stinkrascal · 2 years ago
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i wanna smoke weed so bad but our house is literally across the street from a church thats in full session right now and i dont want a bunch of church goers and their kids smelling the smoke id feel so bad 😭 but damn i wanna smoke weed
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pinkmagicfish · 17 days ago
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hetalia religious headcanons:
the concept of nationhood and religion is so fascinating to me and i don’t see a lot of discussion about it! i think being semi-immortal and choosing to believe in an even higher power is so interesting, so this is my personal headcanon on the beliefs of different nations (also obv influenced by my own experiences and opinions). they don’t necessarily coincide with their country which is intentional, because i think the hetalia characters are individuals as well as national representatives.
!! i think all religions are valid, as long as you don’t use them to justify harm to others. if you disagree with my opinion, i would love to hear other headcanons as long as they’re conveyed respectfully! this is also not meant as historical commentary :) !!
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america: atheist (but sometimes goes to sunday church because its ‘funny’, otherwise he prefers to rely on himself instead of some higher power)
canada: catholic (he’s not the most religious guy or even believes all the time - the existence of a god is a comforting thought to him though)
england: celtic pagan (used to be officially christian but has always secretly preferred the religion of his brothers, with modern age and freedom of religion he became more open about it. tries hard not to let this old fate die out and holds big open celebrations on beltane, yule and ostara)
russia: russian orthodox (doesn’t go to church that frequently but enjoys the pretty churches and dressed up church-goers nonetheless)
france: believes a bit of everything (he loves everyone and can’t fixate himself on one certain religion or path, so he chooses his favorite aspects of different religions)
china: agnostic (not a very spiritual person, but still follows certain practices and superstitions he adopted centuries ago)
italy: catholic christian (his country is the residency of the pope, so not being a christian has never been an option to him. he sometimes doesn’t agree with certain judgements of the church, but every night before he goes to bed he sends a quick prayer to god)
romano: catholic christian (not as devout as his brother, but occasionally he prays before bed)
spain: atheist (he prefers to follow philosophies he agrees with rather than a set religion)
germany: protestant christian (he likes the ideas of the protestant church more than the catholic one, despite what one may assume given his love for rules. he also enjoys the community of his church)
japan: doesn’t believe in gods necessarily, but really enjoys japanese myths and folklore (he likes not having too many rules set by a church or a similar institution and gets a lot of joy from spending time with his culture)
prussia: atheist (used to strongly believe in god but when his kingdom fell, all the love for his god went out the window)
austria: jewish (despite his country being very christian nowadays, austria is a guy who likes doing what he’s used to. same thing goes for his religion - he picked it once, and wouldn’t dream of changing. he does, however, enjoy the social aspects and atmosphere of christmas)
poland: atheist (he used to be jewish, but strayed from the religion when he started to rely on himself instead of a god who, in his eyes, never bothered to come to his rescue. he likes to celebrate lithuanias holidays with him)
lithuania: pagan (he believes that every god exists in some form, but he prefers to work with lithuanian deities. his heart swells with joy whenever his brothers or poland celebrate pagan holidays with him)
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justslowdown · 1 year ago
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My dad's side of the family is from Slovakia, and a very mystical, sensory sort of Catholicism is part of my heritage. That's always felt strange
I was raised by pagan and Daoist influenced agnostics--my first drawing of god was a tree. Then, I was an asshole Dawkins-Influenced Rational Atheist from middle school til early college, bullied both by other students and by teachers in a heavily Christian area.
I hated Christianity and by extension Catholicism, even though I'd never bothered to learn about where it's rooted in my grandparents' experiences. Now I have strong feelings about Christianity for other reasons--a weapon of colonization isn't neutral. I feel that even as I honor and understand how integral it is to many peoples' senses of safety, comfort, and hope, and how it is a lens through which many people experience true divinity.
Now that my grandma is gone, I have so many regrets. She was the spiritual heart of the family even as she was also a rigorously scientifically minded woman. She was a lab tech before she got married, and everyone who knew her agrees she'd have been happier as a scientist than as a mother
She was a force of nature, powerful and strong willed. I don't know how she felt about herself but I see her as a witch from a heritage of equally spiritual, powerful, intense, in-charge women. She fought for immigrant rights, and worked in hospice and in prisons as a spiritual counselor. She didn't feel motherly or comforting--she simply felt like a strong woman with absolute core respect for every human being's dignity.
When I was growing up I couldn't reconcile all of who she was with her burning devout Catholicism. It seemed fantastical and morbid to me. The imagery and the heavy heavy layers of ritual. Now that I'm older and have talked to a lot of my family about her, i know she FELT Mary and Jesus, she didn't simply follow what she was told.
What I'd give to talk to her again. To hear what the rituals and prayer felt like to her. How she melded her curious and evidence-based nature and love of science with her practices. My feelings on Catholicism are still complicated, but after she passed, I have such deep regret for never talking to her about her experiences. They must have been so unique and personal.
I remember her writing a letter for her church bulletin and making my grandpa sign his name to it, because of his inherent social power as a man--about supporting gay marriage. This was 2008. I remember as a hospice worker, how she asserted a right to perform last rites as a woman. How she chose to go on birth control. That she loved my feral genderless self who couldn't stand her church, without ever saying a single word to try and convince me of her faith. So many small stories and moments.
I was so small minded and immature, growing up. Catholicism was just a funny outdated delusion to me.
My dad, a spiritual agnostic, told me that the heavy ceremony and ritual of her Catholic funeral, the smoke, carrying her casket, were deeply meaningful to him. They helped his mourning process along in a way the nondenominational scattering of ashes after couldn't.
