"i never thought they'd try to use gods to assassinate, mutilate and torture ME" cries adjudicator who campaigned for a seat on the using gods to assassinate, mutilate and torture people party council
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“Elain actually wants Azriel! They already have strong feelings for each other!”
Okay. So now what? Their book starts with them already on the verge of falling in love (ridiculous lol) and to deal with this they do…what? If Feyre learned that they love each other, she would never be okay with Rhys forbidding them from being together. It would take a single conversation between Feyre and Rhys to clear this up. And sjm has repeatedly let us know that Lucien is more courtier than warrior. There would be no blood duel. Also, as Rhys said, it’s illegal in his lands, and Elriels are adamant that Elain WILL NOT leave the Night Court, so they’d be protected by that law.
But say Azriel ignores Rhys’s order, and Lucien invokes the blood duel and Rhys allows it to happen. We are told Azriel would destroy Lucien with “little effort.” So now Lucien’s dead…and apparently Elain is fine with this. Does Beron declare war on the Night Court? And is Eris no longer their ally, even though we’ve yet to see them truly working together? Beron is already an enemy, so we don’t need that extra reason for him to fight against the NC. Vassa and Jurian would turn on the IC but they have no forces to command right now, so not sure what they could really do about it. Does the Spring Court remain desolate indefinitely because there’s no one left to care about it? I’m genuinely trying to wrap my head around how this could play out but I’m struggling to see it.
Say they do decide to sneak around for a bit until Elain and Lucien “mutually” reject the bond. What happens then? The scene with Cassian and Eris at the very end of ACOSF told us what to expect for the next book:
“Koschei remains in play, and Beron might very well be stupid enough to establish an alliance with him, too.”
Beron and Koschei. How does Elriel play into that? Elain has visions of Koschei, so she could fit into this plot line. But is Azriel more connected to Beron and Koschei than Lucien? Lucien has a connection to Vassa, who is enslaved by Koschei’s curse. And all of Prythian still believes Beron to be Lucien’s father. Plus, there’s Eris’s plot to overthrow Beron. We learned that Lucien and Eris are on speaking terms again. Sjm has left several hints that Eris cares for Lucien and has secretly protected him. So there’s potential for a reconciliation between them. But I fail to see how Azriel fits into this story in an interesting way, aside from being useful in a fight. Will Elain and Azriel take on Koschei and Beron while Lucien happily assists them?
Say they’ve defeated Koschei and Beron, Elain and Azriel are happy, Lucien is still tied to Elain but ultimately they are fine to go their separate ways. What’s the next book about? Vassa and Lucien falling in love? She’d be free from her curse by then, and we know she desperately wants to return to her people. Or maybe this happens in the “Elriel book” as well. So if Azriel and Elain’s story is concluded, AND Lucien’s story is tied up, what’s next? A full length novel about Emerie and Mor?
I’m just not seeing it. Are you?
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I think a huge thing some people are missing about the "God is plural" topic is the larger implications.
It's not just "God is plural, and that's cool."
"God is plural" is a starting place.
The real importance, I believe, lies in Genesis 1:26.
And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"
Man was made in the likeness of God. And this verse is generally considered to be referencing Man's spiritual or mental attributes. Most agree that we don't literally look like God.
And this very verse uses plural pronouns to refer to God. The Hebrew word for God used here is Elohim, which is also a plural word.
While God being plural would be cool in itself, I feel the bigger and more important point is that if God is plural, and mankind is made in the likeness of God, then it adds further credence for Natural Multiplicity from a Trinitarian perspective.
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this is a bit of a reach i'll admit but there's something about paige and VAL and their gods and parenthood that eats at me. paige explicitly refers to her god as "my god-child" when she threatens it and sinks into a state not unlike postpartum depression following its emergence; VAL's god functions like an especially high-stakes game of make-believe ("The Last Word tells me..." rings of playground gossip), she bears the scars of its 'birth' on her body, and she continues the cycle of violence her own mother inflicted on her through it, reenacting her own trauma to justify lashing out. there's a saying that our parents are our first gods, but what if your god is a child, with all the risks and random, senseless, didn't-know-better violence that can strike out if not guided by a steady hand that implies?
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Severus Snape as Spiderman: my headcanons
Very well then. Let's go over this one more time
My name is Severus Snape, and for the last few years. I've been London's one and only Spider-venom. I'm sure you know the rest.
Was bitten by a radioactive symbiotic spider hybrid (a genetic hyrbid between the alien symbiot and a radioactive spider)
His mom was killed by a mugger (she was his uncle ben)
His dad is a cop alongside Lily Evans's father, who is the captain of London PD.
He and Lily drifted apart when they reached highschool.
He's stopped crime in his neighborhood spinners end, and protects all of Cokeworth, then he expanded to all of London.
He is still bullied by the marauders and is a chemistry wiz.
He hung out with the wrong crowd until he met Charity and her girlfriend Aurora.
Charity knows his secret and is his partner and woman in the chair despite his many protests.
His powers are both Spiderman's and venoms powers put together. (Except he doesn't eat heads)
He is a singer and works at one of the bars in spinners end to earn some extra cash.
His suit is all black, with green web highlights going around the suit and a green spider emblem on the chest area of the suit.
When he is Spiderman, he is a more playful, kind, immature, yet intelligent and laid back but vigilant, and caring. As civilian severus, he is cold, quiet, and distant and has a tongue that can cut through steel. (So no one suspects that severus is Spiderman for obvious reasons)
The media has described him as a danger to society, a menace, a criminal, and a freak. The cops obviously don't like him because he's a vigilante, but he has people on his side.
Charity and Severus have a place in spinners end where they go to either patch severus up after a fight with a villain or bullying, study for homework or tests, make crime walls, and just talk about anything and everything.
Severus also goes to the gym for boxing and to learn to fight or just exercise a little bit (sometimes Tobias joins him and helps him)
Tobias is not an abusive a$$hole, but he is emotionally and physically distant with Severus, especially after Eileen was killed, but he does still look after Severus and cares for him in his own way.
He has deep regrets about being the bigger person with the marauders (he saved their lives countless times)... but he does have his moments where they "mysteriously" were embarrassed in public
He has webs like Toby maguire Spiderman, but he makes his own gadgets
(That's all I got, and I have no idea who his MJ should be but enjoy)
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