#the pilgrim’s progress

[the-dead-of-wiinter]

yoinked. beatrice will be having None of her friend’s self-deprecating anxiety. hush, fool.

Pilgrim Beast Wirt is from The Pilgrim’s Progress by @antares-8

[pikolswonderland]

Congrats to Scott for finally making his second movie ever.

[antares-8]

hello! i recently finished rereading the pilgrim's progress and honestly, it's some of (if not the) best beast!wirt fic i've ever read! there's a lot of stuff that i've realized makes it so good, especially after giving it more than one read through.

first of all, beatrice's characterization throughout the whole series is AMAZING and feels really accurate to the show. she's angry and almost always ready and willing to punch a man, but that's only part of her character. like, i've seen a decent bit of otgw fic where she just gets reduced down to "the angry one" but in tpp, her other emotions get the spotlight too sometimes and it makes her feels so real and human. she's determined and stubborn and willing to go to the ends of the earth for the people she cares about and you can really feel it!! she's her own person with her own stuff to deal with and it makes her so interesting in this series. i think she's possibly my favorite character.

(also, in writing that paragraph about beatrice i realized that tpp, or at least the arc with the witches, has a lot to do with grief and anger. this is more of a half-formed thought, but the way they're fairly consistent elements throughout and fit in perfectly with its other themes. i'm not exactly sure what else to say about this since i haven't put much thought into it until just now, but it's definitely something i like about it, although it's more of a personal preference.)

characters in general are one of tpp's strong suits, i think! the ocs created for this series are amazing without detracting from the main cast. felicity sticks out to me in particular, likely because we get to see things from her perspective. her motives manage to be understandable without detracting from the sense that she's in the wrong. also, shoutout to peg-leg polly, whose character description is amazingly evocative, as well as literally everything else about her. 10/10, no notes.

i think something else tpp does amazingly is all the "side" stuff. not "side" as in, like, subplots (this is all pretty much main plot, which is part of why it's so great), but as in "not the first thing you think of when you think of a beast!wirt au." "weren't you someone's son" is possibly the best example of this. we get to see how wirt's family is affected personally, something that's so often ignored. and it's a *whole main plot thing*--they never get fully shoved off to the side. the same goes with the unknown's reactions to wirt as the "new beast"--it's not glossed over. in fact, it's one the things the story is based around. tpp is BUILT around the stuff that's not immediately obvious, and it really makes it stand out in the best way possible.

and somewhat relatedly, wirt's character arc, about CHOOSING to stay in the unknown, is so good! it takes 30 works and tens of thousands of words until he fully admits it to himself but the payoff is so, so worth it. the line at the end of "to wind thy soul" where wirt says he *wants* to stay is built up so beautifully. it's another one of those things that makes tpp so unique and amazing.

and last, but definitely not least, is the WORLDBUILDING. there's a lot to say about it, but i love your version of the unknown!! it feels so real and alive, and the people in it do too. it really manages to capture the feeling of the original show--there's darkness, but it's not ALL sad times and eldritch horror, and some things are even a bit silly. and the way the unknown keeps on feeling mysterious even as we learn more and more about it is impressive. the fact that some things are mentioned but never expanded upon (like the beast-cult or the wars against nature) is far from a flaw here--they make the unknown feel like a real place, and help keep up the sense of mystery, magic, and a long history by sounding so interesting while being left mostly up-in-the-air. and the idea of using edelwood to cleanse corruption is also so good. like, if i force myself to look at it from a doylist perspective, i can say that it might exist to avoid a moral quandary which would seriously hurt everything that tpp is trying to say (although honestly, i don't think that it's a bad thing if that's the case; i love worldbuilding but making sure it plays nice with story and message is important, often moreso than making it feel "good"), but i have to force myself to think like that. while reading, it's foreshadowed well and feels so natural that i sometimes forget it was created for this series. and that's just one part of the worldbuilding! so much of this version of the unknown feels so in line with everything the show gives us, and there's so much attention to detail. it's so fantastic and i love it!!

also, a couple small details i noticed (and are appreciated):

in "all that was lost," enoch says that he can tell beatrice + greg where wirt is if they stay the night, and in "wish i was a shadow" it's mentioned that enoch vists the queen of the clouds a lot. did. did enoch ask the queen of the clouds where wirt was for beatrice and greg?

in "only one thing" greg mentions that he's sure that the cloak wirt gave him is enchanted, and in "gone to the tree" wirt mentions that he'd only tried to imbue something with his protection once before. did wirt enchant greg's cloak?? if so that's ADORABLE. wirt really loves greg huh?

anyway, yeah, the pilgrim's progress is amazing!! i didn't realize that i had this much to say about it, but it honestly deserves all the praise i can throw at it. there are some other small things that i love, but this is getting pretty long as it is. i can't wait for the next update, and i hope that you're doing well!! <3

First off, thank you for making my day! (And hopefully inspiring me finally finish the next installment. One can hope, right?) I always love to hear from readers, especially readers who enjoy my work.