I really feel like in this push for "progress" and "rationality" most Americans have lost ritual and trancelike, embodied spirituality.
Lost our experience of metaphor as reality on some level, and our sheer awe for the divine. It hurts my heart that Christianity is the lens through which so many of us translate all of this, but I've matured past a childish hatred for the people who feel it and don't/can't put in the work to pull it apart from the literal framework built into their brains
And I just wish I'd found that sooner.
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bichristian · 6 months ago
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Why do you believe in god/ christianity?
I'm gonna level with you, it's midnight, so I make no promises on how articulate I can be. The last two paragraphs are really the answers to your question, but I feel this needed some explanation since I haven't made much effort trying to explain what's been going on the past six years.
I've gone through a lot of changes since starting this blog. When I started I was a very devout Christian that was very steadfast in her beliefs who was very sure she was a lesbian. I made this blog to cope with being a queer Christian with a very traditional Christian upbringing. I believed in most of the traditional doctrine: no sex before marriage, hell was real, the Bible is true.
Then I went through a lot of shit. Dropping out of grad school, burnout, health crises, deaths in the family. All of this happened in about the span of two years, where my life burned to the ground. I then spent the next four years rebuilding. I still deal with some sort of health thing every year.
I also started getting exposed to deconstruction and learning a lot more about the history of Christianity, like how we got from 1st century CE to now, universalist theory (is there a hell), that sort of thing.
Some people might say this strengthened their faith. I'm sure my sister would have. But in all of it, I felt very ignored by god. I stopped attending church. I became very angry at god. I never stopped believing that there was a god, but I would describe it to friends as god and I aren't on speaking terms at the moment.
One might say that not attending church and having that sort of relationship with god would probably get your christian membership revoked, but A. I was very private dealing with it and B. after 24 years it's very hard to extricate my existence from Christianity. My entire family is Christian (yes, everyone). I spent literal years of my life (once you count all the hours) spent in church. I am a tangled ball of yarn and
It's a very long story (four years worth), but to make it short I now attend church specifically for the community (I deal with a lot of social anxiety and self isolation, to the point that my atheist friend thinks it's a good idea for me to go). You can do good in a church if their goals align with yours and I go to a liberal one that believes in social justice and caring for the community. In regards to belief, a lot of it I haven't parsed yet and don't know if I will. I don't believe in hell anymore and am basically a universalist Christian. I think there are tenets that are worth following: act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome strangers. Love your neighbor. So I call myself a Christian. Partially to avoid making waves in my family (it's complicated, I love them but I also like avoiding making time around them more stressful than it has to be), partially because I don't know if I'll ever be able to see myself as not a Christian. It's like a birthmark.
This may or may not have answered your question about the Christianity bit, though maybe less so on the God part. As for that, I'm sure in many ways it's influenced by the fact that I grew up believing in a god. I'm rational, I can concede that. And I could talk about the years I spent studying chemistry and biology and how it's hard to imagine that everything that exists as we now know it didn't have some sort of cosmic hand to guide things into place. But really, if you held a gun to my head and asked me to really search deep into why I believe in god, it would be because trying to conceptualize that there is no god is like peering off the edge of the Grand Canyon and trying to walk off the ledge. It leaves me untethered, falling. I can't imagine a world in my head where god does not exist for me. But that's for me. Other people can't conceptualize a world where god exists and that's for them. Perhaps some might look down on my reason as not a very good reason and perhaps it's not. But it is why, even through all my anger and screaming, I have never been able to stop believing that there is a god who hears it. Whether he's doing anything about it is another discussion entirely.
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briefcasejuice · 7 months ago
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It's not that I necessarily want Matt to be Catholic. (I am not religious.) It's just that he is, and ignoring character traits for personal preference (to the point of complete disownment) has always been weird to me. Understandable (we want a character to be who we want them to be), just odd. I mean, there are traits I hate on certain characters and I'll ignore them, but I know they're still there in canon. That's why I said it's cool if you like atheist Matt, but that doesn't mean Matt is atheist.
I actually don't have a bias towards live-action.* I love the comics very dearly. But it's been nearly 60 years of comics, so that's quite a lot to look through for specific examples to support what I said. That's my fault though. I was being lazy.
You seem to have contradictory stances on Matt's comic religion across different posts, so it's hard for me to keep a consistent reply. Sometimes, you mention a compulsory faith for the time period. But then in post 746073669336498176, you say, "matt was never catholic before that." I can't get a read on your exact position.
But anyway…
Yes, Smith's run in 1998 can be considered an outlier. Some of its Catholic elements are as heavy-handed as the current run. And some actions (like trying to murder a baby for being the anti-Christ) are too distorted by Mysterio's gas to get the most accurate read on Matt's belief system throughout. But that arc still begins and ends with a not-gassed Matt in confession with a priest. Wearing a crucifix necklace while he is. Iterating his childhood spent studying in church. And the final words of #8 being, "To do my father's work," referencing God. The story is an outlier for its severe piety, sure, but… the whole thing is still canon. Still Matt being Catholic, for better or worse.
More religion and confession in #267... More in #348... But I hesitate to get nitpicky on every. single. instance. of Matt showing any signs. I'd have to comb through the whole catalogue.
Also with Nocenti, any time Mephisto comes up, you run the risk of one reference or another. #266 is one. #280-#281 is another-- in which Matt believes he's in a frozen Hell. Comes upon a church confessional he thinks will provide relief. He "prayed" (his word) he could make fire out of a cross, and does. It ends up being part of what saves him. Meanwhile, narration compares his journey to something like The Divine Comedy, with him traveling Heaven and Hell. (The symbolism alone is good. The accompanying religious belief is not absent.)
