#light purity

[plumsliva]

Sky:cotl x Off crossover?! Omg!!! Gonna do more for this crossover thing later ofc cuz I really want to design guardians as seasonal spirits

[sideprince]

I've seen the same post a hundred times now. Sometimes it's a few days old, sometimes it's from years ago, but it's always the same. Some anti posts about how they don't understand how anyone can like Snape because he was so awful, and then there's a long reply that goes something like, "imagine this happens to you, and then this, and then this" to describe Snape's experience. Sometimes there's some James Potter hate thrown in.

Look. You can go through describing a character's entire experience but you don't really need to. Here's the thing that antis don't understand:

For all her faults (and they're big, bigoted ones) Rowling understood a really integral part of the human experience and conveyed it through Snape. Everyone needs love and to feel accepted. It's that simple. Snape became a Death Eater to seek acceptance (Rowling has confirmed this, though I can't remember the source - whoever wants to add it please do), because it was the only way he could find any.

Snape's understanding of morality, like everyone's, is subjective. Some readers understand this and some don't. When faced against a morality that says there is good and bad in the world, everyone makes choices based on their personal experience. Context is everything. Someone who experiences pain and suffering will not see the person inflicting it on them as moral. That's it. 'How can this person be good when they caused me so much suffering?' = human psychology. Most of the people who think 'I'm a bad person and deserve this' have been gaslit and abused into thinking so, because it's not a natural reaction - it's one that has to often be socialized into someone at a young age, exactly because it's not natural. Everyone is the hero of their own story; no one sees themselves as a villain, because they see the valid aspects of their own perspective.

You can write essays on how vulnerable people needing acceptance is what cults and fascists exploit to recruit vulnerable people, or on how the standard anti's un-nuanced reading of Snape both ignores canon and displays a disturbing lack of empathy or compassion, but at its core it just boils down to context. From Snape's perspective he experienced cruelty, therefore the people inflicting it must be cruel. Again, it's that simple. He was a person, like any other, except he was fictional so he wasn't even real. On the flip side is James Potter, who, for all his faults, didn't get to live long enough to get a chance to change and grow unlike Snape, and I think the Snapedom also needs to acknowledge that.

They're fictional characters representing things an author wants to say, not sports teams, not martyrs, and not all good or all bad emblems that define your identity depending on how you feel about them. It's depressing how much time is wasted arguing with bullies and trolls whether from the Marauders fandom or just random antis. I literally can't find more than three blogs to follow without this argument coming across my feed daily. I know the Snapedom is Not OK™ and that's kind why we're all here, and I know that my take is super unpopular but like Snape, I don't care what others think: this fandom has been having the exact same argument for years and nothing has changed. There's fanart and meta and fic and so much content out there appreciating this character, you're not going to change an anti's mind who's deliberately trolling in the tags, so why are you trying? What are you getting out of it? What does it give you? It's exhausting just scrolling past it.

[tackletofset]

This fandom, as of late.

[drops-of-moonlights]

Each One's Elegy, or that one time Usagi was so pissed at her friends dying she transformed in blood red lightning

[ankhmeanswombman]

God is an intricate designer who’s art is often misunderstood and misinterpreted by small-picture thinkers who are confused at the outcome of their lives, confused by the mission they’re graciously given and confused about the fact that some peoples karmic mission is to be cycle-breakers, no it’s not always easy but it can certainly be easier when you lay your burdened heart down on God’s eternal shoulder and find comfort and healing within. When I say God is everywhere I’m not being facetious, and by no means am I being wishy washy, perhaps this is the best kept secret, and that’s why the nefarious elites are capitalising on those staring at the sky and waiting while God’s all seeing eye within their very cells is crying amidst the calamities they have spurned for themselves. You are a face of God and that is a fortunate truth, which means you have some power to act when the 3D walls begin to fall, but you can only do so individually. You cannot force change but you can be the thread that unravels the spiral of inspiration for others who feel a heavy heart. Happiness is just around the bend. Those who feel stuck catering to faux friendship groups and fearing political motives set out by wolves in sheep’s clothing will always find it difficult to envision themselves in their divine purpose as a cycle-breaker because they have become invested in the realm of the infested just as much as the next decaying person. The good news is that the process of decay can be halted and even reversed with a clean mind and constant contemplation on the Divine Within and Without. Karma can appear ruthless and militant but it is fair nonetheless because it doles out retributions in accordance with prior actions, the result of which isn’t always seen immediately but is acted upon immediately, triggering a chain of events leading up to karmic happenings that, to the uninitiated, seemed to have “come out of nowhere”. Every action has a reaction and that’s the cold hard fact. Regain your focus and see the big picture, and suddenly every small-picture jigsaw piece will reveal itself to you as a karmic tidbit, and only then will clarity dawn upon you as to why the world is as it is. You are the world and the world is you, so be a cosmic beacon of light to those drowning in endless sea of darkness, shine independently and be so luminous and light-filled that they cannot help but be drawn into you like a black hole that sucks in all objects in its path. Influence the Earth by being the living embodiment of righteousness, innocence and purity and watch your magnetism radiate, churning positives out of negatives.

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Walking in the Light

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sin. — 1 John 1:6-7 | World English Bible, American English Edition, without Strong's Numbers (WEBUS) The World English Bible, American English Edition (without Strong's Numbers) is in the public domain. Cross References: Psalm 51:2; Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 6:7; Isaiah 33:24; Matthew 6:12; John 3:21; John 8:12; John 8:55; John 12:35; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Timothy 6:16; Titus 2:14; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 2:11

[charliezsuzsus]

Education of the Virgin, (1650)

by Georges de La Tour

oil on canvas

[abnerkrill]

exvangelicals and similar. isn’t it wild how you thought you understood the concept of “dying to yourself” as a sheltered youth only to realize with sudden clarity when you were a little more grown up that the old self that needs killing is in fact the self that was formed through church teachings; and the new self being resurrected is all the things you were taught to hate & fear.

[bright-cloud]

Miscellaneous screenshots of my little cleric: Basil ✨

[pellinni-photo]

branches of magnolia in full blossom. spring nature background in the park

[plumsliva]

More for OFF x Sky:cotl crossover thing! Unfortunately, I like Japhet more than other Guardians so yeah

[glittergroovy]

[imminent-danger-came]

I don’t even ship shadowpeach but what’s with the attitude let people have fun.

The post you're talking about had a rather joking tone, so I'm just going to assume you're having a bad day! Hope it's gotten better!

[mumblesplash]

okay so i will always and forever be a sucker for angel imagery and i miss it a bit in tristamp but i am willing to forgive it because i’m so excited that they went with the darkness as safety/light as horror duality for the twins’ powers + color schemes

[ccarrot]

hold on does anyone else think that the light vs dark , and the Tripartite Framework 'port mafia works in the dark, govt works in the light, and ada is in the twilight', and Oda's be on the side that saves people, and the whole idea of 'a flower that blooms in the darkness cannot grow in the light' that Kouyou had, and etc etc conflicting interpretations of the darkness and light motif whatever genuinely screwed over a ton of the characters but like. also really fucked up audience interpretations of BSD?

[septembersghost]

omg i feel like i just peered into a hellish ABYSS of horrific fanon and now i am backing away slowly i am closing the tab i am never engaging with that nonsense