𖤐 care to dance with the devil? 𖤐

I found this shell-shocked Jesus

At a goodwill in south Washington

Landscape with the Burial of St. Serapia by Claude Lorrain

specifically her ribcage being found in the dumpster. can we relate this to eve being created out of adams rib.

I would love a scene of Percy Jackson telling a curious mortal friend that he goes to church camp every summer

If your religion cannot survive without indoctrinating children then your religion should die off.

It is peaceful and consentaul conversion without genocidal intentions or extinction. Those are the only options religions have

you’ve already sort of shown the relationship brian has with religion, but i’m curious about your take on how he felt about galahad considering the whole “preacher” vibe. if we’re moving forwards with the complicated (and negative) relationship he has with religion then how does that translate to how he interacted with galahad? or was is more of a “large passing of time” thing so it wasnt as impactful?

sorry just have DBB thoughts again,,,

oh!!! i love that question a lot! thank u for asking. i was actually just thinking about this, what with my backstory fic about brian. i have many thoughts on this, so i'll set some of my basic thoughts up first and then answer the question once the context is set!

i think hnoc happens by the time carmilla is airlocked (after that second-ish but canon big one where who killed dr. carmilla comes from (i say second cause of a line jonny says in the homesick live, but that's not important here)) and tim, raph, and marius have joined. not entirely sure if this is after or before dr. carmilla comes back (what with her showing up in dr. pilchard with all nine of them), but i lean towards after (which i think this would be after she's kicked out again).

i say all this to explain the fact that i think brian has done a shit ton of healing from when he first joined, so he's definitely a lot better with not judging himself, healing from religious trauma, and working on being more assertive.

i also believe that brian doesn't actually have prophetic powers, at least not to the extent that characters like to bring up. i think he just has good pattern recognition and predicts things well (this leads into ideas of how people will blow up (lie about) people's fame in history and present time as a way of meeting their own ends. basically, i think brian has no part in these rumors, and people just spread it cause he can never escape the false accusations (i autism-code him no matter what apparently /lh)).

this all to say that brian probably found fort galfridian interesting and went down to check it out (it kind of reminded him of the settlement he stayed on in his backstory. his feelings are complicated about it). he goes down there, kind of chilling in the chaos, and then he comes across galahad and i think his first reaction when he sees galahad is "holy shit holy fuck holy-" and he just kind of spirals. cause yeah, he's doing better, but he also does remind him of one of his worst moments, so he may lose it a bit.

this could have maybe led to him being hung in the first place? he could have tried to question galahad's teachings because he worried galahad was using and lying to fort galfridian's people like the priest once did. this obviously causes unrest due to people liking galahad and not the outsider, so he's hung (this is just speculation i've sort of come up with on the spot!). when brian doesn't die from the hanging and continues to not die, the people are like "what the fuck". brian's pissed, and when he's pissed he says some ominous shit (but there is a place deep within him that does want to help the people), so they think he's a prophet and hang him by his ankle.

brian, who's like "well, this is interesting" sticks around cause it's wild, he's invested, and the mechs are a million light years away. he still doesn't trust galahad, however, galahad starts to talk with him, really about anything, a lot cause he finds brian interesting and because he feels bad for trying to kill this guy who was actually a prophet (probably thinks he's sent from god).

as he talks to brian, brian starts to have a change in judgment. he doesn't trust him all that much still, but he begins to realize that he didn't lead with an open mind and that maybe it would be okay to hear him out. he sees that galahad cares deeply about what he does and fully believes what he says to be true. brian is still weary on religion (especially organized ones) as a whole, but he does start to believe that what galahad is doing is better than he first thought. he finds company in galahad and other townspeople and really starts to care about them (and he's had a fucking headache for like a century now. wonderful).

and then the events of the album start to happen. when you're a hanged man in the center of town (idk if that's canon but it is now /lh), you hear a lot of shit: gossip, folklore, daily occurences. brian starts to catalog and connect this info he gathers (he's bored and a scientist; what more could he want?). a bigger picture starts to dawn on him, so he shares the info with the people who come to him (and who he seeks out). he wants to help galahad and tells him about the grail. he hopes that galahad will take the news well, but his reaction worries him, and he begins to regret what he said.

he hears later on about what galahad is doing and what he's saying, and he grows even more worried, seeing parallels between his past and the beliefs galahad begins to hold. brian thinks he's in too deep and tries to stop him, but that doesn't work out. he feels extremely guilty when he hears about galahad's death, and spirals a bit into blaming himself and having thoughts about his past that aren't the best. then he's in a sun for a century, and a good amount of his healing goes out the window. (but at least those lines of healing are still carved into his mind so it will be easier to find those routes and get himself back to healthy a lot faster than it did before (using a metaphor here that i heard and like with how it can be easier to heal once more if those paths of healing are there, fresh, and easy to reach. i was actually told about the opposite, which is why it's so easy to fall back into anxiety or other cycles of negative thinking)).

anyway... i am not one for brevity, apparently (no one is surprised). haven't thought this much about any of the albums before lmao (i usually focus on the mechs themselves abdknkd). but this is quite a fun concept to think about. i also like the idea that galahad is absolutely smitten with brian. it's just really fucking funny to me lmao. i also like to think that brian is just along for the ride whenever it comes ot galahad like, okay, you go you crazy guy.

also, sorry for any discrepancies between this and hnoc canon, i have not faithfully inscribed the entire album and it's info into my mind with long-lasting ink /lh.

thank you for the question, and don't worry! i love your questions and adore that you find my thoughts and writing so interesting and cool! it means the world to me. anyway, thank you again!

don’t talk to me or my eldritch son ever again

a redraw! of this post.

