#religious insights

[roaldseth]

Josef was already made for me, but I really was given the question what if he was made even more for me. (Been calling angel!Josef a "Featherchampion," but that's subject to change)

Since it also was a popular question, and by popular question I mean I thought about it to then be asked about it in quick succession: he gives "wing hugs" by going under the arms and around the torso. He is not immune to Alain's pleading face.

#Unicorn Overlord #Josef #angel!Josef #Alain #He also does Big Stretch extending full wingspan when sitting/idle too long #wing canopy over the face is for when he's taking his mid-day old man nap #vanillaware didn't do this to keep me from reaching phase 2 of my boss fight #I'm sorry I was raised Catholic #and instead of getting religious devotion I got angels are cool af #insider insight to my exact emotional state for this: #I was listening to Heritors of Arcadia while doing the second sketch

[godsfavoritescientist]

I Am Unwell About This

#prebetrayal #ford #idk what to tag this as actually #godsrambles #me half the time: this is so sad. I am in agony #me the other half the time: what you mean by 'i am always eager and ready' ford. is 'rare insights' what we're calling it nowadays #religious themes #him calling bill showing up in his life a miracle. calling it divine inspiration. did bill himself use the phrasing 'divine knowledge' #he at least called himself a Muse and ford capitalizes the word Muse!!!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#man ive never seen an eating disorder kill someone else besides a parent infecting a child but my nana is really trying #shes like 1000% orthotexic. will not eat anything not filled with vegetables or fat. and my grandpa is 87yo with a heart condition currentl #in the hospital for covid bc thry went to Christmas church and dont believe in being vaccinated and my dad is so frustrated #bc he knows his mom is not gonna give his dad hearty foods. he needs to eat like protein shakes and meat and ice cream. anything thats not #her cooking which sucks on top of being extremely healthy. except its not healthy bc they dont eat a balanced diet #so its my nanas eating disorder killing her husband and shes so fucking frustrating. im like 99% sure she has obsessive compulsive #personally disorder bc she fits to a T and has zero insight. she may have full on 0cd bc talking to my dad he has more obvious 0cd #compulsions than i do. he used to say phrases before going to bed and would take 2 steps across the floor to prevent bad things from #happening. so like im pretty sure my nana is where i get my perfectionism and 0cd. god. i wish i could express how fucked up she is #like my dad said at least he had a stable home to grow up in but like she has zero sympathy for other people. cannot look past herself. wil #not wear a mask bc she doesnt care enough abt other ppl. my dad was like: u would not have survived in that house. which is fair bc i am #barely keeping it together coming from a stable home with two sympathetic parents who i know love me #and like its sad that they're suffering the effects of buying into the fox news bullshit and its killing them #but also. genuinely. i think theyre not very good ppl. theyre the type of people who think they're better bc they're religious. white. and #thin. and theyre not better thsn anyone. their grandchildren cant stand them. well cant stand her at least. papa is just quite so its hard #to say what hes thinking. apparently he was confused last night and saying something about eating dinner on the golf course. which sounds #nicer thsn being in the hospital lol. ugh. he seems not long for this world tbh. may he pass peacefully to b with his 1st wife who died of #brain cancer at age like 20 or something. so it goes. bleh. how many funerals are intended for me in the next 5 years? hopefully none but #that seems improbable with the unspoken drain circling that seems to b going on in this family. old age and like almost 10 years of cancer #defying the stats but for how much longer? #i dunno. its just so weird to watch these things happen and not talk about it directly to the other ppl who see it #i worry that ill come off as too callose or inappropriate bc i have that tendency when something bad is happening but thats everyone else #excuse? idk i just feel like its better to talk abt things #unrelated #ed mention #i tell u this so i can say these things to someone and also bc if i were u. i would like to hear the drama #bc im nosey and i assume other r too ;-]

[afterthefeast]

i think it’s interesting that fitzjames’ justification to crozier for eating his body after he dies is to say “i am not christ”, ie his body is not sacred and after death is merely meat that is sorely needed by the crew, in contrast to hodgson explicitly invoking the eucharist in relation to eating gibson’s body. obviously what makes any potential cannibalism of fitzjames potentially justified would be his prior giving of consent, in contrast to gibson dying with no idea what hickey intended to do with his body, but what’s more interesting is the fact that what renders fitzjames’ body as possibly sacred, in the sense of having a meaning and importance beyond its material reality as meat, is crozier’s insistence that his friend’s body be left alone.

