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Vivian Shaw
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September 2 - September 4, 2020
treating the differently alive was not only more interesting than catering to the ordinary human population, it was in many ways a great deal more rewarding.
Ha!
Like the Helsing family—who had dropped the van from their name in the 1930s, fleeing the Netherlands ahead of the gathering storm of World War II—the Cranswells had found themselves making a transition from hunters to simply scholars,
easiest thing is to think of me as a large well-dressed mosquito, only with more developed social graces and without the disease-vector aspect.
“No. Well. … see, this is the biggest misconception people have and I’m fairly sure Sam has left it this way for a reason, but we don’t actively try to tempt people into Hell. Hell just provides the torments, or the boredom, either way, which people believe at the most basic unconscious level that they deserve.” Cranswell stared at him, hand frozen halfway through reaching for the last pastry. “You’re kidding, right? Hell is what you make it?”
Well, duh.
No, I think that this is definitely supernatural, but nonbinary.”
“Other manifestations include a pretty convincing human male of astonishing physical beauty,
aka Tom Ellis as Lucifer
Awake and hungry. Its purpose is and always has been to consume, to devour; and all the mischief it has made in all the ages of civilization, and before civilization itself, is merely to generate hate and fear to feed its unending hunger. It has turned the course of history to its own desires, fomenting unrest, provoking conflict, steering what might have been peaceful agreements toward aggression, over and over again.
