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I've been having Thoughts about Cloud Strife in a dress all day and this is my silly self-indulgent corner of the internet, so here we go! a silly scenario.
takes place between Kalm and the Temple of the Ancients. for some reason (post Cait Sith, Cid, and Vincent joining) - probably to gain info - the party has to infiltrate a party in some filthy rich mansion. Cloud needs to go inside to make sure the info is helpful, but he's wanted. he can't just show up.
and he specifically needs to go inside... the party is brainstorming when Tifa and Aerith lock eyes. Cloud groans. he knows exactly what they're thinking, but c'mon Cloud! isn't this the best way to sneak in?
Cloud is adamantly against it, but he can't openly protest it, because that would be suspicious and then they'd know. so Cloud finally huffs and agrees to it. the girls giggle and lock arms with him, looking at the others.
Aerith: hmm... he'll need someone to go in.
Tifa: it can't be us since we're wanted... can't be Barret either...
Aerith: and can't be Cait Sith either - sorry!
Tifa: that just leaves Vincent and Cid...
Cloud: ...do I get a say in this
Aerith: hush. which one of you would be better at a party?
Cid points to himself and Vincent looks off to the side. Aerith would clap her hands in delight and Tifa points to Barret.
Tifa: please get him in a suit! we'll be back in an hour?
Barret: a suit? Tifa, what are you- Tifa!
the girls giggle and drag Cloud off.
they're in the middle of the mart, and they break it up into three sections: hair, make-up, a dress. the hair and make-up is easy, but the dress? do they even have the gil for that?
so, regrettably, they can't get Cloud into an elaborate dress. it's probably for the best, anyway, because his goal is to fit in. after lots of dragging him around, lots of him protesting and whining, they finally have completed the look: a black form-fitting dress reaching down to his ankles; sheer black gloves reaching up to his forearm; black pumps; light lip-gloss; mascara; and an extension braid wrapped around the back of his head. so safe to say, Cloud is a fucking vision.
Aerith: wait, wait! we can't go yet! we need to come up with a name for him
Cloud, speaking in near mumbles, brain still reeling: why? girls are named Cloud...
Tifa: Aerith's got a point, Cloud. if someone finds you familiar, hearing your name could get you in trouble. we'll have to come up with something-
Aerith: Blue.
Tifa, Cloud: blue?
Aerith: yes, I've thought of this a lot! his eyes! or, well, her eyes. her mother saw those baby blues and just knew she had to name her Blue.
Cloud: Blue Strife?
Aerith: no, silly! you're not keeping your last name either.
Cloud: it feels like you're shipping me off for marriage...
Tifa: hmm... how about... Woolf?
Cloud: ...wolf.
Aerith: oh! I love it! because he's such a lone wolf, right?
the girls giggle while Cloud crosses his arms, looking absolutely stunning and absolutely annoyed.
Cloud: you want my name to be Blue Woolf.
Tifa: c'mon, Ms. Woolf, let's go see if your date is ready!
Cloud: kill me...
they drag him to where the rest of the party is. they managed to find Cid some really cheap suit, it's just well-put enough that no one would give Cid a second glance, especially not with his charming attitude.
Tifa: we're back!
Cait Sith: we were about to get worried! er, where did Cloud wonder off to?
Aerith, biting back a smile: he's right here!
Tifa and Aerith step aside to do a dramatic reveal of Cloud. he's not posing and refuses to look up at the shocked expressions of his friends. burning, he stomps forward, grabs Cid's wrist with as much rage as he can manage, and begins to yank him towards the party.
Barret: so that's how he helped Tifa out...
Aerith: bye Cid! bye Ms. Blue Woolf!
Cid: blue? wolf?
Cloud keeps mumbling under his breath for someone to kill him.
and of course, Cloud gets hit on a lot at the party <3
#andrew.txt#andrew's writing#rambling#ff7#cloud strife#cloud x cid#kind of?#cloud crossdressing fuels me#it's my entire religion#aerith and tifa#they're menaces to cloud#they tease him and then they make out. good for them!