in contrast, if you interpret the eucharist monologue as being to do with hodgson’s recent consumption of human flesh (which i do think is the most useful interpretation at any rate), gibson’s body is only sacred once it has been consumed, in direct opposition to how fitzjames’ is given greater meaning by not being eaten. in both of these contexts what gives the body a potential sacredness is the external meaning imposed upon it, but while hickey does try to present cannibalism as having a sacramental quality, it’s obvious that at the end of the day gibson is merely meat.

crucially, this is ultimately also true of fitzjames, despite crozier’s best efforts, because his body ends up possibly eaten and definitely looted anyway. hodgson’s speech has no real meaning beyond futilely trying to justify what he’s done. he finishes the monologue with the only thing that really matters - “i’m so hungry”. moral concerns have no weight in the face of such an immediate material reality, and the body itself does not really have any importance beyond its own materiality - instead what is sacred are the bonds it once had. i think crozier’s refusal of fitzjames’ offer is still important, less so for its effect, but more because it marks the persistence of his love for his friend regardless of other concerns. if anything is sacred in the terror, it’s that.

this emphasises the show’s overall emphasis on the importance of human dignity and fellowship in the face of utter ruin. despite the above, i think the terror is overall ambivalent on the direct moral question of eating human flesh, and it does not really encourage the viewer to judge any of the men who actually engage in cannibalism beyond pitying them. the whole mantra of “god wants you to live”/characters encouraging each other to survive suggests that cannibalism might be justified in that context, but that the disrespect shown to those who end up cannibalised in the show is what renders the act explicitly immoral.

aside from crozier, no one survives the terror, regardless of whether they abstain from cannibalism or not. refusing to butcher gibson would not have saved goodsir, and doing so did not save hodgson; little’s group would not have survived even if they stayed with jopson. crozier’s best efforts did not prevent hickey from finding fitzjames’ grave. but precisely because there is no greater meaning in death and its aftermath, the way the crew treated each other in life is more important, because really that’s all there is.

for little and dundy, the moral event horizon is not when they eventually succumb to cannibalism long after they’ve kept walking, but when they abandon jopson and the other sick men - this is a line they toe in the previous episode when they suggest abandoning fitzjames, but crozier doesn’t let that happen. crozier has also eaten human flesh (the fact that it’s goodsir, who in crozier’s view is “clean” is another fascinating element i’m not bothered to untangle here), and in that respect he’s equal to little, but his refusal to abandon his friends affords him, at the end of the show, his own dignity, best expressed through survival. i don’t mean to imply he has the moral high ground in a reductive sense, nor do i think his survival has really any greater meaning than the fact that he’s the protagonist (by my own logic any of goodsir, jopson, blanky, or fitzjames could still be standing at the end). but i do think the show presents certain actions as ones you cannot go back from with your own dignity or self-respect intact, and these are primarily based on the ability to recognise humanity in your fellow man regardless of circumstance (be that deprivation, illness, or cultural difference).

fitzjames was correct - he is not christ, and hodgson’s attempts to justify his cannibalism through the eucharist are revealed as just that, empty attempts. nonetheless, while there is nothing sacred about the body in death, there is something almost transcendental about the bonds it had in life.

#the terror #im going to rewatch it this week possibly so we will see what more brilliant insights i arrive at then #btw i do sort of mean sacred in a religious sense but i also kind of don’t. i’m not bothered to explain that’s all you’re getting #were i still in uni i would take a walk and think about this but im not! so send post

[kohakhearts]

hey that pokemon 2000 gifset + your jn dub analysis made me think about the pokemon 2000 dub - I've only seen it subbed once (compared to the hundred times I watched it dubbed as a child) so I could be misremembering, but didn't the dub completely change the themes of the movie with the chosen one ash thing?

i actually haven’t watched the sub nearly as many as times as the dub either :p but i have read extensively about this topic bc it’s personally my favourite pokemon movie and yes! the first and second pokemon movies are both victim to this (like mewtwo’s epic speech we all love so much at the end of the first movie…being a complete fabrication by the dub team :p you gotta give those writers credit - they were VERY good at what they did), largely i’m guessing due to cultural values and expectations. since they were trying to sell the anime to an american audience, not a japanese one.

