Queer-religious fandom rambles

Age: 25 /// Pronouns: She/hers and they/them/// Enthusiastic reader of fanfictions, also veryyy occasional writer of them. Jumping from fandom to fandom, depending on my current hyperfixation, right now, it's a mix of Star Trek, Conclave, Wicked and OITNB. (And the Bible, if you dare to call Christianity a fandom ;) ) If you need help with translations into German or French, feel free to contact me. :) (Or if you have any questions about Christianity/Queer Theology ^^)

[alatabouleau]

German terms of endearments for your fic

.Now, it's been two years since I've fallen into the X-Men/Cherik-fandom and one thing that I have seen continuously is people trying to find terms of endearment in German for Erik to use for Charles (or his mother for him). (I've lost count of how many times I've seen the word "Liebling" spelled wrong) And honestly, no offense. I know it's hard writing a character who speaks a language you don't. And obviously, you're gonna make mistakes. So I thought I'd share my knowledge as a mother tongue in German and let you know some of the most common ways we described our loved ones. ;) DISCLAIMER: I am but one single person, grown up south-east from Berlin, I DO NOT speak for the whole of Germany, nor do I ever intent to, especially since we are anything but a cultural monolith. Just keep that in mind while reading. ;)

Exclusively romantic terms: - Liebste (fem.)/ Liebster (masc.) : literally means "most loved". Closest English equivalent is probably "love" or "beloved". Bit old-fashioned. Makes you sound like a 20th-century-gentleman. ;) Make sure to write it "I-E" NOT the other way around! It would make the opposite sound. - Geliebte (fem.) / Geliebter (masc.): literally "beloved". Makes you sound even older, like Jane-Eyre-19th-century-old. Again, I before E. - Süße (fem.) / Süßer (masc.): literally "sweetie" (I KNOW this is probably now confusing, but trust me.) This is where we get into the... sappy side of German. Like, there are some mid-forty/fifty-couples who use that, but the rest makes it probably just cringe. (I know I am right now really helpful by starting with those that are not really modern, but I've seen this used because people translating English terms so I just wanted to say it here.)

Terms for both romantic and parental love: - Liebling: literally "darling". Classic, neutral, always the safe option for every situation. (I before E ;) ) - Schatz: literally "treasure". Again, safe option, though this leans rather to the romantic side, but can be used for children either way.

-Meine Liebe (fem.) / Mein Lieber (masc.): Literally "My dear" and pretty much used in the same context as that in British English. Like, when you are annoyed at someone and reprimand them, you could use that as well. But also like an endearment in a very neutral way. They actually use this one quite a lot with Old!Erik in the German dub of the Original X-Men-Movies. And you can also use it as an adjective in front of the adressant's name, so i.e. "Mein lieber Charles" is definitely something Brotherhood-leader Erik called Charles on occasions. ^^

And then of course, some animal pet names may be used for either children or romantic partners, but honestly, I don't know any couples who do that. So, those will go into the parental category, I'm afraid.

Terms for children: -Spatz: "sparrow". That's what we basically use as "sweetie". You can also use the diminutive "Spätzchen" for either toddlers or said by grandmothers. -Maus: "mouse". same thing. Diminutive is "Mäuschen". Tendency in usage for girls, but can work for either gender. (This is what my Mom still calls me sometimes even though I'm already 22! XD) -Motte: "moth". This is now really rather for girls, and rather those whose names start with M. -Krümel: "crumb". Not used by many, rather comes from the North, also rather used for unborn children in the womb. -Fussel: "fluff". Also not that common but can be cute in my PoV. :) -Hase: "rabbit". Diminutive is "Häschen". This one's rather for boys in my experience.

And then again, at the end of the day, expressions of affection are personal and as we get more personal in German, we tend to use our respective dialects. Yes, there are actually quite a many dialects for our relative "small" country. Around 30, to be concrete. Though they are all decreasing in being used, sadly, as we get more and more globalized and mobilized. However, here are some examples that I know, my knowledge being utterly limited as I am only one single person from the region south of Berlin:

-Kleene (fem.) / Kleener (masc.): "little one". If you ever have a character originating from Berlin or south of Berlin, this can be used for children. -Meechen: "girl" in the dialect of the region called "Lausitz" around the border of Brandenburg and Saxonia. Also for kids. -Schätzelein: diminutive of "treasure" in Colognian dialect. Romantic in nature, though it can also be used in a way like hairdressers in American movies sometimes call their customers "sweetie". (please, if there's a person from Cologne here, correct me on that!) -Liebchen: "darling" or "beloved" in Saxonian dialect, I believe. Rather used by old couples. -Min Dern (fem.)/ Min Jung (masc): "my girl/boy". Northern dialect. In the region around Hamburg, if I remember correctly. Used for kids.

