#may or may not come back to jesus

[moonkhao]

WE ARE | EP16

[tomurakii]

Look Kristen is a kid so its understandable and Ally is great and I'm sure has a plan for this. But Kristen should not be a cleric lol. I hope that after the wizard synogue incident Cassandra takes the Archfey deal to keep herself safe and Kristen loses her powers because honestly based on her RP that girl has NO wisdom. She has NEGATIVE wisdom. If you don't like the gods currently on offer but can't take responsibility for keeping a new one alive (because you're a kid) then you should just respec. Pick a charisma-based spellcaster class that doesn't require a bunch of work like the Int classes or responsibility like the Wis classes. Give up your soul to Fig (or just give it back to newly-Archfey Cassandra) for Warlock spells idk.

[kevinsbitch-panini]

fanfic friday: aftg edition

i don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you by kirakrs (@kirakrs)

Summary: Kevin goes to California for his and Jean's interview. Andrew and Neil tag along. The Trojans have a cultural shock from the Foxes and find out more of the truth. Chaos ensues.

Tags: Post-Canon, Canon-Typical AFTG Warnings, nothing too graphic i promise just mentions, Friendship, Healing, Post-Book 4: The Sunshine Court (All For The Game), Soft Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard, Neil Josten Being Neil Josten, Neil Josten is a Little Shit, Protective Andrew Minyard, POV Jeremy Knox, POV Jean Moreau, Found Family, USC Trojans (All For The Game), Domestic Fluff, Canon Compliant, Protective Neil Josten, Neil Josten & Jean Moreau Friendship, Humor, Developing Relationship, between jean and jeremy ofc, Canon Continuation, maybe i focused too much on neil and andrew idk, i wanted an outsider perspective at them, Tags May Change, POV Outsider, nothing bad happens, Mutual Pining, Fluff and Humor, No beta we die like riko, Spoilers for Book 4: The Sunshine Court (All For The Game), Light Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, mostly jean tbh, He's dramatic, no archive warnings cause it's aftg you know you warnings, but none of those warnings happen things just might get mentioned, Neil Josten is a Menace

Words: 18,372 Chapters: 2/?

THIS FIC HAS SPOILERS FOR THE SUNSHINE COURT. GO READ THAT FIRST.

i am not one to recommend wips* (mostly because i only read oneshots so i don't really read them at all) but this one is absolutely fucking fantastic!!! it's set post-tsc and it feels so in-character and everything that istg im just gonna believe this is canon till nora publishes the next book. andrew and neil look feral from an outside perspective, there are frequent reminders to speak in english, and the trojans are (rightfully) very confused and concerned. it's amazing and will probably make it into my top fave aftg fics

*i want to acknowledge that this post is queued like 2 months into the future. it may no longer be a wip by the time you are seeing this. currently this fic has 2 chapters so i wish you (and future me) a very happy time reading whatever is published btwn now and late august

also go look at the author's tumblr and ao3 <3

[kirisclangen]

Zelda

She/her, 65 moons, cis molly

[moonmoonthecrabking]

*slaps hood of jagertitty* this bad boy can fit so much christian symbolism into it

[thesmallworldofsamizayn]

friendship ended with steenerico feud 2009-2010. now toni storm/mariah may 2024- is my best friend

[carcarrot]

OLD MEN WERE TEMPTING ME...........

[splanana-bitz]

*scrolling through tumblr and sees immaculate, mouth-watering art*

"Wow!"

*it's of a toxic couple back when they were together/them being bitter exes in present time*

"Oh, these two aren't healthy in any way, shape, or form"

...

*likes it anyway*

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[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?

[isdalinarhot]

Self confidence level got horny looking at my reflection in the mirror 💪

[bootyful-seventeen]

Just watched a James welsh video and I need to lay down after watching a 16 year old kid put on 15 fucking serums on her face

[snazum]

me trying to stroll thru the ted nivison tag on tumblr for some sick art X READER, IMAGINE, OTHER THINGS I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF EVEN THO IT'S QUITE LITERATLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME XDD

[orcelito]

Ykno the suckiest thing about being broken up with for someone else is that like. Well I'm doing generally fine, all things considered, but I Am kinda sad thinking about the things I've lost and all the casual affection that I can't have now.

But she's out there having all the affection she wants from her coworker, and it's just like. Damn this feels so skewed and SO unfair.

[mad-hunts]

so, i was going to make a post to emphasize just how scary barton can be whenever he's angry, but i feel like i've already made several posts related to his anger when it's explosive... but what about when it's quiet? like, when barton is SO enraged at someone that he can't even manage to say anything, because no words can express the kind of hatred that he's feeling towards them in that moment. and i think this may come off as a bit of a shock coming from him because i was talking about it with emilee + she pointed out that it seems like barton externalizes things a LOT, and i was like, woah... you're so right LOL. and so it would be reasonable for the other person to expect him to like start throwing things or maybe even just yell at them if they knew him.

though, in very extreme cases, it's like i mentioned before: he gets this quiet sort of rage where it seems like everything in the world around him and this other person freezes. he would definitely be staring them down more intensely than he's ever done so before, after all, and the look in his eyes when he's like this is even more chilling — and then when he finally speaks up, all he would say is something like ' run. ' which the other person might be utterly baffled by at first, but once barton pulls out a gun / knife / whatever weapon he may have at the time and points it at them... they realize that he's telling them to run because he wants to chase them down and have them be absolutely terrified of him before they die. like, OMG... i've said it before and i'll say it again: man's is a MENACE through and through

[sassyandclassy94]

The only thing getting me through life right now is knowing that Jesus never gives up on me. I’m so tired of waiting on His timing, the constant confusion. Another thing getting me through life is the account of David. His psalms show that he experienced constant up and down emotions and that he felt like God didn’t care about him anymore. But he kept going. He kept waiting. Knowing that, at the end of the day, God was with him as he walked through the fire and always would be. He had to wait about (what we think) 15 years before he finally became king but God got him there eventually. In His timing.

Personally? As a fallen sinful human being I hate God’s timing. I want my timing. But like David, ill continue to wait on Him not only because I have no choice, but because it’s the right thing to do and because He says to do it and I want to please my Lord. But my gosh, is it hard😔

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

I have to put fresh sheets on my bed and make it but I've just been sitting on my bare mattress for the last 20 mins ranting to myself about this damn show