tangentially, i will say i also think that’s the root of this like…subtle distinction some people have between the characters “ash” and “satoshi.” i don’t differentiate them in any big way myself because fundamentally they still are very much the same, but it is true that in japanese, ash has somewhat different mannerisms and responds differently to events at times, especially in the early anime when it was so much easier to get away with making big changes for…a big assortment of reasons haha.

in THIS movie in particular, some of those things are like…well. the prophecy is probably the most obvious change. the dub team rewrote it to include the chosen one reference, which works great because of the word play on ash’s name. in japanese, it just says “an exceptional trainer will appear to help calm the wrath of the gods.” ash’s response to this is more mild trepidation than outright fear. he doesn’t hesitate like he does in the dub. and tbh? both reactions make perfect sense for his character in my opinion.

in japanese, his concern is more "do you really think i can fit that role?" this...tracks pretty well with his character development by this point. like yeah he said he could win the indigo league, but he's also thinking about dropping out after gary loses; it's that little grain of insecurity he has, which he's normally good at covering up with arrogance (a lot of which is also very genuine, don't get me wrong). but he sees the opportunity to help and he takes it. that's just...what ash does.

in english, though, the prophecy is pretty clearly about him. there's no one else it could be. it has to be him. and he...doesn't like that? that scares him. which, fair. anyone would be terrified by being singled out like that. it's also so much...not ash's thing, even at this point in the series. his character development is about embracing having to work hard to do well. to keep trying until you get it right, no matter how many times you get it wrong. the idea of being a "chosen one" completely robs him of his ability to be so single-minded about what he wants his destiny to be that it manifests as pre-determined; it just...pre-determines it for him, if that makes sense. lol.

the thesis of the japanese version of the film is that no one person or pokemon can stand on their own. everyone needs help. it's about harmonizing with each other and with nature. about letting others help you, and helping them in turn. the english version rewrites that into a story about power and destiny. the title alone says it all, right? it's called "the power of one" - no reference to lugia, no reference to the birds. in japan, the title is about the revelation (or "birth") of lugia.

westerners love a good chosen one story, so this was a really good choice by the dub team in that respect. i mean, it's a narrative that's stuck really well. fandom loves chosen one ash! in general, western fanbases are really into this narrative. it's everywhere. and there's a lot that goes into that, culturally, and especially religiously, historically, etc. so at the end of the day, i don't think the change is so much about conflicting ideas about collectivism and individualism. it's more about goals and ideals, on a personal level.

let me say again for the 273456784th time, i love that they resolved ash's story by having him realize that the goal he's really been striving for all this time is to meet and befriend pokemon. to learn from them. to earn their trust. it's like...he did the thing that everyone else thought represented his goal, maybe even himself included, only to realize that his dream was never about the end of it anyway. it was about everything he learnt and everyone he met along the way. (i also suspect nobody writing in 1997 knew that that would be the ultimate resolution, either. but it makes sense in the entire context. it's kind of a nice irony, even. to only figure it out after writing the story :p)

and i think this little distinction is important to that goal! it's his whole character! which is why even though i too love chosen one characters, i don't necessarily think of ash as one. because even if he is, his whole Thing is that he wants to try. a lot of the chosen one narrative is about characters being reluctant to be used for a "greater good," or about them collapsing under that pressure. ash doesn't really have that. he does what he thinks is right because he...thinks it's right. sometimes, sure, others have to push him into it a bit, but usually they're actually pushing the other way - it's too dangerous, you're going to get hurt, etc. and to me, i don't know - thinking of times he's died, or nearly died, and some legendary or mythical pokemon has saved him at the last minute...i don't think that has to mean he's special in a cosmic sort of way. i think it just means he's special to them. that he did something for them, or for someone else they had come to care for (thinking manaphy responding to may's emotions, not just to the fact that ash was drowning, or in mpm ash convincing latios to trust him because of their mutual desire to save latias, etc.), and so they want to help him. which is completely opposite to the typical chosen one narrative, i think? because he doesn't do those things out of obligation...he does them because he thinks he can become a better trainer by doing them, and he wants to do that. and well. he did do that.

anyway my tl;dr here is YES they changed the theme a lot haha, but i find it fun that they also changed the characters’ responses to that theme. funnily that’s…kind of also what fanfiction writers do all the time, lmao, but that’s a whole other conversation.