This is long enough, and I don't want to keep poring over the source material. I can if you want?
It's not that Matt isn't religious. It's just that religion doesn't come up often. (Good, this is about a superhero.) But when it does, all signs point to him being a believer. If you want to say, "Comic Matt isn't Catholic… as soon as I exclude this instance, this one, and this one," that's fine for your personal headcanons. But you are… ignoring the fact that Matt is Catholic. You're trimming off parts of canon so he fits in the box.
He's not devout. That is true. Matt's religion comes up so infrequently (excluding recent writing), it clearly isn't a large aspect of his personhood. But it still comes up. So… with his foundational youth in the church, occasional references he still believes in God/religious symbols, and no evidence he ever actually turned away from those beliefs, I still consider "lapsed Catholic" to be the best label for Matt. It's not like I'm trying to convert him for my own ends (I have no bias one way or the other), but I am plugging comic canon into Occam's Razor to arrive at the conclusion Matt Murdock is Catholic. The greater burden of proof is on the position he's atheist, and I can't think of any.
Maybe Matt being Catholic is boring for you personally, and that's fine.
*(My mention of the 2003 movie wasn't anything other than a reference to the reply where you said there was no evidence of him being Catholic prior to the tv series. But the movie is one really obvious one. I wanted to point out a too quick conclusion that the 2015 adaptation didn't come up with the concept first. Again, I was lazy and that's my fault.)
"He's not devout. That is true. Matt's religion comes up so infrequently (excluding recent writing), it clearly isn't a large aspect of his personhood." yeah okay. all that just to prove my point man
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cassassinate123 · 2 months ago
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'No, ma'am, they're not really nihilists'
Dostoevsky presents a group of characters—Antip Burdovsky, Ippolit, Keller, and Doktorenko—who are often labeled as "nihilists and atheists." Despite their rejection of traditional religious beliefs, these characters display a surprising degree of decency and moral integrity, which adds complexity to Dostoevsky's portrayal of nihilism.
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Antip Burdovsky: Burdovsky is initially presented as someone who might be driven by self-interest, particularly when he attempts to claim an inheritance from the Prince. However, when he realizes he has been deceived by his lawyer, he demonstrates integrity by apologizing to the Prince and refusing to accept the money. This act shows that Burdovsky values honesty and honor, contradicting the expectation that a nihilist would be entirely self-serving.
Ippolit: Ippolit is a character deeply embittered by his terminal illness and disillusionment with life. His nihilism is rooted in his personal suffering and rejection of God. However, despite his despair, Ippolit performs a selfless act by helping a man retrieve his lost pocketbook, even though it requires him to interact with a classmate he detests. This act of kindness, done with the awareness that he has little time left, reveals that Ippolit’s nihilism does not completely erase his capacity for compassion and decency.
Keller: Keller is a character who is acutely aware of his own moral failings. His life has taken a downward turn, and he is often depicted as struggling with his conscience. His decision to confess to the Prince about his own shortcomings shows that Keller is still guided by a sense of right and wrong. He feels guilty about what he has become, which indicates that, despite his nihilistic tendencies, he retains a moral compass. Additionally, Keller's sympathy after Ippolit's suicide attempt contrasts with the more indifferent reactions of other characters, highlighting his underlying decency.
Doktorenko: Doktorenko, who is Lebedev’s nephew, has reasons for his nihilistic outlook rooted in his difficult upbringing. As an orphan dependent on a hypocritical and manipulative relative, Doktorenko's disillusionment with society is understandable. His nihilism appears to be more a product of his circumstances than a fully embraced ideology. This background adds depth to his character, making him more sympathetic and showing that his nihilism is not merely a rejection of morality but a response to the hypocrisy he has experienced.
This portrayal of nihilistic characters as decent people is particularly intriguing given Dostoevsky’s own Christian beliefs. Dostoevsky, who was a devout Christian and critical of nihilism, nonetheless presents these characters in a way that challenges simple moral judgments. Instead of depicting them as wholly corrupt or immoral, he shows that they are capable of good deeds and are driven by a range of motivations, including personal suffering, conscience, and a sense of honor.
In contrast, Lebedev, a character who is a self-proclaimed Bible interpreter, is portrayed as a hypocrite. He frequently manipulates others and interprets religious teachings in ways that serve his interests, often focusing on grandiose ideas about humanity while neglecting basic human kindness. Lebedev’s behavior illustrates the kind of religious hypocrisy that Dostoevsky critiqued—where religious belief is used as a tool for manipulation rather than as a guide for living a moral life.
The contrast between the "nihilists" who act with decency and the "Christian" who behaves hypocritically adds a layer of irony to The Idiot. Dostoevsky seems to suggest that morality is not solely dependent on religious belief. Instead, he presents a more complex view of human nature, where decency and moral integrity can be found even in those who reject traditional faith, while hypocrisy can exist in those who claim to uphold it.
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libras-interactives · 1 year ago
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Hi ! Just thought about something! What are the religious beliefs of the UtDM's characters ? (Your ocs specifically) You mentioned Flynn was atheist, I believe ? I just find those kind of information really interesting when you consider the time period !
Have a nice day !
Ooooh interesting question! Cut because this is long.
Marius and Eveline were raised Catholic. She still attends Mass and believes to ... some extent, though it's painful when she'd had so much tragedy and she feels God has allowed it to happen. It's more comforting rituals to her, and a familiar place to have peace and quiet in. Marius would say he believes in God, but does little in the way of prayer or action.
