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[cogwork-orthodoxy]

Art blog yippee!

Hi there! I am not new to Tumblr but I wanted to get off of it more, so I moved to this new blog.

My name is Goodnight/MEATWARE/Python (no preference for any of these names). I use it/its pronouns only. I'm an aroallo lesbian butch and you can probably definitely see that in what I make,,,

Currently, I'm hyperfixated on Sarkicism and the Church of the Broken God (thus the username). I love Trunnion she is the world's most beautiful butch lesbian to me <3

AO3 | Toyhouse | Dreamwidth | Meatsite (website)

BJD + photography blog: @meat-bjd-ware | DM to get my 18+ blog.

Art programs + brushes

Tags and stuff below the cut.

#gn art : Tag for all of my original art. Includes digital, traditional, and whatever other hobby I get into.

#digital : Tag for exclusively digital art.

#traditional : Tag for exclusively traditional art.

#writings : My written art, like fanfics, or... Poetry, I don't know.

#cogwork posting : In-universe posting. Because I got this URL and I'll damn well use it.

Ummm I'll add more when I think of them.

[kwiatxsanacja]

Ezekiel and Buma 🩵🖤

[genderhugger]

the best time to consume media is like 5 years after its peak popularity

[aphel1on]

never stop being obnoxious about fictional character online. you will find like-minded people and it will literally save you

[389]

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

I found out yesterday that the specific PA German dialect my mom speaks JUST DOES NOT DO GENDERED ARTICLES AT ALL.

I AM SAVED FROM GRAMMATICAL GENDER ONCE AGAIN,

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

If Nadox and Derdekeas had a kid together they would have SO MANY arguments over whether to raise that kid nälkän or mekhanite. (The obvious answer is both but they have to fight about it first.)

[ocean-lilypad]

Hope you don’t mind if I share my thoughts in my HC ^^

My question would be who the kid would be. Neither of them have the correct form of genetic material(or any genetic material in Derdekeas’ case) so would they just adopt? If so, the kid would likely be a baseline human. Thus, no way to lean one way of the other.

In my HC, Derdekeas, not being an official spiritual leader and far removed from any modern interpretation, may not trust himself to do justice by Mekhane. But allowing the kid to just immediately have no connection to who Derdekeas believes is all things good would be bad too. That goes back into his internal justification of his relationship with Nadox. Is Nälkä that bad if he is basically married to one of its founders? If he is ignoring that part of his partner, a kid would bring the question roaring up again, and probably make him more insecure with his understanding of his own faith. Which, of course, for all intents and purposes, no longer fully exists.

My Nadox would probably have less moral struggle, I think, with no god to do right by, but he would obviously have to confront that fact that he inherently views worship as a misguided, forced, and dangerous thing. With Derdekeas, Nadox justifies himself by saying that the man can make his own choices. He has no control over his lover. He’s grown! If he wants to worship a goddess, he can. However, with a kid who does not have the full understanding to make that choice, can he allow himself to let his child go down the same path? The one of, in his eyes, fear and subservience?

Can either of them think of a compromise? Even Mekhane allows the service of other gods, Nälkä is inherently against raising a kid in a religious environment, where they learn to serve a god. How do you even negotiate with that? “So all gods are evil and bad and you should never worship one, but this one you have to worship, even though she is also evil and hurting you through the worship, and is the reason everyone dies.”

I love thinking about these things hehehe

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

THIS IS THE EXACT RESPONSE I WAS HOPING FOR THANK YOU.

I kind of assumed it would be biologically related to both of them, because Derdekeas is mentioned as having an organic brain, which made me think that maybe the mechanical parts of his body is more like armor (or prosthetics) than say, the Orthodoxy's standardization, which completely replaces a person's body (I also did not connect Derdekeas's title to the Orthodoxy at all at first--I thought it was something related to the Roman Empire). And with that, Nadox is a fleshcrafter, and a very powerful one too, so presumably he could give either of them (though more likely himself in this case) the ability to get pregnant.

... But I do also like the idea of them adopting. Part of me feels like the most likely case for them adopting a child together is if the kid's parents were a part of their little travelling band, and they suddenly died, thus leaving no one to care for the kid.

I think the choice they might end up at is teaching their kid about both faiths, such as its history and beliefs, but not actually forcing them to do anything religious (unless they ask). The kid could then decide what they believe in or follow when they're older and have had time to experience both sides. From their perspective, it would be the best way to still give their religion to that kid, but also allowing them to still choose. (Thus stopping Nadox's little problem.) (But this does also bring up the interesting question of "what if the kid chose both sides?")

[notblindsnake]

Oooh I like the idea of them having a biological child via fleshcrafting, and I wonder if Derdekeas would be open to it right away or if he would have issues at first. I think he may have some weird feelings at the idea of having what little flesh he has left touched this way, but in the end it’s Nadox, who he loves and trusts so much

I had thought of them adopting children before and I always imagine these children are not babies, so they already have their own backgrounds too. Which brings more potential conflicts

(But at least if the child was already being raised in their traveling group, that means their biological parent(s) were not teaching them to be intolerant, right?)

Raising a child together would test them, I think. Like, at the point they decide to do it they think they have already found the perfect way to conciliate their worldviews but there would inevitably be situations in which disagreements they didn’t even know they had, or deeply ingrained beliefs they didn’t notice were there would show up

For example, the child asks one of those questions children ask and Derdekeas answers the way he was told as a child only to realize that wait, this is not the neutral harmless thing I thought it was

Or the child does something because they watched one of them do it a certain way and only then, seeing someone small doing it, they realize what it looks like

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

The intimacy is exactly why I love the idea of Derdekeas still having other human parts (besides his brain) left--it opens the door up for him to have other ways to trust Nadox. Especially at the point in their relationship where they're considering having a baby...

