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grislyintentions · 7 months
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[Each time I post yaoshi content, I get an ads like that....what is the grand cosmos trying to tell me I wonder :thinking:]
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blackcur-rants · 9 months
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Two random headcanons about “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” now that I have seen and loved the entire show.
01. The reason Bow has so many siblings is because he and his brothers are all orphans adopted by George and Lance.
02. Horde Prime’s origin story is that he was originally an Angel who coveted the Light of God (your decision as to whether what he coveted was the Ur Ein Sof, the Tabor Light, the Empyrean, An-Nur, Prakasha, the Flame Imperishable, Jyoti, the Light of a Specific Sun God, or whatever else…) in order to create a world that he could dominate and control only to be cast out of Shamayim, Paradiso, Jannam, Svargalokam, the Timeless Halls, or whichever world he dwelt in originally when the Great Maker saw there was no love in his heart…and then he got banished from the midst of his fellow Demons when he tried to take over the position of Dark Lord for himself and had to make his way in the Neutral Plane when that failed.
@cynicalclassicist @odd-indigo-mist @elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey @nooneleavesforgood @lady-asteria @disregardcanon @horde-princess
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oculusxcaro · 11 months
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Had a random thought/question and decided to toss it out there. Is your muse religious? Spiritual? Why, or why not?
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Khare has never been one for religion although her parents practised different faiths. Luckily they never tried to force her to follow either one, only to respect other beliefs which she still does to this very day. On one hand, her parents having different faiths is probably what contributed to her not being religious herself - both can't be right, not when they're so different and while she and her siblings participated in holidays as children, Khare grew out of it, especially once her parents parted ways.
Spiritually her beliefs have taken a heavy blow. Before she was vaguely agnostic, that maybe both can't be right but perhaps one or another was, that there's a caring God looking down upon the world but now she's certain there's not. Her time in captivity under Prometheus dashed those naive hopes, watching unspeakable horrors unfold. If God was watching that day, he certainly didn't seem to mind when so many died or mutated, when the Mennonite girl begged for salvation only to mutate into a monstrosity right there and there. Some might say her escape was due to divine intervention, that a guardian angel was watching over her but Khare scoffs at the idea, that of all the people taken by the facility, why was she the only one to be saved? When there were many others more deserving who were younger and more innocent, with lives of their own that had so much more meaning than hers if God gave a shit? Then there were the horrors in the mountains and surrounding woodlands, being stalked and hunted by creatures even Hell couldn't dream up. Khare hasn't lent a thought to religion or spirituality since, because if there is judgement in the afterlife, she deserves everything coming her way.
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junotter · 5 months
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Legitimately can't explain what caused me to get just get really into this hetaliaAU that exists solely in my brain but I couldn't stop
At first it was just imagining like a Japanese woman in kimono in like 19th century New York and then I started thinking about how amazing fem japan is and like then ameripan came in and now I'm like losing it
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marzeatsplanets · 11 months
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who here normal
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purgemarchlockdown · 2 months
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This is a sort of...proof of concept for a T1 Inno Amane I have running around in my brain. CWs for: Cults, Unhealthy Power Dynamics...I like thinking about Amane's Agency.
“Prisoner no. 08: Amane Momose.”
“Your judgement was “innocent,” and as such her ideas were affirmed.”
“Because you have found her innocent…ohohoho it seems like you have found yourself a loyal disciple! She’s become quite attached to the idea of this world as a sort of heaven while you have been asleep.”
“Though, she’s quite hostile to Kotoko Yuzuriha, even after you’ve declared her as an ally.”
“Between you and me, I think she’s  waiting for you to make a decision. Do be careful not to disappoint her.”
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“Momose Amane. I am glad to see you have come back, Warden-sama!”
“I am very glad you have made the correct judgement when it came to me, Warden-sama.” “You have chosen Yuzuriha Kotoko as well? Did God tell you to do that? If so, I do not doubt his judgement but I do believe there still may be hope for these sinners.”
“My song? I am glad God showed you the truth, is there still something else you need to know? I could provide it to you if you wish.”
“You are making a very wonderful world, Warden-sama. I am glad my faith in you was not unwarranted.”
