#Jesus heals all

[thisis-an-original-name]

Why have you abandoned Jesus

[shadowfloofster]

Everyone at twitchcon: *having fun hanging out with people*

Bad, Cellbit, Foolish and Jaiden, fighting for their lives:

Bad specifically, popping 25 totems and using all his potions:

[bootdork]

Sorry but as a Christian you cannot possibly be siding with Israel. Israel is bombing the oldest churches in the world, shooting at people inside their parish, exterminating the oldest Christian community in the world, bombing congregations during mass. You cannot claim to follow Christ's teachings if you condone this immense violence.

Exodus 22:21 "Do not oppress or mistreat a foreigner."

Psalm 11:5 "God tests the righteous, but those who love violence, he detests."

Psalm 68:30 "Scatter those people who delight in war."

Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God."

Habakkuk 2:9-13 "Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of ruin! You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life. The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it. ‘Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime!'"

[sleepyminty]

If you know, you know

[new-world-mutation]

FANNIBALS!!!!

YOU HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO WATCH INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE!!! IT IS GIVING US EVERYTHING WE DIDN'T GET IN THE SHOW AND MORE!!!!

IF YOU CAN GO WATCH!!!

[merkerlerspeaks]

Hug from Jesus? Hug from Jesus.

[homosekularnost]

jesus christ superstar (2000) // juno lev - i had gay sex with god

[captainharlock]

Yo thanks for drawing Jesus as like… a happy, kind, and healthy person. I grew up going to church every week and saw nothing but his misery and crucifixion. Every depiction of Jesus I’ve seen fills me with guilt, dread, and anxiety. But I came across your + volcanoid piece and it made me happy. The kind of happy where you can’t help but cry a little because something so simple shouldn’t have such a big impact, but it does.

Idk I’m rambling now, but that drawing you posted is low key healing my religious trauma. And I don’t fucking care if someone thinks it’s blasphemous or something. That is the Jesus I wish I had.

hii! i want you to know that i took my time trying to come up with a response to this because i just wanted it to stay in my inbox for just a little while longer... wahh. this is so touching.

i think there is absolutely a sore lack of depictions of a happy christ, and i'm really glad you've found such relief in my drawing. it makes me really really happy ;_; i don't think my any means is it a stretch to say that showing children the beaten body of a man who was gored on a cross is... not good for them. if it were up to me, yeah, all images of jesus shown to children would be of him pre-crucifixion

thank you so much for sending me this... i'm gonna be thinking for a while on it. u are the best

[yellowocaballero]

I love how your Bruce is traditional but it is also like a mix of different types of traditional. Like he comes across as both "Rich white old money type" traditional AND "member of a marginalized minority group who take great pride in their identity to cope with years of ostracization and going "the world wanted me dead for my culture and religion so i might as well die loud and proud instead of conforming to their unachievable ideals" " traditional

Thank you for this ask, I really love it! I have a shitton to say on this topic, including a lot of worldbuilding decisions on Gotham cultures, immigrant spaces, segregation, how it ended up like 1920s-1930s NYC/Chicago mixed with my own city, Jason "Foil" Todd's Inferiority Complex, but that would make this depressingly long. Long time readers would know that I have, like, really complex and discrete religion headcanons for everybody I write. It's important.

Any decent Batman Story (TM) is about Gotham. It has to be a huge presence. It's like writing Dick Tracy without Chicago, or Cheers without Boston. When he's written well, Batman is a reflection of Gotham, and they metaphorically represent each other.

Most Batman writers get this, so there's always a lot of historical worldbuilding and everything. But I'm a community health person, and I grew up in the inner area of my own very large city, and creating a Gotham that feels real and rich is more complicated than the Court of Owls stuff. For me, cities are the intersection of culture, community, history, oppression/SES/war etc, and the modern day to day lives of people. When I want to make a rich city that was relevant and important to the story, I wanted to focus on immigrants and cultural minorities. You know - the people who create the cities lol. I decided on a history that involved the idea that Jewish families were the oldest in Gotham, and that they were one of the people to help create it and influence its culture.

I read a Daniel Handler quote just now that said "there is something naturally Jewish about unending misery". What is more Batman, Bruce, and Gotham than that, lol. The Jewish diaspora experience - the traditional history just as you outlined it in your ask - is baked into Gotham, it's the foundation. Gotham is a city of unending misery, but it's a city that stands tall. It takes a thousand hits and always gets back up again. People within it experience unending poverty and suffering, but they stand together. Just fucking refuse to die, as a whole. What's more Jewish than that! What is more Batman than that! Gotham should always be allegorical for Batman and Bruce, and through Gotham existing in that traditional Jewish experience, I think that's where you got the impression of Bruce as very traditional too.

Tim and the Drakes are the modern reflection of this. I was extremely explicit that Tim is alone in the world because of the Holocaust. I talk a lot in the story about how war and violence destroy children's lives, and that stretches back to the 1940s. About how war and violence creates violent children, which is what Tim became. His acting out was from the trauma of seeing his family slaughtered in front of him, and like a lot of people he used his religion to justify it.

There's a reason why the very first moment when Tim and Bruce actually connect as a family is when they find kinship and understanding through their shared backgrounds and values. They both saw their families slaughtered, they're both alone in the world - but they found each other, and they'll keep living.

OK BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION. Seriously, though, I'm not. Uh. Actually fucking Jewish. This is like the fourth time I've talked out of my ass about this. I'm actually really interested in reading about the actual Jewish themes in Batman, because from what little I know they HAVE to be there. Any smart people out there who know about it, or who can link something written about it?

[pewpewpew]

Jesus Christ, coming back 10-15 years later to old music you used to love and put your entire soul into really doesn't compare to anything does it

[sofiaspeaksart]

ceasefire now

praying for peace and healing

let there be an end to the violence

mountain gazelle, Palestinian sunbirds, and twigs from an olive tree

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

you know how yesterday I said harrison was the belle of the fostered ball bc everyone wants him WELL I take it back lonan is the true belle of the ball bc LITERALLY everyone is going after that man (bc he’s got that bi guy long haired je ne sais quois I’m a hot immortal bird who’s actually a god but I don’t know it yet energy)

[eoieopda]

domestic yoongi?

domestic vocalist yoongi⁉️

[weird-life-of-a-closet-fangirl]

I keep thinking about the line "the tomb won't close" from would've could've should've in relation to Lazarus from the bible. For Lazarus to come back to life, he had to be sealed in that tomb. He spent four days in that tomb, dead, before he was brought back to life. Taylor says "the tomb won't close" and asks "why won't it die" and I keep thinking about Lazarus, and how he had to die and his tomb had to be sealed before he was brought back to life, and how this tomb isn't closing, isn't sealing, isn't letting her come back to the world of the living. She's stuck in limbo, half dead and half alive, half damaged and half healed, and the tomb isn't closing.

[doveotion]

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[bbqhooligan]

like at this point i have imposter syndrome about. my fuckin personality. like how many times can you accidentally convince people youre cool. i dont even mean it as a brag people consistently say and do things that show they think im a cool, interesting, memorable person and each time, with my head up my ass im like "me? you mean me? worlds biggest loser and faker?" people CAN SEE AND REMEMBER YOU. they do things that show they think about you after meeting you! come to conclusions youre fun, respectable, intimidating. like its real. i get so lonely i forget people can perceive me