rakasha | Jul. 24th, 2018

Jul. 24th, 2018

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Okay!

Let’s start with hmmm, Loqi.

Loqi has been trying to get into Jean’s pants for ages. Partly because masks are sexy and Jean is the mixture of deadly and little shit that he likes. Also he wants to see what’s under the mask, he does. He plots to get that mask off but whoops doesn’t happen. Jean is too sly for that.

Jean has the time of his life trolling Caligo. Caligo I feel handles a lot of the press and stuff so Jean does things that he know reporters will ask Caligo about. Just because he can. Also once he shows up at a press conference without his mask and wearing sunglasses and asks Caligo the hardest questions. Then when Caligo goes to leave he lowers his glasses and winks.

Caligo can swear he saw that man somewhere before.

Verstael. Jean wants to stab Verstael. Verstael keeps looking at Jean like he wants to experiment on him and Jean Does Not Like It. Verstael might also try to gain Jean’s trust by offering pain medication that Jean doesn’t even try. He just throws it in the trash.

Aranea and Jean get along rather well actually. They joke at each other. Aranea teases Jean about the mask but never tries to get him to take it off. Together they troll the shit outta the rest of the High Command.

Glauca isn’t around much. So Jean doesn’t really have a relationship with him per say, but he did once jump on Glauca’s shoulders and had the General carry him around for like, an hour, until Glauca went and literally threw Jean at Ardyn.

Jean and Ravus…actually have something bordering on friendship. They grew up together for a bit there and Jean was one of the people that actually seemed to understand what Ravus was going through. It helps that Jean mentioned his mother was from Tenebrae and they aren’t the closest friends, but they are still friends. The type that lapses into comfortable silences and give advice that the other doesnt want to hear but needs to hear.
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oHHHH I really like that name! It’d be a good fit since Clarus’ kids all seem to have plant related names! And I like the idea of them being a doctor too!
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xDD

Tbf Sanzo was very dutiful at the temple, did all of his paperwork, only ever shot at people instead of actually shooting them. Everyone survived his time there, just…with significantly less bullshit than there might have otherwise been, and a lot of Goku terrorizing the gardeners.
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oHHHH I really like that name! It’d be a good fit since Clarus’ kids all seem to have plant related names! And I like the idea of them being a doctor too!
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stoneandbloodandwater:

fromchaostocosmos:

fromchaostocosmos:

cutecreative:

hymnsofheresy:

hachama:

hymnsofheresy:

ravenclaw-burning:

hymnsofheresy:

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

um woah

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

In Ladino

Yeah, I wonder why the verses that reference specific Jewish mystical and chassidic concepts that aren’t readily understood by American “I love Jews, you know, Jesus was Jewish!” Christians never get any airtime. Funny that.

You say I took the name in vainI don’t even know the nameBut if I did, well really, what’s it to you?There’s a blaze of lightIn every wordIt doesn’t matter which you heardThe holy or the broken Hallelujah

These are specifically about Chassidic Jewish theories of the holy language, how each letter and combination of letters in Hebrew contains the essence of the divine spark and if used correctly, can unlock or uncover the divine spark in the mundane material word. And of course, there are secret names of God which, when spoken by any ordinary human would kill them, but if you are worthy and holy and righteous can be used to perform miracles or even to behold the glory of God face-to-face. The words themselves have power. Orthodox Jews often won’t even pronounce the word “hallelujah” in it’s entirety in conversation, because the “yah” sound at the end is a True Name of God (there are hundreds, supposedly) and thus too holy to say outside of prayer.

None of this is to mention how David’s sin in sleeping with Batshevah (the subject of much of the song, with a brief deviation to Shimshon and Delilah) is considered the turning point in the Tanach that ultimately dooms the Davidic line at the cosmological level and thus dooms Jewish sovereignty and independence altogether. From a Christian perspective this led to Jesus, the King of Kings, and that’s all very well and good for them, but for the Jews, the Davidic line never returned and is the central tragedy of the total arc of the Torah. Like, our Bible doesn’t have a happy ending? And that’s what this song is about? There’s no Grace - you just have to sit with the sin and its consequence.

Of course, Cohen is referencing all of this ironically, and personalizing these very high-level religious concepts. Like the point of this song is that Cohen, the songwriter, is identifying with David, the psalmist, and identifying his own sins with David’s. The ache that you hear in this song is that the two thousand year exile that resulted from one wrong night of passion and Cohen feels that the pain he has caused to his lover is of equally monumental infamy. Basically, in a certain light, the whole of Psalms is a vain effort for David to atone for his sin and I think Cohen was writing this song in wonderment that David could eternally praise the God who would not forgive him and would force him and his people into exile. But he ultimately gets how you have to surrender to the inexorable force of God in the face of your own inadequacies and how to surrender is to worship and to worship is to praise - hence, Hallelujah. You can either do the right thing and worship God from the start, or you can fuck up, be punished, and thus be forced to beg for His forgiveness. It’s the terrible inevitability of praise that’s driving him mad.

Like honestly, I identify with this song so strongly as an off-the-derech Jew, I sometimes wonder what Christians can possibly hear in this song, as it speaks so specifically to the sadomasochistic relationship that a lapsed Jew has with their God. It’s such a different song from a Christian theological perspective it’s almost unrecognizable, man. This song continues to be a wonder of postmodern Jewish theology and sexuality from start to finish. Don’t let anyone give you any “Judeo-Christian” narishkeit. This is a Jewish song.

(Sorry about the wild tangent it’s just 2AM and I love this song so dang much, you guys.)

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Totally a Nike song.
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*preens* thank you, nonny! That’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said about me!
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— say your prayers now || m.a.w

#legit though this gifset perfectly sums up why she’s my fave #she’s such an unusual character #she’s definitely one of the ‘good guys’ #but she’s also unapologetically ambitious #utterly ruthless #uncompromising#never pointlessly cruel but 100% willing to hurt and kill people to achieve her ends #but she’s also incredibly loyal and fair to the men under her command and has their absolute trust and respect #and she would give her life to protect the innocent people of her country without a second thought #she’s a very complicated character who *seems* very simple at first glance #she’s a good person…but she’s not a nice person #at all (via enigmaticagentalice)

@sparklecryptid Aeon?
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HE IS STILL at LARGE!!!

🚨🚨🚨BOOST!!!🚨🚨🚨

RIP BABY GIRL 😢

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-closes-MacArthur-Station-in-Oakland-after-2-13096466.php
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sparklecryptid:

snappysprinkledog replied to your post: “Reveal where Ace gathers up a car of his relatives (that he knows…”:

Also, bonus if they’ve all crammed themselves into ardyns car which one of them who was based in nifilhiem (idk maybe Regis fucked a nif spy one time) stole and drove all the way around to pick up their siblings for the road trip after ace suggested it

Cor: Is that the Chancellors car.

Ace: *staring at Jupiter* Yes.

Clarus: How-

Ace: I’m sure Jupiter would love to tell you all about how she stole the Chancellor’s car and drove it to pick us all up.

Regis:….Is that true?

Jupiter looks sheepish but nods. Regis tries and fails not to smile.

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Ardyn would be upset, but obviously his niblings have shown Great Good Taste in nabbing the Pimpmobile as their preferred mode of transport.
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tywinlcnnister:

@billdelacour made me choose: brooklyn nine-nine or biblical mythology

the four horsemen of the apocalypse:
death · famine · pestilence
· war

insp.
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The Fuck No test part 2.0 will be done by the end of the day, and I will be free! First guilt-free more-then-a-day-long rest period in months! Just - got to get through today.
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