#tell me im not the only one who was having impure thoughts during this scene

[chlorine-and-daisies]

GO ask and touch on religion classes for you and me in need of takes for a fic I'm working on: Is "The Bible" in the GO universe "The Word of God?" Or is it just human dude's documenting, interpreting, and guessing?

Amazing question!

From my understanding (and take this with a grain of salt as I'm just a now-agnostic biochem student who took a couple religion classes) the Bible we know was complied and edited by multiple scholars over centuries, each with their own taste, agenda, and access to different information. Many of them were writing about events that they did not actually witness, or writing allegories instead of straight historical records. There are some Biblical figures that we can assume existed in real life because they show up in non-Biblical sources too, but there are also lots of contradictions and events such as the flood that, to the best of our scientific knowledge, never happened.

In *my opinion* the Bible in Good Omens is just as much "the word of God" as our Bible is. That is- it was written down by men, through the ages, about their own interpretation of God and history.

It's just that in their world, the angels that show up in the Bible are just as real as, say, Ahab, King of Israel, Augustus Caesar, or Jesus. Doesn't mean that everything that's said about them im the Bible is true- Agnes Nutter is still the only writer of true prophecies- but they did show up in history and get remembered to the point where things were written down about them.

Furthermore, Good Omens makes it clear that in the world of the story, Heaven and Hell and God are not responsible for or even aware of the more bigoted human interpretations of the Bible- I can't see the Archangels for example having any idea that humans used the curse of Ham as justification for slavery and Leviticus as a reason to look down on homosexuality, or that women were ever forbidden from speaking in church.

I forget if this showed up in the show, but in the book, Aziraphale collects misprinted Bibles, and in one of them, he had actually inserted a scene of himself telling God that he misplaced the flaming sword during the book's proofreading stage. When he's trying to find a body during Armageddon, he unwittingly possesses a televangelist, and he promptly corrects some of his ideas about the Rapture before leaving. If the Bible was supposed to be the perfect word of God in this world, I doubt that he would have changed it in this way.

(Tangent, but collecting misprinted Bibles is a hobby that he shares with Adah from The Poisonwood Bible, a book that I think would make him and Crowley very emotional. The first line by the way is "Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened." It REALLY belongs on Jim's shelf of I books.)

As for Crowley- well. I think he interfered with Bible-writers too. Bildad the Shuhite first insists that God is just and will restore everything to Job if he repents (Job 8), then says that Job must have done something to bring about his own destruction (Job 19), then questions whether it is even possible for a human to be pure in the eyes of God (Job 25).

Finally Bildad apologizes to Job after God tells Eliphaz the Temanite to take his friends (which includes Bildad) and make a sacrifice to Job. (Job 42)

I want to draw attention to Bildad's words about God in Job 25:5-6 - "If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes, how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot- a human being, who is only a worm!"

*In the Good Omens universe, where Bildad is Crowley,* these lines could show Crowley's true feelings and disillusionment with God. It's a sentiment that feels in character for him- if God thinks my stars are impure, then he probably thinks that I, and humans, will never be able to be pure. Very reminiscent of his thoughts when he's sitting in his room with space photos floating around him.

Obviously Crowley was never cruel to Job the way Bildad was- I wonder if he had these lines inserted after the fact to create a record and show Hell that he was obviously doing his job and up to no good during the Job incident.

But yeah! Thank you for the amazing question!!!!! I believe that the Bible in both the real world and in Good Omens comes from multiple human authors, contains varying degrees of truth, and changes its meaning as it is constantly reinterpreted- so it is the "Word of God" in that God and His relationship with humanity are the main focus, but that does not mean that every event literally happened as it says. Really interesting.

[bottoms-movie]

#choke me like you hate me

[shleezaemour]

