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"Doctor Martin, why are you an atheist?"
Director Maria Kleinheart wasn't the sort of person who asked indirect or idle questions. She was in every way a Kleinheart, the spitting image of her grandmother. Only she wasn't staring out from a yellowed ad in a back issue of Popular Science or Woman's Day, she was staring from across desk made of polished slate.
Emil Martin didn't respond immediately. That sort of question usually came with an invitation to services or a badgering about Pascal's wager. That didn't fit what he knew about the director, though that wasn't much. An intense religious conversion would explain the rumors around her distance from the rest of her family.
"Director, is this a personal or work related question?" Emil finally asked.
"Work." She replied.
"Is that appropriate?"
"Yes. This is about security clearances."
That made even less sense. Emil decided to risk a lecture on his eternal soul and answered truthfully. "Pretty standard, insufficient evidence."
"Would you rather it be true?" She asked. "Would it be comforting to know you existed for a purpose, that someone was in charge of your existence, caring for you?"
"Not really." Emil replied. "I'm rather Hitchenisan in that regard."
"Good enough. Follow me."
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"BE NOT AFRAID."
The words seemed to come out of the air itself. The thing was at the center of the large, expansive lab that had once been a missile silo. It was a sphere, surrounded by two rings of brass-like metal. The rings were lined with hemispherical semi-translucent white glass or crystal protrusions. The inner ring spun slowly, as did the central core, though only the faintest irregularities in its glowing blue-white corona revealed that motion.
The outer ring was held in place with steel chains, each link six inches in diameter. Two chains locked the ring to the floor, while a third latched the top to the ceiling. The cuffs the chains connected to seemed to have been welded shut around it.
"BE NOT AFRAID." It 'spoke' again. Its voice was clear and musical, but wrong and artificial at the same time. It sounded like familiar voices; his mother and father, his cousins, his old school pals, his boyfriends, even Director Kleinheart, each synthesized poorly via an AI speech simulator, all speaking in perfect time.
Every time it spoke, Emil smelled his grandfather's sweet cornbread fresh from the oven.
"That looks like an angel." He finally gasped.
"Looks like." Director Kleinheart smiled. He wasn't sure she could do that. "I knew we picked the right man."
"This is why you were asking about my beliefs?"
"Yes Doctor Martin. You see, freedom of religion is an extension of the principle of innocence until proven guilty. Once one faith is shown to be correct, all others are revealed as wrong."
"And you wanted to make sure I, what, wasn't guilty of being wrong?"
"No, the mistaken are innocent of everything except the actions they directly take." Kleinheart continued. "It's the ones who would take this to mean they were right that are fifth columnists to an unaccountable alien power."
"Oh." Emil replied. He didn't know quite what else to say.
"I want you on our team that's studying it. We need to know how it works, what it's made of, what those things its made of can be used for, you know the drill."
"BE NOT AFRAID." Again came the smell of cornbread.
"Are the restraints necessary?" Emil asked. "It is telling us we don't need to be afraid of it."
"Oh, we thought that too at first." The director said. "But we've already learned quite a bit about our little intruder here, even a bit of its 'source code' for lack of a better analogue. That message isn't meant for us."
"What is it then?"
"Can't you guess, Doctor?"
Dr. Emil Martin shrugged. "I have no idea."
"It isn't giving us a warning."
Director Kleinheart smiled for the second time in Emil's memory and spoke again.
"It's repeating its orders."