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day 16 + 17: angel + demon
but who is the angel and who is the demon?
finally a chance to reveal to the world how much i love trigun stampede i Need to pick up the old anime later i love these brothers
#inktober#inktober 2023#trigun#trigun stampede#tristamp#i hope one day i can write foils as good as nightow#their entire arc and character was one of a kind it was religion it was existential it was brotherly love all at once#also this is just one of those opposite twins i obsess over as my bio so succinctly stated lol#vash the stampede#vash#million knives#nai#trigun vash#trigun nai#trigun knives
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I had assumed that when Rayman follows the Rabbids to the human world, he doesn't let the humans discover him.
But no! According to Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 for the DS, Rayman just let every big news station interview him, a strange limbless guy made out of magic and dreams.
This is the biggest lore revelation for me. For years, I assumed that Rayman was behaving like a ninja turtle in TV Party and was living in self exile.
Instead, after a bunch of sapient screaming bunnies magically appeared in modern day and started wrecking shit, a weird little man made out of floating body parts suddenly showed up and said "Hello, humans! I'm Rayman! I'm from another dimension and I'm made out of magic! Magic exists!" and somehow this didn't lead to the collapse of modern society.
Is Rayman's appearance in Laserhawk somehow a reference to this...?
#Rayman#Turq Plays a Game#Rayman Raving Rabbids#Rayman Raving Rabbids 2#Rabbids#losing my mind at the fact that Rayman has zero subtlety and just let the humans know he exists#Entire religions toppled by the appearance of An Alien Entity Created By A Dream Frog God
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drowned god the weak little beast you put on this earth to write fanfiction and like greyjoys has been neglecting homework in order to reread the affc ironborn chapters and have way too many opinions about the soggiest man in the world. i have Had Some Thoughts on aeron, theon, and names
it really is striking to me just how little people refer to aeron by his name. not just in conversation, but in the narrative itself, with the most notable example of this being aeron himself in his pov chapters constantly thinking of himself not as aeron but as damphair or just The Priest. he refers to himself as damphair or The Priest instead of aeron like twenty times throughout the prophet, to the point where it's used almost as frequently as his actual name. in the drowned man it's only like eight times (which i think is mostly because the vast majority of this chapter is given over to the kingsmoot, where aeron is mostly a spectator and the narrative focus is on the events taking place rather than his reaction to them). in the forsaken, it's ten times, though while aeron is actively imprisoned he mostly thinks of himself as aeron, with damphair being used four times in flashbacks to events that took place in the past, once during a conversation with euron while aeron is defying him, and then three times after he is freed and he can see the sea again
the consistency and frequency of aeron in his own mind thinking of himself as something other than his name reads to me almost like a foil to theon and reek. the identity of the damphair allows aeron to dissociate himself from the burden of his past weaknesses and sins: his pre-drowning frivolity and alcoholism and euron's sexual abuse. for aeron, being damphair is as empowering as being reek is degrading for theon. he is constantly affirming to himself that he is a loyal servant of the drowned god and that this makes him strong. it gives him status and purpose he never had as aeron the boy, who was the youngest and weakest of his brothers. aeron-the-priest cannot be frightened by any mortal man any more than he can be frightened by the dark or by memories. kill the boy to become the man -> drown the boy to become the damphair
(although, of course, when aeron tells himself all this about how god chose him and it makes him strong and special and immune to fear, he is deluding himself. the damphair is haunted incessantly by his brothers. aeron has the tendency to reconcile his lasting fear of euron with his special god-given immunity to such mortal flaws as feeling fear by believing that euron is ungodly/an avatar of the storm god/literally the devil, and therefore not really a mortal man in the same way that balon and victarion are
which is a really interesting parallel to how euron must see himself, what with the whole apotheosis god-king thing he's got going on by twow. in a way, euron is aeron's real god. it is euron's abuse that first connected aeron with faith, and it is faith that aeron uses to cope with and overcome the lasting psychological scars of that abuse and urri's death. aeron doesn't think of euron as a mere flesh and blood human being anymore. he's mythologized the crow's eye in his own mind: euron is not just his abuser, he's a boogeyman, a devil, quite literally the thing that goes bump in the night. and euron knows this, and delights in knowing it and in taking every chance he can to tear down aeron's faith and replace the drowned god with himself as the backbone of aeron's life. which he does not actually succeed in doing, as of the forsaken! aeron keeps his faith like theon keeps his name. it cannot be taken from them)
reek, meanwhile, is not an identity that theon chooses to assume to cope with his trauma. it is forced upon him in the middle of the trauma and he has no choice but to accept it for his own self-preservation. ramsay devastates theon physically: flaying him, starving him, beating him, removing his fingers and toes and teeth and genitals. imprisonment and violence are the tools he uses to take away theon's physical strength to resist him, but reek is how he gets to all the parts of theon that can't be bruised or cut. it's the psychological equivalent of a flaying knife. reek is the weapon he uses to attack theon's identity and sense of self and personhood. though it's important to me to note that those were things theon was already struggling with well before ramsay came on the scene, and that he has an absolutely unbelievably strong will that allows him to retain a degree of his original personality under ramsay and regain his own name later in adwd even after enduring all the torture and abuse. he is a greyjoy of pyke. his name is theon, and if he dies, he will die as theon, not as reek. when he leans into being reek, it is as a means of self-preservation and protection from harm. he basically says as much to jeyne when he tells her to be arya: he believes that serving ramsay and capitulating to his whim is the best way to stay safe. you have to know your name.
