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I can’t stop thinking about this post from a few years ago that really just makes everything click together about Crowley better than I think anyone actually realizes…
Crowley was The Serpent. He introduced free will into humanity, not by tempting Eve with fruit, but by helping her understand that she could CHOOSE whether she wanted to follow orders or not. Crowley gave her the Gift of Knowledge, not the fruit.
Crowley has all the empathy for the Universe, because he was its Architect. In the Great War of Heaven against Hell, picking a side was arbitrarty, because as he saw it, it wasn’t a real choice that mattered. It was just a contest between two sides over who to gets privilege of destroying it all. Either way, the Universe loses. Only Crowley could see the bigger picture; only he dared to ask the question: Why?
Ultimately, the only lesson he took out of his damnation was that Heaven could not be trusted to understand the difference between what is Good and what is Right any more so than Hell. It was out of empathy, when he told Eve that she shouldn’t need to listen to God, and in doing so, he gave the Universe the chance to make its own choice, to do more than just follow orders. Following God’s orders may be seen as being Good, but if those orders are unjust, then how Good can they really be?
But Crowley is the only one who can see this, because as the serpent, he IS the free will that gave to the Universe. After witnessing the death and destruction of nearly the entire world’s population to the Great Flood, he refused to remain complicit to any injustice that God wrought onto humanity. He refused to follow orders given to him in Uz to kill innocent children and livestock just because God took a dare to make one particular man’s life suck for no other reason. When Crowley meet Jesus of Nazareth, he decided to show and educate the young messiah all about the rest of the entire world and all its beauty, because he thought the kid just simply ought to know. He taught others to think critically when it came to blindly following orders. All because a universe where an individual’s choices don’t matter, where every decision is preordained by cosmic forces until the end of time, is unfair. And Crowley learned firsthand just how unfair that is, to not have a choice in one’s own destiny. This was the gift of knowledge he hoped to pass along to humanity: to ask questions, to address injustice, to be able to choose between doing good and doing right.
The serpent told Eve that we should always have a choice.
It’s a Tree. There was a tree there. Folks cut down a tree, they usually don’t pull the roots, it’s like a Whalefall for fungus and burrowing invertebrates. They feast for decades.
It’s tree roots. I know that’s not cool and adventurous but I promise you it’s tree roots.
No, that’s where they dumped the body of my good friend, Mr. Five by Five. We called him that because he was five feet tall and five feet wide. Perfectly spherical.
there is, in fact, a “platonic explanation for this” if you’re not a coward
its so fun to see the diversity of tags on this ranging from “they’re literally just standing next to each other” to “deep bonds dont have to be romantic/sexual!” to “yeah friends can fuck nasty, platonically. coward.” we’re all so correct, there are, in fact, a million platonic explanations for this
- He’s not my bit on the side. He’s far too pure of heart to be anybody’s bit on the side. He’s just an angel I know. - If you say so. But then again, other people’s love lives always seem so much more straightforward than our own.
instagram post: *video of a woman gently encouraging a hesitant child to go down a slide*
the first comment: this woman is violently pressuring her child to do something that they are clearly terrified to do, children should NEVER have to do anything they don’t want to do, this kid is being abused and will grow up to hate their mother i hope someone calls cps on her
the second comment: kids are so thin skinned these days if it were my kid i would push it down the slide and laugh at it if it cried. this is the only way we will win the culture war
the third comment: she should have used a condom. this would make a great condom ad. no one cares that someone came in you. kids are not human. i hate kids so much.
the fourth comment: DM ME “”“HELP”“” 🤝💪😤 I AM PAYING OFF DEBT OF FIRST 5 🎉 TO DM 💯💯💵💵 DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY 😍
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG AN NSFW AUTHOR’S WORK WITH ONE OF THECOMMUNITY ADULT CONTENT TAGS!!!
(Or suggest that community tags on a post)
HERE’S WHY
When you reblog with the community tag or suggest a community tag you’re basically reporting the post to tumblr which then locks the adult content onto the post that has 2 major consequences.
1) the post is taken off the regular tags chosen by the author and
2) every single reblog will stop being visible on the user’s page. The person that rebloged will see their own reblog but a person visiting the blog won’t.
So basically what is does is that it wipes the post from the site.
It means countless hours of work go unnoticed and there’s nothing more creatively draining that to feel your work and efforts were worthless.
We get the point of the tags but they are just so harmful for us. Instead please carefully read the tags most (if not all) authors mark their nsfw works, mention minors to not interact and also tag their fics very precisely to ensure everyone is kept safe while browsing the site.
Please please please don’t censor us.
REBLOG THIS SO IT CAN REACH TO PEOPLE. SUPPORT YOUR FAVE AUTHORS <3333
It is funny that the internet of things is the closest humanity’s gotten to making magic real
[In the future when every object on the planet has been imbued with an ambient intelligence and unfathomably powerful technowizards roam the land hoarding ancient binary incantations] This sucks