That's it for the moment. I will probably add to this list whenever I learn some new, but I hope this is already helpful for some people. Have a great day! :) Also, if to other German mother-speakers, feel free to share your perspective, correct me if I did put something in the wrong region or enlighten me with other words.

[spaceoddeity]

was macht man wenn man eigentlich ins Bett gehen sollte? Schlechte PowerPoints über Bücher über die man normal ist

lest die bücher, trust

[alatabouleau]

Me, skimming through the Good-Omens-critical-tag, after the finale I didn't watch suddenly full of people reiterating the takes I had from season 2:

(You know, I hate to say it, "I told you so"

You know I hate to say, but-)

I TOLD YOU SOOOOOOOO

For legal purposes, this is a joke.

[nerdygaymormon]

[exifzilla]

I know gooseworx is Not a great person but people going out of their way to misgender her and be transphobic during pride month is actually insane.

I'm absolutely NOT excusing her previously displayed weird behavior im just saying it's doing far more harm than good to be transphobic about it

[alatabouleau]

Why, what happened? In any case, I second STOP MISGENDERING PROBLEMATIC TRANS PEOPLE your respect for identity should be unconditional. Human dignity is inviolable. That's a line that mustn't be crossed.

[alatabouleau]

Ok, hear me out:

Adoration as metaphysical bodydoubling.

[god-is-in-shambles]

I just recently found out through a podcast I listen to that the US Catholic Bishops voted to ban all trans healthcare for all Catholic healthcare providers. I have seen no one in the queer Catholic/Christian space talk about this so I figured I should share some information.

The link the podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tuc7AZXcWIYemEHGIQ1Cz?si=9MDKshqyQT6SwLsck4yQSA

U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back

While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with tra

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban

Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawl

I am a folk Catholic and an anarchist so I know a lot of you might not agree with me but we must remember that the Catholic church as an institution has and is against trans and queer people. There are many individual Catholics that are pro-trans, pro-queer, pro-choice and generally progressive or leftist, but the Catholic institution is clearly not. If you are a Catholic or Christian who is against this GET LOUD. Ask your trans friends how they are doing and if they are impacted by this. Talk to members in your church or parish about this. Make posters and wheat paste them sharing this information. Do not let this get swept under the rug. Do not let our rights be taken away.

[alatabouleau]

Yeah, just if anyone started thinking that maybe, the catholic church was alright🤠🤠🤠

[ave-theoi]

The Christian Teens community on Tumblr has so many concerning posts where people encourage one another to cut out any "secular" or "satanic" music or tv and tell vulnerable teens that they don't need psychiatric meds because mental illness is spiritual warfare. It's really appalling how this type of scrupulosity is encouraging young people to constantly corner themselves into an echo chamber where anything not related to their religion and culture is evil and the cause of their mental health issues. I understand teens may want to deepen their relationship with God, but that does not mean disassociating yourself from anything not apparently congruent with your worldview. Leading people astray is so awful and I hope they realize the damage it does.

Praying for them 🙏

[gayleviticus]

finally someone is putting into words what i have been thinking for ages about the problematic way in which certain catholics *can* over-emphasise Mary as some kind of divine feminine alternative to male God

How bad theology about God distorts our understanding of Mary

When we underemphasize the humanity of Christ or overemphasize the masculinity of God, other dimensions are pushed aside. Those repressed el

[alatabouleau]

This. I try to explain this to my roman-catholic priest-friends when they ask me about my issues with marical faith and it's like talking to a wall...

[crazycatsiren]

Christian people of color have never needed and will never need white Christians to interpret God for us, nor white atheists to tell us how we should feel about God. Fuck off. All of you.

[mystical-madwoman]

White atheists are so disrespectful to Christians of color because they see Christianity as exclusively for white supremacists so they reduce Christians of color to being "brainwashed sheep", so I'll add this: faith and religion are such deeply personal things and everyone has a different relationship with it. Christians of color are not a monolith, many of us have a complicated relationship with faith, and as a Christian whose ancestors were colonized by Christians, I do not need you to spell out to me that Christianity was a tool of violence against my people. I *know* that. I've always known that, and it's a complicated legacy I am actively grappling with and critically thinking about on my own. I did not need a someone else to do that for me. I'm already doing it by myself.

Christians of color have no obligation to explain or justify their faith to you for your own validation. You can either respect our agency in how we deal with our faith or you can respectfully shut the fuck up.

[alatabouleau]

Currently watching OITNB for the first time and dear girlies and non-girlies, I need a fanfic where Mendez is getting mauled by a tractor, over and over again ASAP

And while we're at it, throw Healy in it as well.

