Show threadBewilderedKat Jan 10

During this scene where Apsinthos is talking Dina into sinning for the greater good, basically one pause later and then this:

> ‘Have you ever pleasured yourself with your hands, Dina?’ The angel gripped at the bedsheets as his muscles tensed, and his cheeks warmed.

Now Dina is such an innocent naive angel. He really just wants to be told he's doing a good job and get headpats with praise. Slides into subspace super easily. Apsinthos continues:

> ‘It wasn’t a sin once to do it. In the time before Satan, there was no sin, just acts of pleasure and acts of pain. When time has ended, there will be no such word for sin anymore. You may be able to feel pleasure again how that man made you feel. Do you want to?’

I'll skip Dinas reaction because it requires expanding on more context that will only give y'all more questions 🤭

But after the reaction...

> ‘But you do want it. You want to do what you shouldn’t. Bring your hand between your legs.’ Dina was relieved it was a command, that he didn’t have to live with the guilt of doing it on his own accord.

Anyway, I know some of you probably thought "Oh, is this sinning going to involve mass murder and destruction?!" And the answer to that is also technically yes, but that's for later.  

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BewilderedKat Jan 10

From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas

> Anyone can be forgiven, according to him, according to God. For centuries, Satan had heard this sentiment and asked: why should anyone want God’s forgiveness? What made His forgiveness so special? The Lord is but a narcissist — because what good does it do to apologize to a distant God instead of those you’ve harmed? Why move to absolve yourself instead of making amends? This is pure narcissism, too, on the part of the sinner. The devil would know; he is the mother of vanity.

I just really liked the quote. And it's spoiler free!

With the amount of bondage in this book, I hope there's a trove of fanart in progress...

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BewilderedKat Jan 10

> ‘To fulfill the prophecy of Revelation, you will have to sin. You may have to lie, to covet. How the angels have had to kill humans for God, you will have to commit some sin for the greater good.’

The Greater Good!

The cloaked council in Hot Fuzz likes to chime in whenever this phrase crosses my stream of perception.

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BewilderedKat Jan 10

> ...Tell me one day that you will stop loving me. Oh I would do anything to make God stop loving me.

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BewilderedKat Jan 8

> ‘Is it the devil that makes us evil or is it circumstance?’

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BewilderedKat Jan 7

> ‘I think that I love you biblically — with blood on my hands, lies in this body, and the need for you to give it all meaning.’

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BewilderedKat Jan 1

From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas

If you're okay with minor spoilers, Dina is a precious angel, so sweet and naive. He just talked to an ancient star who immediately saw Dina as an opportunity. I can't elaborate further on that without actual spoilers.

> ‘God will never tell you what you were made for.’ Before Dina could reply, the star added, ‘But if you don’t want to decide what you’re for on your own, then I will help you.’
> Dina’s lips twitched at the ends, wanting to smile. ‘You will?’
> ‘All angels are tools, weapons. I’ll wield you if God won’t.’
> ‘I want to be wielded.’ He would like to be used.
> ‘I’ll make use of you.’

In case you can't tell, Dina is very much a submissive type that wants to be told what to do and then told how good of a job he's doing, with headpats and such.   

There is another vibe going on here, and I am happy to talk about that further if anyone else can detect it, or has read through this part of the book. It is something that will need a different CW, so I'm leaving it out of this post.

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BewilderedKat Jan 1

From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas

Somewhere in Chapter 7. I wiped the surrounding context so this is spoiler-free. And hopefully someone else will find these two sentences as funny as I did.

> God cared little for punctuality.

> The Lord liked to live in waiting, edging.

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BewilderedKat Dec 31

From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas

This book covers Revelations.    Yes, that one.   

A quote from chapter 1.

> Yet, prayer is pleading; what Son of God implores for his Father to listen?

Also including the paragraph for some context, but probably will leave you just wanting more. The whole chapter is oozing with context before the book plot starts up.

> Silence, Nazarene man. Watch the bygone approach, enshrouded in veil and robe, a sentenced stranger without shape. The damned one spoke serpentine, asking if it had been forty days, forty mornings and nights, that they had spent here in silence, in starving. With each footstep, the Nazarene never stirred to the sound of marches between his own nor to each hiss between his prayers. Yet, prayer is pleading; what Son of God implores for his Father to listen? The carpentry in his blood must have boiled; it believed love must be beat and sawed and nailed to be built. In the temple, the child had touched the wood of a wall, and he had breathed in the dust and hacked it out. No breath of life, see. The Lord’s sighs into the mouths of man were absent in the teeth of a Nazarene boy. Hear his mother. She chased her lost son, and she had not found him but an ingrown body of grandeur dreams.

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