The Divine Comedy - Blog Posts
The fact that Dante created the most popular image of the afterlife with absolutely no theological basis for it will still be the funniest thing to me
NEW CHAPTER RAHHH π£π£βΌοΈβΌοΈ
Hello lovely divine comedy fandom!!! Iβm back with a new chapter. As I mention in the notes, updates will take longer this time as I have a way busier routine, but Iβll eventually get new chapter out!
Also, special thanks to the five people who commented or reblogued in the last few days. I was like wow, my ficβs been suddenly found by the algorithm. It made me want to continue writing even more <3
Chapters: 2/? Fandom: La Divina Commedia | The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Durante degli Alighieri | Dante Alighieri/Publius Vergilius Maro | Virgil Characters: Durante degli Alighieri | Dante Alighieri, Publius Vergilius Maro | Virgil, Gemma Donati, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giotto Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Slow Burn, -Ish, Denial of Feelings, Dante is a mess, Virgil just wants to live in the countryside, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, Title from a Joy Division song, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Those tags are necesary with this guys I donβt make the rules Summary:
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Modern AU! in which Dante overworks himself in a publish company until he gets an special work assignment that allows him to work with his favourite author. While admiration turns into something he cannot describe, Dante starts to realise how he had given up on everything he had ever longed for.
(I promise this is more serious than this sumary, Iβm terrible at them)
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I havenβt posted anything in this account for so long my mutuals from years ago are going to be so confused. But obsessing over the divine comedy wasnβt originally on my 2024 summer bingo card, and this came out of nowhere.
Just wanted to say that Iβm writing a Dante x Virgil modernAU! fic with lots of feels and homosexuality, so check it out if it sounds like your cup of tea!!
And I want to honour the divine comedy fandom Iβm been secretly observing this last months, I love you guys, you seem to cool, can I join.
Just gonna throw this into the void:
Odyssey Odysseus would either be aligned with the stranger or the eye, even though I'm leaning more into the stranger due to the continuous shedding of his Identity and constant deception; Ulysses from The Divine Comedy would definitely be aligned with the eye for his even bigger want for knowledge (he literally got killed by God because he went were no human could, for him humans were made to constantly try to get more knowledge ("considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza", translation: "Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to love like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.")
And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.
- Dante Alighieri,Β The Divine Comedy