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thepringlesofblood · 3 months
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An Attempt at Explaining Bulbian Church Theology
so I watched ACOC a year or two ago, and I watched TRW as it came out, and now I’m going back and re-watching ACOC with that context in mind, and I have many questions.
a few disclaimers
this shit rules. it’s wild how much thought and effort Brennan & Matt put into Bulbian theology and the history and inner workings of the church. at no point am I implying anything to the contrary. this is “tf, guys? (affectionate)” not “tf, guys? (derogatory)”
the order of things is fucked up bc prequel, and bc Matt necessarily did a bunch of it w/out Brennan bc he was a PC. some things have the simple Doylist explanation of “Brennan didn’t think they were ever coming back to that bit” or “it’s a metric fuckload of lore written several years before Matt came onto the project, of course some things are going to contradict.” I know and agree with these reasons. I am coming at this from as Watsonian a perspective as I can - trying to find in-world reasons for things rather than real-life reasons - because I think it’s a fun thought exercise.
at no point am I talking shit about either Brennan or Matt. ik people have a lot of feelings about Matt’s DMing in TRW, but I think he did great, and he added some fascinating new lore about the theology of Calorum which I am eager to sink my teeth into. he seems like a cool dude, he and Brennan wrote some extremely cool lore, and that’s all I’ll say about that.
so. let’s get crack-a-lackin’
Let’s define our terms.
we got our two Big Terms from ACOC - the Prophidian Heresy and the Ramsian Doctrine. The Prophidian Heresy is the only one to re-appear in TRW, as the Prophidian Theodicy. this is bc it was not declared to be heresy (aka fake/against the church’s beliefs) yet, so it was just another theory within the church
we’ve got about four big factions, very unequal in power:
Belizabeth Brassica (& the church under her rule)
the Sanctis Putris
the Archbishop Camille Colliflour (aka the Avatar of Deus Pa’Zuul)
The Few Good Individuals in The Church*
we’re mostly talking about Brassica and Sanctis Putris.
*Saint Citrina, local churches in Candia, certain Bulbians in the Dairy Islands, individual churches here and there across the continent that are mentioned as rejecting the Ramsian Doctrine in ACOC.
The Prophidian Heresy/Theodicy
What it says:
The Hungry One is just as powerful as The Bulb
Reasoning:
this is an attempt to explain the questions of “if the Bulb is good and all-powerful, why are there bad things in the world? If the Bulb is more powerful than the Hungry One, why hasn’t it beat the shit out of him yet, if it is truly a force for good?”
What it means in the world:
this is a part of Brassica’s plot to start the apocalypse, but is not the most important thing for her.
It is however important for the beliefs of the Sanctis Putris, who fight to keep the Hungry One at bay.
Questions/observations:
In ACOC Ep.13, when Brennan first mentions the Sanctis Putris, he describes them as “an order of the Church that did not subscribe to the Prophidian Heresy at all. It looks like they are not about the Ramsian Doctrine and causing the apocalypse.”
I think this is a mixing up of words, and that he meant to say “the Ramsian Doctrine” both times, since the Sanctis Putris is against the Ramsian Doctrine. at this point in the campaign the two beliefs have gotten kind of conflated bc they’re both part of the big Brassica Apocalypse Plot.
the in-world explanation could be that after the war the Sanctis Putris pivoted to a different belief - perhaps that the Hungry One is more powerful than the Bulb. very interesting...
in TRW ep 3 Colliflour says “We know the clarity of the Prophidian Theodicy and the terrible shadow that grows outside of the Bulb's light”
so we do know that before the war at least the Sanctis Putris were into it.
The Ramsian Doctrine
What it says:
The Hungry One cannot be destroyed and the final salvation of all souls cannot occur until the Hungry One devours the world
Some souls are healthy and delicious, but some are unhealthy and garbage - Junk Food (Candians)
The Junk Food souls prevent the Hungry One from devouring the world because it wants a “healthy meal” 
Reasoning:
in order to work towards this prized final salvation of all souls and destruction of the Hungry One, one must first work towards the apocalypse. Junk Food must be eradicated from the world for that to happen - whether by conversion to the Bulbian faith* or by death.
*it’s at least implied by Calroy’s letter to Brassica in ep. 13 that since he “renounced his pagan ways” and wants to be re-baptized in the Bulbian faith, he gets to live. whether this is true or not we do not find out.
What it means in the world:
This is the excuse Brassica needs to invade and destroy Candia and its magic. Fun fact: she was actually planning to launch a crusade on the Meatlands too before she got got.
Meat isn’t junk food (i don’t think??), so it’s clear that what she’s really after is destroying the rest of Calorum’s ability to access magic - making it so they have to go through the church to get “miracles” rather than using the magic of the deities in their homelands. that’s not Ramsian, it’s just Brassica being power-hungry and mean.
