#religion in fandom

[larphis]

I think the closest thing I‘ll ever accept as a proof of god‘s existence are fix-it fanfictions. Jesus sounds great and all - but have you ever had a post canon fanfic that was so well written that it sounded like it was actually canon and you felt as if all your wounds were suddenly healed?? THAT‘S a religious experience if there ever was one, if you ask me.

#fanfictions #fanfiction #txt.post #opinion #personal #fandom #fandoms #humor #religion #fix it fic #writing memes #just tagging a bunch of fandoms this applies to #our flag means death #supernatural #ted lasso #good omens #doctor who #hannibal #bbc sherlock

[vanessa-rafesgirl]

he's my new obsession. 🧘🏼‍♀️

#charlie bushnell #luke castellan #pjo tv show #pjo series #pjo #pjo fandom #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #charlie ray bushnell #luke castellan defender #vibes #girlblogger #my man <3 #my man my man my man #my religion #husband material

[arch-aeology]

But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou Son of man with a kiss?

closeup and rambling under the cut :)

slowly healing from religious trauma by viewing the Bible as a work of literature (rather than The Old Book That Runs My Life) and its interesting as fuck tbh,,, also I recently watched Jesus Christ Superstar for the first time and I am absolutely obsessed. Gethsemane and Heaven On Their Minds go so damn hard. Anyway I felt like doing an actual rendered piece and was having thoughts about Judas Iscariot and this was the result!!

#jesus of nazareth #judas iscariot #cw religion #how do i even tag this #jesus fanart #religious art #religious imagery #jesus fandom #jesus christ superstar #exmormon #anyway Jesus was chill as fuck #love that guy #wish people would actually love thy neighbor #instead of being hateful yk

[parasitic-saint]

the wound

#digital art #christposting #jesus mention #the wound #religion #bible fandom #jesus fanart #jesus fandom #nsft #gore #might actually do this one into an illustration to print #maybe #i have so many wips #this is what happens when i sleep 3 hours in 48 hours #...no.. not rlly im always like this...

[crazy-maracuya]

The day people start making retellings of the bible in the same way they make about Greek mythology is the day when I resurrect

#WHERES THE GNOSTISISM #WHERES THE DRAMA #DROP THE APPLE ALREADY GIVE ME YOUR TAKES ON WHICH KING FLUMBED THE HARDEST #JUDEAH EDITION #bible fandom #i mean its already kinda like that #but i wish i could see into the future just what kinds of stories people will make if christianity has a decadence like other religions #oh it would be cool if there is a merge of religions altogether. I think that fututre would be fun to read about. #kinda like the other metamorphoses in the past God as well is seen as a different being the its past alterations #would be cool would be cool

[solargeist]

that homophobic artist is kinda funny to me bc, like, Philza would ban her in his + his friends chats, Cleo and Wels made fun of people like her on twt not that long ago, multiple Traffic members are queer, and all of them have vocally supported queer people during pride month like, why are you here ?

#like go be an artist for a homophobic media (oh they all suck!) instead of piggybacking off queer people's existence for your own gain #You cannot think we're disgusting while using us for entertainment and money. #And you Cannot use religion as an excuse. I was raised Catholic. and I was gay back then too. #i draw grian being gay and catholic im on a whole different level #i saw she was also in the dsmp fandom.. which is also crazy. #also dude like quackity wears a cross eerywhere and hes supportive to my knowledge adgkadljgk

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

what's a ship that you like that might make people go 'huh?'

Ahh asking the true questions I see. Okay, hear me out fellow Marvel lovers, I bring you one of the most intriguing ships. FrostIron. Tony Stark and Loki. Now, I know what you're saying, 'But Sam, they only ever had one conversation.'

All it takes is one damn conversation people!

Lmao no, but I do love it. The enemies to lovers potential is just *chef's kiss* add in that one of them is a villain while the other is a hero? Yes please! Sign me up. One of them is technologically brilliant while the other one is a magical prodigy? Fuck yes. One of them is a GOD and technically a fucking alien? More please. Both of them have daddy issues, both are sarcastic as fuck, hilarious and petty. They are the true power couple of Marvel, I'm just saying

#Marvel #FrostIron #Tony Stark #Loki #loki laufeyson #JUST IMAGINE IT #If I can convert just ONE person into the FrostIron fandom #I will take it #Think of me as a missionary #except I am going to one blog door at a time recruiting you into FrostIron #join my religion please

[prokopetz]

People discussing fictional characters whose initials are “JC” without ever spelling who they’re talking about throw me for a loop every time because that initialism meant something very particular when I was growing up, so I’ll see folks saying the wildest shit about “JC” on my dash and the first thing that pops into my head is “Jesus did what?”