ultimately, theon is as relieved to be rid of the name reek as aeron is relieved to see the ocean again at the end of the forsaken. theon's name is a source of pride to him, something that he clings to after he has lost everything else, something that will always be his even after all that has been taken away from him. aeron's name is a source of shame, something that he is reduced to when he feels weak, something that he reverts to when he is powerless at the mercy of his abuser
#aeron greyjoy#theon greyjoy#house greyjoy#analysis#it makes me wonder actually at what point euron stopped assaulting aeron#from what i can see there's no textual evidence that it goes on until aeron's a teenager/young adult but also no evidence that it doesn't#it would be interesting if it stopped entirely after aeron was drowned#further supporting aeron's belief that as a devoted man of god he is now untouchable even by euron#and his faith will protect him#because it has to. because it must. because after balon dies it is all he has left#when the forsaken hits and what aeron wants is for his big brother victarion to come save him...#and it can't happen because victarion is gone and hope is gone with him#hoping against hope that your big sibling will come and save you#the theon-aeron paras are lelling at a dangerous rate#i've got more aeron meta and aeron-theon thoughts cooking in my sick little brain but we're not ready for that#op#religion#meta
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drew a krisk delt a roon on Tuesday. cut it out cuz I liked it. only just now regained the spoons to get out and take a photo
#it's very small#mayle one and a half quarters big. the entire thing#colored entirely by pencil‚ colored pen‚ and highlighter#bc i don't tend to bring colored pencils to religion class#yes. i drew a kid wearing a devil headband in religion class#the teachers wouldnt give a shit#nutdealer posting#kris#kris dreemurr#deltarune kris#kris deltarune#art#my art#fanart#deltarune fanart#utdr fanart#safe utdr
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AND ANOTHER THING
God didn't destroy hell or the devil or turn him to dust. He gave us a choice. He let his fav literally choose to exist as the leader of Hell.
I find this interesting as a queer person who's been persecuted by God's fandom (in the USA at least)
Also can someone tell me which version of the bible I should read? the one with the sections about all the monsters and prophecies seems fun 👀
#i have so much religious trauma despite not actually ever believing in the west's God but im working thru it#and maybe me and God could be alright#his followers tho.....#religion#god#and anyway this entire topic is fascinating to me and im even enjoying it now that im learning on my own w/o someone Forcing it on me#im even wanting to branch out from western religion entirely.....#(not that i dont have my own. i have my Creator. but god? god seems cool- as a concept im learning to play with at least)#decolstw
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sometimes im reminded how good my education was bc i learned yesterday my friend didn't know what the silk road was and me and another person tried to explain it to her and i was like they didn't teach you this? or u just don't really remember? and she was like when would they have taught us this and i said idk elementary? fifth or sixth grade? and the other person was like nooo that's too early TOO EARLY??
#my entire 6th grade social studies class was about ancient civilizations and religions and similar shit#like at LEAST middle school but i feel that's still politely too much#like it has to be 6th at the latest ur learning way more important shit in 7th and 8th...