In regards to the Sanctis Putris, they believe they are preventing the apocalypse by bringing rot and mold into the world. they don’t want the Hungry One to devour the world, and since they believe the Hungry One is as powerful as the Bulb, they want to work to bring mold and rot into the world themselves, to give the Bulb a leg up on the opposition, so to speak.
so, the idea that the Hungry One could devour the world, and that that would be a sort of apocalypse, is shared between Brassica and the Sanctis Putris. the difference is, Brassica wants that to happen so the Bulb can finally defeat the Hungry One, and the Sanctis Putris does not want that to happen, so they bring mold and rot into the world so the Hungry One can’t devour it.
Questions/observations:
So while it sounds kind of like the Sanctis Putris are buying into the last tenant of the Ramsian Doctrine - that the Hungry One will only eat a “healthy meal” - they’re not buying into the rest of it, because their definition of “healthy” is different from the one outlined in the rest of the Ramsian Doctrine. The Sanctis Putris don’t seem to care about “Junk Food”, just rot & mold.
TRW ep. 3 Colliflour: “Through prosperity and peace, Calorum becomes ripe and pliable. It becomes the perfect meal to forever roil and burn within its belly. The hidden scripture, the Festered Tome, it holds the truth that will save us all. The Hungry One will not eat that which is spoiled...Only through death can the lands be stained and unclean. Only through rot can the world be saved and endure under the Great Bulb's light”
the Sanctis Putris depend on conflict vs peace and rot vs growth across the whole of Calorum, while the Ramsian Doctrine depends upon specific people (Candians) being eradicated
in ACOC ep. 13 Brennan says this “The correspondence between the Archbishop Oliver Onionpatch and the Sanctus Putris saying the Sanctus Putris has located the home and high temple of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, and have found the Ice Cream Temple. The date they give, they say that their expedition should arrive there the morning of Harvest Dawn the seventh”
onion boy is a Brassica lackey - a Ramsian. swapping letters with the Sanctis Putris, famously anti-Ramsian. ???
my question is this - why are the Sanctis Putris running errands for Brassica if they have fundamentally opposing beliefs? why are they sending out an expedition on the orders of someone trying to start an apocalypse that they’re trying to prevent?
3 potential reasons
blackmail - Brassica says “I am the head of the Church, this is what’s happening, put up or shut up. Do what I want or I eradicate you”
quid pro quo - a favor for a favor, Brassica is giving them something in exchange for them doing this for her
common enemy
it serves the Sanctis Putris to have the Church be more powerful since a lot of their people are in the Church, and of course it serves Brassica to empower the Church. Killing the Sugar Plum Fairy is one way to do that.
im uncertain though, as the Sanctis Putris has people from all over the place, and potentially at least one Candian who is against it.
although, if the Sanctis Putris intend to split with Brassica, if may also not serve them to have the Church be more powerful.
Compare/contrasting Brassica v Sanctis Putris
Both beliefs are Prophidian, since for the Hungry One to eat everything it would need to be at least equal in power to the Bulb (both groups believe in the Bulb’s inherent goodness, and that if it had the power it would stop the Hungry One from doing this).
Both see themselves as helping the Bulb overpower the Hungry One, Brassica by causing the Apocalypse and the Sanctis Putris by preventing it.
Both identify an aspect of the world that is preventing the Hungry One from devouring it. Brassica points to “junk food”, while the Sanctis Putris points to mold and rot.
I saw a post a while back that positioned the two terms as Belizabeth Brassica’s beliefs vs the beliefs of the Sanctis Putris. This is not the case. 
The Ramsian Doctrine [in its totality] is exclusive to Brassica, yes, but the Prophidian Heresy does not encompass the totality of the beliefs of the Sanctis Putris. It just says that the Hungry One is as powerful as the Bulb. the rest of their shit is their own. 
the Sanctis Putris do subscribe the last tenant of the Ramsian Doctrine (that the Hungry One wants a healthy meal), but interpret “healthy” as meaning something else, so I wouldn’t say their beliefs are Ramsian overall, even if one idea overlaps. 
plus, Brassica also needs the Prophidian Heresy to exist, since it offers a reason for why the Bulb doesn’t just come down and make everything better - it can’t, since it and the Hungry One are equal in power.
now where the fuck does Deus Pa’Zuul fall into this?
Brennan described the feeling of discovering Deus Pa’Zuul as “eldritch horror” and frankly I agree. A lot of the genre of eldritch horror revolves around the unknown, and specifically the unknowable, so as a result we the audience know very little about it.