#media #fandom #nameology #religion #christianity #swearing

[michaelhholden]

Someone's probably already posted this but:

And today Fereshteh says:

Religious themes in iwbft my beloved

#the comparison of fandom culture and religion #alice said 'if it wasn't clear until now i'm gonna make it as clear as possible' #iwbftreread #iwbft

[shynetyme06]

Wow guys isn’t calcium-shat so brave for coming out as a bigot?? 🥺🥺🥺 can’t believe people are clowning on them for their innocent opinions!! Because invalidating queer people’s identities and siding with those who want us dead is just an opinion, right ?

What a great person with so much love in their heart ❤️ (oh wait sorry, her* so many mixups. I was just following in the footsteps of this lovely creator who seems to always forget about the canon pronouns of characters, oopsies)

So what if she follows transphobes and pedophiles? At least she pretended to respect trans people by following them anyway because awww blorbo posts!! Cute dream art!!! Don’t you understand that she just AGREES with those who hate them? It’s not like she’s saying it herself so she must be innocent 🫶🫶

(Huge fucking /j good lord. This is to make fun of those excusing this bs because how???)

#shy rambles #calcium-cat #calcium shat #<- petition to start calling her this #wrote this while hearing about a dumbass who’s trying to argue that cal is innocent and bringing up a dead person to do so #you’re in the QUEER fandom where several of the characters you like are QUEER #and this pos decided it’d be all nice to take those characters and turn them cishet because religion #Go find another space you are not fucking welcome here

[fivetrench]

HOLY FATHER HOLY SON HOLY SPIRIT

#artblr #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #my art #digital art #digital artist #moral orel #moral orel fanart #moral orel fandom #clay puppington #orel puppington #fanart #tw religion #tw religious themes #religious imagery #religious #clay puppington fanart #orel puppington fanart #moralton #adult swim #adult swim fanart #trenchposting

[swans-chirping-in-the-distance]

Reblog if you don't judge people by their gender, race, family, religion, sexuality, appearance, or anything besides who they are as a person.

#we are spreading positivity here people #tumblr is a fandom website for a bunch of nerds (positive) and we really dont need the hate #gender #race #religion #family #sexuality #appearance #reblog chain #reblog this #positivity #anti hate

[burr-ell]

"the tendency of this fandom to only engage with what THEY want these characters to be#as opposed to what their creators are trying to do and the stories they want to tell" slap this on a bumper sticker, you just summed all cr discourse (about PCs at least) in 2 sentences

It truly is maddening (and it's not by any means exclusive to the CR fandom). The reason why the discourse always goes the way it does is that at the end of the day, the loud fanwanky people only see what they would do, if they were self-inserted into the story, as a valid choice; and they are, more broadly, fundamentally disinterested in what others think or feel. There are several examples of this, and the variety of spaces within the fandom that produce these ideas is an indicator that this isn't endemic to one specific group of people.

-Keyleth is an important character whose feelings and choices are validated by the other PCs and cast even if they still disagree with them, in spite of how she and her preachiness get in the way of the Murderhobo Jubilee? It's not because the cast are all friends and they genuinely believe Keyleth is valid and are interested in how these discussions and choices can guide the story. It's because Marisha is the DM's girlfriend, and also here's my totally unbiased theory that my pet favorite players Sam and Travis secretly hate Marisha and Keyleth.

-Vax's presence is still felt and nodded to in the post-canon VM oneshots? It's not because he was an important character who mattered. It's because Liam wants to make everyone talk about his tragedy because he has Main Character Syndrome. Scanlan Wishes for Vax to appear at the wedding? It's not because he cares about Vex or because Sam and Liam wanted a sweet tribute to Vex and Vax's relationship and by extension Liam and Laura's friendship. It's because Liam thinks Vex's life should always revolve around Vax, and Sam wants to enable him and jerk himself off as the one who facilitated it.

-Beauyasha and Fjorester become canon? It's not because the players wanted it and it happened naturally. It's because there was a secret behind-the-scenes push to "force" those ships to become canon instead, and like, Dani Carr is some sort of shipping puppetmaster who made the players do it, and "they" (whomever "they" is) decided to sink Beaujester or Widojest because it was "obviously" going to become canon before the pandemic hiatus gave them time to "make the corporate-approved ships happen".

