#Foundation of Divinity

[thoodleoo]

*twirling my hair around my finger* hes just soooooo burdened by his sense of duty and the insurmountable weight of being a mere man written into the role of a myth

#yes this is about aeneas yes im reading more aeneid #heres the thing about the aeneid that really gets me #like we're told from the very beginning of the story that this is a tale of how rome comes to be #a foundational story of homeric scale designed to inspire the people of rome #but then we meet aeneas and he's literally Just Some Guy #like he's a single father and he just lost his dad and he would really like to not be on this boat right now #also this is literally the same thing for turnus except instead of the sense of duty it's the divine rage of juno #like hes on the battlefield hes on his knees his Just Some Guy who didnt really ask for this #and heres aeneas heres the hero heres Rome Itself #but turnus looks into his eyes and for the shortest most desperate moment he sees himself #aeneidposting

[queer-reader-07]

it is so vitally important to me that aziraphale and crowley not only love each other but choose to love each other.

i don’t want it to be fate. i don’t want it to be god’s will. i want it to be a conscious and continuous choice.

i want aziraphale choosing every day of his goddamn existence to love crowley and all that he is. i want aziraphale choosing to love crowley not in spite of being a demon, but because he is a demon. i want aziraphale choosing to love crowley’s curiosity and creative wonder. i want aziraphale choosing to love crowley’s love of plants and gardening.

i want crowley choosing to love aziraphale’s passion for books. i want crowley choosing to love aziraphale’s desire to do things the human way even if he could just miracle it. i want crowley choosing to love aziraphale’s angel-ness because it is a fundamental part of him.

i want aziraphale choosing to love everything about crowley and vise versa. and i want it to be a very conscious and intentional choice.

it being fate negates the entire point of the story. good omens is a love story between an angel and a demon, yes. but that’s not all that it is. it’s a story about two occult/ethereal beings who choose humanity over the great plan. two beings who choose the world over armageddon. and they make those choices because despite it all they have chosen to fall in love with the world and with humanity.

it only makes sense that they choose each other. that they choose their love. it being fate or god’s will ruins the foundational pillar of their relationship. that they choose each other over and over and over again. year after year, century after century, time and time again. they always choose. they choose the arrangement, they choose saving the other from harm, they choose lying to protect the other.

it is always a choice. and it better stay a choice or i am going to be so devastated.

#look i’m good with most anything for s3 #as long as they end up in the south downs & hug at least once i will be happy #but this is one thing that isn’t necessarily a need but more like a deep rooted desire that will break me if not met #like if it’s all ‘haha this was god’s plan all along’ i will be so upset #disappointed even #because neil can do better than that #he’s a better writer than that #not to mention it makes absolutely no sense in the context of the story #like i understand how it’s fun to play around with ‘they were made for each other’ #but i really want them to choose each other despite everything #because if i’m being honest it’s one of the things about aziracrow that feels fundamentally queer #to say ‘yeah fuck that’ to what the systems in power tell you you should act like #or who you should love and care for #and instead say ‘i choose this’ ‘i choose you’ to the people and things that actually fulfill you #that is powerful and that is foundational to queerness and queer liberation in my opinion #it’s not about fate or being made for whatever #it’s saying ‘i don’t care if it’s fate or the divine plan or not. it just is and you can’t change the fact that it simply /is/.’ #and maybe that’s just me #but it sure as hell makes sense in my mind #good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #ineffable wives #neil gaiman #good omens meta #aziracrow meta #gomens meta

[nikki-handholder]

Gentle Woods

#shining nikki #my styling #comp entry #divine realms foundation #autumn morning lighting

[sorrster]

The Foundations of Decay

And we would all build towers of our own, Only to watch the roots corrode.

#photography #power lines #original photography #dark aesthetic #black and white #black and white photography #aesthetic #nostalgia #divine machinery #abstract #abstract photography #film aesthetic #foundations of decay #mcr #my chemical romance

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

4 While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, “Don’t leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak, 5 because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now.” — Acts 1:4-5 | International Standard Version (ISV) The International Standard Version of the Holy Bible Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation. All Rights Reserved internationally. Cross References: Matthew 3:6; Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; Luke 24:49; John 1:26; John 1:33; John 7:39; John 14:16; John 14:26; John 15:26; Acts 2:1; Acts 2:33; Acts 10:41

#command #wait #Jerusalem #Jesus #Holy Spirit #God the Father #remain #gift #baptism #John the Baptist #divine promise #water #Book of Acts #Acts 1:4-5 #New Testament #ISV #International Standard Version Bible #ISV Foundation

[officialralsei]

God, the fact that we're eldritch gods to Ralsei is So funny. Imagine if god from the bibble or cthulhu or whatever came down and was like "hey, nice pajamas, you make those yourself? hey, isn't your existence super fucked up? Why don't you take a moment to think about how fucked up your life is. Anyway, you should do murder!"

