#ADAM RAISED A CAIN!

[lesbiandarvey]

adam raised a cain » reese and hal malcolm in the middle

[jillflame]

I'd like to formally introduce all Dabi fans to Bruce Springsteen's "Adam Raised a Cain".

[speedwayy]

Cathy/Heathcliffe + Sam/Dean

thank you @wombesties for reminding me :]

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

you’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past

[breakmyheartwithlyrics]

Bruce Springsteen- Adam Raised a Cain

[herbalsingularitea]

Raising Cain: Eden Era

Q&A

Who is Cain?

Cain is an OC that is based on the Biblical character of Cain. He is the eldest son of Adam and Eve. In this AU, he is the biological son of Lucifer, the Devil.

Is Cain one of the Nephilim?

Yes! Cain is a Nephil, half angel and half human.

Did Cain mean to kill Abel?

No, he didn’t. Cain had no idea that he could kill Abel. Cain is half angel and so is more durable than a normal human. He’d been hit much harder than Abel had been many times before and was always fine. Cain and Adam roughhoused with each other often, so a hard hit during a disagreement wasn’t unusual. Things went too far this time, however, and Abel unfortunately bled out before Cain realized what had happened.

Was Abel the first human soul in heaven?

No, Abel didn’t go to heaven or hell when he died. When Cain struck him, he accidentally used his angelic power to smite Abel’s soul. Shattered, the soul was not able to go anywhere. Heaven stitched Abel’s soul back together and put it in a new body, that of his younger brother, Seth. When Seth died, he went to heaven, but Adam had been long dead at that point.

Did Eve cheat on Adam?

No, Eve wasn’t with Adam when Cain was conceived. Eve was in a relationship with both Lucifer and Lilith at first. It wasn’t until after she ate the apple and Lucifer and Lilith fled the garden that Eve fell in love with Adam.

Does Adam know Cain isn’t his son?

Neither Adam or Eve knew that Cain was Lucifer’s. They didn’t know how genetics worked because Cain was literally the first baby born on earth. Lucifer and Lilith had been gone for months before Eve even knew she was going to have a baby.

Where is Awan, Aclima, and all of Adam and Eve’s other children?

Awan and Aclima don’t exist in this AU. I’m not interested in Cain having a romantic partner at this time since it’s not relevant to the story I want to tell. As for the other children of Adam and Eve, they aren’t born until after Cain leaves the garden in this AU. This includes Seth. More info on Seth can be read under the section “Was Abel the first human soul in heaven?”

[darknessontheedgeoftowndyke]

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

My Fathers House [album version] 🤝 Independence Day [Live at the Roxy 1987] 🤝 The River [Live at LA Coliseum 85. the spoken intro that hits like a sledgehammer] [all yt links]

Songs by Bruce Springsteen that make me feel shrimp emotions about Fathers.

[greatgiiginthesky]

my father’s daughter

when the doves cry, prince / zach bryan on tiktok / cat’s in the cradle, harry chapin / adam raised a cain, bruce springsteen

[leonardcohenofficial]

i went straight from the record shop to the concert tonight so during my shift today i told my coworker (whom i really look up to and respect a lot she's awesome) i was going to the concert and she was super excited for me and asked me what my favorite bruce album was; i said darkness on the edge of town (which is true it is my favorite) and she said that was the correct answer which made me extremely delighted only to have my soul be crushed mere seconds later when talking about the no-skippability of the album she said she didn't like adam raised a cain

[boxedclocksandomens]

[Art: Crows in an open winter landscape by Eduard Hildebrandt, Putnik by Nasta Rojc, Twilight by Sergey A Tutunov, Evening by Maurice Pirenne, Candles by Paul Benney. Lyrics from Adam Raised a Cain by Bruce Springsteen.]

[soisaidfine]

Kleist wrote to his fiancée: "What is evil? The things of this world are intertwined and connected by a thousand threads; every action is the mother of millions of others, the worst generates the best."

Bruce Springsteen: "Adam raised a Cain" Ethel Cain: "We’re all daughters of Cain"

Stéphane Braunschweig: "In The Schroffenstein Family, there is this very important theme of the falsely accused—a Hitchcockian theme: how can one prove their innocence when everything seems to indicate their guilt? All the characters are innocent in action but as soon as they are told they could be guilty, as soon as suspicion falls on their innocence, they become terribly anxious. In Kafka's work, this issue leads to the question of responsibility. What makes one innocently guilty in Kafka's view is that one is—in the Judaic sense—responsible for the other: for Kafka, the other profoundly exists; even if living this reality is difficult, the other is there, as other. In Kleist's work, on the contrary, innocent guilt leads to a question of irresponsibility."

Anne-Françoise Benhamou: "This questioning of the notion of responsibility is at the heart of Kleist's famous 'Kantian crisis.' He wrote to his fiancée at the time:

"And what does it mean to do evil, judging by its effects? What is evil? Absolutely evil? The things of this world are intertwined and connected by a thousand threads; every action is the mother of millions of others, and often the worst generates the best. Who on this earth, tell me, has ever committed an act of pure evil—something that would be evil for all eternity?"

One almost thinks of Dostoevsky… And it’s also understandable why Nietzsche loved Kleist so much."

Stéphane Braunschweig: "It is a work constantly permeated by fantasy. And the fantasies present are very elementary; they are almost like childhood anxieties: the fantasy of destroying the other, of being destroyed by the other. Kleist constantly brings us back to archaic impulses. Whatever the complexity of the plot or situation, these primitive affects are always there; this is what is unsettling and makes us uncomfortable. And at the same time, what I love in his work is that this discomfort is accompanied by jubilation. Perhaps because at a certain point, it feels as if there is no censorship at all… as if we are, in a way, in a theater without a superego." - September 2002, Stéphane Braunschweig

"this relationship that almost always exists in human punishment, creating a situation in which there is almost never a fair sentence or a judicial error, but rather a sort of harmony between the judge's mistaken idea of an innocent act and the guilty facts they have overlooked." - Marcel Proust

[bluberimufim]

I just discovered that there's a biblical figure named Seth who has absolutely nothing to do with the Seth that I named my protagonist, Seth, after

[i-know-how-my-story-ends]

Computer. Adam Raised a Cain. Loud enough to kill.

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame

[tonightillbeonthathill]

Bruce Springsteen: 'Your music is your ideals a lot of times, and you don’t live up to those ideals all the time. You try, but you fall short and you disappoint yourself.'

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Bruce Springsteen: "You know the old saying: Trust the art, not the artist. I think that’s true. I think somebody can do real good work and be a fool in a variety of ways. I think my music is probably better than I am. I mean, like, your music is your ideals a lot of times, and you don’t live up to those ideals all the time. You try, but you fall short and you disappoint yourself."

Video: Adam Raised a Cain (Live at The Paramount Theatre 2009)