#answered #im sure id have something more insightful to say if id watched the original recently but i havent Dx #*meta #i guess #also re: the chosen one narrative being very religious #its more to the idea specifically of a character who does selfless things for the sake of being selfless and it often ends with the #character martyring themself somehow. which i dont think it’s necessarily WRONG to say is what ash does. self-sacrificial is not a Bad way #to describe him. i think its a reasonable and compelling read on his character. its just not mine i guess because as much as i also love #chosen one characters what i love most about it isnt the fact that they are a chosen one #so much as what the consequences of that have been because what they really want deep down is to just…not have to save the world #but ash isnt really like that. saving the world is more of a byproduct of what hes actually trying to do. which is to help others #rather than being forced to save the world to help the ones he cares for. its kinda opposite. idk. maybe i’ll write a post about this #properly someday bc rn my brain is mush and i can only think of three major western franchises that even have chosen ones lol

[myristicisms]

trigger warnings for this drabble include; vague mentions of child endangerment regarding miriam's childhood, vague allusions to self harm, minor body horror, mention of needles, and suicidal ideation/thoughts/romanticization of death

God, religion, oddities in of themselves that always had some ridiculous notions and taboos attached to them; Were there a god then why would one worth a grain of salt allow monstrous beings to exist and bring harm to the so-called beloved humans they had made? Were there a god, then why would they allow their cherished humans to commit atrocities against one another with little consequence? There was no god, not to Miriam in any case.

That had been a revelation long since held throughout her childhood, when needles dug deep within her flesh to drain her of blood to monitor and when daggers carved unknown script ( which later she'd found to be Enochian ) into her body with little regard for the sobs of a child begging to be freed and left alone; Death was something akin to a gift, Miriam had thought, it must've been if the damned alchemists had fought tooth and nail to keep her alive even despite the ever constant dizziness and nausea that left her malnourished as a child.

Every night she'd pray to God for relief, and every day she'd awaken in misery, the ever present freezing chill of the shard slowly embedding itself within her spine a constant reminder of her ailment, when the alchemical process first began, she remembered far too vividly how it felt to stand and walk, like daggers shooting through her very being and leaving her exhausted after mere minutes of activity compared to the rest of the children who'd yet to be pushed through the same process; Eventually, though, everyone within the orphanage had endured the curious proddings of lunatic men claiming to be alchemists.

The thought was laughable in of itself, bitter enough to drive the taste of bile deep within her throat - Perhaps in title they were alchemists but as far Miriam cared, they were nothing more than frauds and monsters. And as far as Miriam was concerned, part of this heinous experimentation had been at the fault of the ever rising sentiments regarding religion; Had the alchemic guild not lost funding due to the rise in spirituality for a god that seldom ever answered prayers ( and likely doesn't even exist, given how little they care for their people ) then their plunge into insanity and degeneracy likely never would have happened, Gebel would not have been so ill much the same as Miriam herself.

Alfred and Johannes were among the few ‘ good ones ’ as far as the guild was concerned, although the bar for that was intensely low to begin with. As the years passed on and Miriam grew older, the more she questioned what little faith she'd had, questioned herself too, simply because when one is raised as a weapon, a monster, it becomes difficult to truly know if perhaps the lack of answers was due to a lack of a god, said god not caring one bit, or the answer that lingered and made the most sense; She was not a person.

Not any longer, no. She was a monster, a demon, and beast, one that thrived upon slaughtering whatever hellish creatures she'd been forced into combat with to collect data and absorb their lingering magic within herself.

Hellish, painful, hideous, awful, putrid, vile, monster.

Every night, shattered shards covered in crimson and alabaster would rest upon once pristine wooden floors, shaking fingers prying each one out with the intent of some form of normalcy and yet they only return as swiftly as they're removed. Humans do not experience that, humans do not need to pry crystal from their flesh, humans do not experience the feeling of claws ripping apart their ribcage and intruding upon her very core to develop some form of newfound strength, humans were not Shardbinders and Shardbinders were not human, they were extensions of hell in a way, a conduit of demonic energy that drew other monsters to their vicinity to continue an ever looping and hideous cycle of violence only ever broken by the sweet caress of death's fingertips.

Every morning was new misery, new pain, the ever present shifting of crystals within her body molding her skin into something thicker, something near cold to the touch, and each new piece of herself she'd discover would only further raise the same question within Miriam's hardly beating heart; Where is God? Why won't he stop this madness and end her ever growing misery.