Nico is haunted by Mr.T

Trigger warning !!! This a a teen to mature themes in this one shot. Violence scary imaging and rape themes. Read at your own risk. All from Wills POV Will was fast asleep in the Apollo cabin when Clovis bust through the door shaking him awake. "Will its Nico he's having a nightmare I saw him.. I saw things... help him gods please help him!" Will didn't miss a beat and ran into the night patrol harpies be damned. His boyfriend was in trouble and he wouldn't let some chicken lady stop him. Will knew Nicos nightmares were bad ones and waking him was dangerous but necessary. Kicking in the Hades cabin door Will saw a sight he had never seen. Nico was traveling all over the room landing on the tops of shelves and under the bed. The nightmare was so bad that he was shadow traveling without being able to control it. The last time this happened Nico ended up in the Apollo cabin right on top of him. Nico was screaming and writhing but very clearly asleep. Will jumped onto the bed waiting for the right moment to catch him. Gotcha! Will grabbed Nico and held him to the bed. Will started to glow really bright. Naturally he glowed all the time but with the right concentration he could make the light brighter. By doing this he could prevent the traveling of Nico didn't have a shadow to cling to. Holding him down onto the bed he started slapping Nicos face attempting to rouse him. Screams and tears ran out of Nico like a torrent. "Baby please wake up! Nico please sweetie wake up your dreaming it's not real please darlin wake up WAKE UP!" Nico was starting to whimper now and shake. Will decided that it was a cliche but hell he had no other ideas to wake him up. Leaning down he held Nicos head in place as he began to kiss him. The shaking started to slow. Wills hands slid on Nicos head from the sweat pouring off of him. His lovers hands reached up and started to tangle themselves in Wills hair. It was rough bordering on to rough. Nicos tongue slowly started to emerge and explore Wills mouth. Popping his eyes open he pulled away from Will. "Baby it's just me you were having a dream I didn't know how to pull you out." Nico didn't respond with words. Nico attacked Will into an embrace with a look of sheer desperation. Grabbing Nicos shirt he realized he was soaked with sweat. In a hysterical fit of a voice he cried. "Make it stop please Will make it stop I can't... I can't do this anymore it's to much!" "Baby it's ok I have you your safe now " "I'm not safe he's going to come back for me! He hates my father! He made sure to I got it the worst because of how much he hates my father! " "Who Nico who?" "Tartarus !" Will held Nico tighter as his boyfriend shook and sobbed into his arms. Chiron came through the door with a loud clopping. "Nico! Will! What's going on!? Clovis came to the big house white as sheet saying you were in trouble!" "I've got him Chiron he was having nightmares about the T word again. It was bad he was shadow traveling in his sleep again." "Well then you need to stay here with him tonight. It's unorthodox seeing as you two are courting but I can't have him fading on my watch. If he's traveling in his sleep who knows where he could end up. " "Are you sure the camp rules say.." "The rules be damned Solace this boy needs help. Only 3 people have ever survived that place alive and all 3 are here at this camp. Rules change when situations do!" "Yes sir I'll stay with him" "I'm giving you the week off infirmary Will so you can deal with this. Kayla will manage and I'll take your shifts. Keep him here! All I need is Hades down my neck about him disappearing into a volcano over a nightmare that could have been prevented." "Got it sir I'll stay here for the week" "Ok then. You two get some rest I'm going to deal with Clovis and see if Mr.D can help him out. The things he saw in Nicos head have him a total mess " Chiron rode off into the night. "Guess I have permission to sleep with you in here instead of sneaking during music class." Will laughed. Nico didn't laugh. "Promise me you will stay! Promise me you won't leave! Promise me you will make this go away!" "Nico I will do everything in my power to keep you from fading!" "I don't care about fading Will ! Not compared to the dreams! I can't control them anymore! I've tried but the only thing I can control is how I react in the dreams like I'm really there again!" "Nico! Baby you have to tell me what you saw!" "No I.. I can't Will you ... you won't see me the same" "Darlin I see you. All of you! Nothing you say can make me stop caring about you or stop wanting you!" "Will you don't understand the things that happened to me down there.. the things that were done to me. You will never want to touch me again knowing what happened." "Cmon you and I are going to have a real heart to heart. " Sitting on the bed cross legged he pulled Nico to him my his pale hands to copy him. Nicos breath was uneven. He was terrified. "Baby I'm going to need you to tell me what happened. I know it's going to be hard and it means your going to have to relive it all. I know I'm the last person you want to tell but you won't talk to anyone else. These dreams are not going to go away until you purge them. If you would be more comfortable going to a real doctor maybe in New Rome and talking to them that's ok to..." "I don't want to talk to a stranger about it! You're... you are the only one I trust. I just.. im afraid that I will ruin us if you know" "Darling NO! Seriously nothing you could say will make me see you any differently! " "Ok well then here it goes. Tartarus is not really like what Annabeth and Percy saw. They saw the mist version of things. Because it's my fathers realm I saw the unedited version directors cut of it all. It's more like a series of rooms of your worst fears and worst nightmares. Every time I would pull myself away from one another would start. "I was trying to find the doors of death. I was moving through the house of night when.. when the pulling started. I slipped and tried to shadow travel away from it but my powers weren't working. I fell onto a patch of green grass. I've never been to wherever he was showing me. Infront of me was ... Bianca's headstone. Percy was sitting next to it. He was laying flowers down and he turned to me telling me that it should have been me. That I should have been the one to die not her. Telling me how useless I was and how weak I was for letting my sister go instead of me. Percy started describing how she died.. she... she was in so much pain Will it wasn't quick it was slow and awful. When I realized it was a dream the scene changed and it was my mother. She was sitting at the table in the house we lived at in Italy. She had her eyes cast down. She had me sit with her but wouldn't let me touch her. She told me she has