What we do know
it’s a garbage disposal, and all the implications that carries, included but not limited to
the place you dispose of rotten food
the physical description - blades, tearing, ripping, whirring
it is a force of pure destruction. the things it destroys are erased from existence. there is no eternity in the Hungry One’s stomach, no salvation in the light of the Bulb, you just end.
it can interact with the world of Calorum through visions and impart magic like the Bulb and the Hungry One do, but does so very, very rarely.
The only two Calorans we know of that it ever contacted directly were Colliflour and Raphaniel.
the rest of the Sanctis Putris had no clue that this was where their leader was taking them - Gemelli straight up fights it.
Speculations
while Colliflour certainly seems to think it fits into the main cosmology of the universe, it feels very clear, to me at least, that it does not.
the Hungry One and the Bulb have next to no physical manifestations in the world of Calorum the way Deus Pa’Zuul does.
sure, a spell might sound like a stomach rumble or emit holy light, but no one ever turns into a lightbulb.
The closest thing is that the Bulb is the Sun, but it remains untouchable and unknowable (until some crazy ass pepper shaker makes a spaceship or something).
the physicality of it makes me feel like it’s a smaller, though no less deadly, force than the Bulb and Hungry One.
there’s also the specificity - we’ve seen the magic of Bulb and Hungry One alike do a million different things. Deus Pa’Zuul’s magic seems less flexible - we only really hear it described or emphasized when Raphaniel casts a more destructive spell, like Shatter, and of course in the finale when it took over Colliflour’s body and the room around them.
(this is also probably bc TRW was a way shorter campaign and thus had much less opportunity to show off new fun ways for it to wreck shop)
The Bulb and the Hungry One are balanced - creation and destruction, light and dark. Deus Pa’Zuul feels like an extraplanar monster. I’d say “demon” but that implies that it’s working for the Hungry One, as he’s the Caloran equivalent of the Devil.
but then again, is that incorrect? in-world, it certainly feels separate from Bulb and Hungry One alike. but if we think about the implications of real-life garbage disposals...people are the ones that operate and control them. if the Hungry One is a person, he would be the one controlling what (and who) the disposal grinds up.
Finally, we have the Few Good Individuals in the Church. 
Saint Citrina, in the limited scenes we have from her, 
encourages Amethar to follow his heart and not divorce Catherine Ghee if he loves her.
creates a holy relic that forces you to tell the truth
has an argument with Archmage Lazuli about the goings-on with the Order of the Spinning Star
Queen Pamelia says in TRW ep. 1 - “Citrina and myself and many others have taken quite lovingly to the Book of Leaves. We just are careful with which sects of the church wish to impose disparate law and rule upon how we worship.”
later we see her sort of disagreeing with her mom as she is steered away from Raphaniel though, and we don’t really know what’s in the Book of Leaves, except that Saint Citrina enchanted it to force truth-telling at some point before her death.
is “useful” to Calroy and his conspirators until Brassica orders her killed. So, one can assume she was anti-Ramsian in some way.
We know that Primsy and most Dairy Islanders are Bulbian, but don’t get much of their specific beliefs. 
There is the scene in the Abbey of the Shimmering Cream with Saccharina, where we basically just learn that that abbey (and potentially area in general) is extremely anti-magic and terrible. We don’t get anything about their feelings vis-a-vis the Ramsian Doctrine though.
Primsy opposes the Ramsian Doctrine & Brassica in general once she hears about it though, so one can assume that she and the people around her don’t prioritize or agree with that in their worship.
We know Caramelinda is Bulbian, and she married Archmage Lazuli, so presumably she does not have the same issues with her use of “pagan” magic as Saint Citrina may have. 
Other than that we don’t have a lot on her religious beliefs, except that she wasn’t super stoked about Saccharina as Queen, but I think that was less because of her magic and more because of how violently anti-Bulbian and generally chaotic Saccharina is.
When Brassica’s whole Ramsian Doctrine plan gets set into motion, she gets a whole bunch of letters from churches across the continent that are like “um no??? please don’t cause the apocalypse??”, mostly from Candians (who we can assume are generally anti-Ramsian because they don’t want to die) but also from all the other countries.
So. There we go. Lmk if there’s any inconsistencies or anything ^v^
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stardust-falling · 2 months
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When I was a young child, I was adopted by hardcore evangelical Christian extremists. If you imagine a cartoon-level cultist, you’re probably pretty close to getting an image of what these people were like.
These people were outspoken zionists. Not only that, they were also the type to almost fetishize Israel, and Jewishness in general, but especially in connection to Israel. They were the sort who had “Passover seders” that were Christianized, they would go on and on about the “Jewish homeland” and the “sacredness of Jerusalem” and so on and so forth.