It wasn't until years later down the line, where Miriam begged and pleaded to be slain that finally she'd had something answered to some degree, angrily lashing out at Gebel over her condition simply because she'd been bitter ( fitting given her name, of course ) and he'd had the audacity to try to be optimistic, that she finally understood what she was, who she was to some degree. Shardbinders weren't a thing, a simple label that held no meaning to those who knew themselves and knew their capabilities too.

‘ Our power doesn't make us good or bad. Our choices do. ’

That had been what he'd said to her, what put her mind at ease and chased away the ridiculous notion that just because the alchemists had changed her, deformed her body to some degree and even marred her heart some, Miriam was no monster. She was no demon, nor some hideous and evil beast, because her choices were that of a human's, as righteous as they can be while still allowing wiggle room for growth and flaws, she was no monster and thus there was no god because what god would allow their cherished creations to suffer so terribly by one another's hand?

#muse;; miriam #ephemeral files;; musings #infinite in mystery;; drabbles #i wanted to explore miriam's relationship with religion and her childhood #and how that would affect her as a whole #additionally wanted to give some insight into her character too #she's not hateful of religion and those who follow a god #but she definitely has her own form of religious trauma to work through

[menlove]

feeling like a real "well, actually-" bitch reading articles for my capstone that have only done surface digging into the ugaritic texts ahdhsjhs they make so many mistakes and parrot some common misconceptions and I'm sitting here like

#religious studies rambles #this man is calling yamm a sea serpent and saying baal isn't the son of el and I'm like aaaaahhHHHH #it looks like he just read the origins of biblical monotheism (good text) and that's it #and I'm like that's a great book for this but. it's a cursory glance. #you gotta read what the translators say bc they can offer insight into what's going on and not Just their interpretation

[entropy-sea-system]

Ok so. My in sys partner figured this out when I told them about my avoidance of personally having spiritual or religious beliefs (I have OCD and STPD and experience magical thinking) and I hadn't thought of it before but.

One may be avoidant of personally engaging in spiritual or religious activities or beliefs if they experience magical thinking.

Magical thinking is defined as "the belief that one's ideas, thoughts, actions, words, or use of symbols can influence the course of events in the material world" (from Encyclopedia brittanica website)

So magical thinking is when you believe causations or correlations between things that aren't necessarily rooted in actual consequences or possibilities. It's associated with some neurodivergences like schizospec (includes schizotypal pd, schizoid pd, schizophrenia, etc.) and OCD although anyone may experience it at some point. For example if you think unfollowing someone led to that person breaking up with someone. Or perhaps if you think that being jealous of someone led to them being injured in an accident.

Many superstitions and some religious and/or spiritual beliefs may literally have tenets that reinforce or include magical thinking (if you think this you will be punished for sin, 'step on a crack break your mother's back', etc.) . So if you're already prone to magical thinking, some such tenets or beliefs may make it worse (or it may also not, as not everyone has the same experiences).

This doesn't mean religion or spirituality is wrong(and this post is not antitheist or supportive of being antitheist or otherwise bigoted towards religions), it just means it can be difficult for some people to engage with spirituality and/or religion as a result of experiencing magical thinking.

#neurodivergent #magical thinking #ocd #actually ocd #schizospec #actually schizospec #actually neurodivergent #just. thing where someone has an insight and Im like OH that makes so much sense actually #ritual abuse can also make one avoidant or even fearful of believing in religion or spirituality #Ive also been forced to follow the bodys parents superstitions n religious beliefs so the trauma from that is part of why I experience this #too and I also suspect its what gave me magical thinking in the first place (not to say its always due to trauma just that for me it might #be) #-Rift

[gxlden-angels]

What else can I do if I can't be a false prophet??

#yes this is costar #I don't believe astrology and tarot can predict the future but I do believe they can shape it #So I absolutely love using them for therapeutic insight #unfortunately both are v v mean to me >:( #and now I can't even be a false prophet! #how else am I gonna spread blasphemies against the lord?? #Jesus will come 4/20/2069 but it'll be to deliver the best fuckin kush you've ever had #Judas kissed Jesus with tongue and the entire crucifixtion was a bit to get out of there so they could kiss more homosexually #uhhhh what else #the rapture isn't real he meant Rupture as in a rupture in heaven and hell's relationship where they fight #we have nothing to do with it and won't be affected in the slightest other than heaven acting collectively like divorced dads #ok that's it that's all of my prophecies have fun #ex christian #religious trauma

[twopercentboy]

I think the cats and dogs and deer had it right

Because affection only works when it's rubbed off on someone

Lord I ask you give me time to show him what his words do to me

Lord how he warms me

He's a heat rock

And I, a stupid, foul, cold-blooded creature cursed to crawl on my belly

for the rest of my days

Lord I'd crawl to him till the end of days

PoetAnon

me when religious imagery in poetry

if ur cursed to crawl on ur belly does that make me Eve?

