#or like. religious elements

[bixiaoshi]

i loveee when stories use elements from other works i eat that up every single time

#or like. religious elements #at first i didn't notice limbus company was doing that until like. sinclair AND gregor's bug arm #i was like 🤨 i recognize u #and then of course i had to google the characters n it hit me #of course im gonna read every single book that has a character in it lol #im ahead with the metamorphosis tho #went off track but. when stories use characters and references from other stories im in like cloud 9 #idk why i like it so much but if it's an element be 100% sure im gonna eat that up n enjoy it #jo.txt

[piosplayhouse]

The way scum villain has so many themes about writing/the literary arts and mdzs has so many themes about music and tgcf has so many themes about visual art and how each character that represents each of those respectively has their own struggle with their craft (passion burnout, loss of control over their ip/creation, obsession and dissociation) that gets turned on its head as their stories continue and their art comes to represent satisfaction and connection and devotion and love

#i know ive talked about svsss being a love letter to art and creators but i also think mdzs and tgcf have similar meta commentaries on #the nature of being an artist #perhaps a little dramatic to phrase it this way and i hope people dont get on my ass but i think wwxs downfall is somewhat reminiscent of #the artist being subsumed by their own creation and their legacy (like wwx's inventions) being bastardized and #perpetuated even by those who spit on the original creators reputation #and then tgcf obviously has major themes of art as a coping mechanism roped into that religious devotion element #whatever i just like art i think #tgcf #mdzs #svsss

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[enbysiriusblack]

i cannot for the life of me remember who made that post with the headcanon about the black family losing a lot of their wealth.

but i've been thinking about it a lot. and in england from early to mid 1900s, the aristocracy changed fundamentally as a class, they lost a lot of their previous held power as well as a lot of their money. and because of this, they either had to get a job (the aristocracy is the leisure class. they don't work), which means leaving behind the traditions of your class and your family in order to modernise and keep your money/power, or they could sell off their large estates/lands/artworks in order to keep tradition of the aristocracy as much as they could, but it meant losing a lot of money/power.

there's this quote describing this change in the aristocracy actually- "less power, more prestige". in staying with the traditions of old money, they lose the power they had in government/economy/whatever, but gain lots of admiration and respect from society- like they still have honour and integrity despite losing their money and power, which then becomes their primary tool in still being seen as an influential family.

and with the black family being known as "the noble and most ancient house of black", that definitely could show they chose that pathway. they're clinging onto their lineage of nobility in a time when the aristocracy as a class and the idea of high society is very much falling apart. and unlike quite a lot of these families, they don't modernise but instead keep their heads high and very much make it known that they are nobility and an ancient family, and have no intentions of disrupting this and losing the meaning of what being an aristocrat and a noble used to mean.

#also their motto being “always pure”. like i know its about purebloods and shit #but i do think there's an element of clinging onto traditions #in early 1900s was the rise of celebrities (actors/musicians/writers) surpassing a lot of religious or noble figures in pop culture #and then aristocracts then began to marry these sort of new money celebrities (although not all of them new money #i just mean not following traditions of high society and upper class #and the always pure motto could be very much a clear statement of outrage at this. of class becoming less about lineage #and more about who's the got the bigger wallets and the better parties #sorry i'm doing a module in uni rn about the monarchy and the british classes in early to mid 1900s soo #marauders era #marauders #the black family #the noble and most ancient house of black

[zonatcannibalism]

I need to get into new fandoms Tumblr give me recs

#tagging the fandoms im in rn so you know what i like #hatchetfield #starkid #tma #good omens #ofmd #yellowjackets #anything horror is good really #and i love me some religious themes #and gay ppl #and lots of sillyness #and some good music #no queerbaity fandoms pls #also i love cannibalism #the rocky horror picture show #i like stuff with supernatural elements #and also some good character design #crazy ex girlfriend #also no fandoms that are 90 percent filler

