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From #AngelsAndMan by #RafaelNicolas
Angels can heal using water, but there are some interesting caveats. Here, a lesser angel of healing is faced with a "pre-prepubescent child with tired eyes and a deformed arm, much smaller than the other, leading to a hand seemingly melded shut and twisted awkwardly at the wrist."
And is unable to heal him...
> “He’s not hurt. I can only heal what’s broken.” “But he can only use one arm.”
> “That’s not brokenness.”
> The sister scoffed, except it was sad, frustrated, rather than mean. “He can’t do what the rest of us can.”
> “That doesn’t make him broken.”
> “I want him to live as easy as us.”
> “I’m sorry,”Now, I found this quite interesting because it's a perspective on disability that I don't see portrayed in this sort of way very often.
Later, this angel tries thinking through what might happen if he tried to heal someone who's pregnant. The whole idea of pregnancy is new to the angels at this point, and it was interesting how he considered "Well, it can kill them, much like a disease or injury. But is that brokenness?"
I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts on the matter if you are willing to share given the small amount of context here.
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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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> ‘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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> ...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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> ‘Is it the devil that makes us evil or is it circumstance?’
From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas
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> I love you, he was saying, no one will ever hurt me like you have.
Leaving this totally out of context to avoid spoilers for #AngelsAndMan by #RafaelNicolas
If there's interest, I can do a couple of posts that collect specific things with some context to point out particular themes?
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CW: mild spoilers for Angels Before Man (chapter 27)
Just a quote from #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas
> ‘I wish I could get even closer to you — I wish we could sink into each other and become one.’ Lucifer clutched Michael’s clothing. ‘What is inside of you, archangel? Did Father plant flowers within this body too? I want to peel you open and suck the nectar from them.’
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> ‘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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From #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas
> “I feel drunk,” <redacted> murmured against him, then shuddered. “Your mouth— When you were created, your lips must have been laced with liquor.”
Now I'm not an expert or anything, but if someone said that to me, I might begin to suspect they're flirting with me... :neofox_thinking:
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Zero context quote from #AngelsAndMan by #RafaelNicolas
> “A man with an angel? The only thing worse I can think of is a man with a woman.”
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CW: spicy quote, mild spoilers Angels Before Man, technically 'blasphemy'
From #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas
Single quotes are thoughts
Double quotes are speech
Determination of identity for the parties involved here is left as an exercise for the reader> “Haven’t you imagined it? I know you have. Me beneath you, crying out your name.” ‘Pleading for you to be gentler but not meaning it.’ “In front of everyone, right? So they all know who I belong to.” ‘My hands clawing at your back, pulling at your wings, legs raw and sore.’ “You, violating this body,” ‘eviscerate me,’ “and even He would be jealous of the way I’d sing for you.”
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Another quote from book 1 #AngelsBeforeMan to see if it piques interest. I've left out any surrounding context. I'll only tell you that single-quotes are thoughts and double quotes are speech.
> “Let me.” ‘Pray to this body, mold you into holy communion, cry your name like psalm.’ “Let me worship you.”
Oh, and probably that you can check the hashtags for more select quotes that I'll likely keep posting, and adding CWs as needed.
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CW: steamy quote from Angels Before Man (book 1 - technically no spoilers)
From #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas
> ‘Here, you’re like the pistil of a flower.’ Fingers searching, exploring — ‘petals, here.’ And their bodies coming, sliding, together. ‘Running your touch up my sides, threading your soul to mine.’ Limbs entangling and, then, songs of laughter again. Embracing, bringing their mouths to lock. ‘Complete, He said, but I don’t want to be complete; I’d rather be split and become full with you.’ He’d part his legs. ‘Split me, here.’
> ‘I want to be soil. I want to be wet earth, begging to be sowed.’ Curls of hair, soft against his pulsing throat. ‘Make me mountainous, beneath your grip.’I really like that there is genital ambiguity embedded in the prose. The focus on everything else makes it so much nicer in my opinion. I'm a bit biased though.
Side note: The pronouns are all He/Him in this book because She/Her hasn't even been invented yet, and won't be until Book 2.
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CW: minor spoilers "Angels After Man" chapter 4 (book 3)
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. :neofox_pat:
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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CW: Negligible spoilers "Angels After Man" (book 3), religion-adjacent
From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas
This book covers Revelations. :neofox_cool: Yes, that one. :neofox_cool_fingerguns:
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.