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some men are textbook villains fr
#tw religion?#kinda need to rant.. kinda wanna explain what's going on#some ppl are part of humanity but don't know how to be humane... like the guy i started talking to almost 2 weeks ago#liked him a lot bc he was funny sickeningly sweet mature and understanding.. until he was not#tl dr version is that we somehow drifted to the topic religion and i told him im not too religious and don't believe in superstition much#i was extremely respectful and even when he said that he does believe a lot i was like 'thats cool!! different people believe in different#things!!' and at first it was a normal convo until man went all psycho on me (after one damn week!!!) and started talking about how#id have to be religious in a relationship with him.. my dude i barely know your fav food can we not talk about relationships yet#but he says he doesn't even need a woman who cooks/cleans just someone who believes.. n im like i get it but i can't change myself like that#and then guy moves to marriage and is all 'well my entire family is religious' n my mom and sister (who's 16) would be putting pressure on#you n force you to pray etc.. and I'm like???? who can force anyone to a thing like that are u kidding#things escalate and my absolute STUPID ass tells him about my deepest fkn trauma to explain what made me abandon religion bc#life just never got better and this trauma remained for yrs... and he gets so angry that he says he wants to stop talking to me just to spam#me all day next day.. he'd keep messaging me switching between 'i still want you we shouldn't throw this away i have feelings for you'#AFTER A WEEEEEEKKKK!!! and then goes back to 'i wasted my time with you you were so unnecessary im in a bad mood bc of you'#even said 'you'll never find a guy with a trauma and mindset like this. i will find a religious girl but no one will love you like that'#and the worst thing is that he told his friends and mom about the trauma i had just to spite me.. note that he promised to never tell anyone#(and then still asked for forgiveness and for me to rethink whether we want to end this after telling me 473626x he wanted to end it)#(nothing even ever started you bitchass)#also note that his mom knows my mom n basically most of my relatives.. so i was here trembling for days fearing they'd get to know about it#mom somehow convinced her to not tell anyone bc it's important to me and very very fucking personal..#but he harassed me all day - i wouldn't answer and he'd send 55 messages.. multiple missed calls like dude i got so fkn scared#my heart jumped whenever he texted he was so fkn aggressive and SO MEAN#'you just needed to adjust and we would've been okay' 'tell me are u gonna fkn be religious or not????' 'you ruined everything' kinda mean#i just :') it was the worst time and i don't think i've ever seen someone degrade me so much or make me feel this defective#but.. it's finally over. his mom called my mom and mine was like pls teach him some manners.. n since i couldn't and wouldn't text him back#and literally avoided whatsapp bc of him she ended it all for me and now it's hopefully done forever#anyway i saw jks gcf performance yday n him singing still with you put a genuine smile on my face.. ill stick to THAT boyfriend honestly lol#def gonna delete later#but ty for reading if u did <3
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the chosen + the disciple whom jesus loved
#my entire personality at this point#it was a long time coming#so happy y'all are here to experience me like this#john the apostle#the beloved disciple#jesus#jesus x john#the disciple whom jesus loved#the chosen#the chosen tv#christianity#religion
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Finally finished my weird hanging painting thing (originally a secondhand partially-done 'paint by numbers' kit that I found at a thrift store and kept to repurpose lol)! Imagery somewhat based in my own worldbuilding projects, and text written in my constructed language for one of my fantasy species, but also vaguely inspired by old tapestries and illuminated manuscripts and etc. I've never been great at neat clean patterning or text, but it looks cool from afar, and I always enjoy making "props" or things that are somewhat like real objects that might could exist in my world. :0
(additional pictures/info under the readmore)
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Here's what it was originally! I probably didn't have to actually have a river running down the middle because it further makes the composition of the whole thing weird (various connected yet separate locations and things happening, instead of one unified event being portrayed), but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to fully cover up the already existing paint that was there.. and I can also kind of justify it by going with a more "all the imagery is just symbolic so it doesn't have to make exact sense" approach lol.. How is one half of the grass green and the other is suddenly snowy? shhhh.. it's not literal.. shhh...
Made a vague sketch, then painted over it, and then added more distinct lines in black pen. Center image first and border second.
The very last thing was the text, which actually took forever to translate because my conlang is still only like.. partially done, and some of the grammar is not worked out exactly how I would like it to be, so a few sentences I had to think about for a long time before just going "eh, this is probably not how I would do it if I considered it more, but I'll go with it for now" lol . I also am not entirely satisfied with all of the characters for the writing system, but again, it's good enough for a quick project, it doesn't have to be 100% accurate and perfect because it's a fake language that nobody knows anyway lol.
