I find myself always kept in his mouth; as oil floats above water while both are liquid we settle naturally into the position of possessed and possessor, I fall under his wings.

… For now.

[paracawsal]

30 Days of Them, Day 14

What is something that without Their help, you feel you wouldn't have been able to do?

Cope with everything with my health and trauma and... everything. Honestly. Would I have been able to do it without Her? Probably. But I think I'd be much worse off for it.

I had a long post written out about all the medical procedures I had, but that'll be better suited for its own post.

CW: medical trauma, eye surgery mentions, toxic family mentions.

Long story short: I went through a period of about three years where I had to have a bunch of eye surgeries for glaucoma/retinal detachments/cataracts (from the other surgeries). And then I had to have vocal cord implants after a congenital heart issue appeared in adulthood, which presses against the nerve to my left vocal cord, paralyzing it. My doctors for all of these things are/were incredible, I was really lucky. Unfortunately, a lot of eye surgeries are done while you're mostly awake, and the recovery... isn't fun, so it was still traumatizing.

Also around this time I also really started to understand how toxic my family is, especially my mom and her sister. I now realize that this is also likely why I stayed at my incredibly toxic job for so long. I now believe that all of that stress, combined with over-exercising/over-committing myself, contributed to my body basically trying to self-destruct.

She has held space for me throughout all of this, and while she may not feel like a warm, cozy home like Brigid does, she feels like a safe, protective fort where I can put aside everything else and rest. Or cry and scream and feel without judgment. She is incredibly supportive of me in a way I haven't experienced (outside of my wife, but it's still different), and helps me question the old 'programming' of my childhood. I trust her now to know that when she tells me that something is bad for me, she is right. She has helped me trust myself by loving and believing in me. I know that not everything has to be some kind of grandiose gesture for it to matter- I don't have to be perfect, just show up. With her and just in general. All of this is why, after some 'normalcy' finally settled in a few years ago, I dedicated to her after years of one-year devotions.

[wolfhowlwitch]

30 Days of Them (Day 21)

Day 21- Having spent all night crying, you feel a hot sensation on your cheek. They come to mind instantly. Name a time where God has comforted you in a time of great pain.

She has comforted me through some seriously painful family traumas. I've been dealing with old (like, since-my-birth-old) wounds lately and She has been an immense comfort. turning to Her in my time of need has been HARD- She is the god I like being vulnerable in front of the least- but man, it has been so healing.

He is just always comforting. always. at every moment. more than any other god I worship, I feel Him constantly holding my hand and walking me through my life. small irritations to gaping emotional wounds, He is there, He is listening, He is on my side.

She has held me at my lowest. dealing with completely quitting drugs was nearly impossible and very well may have been impossible for me without Her. She, to me at least, is patience deified, and She has helped me end a destructive cycle I've carried out since childhood.

His assistance to me through pain is the most obvious. He carried me through the (many) separation(s) from my 'father', especially the final and most emotionally brutal one. He holds me in a way my father never did, is proud of me in a way my father never was, rejoices in my flawed existence in a way my father never came around to. when I weep for the few memories I do have with my father, He is there to remind me I have a Father, one who truly loves me and sees me as His son. my failings did not lose me a Father, only rid me of the pretender that was in my life before.

[canisalbus]

Love your art so much. Will you show us cool nature pics from your country? I'm literally so stoned I forgot where you live sorry.

Sure anon, why not. I'm not a photographer so the quality of these is kind of slushy at best. I like nature and wander around a little bit, but I rarely hike properly, so I don't go to that many scenic places. These are mostly from regular walks. Long post warning.

Summers are short but very green, and since we're at the arctic circle we get sunlight around the clock. Some of these were taken at midnight or early morning small hours. Most of Finland is very sparsely populated and covered in boreal forests.

Finland is a very watery country, lots of lakes in particular.

Sometimes you get intense sunsets

And winters are very cold, snowy and last about six months. In summer we have midnight sun and in winter there's the polar night to counter it. Around late December sun only rises for about two hours per day where I live so it's very dark for many, many weeks on end (which is wonderful if you get seasonal depression like I do). But sometimes the weather and lighting are just right and you get this ethereal pastel effect that I love.

[s2buddie]

"Isn't that what we all want in a partner? Knowing that they have your back?"