Quotes about the strange nature of Taliesin's existence - Day 57
Interviewer: "Have any of you played D&D long enough, that someone really thought you were into Satan, when they found out you play?"
Taliesin: "Not because of D&D"
(Crit Role Interview at Momocon)
(I have to thank @pyrot3ch-nick for recommending me this video, you're the best)
Wagon on Fire is like satan, the real man, came up from hell and blessed my ears with wondrous music. That song damns.
In all seriousness that song is so goddamn wonderful I love it so much. It's gotta be somewhere in my top 10 starkid songs. I should make a ranking. I'm going to go do that now.
My favorite thing about Dracula Daily is the reaction journey you go on trying to be generous to our friend Jonathan in which your FIRST reaction is like "this fucking IDIOT" and then you're like "well hang on, hold on, let's be fair, like, it's hard to be genre savvy when you are IN THE BOOK wherein the genre is basically invented; like of course he doesn't know that Dracula is Dracula, I am approaching this from the standpoint of someone living in modern times, I need to try and imagine a world in which Dracula is just another name" and then you come IMMEDIATELY back around to being like "oh yeah no even grading on a curve and including genre-savviness handicaps this guy is the stupidest man alive nvm"
hellblazer’s rules about how heaven and hell work are the funniest bit of worldbuilding ever to me, because i'm pretty sure the lion’s share of their complicated nature exists solely in reaction to the fact that they created the first of the fallen — god’s conscience, constantine's perfect rival, humanity's Satan for whom constantine is, personally, The Devil, so chronically obsessed with our favorite scouse shithead that he once spent every night for 20 years tormenting a priest just to give constantine an example of what will be in store for him when he finally dies — and then had constantine beat the pants off of The Satan in his very first appearance. like, where do you go from there?
why, naturally to the next time constantine beats the pants off him, which is about…three issues later, and brings up that satan is part of a triumvirate of leaders in hell. also, if satan is tricked three times, according to The Law (that’s all it’s called), the person who tricked him goes free and satan has to take the punishment instead, just to make that time spicier than the last two. also, he undoes the first trick, comes after constantine, and gets fucking murdered (because being able to figure out the first trick at all was, itself, a trick) and there's a big final question about "where does satan go when he dies", which is honestly! really cool and thought-provoking!
but we don't want to lose him, since he was created as the perfect rival to highlight constantine's existence as a force to be feared by hell + the cost of that status in his personal life. so the answer to that really cool question is that satan was made mortal and fucked off to greece. as you do.
but also, you can restore greek-vacation-ex-satan back to power by getting the one he hates the most to give up their soul, who happens to be constantine, who happens to worm his way into staying alive while still fulfilling the terms, so now we’re back to regular ol satan again.
Akechi: Um... I came all the way from Shibuya and I didn't realize there would be so much Satan worshipping, to be perfectly honest. I kinda feel weird about it, I'm a bit scared to say the least.
Ryuji: And you should be scared, because SATAN IS A REAL MAN!
Ren: And honestly, every time we head down into Mementos, (kiss) I just throw one down for our lord Satan.
and it's like despite all the awful shit he's done and continues to do, like, i get it. he's employed like 24/7/365. he never got to live a life, despite spending a childhood clinging to the hope of having one someday. He knew companionship and love but lost it and can't ever get it back. His circumstances are so anomalous and gruesome that it completely isolates him from pretty much every other human being on the planet. he knows hell is real and he is basically guaranteed to go there if he can't break this demon curse thing.
like it doesn't make the kidnapping and spreading the curse around any better, but i do get it.