Jack was raised in a very puritannical, isolated and fundamentalist Christian sect. He's still very afraid of God and damnation and Satan, and wants to not believe to relieve himself of that fear, but ...
Flynn was raised very strict Catholic, and he was always defiant and iffy on the whole thing - WW1 sent him firmly into "God is dead and/or never existed, and if He's alive, he doesn't care about us" territory. Generally he believes organized religion is an excellent scam.
Lottie's family was Catholic, though didn't attend church often and as far as she remembers, weren't terribly devout. When they died, she became bitter and resented God. As an adult, she's mostly recovered from that, but still jokingly calls herself a bad Catholic and doesn't really identify as one.
Máire was raised Catholic ... ish? Her grandmother and mother were... eccentric about it, to say the least. Their true beliefs were much closer to the late 1800s spiritualist movement, with a weird mix of Saint reverence and old Irish folk medicine and teachings. Máire dislikes explaining herself to others, and Catholicism is deeply tied to her culture, so she allows others to assume and refer to her as Catholic.
Malwina was raised Catholic and still believes in God. She tries to attend Mass, but lately it's brought more guilt and shame than it's worth. She prays on her rosary when she feels disheartened, but moreso because it reminds her of her mama and sisters.
Polly/Paulie grew up Methodist, and isn't particuarly religious or interested, but the church still holds fond memories. He's especially sentimental during Christmastime, and will attend those services. She only prays if she's truly in distress.
Slyvester was raised Lutheran, though his parents were fairly open-minded for the time. His wife is Catholic, and he married into/converted to the Catholic Church for her sake. They don't attend Mass except for holidays, and only pray with family or before meals.
Krooks grew up Jewish, and tries not to think about what his family and God would think about his current situation. He still observes dietary restrictions and holidays out of tradition and missing his family. Ezra was raised in a fiercely Southern Baptist home, which put him off religion for a long time. A few times he's gone to Krooks' synagogue and found it comforting. Roxie is quite blunt about her disbelief in God, and claims she never stepped foot in a church, nor will she ever. She grew up in rural Utah, had four mothers and narrowly avoided a marriage with a much older man. She does NOT like talking about religion.
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theveryexhaustedshifter · 10 months ago
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📝~A Very Welcome Page~📝
Hello there, my name's Quinn. I am a both a reality shifter and a manifester(whatever the term is, I mean.), I am also passionate about both subjects.
My desired realities are private to me so I mostly keep them private, I am shifting to stranger things though, clearly.
I am very versed on the information for reality shifting, I do not believe symptoms are needed nor do they exist though(As those are usually just symptoms of falling asleep).
Though do not interacts don't really do anything, I would like to say that there are certain people who get an instant block when interacting. For example, entitled anti shifters.
Now, with manifesting I tend to be all over the place, I am mostly manifesting physical appearance and wealth for me to move out, I believe in Neville Goddard's proposal of manifesting because it's what makes the most sense to me. I am open to other theories, but only without rudeness.
This blog is also for me by me, if it does not appeal to your standards of what a blog should be then the door is still open. And you can make your own, just because other people can see my blog, does not mean I'm going to cater to everyone. So, be aware of that.
I do not believe in the law of attraction, I am more of a law of assumption kind of person as it again, makes more sense to me. And it does not insist that there is a higher power above us judging everything we do, which is good for me.
Speaking of, I am a devout atheist, Christians and other religious people are allowed to interact but I won't be arguing about the religious kind of topics as I have my beliefs, and you have yours. So we can be civil about this and not bring up the topic.
That's all you need to know for now, the rest will just end up being surprised.
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turtlemagnum · 1 month ago
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a little while ago i heard about a celebrity who was abused by the catholic church as a child and then, later in life, decided to convert to islam; and that feels to me like growing up in an environment where you regularly shoot dogs and realizing one day that hey, this is fucked up, but instead of stopping the whole dog shooting thing you decide to switch to a different brand of gun and then carrying on as normal. which isn't to say i have anything personal against muslims or anything, in fact i can't say i have any strong feelings on them whatsoever, but objectively i know they have the same capacity to being institutionally fucked up as every other religion on earth, y'know?
i once had a friend who was born and raised in israel and fucking hated judaism because it was the justification for all of the ills they saw in their own culture and also a tool of abuse for people like them. and there was this one conversation with them that's stuck with me, where they said they didn't really have any strong feelings on christianity even though they objectively understood how fucked up it was. and it was because they weren't raised in that environment where it was that tool of abuse, where it had that degree of institutional power where atrocities were being committed and then justified in its name. and i realized that if i were in their situation, i'd likely feel the same
now, i don't really hate christianity. any dislike i have for it is very... impersonal. my mom, the person who raised me, has been an atheist for i believe longer than i've been alive, so i never really had any religious shit shoved down my throat. my grandparents are catholic but they still laugh at my jokes about catholic priests. the only really devout person in my life was my grandmother on my dad's side, and she hasn't really been too much of a jesus freak ever since her strokes reduced her to essentially being a 4 year old mentally, setting aside how she hasn't really been in my life for a while either. so, i don't really have religious trauma and any criticisms i have of christianity mostly come from seeing how people i don't really know or barely interacted with. so you've gotta understand that i don't really have skin in the game, as it were
and i've gotta wonder if things would be different if i were raised in a super religious household. if my mom were the kind of person to freak out over pokemon or yugioh being satanic. would i be more hateful? would i be a worse person for it? i've gotta wonder if i grew up christian, or jewish, or muslim, if i'd actually have hate in my heart for any of those groups. and it's not very pleasant to ponder, that if things were just a little different in my life i could've been a significantly worse person. i guess it should be relieving, that i didn't grow up with religious trauma, but i dunno dude
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dutifulsilence · 2 months ago
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ooc ; 2am Hylia thoughts for my main 3 muses.
