#the biblical implications...

[agentc0rn]

aside from the inital drafts with AZ based on Jesus of Nazareth, he is very Adam-coded too....something about the first/beginning of something and then committing a grand act of sin....

[gorentaya]

“I can fix you”

[scarrunner05]

god I could write essays on the idea of family in for the gods and more specifically the way each PC is alienated from their family in a different way.

Especially how that ties into Cona and what I can argue she represents. because like there are textual things she could represent as like. The child of the god of nothing and the god of civilization, even if she doesn’t have a domain or anything as a godling. Or I would more argue she’s a representation of that loss/absence of familial connection taken to the extreme, abandoned by her parents in an isolated pocket dimension and clearly coping with that by taking mortals and forcing them to play the roles of a happy nuclear family specifically, and currently every character is LITERALLY trapped by the expectation of what family should be and the desire to recreate that until it works even if it’s failed you. Through cona.

This is why I can’t be left alone with hiatuses I start doing half baked analysis because technically we don’t have enough information yet for me to truly formulate a concrete idea of it but we have enough in what like 70 hours worth of play time for some really interesting connections to leap out at you.

[quietwingsinthesky]

not to bring up mass effect but that’s one of the most interesting things it ever posited when it came to the idea of organic vs artificial intelligence. a machine, if sentient, knows who created it and why it was created. and a person will never know that. like, even lacking spirituality, even if you ascribe all this to random cause-and-effect, that doesn’t actually get you any closer to understanding why there is a you. but a robot can look their creator in the eye, can read out the whole of its purpose, and know that no matter what it modifies, this is what it was made to be. and what if it was made limited, or flawed, or shackled. there are elements of that a person can relate to, maybe understand, but not all of it, not enough to fathom how different the experience of the world is when you have no questions about your origins.

[acewithobsessions]

matthew who has autistic meltdowns but is TERRIFIED of it happening when he's with the other disciples because how could a follower of Christ have a demon inside him, maybe he just can't be saved

[randomthunk]

"Fine. If none of you will help me, then I'll have to do it myself."

[ne0nwithazero]

I'm so starving for wholesome Swatchton content 😭😭😭 As much as I enjoy the edgier lore-heavy stuff, I'll see cuter stuff and I'm immediately just 🤲🤲🤲 /pos

I need it too...

[harmonizewithechoes]

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[am-ace-stelaire]

hmmmm

OC ask meme: drawing studies

Tag the post with the names of your Original Characters when you reblog it, so that people can request a specific one, if they want to.

🖐️ - draw your OC’s hand or hands. What’s distinctive about them?

🥾- draw your OC’s boots. Not shoes - boots. In what circumstances do they wear them?

💃 - character in their dance, party or wedding outfit.

🐝 - character with their daemon (or animal familiar.)

🌈 - represent the colour palettes used in your OC’s clothing.

🎨 - represent the colours you use to draw your OC - hey, this might be a useful reference…

👶 - OC in their youth; or, if they didn’t have one, at the beginning of their journey; this may be shown as background.

👵 - character shown older, or if they do not age, at the end of their journey; this may be shown as background.

🗝️ - character depicted with something revealing of their personality, secrets or motivations.

👜 - Personal items carried by or associated with your OC, in an arrangement, labelled.

🦺 - character’s work uniform or work outfit. If they don’t work, reinterpret or take 🎭

🎭 - character study (happy) and character study (sad), presented together.

🪞- draw character with a mask or mirror used to represent an aspect of themselves.

🤟 - drawing representing the culture, native language, national origin, or other formative influence of the character.

🏇 - drawing based on most recent emoji + your character.

[reduced-sour-cream]

Dreaming about fire and flood

[jonghyunluvr]

the resurrection of christ (1502)

taemin ephemeral gaze encore (2025)

the fallen angel 'crying lucifer' (1847)

taemin ephemeral gaze tour (2024)

[redgentleengie]

What Does Your Muse's Name Mean?

Name: Jonathan

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning: God has given, gift of God

A boy’s name of ancient Hebrew origins, Jonathan first appears in the Christian Bible as a son of King Saul. Like many other biblical names, Jonathan has a powerful religious meaning of “gift of God” or “God has given.” Perfect for the new gift in your life, this meaning clearly resonates with lots of new parents, as Jonathan is one of the most popular male given names. However, to help baby Jonathan distinguish himself on the playground, you’ll have a number of nicknames to choose from. These include Johnny and Jonny, which are great for when baby is young, and John and Jon, which are better for when he’s grown up. Millennial parents may especially get a kick out of the last option, which will have their friends quipping, “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” at baby Jonathan.

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.

[mal1k3th]

nvr seen a movie split an audience more 50/50 than the outwaters but regardless of other thoughts, still one of my favs

[bones-for-time]

Lots has has already been said of Gideon’s last words to Harrow being a biblical quote from the book of Ruth, due to their frequent inclusion in wedding vows (“The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried”). However, the broader story of Ruth also has interesting implications for what Gideon understands of her lyctoral sacrifice.

The biblical Ruth is a Moabite who marries into Naomi’s family while they’re all living in Moab. After all the dudes in the family die, Naomi begs Ruth to return to her own people and her own gods because that’s her best chance of someone providing for her. As a foreigner, Ruth will have difficulty surviving in Naomi’s hometown of Bethlehem, and Naomi cannot save her, “[e]ven if I thought there was still hope for me.” The verse preceding the that bit Gideon quotes is “But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.’” Ruth does return to Bethlehem, where her bloodline produces both King David and Jesus.

Gideon understands enough of Lyctorhood to know that her sacrificial death will not actually be the end. She knows that Harrow will go back to the Ninth to serve the girl in the Tomb, and whatever remains of Gideon’s captive consciousness must go with her. As Gideon falls on the spike she envisions herself as part of the Ninth and the Ninth’s gates opening for her - not just because she is saving the Ninth by dying for Harrow - but because she’s choosing, in some tortured suspension, to stay there. Harrow’s people will be her people, and Harrow’s goddess in the Tomb will be her god.