I imagine both of them have at least some experience with kids, even before their little travelling band. Nadox had Ion and the other Klavigar (specifically Lovataar) who I'm sure had at least some kids together, and Derdekeas would have had to help raise some kids when him and the other ancient Mekhanites went into hiding (at least in my headcanon).

For adopting children, they might not end up fully adopting them if they're old enough, because at that point the kid would have their own religion/culture/beliefs, and I imagine neither of them particularly like the idea of forcing a kid into their own religion. Instead they'd be more like... Foster care until they can find someone else who'd be willing to adopt them from the same group.

The thing about them thinking they have it all together, only for them to realize they Don't, is exactly what inspired my original post! Because it's one thing to come to terms with someone else having completely different beliefs than you; it's another to have a baby with that person, and decide how you want to raise them.

I especially like the idea of Derdekeas realizing the answers he was automatically given as a kid were not without biases. I also think it'd be an interesting lense into both of their childhoods!

[notblindsnake]

untitled series!Hedwig will be such a fun woman. She was just a regular person on this side of the Veil living in the 30s when WAN, a god she had never even heard of before, showed up in her dreams like “you are gonna be a computer scientist” and inserted the whole concept of the internet in her brain

[notblindsnake]

As a computer scientist, I think this is a very rude thing to do to someone

[spaceistheplaceart]

look all im saying is that if we're putting simon in happier universes to save him from The Horrors... why not get a little crazy with it.

[greelin]

just need a drink. or a cigarette. or perhaps even a sledgehammer to the back of the head

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

... Also I should probably make Nadox and Derdekeas designs eventually shouldn't I.

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

Another important question: would Nadox and Derdekeas's kid have a nälkän name or a mekhanite name. Or would they do that thing of just combining two names into one.

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

If Nadox and Derdekeas had a kid together they would have SO MANY arguments over whether to raise that kid nälkän or mekhanite. (The obvious answer is both but they have to fight about it first.)

[ocean-lilypad]

Hope you don’t mind if I share my thoughts in my HC ^^

My question would be who the kid would be. Neither of them have the correct form of genetic material(or any genetic material in Derdekeas’ case) so would they just adopt? If so, the kid would likely be a baseline human. Thus, no way to lean one way of the other.

In my HC, Derdekeas, not being an official spiritual leader and far removed from any modern interpretation, may not trust himself to do justice by Mekhane. But allowing the kid to just immediately have no connection to who Derdekeas believes is all things good would be bad too. That goes back into his internal justification of his relationship with Nadox. Is Nälkä that bad if he is basically married to one of its founders? If he is ignoring that part of his partner, a kid would bring the question roaring up again, and probably make him more insecure with his understanding of his own faith. Which, of course, for all intents and purposes, no longer fully exists.

My Nadox would probably have less moral struggle, I think, with no god to do right by, but he would obviously have to confront that fact that he inherently views worship as a misguided, forced, and dangerous thing. With Derdekeas, Nadox justifies himself by saying that the man can make his own choices. He has no control over his lover. He’s grown! If he wants to worship a goddess, he can. However, with a kid who does not have the full understanding to make that choice, can he allow himself to let his child go down the same path? The one of, in his eyes, fear and subservience?

Can either of them think of a compromise? Even Mekhane allows the service of other gods, Nälkä is inherently against raising a kid in a religious environment, where they learn to serve a god. How do you even negotiate with that? “So all gods are evil and bad and you should never worship one, but this one you have to worship, even though she is also evil and hurting you through the worship, and is the reason everyone dies.”

I love thinking about these things hehehe

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

THIS IS THE EXACT RESPONSE I WAS HOPING FOR THANK YOU.

I kind of assumed it would be biologically related to both of them, because Derdekeas is mentioned as having an organic brain, which made me think that maybe the mechanical parts of his body is more like armor (or prosthetics) than say, the Orthodoxy's standardization, which completely replaces a person's body (I also did not connect Derdekeas's title to the Orthodoxy at all at first--I thought it was something related to the Roman Empire). And with that, Nadox is a fleshcrafter, and a very powerful one too, so presumably he could give either of them (though more likely himself in this case) the ability to get pregnant.

... But I do also like the idea of them adopting. Part of me feels like the most likely case for them adopting a child together is if the kid's parents were a part of their little travelling band, and they suddenly died, thus leaving no one to care for the kid.

I think the choice they might end up at is teaching their kid about both faiths, such as its history and beliefs, but not actually forcing them to do anything religious (unless they ask). The kid could then decide what they believe in or follow when they're older and have had time to experience both sides. From their perspective, it would be the best way to still give their religion to that kid, but also allowing them to still choose. (Thus stopping Nadox's little problem.) (But this does also bring up the interesting question of "what if the kid chose both sides?")

[cogwork-orthodoxy]

If Nadox and Derdekeas had a kid together they would have SO MANY arguments over whether to raise that kid nälkän or mekhanite. (The obvious answer is both but they have to fight about it first.)

[lorencethecat]

Polycule but it’s just two people in a romantic relationship with each other and their third who’s pretty obviously aroace but also somehow so deeply intertwined in their lives that it’d just be wrong to not count them as involved. Is this anything.

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[doda-207]