They held the belief that the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state would begin the End Times. They wanted this, because they believed that after the world and every non-Christian in it was destroyed in horrible, torturous ways, that they would inherit a “newly-remade” world for themselves as the “New Jerusalem” for the “true chosen people of the Lord.”
This is Zionism to the Evangelical, Conservative groups— the groups who are the loudest voice in favor of Israel, the groups where it’s propaganda is focused.
These people are also horrifically antisemitic.
From saying that Jewish people are all damned to suffer for eternity due to not being Christian, to claiming that they deserve their suffering for “killing Jesus,” to repeating blood libel and conspiracy theories, every form of antisemitism you can think of has been perpetrated by these people. These zionists. Jewish people and Judaism are only “worth” anything to them if they can be used as a prop for their religion, otherwise, they genuinely believe that only 144,000 Jewish people who “accept Christ” will be granted “eternal life” and spared, while the others, along with the rest of humanity, will be sentenced to eternal suffering.
Antizionism is not Antisemitism.
In fact, Zionism itself is often Antisemitic.
Don’t listen to propaganda and fearmongering. Zionists don’t care about Jewish people— they care only about their own agenda.
Fight Zionism. Free Palestine.
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autistic-katara · 25 days
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just realised a couple days ago i can infact use being religious as a way to seem more innocent to ppls parents
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mimiscoiningcafe · 1 year
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Lovebunangel / Lovingbunangel
A gender connected to being an angel of love and bunnies, an angel who loves bunnies, a loving bunny angel, an angel of love who is a bunny, or any combination of the above!
From the words love + bun + angel
Pronouns for Lovebunangel: heart/heart/hearts/heartself, beat/beat/beats/beatself, hop/hop/hops/hopself, fluff/fluff/fluffs/fluffself, halo/halo/halos/haloself, eye/eye/eyes/eyeself 
 From the genderangel system by @catgirlprotag and template made by @cocajimmycola! 
 Final one of the day made for @/catgirlprotag's gender coining event day 6: hearts + angels!!
this one was purely self indulgent because hahaha i do that
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stars-and-paws · 2 months
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So, am I the only one who demonizes itself to cope with religious trauma?
[ /genq ]
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blackcur-rants · 1 year
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Amity Blight🤝Molly McGee🤝Logan Nguyen
Converting to Judaism to be with the person you love.
(Also, Barney is canonically Ashkenazi, Libby’s mother is canonically Ashkenazi and I headcanon her father as being Sephardic, and I headcanon Manuel “Manny” Noceda as Sephardic Borinqueño and Camila as Sephardic Dominicano).
@lady-asteria @elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey @disregardcanon
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squallsong-survival · 5 months
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Hey, could you leave my friend alone? He hasn't done ANYTHING to you. He's just a damned kid for crying out loud. I'd let you taste the wrath of Ho-oh and Lugia myself if it wouldn't just prove you right in your fucked up mind.
I don't know what the hell is up with your universe, but in most universes, humans work alongside pokemon constantly. Maybe you should think about that before saying shit to people on the site that connects to the damned multiverse.
Leave Gen alone, he doesn't deserve the shit you're threatening him with.
//Hiya, @silveredfeathers mod here! Feel free to ignore this if it's too much.
oh, well at least this one’s around my age. not that it seems ta have given him much more sense.
Gen is a kid, yes, and frankly he oughta grow up. he ain’t that young and here he is bawling ta all his little friends about the scary man who didn’t sugarcoat it for him. very cute invokin’ legends as if that’d scare me off, by the way. nobody sees them shits fer a reason: they know ta mind their own fuckin’ business. the prospect ain’t even that scary. ya gotta have similar levels a experience ta me, so surely ya know at this point that even some renowned horrible monster ain’t much against a well-placed strike.
besides, the whiner is so prone ta tears I don’ think it’s possible ta have a useful conversation with ‘im. poor bastard kinda proves my point ‘bout these freaks livin’ pathetic miserable little lives. he ain’t even worth puttin’ out of ‘is misery, myself. crossin’ borders’d be such a pain. if he’s lucky maybe someone local’ll take note of ‘im.
and the fuck do you mean, universes? there’s only one world pal, and we’re all livin’ in it.
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a-loving-ghost · 9 days
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Went down a rabbit hole of traumacore images and so here's some Andrew ones yayyy
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oughh the traumacore rabbit hole is so real i frequently find myself in it
secondly OUGH. ANDREW......
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mothbagel · 11 months
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noticed u wanted asks so how bout a lil doodle req of AM? if u want
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thank uuuuuuuuu :D
here are all my am designs, from its most abstract form to its human form
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