Ever wondered why where here?

I willing to be you have, I don't know what your doing here if you haven't? I'm curious though do you think you know where here, why we exist? Do you have a religious or spiritual reason for this or is it something else?

Saint Sithney, Patron Saint of Mad Dogs

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ㅤ۫ㅤᘞ ˚ ۪God's favorite angel ㅤ۫ㅤᘞ ˚ ۪

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♩♫❤️¨*:·. ͏ Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XXBQuEcfTDsZMhMlPxcow

( The art cover on the Spotify playlist is NOT OWNED by me credit to the artist) ♩♫❤️¨*:·. ͏

⟡　　⌑　　❀ Warning: this story has talks about death ( suicide) and reglouse talks (I think that’s all tell me if I should add anymore!) ⟡　　⌑　　❀

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My name used to be Mary Cosette. Well that was before I died. I died on January fifth year fifteen sixty-one. Cause of death suicide. I had no option. It was either dying with dignity or public execution. Let me start from the beginning. I was on born on September 12, a commoner. I lived with my mother,brother and sister. I never knew who my dad was. I learned how to read and write unlike the girls who lived in my town. I was also an amazing artist. I babysat the kids of my town, had a close relationship with god and prayed to him everyday. I had a normal life overall until the day I turned eighteen I got a marriage proposal from Duke Ercole II d’ Este. It would be any commoner's dream to marry a duke. I had two problems on hand. The first one is Problem is that I don't want to get married. My mother was a single mother and if I left her she would not be able to manage. My second problem is that Duke Ercole II d’ Este was known to be a cruel man. The only reason why he would want to marry me as a commoner is because he wanted me to give him a male heir. After some thought I decided to reject him. Something I didn't know was that he has a little ego that got hurt, and he accused me of witchcraft. People believed him ( gaslighted themself to believe him otherwise he would ruin their life). They would burn them at the stake. I now had two options: burn at the stake or end my own life and I would die with my dignity. Shortly after my death I saw 2 angels. They introduced themselves as Munkar and Nakīr. Then they asked me if I wanted my family to be safe if I wanted to watch over my family after my death. They really know my weak spots, don't they? I thought to myself. I answered “ yes”. I was then told that if I wanted to keep my family safe and watch over them I would have to become an angel. I thought about it. I only had one purpose in life which is to protect the people I hold dear. I would die over and over again if it meant protecting my family. My family is everything to me. I answered them once again with the same answer “ yes”. Even if I can't be with my family, I'll watch over them from afar. That's the story of how I became an angel to protect my family. Now let me tell you a little about the angel world. There is a difference between God's angels and angels. To be one of God’s angels you have to take an exam that is only three hours long. If you are lucky enough to pass the exam you have to go through training. Now this training is not your typical training, this is military training. The angels and devils have been at war for centuries. Angels and demons now have their own army. After you complete your training, you have to memorize the laws of heaven. The book that contains the laws of heaven is One-hundred pages long and has one thousand different laws. if you have made it this far, congratulations you made it into God’s court But you're not done yet. When you enter the court, you are at the lowest level, Havex. The highest level to reach is arc. Becoming one of God‘s 12 angels. It’s not as easy as it sounds for an average Angel to get to Havex; it takes them over 300 years. When you become an angel, you lose your humanity, you no longer have emotions, you become hollow like a shell. to be able to tell how strong angels are for you would look at the size of their wings. The bigger their wings are, the more powerful they are.. They say when you die Flashes of your life before your eyes. That is true because everything you have ever done is recorded by your two angels, the one on your left and the one on your right. Every good and bad deed. and will end up in one of the 12 quarts. Each one of the 12th angels have their own courts. They will judge you based on your actions and your intentions. They will ask the angels that were on your left shoulder and right shoulder to give them the book where they wrote everything down. Based on this book, it will determine whether you become an angel and send to the heavens or become a devil, and burn in hell for eternity.

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( reblog would be greatly appreciated it! Please do not copy my work and or upload it to a different platform does anyone want the continuation to this story/ part 2?)

Islam by Alfred Guillaume (Pelican, 1968 edition). Cover design by Lewin Bassingthwaighte.

St. George and the Dragon by Raphael

The saint wears the blue garter of the English Order of the Garter, reflecting the award of this decoration in 1504 to Raphael's patron Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, by King Henry VII of England. The first word of the order's motto, "HONI" can be made out. The painting was presumably commissioned by the Duke, either to present to the English emissary who brought the regalia to Urbino, Sir Gilbert Talbot, or to Henry himself—recent scholarship suggests the latter. The honour paid to a minor Italian ruler reflected Henry's appreciation of the cultural prestige of Renaissance Italy as much as any diplomatic purpose.

EPICNESSQUEEN (Touched Bible? ✝️): 🔥🔥🔥 (What My Older Sister Actually Said) #storytime #religon

Yes, my sister said this about me. Another time she did this was a couple years later and said "I am surprised you did not die." I do not know if this was her idea of a joke... But my Older sister has a knack of being a butthole in which she says something rude and B!tchy but then says it is a joke... Or double edge compliments where with the compliment there is an insult...

She has made these comments My WHOLE Life (And much more still to this day). Now what do you think of the next video being when I tried to unalive myself at 16 or 17 and my sister did not let me get admitted for treatment, and instead I was forced to go to a baptist work retreat the very next day for a at least three days (can’t remember if it was three days or a week)! Comment below if you want that story lol, probably longer than a short.

Christians and their evangelical Rhetoric.

This is a beautiful story about the gift of being certain.