[alatabouleau]

Looking for Ex-newapostolics

Sooo I don't know if this is a smart thing to do but

Recently, I've been kinda struggling of always feeling like the only one in my position which I am very sure is not true.

But I wonder if there are any other ex newapostolic queers out there who still identify as christians, just not as extreme as before?

I know that my former church is not big. I'm still sure I cannot be the only one who left. And is queer. And still believes. While deconstructing.

Für die nicht-so Englischsprachigen; Ich glaube eigentlich nicht, dass ich die einzige queere Ex-NAKI im Dekonstruktions-Prozess bin, die trotz allem noch irgendwo christlich glaubt. Und ich würde echt gern mit anderen in Kontakt treten.

So if you are out there, feel free to react to this post and/or dm me~

Kontaktiert mich gerne in diesem Post oder über PN :)

[the-mirandalorian94]

The way that Emerald Fennell didn’t need to adapt Wuthering Heights if she was going to blatantly ignore the fact that Heathcliff is a man of color and it is not up to interpretation.

If she really needed her movie to have a white Byronic hero, Mr. Rochester from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was right there.

[alatabouleau]

My own crack theory to this is that she read both in her teens, memories got jumbled up, then never bothered to check it up, and when she realised it, she was already in too deep or was generally too proud to admit it, so she could only double down.

[pixelrenaissance]

please watch this

Bro I stg if I ever wrote something about systemic racism and some white English bitch literally made it into fanfic romance I would be fucking livid

Support bipoc creators!!!!

Stop whitewashing romani people!!

[ancestral-reflections]

If you live in arizona please oppose the renaming of the loop 202 to “charlie kirk highway”

charlie kirk was never a christian, he has never done anything for the christian community, and renaming our freeways after someone who’s values were rooted in oppression will never be accepted.

[god-is-in-shambles]

Okay maybe this is a hot take, but as a Folk Catholic, there absolutely needs to be more accountability for Christianity in general for all of the terrible things that have been done in its name, especially the Catholic Church. I need you guys to read this carefully, I am not saying that all modern Christians are bad, or that they should be personally held responsible for the Crusades. What I am saying is Liberal/Leftist/Progressive Christians and Conservative/Traditional Christians have one thing in common and that is their Christianity. As leftist Christians, we need to seriously think about why Christianity has been co-opted by terrible people throughout history, and what we can do to stop it. One of the things we can do to stop our religion being run by bigots is by learning about the history of colonization, forced conversion, the crusades, the persecution of Jewish and Muslim people, Christian Nationalism, and many more topics that show the bad side of our faith. We must not only learn about these things, but face them head on. We cannot continue to sweep it under the rug. Because if we do, then it gives more power to Conservative Christians, since there is no one fighting against them. (Im thinking of starting a substack so I can get all my thoughts and ideas out in a more organized manner, but I just needed to get this out of my system.)

[divinedivadilemma]

Currently reading through all of the Bible for the first time as an adult and does anyone else think David and Jonathan were gay? He literally said his love for him was greater than a woman’s. And the way they interacted was different than I’ve seen any men interact with each other in the Bible so far.

Actually I think they were married they had a covenant sworn by god and knit themselves and their families together for eternity isn’t that pretty much a wedding?

[alatabouleau]

What? No...... never...... there is definitely not an entire Tumblr-Tag for these two..... it's not like there is an opera from 1688 called David et Jonathas in which these two are pretty much star-crossed lovers... don't let the antics tell you that there's a whole musical called Beloved King which reimagines their story in an openly gay way ;) ;) ;) (Sorry, as a long-lasting David/Jonathan shipper, this post feels like this person not long ago in the spirk tag, asking if anyone ever thought of Spock and Kirk as gay. XD No hate, though! I know it's niche ^^)

No, but on a serious note, I feel obligated to say, we can never say for sure. The text doesn't use any of the classical euphemisms for sexual intercourse, then again, only penetrative intercourse was classified as sex, anyway. There are some homo-erotic moments that no serious scholar is gonna try to argue away, though.

Like Jonathan taking all his clothes off to gift them David, like David calling Jonathan poetically the beauty of Israel in his lament, him adopting Jonathan's son after his death, Saul's dislike of their relationship (which sounds weirdly sexual).

To reiterate, homo-erotic undertones cannot be set equal to our understanding of "gay" nowadays, simply because our concept of what sex even is and that sexual orientation even exists are so very diffwrent from the time back then. So it stays an interpretation (As lots of them do.)

And I would argue that either way, it's a love story. A beautiful one nonetheless. About standing up for each other even in front of your own family. Hoping for the better admidst a gritty reality. Being vulnerable in front of each other when society demands differently. And even though this love is somewhat rejected socially, it's still a holy bond made in G*d. All these are reasons this story speaks to me as a queer Christian regardless of authorial intent.