[yardsards]

me starting taz ethersea: i think amber's gonna be my favourite, though zoox seems pretty endearing in his own way. not a big fan of devo's overall Vibes for some reason tho

me now, a dozen episodes in: I Love That Fucked Up Little French Boy

#eliot posts #taz #taz ethersea #the adventure zone #devo la main #amber seemed like the type of character i'd absolutely love when her concept was introduced #but in practice idk i don't jive with her in a lot of scenes #i think maybe her prickliness level has passed my personal threshold and crossed from interesting to unpleasant? idk #devo it's like. i was Interested when the religious trauma thing was brought up #but i really started to like him more when it came to wanting to help beck so she wouldn't have to live like he did #zoox from the beginning to now has simply been a Delightful And Funky Lil Guy #also zoox has a lot of the elements that made me like merle so much in the stolen century arc #the continued efforts to make peace and whatnot #...(still don't like devo's voice tho lmaooo)

[clonerightsagenda]

Bujold: In a few generations there will be an entire planet full of telepathic men who hate women religiously.

Me: Elaborate on that

Bujold: No

#kat reads the vorkosigan saga #Ethan closing the book out with malpractice on a planetary scale #yeah let's give everyone on the planet experimental telepathy for kicks! #though I suppose if they're not overdosing on that one chemical it doesn't matter #life on Athos is portrayed very chill and nice as long as you do not let any of these people interact with women ever #and YET I struggle to believe that a religious separatist group founded in misogyny and obsession with sin #does not have other fucked up elements #beyond the whole having to earn social credits to get kids thing but beta colony also does that so it's not unique to them #like. we can assume what kinds of people the founding fathers were. that's gotta leave a societal mark

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[deeez-n]

if any of u knew anything abt east asian/arabic culture u would have written the best cynonari fics ever. just do ur research ppl

#smut has rotted ur brains😭 #im aware sumeru isnt good bc hyv didnt do their research but for a piece of media to be considered good u have to put real life elements- #-into it #which is y sumeru crew fics feel so white. u are putting the wrong elements into it😭 #al haitham stands in the ramadan pide line for hours so that 4gravete can have the “ideal” ifthar #this is the reality they dont want u to know😭 #tighnari has to test mushrooms on ramadan but he still acts like he is fasting bc of religious trauma #open ur eyes and see the truth #mine #genshin #edit: by being considered good i meant eye catching....apologies

[leolaroot]

lds church will have you shunning your nonmember family members but convince you its them shunning YOU.

#like not exaggerating they have you build wvery single element of your life into the church so even social family time is religious #and then tell you your family is acting unreasonable for not wanting to spend time with you and theyre trying to estrange you etc

[hiveswap]

I was cooking just now and i had a realisation about spn & my mom told me that i am overthinking it like 2 sentences in. While i was making her pancakes. Anyway i'm fucking fuming so this is a post now.

Supernatural could have been an amazing critique of the american dream, and it's so close to actually being that. Only if it didn't lose track of itself over the 15 years it was airing.

Sam and Dean, and hunters in general, don't get to have the american dream. They don't get to have an education, a family, white picket fence suburban house, ect. (That is something that is actually said out loud!!! They long to have normal lives. Who's overthinking what here??) this is because of the way they were raised, the things they have seen, and all of the things that want them dead constantly.

They know what lies on the other side of the american dream, they know all of the ways that it fails people, and this follows them home whenever they try to settle down.

A lot of these threats are based on figures from religion (demons, angels, ect.) Which is fitting because American christianity is fucking vicious against anything it hates. Being part of a group of people that is hated by christians makes people's life hell. Actively resisting the conservative fundamentalist ideology that the usa was built on? Oh boy.

This is also part of why the people reading certain characters as queer are so fucking right. Making them part of an actually marginalised group instead of using Hunters as a stand-in for one would have delivered this message much better.

#supernatural #(A story that handles this type of narrative better is Alice Isn't Dead. #It is a podcast/book about a black lesbian trucker looking for her wife. They are faced with hateful #violent monsters that were born from #everything that is wrong with America. They cannot just go home #it follows them home #just like the Hunters in Supernatural. #It lacks the religious elements though. Sorry but i love it a lot)

[mourningmaybells]

tightroping between 1950s and DnD sci-fi fantasy speak for my story, but I am absolutely keeping "sauced" as a slang word for drunk.

