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Seven Deviant Muslim Sects Now Under Police Radar, 23 Arrests Made Since 2022
Federal police in Malaysia are closely monitoring and taking action against deviant Islamic sects that are seen as a serious threat to public safety and security. Since 2022, 23 arrests involving followers and leaders of such sects have been made, and 51 police reports were lodged against them in 2022 and 2023.
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So… I remember saying that I was gonna get revenge on my CoDM for teasing me. But man did I not expect them to make it this bad for themselves. Currently one of the characters is in CIA custody, one’s AWOL, and two others are in critical condition after antagonizing the owner of Morshu’s Mobile Mental Shelter. My CoDm in particular almost lost his character after being blown up by a grenade and then a day later being ganged up on by Morshu’s shadow selves. My only response to this is as he would say, “smh my head.”
#deviant the renegades#dnd#dungeon master#shitpost#game master#morshu#cia#CIA stands for Children’s intelligence agency#yes it is a sect of the cannibal children I’ve mentioned
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just remembered the epic bit of Goldwater lore I came up with yesterday that will never come up in gameplay. Teehee
#sect of witches who follow a weird deviant version of Christianity where lichens are revered as holy. I think that would be neat. ae#aesthetically
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The Sin List
okay, so as we all know, it is vitally important that any character we stan must be morally pure and a good example to emulate in real life.
So I have decided to create a list of MDZS characters and their sins, which everyone can easily refer to in order to make sure that they are not following some horrible criminal or murderer!
This was a lot of work, but I'm very proud of it. Just doing my bit to ensure the moral purity of the fandom!
Wei Wuxian - Necromancy, disrespecting his elders, disrespecting the dead, killed Jin Zixuan, punched Jin Zixuan in the face one time, cannibalism, mind control, deviant sexual fantasies, trespassing, oath-breaking, urged Wen Qing to perform untested and possibly fatal operation on Jiang Cheng without his consent.
Lan Wangji - Defied his elders, broke the Lan Clan rules, sexually assaulted Wei Wuxian, deviant sexual fantasies, GBH (JGY)
Jin Guangyao - betrayed and killed Wen Ruohan, betrayed and killed Jin Guangshan, murder (NMJ), murdered assorted people, disrespecting the dead, assorted Spy Things for Wen Ruohan.
Nie Mingjue - Killed a lot of people during the war, verbally abused Nie Huaisang, burned Nie Huaisang's stuff, attempted murder (JGY), attempted murder (JGY), attempted murder (JGY), murder (JGY), killed the Mo family (well, his arm did anyway). In favor of the genocide of the Wen Remnants
Jin Guanshan: Sexual assault, rape, murder, ordering human experimentation with resentful energy to be done by his sect, played both sides during the war, didn't take responsibility for his children, ultimately responsible for getting WWX killed because he wanted the YTT so bad
Wen Ruohan: Attempted world domination, murder etc
Lan Qiren: has a stick up his ass
Su Minshan: Refused to die for the Lan, supported JGY in his efforts to prevent undead Da-ge from killing him. Also cursed Jin Zixun.
Sect Leader Yao: Weathervane politician
Jiang Wanyin: strangled Wei Wuxian that one time, keeps trying to talk to him but is way too tsundere about it, killed many during the war, didn't immediately forgive WWX for getting JYL killed, threatens to break Jin Ling's legs weekly.
Jin Ling: rude. rude rude rude. Also stabbed WWx one time
Lan Jingyi: not respecting his elders, rude rude rude. Also loud
JFM: shit dad, throw him in a volcano
Madame Yu: Angry mom, beat Wei Wuxian for things that weren't his fault, yelled at JC a lot, didn't appreciate JYL, very mean.
Lan Xichen: killed people during the war. Randomly starts doing flute solos in conversation
Meng Shi: was a prostitute. Told Meng Yao his dad was amazing and he should totally look him up later.
Madam Jin: awful person, she can go into the volcano with JFM. physical and verbal abuse (JGY)
Nie Huaisang: killed cats, nearly killed the juniors, let his sect fall into ruin, traded obscene materials, disrespecting his sect's traditions, lied to Lan Xichen to make him kill JGY
Wen Qing: went along with WRH's plans, performed surgery on JC without his consent
Wen Ning: Was part of the burning of LP
Mo Xuanyu: Summoned Satan to murder his relatives, harassed his brother
Jin Zixun: asshole, rude, broke the Geneva Convention on the ethical treatment of prisoners several times. Useless person
FOR THE SAKE OF SAFETY AND YOUR MORALS YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO STAN THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS
Jiang Yanli
Qin Su
Lan Shizui
#Wombat rambles#wombat's danmei hours#Jin Guangyao#meng yao#Lan Xichen#LXC#My favourite son-in-law#best boy lan Xichen#not a himbo#mzds#mo dao zu shi#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#wei wuxian#lan wangji#nie huaisang#nie Mingjue#NONE OF YOU ARE FREE OF SIN
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Mingjue strikes me as the type of guy to not offer up information about his sexuality/sex life in general but also doesn't consider it something to hide (and just doesn't care enough to.) Partly because he thinks it's stupid that people think it's their business at all and partly because he doesn't see it as shameful. He's got so much other shit going on and he's not gonna live forever, he's definitely not wasting time on worrying what Sect Leader Yao thinks of who he invites into his bed.