I thought about breaking down the text and translation here like I have for some of the tidbits of Avirrekava (the language) in things I've posted in the past, but I think it would take too long and is not interesting to anyone but me ghghj, so for the sake of getting the post out quickly, I shall not spend an hour typing All That lol.
The general jist of the writing though is that it's just about the Avirre'thel being cast out from the other elves, after abandoning their magic for immortality as a means to truly attain perfection (an important concept in elven culture), the usual, blah blah blah, but how it's Actually A Good Thing, because the gods are wrong and immortality is Cool actually and they like the shitty frozen lands they were sent to, so it's fine that everyone else is being a Hater about it lol
Lastly, here's a few photos outside in the sun to TRY and show the gold detailing actually shimmering or showing up! It really doesn't come through in photos, but there's plenty of little golden spots to highlight light or Importance.
Mostly the fire, the pink sparkle that represents magic, the red drop that represents blood, the light behind Inaashi's hands and head (common symbol for the elven religion/one of their main gods, shout out to anyone who read the ancient elven religion post and recognized that lol), the sun, and the symbol for the Avirre'thel/country of Navyete at the very top. I did a few other gold bits, but they're not highlighted because they're Significant, more just that it looked more symmetrical to have some gold on the border too lol.
Other things of note: The animals are not actually significant to Avirre'thel culture really, I just wanted to put a cat and a bird because I like them lol. (I also wanted to have a few funny looking creatures, as I was slightly trying to go with the 'in some old medieval painting the anatomy and perspective is very weird' vibe, though I think some of the other parts of it look too Normal to pull it off entirely). Same with the four leaf clover, which means nothing in their culture - but these are the only areas where stuff was just added self-indulgently .
Bligabata (giant cabbage that grows along rivers in Navyete) making an appearance! The architecture of the building IS based on actual concepts for ancient elven/older Avirre'thel architecture and metalwork. The Avirre'thel who's turning away from Inaashi/elves/magic and collecting blood, is doing so in a Special Bowl, as is part of their culture (collecting it in the hands, or just in a normal vessel would be disrespectful, they have Specific Bowls which is the only thing blood can be kept in, etc.).
The figure that represents Jhevona (and thus, a closer connection to magic, celestial imagery, etc.) is in weird ugly teal, which is not necessarily a color or design associated with them, as I don't have much common culture (like clothing) worked out for Northern Jhevona (who the avirre'thel would have come into contact with) yet, BUT everyone else is in more Typical colors (a northern elf in green, Inaashi in lavender + white + blue, an Avirre'thel in darker purples and reds).
Some things, like the four figures in the corners, and the two people + fish in the stream, do not currently have a meaning, but in-world they would.. Like, I could make up lore for how they're culturally significant and it would be true because I am god of the world, but I don't have anything currently. But just know.. they DO mean something, I just haven't decided it yet, maybe kind of fill in as I go, come up with a meaning later lol. Probably along the lines of an old myth from the ancient elven religion, a story, etc.
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I don't know, probably other stuff, but that's my Trying To Keep It Short rambling for now lol. I'm just glad I finally finished this! For how vaguely sloppy it is up close (everything being completely freehanded, only used rulers once when doing the initial sketch and lining where the border should be + my hands are shaky + the canvas is bumpy + my handwriting is scratchy and terrible + etc. etc.) it still took a REALLY long time, even when not trying to make it all perfect. Especially if including the text translation + writing, which took like 3+ hours itself.