a/n: LITERALLY. he was quite explicitly made to cope with God From The Bible saying shit like this to him too. being meguca is suffering

#i think a lot about this actually. the mundanity of our existence terrifies him #not just because it's cognitohazardous information that induces headaches in him. but also because psychologically it's such a trip #what if you were made to be a plaything of the gods? wouldn't it be easier to believe their wishes were divine? #how would it feel having confirmation that they are extremely ordinary and flawed people? flawed people who have absolute power over you? #like it IS funny because of how ordinary we know ourselves to be. but it's that mundanity that makes this unbearably horrific as well #this entire line of musing is a big foundational idea of tvlandofficial actually. me and the mod talk about it a lot #toriel as a direct parallel to the player as flawed beings with absolute dominion over the darkner characters! it's great

[divine-swag-summit]

Higher Bracket Round 2: Match 11

Photo credit for The Scarlet King: @ghostie-goo Photo credit for The Spiral: @kurulover

The Scarlet King(SCP Foundation) vs The Spiral(The Magnus Archives)

#the scarlet king #the spiral #scp foundation #the magnus archives #divine matchup

[pathetic-pierrot]

Characters in the stanley parable are funny to me.

Like a random office worker with a number, voice man, never-ending line, cutout of baby, mannequin used to trick office man, bucket, female voice only in one ending, random lady in TWO endings, The Essence of Divine Art, Foundation that gives you 1327 boxes, possible wife of office man (dubious).

#the stanley parable #stanley #the narrator #mannequin #reassurance bucket #mariella #The Essence of Divine Art #future happiness foundation #stanley's wife #female narrator

[muzzleroars]

Oh cool, asks are open :)

I sent ask from a while ago about greek mythology getting mixed up with with the biblical setting and I came up with a more structured theory but it requires adding John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' to the mix, or more precisely, adding his descriptions of multiple pre-christian deities as demons that followed Lucifer to hell which implies that they used to be angels as well. maybe they were supposed to act as guides for humanity but decided to be gods under the radar until the whole Lucifer thing made the Father more aware of the freewill and stuck them in hell too, explaining their absence (trapped with Luci).

This would also open the posibility that Minos and Sisphyus are actually Nephilim by their relation to Zeus and Prometheus respectively (maybe they too are also Nephilim since greek mythology has several generations of gods? make the Father Chaos?), flying under the radar since they never expressed any real divine power in life and mortals claim divine parentage all the time. Also Nephilim are described as giants and if the prime state is conected to it then that explains why its so rare for mortals. and connects to Fallen Gabe's power, his unshackled state is the 'proper' one and the prime souls are the watered down verson of it due to their human aspect but still terrifying to a standard angel.

I had fun coming up with this. ;)

we can ALWAYS shove paradise lost in since it's genuinely one of my favorite pieces of literature and i already include a lot of ideas from it into my own headcanons (i read it and the divine comedy back to back the first time and so. they're already linked in my head forever), though i do have issue with the biblical precedent of labeling other gods as "demons" in christianity (it's a work from the 1600s, i know!! but still a terrible thing to do regardless of time period). in this context i do think of it as god, once again, feeling frustrated and threatened by his creations not behaving exactly as he wanted - the watchers of enoch were helping humanity, teaching them different arts and works to help them advance. once again, like lucifer in some sense, they were reaching out to assist these new creations, wanting to share their knowledge with other beings who could understand. and god ruins them. he strikes them all down, dispatching michael to bind all the angels that had started a relationship with humanity and then sending the flood to wipe out all life on earth for the "transgression". and then, like lucifer once again, they are all labeled as demonic entities to be hated. also interesting to consider with the nephilim idea is that gabriel was the one sent to wipe them out while michael took care of their angel parents so. that's another dynamic between him and the prime souls lol

(and as an aside, i probably mentioned it BUT yes gabriel's strength as a fallen angel is influenced by the ideas in paradise lost! specifically actually the scene where satan is brought before gabriel where it is made clear angelic strength is controlled by god's influence. in my case, i took it as god restricting their limits and only allowing what he wanted while their true power is much more potent - as a fallen angel, these restrictions are lifted)

#like paradise lost is so. important to me as a piece of fiction #but it is also SO written by an old man puritan it's ridiculous #similar with the divine comedy i suppose #but i do want to try to be sensitive to it no matter what #ALL THAT SAID it is interesting actually trying to work out how the greek myths fit into the comedy #dante includes them due to his education and now foundational that classics were to them at the time #they allowed a cultural shorthand and easily grasped metaphors #but it's also like. how are they THERE dante how did this HAPPEN #cake answers #long post

[trashlie]

Listen. You guys already know I'm MLQC traaaaaaaaaaaaashhhhhhh so yes, of COURSE I'm playing Love and Deepspace and I'm in DEEP lmao I love it I got it bad I'll write up so.e thoughts tomorrow but if you're on the America server and passed 1-9, feel free to add me!