But people see him speaking out against Jin Guangshan's degeneration and the general Jin Vibe of opulence and indulgence, they assume that means he classes all """deviant""" sexuality in that category, and his reputation as being so rule and honor code abiding they assume he will agree as passionately with all of society's mores (re: homosexual encounters) and just assume he's strictly straight and discount any rumors that he isn't.
'Sleep with a man? Chifeng-zun? You must be joking.'
Meanwhile Mingjue is like, 'What? Yeah, we did. Can we get back to what we were doing, now? I couldn't give less of a shit and you're wasting my time.'
And still people would be like, 'Man, I don't know where these rumors are coming from!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'
#also on the flip side Jgy can't escape promiscuity rumors in every sphere of his life#and assume that any standing he got in the Nie clan was by seducing poor nmj with his preternatural wiles#and thus blamed on Jgy#kinda like people with wwx and lwj where even when Lwj literally stood on koi Tower steps and said#' i knew who he was. fuck all of you. I'm going with him. peace out' and carried his stabbed boyfriend away#and everyone cried 'HOW HAS THE YILING PATRIARCH MANAGED TO BEWITCH HANGUANG-JUN SO!! HE MUST BE UNDER A SPELL'#bro some people are bi plus you all suck#ANYWAY#nmj#text#my stuff#I'm just rambling but thats how i write him
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i love and appreciate western media very much, but there really are some feelings only chinese media can tap into. it's the eternal tension between conforming to long-established tradition v. defying it all and being something new, something deviant. we find that conflict in the ideological battles between chinese philosophies; the criticisms and derivations between confucianism, buddhism, daoism, mohism, etc. we find it in the way chinese states are always torn between honoring traditional values v. loosening their grip to accommodate those at the margins. we find it in people like myself; i grew up in a very religious chinese buddhist family, having to studiously study buddhism and some prominent confucian texts. inside the cultural consciousness, there are real living people. and they want so badly to break free from convention, its suffocating and painfully limiting. at the same time, it feels so important and they want to keep engaging with it, they can't abandon something so close to their identity and heart.
mlc also dedicates itself to discussing this push and pull. and it lives in this grey area, this overlap of tradition and nonconformity. fanghua exemplifies this wonderfully, by embodying the traditional and non-traditional family all at once.
lxy is fdb's master, his role model. he is the ideal patriarch of jianghu (as @seventh-fantasy very rightly points out, lxy is the ideal picture of a mohist leader, mohism is the ideological inspiration behind wuxia fiction and all). on the other side of this same coin, llh serves as fdb's protector and guardian. he takes fdb under his wing and roof, looks out for fdb and passes his teachings down to him. llh raises him as a fair, wise and dependable jianghu figure, so much so that llh names fdb as his successor in the farewell letter. fdb inherits everything that was llh's, his house, dog, his skills and his legacy.
to fdb, he is both lxy and llh's heir. he owes them a lot. he wants to do right by them. he is their charge, the seed they both nurtured.
lxy/llh is also 长辈 an elder to 晚辈 the junior, fdb. there is an age gap between lxy/llh and fdb. in addition to his canonical status as master, guardian and uncle in a way, llh is a member of the older generation and fdb is a youth of the new age (the era of lxy's sigu sect v. the era of baichuan's sigu sect). tianji is fdb's family in regular society and llh is fdb's family in the jianghu world. and fdb is lucky to have parental figure(s) in both spheres.
to lxy/llh, fdb is his responsibility. fdb is his burden and also his pride. he is the naive youth that llh accepts into his home to mentor. lxy/llh holds seniority. and there is a certain amount of distance he expects from fdb. even if fdb refuses to abide. similar to the princess zhaoling who was kept at arm's length by the older girls in the mansion, fdb is kept at arm's length by llh.
so traditional dynamics and social roles lie at the root of fanghua. and yet there is:
a) an explicit rejection of blood family (fdb rejects sgd and lxy/llh chooses his adopted jianghu family over bloodline) wherein the family & marriage is said to be a foundational unit of chinese society,
b) an ambiguity, it is hard to slap one single label on fanghua because they embody multiple things at once. their dynamic derives from the traditional chinese concepts of family and seniority. there is duty and obligation that goes both ways. but the boundaries delineating each form of that are broken down. fanghua resembles father/son, and mother/son, and uncle/nephew, and master/disciple in one package. fdb also believes them to be shoulder to shoulder in friendship, equal partners, and that adds another layer of ambiguity.
there is a unique mobility and ability to traverse between definitions, and that marks them as non-traditional. an elusive quality that is built on top of the traditions that we know.
