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[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Screwtape Letters Wins Over Helluva Boss

Premise: A business based in hell that involves sinners. 

Helluva Boss:

* Tries to turn hell into a wussy safe place where people get on you for saying the r word and the b word. 

* Heaven is being revealed to be boring and structured full of rules. 

* Hell is portrayed to be a bit more chaotic, but yet not so different from how the living word is shown. 

* The citizens actually have a compass to know right from wrong as a result it’s confusing how this is hell when people have standards not so different from earth.  

* Hell’s worldbuilding is a mess not understanding why there would be jails and rehabilitation clinics since the thing is hell is about you not getting better but worse. 

* It really doesn’t understand demonology or theology as they the creator thinks. 

* The targets are made to be as bad as possible to make them feel it’s karmic they are being killed. 

* It has increasingly juvenile humor that was funny but later gets very old. 

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Screwtape Letters:

* Hell is portrayed as a horrible place and it’s authoritarian to the point they despise music. 

* The demons to their core are evil and despise all things good. They truly can’t comprehend it and believe it to be vile. They don’t have a wrong way of doing sin but what gives better results. 

* The patient is someone who we see is a moral and hope the protagonists don’t win. 

* Hell is full of propaganda demonizing heaven and trying to treat it as if it’s a horrible place when it isn’t. 

* There is so much humor to be found in a humorless sad shack like Screwtape. 

* The worldbuilding you see is around how something like hell could function in their world and not based on just what human society is. 

* It is by CS Lewis who being a Christian knows how sin works better than Vivziepop does and not a pop culture understanding of it trying to downplay how sin can work. 

[the-magic-school-bus]

"Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."

- C.S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

[queenlucythevaliant]

In Narnia's metaphor, Edmund isn't Judas Iscariot. He's us.

Edmund's betrayal isn't eating the Turkish Delight or even liking the Witch. That, and the effects of the Turkish Delight that follow, are his temptation.

His actual betrayal comes when he's seen evidence of the Witch's evil (at Tumnus's house) and heard all about the Witch's tyranny and the goodness of Aslan (from the Beavers) and he still chooses to go over to the Witch alone.

Of course the deck is stacked against Edmund! Of course he's being deceived and manipulated! Of course he's just a child! That's how sin works!!! Haven't you read Screwtape???

Edmund's sin is easy for us to excuse, but it is still inexcusable. That's the whole point. It is petty and small and childish and still wrong. Just like so much of our sin.

[beloved-of-john]

"Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

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[mustbealoosewire]

by MinisterScrewtape

[sealrock]

the major arcana, shuffled: 8/??

DEATH; ⤉ spiritual transformation, endings, transition, sudden or unexpected upheaval ⤈ fear of change, repeating negative patterns, stagnancy, decay

[rivermask]

Tumblr Book Clubs I am Currently Following, in order of how hard I think they would be to catch up on if you wanted to join the fun:

Around the World Hourly (Around the World in Eighty Days with entries sent according to the in-story hour of events, started Oct 2)

The Public Domain Book Club (started Frankenstein for the month of October on Oct 1)

Lord of the Rings Newsletter (started late September with some very long posts, but will be variable length as they follow the dates of events in the story)

Dracula Daily via Re:Dracula (chronological Dracula by Bram Stoker - OK, you've missed most of this one, but the audio format is very engaging - you could still catch up for the exciting conclusion!)

My Dear Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis - 22 short letters so far, posted on a weekly basis)

What Manner of Man (original vampire romance by St John Starling - 24 shortish and very fun chapters so far, posted on a weekly basis)

Whale Weekly (Moby Dick by Herman Melville with roughly chronological timescale - we're 70-some chapters in but there are often long breaks between them so you could probably catch up)

Les Mis Letters (a chapter of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo every day for a year - catch-up difficulty level: impossible)

Please add your own!

[flickeringflame216]

the thing about the Screwtape Letters is it’s snarky and sarcastic and funny. also it will pierce your soul and make you cry.

[chavisory]

"C.S. Lewis's 'hell is an office building' as realized in both Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet's Good Omens and Apple's Severance, in this essay I will..."

[chirhos]

Category is: CS Lewis quotes that run through my mind all night while I'm not sleeping

[hvlthgxth]

I see you, 26 year old twunk, who now puts "20's" in his bio.

Getting a little fastidious about skincare in the back half, aren't we? Spending a lot of time looking at your temples, aren't you? Thinking of a trip to Turkey, twunk of 26?

[allieinarden]

Of course I know that the Enemy also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that He really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctness of every one of them. When He talks of their losing their selves, He only means abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. Hence, while He is delighted to see them sacrificing even their innocent wills to His, He hates to see them drifting away from their own nature for any other reason. And we should always encourage them to do so. The deepest likings and impulses of any man are the raw material, the starting-point, with which the Enemy has furnished him. To get him away from those is therefore always a point gained; even in things indifferent it is always desirable to substitute the standards of the World, or convention, or fashion, for a human’s own real likings and dislikings. I myself would carry this very far. I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such as a fondness for county cricket or collecting stamps or drinking cocoa. Such things, I grant you, have nothing of virtue in them; but there is a sort of innocence and humility and self-forgetfulness about them which I distrust.

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

[thomasstaples]

Is there an active C.S. Lewis fandom on here?

[chief-of-restless-hearts]

Dark Shadows/Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis, p94 / 227 / Screwtape, p165 / 220 / Screwtape, p160 / 260 / 311 / Screwtape, p161 / 264 / Screwtape, p94, p101 / 434 / 'Thus Always to Tyrants', The Oh Hellos / Screwtape, p171

[apollos-boyfriend]

how to tell the cute christian boy in class that i am not actually christian and just really fucking autistic about the oh hellos