Beatrice is a lot of fun to write. She accepts no nonsense (except when she doles it out to get something), her first impulse is violence, and she's fiercely loyal to all those she loves. Plus, some of her reactions to Wirt are just hilarious. She knows enough to realize how weird--or perhaps extraordinary--he really is.

I wanted to say something about how family was important in the show (the bluebirds, the brothers), but the truth is that I really like outsider POV and the parents gave me a good opportunity to play with that. That can remain our secret.

Sometimes, I feel like this entire series is just one big exercise in worldbuilding. Because the Beast is so well-known (and feared), I have to think about how the new Beast interacts with the world in general and how the world's reactions reflect back onto the character. That being said, I've still got a few headcanons that I'd like to explore.

Both of your theories regarding small details are correct. Enoch asked the Queen of the Clouds where to find Wirt waaaay back in the beginning, and Wirt added a few enchantments to the cloak before giving it to Greg. The enchantments... well, let's just say that no one will ever try to bully Greg while he's wearing it.

Unfortunately, I can't say for certain when the next update will be out. The next one is a new arc (or maybe it will be the one after that, because I've got another WIP that could become part 31 instead), so I've been obsessively tweaking it to get everything set up correctly.

As Wirt says to the people who try to drive him out of their town with torches and pitchforks, have a nice day!

[wellconstructedsentences]

With that Christian brake out with a loud voice: Oh, I see him again! and he tells me, ‘When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.

Then they both took courage, and the enemy was after that as still as a stone, until they were gone over. Christian therefore presently found ground to stand upon; and so it followed that the rest of the river was but shallow. Thus they got over.

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

[bunnyjoyce-blog]

One of these days, I want to do a VT retelling of The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Quite a number of the veggies already fit with some of the roles.

Larry as Christian

Petunia as Christiana

Bob as Faithful

Possibly Archibald as Hopeful

Mr. Nezzer or Pa Grape as Evangelist

Jimmy & Jerry as Obstinate & Pliable

Grandpa George as the Porter

Goliath as Giant Despair

It practically writes itself.

[matchanxious]

i think about how my dad put up a movie on youtube thinking it was one of those 3d chinese animated movies, but what he unknowingly put up was one of those bad 3d christian movies 😭 😭

the funny part is that my siblings and i stayed to watch the whole thing

[elgallinero]

Practice English

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[detroitlib]

From our stacks: "Christian meets Apollyon; an engraving of an illustration by W M Craig in a nineteenth-century edition of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

From the book, Demons: Visions of Evil in Art. Laura Ward and Will Steeds. London: Carlton Books Limited, 2007.

[fuzziiwuzzii]

I binged Scott Pilgrim Takes Off here's Matthew Patel as a sexy vampire

[xovera-toz]

This is my tribute to @antares-8 's work, The Pilgrim's Progress,

AKA how I imagine His Skittishness.

Sometimes the colours got inverted because... traditional art... but I tried to stay true to descriptions

[pespillo]

i wanna make you mine

told you a thousand times, youre my valentine

[the-dead-of-wiinter]

so i watched Over The Garden Wall for the first time recently, then proceeded to binge read all 130k words or @antares-8 ‘s The Pilgrim’s Progress series in the span of one day.

the fixation has not stopped since. my brain is rotting into edelwood. my thoughts are of nothing but this dorky cryptid creature and all the trials that befall him. i have a midterm in less than three days. the art brain says it’s friendly beast-wirt time. i am winning. i am losing.

go read The Pilgrim’s Progress. do it now. i implore you

[ghostiehooves]

First time using flipaclip, not too bad !!

I actually heard this song on Just Dance and my first thoughts went straight to Gideon’s toxic ass !! But yeah, I wanna try to finish this!! >:’0

The song is “Like I would” by Zayn !!

[antares-8]

Fanart. I imagined it as a mosaic made by the Sea Wardens in the future, depicting Eel Wirt being led to them by Khady and Coumba. I forgot how human your version of Mermaids are so I just kinda made them fishy things with blue/green skin, no hair, and fins for ears. Sorry if you described them having, idk, some kinda haircut or something. I forgot it if you did.

Hope you enjoy!

This is absolutely gorgeous. I love it!

I pictured my mermaids as looking more human, but it's a mosaic. Art. Maybe merfolk have a complicated system of skin color symbolism that adds layer upon layer of meaning to this amazing mosaic.

Thank you so much.

[thefugitivesaint]

Gertrude Demain Hammond (1862-1952), ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', 1916 Source

[invisiblewille]

Zephaniah: What a Ruin He Has Become

“Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from” - Walt Whitman

Thank you infinitely to @glassdollls my truly wonderful beta reader 🤍 (thanks for being willing to listen to a screen reader say cock over and over for several hours)

Kinda can’t believe this is the last chapter before the epilogue wtf actually

I hope you all enjoy!!!