#莲花楼#me is mark#posts that are just for a handful of people#and i do love that fanghua is a little incestuous#which feels right for a story that plays with what kinship is#family v. friendship v. queerplatonic#they occupy very recognizable concepts#and yet they manage to render themselves unrecognizable
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MDZS/CQL’s politics is so fascinating to me because power derives itself from the class hierarchy and related social etiquette. Someone (or a sect) holds and gathers power by performing a sense of respectability, either through inherent gentry status gained from birth, following social etiquette rules, and respecting hierarchical structures already set in place. It’s why rumors are so vital to maintaining power in the current status quo because rumors can help elevate or break down the illusion of a person’s respectability and therefore their access to power. It’s why WWX, for all his individual prowess, has no political power: the rumors make him out to be a social deviant and dangerous, and he has no other forms of social currency to make up for that. It’s why JGY’s access to power is always precarious: rumors constantly undermine his authority by reminding people that the visage of his respectability, cultivated through social etiquette and respecting hierarchy, is tainted by his birth status as a son of a prostitute (no matter his father being a sect leader). It’s how all the other gentry characters maintain their own authority and power: as long as they don’t step out of line of what is social acceptable behavior/attitudes, and they have the proper birth status, they are able to protect their hold on power, that both protects themselves and also the people under their care.
This means that the problem with the Wen remnants must be understood in this political landscape. The Wens are the remainder of Qishan Wen’s standing and power. To save them against the common held attitudes of blood feuds, would mean going against the status quo in a way very uncomfortable to the cultivation world that would like to see themselves as the heroes and therefore deserving of whatever spoils (land, treasures, political power) they got from the war. It would possibly mean giving some of that back to the “enemy”. And while to us, the easy answer is to help them, it’s not so simple. The Jin, the most powerful post-SSC, don’t want to help them. And to go against the Jin would mean going against the newly established political hierarchy and potentially undermining one’s own remaining amount of power. JC, LXC, LWJ, and so on, stay passive because to not respect the new hierarchy and refusing to play by the rules of gentry society would mean potentially losing the power they and their sect have left and therefore their ability to protect themselves (them being them as individuals, and their sect). WWX going against the status quo means that WWX forgoes all power he could possibly have had in the social hierarchy (which tbf, is not a whole lot anyways). The current political and social system incentivizes these characters to just stand by passively and punishes those who decide to act differently. It’s understandable, but still disappointing, when the gentry characters choose the choice society tells them they should choose.
I think this is why a lot of fix-it’s in this fandom just don’t click because it always fixated on the individual choices of characters rather than the system that makes these the decisions these characters will ultimately make. JC can’t be the only one to decide differently, and it’s not just choices that must change, but attitudes and beliefs about how the cultivation world’s politics should actually be allocated. This is why XXC and SL being viewed as silly and naive for trying to create a sect based on merit instead of clan is important. To view the cultivation world outside of a gentry system is radical in this world.
#mdzs#mdzs meta#I’m sure people have spoken of this before but I wanted to word vomit#yes this was written bc I’m sick of people only blaming JC for the seige of burial mounds#like criticize him but don’t forget everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Priest (Author) Character Tournament
[“Anti-propaganda” is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character, and please be courteous in the notes.]
Xuan Ji from Lie Huo Jiao Chou / Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire
Fire chicken aka a supernatural fiend with credit card debt 😞 who joins the Deviant Control Office to pay it off
Puddle/Han Tan/Shuikeng from Liu Yao
"Puddle had one merit, and that was that she knew how to act when it came to her own benefit."
- Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 31
Little birb shimei lol
Is literally the daughter of the Yao Queen and a mortal who the others just. adopted.