LINK
His father was a devout man and so taught both his children prayers and hymns for the Goddess that Link uses from time to time. He feels like the hymns don't have any true meaning behind them, though; they're just songs, no more meaningful than his mother's riding songs.
Link very much struggles with his faith despite hearing the voice of the goddess statues. He doesn't believe that voice belongs to Hylia at all; myths say the Goddess gave up immortal form, so how can She be the one he hears?
Additionally, his struggle comes from experiencing the Calamity, dying, being brought back, and going through the Upheaval and all that's come with it. If the Goddess truly loved Hyrule, why would She allow this? Why has She allowed the Cycle to perpetuate? What kind of Goddess lets her people, her Heir, and her Hero suffer?
As a note, by the time of his Era, Demise has become a minor figure in the mythos, forgotten by most. His name has more or less been forgotten and He is known only as the Demon Lord. There is little reference to Him in Hyrule these days.
Link still prays, he does recognize that there is some Divine power due to the goddess statues, but he is spiritually Exhausted. He does not hate Hylia herself, he hates that it feels like She has turned away from Hyrule.
ZELDA
Oh, boy, does Zelda have Issues™ with the Goddess. With all her struggles with prayers and rituals and ceremonies to awaken her power, Zelda has been frustrated with the Goddess for years and still is, even after unlocking her power.
Losing nearly everything due to Calamity Ganon's attack really broke her faith in Hylia and she wonders if she truly ever had any faith in Her.
Zelda does not pray anymore, nor does she sing any of the hymns to Hylia. She looks at the goddess statues and feels an inexplicable sadness. She cannot hear the voice that Link says he hears. Why does the Goddess speak to him and not her own heir?
Having gone into the ancient past, meeting Sonia - a priestess to Hylia - has reawoken, Zelda's spiritual discord. Seeing someone so in touch with her faith brings back years of feeling abandoned by the Goddess. She wants to believe, but her struggles make it very difficult for her to connect to anything Divine.
GANON
Ganon straight up does not believe in Hylia - She is a figure of Hyrulean mythos and faith, not Gerudo, in his mind. His mothers taught him no religious faith and, had he not literally met Din as a child, he would be atheist at best.
He will not deny anyone's faith in Hylia, nor would he use their faith as a tool to harm them. To him, Hylia is simply a goddess from another culture and he respects that.
However, Ganon does live with a connection to Demise, through the half-soul of his predecessor. He is not aware of how much hatred for the Goddess truly dwells in him, partially because he has not had any direct contact with Her or her incarnation.
In part because the part of him that is connected to Demise still lays dormant, he does not particularly have any strong feelings about Hylia - however, should he meet Her or any Awakened incarnations of Her, that will very quickly change, depending on how interactions go.
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didasgomas · 2 months ago
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What did Helia have to do as the high priestess?
It was a combination of both being a High Priestess in Witchcraft and being a priestess, as in, a "Christian" pastor (she was atheistic when it came to this)
A High Priestess in Witch culture is usually the Leader and Teacher of a Coven or group of younger witches. In Helia's case, she would formally initiate apprentices into full witches, and was always available to give magical advice, since it took her years of practice in dark magic to reach such a level that she could receive the title. So yeah, so powerful that even beyond death she can still use some dark spells.
As a "pastor" though, she was the one who gave services and sermons at the Mayweather church, though instead of reading the Bible and preaching about God, she would reiterate the importance of loyalty and obedience to Azrael, listen to the confessions (they were public, yikes) of those who had doubted Az, where afterwards he was the one who chose to either curse or forgive the person, and through her magic, she would uncover the liars amongst the congregation who were insincere about their devotion.
And oh boy, even though being found out was immediately game over, the less cruel option was if Azrael just turned you into some inhuman thing and kicked your ass out of there, because Helia was not a woman you'd want to get on the bad side of. Much like how the French were some of most devout-to-the-point-of-murder Catholics in Europe for centuries, Helia was devoted to Azrael to the point of cruel execution.
I don't think I need to elaborate about that last one.
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ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to [make it to the finals]
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so his whole thing is he's an inquisitor who is just fundamentally bad at being a priest on account of he does things like forgetting scripture and not being able to help but doubt the institution which gets everyone hes ever cared about killed. he's gay. he says shit like "careful, i bite". he's in yuri with a holy knight. he's one of my favorite characters and i want to beat him over the head with a cast iron skillet
fucked up gay little cleric who was supposed to grapple with the fact that the institution he serves is corrupt except he has been in doubt from the very beginning and very clearly doesnt put much stock in the scripture hes made it his lifes work to preach. hes kinda a freak with it. every line he speaks is said with the cadence of a gay guy checking under his nails while ignoring you as he talks. i have to hit him with mallets and shatter him into pieces.
