#the magic system and the religious system of hellblazer are my fucking Beloved. i study them under my microscope every day | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

talentforlying · 1 year ago

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the silt verses 🤝 hellblazer: we accidentally invested this mundane concept with otherworldly power by casually creating and enacting everyday rituals in service of its potential omniscience until it learned that it possessed that power over us and acted upon it

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS.#have i talked enough about the systems of belief and godhood in hellblazer yet #the way that gods of every religion cultivate faith for their own survival and change shape when it suits them #the way that every creation myth is true in part and even though there is a Heaven and a Hell they're not the Only versions of either #and even though there are Angels and Demons there are also guardians and transitory entities and watchers of other forms #the magic system and the religious system of hellblazer are my fucking Beloved. i study them under my microscope every day #and like no wonder constantine skipped right past Existential Crisis to Fuck It All when he knows everything is at least a little bit true #and every being is more likely to be out and about somewhere than not #have to wonder if his lack of faith is (in part) just the most strategically sound theater of thought to have in that case #when faith in hellblazer counts about the same as an investment in someone's pyramid scheme #(the answer is that it is strategically sound but that's not why he doesn't have it. And Yet I Wonder)

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