The “wimpy kid” of the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”
#xuan ji#lhjc#drowning sorrows in raging fire#puddle#shuikeng#liu yao#priest#polls#priest upper round 1#priest upper round 1 group A#priest character tournament#queue#priest upper bracket
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why almost every villain in MDZS breaks their expected gender role somehow
btw please notice when i say 'masculine' i'm not saying 'manly in a contemporary western POV' i'm basically saying 'appropriate behaviour for a cisgender male of his social position' so yes expect a lot of class struggle as newsflash, identity based oppression ALWAYS walks hand in hand with social class [there's a reason upper class americans always seem more comfortable to display gender nonconforming behaviour than working class ppl of the global south]
first i'd like to use a character as pretty much an example of almost 100% gender conforming behaviour in that show: Wangji.
yes he's gay, but that really doesn't seem to be an issue in this setting. why? bc he dresses plainly, doesn't display excessive emotion, shows devotion to his family, respects customs, doesn't mingle outside his social class... i mean, we all watched that show, he DOES slip sometimes, but not enough to create a reputation of rule breaker or something. even in his most rebellious moments, he's still inside everything one might expect of a cisgender man of his social class.
so who fails to meet the standard? characters that are heavily punished for doing so. that become bitter and resentful, and display their suffering acting in vengeful, cruel, calculating ways. that look at the society that ruined them, and say 'i'll ruin this bitch'.
and yes, this list includes Wei Ying. so say hello to the mean girls of MDZS!
starting by the most obvious example: Mo Xuanyu, gay, gender nonconforming to shocking levels and mentally ill. taken into the Jin sect, goes there and hits on his half brother. absolutely iconic.
no really this character spits and pisses on the face of society, and its one of the saddest examples of this list as he not only doesn't do much damage as the others, he's also driven to suicide. i won't list all the ways he's GNC bc honestly there aren't too many ways he WAS in gender conformity lol
another character that resorts to ways that could be called antagonistic and also struggles with gentlemanly behaviour is Nie Huaisang.
he's devoted to the arts, what is NOT unmasculine per se, but the fact he can't succeed at swordsmanship, won't display a traditional assertive and unattached attitude when in a leadership position and has an overall sensitive and gentle demeanor mark him as a deviant from his assigned gender role, what is harshly punished by the masculine-and-manly-in-a-contemporary-western-POV Nie Mingjue. as he cannot win in direct confrontation, he appeals to indirect ways and social manipulation [completely ungentlemanly behaviour] much like the next in the list: Meng Yao.
this one is sorta tricky to fit in this list bc he DOES display gender conforming behaviour but as we can see, its either something fucking wicked like impregnating his own sister or pretty much a role he's playing. Yao is PAINFULLY aware of how society works. he can see clearly all the roles and picks those that will favour him. does it mean he's comfortable with them?
no lol to become the perfect married, with an heir, of high status, filial etc male model he does unspeakable things. i absolutely love this character and i'm yes, based af towards him bc his tragedy is BEING TOO GOOD AT FITTING GENDER ROLES. accepting anything to dodge the social outcast status that was imprinted on him since he was born. a whoreson is not a man, he's something less than a man, he's a Mo Xuanyu, he's a Xue Yang. he has no family to honour, no place in the social pyramid, no means of starting his own family.
he's unmasculine by definition. and much like Huaisang, Yao was graced with a soft and gentle presence, more appropriate for a Mianmian than a sect leader. talking of Xue Yang....
yes, he's pretty much 'manly' in a western contemporary POV. he kills ppl and displays antisocial behaviour, what is pretty much tied to our current view on manhood [see the soldier and the CEO as peak examples of the ''alpha male'']
but whose family is he going to honor? what kind of emotional restraint is laughing during a massacre? which customs are being respected when a working class-born man kills an entire highborn clan for something that according to the custom he should just accept as his fate and move on?
add to that the fact he's very much satisfied with assuming a housewife role and hits on upper class men obscenely in any opportunity he has, and you have a walking menace to the entire concept of masculinity of this setting. *throws kiss* for Xue Yang, ancient Chinese working class queer icon.
then we have Su Minshan, who BETRAYED HIS CLAN out of devotion for a WHORESON, and has a lifelong grudge with who? yes, THE masculine role model, Lan Wangji, who honestly couldn't care less, he's just trying to live his already hard enough life in peace. Su Minshan offends almost everything that means being a man in his setting. plus he's cunning-not a good look.
and finally we have the Yiling Laozu, that one that broke all the taboos, offended all the customs, rejected swordsmanship and embraced music, all while being romantically involved with a Lan of Gusu when he's merely a Jiang associate. and the most iconic part?
MXTX made him the fucking protagonist. yes. the dude who went there and dishonored everything that means being a man in his setting, she doesn't want us to think he's lowly, dirty, unworthy of empathy--there are enough characters doing this already. she wants us to join this gender nonconforming gay man as he lifts all the veils of society, wrecking mayhem in their little extremely rigid feudal system, intriguing the a-Yaos, a-Yangs, Minshans, Huaisangs and Xuanyus with his ways so similar but so different from theirs. it's like the author is saying:
'we know you are hurting. we know society fucked you up. but please, dont become bitter. you still can create a beautiful life for you. you don't need to be stuck in a coffin, left to rot, suicided or tossed aside. you CAN write your WangXian song and cultivate until immortality'
and honestly i dont think i've ever seen any work so obscenely thought-provoking regarding gender roles, social roles and trauma as MDZS....
