theory on lilith's fall

look, this is some season 2 of warrior nun spoilers, so like, proceed with caution.

okay, so adriel has saruman like powers. he just needs you to accept anything of his that he says as fact and he can kind of just polish your logic and inhibitions and morals away.

so with lilith, he just told her the truth about her situation, she accepts the fact, and he takes it as acceptance of him, and like a vampire accepting an invitation, he now has an in road into lilith's mind and can just finesse her inhibitions away. to twist her to his point of view.

most of this hinges on the last shot on kristian. like, almost instantly after adriel's ripped apart and we go back to upstairs, we see kritian and he's just sort of waking up to the horrors and atrocities he has committed in adriel's name. lilith herself seems to wake up and remember 'oh shit, these are my sisters i've been fighting' and helps to save ava.

like this was much subtler criticism levelled at religion and catholicism. accepting church dogma unquestioning could lead you to doing atrocities in god's name. here it's adriel, but the point i think is well made. lilith was primed with a lot of rejection and fear of rejection from her safety net and so was easily swept up in getting answers (and let's not forget she got news of mary's death and had to be the one to deliver it to her sisters). kristian was 'born again' with a little proof and was convinced to perpetuate plagues upon humanities for the greater good. vincent betrayed those in his care for adriel.

don't get me wrong, i hated lilith's arc this season, but goddamn it was kinda on point.

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It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

It's not even funny how much I need this old woman.

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my girlfriend tends to draw tally hall shit in chem while we neglect to do our work so here have some of her masterpieces

(their tumblr is @goblin-vomit btw go follow them and congratulate them on being a comedy genius)

sb humanizations + various vannys :3

I think Paulina would be a graphic liner girly (I tried a more traditional eyeshadow look and it didn't work) // lineart by @thebooo-merang //@green-with-envy-phandom-event

gave my pookie bear avery an update 😁

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what is the best attack in bleach and why is it la muerte

"If I'm to be Bluebeard's wife, I would've preferred to be the last."

Signalis sketch dump

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Letti, usually: noooo don't put your face near my face noooo i hate it

Letti for an hour this morning: i'm going to sleep with my nose in your eye socket and you're going to like it

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