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i love you professionally published books that started out as fanfiction
#I HAVE SO MANY EXAMPLES#heartstopper was a modern merthur au#the love hypothesis was reylo#and the mortal instruments was…. draco/ginny….#paradise lost….#fangirl by rainbow rowell (and carry on) was clearly drarry#fifty shades of grey lmao#talk tag
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post-graduation trip airport looks
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#yuji itadori#megumi fushiguro#fushiguro megumi#nobara kugisaki#itafushikugi#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#jujutsu kaisen fanart#these took ages but fr once i am choosing to forgive myself given th fact tht i was coming out of A State when i drew them#im normal now dw drawing the first years wearing merch of my comfort content fixed me#when in doubt play dress up. life hack#i am holding fast 2 my hc tht megumi is a fiend @ indie platformers and is a household name on the celeste speedrun leaderboards#argue with a wall this is my jujutsu kaisen#megumi designated Drink Runner also#alr in line at a cafe texts their gc 'what do you guys want' n gets mad @ nobara fr making him go to a Second shop 2 get her bubble tea#anyway theres not much 2 say abt these just bc i needed sth Light n Easy 2 get me out of my head#no lore to fashion pieces which is both a blessing and a curse but it Is what i needed#nobara serving looks fr a flight i love u so much. it's probably 8 in the morning n she is in a fully coordinated fit#its so criminal tht we don't have more alt hairstyle official art fr her???? iirc it's Just the lost in paradise mv with her in buns no????#robbed. i am fixing it immediately.#wonder where the 3 of them wld go on a trip
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Let's get into the shower together... :)
#couple#intimate#intimacy#touch#romantic#desire#kissing#kiss#romance#damn hot#so hot 🔥🔥🔥#i need you#need this#want#me n who#need need need#me and who#you and me#eroticlover#tongue kissing#kissing him#kisses#omg#couple goals#so damn sexy#sweet kisses#bathroom#lost in paradise#craving intimacy#passion
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even if I came to love humanity in the end, there’s no proof I was ever here, right?
#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#kim dokja#yoo joonghyuk#my art#slow downer lyrics..i am applying them to dokja#please..i cant put the entire song lyrics but my god#'i called out an incoherent name in this new old world'#'i loiter in paradise the hope i was accustomed to blocked off my path of retreat'#literally agonised me#maybe this doesnt even make sense#the yjhs standing on the subway yellow lines overlooking the edge#but i kinda lost the plot here#its ok#havent even finished orv yet but whenever i think about the very concept of dokja i lowkey kms in my head for 80000 years#also 52hz's 'a dreamless sleep'#i guess just the sense of being untethered to the world with just this one thing keeping you still here#hits me hard#wait i linked the original slow downer version but obviously (see username) the niigo one is leagues better
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Get this wet rat man OUT of my brainfolds, plEAse
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John Martin (1789-1854) - Pandemonium, 1841
#john martin#paradise lost#pandemonium#john milton#19th century#victorian gothic#biblical horrors#satan#demons#hell#inferno#religious art#art#painting
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In Praise of the Stygian. The twisted world of Lilith de Luna. As darkness settles in, ask yourself: Do you run from it, or do you hide?
#goth#metal#gustave dore#hell#satan#satanic#dark aesthetic#darkness#macabre#horror#gothic#goth aesthetic#literature#paradise lost#milton#john milton#inferno#lucifer#lucifer morningstar#hail satan
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Ah yes, my favourite Bible fanfics, in no particular order
"Paradise Lost", John Milton
"Divine Comedy", Dante Alighieri
"Good Omens", Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
#fanfiction#fanfic#fanfic recommendation#Bible#go#good omens#neil gaiman#terry pratchett#divine comedy#dante alighieri#paradise lost#john milton
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Chaos watches as the Rebel Angels are thrown into Hell (Milton's Paradise Lost)
by Gustave Doré
#gustave doré#art#paradise lost#john milton#chaos#fallen angel#fallen angels#war#battle#heaven#paradise#hell#lucifer#satan#angel#angels#demons#christianity#christian#religion#religious art#crown#sceptre#fall#fallen#rebellion#armour#shield#bible#biblical
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HOW TO END THE CYCLE
#error 143#john doe#obey me#the arcana#otome game#dating sim#blooming panic#paradise lost#mushroom oasis#what else am i supposed too do in my free time?!?#visual novel#romance visual novel#the kid at the back vn#seekl vn#seekl
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Lost Souls Paradise | Instagram
#lost souls paradise#exploring#get lost#nature#paradise#mountain#landscape#lost souls#explore#adventure#snow#mountain range#lake#reflection
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Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (Hisayasu Satô, 1988)
#kiyomi itō#survey map of a paradise lost#ハードフォーカス 盗聴<ぬすみぎき>#hisayasu satô#caps#atp i start cheering when she shows up in his movies
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Random demon: Best king to choose as your child's father.
MC: ...
MC: Mammon.
The other kings: ...
WHB Mammon: *smirks*
Bimet: Of course. I mean, who would be better than His Majesty Mammon?
Foras: His Majesty Leviathan!
MC: Nope. My child will just get insecure about themselves.
Sitri: How about His Majesty Satan, Solomon?
MC: He's my second best option, but I can't be angry always.