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#LADS #LADS Brainrot #I'm soooooooo bivihoblhohucvi about this game it scratches all the spots #and i can see so many ways it has grown from MLQC!!!!! #the influence of/formative foundations of Westmoon!!!!!!!! #also!!!!!!!!!! #I'm treating the Kiroro Divination reference as an easter egg lol #Love and Deepspace

[catilinas]

wrow this is just like how fate works in the aeneid :-)

#specifically a) certain events And Specifically The Rise And Fall Of Cities (hello carthage) are predetermined #b) divine attempts to avert predetermined fate create like. contingent doom for mortal characters #(dido was dying a death that was neither deserved nor /predestined/) #c) the contingent doom Does redirect events back towards the predetermined fate or even is like. subsumed into it #(dido’s curse as the cause of the punic wars in which carthage was defeated and then destroyed + disk’s death or the reaction to it at least #as a proleptic fall of carthage) #dido is the most obvious way this happens but. [puts on the dido and turnus are doubles hat] turnus did not have to die actually #juno’s attempt to prevent the predetermined foundation of rome via aeneas and lavinia’s marriage causes the books 7-12 war but like #turnus could have gone home. #in fact i don’t even know if livy mentions turnus’ death. what is the pre-vergil turnus tradition?????? #but anyway he does die AND we all know about the condere thing but yeah the moment of his death becomes a proleptic foundation of rome #(look at me not even talking about foundational sacrifice) #i.e. the exact thing juno was trying to prevent #much to CONSIDER!!! #or how resist his fate’s prevailing course? #aeneid #also @gene if you see this. plot points occurring. rene girard is HERE. #beeps #heaven official’s liveblogging #tgcfposting

[wayti-blog]

"Universal Reality is a consistent system of Cosmic laws and facts, which is the foundation of all that is there, both at the macro level and at the micro level, physical and transcendent. The starting point is that there is a universal Higher or Divine Intelligence, which is at the heart of everything there is. Everything has also come from this source. Our soul is part of this Source."

o

#reality #universal truth #cosmic laws #foundation #as above so below #physical realm #spiritual life #metaphysics #divine intelligence #conscious love #source #god #all soul #oneness #eternal life #soul #spirit #earth school #love

[reitziluz]

today the Difficulties won a battle but not the war. but it means i've been indulging tinkering on everything but my main projects and chores.

like did you know the oc set with vaal has a floating city as their base. it's built on several sky islands that form the largest and stablest land masses in this sort of miniature asteroid belt that orbits a site of an ancient wizard battle. there's multiple funky things that make living there a great idea despite the challenges, but one of the most well known ones is that the magic that chucked all the earth into the sky also turned lots of it into essentially magic crystals. think like how glass can be formed, but then you can pick a shard up and cast fireball with it.

but there's more. the crystals are kinda like scabs on tears in reality. magic as in something that you can use to cast a fireball is only achieved if you create a shortcut into the juice that allows existence to happen, and then very carefully direct it with a system of channels/circuits. there are no dnd style sorcerers in the world, because any living thing tapping into the juice directly will cause the living thing to Cease in a way where dying from fantasy radiation poisoning is the best outcome.

(talking of tapping. if the world is a maple tree and magic is the sap, gods are the spout and bucket, and divine/magical practices are the refining process. kinda. it's a work in progress.)

#this magic business is the most consistent part of the worldbuilding in this setting #i've been at this for fifteen years #the idea of an innate magic user immediately undergoing catastrophic ascension into divinity #remains as the anchor and foundation to all other ideas #i am in the middle of renaming things #but i'm thinking using terminology related to blood #get real hammy with it #throw around ichor n shit

[dumpsterfireofsubtext]

The New Religion - Chris Abani

#ss from: #the poetry foundation #this distance I keep is not divine #Bea core #wheheheheh #such an incredible poem #one of my absolute favourites of All Time #I always always come back to this one #poetry #faves #Chris abani #the new religion

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

God is there in troubled times

When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. — Isaiah 43:2 | New Living Translation (NLT) Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. Cross References: Exodus 3:12; Deuteronomy 31:6; Deuteronomy 31:8; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 32:6; Psalm 66:12; Isaiah 8:7

#God #presence #day of trouble #deliverance #Israel #divine promise #Book of Isaiah #Isaiah 43:2 #Old Testament #NLT #New Living Translation #Holy Bible #Tyndale House Foundation

[ahkavia]

i don’t rate, i just listen (vol 1)

(deeply personal) opinion written 5/6/23

The Lonny Breaux Collection 

Frank Ocean 

Released April 2011

On the project 

This project feels like teenage ambition, like when you’re an adult trying to be an adult (for the first time). Excited and impatient. Bright and unscathed. It feels like 2 weeks before a blessed new chapter. Like right after you settle into self. Bliss comes only after that surrender. Frank’s ability to produce this many quality songs lets me know that only time and patience can take me where I wanna be. You can feel his commitment to practice throughout this project.  However short or long, you know you gotta keep going. You hear him smashing influences and technicality into his unique sound, his own creation. Though in alphabetic order, the songs feel like an expansion of the one before-not in the sense of storytelling or BPMs, but of a piece that strengthens the project in its entirety. It feels like an eagerness to express himself. 