This man is the world's worst clergyman. He's a high ranking member of the holy inquisition, but nobody respects him and he mostly just uses his position to investigate random murders for fun. He regularly forgets how the bible goes and little kids have to correct him on how the plot goes of the jrpg equivalent of jesus's resurrection. He has a holy knight for a boyfriend. He tortures people for information any other character can just ask for. His best friend out of the rest of the main 8 is an assassin and gang member. He tries to get people to commit crimes with him. His story is about uprooting the corruption in his church and killing high ranking church members and also Literal Fucking Jrpg satan. He regularly blasphemes and everyone around him looks in horror as he shouts at god and encourages people to become atheists. His catchphrase is "doubt is what I do." He is still somehow the most devout character in the entire game despite being a total fuck up of a cleric who does not deserve to be here whatsoever. Pls let him win it'd be SO FUNNY
Hes genuinely just the funniest guy. Very little about his story has to do with the faith but like. He routinely roasts the entire pantheon of in-universe gods. He beats people up (metaphorically of course) as one of his main game mechanics. He got stamped as the resident gayboy SO fast. His starliner definitely has higher intelligence than wisdom even though clerics use wisdom. Every chapter he appears in he solves a mystery by zoning out so hard his god blesses him with extremely vivid hallucinations. He's so deeply fucking traumatized. One of his battle skills is fully just beating his enemies up with his staff. He ends up defunding the police. He can very casually become a thermonuclear bomb but in a very holy way. His best friend is a 23-year-old assassin that exclusively calls him "Detective". Is he Catholic (ish)? Yeah, but he certainly doesn't always act like it.
He constantly commits heresy and doubts the gods but is still the not-Pope's right hand man
Listen, imagine you'd go to church and your priest gets roasted by kids for forgetting how the bible goes. That's him, canonically even. He's like if a redditor who wants to be a detective was cosplaying as a holy man. He's someone whose whole thing is doubting the gods and the church, to the point where he makes another person question his faith too, even though he is technically The holy man. He's absolutely unhinged and gay. He's 30 years old and absolutely does not look like it. He's traumatized, and cannot be sincere and honest about his feelings even once. He should go to therapy actually. Like desperately. For his sake and everyone around him.
he is from the faith but he doubts everything around him to find the truth through it........ also i'd like to see him torment the crotchety priest i had to do a face-to-face confession with in high school. it'd be funny.
FATHER BROWN BUT MAKE HIM GAY AND PLAGUED BY TRUST ISSUES. This man will forget his own sermons, beat people up for infos and, at the same time, gets to be the fantasy equivalent of a youth pastor. He somehow manages to be the most unhinged person in a party that includes a vengeful math professor who can and WILL mug people. He might not be the most devout Catholic of them all, but he is definitely the *funniest* one. Give it up for the world's shittiest priest!
i’m gonna be honest temenos is a TERRIBLE catholic but he’s funny and i love him. he also has a weird gay thing going on with a paladin it’s great.
Link
Well, maybe not specifically catholic. But behold, OFFICIAL ART: https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/zeldawiki/images/a/ab/LinkPraying.png
in the original legend of zelda game there’s a bible (localized to the book of magic due to nintendo of america’s guidelines), a cross in the adventure of link, and in a link to the past, there’s art of him kneeling in front of a crucifix. hyrule has its own religions but there are undeniable christian roots.
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idrisofficial · 3 months ago
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🚨 all 3 warryns
🚨 (siren) - What’s your character’s relationship with the law? Have they ever been arrested? What for? What are their opinions on law enforcement?
lennox: lennox sees the law as a means to maintain order. he has no particular affinity for idrisian laws themselves, and brinne has certainly convinced him that there’s little merit in a monarchy. he could take or leave the theocratic laws; he understands them as a means of controlling the people and respects their purpose as thay. obviously he’s never been arrested, although theoretically brinne probably could have him jailed for his assumption of her royal duties while she’s depressed. she won’t do that. lennox is fascinated by political structures and from a point of morality does feel bad that idris’s happen to fuck most of its citizens over. at his core, he does believe in freedom more than most other nobles. but he considers his self-preservation and the country’s prosperity much more important than any real positive change for ordinary citizens. primarily, as the leader of the house of justice, he wants to enforce the law that exists and keep the population in line so that the country can prosper as best it can in accordance with tradition. the fact that he doesn’t personally give a fuck about tradition has little bearing on the work he carries out. he’s good like that. separating his own ideas from the ideas he knows are right (ha) for the country.
mikhail: mikhail is not immune to propaganda. when he bothers to care about how his house’s decisions actually impact people, he’s mostly supportive of increasing governmental power and stabilizing various legal hierarchies. censorship laws in particular make perfect sense to him because of how they reinforce his elite status—of course common people aren’t allowed to speak badly about government officials, but it’s perfectly fine if he does it, because he was just born one of the gods’ favorites. he listened to what he was taught in lessons. he doesn’t fully buy that the law is the product of divine ordination, but it’s a convenient explanation and mikhail is the most well-steeped in social conditioning of his siblings (meaning he’s also the most religious of them, even if he’s not exactly devout). he thinks countries with laws that differ greatly from idris’s are foolish and harbor their own self-destruction, even when they’re overall much more successful nations compared with idris. but in general he doesn’t feel too strongly about it. he just follows his siblings and spends the rest of his time basking in the hedonism of nobility. no cause for arrest or anything of the like here.
kaia: kaia is the least religious of the three, practically atheistic. she holds little regard for halcyonism personally or as an institution and in terms of law is much more driven by her inner morality. said inner morality, though, is bad. having been only thirteen and still majorly developing at the time of artemis’s massacre, her stance on law enforcement is pretty brutal. she’s not very popular among the public and for good reason. kaia and brinne don’t have a very positive relationship, but brinne has a shred more respect for kaia than she does for other nobles because of their agreement on national security and harsh criminal punishment. this is one of the few things kaia and lennox really argue about. it drives a wedge in their relationship, especially with the silent reminder of natal’s execution that permeate the conversation. she is often frustrated by the law, though. she thinks a lot of the restrictions placed on the public generate a genuinely unlivable environment, but she’s stopped too often by bureaucracy and her own aversion to risk-taking to be able to change them. halcyonism’s influence on the law feels entirely convoluted and unfair to her, but she doesn’t really see any option but to work around it. the last thing she wants is the trouble of being called a heretic. with the way brinne is becoming, she probably could be arrested for it.
