-I will be good. I will be good. I will be good. I will keep Seraph hidden, locked up in my chest, whatever it takes to make sure the Angels never get the weapon they made of me.-
There’s something in the way anger is treated in Hell Followed With Us. Because Benji is angry, and it is righteous. He is never expected to pack up his anger and calm down, he is allowed to feel and act on his rage, even when self destructive, in a way so many queer people wish they could. His anger is not a flaw, it is his power.
It goes against everything the church tells us about anger. We should “turn the other cheek” and take it, to accept the hollow satisfaction of being the “better person” when faced with people who would see us dead in the street. It is evil, it is weakness, it is sin. They want to take away our anger, our rage, our wrath, because they know what we can do with it, and that scares them.
Benji and Seraph are for all of us who want to scream in the face of bigots,
we will not lay down and die
Because Seraph is queer rage incarnate, and it is glorious
thinking about nick and benji after everything…. some nights when nick is asleep and benji just can’t drift off he reaches out to the little bit of flood inside nick like it’s a pet cat, like hi sweetheart, you’re so pretty, yes you are, you’re so cute until nick has to reach over and bat at benji and mumble “i can feel that, asshole, go the fuck to sleep”
trying to reupload this PART 2
i mostly live on Instagram but thought i'd share my hfwu + tsbit fanart onto tumblr as well
(I'm insane about this book)