I feel like The Father and Hell both understand and experience love in all the worst ways.
The Father sought to create a life form that would follow and love him unconditionally. It wasn't enough that he had a great cosmic kingdom of angels who are unquestioningly loyal, no, he needed something that knew suffering and mortality and the threat of oblivion, and would still find love at the end; love for him above all else. But after numerous implied failures at that, in his desperation, he instead created the threat of eternal damnation to force them to love him in order avert that fate. Lucifer's words must have been like a splash of cold water, but by the time he realized sheer magnitude of suffering he had unintentionally set into motion, it was too late.
He could not destroy Hell; he could not stop the cycle of violence.
That guilt drove him to seek a death that, from the looks of it, eluded him in spite of the hollowness consuming him. And now he is... somewhere, helpless to stop his experiments from consuming one another and themselves in a glorious show of blood and violence.
And then there's Hell itself, who seems to recognize love as an act of violence and cruelty. It is something that derives joy only from the suffering of other living creatures. God gave it so many toys to hurt and break and reform, and Mankind gave it new ones. Why would it understand love as anything but? It gave Minos a facsimile of the son he is most ashamed of, and delighted when he cast it, once more, into a labyrinth. Gabriel flattened all the souls within it's confines beneath his heel and gave those that did bend false hopes.
Now there's V1, tearing its way through the remaining layers and creating a spectacle of violence like nothing Hell has ever witnessed before. How could it not love them all for all the entertainment they've provided?
But deep within its recesses, hidden away from the eyes of Heaven, there was a Gutterman. A machine built for war, who eventually came to love that which it gave it life at the cost of their own. Enough to give the human welded within their coffin the mercy that both Heaven and Hell had denied them; enough to write a single love letter to them, even knowing that it would never be read by its intended recipient.
So, as things turn out, you /can/ teach a machine to love. And they will understand and experience it more sincerely than God or Hell ever could.
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“c’mon, eddie you gotta take this seriously,” you said, running your fingers through his bedraggled curls.
“babe,” he protested, flashing a smirk, “i’ve done this before, i’m kind of an expert.”
“not something to be proud of,” you mumbled under your breath, moving your hands to shrug off his denim vest.
“hey, you love dating a high schooler.” he said. “makes you feel young.”
“we’re the same age.” you deadpanned, “and this is your third senior year.”
“third times a charm, baby!” he said. “and ‘m taking it seriously this year. gonna graduate and move out of this town for good. then i’ll buy you a house and a big ass ring, too.”
you snorted. “don’t get ahead of yourself, eds.” you licked the pad of your pointer finger and began smoothing it over the flyaways sticking out through his hair. “you gotta pass history before you go fantasizing about the future.”
“not fantasizing.” he corrected. “i know what’s gonna happen: i’m gonna get the fuck out of hawkins, corroded coffin is gonna get big, and i’m gonna marry you.”
“you’re sweet.” you smiled bringing your finger down to smudge off the dried toothpaste on the side of his lip. “but you’re only allowed to propose once you’ve got a diploma, okay?”
“yeah, yeah.” he waved his hand. “‘s long as you know it’s happening.”
“i’ll be waiting.” you straightened the collar on his jacket before giving him a small peck on his cheek.
“you done dollin’ me up, doll?” he asked, walking over to his bathroom to look in the mirror.
you crept up behind him as he examined his slightly more tamed appearance. still rowdy enough to be himself, but neat enough for his portrait to be hung on the fridge.
“gonna be the best one yet.” you said, wrapping your arms around his torso. “your hair looks so good.”
“yeah?”
“yeah.” you affirmed. “sexiest it’s ever been.”
“well then,” he said, his cheeks carelessly blushing from your compliment. “guess it’s picture time.” he grabbed his keys as you handed him his lunchbox from the counter and made his way out the door.
“i can’t wait to get your senior portraits back.” you said, following him out of the trailer. “i’m gonna put a little you in my wallet and show you off to all my coworkers.”
he laughed and turned towards you, pulling you in for a deep kiss. “you’re makin’ it hard to leave again, baby.”
“not my problem.” you giggled and pushed his chest back, forcing him to stumble away from you. “don’t forget to smile big for me, ‘kay?”
“course, baby.” he said, climbing into his van and starting the engine, watching you wave him goodbye from the stairs in front of his front door.
“all for you.” he whispered.
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Thinking forever about the fond way King and Caleb call each other Magic Man and Circus Man. Tealeaf calling out for his Magician, and Caleb making the most guttingly longing and heartbroken expression, because he just missed him so much and didn't really think Molly would remember him...
Caleb referring to him as a stray he's happy to take in. Both of them calling each other good boy. Molly being someone who will drop endearments like dear and darling. Just. Thinking of how sweet and ridiculous they are whenever they're flirting, and the kind of pet names they'd use if they got together--
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btw young royals' central thesis for wille is still "the problem isn't that he likes a boy, the problem is that he's a prince" and people need to remember that
also I was going to put the rest in the tags but yknow what
yes I KNOW he can't realistically abdicate YET, but I'm saying it's the best resolution for him and not just because it would give him and simon an easier time!! if the fandom weren't so caught up in yelling about how the only happy or good ending is wilmon endgame (seperate rant that I texted avie yesterday but not the point of this post) maybe we could have a discussion about wille abdicating would be more for himself than any relationship he may or may not be in.
even if he and simon broke up the source of his problems would still lie PRIMARILY with the monarchy, and removing himself from that would be the first step to HIM recovering and healing and growing, not his relationship w simon. that's a seperate matter and seperate problem that can only be properly addressed after abdication because while he is a prince and part of a corrupted and vicious system, he cannot be a good person to himself, simon, or any of his friends and family.
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Sorry what’s up w the Ethan slater stuff? I know him only from your posts / SpongeBob stuff
HI HELLO please buckle in
yep -- the same guy from the spongebob musical, and my posts abut the spongebob musical.
he blew up completely and now the general public knows him as 'ariana grande's new boyfriend' - their relationship seems to have started off the back of co-starring in the upcoming wicked musical film adaptation.
it's just been like. a monkey's paw curling sort of a way for him to get catapulted to fame, as i had always really enjoyed him as a performer (as spongebob, yes, but also in the other roles i'd seen him in,) and my biggest hope back around 2017 was that he would continue in and be really successful in theatre, get a lot of broadway roles, maybe take on some existing parts i thought he'd really suit, like seymour in little shop or ogie in waitress.......... but instead he booked the role of boq from wicked in a massive hollywood film production instead, where he met ariana grande. THE ariana grande.
and then yeah. at some point, he and grande broke up with their respective partners, (slater leaving both his wife AND newborn son) jumped into a new relationship, and now the whole wider internet knows who he is but certainly not for the right reasons.
there's been speculation regarding whether or not grande and slater had cheated on their previous partners before their relationship began with various sources coming out of the woodwork saying "yes they did" and others saying "no they didn't" -- humans are all perfectly capable of making stuff up, the media especially, so i simply don't know who to trust and i admit it had completely shattered my whole good impression of him - PLUS it gave the wider internet an absolutely awful first impression of him, resulting in, yeah, the (frankly, unflattering, sometimes downright cruel) memes of him popping up on twitter and, as i discovered yesterday, in non-theatre youtubers' videos who would literally never have heard of him if not for the slater-grande romance 🥲
FULL COVERAGE of the situation as it was happening can all be found on the lovely @notasimpleslater's blog under the tag 'ozgate' if you want to delve deeper!
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