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Some Gambit & Gambit/Mel art I did recently while attending RomyCon :3

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Some Gambit & Gambit/Mel art I did recently while attending RomyCon :3

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I’m sorry, but Wolverine’s eyebrows being the size of Timbuktu are taking me OUTTTTT

Art Vision Vol. 03 // Character Concepts: From Vision to Reality | Marvel Rivals, 10/10

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PLEASE

Reblog this if its okay for your followers to introduce themselves to you.

Just come to my ask box and tell me stuff about yourself. Your pets. Your favorite music. What you had for breakfast this morning. Literally anything you want, I love making new friends

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More Dakota! And how he transforms into his monster form :3 His shapeshifting powers are tied to his emotions. When he’s emotionally balanced, they’re perfect, work exactly as they’re meant to. But the boi has a bad habit of repressing his emotions, especially about his childhood best friend (and crush), Alex. So when all that pent up jealousy and anxiety get too much to bear, things get hairy. Literally!

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Hey so uh I realized I didn’t actually post these lmao, and that’s a crime, so here’s my boy Dakota! He’s part of my superhero universe, the Divine Champions, and he’s a champion of the god Loki, so he’s got shapeshifting abilities. Enjoy his civilian form (and a monster form he takes hehe) while I work on his hero fit lmao

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HAPPY PRIDE FROM YOUR FAVORITE PANSEXUAL DEMON Y’ALL!!!

Happy PRIDE MONTH Everyone!

we’re starting off strong with my oc’s Eliza, Micah, Liv, Blaze, Shane, and Solana along with @virgo-arts oc Melanie, @its-gambit, @card-charger-gambit, @vines-and-ghosts oc Allen, and @123batfam123 with Max! It was really fun to make this and I hope you all have a great month! You are loved no matter what!

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Little doodle I did for my boyfriend! This is Mystra, she’s an orchid mantis fairy, and she’s his OC now :3

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I finally finished this last night! I’ve been working on this for about a week now, trying to complete all of the designs for my Anthro AU. I’m really proud of how this turned out; expect to see more in the future!

Here’s what we got so far:

Peter Barker - Mutt

Gwen Stacy - German Shepherd Mix

Harry & Norman Clawsborn - Oriental Shorthair Cats

Eddie Brock - Liger

Mary Jane Watson - Rough Collie

Flash Thompson - Golden Retriever/Lab Mix

Dr. Curt Connors - Shiba Inu

Dr. Martha Connors - Siberian Husky

Billy Connors - Shiba Inu/Siberian Husky Mix

Adrian Toomes - Sphynx Cat

George Stacy - German Shepherd

J. Jonah Jameowson - Oriental Shorthair Cat

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My Take on Horseman of Death Gambit!

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Alexa, play Final Girl by GraveyardGuy—

@mosssunmaniac @livdrawsstuf

Saw this  chain and wanted in on it

Pov: you’re in a horror movie

Choose your look

What’s your role?

@cheerfullycatholic​ tagging you cuz I know you like horror movies (ignore it if you want tho, i just thought you might enjoy it). everyone else who wants to can do it too

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If you don’t have enough empathy for your future patients/clients to not use ChatGPT, then you might want to consider changing your major.

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

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🚩🚩"Witch/Pagan" community PSA 🚩🚩

Goêteia is not evil, you dipshits.

I'm so sick of these neo-pagans getting all their information from Tumblr, Pinterest and TikTok.

Goêteia is literally just the Greek term for magic, for sorcery, which were one and the same.

Ancient Greece didn't have the word "witchcraft" it had Goêteia, and then later mageia, where we get our modern term magic from, although mageia was a misappropriated term from Zoroastrian priests or Magi.

It's so funny seeing baby witches claim Goêteia to be evil on one hand, then on the other worshipping Hekate, literally the goddess of Goêteia. The goddess of sorcerers and necromancy.

It screams puritanical morality policing. It's such a christian-centered way of looking at ancient religion.

