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Happy Hanukkah to all those Jewish peeps! ...Well it's still Hanukkah whether you celebrate it or not, so happy Hanukkah to everybody else too!

I meant to get this up in time for the first day of Hanukkah but I didn't quite finish it in time. Oh well, i got it in the window of the holiday at least. .....Also I just realized this very moment that Vya is lighting the wrong candle (I have trouble telling my left from my right) ......let's just say he doesn't know any better and Simon doesn't care enough to correct him. (also, I totally suck at buildings, I should practice more, the perspective is all off in this)

Vya's about a thousand times more interested in Simon's Jewish heritage than Simon is. He wants to know the who, what, how, and why of everything, all the holidays, all the rules of kosher, everything you're supposed to do in a temple, it drives Simon a little nuts because he hasn't bothered very much with all of that in years, not since he moved out on his own. I would say that Simon is an agnostic, but that's not really accurate. It's not so much that Simon doubts that there is a God, it's that he doesn't think about religious matters at all, he's a very "what's right in front of me right now" kind of guy, though Vya's relentless interest in it is making Simon think about it a little more, at least the cultural side. But religion is very important to Vya. He didn't have any kind of spiritual upbringing, he came to it on his own when he was around 18. On the one hand Christian doctrine confirmed what how he always felt, that being gay was shameful and something he should fight to keep down, but it was also a lifeline, and the Bible's messages of sinners being forgiven and born anew really spoke to him and gave him hope that he could change. It was a big part of what made him decide to turn his life around. Now that he's fallen in love, he struggles with what it means to be a gay Christian, whether that's possible or if the two things fundamentally oppose each other, and if he has to choose between one and the other, the love of his life or his light in darkness.

(I kind of didn't mean for this to turn into a thing about religious beliefs, it just sort of happened. (maybe it's because I'm tired, I talk a lot more when I'm tired) But I deeply relate to characters questioning and reassessing their views on their faith. I like it when a character realizes they're standing in quicksand and don't really know shit about anything)

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Happy Hanukkah to all those Jewish peeps! ...Well it's still Hanukkah whether you celebrate it or not, so happy Hanukkah to everybody else too!

I meant to get this up in time for the first day of Hanukkah but I didn't quite finish it in time. Oh well, i got it in the window of the holiday at least. .....Also I just realized this very moment that Vya is lighting the wrong candle (I have trouble telling my left from my right) ......let's just say he doesn't know any better and Simon doesn't care enough to correct him. (also, I totally suck at buildings, I should practice more, the perspective is all off in this)

Vya's about a thousand times more interested in Simon's Jewish heritage than Simon is. He wants to know the who, what, how, and why of everything, all the holidays, all the rules of kosher, everything you're supposed to do in a temple, it drives Simon a little nuts because he hasn't bothered very much with all of that in years, not since he moved out on his own. I would say that Simon is an agnostic, but that's not really accurate. It's not so much that Simon doubts that there is a God, it's that he doesn't think about religious matters at all, he's a very "what's right in front of me right now" kind of guy, though Vya's relentless interest in it is making Simon think about it a little more, at least the cultural side. But religion is very important to Vya. He didn't have any kind of spiritual upbringing, he came to it on his own when he was around 18. On the one hand Christian doctrine confirmed what how he always felt, that being gay was shameful and something he should fight to keep down, but it was also a lifeline, and the Bible's messages of sinners being forgiven and born anew really spoke to him and gave him hope that he could change. It was a big part of what made him decide to turn his life around. Now that he's fallen in love, he struggles with what it means to be a gay Christian, whether that's possible or if the two things fundamentally oppose each other, and if he has to choose between one and the other, the love of his life or his light in darkness.

(I kind of didn't mean for this to turn into a thing about religious beliefs, it just sort of happened. (maybe it's because I'm tired, I talk a lot more when I'm tired) But I deeply relate to characters questioning and reassessing their views on their faith. I like it when a character realizes they're standing in quicksand and don't really know shit about anything)