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practically-an-x-man · 5 months ago
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💔🎈🍓💋🚨🍄for Jasper and Ophelia :)
Thank you so much!! <3333
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💔 (broken heart) - Who has your character hurt most? Physically or emotionally? How did it feel? Do they regret it?
Jasper: Their father, though not intentionally. When they came out to him, his initial reaction was less-than-pleasant, and they ended up cutting contact when they left for college. Unbeknownst to Jasper, cutting contact really did open their father's eyes to what he'd done, and the regret and emotional hurt from being cut off from their only child did inspire him to start reevaluating his worldview. So... it was a good emotional hurt in the end, but it still hurt.
Ophelia: Honestly... herself. She's hard on herself both physically and emotionally, she's got a self-sacrificing streak a mile wide and a guilty conscience that's even wider, there's nobody that matches up to what she does to herself.
🎈 (balloon) - What does your character do at parties? Are they a wallflower or a party animal? Do they go with friends or alone?
Jasper: Wallflower, if they can be convinced to go to a party at all. Large groups of people get overwhelming for their empathic sense, and alcohol makes it even worse. There's actually a scene about this in chapter 10 of Heartstrings!
Ophelia: Also doesn't really enjoy parties, but is better at hiding it. She'll slip into that suave Argonaut persona, socialize and chat and tell jokes, but after her socially-acceptable hour at the party, she's probably headed home.
🍓 (strawberry) - Does your oc believe in anything? Are they superstitious? Religious? Atheistic? Has anything in their past made them this way?
Jasper: Believes in a few Cajun superstitions, but doesn't have a particularly strong pull towards religion. It's not that they had one defined moment that made them that way, they just never really felt drawn to a higher power.
Ophelia: She's Jewish, and she generally agrees with that belief system. She's not completely by-the-books devout (her life is way too bound-up in technology to observe the Shabbat, and she doesn't believe tattoos count as "self-mutilation" [especially since her Starry Night tattoo, at times, reminded her to stay alive in her darker moments, so it's helped her life more than any harm]), but she does hold it as an essential part of herself, her family, and her history.
💋 (kiss) - Is your oc a good kisser? Have they kissed anyone before? Do they even enjoy kissing? What was their first kiss like in comparison to their most recent?
Jasper: Not at first, since they didn't have much practice before meeting Kyle. They do enjoy kissing (especially since Kyle is quite good at it 😊😊), though they're not the type to kiss just anyone. Their first kiss was technically in fourth grade, with a boy at recess (they were playing House and got dared to actually kiss), though their first romantic kiss was with their Homecoming date freshman year of high school. It was quick and awkward and didn't really pan out, which was about what they expected. Their most recent kiss, at least according to Heartstrings, was a sweet goodbye kiss after Kyle walked them back to their dorm :)
Ophelia: Oh, she's a very good kisser. She's had a lot of past relationships, so she's had plenty of practice. She does enjoy kissing overall, though there are a few things that'll make her cringe away (coffee breath, beer breath, sloppy/slobbery kisses, excessive stubble). Her first kiss was with a girl at summer camp, during a game of Truth or Dare in her cabin. It wasn't a great kiss, but it was part of how she realized she was bi, so that's something. Her most recent kiss according to Catch and Release was a reunion kiss with Peter after the battle with Charybdis.
🚨 (siren) - What’s your character’s relationship with the law? Have they ever been arrested? What for? What are their opinions on law enforcement?
Jasper: Pretty neutral. They've got some serious issues with the system as it stands, but they don't really have the power to act on it in a significant way, so they just live with it and try to interact with the police as little as possible. They were arrested once in high school for protesting, their parents bailed them out but weren't happy about it.
Ophelia: Oh, she really doesn't give a damn. She has a strong moral code of her own, but that doesn't always align with the law, and she doesn't particularly care if it does. There are a lot of warrants out for her arrest, but nobody ever seems to act on them. And she's generally disdainful of the police, for a lot of reasons.
🍄 (mushroom) - Does your character like being in nature or do they prefer the indoors? Do they have any outdoor hobbies like camping or fishing? If they prefer the indoors, why?
Jasper: Is comfortable with both. They were raised out in the boondocks side of New Orleans, surrounded by swampland, so they're more than used to the natural world. But on the other side of things, much of their adult life has been spent in the city proper, and they're just as comfortable there.
Ophelia: Prefers the indoors by a landslide. Technology is a comfort to her, for one thing, and she likes being in situations within her control. Nature feels much more uncontrollable to her, not to mention the lack of electricity or technology, so she'll stick to her lab and the city she knows so well.
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transthadymacdermot · 6 months ago
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I'm coming for Eoin on O'Donnell Bloody Monday :D
🥀🍓💋
🥀 (wilted flower) - How does your character deal with stressful situations? Is their fear response fight, flight, freeze or fawn?
Fawn all the way. As his friend Mary notes very early into TNG, he would take a fatal bullet for nearly any random neighbour of his not because he actually likes them very much but because his #1 worst fear is that the people he lives among, who already dislike and distrust him to a certain degree and who he really fundamentally does not understand, will decide to throw him out of their good graces and leave him as lonely and confused as he was when he was a child, before he learned this behaviour of basing every single one of his actions on "how much will this help me appear normal and make them like me." [Slaps him] this lad can fit so many maladaptive coping mechanisms and so much trauma in him
🍓 (strawberry) - Does your oc believe in anything? Are they superstitious? Religious? Atheistic? Has anything in their past made them this way?