#the untamed#wei wuxian#xue yang#jin guangyao#the untamed meta#tl;dr: every villain in mdzs is gay and traumatised and this IS supposed to make you feel bad [and revolutionary]#Sorrowful Thoughts
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Introduction to Drolism - The Gods
Many of the rich and mysterious cultural traditions of Iego stem from the planet's native religion, Drolism.
Drolism, known in Iegoan as Droltara, centers around the worship of a trinity of deities: Drol, the primary deity and namesake of the religion; his daughter, Ashi; and his son, Dasho. The deities themselves are the manifestations of different aspects of the life breath or energy of the universe. This is a Force-based religion, so "life breath" can be interpreted as meaning the Force itself.
There are many parallels between Drolism and the religion of the Mortis Gods. They are both Force-based religions centering around the worship of three deities--represented as a father, a son, and a daughter--so some scholars believe they may have originated from the same ancient belief system.
Drol, God of All Things, Supreme Lord of Iego, is the incarnation of the life breath of the universe. He is a neutral deity, as he is capable of both protecting and punishing the people of Iego, hence why the Separatists exploited people's faith in him to cover up their operations on the planet. He is strongly associated with storms--something that both nourishes and harms--and his primary symbols are water and lightning, which are deemed sacred. The Mortis God he is analogous to is the Father.
Ashi, Goddess of Light, Lady of Mercy, is the daughter of Drol. She is strongly associated with the Moons of Iego and the native Diathim, also known as "angels," who are said to have been created in her image. From an outside perspective, she represents an incarnation of the Light Side of the Force. The Mortis God she is analogous to is the Daughter. One of the most widely practiced sects of Drolism is dedicated to her, known as Ashideyi, or the Way of Ashi. A primary feature of this sect is its emphasis on medicine and healing; as a result, its followers on average have long and ailment-free lifespans, which is ultimately the basis of the belief that Iegoans are immortal.
Dasho, God of Darkness, Lord of Chaos, is the son of Drol. He is strongly associated with the underground caverns of Iego and the native Maelibi, also known as "demons," who are said to have been created in his image. From an outside perspective, he represents an incarnation of the Dark Side of the Force. The Mortis God he is analogous to is the Son. Legend has it that a deviant sect of Drolism exists known as Dashodeyi, or the Way of Dasho, that practices black magic in the form of ritual sacrifices.
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#my fic#star wars worldbuilding#this is just a brief overview of the pantheon and rudimentary beliefs#i will get into more detail later#(this is from an in-universe perspective)#am i making an entire religion based on a throwaway line in the CW? of course i am#oc fic lore#iego worldbuilding
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Vibes I want to write (with svsss AU examples)
1 Sci-fi character in a fantasy setting. Like, Detroit Become Human Android in Scum Villain or something. Shen Qingqiu is an Android owned by Shang Qinghua who used to be his editor. He became a deviant out of pure loathing of Sqh's writing. Then they transmigrate? Now there's an android in a fantasy world trying to blend in and survive. Can he cultivate? How does he recharge? I wanna find out.
2 Alternatively the previous one but reversed. Emperor Luo Binghe crosses universes to find his Kind Shizun and finds the perfect candidate. In a Star Wars universe, Crèche Master Shen Yuan doesn't know what he did to deserve this Dark Sider's attention, but he wishes Binghe would stop trying to fight droids/aliens/space ships for no good reason. The property damage is getting ridiculous. Actually no, that isn't too interesting, Luo Binghe is too op, hmm. Luo Binghe uses some sort of Banishment ritual and Shen Jiu finds himself in the Stargate universe. Ooh, Shen Jiu in Marvel. Tony Stark makes him new arms and legs and they fight about whether cultivation is magic or not. Shen Jiu loves/hates mobile phones. And then Shen Jiu makes his way back to PIDW and brings all his new sci-fi knowledge with him.
3 A kingdom built on misunderstandings. Shen Yuan transmigrates as himself and by applying Airplane Logic to the world, he accidentally makes himself out to look all knowing He's mistaken for so many things. Immortal master, legendary hermit, great seer. People start following him, thinking they're joining a great sect. His works and words get spread out and people think he's thousands of years old. Shen Yuan just wanted to find a nice place to read some local literature, but now he's the Great Scholar, a Sect Leader, the oldest immortal, probably divine in some way and he can't say a thing without people taking it as gospel. Also somewhere along the way, he's become all those things and also there's a sect hall now? And he's not entirely sure how that happened.
4 Angry genre savvy. Shen Yuan has read PIDW back to back; he knows all of its bullshit plot devices. Most of them are mortifying or humiliating or just stupid, and way too many of them involve papapa, but they work. Absolutely furious about it, he applies those plot devices into situations as needed. And what to him is humiliation seems like incredible insight and mastery to others. Shen Yuan hates it but keeps doing it because, goddamnit, it works.
