Jaffa City has Beautiful Views

No, Edwin did not make the Spring Bonnie and Fredbear we know of. In the game files they are labeled as PROTOTYPES. Edwin says in an email that they'll be done soon, but when we see them, they're not even close to being done. And since they're still at the factory, William and Henry never got them. Edwin also says in that same email that the springlocks he made are resistant to water. But we know in game that William died via the springlock suit getting wet. So they clearly weren't using Edwin's designs.

What the gods say or do on the rare occasions they can be asked about something

Official church doctrine

Backstage church doctrine

What followers of the church actually believe

What secular authorities report about those same events

What forms of worship are allowed or encouraged

All of the above, repeated for each individual god, pantheon, splinter faction of heretics, cult of personality, cult of personality(minor demon edition), alternate form because of ancient enmity between those who worship the Volcano God and live on the north face vs those who worship the Volcano God and live on the south face, and people worshipping based on the poorly-translated Ancient Wisdom of the Cuniform Shopping List

Given all that, you can easily imagine how someone could know the gods are real and yet have some...odd...beliefs compared to the rest of their hamlet. Relationships with religion your character can have, a short list:

Major holidays only worshipper. Yes the gods exist and influence the world, so you show up to church because you're supposed to, but the absolute minimum times required because you usually have stuff to do on the rest day.

Anti-theist. The gods are real, they have measurable influence on the world, and they're also assholes who don't deserve worship. This is where your Reddit teen character ends up. Whether they have a point or not is up to you.

Believer in the gods but not the Church. Blessed X is real but the guy speaking in front of the crowd each week is just some dude and probably a politics-focused jerk. Again, whether the character has a point, and/or why the gods allow this to happen, is up to you.

Devout true believer. Fairly obvious, but you can have a lot of fun with taking this char and putting them in Situations, especially ones where their faith is pointing them in 3 different directions depending on what part of the Church matters most to them.

Person who thinks the Church has it wrong. ALSO a place for Reddit Teens. They've read the holy books, and the secular books, and the banned ravings of the Prophet Loony Lynne, and they're pretty sure the Church is full of it and the gods actually require X.

Member of a niche cult who is seeking converts

Member of a niche cult who is pretending to be ostentatiously devout so the church doesn't murder them

Member of a niche cult, running away

Non-worshipping quasi-believer. Think the average person's relationship with the Theory of Relativity, or an ancient Roman peasant who lived a continent away from the Roman Emperor. Yes, sure, their teachers taught them about the gods, and they believed the teachers, but also they have work to do and it's not like the gods are going to be showing up here affecting the stew so who cares?

Non-believer. The D&D equivalent of a flat-earther.

Formerly devout lapsed member. They used to be 100% down with the god AND the church, and then something happened, and now they refuse to acknowledge either without cursing.

Person with beliefs so odd no one can figure out if they're heresy or not. Blessed X is real, and the god of agriculture, and thus bans the eating of fish because fish aren't farmed, and will speak sometimes if you are on the brink of death so it's righteous to have your wife choke you every night until you lose consciousness in case Blessed X wants to talk to you.

Person who learned about the faith at age 5 and never updated any of their understanding of anything. Incredibly devout, but to a version of the faith that isn't actually practiced anywhere.

Person who acknowledges the gods are real, but refuses to worship because why would you worship some rando mage that happens to be powerful?

For the purposes of this analogy the child is shit at colouring in, because I only wanted to give the general idea.

So, we can all agree that the child who draws a house probably isn't trying to communicate anything in particular other than “look at this cool house I drew”, right?

Cool.

So… Why is it seemingly in the middle of nowhere, when most children live in houses with neighbours?

Why is the main body a square and the roof a solid triangle when that doesn't look like any house that has ever been built anywhere?

Why does it have a wood-burning stove with smoke actively coming out of the chimney, even though the sun indicates warm weather?

Why is the sun smiling? Why is it yellow?

Answer: because the child has seen picture books, and films, and the drawings of other children, and has on some level absorbed that this is what a house is meant to look like.

Face to face, the child almost certainly wouldn't know where to begin communicating “yellow is a colour culturally associated with happiness and warmth, and two dots accompanied by a curved line symbolically represent a smiling human face, so I have combined these attributes with the sun to convey that it is a very warm and pleasant day”.

Or “historically most houses in my country used fire for heat and cooking, and even though this is no longer the case for the majority of households, most media portrayals of houses are inspired by other, older, media portrayals and therefore include the chimney. I have chosen to follow this trend.”

Or even, “I have poor motor control because of my age, and large, 2 dimensional shapes are easier to draw than anything involving detail and perspective”.

Yet this is all information that you can pick up from detailed study of the house drawing.

Ultimately, it's not about what the writer intended. That's what the whole death of the author thing means.

This is the album that includes "Life on Mars?", which many people consider to be some pretty cutting commentary on Marxism and capitalism.

Their work is about flora and fauna is a mix of bone motifs, animal shapes and natural flora intertwining to create one beast that symbolises the land

And when I pointed out that it seemed to me like a commentary on how the ecosystem works and every part is reliant on another and how life and death are two sides of the same coin they didn't go "no I was just doing surface level nature is cool" they went "oh yeah! I can see it now!"

And I've had that experience as well

Our ancient ancestors likely didn't intend anything significant in their cave paintings or outlines of their hand, but beyond the immense anthropological value of the paintings, letting us know about the world they lived in a millenia later, those drawings have gained a much deeper meaning, about how art is an inherent part of humanity, and how the creation of art is the way you can place your stamp upon the world and say "I'm here."

You may not consciously know what the songs or poems or stories you write were meant to mean because you were high, but there's always a part of you that does, your subconscious that is constantly silently taking in everything about the world around you and how you truly feel about it, and that's the part that wakes up and creates while you create something, even if you don't realize it.

Hi! So Anna's were both stories posted to TikTok, so idk how to go about finding those

MICO's video with Jorge in the background is here

help this frame is killing me awubfawu

jorge, when I catch you-

buying him time

Live Telemachus reaction