#it's the typical magic lost in the modernized era except no one fucking knows if it was magic from gods or real anywho we r gettin divorced #you ever think saint george and the dragon sounds like a typical fantasy story even with the religious element. and how a lot of it gets my #cized into magic. #tbis #the black indigobird's song

[troutfur]

I'll always support a meddie who quits. Damn right, girl, priesthood fucking sucks! Get the hell out of dodge as soon as you can!

#frostpaw #asc spoilers #shadow spoilers #if you didn't guess by the fact it's a major element of my self-insert OC's story #it really does add to the relatability factor for me hahahah #god I sometimes fear I come across as anti-theist for stuff like this #but I'm just a weird little religious atheist with a disdain for spiritual authority

[wayward-banana]

come read my new hit fanfic that doesn’t exist with stunning taglines such as: when he’s 😳 when he’s killed all your best friends 😳😳 and is going to kill You next 😳😳😳 but he’s TEN FEET TALL (😳!)

#the Surprise here is that he did not in fact kill anyone and Yugana is in for a Wild Ride #it’s got everything. religious trauma. beauty and the beast elements. gay people. blood magic. the slowest burn on the planet #what more could a girl (me) need #Yugana #Marx #my art #ocs #huzzah more art I’m enjoying playing with my blorbos like dolls #Yugana don’t look behind you but there is a beautiful sexy tall bad bitch looming over your shoulder rn #tw blood #blood #just in case ofc #eye contact #a littol…. #so anyways Yugana (catboy) tops— #hit post send post post now

[badnew2005]

i am not a person i am the sound system in the macdennis kitchen/living room playing lucy dacus Just a bit too loud . mac is out Slutting it up (good for him!!!) . dennis is crying in his room with the door locked.

#i’ve said a billion times before i Understand macdennis because i was once a seventeen year old lesbian in love with her best friend BUT #have i told yous about. how every single lucy dacus song was About Her ….. and how the girl i pretended was her called lucy MID ??????? #anywaysssssds. me n dennis reynolds soul connection we r telepathically linked (pw is there too he jumps in and out mainly just listening #to us and using it as inspo (rude!) ) but . yeah #like …… the religious elements of lucy’s music vbs and shit. dennis trying SO HARD to relate to understand mac . are you throwing up too

[you-are-my-neverland]

*disclaimer: will this actually decide my fate? who knows, but it's fun to do it anyways.

option one: eight years ago, helena yang died, taking cian byrne with her and ending the horror. the red revolution won, and the doomsday prophecy was fulfilled. in the new commonwealth, all magic users are created equal, and people no longer have to suffer under the previous reign of terror.

but everything is not what it seems. there is a coffin in the woods that should never be opened. the white wraiths, a terrorist organization, haunt the streets, and a mysterious assassin called the magician eludes capture. and in the corners of the city, the rot slowly creeps back in...

in which helena yang was the chosen one, cian byrne was the antichrist, and when they died, they left legacies behind that have yet to be filled. alice yang, helena's younger sister, has made it her mission to hunt down the elusive magician, while kellan st. trinita grapples with being handed a legacy he doesn't know what to do with. and in the woods, someone wakes up...

my baby for the past couple of months. i'm 16k into a draft (and 26k into the planning doc lol), but i ran out of ordered plot so it's at a bit of a standstill despite the numerous ideas bouncing around in my head. definitely want to work on it, but it has a ton going on with character threads and plots, etc etc.

option two: in a world where the earth, sky, and sea were created from the bodies of gods in a sort of sacrifice-creation-by-dismemberment cosmogony, the 'hearts,' the power sources of the gods, are lost. whoever finds them will possess unimaginable power. the search for the sea goddess', nisa's, heart has led to a surge of piracy in the past decades - in a world where you become a pirate or live under them, many turn to the sea for better options and opportunities.