5 Immortality but make it uh, mentally Eldritch? Idk how to explain this one. Sometime ago I glanced at a webcomic where the main character was locked in some kind of liminal space for a million years where he trained himself to be op and came out literally none worse for wear and I was like, "Yeah he should've been mentally pulverised by that, he should've been absolutely disintegrated." So, if you have a magic system that has the ultimate goal of immorality, what does that do to your psyche after hundreds and thousands of years? There's gotta be some intentionally wrought changes with all that cultivation and meditation, because normal human brain capacity and just plain old sapience isn't built for that. What does the mind of a thousand year old cultivator look like? Pretty inhuman, maybe? Shen Qingqiu with a mind like carved jade, polished to perfection over generations, and utterly strange and terrifying to a normal human.
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I have been in the creative field since I was 18. While I am most popularly known for my work here at Splathouse, "Jack The Warlock" isn't the only face I've worn in the 16 years I've been making things in a professional space.
In no particular order, a (in)complete list of projects I either created myself or have been a part of is below the jump. Details at this time will be kept vague. You are welcome to make your guesses and DM/Comment down below. If you get it right, I'll tell you.
An actual hard-copy account with my complete involvement along with website addresses, email accounts and passwords is currently within my safe in my own hand writing. It's to be scanned and made public upon my death, serving as (if nothing else) a testament to "try everything".
I started an absurdist magician sect. I was originally inspired by chaos magic theory, but sought to refine their ideals. As such, it takes the element of the concept of belief itself as a malleable thing that can shape the world without ever being spoken or made physical via ritual work. "If you think it, it can happen"-be that in the ego or the id. The sect is still operating internationally today and has over 100 members. We're small, but we're there. None of the members have ever met me or have any idea who I am.
I've published two short-horror collections as a female author in her forties. They were released for free and are pretty openly available almost everywhere you can pirate books. The books are incredibly popular with queers, with booktok most notably covering them pretty hotly for a month. None of my readers have absolutely any idea I am behind both collections and still send emails (without hope of ever getting a response) today. Many assume I'm dead.
I released an experimental dark fantasy hip-hop EP that was inspired by this album by Earl Sweatshirt and MF DOOM. It's a five track album that totals in at 21 minutes. Much like the horror anthology collection above, each track can be enjoyed by itself, but when played in sequential order tells a Berserk-like story. The album took six months of my life and features encoded secret messages in the audio, with the "lore" being that it's a form of sigil magic. To date, it is the most popular audio project I have ever recorded and vastly surpasses anything I have ever made for Splathouse. Absolutely no one knows that the vocals, the producer and the song writer are one guy, nor do they know it's me. They've been waiting for a follow up EP for years. I will never release another one.
I have been a writer and creative director for several ARGs. One of which was a darling of the early days of Youtube Explainer videos. The project "concluded" because I was intensely disgusted by the growing cottage industry of "curators" destroying the mystery of such things. As they still do this and have careers directly profiting off the creative works of others, I see no need to join such a project ever again. Absolutely no one involved in the projects had any idea who I am, and the projects I started myself have never once been connected back to me.
I've co-wrote several webcomics. One or two of which gained middling popularity. No one working on these projects has absolutely any idea as to who I am or my larger sphere of work. I left the field because of audience treatment of webcomic creators.
I've had original artwork I created featured in multiple gallery showings that highlighted "abstract" and "outsider" art, back when I still enjoyed doing artwork. Anything you find by me on deviant art in the "Splathouse" era was me attempting to wrap my head around digital art; my neuro divergency prefers physical mediums. Every single one of these submissions was under a different name chosen at random.
I've acted in precisely two indy movies under a popular name used by directors who don't want their names attached to projects. Film buffs know the one. I was the lead character in one and the side character in another. The films are connected, but aren't sequels, a series, nor is there a prequel involved. The films were highly experimental and shot in the "guerilla"/"Gonzo" tradition. They went through the indy circuit and won [insert number of awards here]. I wasn't compensated nor were the films profitable. We didn't care and I haven't spoken with anyone from the cast since, who simply asked for a name and nothing more. Some of them are still in the industry. One of them is a reasonably successful B-movie director now.
I've created several text adventure games. Most people are familiar with the Splathouse ones, which released in the early 2010s. What they aren't familiar with are the ones I released on itchio under an different name with a disposable email address. The games were reasonably popular with that niche sector of the gaming community, and still get regularly recommended.
There's more I could add to this, but I feel I'm done for now. It's late, I've work in the morning.
If you've made it this far in the list and you're still curious-no, you aren't going to get me to tell you any details about any of these projects. Even my best friends couldn't get that out of me. If you're curious as to why I did literally any of this, the reason is two fold:
Because I could.
why not?