Maybe all the asymmetry/lack of things being centered is NOT because I was too lazy to measure anything, but is actually because in-universe, it's a practice illustration made by some young apprentice who has to work on little canvases for years before he can be trusted will a full sized mural or tapestry. It's his first week on the job! of course he's uncoordinated! don't laugh at him!!! lol
#worldbuilding#elves#I AM WORKING ON A NEW PAVENTURE POST also !!!! I know I keep being like 'oh I'm going to get back to that! I'll stick to it this time!!'#and then another whole month goes by without me posting a new poll adventure - however - this time I DID fully intend to so#*do another one soon but my beloved beautiful perfect cat unfortunately passed away AND there was a heat#wave ANd I felt sick for a while for unrelated reasons so I just genuinely was not focused on posting online at all#I am trying to get back to it though along with other things hopefully so.#ANYWAY#avirre'thel#irithoas#maybe???? not super relevant to elves but I'll keep it intheir tag anyway also. Just since their lore is so closely tied with avirre'thel s#stuff and they're mentioned in the post. Or the gods are. Inaashi is.#OIGUGUGUGUHH I should have done a tapestry with the FCJhjkING triplets!!!!! Sehalanora Semoniyare and the other one whatever the hell#his name is. ... sehalanora my beloved .. (I'm referencing the ancient elven gods - for those who dont know)#It's funny that I rarely watch tv shows and when I do I rarely if EVER care about characters at all in any capacity#with maybe like a handful of even then extremely minor exceptions so I cannot relate to the concept of like 'having a blorbo' or whatever#but then for my extremely niche worldbuilding content#.. it's like OMG MY FAVORITE character!!! my favorite obscure god from a religion#that I entirely made up myself for a cultural group that I also made up that literally only I and maybe like two other#people who are able to sit through my novel long dry and wordy worldbuilding posts care about!! you all know them DUH!!#even WITHIN modern elven culture in the world at the moment in current day most people do not give a shit about them hghj#BUT .. I should have made a painting of the siblings actually!!! I stand by that!!#I mean I like Inaashi and Nisateyu and everything too. Actually all of them are fine except for Ea'ivuyera I guess. whoever the#like War and Order bootlicker god is basically. and the Evil dumbass one. but all the others are fine. I'm suprised I'm even able to rememb#that many ancient elven goofily long names ghgh.. But I could have maybe made it about the elven gods#The thing is just that.. i Don't have ancient elvish worked out as a language and I knew I wanted to put text on it#so it kind of HAD to be something written/drawn by the Avirre'thel#Knwoledge of the ancient elven gods is still a thing in their culture. But usually more as a joke or just a common fairytale knowledge#sort of thing. not really something to make a painting of. Inaashi is here less because of Inaashi The God being genuinely significant and#and more just she's there to Symbolize the elven religion as a whole. just like all the other figures are mere symbols of things. etc.
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What's tha name of the religion in Soul Eater?? What's the religious scene in general? Lord death is like... God, and a number of religious depictions revering him look like they're a rebrand of western Christianity and Catholicism. What would that religion be called? Deathism? Morbidity?? ALSO, there are religious images that look like they revere the Kishin in place of their god--so like, Kishinites or something, right??
#also is kishin the right word?#im having an episode and it literally feels like i havent heard/said the word kishin in my entire life#soul eater#religion
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Kofi commission of Carmelita Fox
ko-fi | commissions open| Patreon
#artists on tumblr#sly cooper#furry#carmelita fox#my entire direction drawing this was#I want someone to question their religion
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@yellowmoodlet ♡♡
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I think there is probably something interesting to be said about how john tries to start the world over and create a new religion but just winds up reproducing the same tropes in the universe he built. Idk I'm not quite sure where she's going with that. I will need to read atn. Definitely something about cycles of trauma playing themselves out at the societal level & interpersonal level, something about the biblical flood probably, religion as a way that people replay certain traumas & themes in their lives
#i have to admit i was surprised to learn muir is still religious not that it's incompatible with her work just.#and death of the author etc but i feel like it definitely complicates the idea of these myths we replay in our lives#to believe that we wouldn't be better off setting them aside#i really don't have a coherent stance on that i think they're useful in some ways + trying to eliminate an entire religion is not great#at the same time it's a tool of control for some people and i can't say it was a force for good in my own life#anyway all that aside i am just curious how she thinks about these things & how she'll try to reconcile some of her themes in atn
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hey. non-jewish advocates for palestine. we need to talk.