He's a devout catholic and like... mildly superstitious? Not terribly so by the standards of the 18thc Irish peasantry but WE would certainly find him superstitious. Religion is a political thing with him in that it's both the primary reason he and his community are so oppressed & wretched and the standard they rally around, so even if he didn't technically think catholicism was true (which, he does. kinda. but he doesn't. but he does but he doesn't but he also does <3 you get it) he would definitely still consider himself catholic because well. it's the north of Ireland in the georgian period. if you were born to catholic parents you are catholic. With O'Donnell specifically though his religion is both a very personal thing which he takes comfort in AND a very good stick with which to beat himself whenever he decides he wants to self-flagellate. As noted above he has never heard of having a healthy relationship with something
💋 (kiss) - Is your oc a good kisser? Have they kissed anyone before? Do they even enjoy kissing? What was their first kiss like in comparison to their most recent?
He kisses loads of people as constantly sleeping around to feel included and get some measure of desperately needed intimacy (because they can't exclude him and find him weird if he's in their bed!) is his main hobby after repeatedly sorting his collection of animal bones. Whether or not he's GOOD at it is up for debate but he's certainly good at making people THINK he's good at it. He definitely enjoys it though + he had his first kiss with the daughter of a farmer he was working for after he ran away from home to make his living as a spalpeen as a teenager; this was also when he first figured out that he can gain some measure of apparent acceptance from someone by seducing them so he remembers it quite clearly
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quordleona03 · 7 months ago
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20, 23, 31 :3
20: Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?
Religion. I have been a convinced atheist since I was a teenager . (Intensive reading of the Bible and other myths will do that to you.) But I am fascinated by religion - by the stories people live by and the faiths they hold to against all reason. I invented an entire Cardassian religion for the sake of having a devout Cardassian discuss her faith with Jean-Luc Picard, who was (at least in my headcanon) brought up Catholic.
For quite a while I was also consistently interested in slavery - find me a universe, I'd write a slave-story fic in it. Sometimes I combined this with writing about religion. (MirrorMASH - especially A Hawk Through the Mirror - and A Good Job, are both technically examples of this.)
I love dialogue. My favourite thing about stories is usually when you get two or more people together and they're talking and it's so intense the reader doesn't know whether to laugh, cry, or scream.
23: Best writing advice for other writers?
Avoid glaucoma. No, seriously, the usual: you have to actually sit down and write that shitty first draft in order to get the story done. You don't need to show the rotten first draft to anyone til you make it better, but the only way to make it better is to write that crappy first version. A lot of writing advice is situational and personal. What works for me is to write something, anything, at least 750 words a day, just to keep my writing muscles energised. It helps to read a lot, to plan my stories out, to spend a lot of time thinking about my characters in situations that don't appear in the story, just so I know how they move and act and think and speak. But the one thing that is universal, I believe, is just that: write that bogging-awful unpublishable shamefully bad first draft - then polish. But you can't polish what isn't there.
31: Do you start with the characters or the plot when writing?
Oh, characters. Definitely. Except when I start with the plot. No, usually it's the characters. But I get really interested in the characters when I think of plot for them. So really, it's both.
I launched into MirrorMASH and The Games, both of them, without having any clear idea of where the plot was going - I just knew I wanted to put those characters in this situation and see what happened. On the other hand, I started writing "All We Know" with a very clear idea of the plot - but I would never have begun writing it if I hadn't so badly wanted to go back and find Hawkeye and Mulcahy and make sure they were still happy ten years after "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen".
3: Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic
Those are two different things.
If I am writing a multi-chaptered story, I have the story planned out. I know what's going to happen in each chapter. I may not know in exact detail (though I may have a lot of exact detail written down) but I know the plot steps. I think of this as crossing a wide, deep, fast river by stepping stones. Out in the middle of the river, you're surrounded by chaos and muddle and danger, but you have each stone solid underfoot and the way across is clear. So I embark on the chapter knowing whose POV is telling the story, and knowing what has to happen in the chapter (though obviously surprises happen). I started Margaret's chapter for April in "All We Know" three times over until I got to a good starting point (Barbara, Sam's daughter, turned out to be the way in). While sometimes it can be difficult, the steps behind me are solid and the framework ahead of me is worked out and I just have to complete this step, and so I start writing. And sometimes people give me an idea for a story and I run with it. I wrote a lot of the MASH drabbles like that. And "Comrades " was written because Ajay wanted to see Hawkeye and Mulcahy trapped behind enemy lines. Generally speaking, a story from an idea someone else explicity gave me is going to be shorter and tamer. (But not always.) But a story that has no chapters, which I have just embarked on with characters in a situation and a sketchy plot - I am writing off into a white page of hope, buiding the story one sentence at a time. Sometimes doing this leads to writing a multi-chapter story when I realise this has got out of hand. Sometimes it just ends up being one very long story that I keep coming back to and coming back to until the story curls round and tells me "it's done". I got the idea for "Tuttle" like that: and the idea for "Crabapple Cove", and the idea for "For Ever" and - longer ago - "Friend and Stranger", and the whole MirrorTrek sequence. Sometimes I begin a story thinking, this is just a flashy idea, it's a one-shot, how many words can this take me to do - and then I look up and realise, my God, where am I. In the middle of the river, with no stepping stones, just a lot of chaotic water and the surety that if I can keep writing, carefully, thinking things through as I go, there will be an ending. I hope. That's the creative process. Story in search of an ending, for the love of words.
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