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Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim (In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate)
(بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم)
…………….. do not make them runaway (from Islam) ~ Imam Bukhari 69.
From our July 2020 archives.
SAHIH BUKHARI HADITH NO. 69
Chapter 3 from THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE :~
Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, Facilitate things to people (concerning religious matters), and do not make it hard for them and give them good tidings and do not make them run away (from Islam).
Islam is simple, don’t make it complicated.
God intends for you ease.
The religion Islam is easy, beautiful and simply perfect. Why make things hard? The Qur’an reads: “Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship.” (Qur’an, 2:185)
This verse explains that Islam is easy to follow and rather encourages us to create ease in religion. Unfortunately some Muslims, including some reverts, are under the misconception that the more stringent they are in following religion, the more pious they become. This is totally in contradiction to what our religion teaches us. The misconception is a result of lack of understanding of religion and at times drives some people away from religion, mainly because of the way it is presented to them.
Some people have aimed at causing religion to deviate from its essence, preventing religion from being practiced by attempting to add on many difficult practices and superstitions to it. Such practices have sadly resulted in people deviating from Islam. However from the information set forth in the verses in the Qur’an and the replete stories and Hadiths by the Prophet (peace be upon him), we can ascertain that it is easy for sincere Muslims to be good Muslims.
Some groups of people in attempting to distinguish the reality of Islam ~ the genuine beauty, simplicity and practicality have tried a simple forum of reasoning but only have managed to get themselves labelled as deviants and sects, sadly.
Here at LEARNING ISLAM we try our utmost to keep it uncomplicated and easy as Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) did per his valued Sunnah. Sometimes a trapezoidal act but Alhumdulillah we seem to have been blessed and we are enamored to pass this blessing of dawah to each and everyone of you.
In this life we are tested and according to the morals and faith we show in this world and God determines where our real life will be lived, that being Hell or Heaven. The test is quite easy; God wishes for us to simply to live the life that brings happiness and peace in this world within the tenets of Islam. in short to live our life in moderation.
Don’t go to extremes dearest sisters & brothers 🙏
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that new sydney sweeney film reminded me of something i was thinking a few days ago . it really irks me to see the exploitation of nuns in media . a group of women who are / were trying to devote themselves to religious purity & culture at large sees them & goes SEX !!! these women are WHORES, they're DEVIANTS, they secretly have WILD SWINGING SEX LIVES, they're haunted by DEMONS, they're FUCKED UP !!! it just feels so degrading . showcases that no matter what you do as a woman, you're not safe from this . & it's obvious that it's not just the religious purity aspect of it, or this would be happening in equal amounts to monks, which it very clearly isn't . the closest comparison is a small sect of tumblr women who turn the monks from pentiment into yaoi boys, but that has nowhere near the scale, also because it's women doing it they treat the characters with humanity .
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Dead Drops 4: A Brotherhood Divided [Part 2]
Carrying over from our first section of the Brotherhood Divided post, this group represents a more traditionalist sect of the Brotherhood, whose devotion borders even moreso towards the occult.
Content below.
The reign of Owyn Lyons had its detractors, of course. Of which, there were quite a few within his inner circle, The Council. Many opposed his hiring of outsiders, the recruitment of the average wastelander, and the altruistic mission that, to them, distracted from their prime directive: the attainment and monopolization of further means to wage technological war. The Outcasts had a point, though many still disagreed with the way in which they were making that point known. The Lyonses had to go, he was too nice, but the Old Man had embedded himself deep within the framework of the Brotherhood. He was loved and respected, far more than the faceless crones that made up the upper echelons of Brotherhood command, as was his daughter - Sarah Lyons. She represented an even more extreme adherence to the Lyonist cause, more altruistic, more open, and more deviant to the Old Ways. To the Traditionalists in the Council, it sickened them. So much so that they lashed out in an attempt to kill Owyn Lyons with poison. It sickened him, but he would live another 5 years. He never suspected it was an attempt from within.
When he finally did pass away, he named Sarah Lyons as successor, a decision that came as little surprise and, despite the growing hostility in the Council, publicly opposing the move was not tenable. They saw an opportunity in Elder Sarah's desire to continue her profession on the battlefield as chief of the Lyon's Pride, and made efforts to direct the outfit on suicide missions in an attempt to kill her. It would look natural. They sent assassins pretending to be Enclave spies, paid Talon Company mercenaries to hit forward bases, and set up ambushes. It occurred to them that, if their plans were to succeed, they would need a protégé, an heir of their own.
