I dislike how symbols like Saint Peter cross, rosaries and other symbols have just been perverted into something they aren’t and people have redefine what the symbol actually means or just wear it because “it matches my aesthetic” it’s one of my biggest pet peeves I have.
I happen to be new to writing and I’ve been working on a fantasy story, I want my main character of the story to be cruel, nihilistic and apathetic type of character but I’m worried if I write him like that he’ll be unlikable and might pulling people away from reading the story because of how unbearable he is to follow so I’m trying to avoid that.
I’m hoping to get either advice or examples on how I can do that, Obviously he does change throughout the course of the story but I’m planning to do that a little bit later on in the story.
Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me advice I really appreciate it appreciate it
To me nowadays the Catholic Church feels likes it’s more worried about offending people than betraying god, orthodoxy is really appealing to me right now since it doesn’t feel like it’s worried about modernizing their church for the world and “accepting” people. I also enjoy going to my local Orthodox Church and seeing how beautiful it is, but the problem is the fact that I’m not sure if I should.
For one I still fully agree with papal authority and I also happen to be a thomist which to my understanding the Orthodox Church rejects its teachings I’m also not sure if my reason is good enough or not.
(Sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask this question)
Im new to writing and recently I’ve been working on a dark fantasy story and the setting happens to be based in the late 1800s in continent I based on Europe that is fresh out of large scale conflict. But I’m not sure how I should go about writing it since I want it to feel realistic, respectful and somber. One of the main reasons why I want it to be good is because it has a large effect on the two protagonist like how they act, think and feel since they were both effected by the war.
What I’m mainly asking what I should highlight and focus on while writing/describing the setting so it can be respectful and realistic at the same time. I’m also wondering how I can show the effects of the war on not just the protagonist but also the whole continent.
Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me advice or examples I very much appreciate it
Im new to writing and recently I’ve been working on a fantasy story and the setting happens to be a continent fresh out of war set in the late 1800s. But I’m not sure how I should go about writing it since I want it to feel realistic, respectful and somber yet subtle so it’s not in the readers face. One of the main reasons why I want it to be good is because it has a large effect on the two protagonist like how they act, think and feel since they were both effected by the war.
What I’m mainly asking what I should highlight and focus on while writing/describing the setting so it can be respectful and realistic at the same time. I’m also wondering how I can show the effects of the war on not just the protagonist but also the background and side characters.
I have tried some ideas but most seem too generic or not good enough.
Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me advice or examples I very much appreciate it
I don’t know where this whole “Jesus wasn’t white” came from but like yea obviously he wasn’t… it’s just a depiction we’re quite literally never gonna know how he actually looked until we die. So this whole “he actually looked like this” is useless just depict him how you want to as long as it’s respectful. Another reason I really don’t care about how he is depicted is because my girlfriend happens to have orthodox icons of him depicted as middle eastern and I treat them no differently than I would a white depiction of him.
So I happen to be new to writing and I’ve been working on a fantasy story, but I kinda ran into a problem on how I can create a fictional religion. I’ve already been taking inspiration from real life religions like Catholicism and orthodoxy since there the two religions that interest me the most and because I happen to be somewhat educated on thomist theology.(no I’m not a scholar I just like learning theology)
Im hoping to get advice on how I can do it and what it takes to make a religion in a fantasy feel somewhat real and what should I avoid while I create the religion?
Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me advice I very much appreciate it
So I happen to be new to writing and I’ve been working on a fantasy story, but I kinda ran into a problem on how I can create a fictional religion. I’ve already been taking inspiration from real life religions like Catholicism and orthodoxy since there the two religions that interest me the most and because I happen to be somewhat educated on thomist theology.
Im hoping to get advice on how I can do it and what it takes to make a religion in a fantasy feel somewhat real and what should I avoid while I create the religion?
Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me advice
Been wanting to do a deep dive on these for a while just don’t know where to start
I mean this in no disrespect to anyone but unless you believe in something like “death to the world” I can’t really see how you can claim to be something like goth or punk and catholic. Mainly because both goth and punk are historically anti authoritarian and were both made to be against church authority and most of Catholic teachings come from church and its authorities.
There’s also the fact that goth specifically historically takes a lot from paganism, occultism and often has progressive views and opinion that oppose church teachings.
But hey what do I know I’m just some random Roman Catholic guy on the internet and like the venerable Fulton sheen said “there’s always room for more hypocrites in the church”.
Not trying to sound like an intellectual but most people I’ve debated in my college debate corse can’t defend their beliefs they just go off of how they feel without providing reason, logical or facts about there position.
I mainly debate religion in the class specifically Catholic theology, history and ethics and the majority of the time my opponent just relies on appealing to the audience, straw manning me or just lying about my position. And when it’s my turn to start criticizing their position they legit can’t defend it.
Edit: I see a lot of people shitting on me for my writing which in all fairness, yea you’re right, but in my defense I’m writing this as it’s like 12 am and I’m dead tired right now.
I happen to be new to writing and I’ve been working on a fantasy and the I want my main character of the story to be a cruel and apathetic character but I’m worried if I write him like that and he is unlikable it might pulling people away from reading the story so I’m trying to avoid that.
Obviously he does change throughout the story but that’s only really until later on.
I happen to be new to writing and I decided to write a fantasy, however I’ve been struggling to try an create a fictional religion for the story I’m already taking a lot of inspiration from Catholicism and orthodox Christianity. Since I happen to be a thomist and happen to be pretty well versed on thomistic theology, history of the church and religion in general since I’ve been studying it since I was 12-13.
But I’m not sure what goes into making a fictional religion since I never done it before
Been struggling to find good books recently