[image ID: a digital painting and detail crop of father eli, a young thin priest with light skin and short strawberry blonde hair dressed in a black shirt and a clerical collar. he stands in a dark room lit from the right in red, looking down with a furrowed brow and lips gently parted. he is sweating and panting, the red light glinting off his skin and his rosary and necklace. end ID]
Ended up turning this into a lighthearted meme but damn- the brainrot hitting hard… My headache suddenly stopped after I finished this, so I think it’s a miracle???
Either way— to that one niche community of Reverend or Nun! Rook enjoyers— ily and me too <3
This is Hallie! She's a transcis woman (born female but feels like she should be transfem in some way), transmormon, and transBYU!
When she was 12 years old, she had a near death experience when her and her mother got mugged and she got her throat slit. Fortunately, she was saved after being sewn up and resuscitated! She swears that she saw God / Heaven though, and has never been able to live it down, as she was raised in an atheist family due to her mother's religious trauma.
She's a heavy metal fan and enjoys a band called Dead Girlz, which is popular in the universe of my OCs! The main singer is a Satanist though so it does give her a little bit of dysphoria listening to it on bad days!
One day, while she was 16, she was home alone and some Mormon Missonaries knocked on her door, thay had a conversation with her and left, but it left her with a hole in her heart that she couldn't quite place.
After that she did some research and joined the radqueer community, labeling herself as TransMormon and deciding she wanted to attend BYU and move to Utah!
After turning 18, her current age, she moved out and is currently living in Oklahoma, where her and her mother have lived all her life, saving up to move to Utah!
She considers herself to be TransMormon as her beliefs don't line up with the church but due to her near-death experience and experience with door-knockers, she decided that she believes in the Mormon faith!
The radqueer community is where she feels safest, and although she isn't a big poster, she still has moots, like High, that she interacts with often!
Anyways would you like to have a debate like Ancient Greek scholars about religious imagery on the DSMP
“…and every revival only births a perversion of the original, and yet a return to form and renewal of the mission. Wilbur brought back to ambition, Tommy to fear, Techno to anarchy. This is because they were not properly revived through holy means, instead in symbols associated with satanic imagery; a grimoire, a totem. The revival book’s association with Dream echos ideas of Satan offering power that ultimately corrupts. Other symbols of Christianity show up beyond souls, revival, and satanic imagery, likewise tied to Dream. In the garden of Eden—”
“Golden apple as a symbol of the temptation of power! Of course of course! Knowledge as power, the fall of man from grace. This shows particular on the summit meeting between Techno and Dream, wherein a god apple is given by Dream. This falls neatly into parallel with Eden, where Eve is lured with the promise of having the same wisdom and thus power as god. It is the temptation presented, power promised in the same breath as suffering and conflict…”
They ask "Mary did you know?", I ask "Mary, did you cry?"
Mary, how many times did you weep that your son was raised for slaughter? Mary, how many times did you hold that infant in your arms, the one you nursed from your own flesh and marrow, and you couldn't bring yourself to look at him?
Mary, did it hurt to name him Christ?
Mary, who held you by that manger, the straw the same color of the wheat that marked the passing of years until your son was laid in that sepulchre?
It was an honor to carry the Christ child, your night is remembered as Holy, and yet all I can think of is a mother's grief, and the way it twisted your heart into knots and tied shut your throat as you cried over your child-
hello tumblr, the time has come for you all to look at the various priest ocs from my wip supernatural horror comic about gay angels and demons and vote on who you think is the sexiest. bonus points if you reblog and tell me why you chose who you did in the tags. click the profiles above to learn more and vote below. godspeed & happy sacrilege
so story behind this one ; i have a shit ton of religious trauma alogn with the fact i have a fear of intimacy. this song just resonated with me. i believe its so beautiful and wonderfully made and such a great representation of the way it feels to be intimate and close with someone. i just love love love this song!!!!!!! ahh!!!! :) thanks for listening, bye bye