The Council then turned to young Arthur Maxson - a true dyed-in-the-wool descendant of Roger Maxson himself. They saw an opportunity. They quickly pushed him in more leadership roles, even though he was merely 18. Instead of simply offing Sarah, they instead shepherded young Arthur into the spotlight, to the point he would quickly become a top figure in the upper command structure. Eventually, the Council approached him and suggested he take over completely. He would be lauded as a hero, a true Elder. He refused, stating that it was not in the way of the Brotherhood. Let the record state that Arthur Maxson first said no, that his transformation into what he would later become, a monster feared by the Commonwealth, was a machination of continued High Command pressure.
The Council proceeded anyway, but decided to up the ante - They pressed Sarah Lyons into developing the Prydwen, alongside sending scout groups north to investigate a rumor of a shadowy "tech cult" or something in Massachusetts. The Council then noted that the scouts were not responding. This continued for some time, years in fact, but the Brotherhood was not yet able to launch a more thorough investigation. The Prydwen was ready in all but one thing - the reactor. There wasn't one. They scoured the wasteland for a power source that would provide enough thrust to lift the zeppelin via the stabilization thrusters and the hydrogen tanks. They essentially required a reactor capable of sustaining massive machinery - and the reactor that powered the Enclave crawler was destroyed in the fighting. The only alternative was the reactor belonging to the USS Boxer, a.k.a. CV-21, a.k.a. Rivet City. The proposal to seize the reactor was immediately turned down by Lyons. Rivet City was an important ally in the post-Purity wasteland, and regularly guarded caravans passing out Aqua Pura. But 2287 changed so, so much. Seeing Rivet City as a potential reactor target kicked their coup into high gear, and they conspired with the Outcasts to inform them that the Lyonist way was nearing an end. Arthur Maxson was appointed as Sentinel, second only to Elder Lyons. He was appointed as leader of the base when Lyons was dispatched with her pride to investigate a potential Enclave remnant holed up in the Federal Triangle Metro Station.
That Enclave remnant was actually an Outcast hit squad who, after rigging the entire station to blow, ambushed the young Elder and wounded her, though she was presumed dead. According to the Council, that was good enough. The merger between the Outcasts and the main body of the Brotherhood would happen quite quickly, so much so that by the time Lyons awoke and dragged herself back to GNR Plaza, they had already left with the Prydwen.
The Maxsonists had their run of the place while they assumed Lyons was dead. We know the fruits of their works. When their wages of their sin amounted in death, they ran into hiding. And now, led by Phineas, a loyalist of Maxson, who worships his ashes as if they were sacred. And in their flying sanctums built from the scrap of the Prydwen, they plan their revenge.
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The only sect that will be safe is Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah, who adhere to the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم , and hold fast to what he and his Companions were upon
Ques: Who is that sect? And will the seventy-two sects live forever in Fire, as the Mushrik will or not? And does the term Ummah of the Prophet sallAllaahu `alayhi wa sallam apply to those who follow him as well as to those who do not, or is it to the former only?
The Meaning of the Prophet’s Statement: “…All of them will be in the Fire, except one.”
Answer: What is meant by the term Ummah in this Hadith is the Ummah of response which shall be divided into seventy-three sects; seventy-two of which are deviant who practice innovated religious practices that do not constitute apostasy. Each shall be tortured in accordance to its innovations, and deviation, except for those whom Allaah pardons, and forgives. Their final abode will be Paradise. The only sect that will be safe is Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah, who adhere to the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم , and hold fast to what he and his Companionship, may Allaah be pleased with them, were holding. It is they about whom the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said: “ “A group of my Ummah shall remain steadfast, on the truth, victorious, unharmed by those who oppose them, and do not support them, until death or until the Day of Resurrection.” [Al-Bukhaari nos.71, 3641 no.1920]
As for those whose innovation casts them out of Islaam, they belong to the Ummah of invitation (mankind at large) not the Ummah of response. They shall remain in Hell-Fire forever, and this is the most valid opinion.
It is also said that the term ‘Ummah’ in this Hadith means the Ummah of invitation, which is a general term including all those to whom the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم was sent (i.e. mankind) those who believe and those who do not believe. Whereas the term ‘the safe sect’ is the Ummah of response, which strictly applies to those who believe in the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم , trustfully, and die on this condition. This is the sect that will be safe from Fire; either by prior punishment or without prior punishment and their final abode will be Paradise.
As for the seventy-two sects (in the second opinion) they are all, excluding the saved sect, disbelievers who will live forever in Fire. Hence, it is clear that the Ummah of Da’wah, is more general in connotation than the Ummah of response. That is to say, whoever belongs to the Ummah of response, belongs to the Ummah of invitation, while not everyone of the Ummah of invitation belongs to the Ummah of response.
Permanent Committee for Research and Verdicts
Fatawa Islamiyah, vol.1, p.20, DARUSSALAM
http://fatwaislam.com/fis/index.cfm?scn=fd&ID=365
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