Y'all need to open a damn book.

Goêteia was described as a "lesser" form of magic (mainly in the later Medieval period, roughly starting around the 8th century,) not meaning any less powerful, just simply the easiest or "closest" thus "lower" magic to achieve. This ability to more easily achieve success in magic was later taken and used by christian theologians to paint goêteia and Goêtes as "lesser practitioners."

There does seem to be little difference between Theurgy and goêteia as well,

Surprise!

Both Goêteia and Theurgy sharing the same goddamn workings through evocations of gods, the animation of statues, mediumship or what could be considered "divine possession" having a god or spirit speak through you, the use of iynx wheels / iynges, and mystery rites.

The only 'real' difference Theurgists claim, is that they "don't practice secularly/for selfish reasons" but supposedly rather to become closer to the divine. It's a nice sentiment, but total bullshit, because even in the Theurgic doctrine the Chaldean Oracles they bind the goddess Hekate to do their will.

Additionally, Theurgists had a more Neoplatonic belief, they essentially viewed a singular Oneness as supreme, the emanation from which all things return, a concept which was picked up by early christian theologians and is likely why while Goêtes were demonized in the later centuries mainly by early christians and christian philosophers, Theurgists on the other hand were seen as "pure" and "holier" despite Theurgical and Goêteic practices being pretty much exactly the same down to the tools and incantations.

(Agustine of Hippo for an example of these theologians, who wrote in "De civitate Dei contra Paganos", or "On the City of God Against the Pagans" how all "pagan" (non christian) gods and beliefs were secretly agents of Satan and evil, here to trick humanity into sin and that paganism, essentially any non christian faith, must be stopped–

He also wrote about how sorcerers/magicians (Goêtes) were charlatans, tricksters, that magic and sorcery were merely tricks of an invisible opposition to the divine and how only god could hold such supreme power. These ideas still seem to be deeply embedded into christian faith, particularly Orthodox and Evangelical, today.)

Practitioners of goêteia, the Goēs, was also understood to have the ability to initiate souls into mystery religions, or, in other words, to ensure through his superior knowledge of the Underworld and its workings that the souls under his care would receive preferential treatment after death, an easier way to paradise, such as the Orphic Hymns.

This likely also helped "other" the Goēs, as most practitioners of magic, of goêteia, of these mystery cults were made up of societies "unwanted" or marginalized people, such as women, foreigners, immigrants, the poor, the disabled, and the elderly. Early goêtes were described as being Thessalian (primarily women, particularly described as "old or decrepid") or. ethnically, not considered "fully Greek" to many of the era. Many critiques and fears of goêteia come from this "otherness," the fear the ruling classes of Greece had of groups they continued to harm, they feared the power they held within these mystery rites and practices.

With reliable accuracy from these critics, goêtes were (perceived to be) moral transgressors, who operated from the fringe of society in a private mago-mystical setting, offering their service for coin.

Or, in simpler terms, the Greeks were just really fucking racist

which is nothing new.

In fact, because goêteia itself is a synchronization of mainly Egyptian and Jewish magic, the Greeks and later christians went extra-hard into villifying it because they saw these people as lesser, as barbaric.

We have to understand where the fears and judgements of these critics were coming from, and continue to remain impartial. The ruling elite feared these practices because they feared losing their power, especially rich Greek men, and those early christian philosophers who saw everything outside their own faith as lies, manipulations, or tricks from "the Opposition" as well as the extremely racist and ethnocentric beliefs they held.

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tripped and fell while getting crawfish today and felt very gambit core. fucking loser

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Idk if I posted my girl Kaitlyn here, but say hi to her :3 She’s my DC comics OC, a reformed metahuman criminal with the ability to create seismic waves when she hits someone. Vigilante alias: Shockwave!

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@technogeist1890 I got 34 >:)

@livdrawsstuf @dogshowhoe your tuuuuuurn