been watching me as I grew. Telling me that my impure thoughts were monstrous and that I was an abomination. This went on for what felt like days. She was one of the hardest to shake it felt so real. Every time I would reach for food I would put it in my mouth and it would turn to glass. Spitting out shards of glass and blood nothing down there was safe to eat. It's why I have trouble eating now. Every time I take a bite of food I can feel the glass sliding down my throat. After I found my way out of that one I found myself being carted away in a straight jacket. I couldn't fight back. They doused me with hoses and locked me in a padded cell. I screamed and screamed and no one came. Except when the 3 guards came. They would take turns... take turns. It was horrible. Like a red hot iron going up my spine. They would laugh and spit in my face telling me that I liked it. It would go on for hours just the three of them passing me back and forth violating me until I was in so much pain I would pass out. They made me bleed. That didn't stop them from doing it again over and over... I couldn't stop them. I couldn't scream my voice was lost and I could still feel them touching me. Even when I'm awake I can still feel them touching me from time to time. I was so afraid Will. Nothing I did made me feel clean.... they just kept.. kept.." Nico was shaking and a constant flow of tears dropped from his face. Starting to hyperventilate I held him to my chest making him focus on my heartbeat. Having him breathe at the same time I was. My poor darling Nico. My heart was breaking more and more with every word he breathed. He wasn't the only one crying. They had raped him. Humiliated him. Broken him down to his most basic form. Guilting him into thinking that his love was worthless and sick. Using actions that are supposed to be used for love to degrade him and break his spirit. No wonder he couldn't stand to be touched when we first met. "Will I can't keep going tonight I'm sorry I can't .." Rocking him back and forth I assured him we could stop and finish another time. "If... if you don't want to be with me anymore I understand.." "Baby why wouldn't I want to be with you?" "Because those.. those demons they.. I guess nothing physically happened because it was all in my mind but.. I felt it.. I felt them. It hurt so badly. I thought after you heard that you would never want to touch me again" "Baby no I'm disgusted that you had to endure that, to feel that to go through that, but that doesn't mean I don't think your beautiful and amazing and well you may not want to hear this right now but your sexy. I still want you. I just don't want to do anything that makes you uncomfortable. Honestly I'm surprised that you your willing to.. that you let me..I know we have only done it like twice but the sheer fact that you went through that and let me touch you that way is incredible" "I wanted to. I wanted to feel what it's supposed to feel like. To do it with love not... not that." "Well I want you to know that if your ever not comfortable just tell me I won't be mad ok" "Ok" Will stood up off the bed and went to the bathroom bringing back a damp rag. Wiping Nicos face he cleaned the tears off treating Nicos face as if was made of glass. Putting that aside he took his tshirt off and undid his pants leaving him in just his bright yellow boxer briefs. "Will um I'm not really in the mood for.." "Oh um that's not what I'm doing I'm just getting ready for bed. I get really hot at night so I sleep in my underwear. Is that ok? If not I'll put my shorts back on but I'm going to have to draw the line at the shirt I'll be a sweaty mess in the morning if I wear it" Nico actually laughed. Will could never get enough of that sound. He wondered if Nico could sing. His laugh was so musical he was convinced he was hiding a talent under all that sarcasm. Nico got out of the bed and changed into a black tank top and fuzzy pj pants that piper got him for Christmas. They had black and pink skulls ok them. He looked adorable. Climbing in bed Nico nuzzled his body into Wills. Will was blown away at the perfect way Nicos body fit against his. Laying his head on Wills chest he could feel his fingers drawing patterns connecting his freckles. This only made him glow a bit brighter. "Ti amo Will." Nico had never told him that before. It was the first time he had heard it. Emotion swelled in his throat. Nico was so broken and yet so strong at the same time. Brave enough to say the words that had escaped Will for months. Nico had poured some of his deepest fears and nightmares to him tonight and still found the strength to finally tell him he loved him. "I love you too darlin" Bringing his face up to Wills he pressed his lips against his. It was sweet and innocent at first. No more than a good night kiss. Passion started to stir inside Nico. For someone who wasn't in the mood a few minutes ago he took hold of Will like his life was counting on it. "Nico we don't have to im not expecting anything I just want you to be ok and sleep well." "I know I said I wasn't in the mood it's just I haven't had someone tell me they loved me in so long." "I will love you even if we never have sex again. I will always love you. I'll make you a deal if your in the mood in the morning then I'll give you a morning that will put a smile on your face all day but let's just enjoy eachother like this tonight ok?" "Ok. I just don't want you to think that I don't want you to touch me. I want you to touch me your the only one I want touching me. Your touch, well it's like it erases theirs" "I want to touch you. I want to make you feel good. I just think that after your confession may not be the best time. We can touch in other ways. Like holding you. Or running my fingers through your soft hair. Kissing. Loving touches that show you that your mine and that I would never touch you the way they did." "I know you wouldn't Will. " "Good now lay your head on my chest and get some sleep. You have me for a whole week night and day to help you with these nightmares we might as well relish it." "Good night sunshine" "Good night darlin " Will slept in that bed every night that week and Nicos nightmares that were so dark were chased away by Wills light. Nico eventually that week told him all the horrors that haunted his mind. This kid couldn't get a break it seemed. So Will decided that he was going to be his break. To be his light in the darkness... his Solace. Will never left Nicos side after that day. Every night he would sleep next to Nico camp rules be damned. After that week Will moved his stuff into Nicos cabin permanently. Giving Austin his head counselor position but still keeping his head healer title. Yup looked like Nico found a home in Will and Will was the first Apollo camper to live in the Hades cabin.