HELLO can you perchance— if you haven’t already — talk about your church grim type? i’m super curious :O
hi!!!! i have a little before but always happy to talk about myself more 🥰🥰 i love talking about my types!
to me, being a church grim actually feels surprisingly like a regular dog. before i knew what a church grim was, i assumed that’s what this type was—just some sort of strange but regular dog, like a black gsd or something.
i think the way it feels different to me is mainly through association; being a church grim comes with a heavy association with religious themes (for me these manifest as dark or sacrilegious themes, akin to religious trauma) and for me personally an association with thunderstorms & windy, dark weather. this feels like the kind of weather i was meant for, as a church grim. i also feel an association with protecting graveyards, and a love-hate relationship with my religious trauma—i was made to protect these people, but they are the same people who sacrificed me for themselves. in my very being it is coded to love them, to guide them, but i can’t help from hating them for their selfishness and their cruelty. it’s the religious trauma :)
while i often use images and visuals that are super edgy when representing my church grim type, it actually feels very vulnerable to me. i feel scared, anxious, unstable as a church grim, especially when i have shifts. i think it’s because i’ve been dismissed (or maybe freed) from my post as a church grim. in folklore, we are supposed to be tied to one church/graveyard and protect the souls of the dead, guiding them to the afterlife. i do not do that anymore. and i think a lot of the vulnerability comes from being a creature with a purpose who is not fulfilling that purpose.
anyway,, i do enjoy being a church grim! it’s not all sad and scary! i do also enjoy being thunderstormhearted because of my church grim kin :)
these are some photos i feel really connected to as a church grim (i took the first 2!!)