#be not afraid#ophanim#short story#flash fiction#kleinheart robotics#do you think god stays in heaven#etc#melinoe labs#melinoe laboratories#the rare non unreality melinoe thing#not unreality in the sense that its prose and not an in-universe artifact
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#furry#orange#anthro#furry art#ummmmmm#bugs bunny#lola bunny#do you think god stays in heaven#because hes afraid of what hes created
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*sees what tears of kingdom players been up to*
The players:
#totk#tears of the kingdom#botw 2#do you think god stays in heaven cause he too fears what he created
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PLEAASE tell me nobody’s done this yet
#do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created#johnshi#johnny x kenshi#johnny cage#kenshi takahashi#mortal kombat 1#mk1#mortal kombat#rcdart#my art
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The art
The inspiration
All he know is eat hot chili, be bisexual, and lie... 😔
#fanart#digital art#columbo#columbo fanart#shitpost#do you think god stays in heaven be cause he too fears what he has created
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I was just looking through the list. the people deserve to see 105 "Buy the World a Coke" Can
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#ttrpgs#IMMORTAL POP!bat 2: funK.O. (Definitive Edition)#do you think god too stays in heaven for fear of what hes created
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guys stop reblogging him he’s sitting on the top of my blog now and he’s scaring me 😭
#/joking#um that one spy kids quote#do you think god stays in heaven because he too fears his own creation#meowing.wav
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IN THE NAME OF THE PEPPERONI, I WILL PUNISH YOU!
In a moment of sheer boredom, I give you Sailor Peppino. I both regret and do not regret everything...
#peppino#peppino spaghetti#pizza tower#pizza tower fanart#pizza tower peppino#sailor moon#crossover art#pizza tower fandom#sailor peppino#my art#i regret none of it#i regret everything#do you think god stays in heaven because he too fears what he has created
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I shall call him... "Pweenix"
what a lovely little guy! hope he doesn't cause any mischief!!
p w e e n i x a c c e l e r a t i o n
#ace attorney#great another interest added to the pile#art#i am an artist#phoenix wright#pweenix#pweeeeeee#do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what hes created#dear god why
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Who are you. Where did you come from. Give me the truth.
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SINGLE PUPPETS IN YOUR AREA LOOKING TO “YIP YIP HOORAY” ON YOUR STIFF PROBOSCIS! CURIOUS FOR MORE? VISIT PLUSHRUMP DOT COM! HIT IT THEN QUIT IT!
#YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP#PUPPETCAM#BETTER THAN CAM GIRLS#YOUR MOM GULPS ON ME LIKE THIS#I PREFER THE INVITING FUZZ OF A PUPPET MAW#NOT YOUR MA#SMUPPET#PUPPETRY#BRO STRIDER#DO YOU THINK GOD STAYS IN HEAVEN BECAUSE HE TOO FEARS WHAT HE HAS CREATED#GOD IS HERE ON EARTH WITH US#DIVINE PLUSH#FOAM MESSIAH#SNUFFET
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I deeply, deeply despise this
#the evil within#ruben victoriano#ruvik#shitpost#i swear to god#my hands wrought this#do you think god stays in heaven because he is afraid of what he created
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Im noticing more patterns...
This feels intentional. This specific posing of hands, this specific framing of kinger on ragathas side.
#tadc#the amazing digital circus#just saying do you think god stayed in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he created?
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I have an important addition to this post where i drew ice king and betty as madoka and homura (respectively).
#fionna and cake#adventure time#pmmm#walpurgisnacht rising#madoka#gunter#kyuubey#my art#do you think god stays in heaven because he too fears what he created
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Got inspired by kawaiikell’s video on TikTok, a few hours later… here we are
Qi Rong really does have the aura of Mrs. Tweedy
#tgcf fanart#tgcf#tgcf shitpost#qi rong#do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created?#credit to kawaiikell for the inspo#ik this is a really quick study. will possibly add more (like the hair details and extra shading) later
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“getting to know you is a privilege, and being torn apart by you is a blessing.” is such a heartbreakingly good quote. how tf did it spawn from 40k word harry potter (jegulus) fanfic?
#harry potter#jegulus#marauders#ao3#fanfiction#i haven’t read the fic a tiktok by the author with this quote in it appeared on my tiktok and my brain broke from how good it is#the fic is pathological people pleaser by rweoutofthewoods on ao3 btw#ik hp/marauders is a fairly normal fandom to write fic 4 i just internally combust at the mention of hp thx to jk rowling’s existence lmao#this is my do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created spy kids quote moment
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When? right now.
#suggestive#I put way too much effort into this#do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?#implying#sir lionel frost#willard stenk#toxic yaoi lmfao#shitpostshitpostshitpostshitpostshitpost#enjoy?????#look- I had a vision.#suggestive tw#why did I make this#Im so sorry
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