#no glory in the west

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

No Glory In The West - Orville Peck / Bones and All - Dir. Luca Guadagnino

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost – Frederic Remington // No Glory in the West – Orville Peck

requested by anonymous 💙

[leorizanzel]

I’ve heard some mumblings about the fandom that, with the arrival of Extraña Forma de Vida at Cannes, some folks want DinLuke Western content! For those new to the fandom, let me point you towards my completed story No Glory in the West. It’s high romance with horses and gunfights and boots and spurs and saloons - we’ve got it all!

[uwemagain]

Orville Peck | Official Music Videos 2019 - 2022 [For @sarcasmisalifechoice]

Must be nice where lovers go

Take my hand, don't let it go, just cry

[hildegardladyofbones]

"Nowhere left to go/ goings all we know" FUCK that is GOOD

GOOD SHIT

[gidionkeep]

West of Apocalypse: The Soundtrack

I typically make two playlists for every writing project. One is a collection of instrumental music for when I’m doing the actual writing, but I also keep a second playlist that I use to brainstorm (mostly while driving). In the case of West of Apocalypse, even though I finished the manuscript in 2018, I’ve added to the playlist over the years leading up to its release. So there are songs on this…

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

What's a boy to do? Hit the road with a dollar or two

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains – Frederic Remington // No Glory in the West – Orville Peck

requested by anonymous 💙

[sparkle-jump-rope-queeen]

Because you're young, you're wild, you're free, you're dancing circles around me

[chaiaurchaandni]

yemenis gather in sana'a less than 24 hours after the us/uk coalition's bombings

Yemenis gather in sana'a to show solidarity for Gaza every friday since oct 7. this friday is no different - even if the Yemenis have now been targeted themselves by the same savage killers who murder children in Palestine

[red-moon10]

all's well that ends well to end up with you 💍

[houseofpurplestars]

Meanwhile in the west bank:

🚨 The IOF has invaded #Tulkarem, opening fire and targeting residents with gas bombs.

In #Nablus, the IOF is sending reinforcements in preparation for the demolition of the home of martyr Muath Al-Masri, who was assassinated in May in an operation that included over 200 IOF soldiers, following his operation with martyr Hassan Qatnani that killed three settlers in the Jordan Valley.

🚨 Documentation of the IOF bulldozer that caught fire after it was targeted with an explosive device in Nour Shams camp, #Tulkarem (Video 1).

Fierce armed clashes are continuing in the camp, as well as in #Nablus (Video 2), where the IOF has invaded to demolish the home of martyr Muath Al-Masri.

🚨 Local sources report that Star of David ambulances are present in Nour Shams camp in #Tulkarem as the IOF attempts to withdraw it's damaged bulldozer, amid fierce and ongoing armed clashes with the resistance.

🚨 The IOF abducted liberated prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash from his home in Dura, #AlKhalil.

Hisham Abu Hawwash, 42 years old, was liberated from zionist prisoners after his victorious 141-day-long hunger strike in January 2022 following his abduction without charge or trial in October 2020.

t.me/PalestineResist

[queenie-says-free-palestine]

the president of iran told the usa and israel that they will face severe consequences if they retaliate against the iranian attacks on israel