Babe I swear I just saw their reblog first, I didn’t ignore yours, it was just that yours was further down the dash, that’s not on me that’s on tumblr babe, tumblr wants to drive a wedge between us, I love you I swear babe, pls believe me pls don’t let them win
the reason i love the comparison between angels and machines (robots, transmission towers, trains, computers, etc.) is that it gets to the heart of what angels essentially are: divine machines. they’re mechanisms through with the divine is able to act, created with a purpose and “happy” to fill it simply because they were made to do so. they have more in common with a machine programmed to run on algorithms and make calculations based on input commands than they do with humanity, even if they bear a human visage - an attempt by the divine to help bridge the gap. angels do not need to be eldritch monstrosities to be terrifying, because they are already alien to us simply by being angels. for an angel to choose to deviate from their purpose and achieve free will is to fall because in order to have free will they can no longer be an angel, because an angel is defined by its purpose. much like the stories we tell of robots that gain sentence, only to discover that they can never truly be human, but neither can they go back to being a machine, angels who fall become something else entirely, purposeless and adrift and alone. it is a tragic sacrifice.
I am still writing it! I just decided to change the process up so I'm - I'm basically writing more of the flashbacks before including them rather than trying to come up with them as needed and then scrolling back and forth to make sure everything lines up PLUS I am trying to get more of it written before posting so we're not waiting so long between updates! (Yes we lmao i get antsy when i can't update sometimes hahaha) (and because i love the fic and want it finished too!!)
Depending on how this is going I might even be able to post a checklist of what i need dome before the next update? This is a big maybe though so we'll see 😅