Opinion. Moon Knight treats religion as a priest of Khonsu the same way that Kierkegaard does Christianity, but he’s a lot more pissed off about it.

To clarify, Kierkegaard believes that faith is a difficult task that you need to really work for, you can’t just follow the motions. He says that if you have proof, if there was a logical reason for believing in God, than it wouldn’t be faith.

Moon Knight seems like someone who has a reason to believe in Khonsu? Because he keeps bringing him back to life and he can see him. But. Marc Spector is someone who has lived without being able to trust his mind to always show him reality. That’s one of the main motifs in the asylum comics. So, believing in Khonsu, someone that, often, only he can see, is always an act of faith. However, faith is not reverence and he will not hesitate to yell in Khonsu’s face. He has faith in this god, doesn’t mean the god isn’t an asshole.

College made me evil

i had a comic assignment for my creative writing class but im. not a comic writing guy. a funny one, to be worse. im not funny. thats what i made

portuguese cause i forgor im brazilian and made the comic in english and posted it and then i had to post it again in my actual language wtf

My dissertation was on Just War, but I cited the Batman Encyclopaedia just the same. At some point, demanding to keep your own hands clean in the face of preventable human misery is just indefensible.

And Batman doesn't even need to kill the Joker, he has batfam lining up around the block willing to do it! But he'd rather batarang his lost Robin than let the Joker stop hurting people.

Anyway, 14 years after graduation I realised their toxic relationship is the definition of a comic book version of the trolley problem.

when he first grabbed my waist, a sharp sting shot through my heart

i knew this feeling way too well

it felt like the nights, i‘d push a pillow on my back, erroneously gripping my hand onto my waist, to simulate safety

it felt like those lonely evenings, where i‘d wish nothing else but you by my side

you touched me exactly how i needed it

soft but so confirmative

your finger sweeping gently over my hipbone

placed exactly where i‘d imagined them to be

"Hot pockets and inner demons"

Hulk vs. SOCRATES??? 🏛️

Questionable Images - The Question #18 (1988)

I was stoked to illustrate the cover for @budlifemagazine issue 5 and of course stoked to incorporate skating into it! It ain’t just doing gnarly tricks with wheels under your feet, skating completely shifts and shapes how you interact with the world. It’s about self growth, self expression, visualisation, being present, connection to people and place etc. etc. Half my time skating is actually spent looking off at the horizon or the wind rustling the trees and appreciating nature in a way I don’t always make the time to otherwise. So it actually felt like a perfect fit for a zine about art, philosophy and nature!

Hit up @budlifemagazine to get a copy.

Aaaand now I wanna go for a skate! 🌱🪴🛼🛼

A side effect of getting into digimon is that it’s like. Really made me appreciate Mechas more and robot designs? Combined as well with reading comics like Atomic Robo and then last week watching bang brave bang Bravern. For years my interactions with mecha media was like, Trying to force myself to enjoy transformers, and unfortunately I just don’t think it’s a media franchise for me and it really stifled my ability to enjoy mecha as a genre because of trying to pigeonhole into that. I suppose this is a very roundabout way to say that if anyone has any mecha recommendations hit an ant up about this. And that I've also started getting into gunpla/mecha model kit building- I've made two so far (: and I have another kit I'd like to make soon. If you wanna see pics send me an ask and ill dm them

"Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."

- Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

would badr believe in absurdism? what view does he subscribe to?

he obviously believes life has a purpose, given that hes spent his whole life looking for that purpose. but does that mean life’s purpose is to look for purpose or that life actually has a purpose, or is that the same thing?

using this, sourced from this post as a reference: (some definitions have absurdism as a sub section of existentialism but i am treating them as separate things)

badr believes meaning might exist, he sees others in his life find meaning through faith so he searches for it through similar means. with his career as a doctor possibly being a pursuit of a meaning of life as well.

so that cuts out nihilism, for him there's something there. but I don't think he fully believes in the meaning. after all, until recently death wasn’t really a worry for him. you could look at his service to knonshu as a means to ignore the lack of meaning and to ignore that dread that comes with realising your life will end eventually.

that said, I don't believe badr is doing that. I think he's constructing meaning for himself. Camus says that the only certain thing in life is the inevitability of death. But for a long time badr didn’t have that. Knonshu could just revive him. The only certainty for him was that he would serve knonshu forever, which is a sorta death in its own right.

but now that possibility of death is there again and yet badr still serves knonshu. hes embracing the absurdity of life once more. his purpose withstands knowing that he will die, and knowing that his servitude to knonshu may cause his death.

absurdism doesn’t mix well with religion. because some people view that life has meaning because of God, going against absurdists belief that life has no inherent meaning. but i think badr has found a balance. maybe he was an absurdist until he found knonshu. in pursuit of his meaning he realised his philosophical view didn’t fix anymore. i guess getting resurrected would be able to change your mind about a lot of things.

or maybe his beliefs and servitude to knonshu can coexist. his overarching purpose is helping people after all, he’s just doing that in different settings.

I'm just chatting shit at this point but its interesting to think about :))

You know what? No one's allowed to argue the ethics of killing villains in fiction and using it as justification for real life morality until they learn to stop using Batman & the Joker as the go to example for their position.