for arete, the quest for nisa's heart is not what she wants, but rather her destiny. daughter of a famous pirate captain, arete's skin bears a map that will lead her to the heart - if she can make it out to sea first. saved as a child by akane and her mother, then separated from akane later when pirates attack their village, the two promise to find one another. they travel different but parallel paths as akane struggles to survive and become the strongest warrior, and arete strives to find the pefect crew to become the strongest on the seas and free herself from her cursed destiny.

currently worldbuilding on this one, and there's sooo many interesting elements that i really like (and that are too hard to explain in a little summary so sorry if it reads confusing). the first little bit would be sort of a precursor to the actual story, taking place in the five-six years akane and arete are living together up until their violent separation. the present timeline would begin six years later, when arete starts to actually build her crew.

option three: set in a futuristic world where sensors - those born with certain enhanced senses - exist. saing knows who killed her brother, but with no body ever found, there is nothing she can do about it. her search for justice brings her to the seedy underground, where a vigilante assassin who goes by the name of foxglove is said to exact revenge for those who can convince them.

however, when one of the suspected culprits behind her brother's death - noe, the head of sca (sensor control agency) - falls into a coma before she or foxglove can get to him, the situation becomes more complicated. pilar, the successor to noe's position and his protegee, becomes embroiled in the mystery surrounding the man she considers her savior, and in the hunt for foxglove.

still very much planning this one, but it's been an idea in my head for a while, i just haven't had time to dedicate to it. there's so much i like about it, and a lot of scenes jumbled together, plus the basis for the plot is pretty much there. again, there's a lot more going on than i can succinctly explain in two paragraphs (this was my first time trying to summarize it), but basically there's human experimentation (always a hallmark of my wips i know), children who never escape the cycle of abuse, class differences, characters making bad decisions, and some really complicated relationships (hurt people hurt people and then help them hurt other people or something like that...)

option four: i work on all four at once and the only thing i draft completely are my history papers (the most unproductive option, because if i don't focus on one i won't really make serious headway into any of them. but in all honesty i'll be thinking about all of them during the month anyways so?)

#.txt #my writing #nanowrimo #nano 2023 #nanowrimo 2023 #you can vote even if you don't know me this is just for fun!!! #honestly this is how i announce my current wips instead of making a new intro #yesterday i set my mind on white begonia and then the day before it was the post chosen one wip #idk why white begonia is the only one with a name. i liked the symbolism of it meaning 'beware' idk #anyways these all have some level of magic because that is my ja #*jam. i give up on making normal stories i can't live without magic and murder #if you can't tell option one is the only one i've actually had a tagline/summary for #the first two also have religious elements about saints and gods and religious organizations i couldn't incorporate into the summary #i would share excerpts but unfortunately only one of these has actual words on a draft #white begonia's two pages don't count because that was a false start

[avallachs]

i’ve been cooking a dark urge in my brain for the better part of the week, and all i can say so far is that she annoyed the hell out of ketheric & gortash was consistently amused with her harebrained schemes & always shocked they worked. and her dynamic with orin is too insane for me to post about publicly

#ophelia.txt #she has a 180 alignment shift after she gets got and she kisses wyll :) #and of course she’s a drow. i love drow a lot #like um. i may be burnt out from bg3 but the sacrificial lamb dynamic with bhaal is too good to pass up #i love the religious insanity and the gratuitous gore and the horror of trying to shed who you were before #also i simply love when u can put a religious spin on and an element of ‘what the fuck is going on here’ in daddy issues teehee #recycling this line i used before: she’s daddy’s little girl but daddy doesn’t like his little girl very much

[alwaysforetells]

Maybe it's the insomnia... But Running up that hill is very Dune coded...

#im re-reading dune at like 3 am while listening to Kate bush. if you can't tell #it just... captures the themes #what is ascension to a higher state of being? and how can it be achieved in impossible odds? #are we set in a predetermined fate or is that defined by what we struggle and barter away key elements of ourselves for #I'm not even religious just tired #3 am ramblings #dune #kate bush