Bael: ...
Bael: Yeah. His Majesty Beelzebub will be an absent father.
Amon: *frowns in disagreement*
Gamigin: H-How about His Majesty Lucifer?
MC: ...
MC: Does he even like me to begin with?
The demons of Paradise Lost: Yes.
WHB Lucifer: ...
MC: ...
MC: Okay. He can be the third on my list.
Bimet: His Majesty Mammon should be the only one in your list, human!
WHB Mammon: What my master wants, my master gets.
#what in hell is bad#whb mc#whb mammon#whb kings#whb bael#whb bimet#whb sitri#whb gamigin#whb paradise lost#whb lucifer#whb amon#whb foras
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when im mad i chew on this photo of postal dude
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"I think Homer outwits most writers who have written on the War [fantasy archetype], by not taking sides.
The Trojan war is not and you cannot make it be the War of Good vs. Evil. It’s just a war, a wasteful, useless, needless, stupid, protracted, cruel mess full of individual acts of courage, cowardice, nobility, betrayal, limb-hacking-off, and disembowelment. Homer was a Greek and might have been partial to the Greek side, but he had a sense of justice or balance that seems characteristically Greek — maybe his people learned a good deal of it from him? His impartiality is far from dispassionate; the story is a torrent of passionate actions, generous, despicable, magnificent, trivial. But it is unprejudiced. It isn’t Satan vs. Angels. It isn’t Holy Warriors vs. Infidels. It isn’t hobbits vs. orcs. It’s just people vs. people.
Of course you can take sides, and almost everybody does. I try not to, but it’s no use; I just like the Trojans better than the Greeks. But Homer truly doesn’t take sides, and so he permits the story to be tragic. By tragedy, mind and soul are grieved, enlarged, and exalted.
Whether war itself can rise to tragedy, can enlarge and exalt the soul, I leave to those who have been more immediately part of a war than I have. I think some believe that it can, and might say that the opportunity for heroism and tragedy justifies war. I don’t know; all I know is what a poem about a war can do. In any case, war is something human beings do and show no signs of stopping doing, and so it may be less important to condemn it or to justify it than to be able to perceive it as tragic.
But once you take sides, you have lost that ability.
Is it our dominant religion that makes us want war to be between the good guys and the bad guys?
In the War of Good vs. Evil there can be divine or supernal justice but not human tragedy. It is by definition, technically, comic (as in The Divine Comedy): the good guys win. It has a happy ending. If the bad guys beat the good guys, unhappy ending, that’s mere reversal, flip side of the same coin. The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.
Milton, a Christian, had to take sides, and couldn’t avoid comedy. He could approach tragedy only by making Evil, in the person of Lucifer, grand, heroic, and even sympathetic — which is faking it. He faked it very well.
Maybe it’s not only Christian habits of thought but the difficulty we all have in growing up that makes us insist justice must favor the good.
After all, 'Let the best man win' doesn’t mean the good man will win. It means, 'This will be a fair fight, no prejudice, no interference — so the best fighter will win it.' If the treacherous bully fairly defeats the nice guy, the treacherous bully is declared champion. This is justice. But it’s the kind of justice that children can’t bear. They rage against it. It’s not fair!
But if children never learn to bear it, they can’t go on to learn that a victory or a defeat in battle, or in any competition other than a purely moral one (whatever that might be), has nothing to do with who is morally better.
Might does not make right — right?
Therefore right does not make might. Right?
But we want it to. 'My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.'
If we insist that in the real world the ultimate victor must be the good guy, we’ve sacrificed right to might. (That’s what History does after most wars, when it applauds the victors for their superior virtue as well as their superior firepower.) If we falsify the terms of the competition, handicapping it, so that the good guys may lose the battle but always win the war, we’ve left the real world, we’re in fantasy land — wishful thinking country.
Homer didn’t do wishful thinking.
Homer’s Achilles is a disobedient officer, a sulky, self-pitying teenager who gets his nose out of joint and won’t fight for his own side. A sign that Achilles might grow up someday, if given time, is his love for his friend Patroclus. But his big snit is over a girl he was given to rape but has to give back to his superior officer, which to me rather dims the love story. To me Achilles is not a good guy. But he is a good warrior, a great fighter — even better than the Trojan prime warrior, Hector. Hector is a good guy on any terms — kind husband, kind father, responsible on all counts — a mensch. But right does not make might. Achilles kills him.
The famous Helen plays a quite small part in The Iliad. Because I know that she’ll come through the whole war with not a hair in her blond blow-dry out of place, I see her as opportunistic, immoral, emotionally about as deep as a cookie sheet. But if I believed that the good guys win, that the reward goes to the virtuous, I’d have to see her as an innocent beauty wronged by Fate and saved by the Greeks.
And people do see her that way. Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.
I don’t know if such nobility of mind (in the sense of the impartial 'noble' gases) is possible to a modern writer of fantasy. Since we have worked so hard to separate History from Fiction, our fantasies are dire warnings, or mere nightmares, or else they are wish fulfillments."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, from No Time to Spare, 2013.
#ursula k. le guin#homer#quote#quotations#the iliad#trojan war#storytelling#fantasy#fiction writing#war#conflict#tragedy#john milton#paradise lost#greek mythology
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