Creatively, this collection is inspiring. As an artist, I scrap so much of my work. I sometimes fear imperfection and end up denying myself an opportunity to see my vision in full actualization. His collaborations with talents like James Fauntleroy are foundational to where r&b/Alt R&B and pop music is today. In looking at where they stand today, I understand the value of connecting with others creatively, I see that our creations are more beautiful when made together. This project displays the vulnerability of Frank’s growth as a writer and as an artist. It's playful and deep, It’s relatable but it feels like an alternate universe, like what may become. You easily recognize the cohesiveness of everyone that collaborated to create these songs. 

This project grounds me because you can hear 2011 In this- the grind before the perfect emergence of new tools for expression, with Tumblr gaining strength as a platform in 2013 with 13 billion yearly listeners. This sound and creativity contributed to this greatly. This project feels exactly like the years leading to a refreshing creative scene. It feels like the wave of exploration and training/practicing/work in anticipation of something big. It was transformation, preparation for something I had never experienced. Those times prepared me for where I am now, especially creatively.

project moodboard (all images via pinterest/not mine)

Frank's letter to himself (2011)

On me

The past year has felt like flowing into my sense of self. I learned that you just have to move forward. There are no rules to how fast you move. I met everything I was fighting not to shed, the core of my protecting force. I learned that most of who I am exists outside of me and that a home is a place where you feel most like you. Undeniably, boldly, happily you. I rejected rest to deflect from how deep I needed to go to get over myself. As I discovered my being, the warping of my self-understanding stretched me. I was confused and wounded in so many ways. 

Spiritually, I faced truths and redefined love, and gave it up to do the healing work. I couldn’t take what didn’t truly feel like me. Some things came back and some I parted ways with. I chose vulnerability once, and I choose it often now. The pain built my agility. Perseverance mirrored my weathering. I extended patience to myself because I had no choice. My mind was-is- always emulsifying, rest was only met when immense exhaustion and almost never accompanied relaxation. With an eye over my shoulder and a blade in my hand, I was protecting emotions with logic. I failed time and time again until I was certain. There was no half-doing in this. I felt every emotion and I sat in it, I tried and tried again. I gave myself the gift of surrender. 

Community is a topic that’s been at the center of my life lately. I had to discover what was stopping me from being who I knew I was despite not feeling it then. The value of those who I experience life with is so much greater than I was allowing myself to embrace. I often felt alone. It wasn’t loneliness but a habit of maintaining distance from those around me. In many rights, it felt like I had no one to guide me- no older siblings, mentors, or sponsors. I didn’t have any close examples of a lifestyle I desired. I had to feel my way through. 

While this is true in the tangible sense, I constantly found myself in “lucky” situations where just who or what I needed was right there.  Even if I had marched forward through 80% of the work needed to meet a desire, that 20% that came from the assistance of those outside of me was immensely influential, I learned that I need people and that I have the power to nurture an organic and loving community around me. I learned to embrace those around me leaning into those that come in my life and those that leave. I found balance in being present and enjoying what was in front of me. I learned that by denying myself of that experience, I denied myself an experience to truly know myself. 

Revisiting The Lonny Breaux Collection took me on a journey of Frank's growth, each chapter documented within his art. It reminds me that everything that is is here because of everything that was. It commemorates the last of an era, with a name change and an undeniably unique sound that would shape his legacy in music. 

Themes & tags:

Community

Young Adulthood

Creativity

Personal Transformations

Aquarius 

The 11th House 

Internet community

Openness

Personal Power

Abundance

Foundation building 

Patience

Divine Timing

Personal Development

Ahkavia.

On the series:I don’t rate, I just listen is basically: album reviews/assessments/concepts. detailing my takeaways, likes, commentary etc. may include a mood board for albums that give the feel that I embody when listening ie food, textures, smell, feelings, colors and moments. enjoy!

#writing #Community #Young Adulthood #Creativity #Personal Transformations #Aquarius #The 11th House #Internet community #Openness #Personal Power #Abundance #Foundation building #blackblog #frankocean #thelonnybreauxcollection #2011 #blackartist #playlistcurator #Patience #Divine Timing #Personal Development #ahkavia