PLEASE remember that jewish people are not the enemy. freedom and justice for palestine is not incompatible with protecting jewish people. anyone who tries to convince you that jewish people are standing in the way of freedom for palestine, and that something needs to be done about us, is an opportunist using palestine to target jewish people.
this goes ESPECIALLY for people who are not themselves palestinian or connected to palestine.
there are so many jewish people fighting for palestine's freedom, putting ourselves in harm's way, losing people in our lives because of our unconditional defense of innocent people living and dying in gaza. don't ignore that when you see people making sweeping statements about jewish people. don't ignore antisemitism masquerading as pro-palestinian sentiment.
we are not enemies. we are not on opposite sides. don't throw us to the wolves or excuse antisemitism in the name of the cause. so many of us fight for palestine - when you're confronted with antisemitism, please fight for us, too.
#feltext#israel /#palestine /#i am sick and tired of seeing non-jews carelessly demonize jewish people#yes. even the non-woke jewish people with shitty opinions deserve protection from antisemitism#i'm not trying to make this about me or about my religion... but some strangers sure fucking will#if you aren't jewish you probably haven't had reason to see what people say to us or about us#you might not see the waves of antisemitic conspiracy bots flooding fb#or the people irl using protests to spread antisemitic hate entirely unrelated to the actual cause#but let me tell you. it's fucking hard to argue with my family because they sure as hell see it#it's hard to convince them it's not about antisemitism bc they are confronted with so much of it online and irl#don't contribute to it. don't allow it to happen in your spaces. don't turn a blind eye to it. shut it down
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does grey wing still get to say The Line™? (kill me, and live with them memory. then tell the stars that you won)
I want him to keep the line, and then add onto Clear Sky's response. In canon he backs off after this and it's ridiculous; like a lot of other things I really despise the direction DOTC went in as opposed to the lore set up in the field guides.
Just for the record, here is the scene right from the book. Clear Sky stops the First Battle because of Gray Wing's line and it is essentially the "start" of his redemption arc;
Clear Sky stood over Gray Wing. “Just give in!”
Gray Wing lay on the ground, gasping for breath. His flanks heaved desperately as he stared up at his littermate.
“Never.” He aimed a weak blow at his brother’s muzzle, but it missed clumsily.
“Give in!” Clear Sky growled threateningly. He lifted a paw.
Thunder froze.
Gray Wing pushed himself onto his paws, his legs trembling. “Kill me,” he rasped at Clear Sky. “Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars that you won.”
Clear Sky held his gaze. “Don’t make me do this, brother.” His mew quivered. “All I want is for every cat to be safe. To have borders to protect us and make sure we have prey.”
Gray Wing staggered closer. “You want to tell every cat what to do,” he wheezed. “You always have and you always will. You’re so greedy for power, you’ll kill your own littermate to get it.”
Clear Sky let his paw drop and turned away. “I can’t...” His gaze flitted over the bodies littering the clearing. Cats fought on weakly, staggering more unsteadily with every blow.
“Stop!” Clear Sky yowled. “This battle is over."
-The First Battle, Chapter 20
Instead of StarClan furiously interrupting the battle, Clear Sky gets a brief moment where he pauses and calls the battle off. This doesn't live long; Chapter 21 that follows is us zipping into his ridiculous head as we get to watch this waste of ink;
Think about how he just wanted to help his clan guys :(
Think about how sad it is that he did something mean to his son and he feels soo guilty :(
Not even remember killing Rainswept Flower, he was 'so mad he didn't know what he was doing like someone else was fighting for him' :(
GET DEFENDED BY GRAY WING. AGAIN. THIS IS THE ENTIRE SERIES, CLEAR SKY DOES SOMETHING ABHORRENT AND GRAY WING GOES "hes not that bad be nice to him :("
So, basically. Neat line. Too bad the rest of DOTC is around it.
In my take, StarClan is the one who stops the battle. Clear Sky hears the line and sees Gray Wing refusing to submit, "Kill me and live with the memory, then tell the stars that you won."
And responds, "I'll drown the stars in their own blood if they stand against me!"
At that point, Thunder leaps in, ready to fight him to the death in defense of Gray Wing, taking the sentiment of the rest of the scene. A crack of thunder and a shining light is what ends the battle, not Clear Sky calling it off.
#people forget or didn't notice that this arc also concludes that Actually clear sky needed religion to not be so afraid#and ergo stop killing people#I actually hate this character#The canon one I mean I like my redux because I think villains are awesome#The erins pick the worst characters to attempt to redeem and imo it hurt the entire arc. It's infuriating to read knowing where it's going
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