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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, 2003
Heya! I'd known about your comic vaguely for a while now but never got around to reading it until a couple days ago. Binged the whole thing and loved it! I have a couple questions, sorry if they've been asked before: Are the other animals (besides deer and birds) sapient? If so, do they have their own gods? If not, how did they come about? Did deer god/his kids make them?
Some are more sapient than others, but because the comic is from deer POV, they can't understand other animals and that's why they appear way more mindless than our characters, like the wolves in the beginning. All animals definitely have their own systems not explored in the comic.
Here's a bit from an old QnA to answer the rest:
I think one of the great misunderstandings about religion is that it is somehow a response to the fear of death, i.e. belief in God assuring an “afterlife” of some sort which is soothing in the face of the unknown. And that could be true for many believers and no doubt belief in something like the resurrection is a neat alternative to total annihilation.
But what I think gets confused a great deal of the time is the symbolism of life vs. death in religious texts, like even if we go back to Deuteronomy and God repeatedly saying things like, “If you believe in me there will be rain and your crops will grow and you’ll have a nice time and if you don’t your crops will fail and things will generally be awful.” Now that seems like a higher power metaphorically holding a gun to your head BUT you have to remember these scriptures were written responsively, hundreds of years after the events they describe. When humans collectively get together and say things like “Existing without divinity is trash,” it’s not an assertion or command but rather an observation.
Why this is and why this is so prevalent around the world despite running against human social norms - i.e. ”Get stuff; be happy!” - is one of the great mysteries of humanity. But it isn’t about comfort in the face of death so much as it’s about turning away from “Get stuff; be happy!” and noticing wow, looking at the sun shining through trees is nice; a drink of water when I’m thirsty is nice; I pet a dog today; my life feels full and rich because the barista and I had a cute exchange at the register; why do I feel such plenitude when I’m just talking to a friend on the front porch in the evening; how can I watch the whirlibirds come down off the trees and be happy forever?
Oh my god these scenes gay
I have my best prayer times walking around. I grew up in an orchard so I would spend a lot of time wandering around the trees praying after I became a christian. I’d go to school early and walk around the campus and pray and listen to music.
I struggled when I first moved into my grandma’s house (where I now live with hubby and son) because I felt so confined not being able to just walk out the door and have a whole orchard to meander in. I have since worked out that it works to walk around a big split brick path in the back yard. I basically walk in circles and pray and listen to worship music. It works for me.
It’s become a little routine for me that my son and I will go outside after breakfast and he explores the yard and I do my circles, keeping an eye on him of course, and pray and listen to and sing worship songs.
Well, today I opened at work then took a nap when I got home so it wasn’t until after lunch that we tried to go outside and through a series of falls involving water of various degrees of ick, my son was wet and cranky so I got like two laps in before we had to go back in the house. So I decided to clean the kitchen and my husband took my son in the other room to play.
I was so irritated and cranky and I had just been thinking how much less irritable I am lately so I was even more irritated about being irritated. Haha!
I turned on my worship music, opened my bible app and had some quiet time while washing dishes and cleaning up my kitchen and wouldn’t you know, God of all creation came and met with me in my kitchen.
Thank You God for meeting me wherever I am willing to lay my will down to seek Your face.
sorry ive been dead! ive been busy with commissions and college 😭 anywayss enjoy the redesign