-Beau and Caleb try to reform the Empire and dismantle the Cerberus Assembly from within? It's not because it makes sense for their stories or that people who would take this position regarding a corrupt government might have a valid perspective that differs from your own. It's because the people at Critical Role Productions LLC are all spineless neoliberal cowards who won't commit to real activism. The best activism, after all, is violent, and violent revolutions have always resulted in stable aftermaths, and the real world has never demonstrated that this mindset is foolish.

-Relatedly: Caleb doesn't kill Trent personally? It's not because the most poetic justice would be to deny Trent the thing he wants most from Caleb. It's because "Limo Brain" is too obsessed with tragedy to have the stones to do "what needs to be done".

-Asmodeus, DnD Satan, turns out to also be CR Satan? It's not because it fits with the cosmology and the lore; it's because Matt Mercer is too attached to the "establishment", and the Prime Deities should have actually turned out to be the bad guys because of my personal baggage about Western religion and Christianity they're a little mean to my blorbo sometimes.

There's a pattern here: fans had expectations that they'd built up for themselves after projecting and building up fanon and deciding what players meant before they explained themselves fully, and when the players strayed from that, they were derided for all manner of reasons. I think we're seeing that same pattern play out in C3 as the story progresses in a way that fans dislike, and in fact we have seen fanwank spread whenever someone does anything that interferes with personally catering to a) the favored ship and/or b) the favored philosophy. (Orym, Ashton, FCG, Percy, Pelor...all valid when they affirm the Fandom Opinions and all disdained when they don't.)

Don't get me wrong, I think there's a place for comfort stories that deliver a personal catharsis. And I'm not going to dismissively say "well if you want it so bad make your own" because, as an artist, I am very familiar with the fact that creating is hard and draining and sometimes you just need to consume instead. But when you become so wrapped up in yourself and your feelings to the point where your perspective is the only valid one, someone else's feels like a betrayal when it isn't. It's always "They aren't doing what we wanted and here's why they're terrible people because of it" and never "Hmm, why is this what the cast wants? Let's examine that."

This isn't a new phenomenon, but I think it ultimately stems from not assuming that other people can differ from you in major ways in good faith. There are a lot of reasons for that (some more understandable than others), but I think you rob yourself of the potential to enjoy something new when all you do is demand what you already want. No matter what you're doing or where you are in life, you tend to become a better and wiser person when you open your mind to what other people have to say, no matter how mundane the subject matter. Sometimes the stories people have to tell are challenging—and the only healthy way to deal with that is to engage with them on their own terms.

#critical role #cr discourse #asks #long post #for the record i think VLD fandom became such a shitshow partially for this reason #but also. and admittedly i'm biased. VLD was basically a show for no one #this by the way is part of why a faction of fe3h fandom capes so hard for crimson flower (which is basically a glorified bonus route) #and absolutely abhors the idea of byleth being religious and enjoying her job as a teacher #and why some cr fans are so vehemently opposed to the prime deities being good and characters being connected to them #religious trauma that leads a character to reject religion and that being framed as a valid choice is okay to want to see #but it is also just as valid for a character to find religion to be a healing and positive experience #seriously 'gods bad' stories are not that difficult to come by. they're just not doing that in THIS story and you're mad about it #instead of doing the work of finding a story that WILL do that meaningfully

[noctilionoidea]

i get insulted by a lot of modern tropes that misrepresent Greek gods but nothing gets me as actively violent as when someone decides Ares is a misogynist. The father of the amazons. He who is feasted by women. The guy who murdered his daughter’s rapist. Yeah… he really hates women ig

#Not to treat an ancient religion and culture as fandom but. He is the girl dad of all time #ares #greek mythology

[the-dance-of-italy]

Lament of saint Judas Iscariot.

#my art #Judas #judas iscariot #this guy grew on me #tw religion #tw religious themes #cw religion #cw religious imagery #bible fanart #bible fandom #bible art

[crazy-maracuya]

"Nah I dont think the people who study the bible are THAT obbessed like maybe I am the only one seeing things--"

*Historians fighting over the authenticity of Jonathan/David*

*Historians trying to find out which angel or saint syncronised with what god in certain sections and making analogies everywhere.*

*Gnostisim*

*The early church mysteries and inner fightings*

*Going at each others throats for whenever or not Paul was a closested gay man or nah.*

"Okay so I was wrong."

#bible fandom #angels #angelology #abrahamic religions #abrahamic mythology