Dante And Tadeo From Angels 3

Saint Malthus | Our Lady of Sorrows

Hilda Furacão (1998)

Oarfish

claudeleine thru the eras

Ojos de guerko / Eyes that see all

I'd like to ask you how you started shipping Lucifer x Michael and what inspired you to finally write a book about it! I'm sure you have some kind of origin story behind it 😂 Just like how you thought of pairing Samyazza and Azazel, I swear that until I read A&M, I had no idea about Samyazza and the other Watchers. It was a surprise for me to look it up out of curiosity and discover that they're actual names mentioned...

I actually went into detail on why I paired Lucifer with Michael in the special birthday edition of ABM (in a long introductory note). I've also talked about it here, but I'm not really sure where that ask is.

The (reiterated) answer is that I thought it was interesting that a lot of people I knew in real life had the idea that they would have been friends once; I'm talking about my religious family and friends here. It's interesting because there's no scriptural evidence for it, and there's no... religious tradition of Michael and Lucifer being friends. The idea that they're brothers (as in, blood brothers) spawned from this (unfounded) idea everyone seems to have, I think.

There's this part in ABM where Rosier says that Michael and Lucifer loving each other "just makes sense" and yeah, it does. Outside of any ABM context, it just makes for a really compelling tragedy to all the statues of Michael casting Lucifer down that we see everywhere. It explains why Michael never looks happy in those statues, that's for sure. They're all so melancholic. You don't need to read ABM to get that feeling either.

In terms of actual biblical evidence, there is none, but I was really fascinated by the fact that Michael only ever speaks once in the Bible, despite his 4 billion appearances, and it's at Satan (in Jude 9). It comes as a memory though. Jude basically says, "Do you remember when Michael fought with Satan over Moses' body and said that God rebukes him?" The fact that it's a memory with little context and that Michael wouldn't condemn Satan with his own heart made me... think a lot.

Michael's name means "Who is like God?" also. It's meant to be a rhetorical question. Well, who do we know who'd want to answer it anyway? Who do we know that would try to become one with that question? (Kiss it, fuck it). The devil, obviously. And it just makes sense. Michael, the sword of God, the chief prince of Heaven. Of course Satan loves him. And why wouldn't Michael love God's most beautiful and favorite angel back?

together forever :)

what if we were little bugs holding hands encased in amber forever and ever :))))

prints available here :p

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot saying that heaven and hell are a state of mind and nothing can obstruct you from salvation and the love of God except your own guilt. And despair being such a dooming force that even if Jesus were to appear in front of you himself and repeatedly remind you how much he loves you, hell, he'll try to hug you and wash your feet even, you can't be let free from the prison of suffering that you've confined yourself in. All because you're so disappointed in yourself that you're gripping the bars refusing to let go. How you cannot love God without first forgiving yourself. How the ultimate tragedy in this poignant dark comedy of a play is that Judas' damnation comes not from the fact that he betrayed Jesus, but from his self-disdain and perceived unworthiness that he basically condemned himself into an eternity of solitary anguish. I can go on about this play forever and ever. Do you get it.

There's just something about the dads in Mike Flanagan's works that fuck me up. None of them are perfect but they're all trying their best and love their kids so damn much. The horror of knowing the world is gonna eat your kids alive no matter what you do. The tragedy of never knowing just how much your dad loved you until it's too late. I just-

oh I see. it was the crime of wanting. that's why I deserve it.

I need everyone to understand about the fremen.

They do not cry. Ever.

To give water to the dead is the most sacred honor that anyone could give but they rarely and never do that because it's ingrained in them to not waste water from birth. A single tear could mean life and death for them. To give water to the living? Unheard of.

Paul crying over killing Jamis in the book was a moment that astonished the fremen around him. Jessica ponders their reactions and knows that this is a holy moment.

Jessica then forcing Chani to cry for Paul(this was not in the book btw but I love it) is the ultimate betrayal of her autonomy. To force her to give what is essentially a piece of her life to him without her consent is sacrilegious and she knows it.

Water of Life indeed.