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Build worlds. Draw buff guys. (bro why am i not able to adjust the header)

[sanctus-ingenium]

Lord of Lies 1-4, as promised! My short (15 page) attempt at a comic set in modern-day Inver

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[talinotalino]

random shot in the dark lmao

I don't really get why people keep on trying to make Jesus seem more progressive than he actually was Saying "poor people deserve help too y'know" is NOT radical or super progressive, even for his time. The Romans (the people who used slaves for any building project they had lol) had the best welfare system* for their time; even the imperialist slave-owning romans thought poor people should be cared for So I don't really get why people, especially non-christians for some unknown reason, keep on trying to portray Jesus as a super progressive guy when in reality I wouldn't be surprised if he would be a big fan of the conservative movement in modern America *I'm referring to the grain dole, and also "for their time" is doing a lot of heavy work because it was NOT at all a perfect system. But tbf it was literally the ancient times so they at least tried lol

[fruitblush]

um lancetfish furry .

[talinotalino]

mild hot take

i think that social progress in the west would be so, so, SO much better if we as a society started to regard the abrahamic faiths as backwards and actively harmful

[sanctus-ingenium]

Lord of Lies 1-4, as promised! My short (15 page) attempt at a comic set in modern-day Inver

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[sanctus-ingenium]

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[fruitblush]

um lancetfish furry .

[cipheramnesia]

I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.

[saint-batrick]

jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.

[cipheramnesia]

I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I've never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.

[hypercam2-mp4]

this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home

[cipheramnesia]

This makes me indescribably overjoyed.

[faggots-wilde]

Good news human friends! This is a real thing you can do! Come into the Woods! At Night! And follow the Lights! In the Woods at Night! Come and see the mushrooms in a Circle you shouldn't step on them, step Over them! Into the Circle! In the Woods at Night! :)

[sanctus-ingenium]

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[sanctus-ingenium]

Lord of Lies 1-4, as promised! My short (15 page) attempt at a comic set in modern-day Inver

(next pages)

[scottlava]

“How long do we hunt these jackals? Let’s hunt down the lion!”

[purplesparklybabe-deactivated20]

so i might be stepping out of line making this post but i feel it needs to be made so yolo i guess.

i know a lot of millenials have a sort of knee-jerk negative reaction towards abrahamic religions (really mostly christianity and judaism) and i understand. really, i get it. my dad is a pastor, and he used his religon to abuse, demean, and control me at every opportunity. he regularly tells my sisters that he’s “so sad im going to hell” and other sundry passive aggressive nonsense, so trust me i get it. i understand how a certain religion can be triggering to someone.

but there is a very important point here, and i really hope you understand this.

you cannot let it make you prejudiced, and, let me be clear here, im talking specifically about antisemitism.

i know exactly whats going on in your head, because for a long time it was what was going on in my head. you hear the word “judaism” and you have flashbacks to sunday school and the old testament and all the times you sat in a church and felt personally attacked, and you associate that with judaism and jewish people because most of the things that upset you were in the old testament. 

you can have your triggers, but you can’t let those triggers become an excuse to further marginalize a minority thats already attacked from literally every position of power there is. every major religion has leaders who are antisemitic, every country has a history of marginalizing jewish people, every person on the planet grows up in an inherently antisemitic world and has to unlearn that sort of toxic mindset.

and maybe this post should have been made by a jewish person, or somebody with more education on the subject than me but i think its really important that people don’t let their personal experiences with organized religion turn them into the kind of prejudiced person that hurt them in the first place. 

as a romni i have a shared tragedy with jewish people, so i feel like it was easier for me to step back and be like “woah, your thought process here is super toxic and you need to stop” but i feel like a lot of white christian-raised people don’t really have that touchstone and need somebody to be like “wake up, what you are doing is wrong”

[asearchforg-d]

I can remove this if you want but I feel a strong need to reblog

[shoutingjar]

as a jew, i’m gonna add to this.

first of all. we don’t have a lot of allies speaking for us genuinely, instead of because of some sort of twisted “jesus was jewish” or “i can secretly defend my faith or politics using jews as pawns” so when y’all do it means a lot. we don’t see it much, so don’t feel bad for making this post.

second of all, the part that you didn’t know, through no real fault of your own, is that the version you learn in sunday school or from non-jewish sources? that isn’t even remotely how jews understand that source.

jews have a totally different relationship with our holy text than christians do. every jewish person is expected to know the “old testament” cover to cover then to freely access and participate in millennia of commentary and debate on it. the core book of jewish law is just a book of debates and discussions, many of which don’t even come with firm answers. and whenever it’s printed, it’s printed with centuries worth of commentary in the margins.

if you have and issue with or felt personally attacked by any part of the “old testament” i can guarantee that there are pages and pages of jewish commentary about that from the point of view you were looking for and several dozen you haven’t even considered. jews have never stopped questioning and arguing about this thing.

so when non-jews make the assumption that our religion is some sort of backwards or primitive thing based on a text they don’t care for, they are doing jews a double disservice.

i guarantee you some 1st century BCE judaen made the point that not eating shrimp because a book says to is kinda silly far more eloquently than you did, pal. heck. there’s a rabbi in the talmud who just straight up becomes a heretic.

judaism has been around and has been evolving as a culture and a religion longer than christianity has existed. it’s one of the oldest living traditions on the planet and its still growing and evolving.

[sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051]

Extremely relevant to current events on this blog. Here’s a very simple yet effective way to summarize how Jews engage with our holy texts.

OP: G-d, Moses, and the other authors of the Tanakh (David, Solomon, the Prophets™, etc)

The Post: The Torah and the rest of the Tanakh

The Comments: The Mishna, the Gemarah (from both Talmuds), the Mishnei Torah, the Shulchan Aruch, the Zohar, the Siddur, the Hagadah, the Benscher, all of Jewish poetry and songs, all of Rabbinic literature, all Rabbinic Responsas, and all of Midrash (interpretations) stretching through Jewish history, including the present time, all of Jewish folklore, minhagim, and the practices and beliefs of individuals

As you can see, we have a LOT more in the comments section than in the post. You can fit the Tanakh in the palm of your hand. You could fill shelf after shelf in room after room with all the books on the comments section. Most of those aren’t one book - the Talmud Bavli alone is 38 volumes. If you think Judaism just takes the Tanakh literally and accepts it at face value, you could not be more mistaken. We have been arguing about it LITERALLY since we got it, and haven’t stopped yet. For everything you think you know about Judaism because you read it in the Tanakh, there are SHELVES worth of Jewish responses to that topic. The text of the Tanakh is fixed, historical, canonized, and unchanging. The Jewish response to that text is anything but: it is a constant struggle with the text, a plurality of opinions and practices, a living process which we are constantly refining.

[superhelldeactivated]

i remember when we were in typography II and also editorial design I we got shown the fucking text hierarchy image

and I'm seeing more and more people not grasping this concept when editing so i thought that if for some reason you haven't seen this image i probably shouldn't gatekeep it. Text hierarchy is literally essential knowledge to make yourself understood. Try to have an order in your text, investigate, test things, show your edits to people and ask "hey what order are you reading this on?" because the golden rule is that your design should be easy to interpret most of the time.

[talinotalino]

Look at that, my first lil painting!!