#poet anon #im once again struggling to put my thoughts into words rn (im a v sleepy guy atm) #but something about equating urself to the snake reminds ne so viscerally of myself #like reminds me of how i used to think of myself #bc i hadnt yet accepted myself in the context of my spirituality and religious beliefs i was raised in yk #something something equating urself to the evil and damned from the bible is very sad but also very relatable to me #ur poems have been so personal so far but i hope this one is inaccurate in the sense u dont actually see urself as the stupid foul creature #if poems are glimpses at what the poet is like then you must be beautiful and insightful and kind #and i hope u believe it bc i do

[densitywell]

me having a great time listening to all this philosophical discussion about the gods, power, and the difference between violence enacted in the name of a belief and the belief itself, not looking in the critical role tag at all until its long past

#matt NOT bringing in a sympathetic devout god-following character to make the 'stop predathos' message go down easy #and instead throwing them into a chasm of religious oppression and pagan worship... slay #you see all the having to pick apart the roots of power and influence and the difference between Bad Action and Bad Belief #will make it WAY more satisfying when they kick Ludinus' ass. bc they had to work to get there!! and they'll rlly mean it!! #love this ep. love this town. only complaint is not nearly enough ashton bc they're talking to so many new people back to back #and bbgirl is 'suspicious of strangers.' (shy.) #cr #cr spoilers #oh to be back in a college humanities course listening to both deeply insightful takes and the dumbest shit i've ever heard in my life #CRposting

[mytho-nerd]

My fav Crucible quotes because I said I’d post them then promptly forgot also! Some commentary!:

Proctor: Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again, wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.

The whole reason John proctor is compelling is because he’s done wrong and I feel like this is a key moment in his character. Also (I may be wrong) I think this is the first time we learn about him and Abigail so there’s that.

Parris: I hope you do not mean we go to satan here!

Rebecca: I wish I knew.

I am Rebecca Nurse’s number one fan. I just love her sass especially when she talks to Parris.

Proctor, lost: aye. He is failing for it

Elizabeth, delicately: adultery, John.

Proctor, as though a secret arrow had pained his heart: aye…

I feel like this scene because it perfectly shows both of their characters perfectly AND it shows how Proctor genuinely does regret is actions. Also, it’s just very funny - my friends and I repeated it for like a week after.

Proctor: if she is innocent? Why do you ever wonder if Parris be innocent, or abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning clean as God’s fingers? I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem…I will not give my wife to vengeance!

Specifically the vengeance part is what I like. It feels like a breaking point almost.

Parris: I think not, or you surely know that Cain were an upright man, and yet he did kill Abel.

I LOVE a good biblical reference especially when it’s twisted to make pretty bad people seem right. Also this line is just so good? Parris had no right.

Proctor, his mind wild and breathless: I say — I say — God is dead!

Parris: hear it, hear it!

Proctor, laughs insanely then: a fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in your black hearts that this be fraud — God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

I ADORE this part!! I love love love Proctor calling out Danforth, I love the way things are phrased, I love seeing proctor hit his limit, all of it I just love it.

Hale: I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!

This line is actually attached to the second above but I decided to separate it because I love Hale, he’s my favorite character. He has the best Arc throughout the crucible and he’s just so well written. Also, if you have seen the movie it makes me so mad that this line was cut because this is such a pivotal moment for not only Hale but like all of Salem.

Hale: why, it is all simple. I come to do the devils work. I come to counsel Christian’s they should belie themselves. His sarcasm collapses. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!

Again, Hale is my favorite. I was so glad to see his return, I think this part is honestly what solidified him as my favorite.

Proctor: I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man… my honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man. Nothings spoiled by giving them this lie they were rotten king before.

Elizabeth: and yet you’ve not confessed till now. That speak goodness in you.

Proctor: spite only keeps me silent. It’s hard to give a lie to dogs…

Every scene between Elizabeth and proctor hurts me. Also “spite only keeps me silent” is the realest line ever written ever.

Proctor: would you give them such a lie? Say it. Would you ever give them this? She cannot answer. You would not; it tongs of fire were singing you you would not! It is evil. Good, then — If it Is evil, and I do it!

This part (and the next) is why I like Proctor in the book. He is fully aware he has done wrong before and is going to do wrong again and that’s what makes him so captivating.

Proctor, with a cry of his whole soul: because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust in the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

I did in fact almost cry when I saw this part in the movie. It is just an incredibly powerful moment and it’s so eloquently put together. Argh I love the crucible.

#the crucible #not mythology #classics #classic quotes #i love religious corruption >:) #sorry my commentary isn’t super insightful #queque

[dkettchen]

not me adding literal buddhist monk shaolin masters to my very short list of ppl I’ve ever strongly related to the philosophy/mentality/approach to life of oh boy

#anthony padilla #buddhist monks #philosophy #trans #Idk what this says abt me for any of you who don't know me that well yet lmao #but it is fascinating to me at least that between the discipline of language learning since childhood #my shonen protagonist energy and slight megalomania #and my nonbinary trans thoughts about physical change and self improvement etc etc etc #despite coming from such vastly different backgrounds (not just culturally just in the like- I'm a queer artist n educator n stuff #and they're literal monks in an organised religion/belief system) #we have still somehow arrived at so many similar not only beliefs but also just like ways of living and discipline and worldview #something something outsider perspective that queer people will be more prone to due to being an eternal minority in any part of the world #while ppl like monks/nuns take up the lifestyle they lead in order to alienate themselves from the rest of society for religion's sake #something something the historic connection between ppl who dedicate their life to religion (monks/nuns/priests/etc) and the queer community #and various cultures where genderqueer ppl's role is/was that of religious leaders #something something maybe in a changing world that is not as religious anymore we can still be advisors and wise ppl to consult #like I think that's literally the conclusion I've arrived at for my pitch to the feminists is #you will never truly manage to include us as equals for sheer numbers reasons so you might as well use us and our skills and insights #for the gender lib movement in other more distinct ways that neither need you to fully equate us to you nor to limit us to your part of it #pay the transfemmes to teach y'all coding karlie kloss can't do it all on her own #and pay me to come teach you abt transmasc inclusion and internalised misandry and the terfs #and you'll find plenty of use from having us around

[teddykaczynski]

literally

#every dar williams song is a religious text to me. more insight on anything than the bible

[warlordfelwinter]

feeling normal about that tevinter mage

#i love getting to skyhold and already having enough approval to instantly start that romance #ella's expression is just so snoft.... #as he realizes #'ah. whoops.' #when did you realize it ell #was it when you told dorian; in front of his dad; that you've fucked guys #that is THE funniest dialogue option during that scene #the entire exchange is so stupid #dorian outing himself because he's angry at his dad #the inquisitor being so caught up in a world where homophobia doesn't exist that he doesn't get it #and then dorian spelling it out and the inquisitor being like 'OH. me too.' #magister pavus just standing there with his head in his hands #as some elf basically says 'hey would you like to fuck?' to his son #NOT that i feel bad for halward #fuck him #but then also later with mother giselle when dorian is like 'you might have to spell it out' #bc he has realized that the inquisitor is completely fucking oblivious at all times #which is perfectly accurate for ella #he's so insightful and observant and smart EXCEPT when it comes to other people and social interaction #put him in charge of a politically and religiously charged army! it will go great #dragon age #oc: ellassan lavellan

[ssaalexblake]

i’m still laughing abt french cinema potentially killing ‘the sex scenes will scar people’ pearl clutchers bc one of my french teachers when i was 16ish showed my class some french movies that were in no way like, centered around anything sexual But they definitely had far more racy shit in them than your average classroom movie would and just casually did not warn anybody about it, and suddenly there was a cut scene with no warning of two characters just fucking vigorously and everybody was silent for a second before we cracked up. Teacher did not give a shit. Apparently nobody sold her out, either. 

#not sure we learnt much french that day But we definitely got an insight into french cinema #hashtag catholic school #had a religious ed teacher talk about the concept of sex before marriage by making lego men act out sex scenes once #i think there was something in the water tbh