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Iscariot - Tosca Lee

#girl i am in shambles #judas #’but he has loved his enemies. he has loved me’#iscariot #tosca lee #temped to tag this as jesus christ superstar just to get all the jcs freaks to read this book #jcs #jesus christ superstar #jesus

What's your favorite interpretation of Judas in media? (ps. im glad you're enjoying my asks lol)

Yay! I'm glad as well hehehe :3

Oh that's an easy one, definitely Tosca Lee's interpretation aka my favorite Judas of all time, the one portrayal that changed my life forever, rewired my brain completely, and made me so unwell i'll never be normal now. I literally know the whole fragments by heart, it's like my favorite book ever

Thus said, i do love me all the Judases who aren't just a backstabbing jerk stereotype and make me think things and feel even more things. Like the one from the Chosen, the one from Fr. Szustak's sermon, the one from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, the one from Saint Oniisan, the one from Kakekomi Uttae, the one from The Ballad of the Judas Tree, and the one hidden in the Gospel's narrative if you know where to look. As for JCS's Judas, it really depends on the interpretation, but i do wholeheartedly think that "I don't know how to love him" has the best reprise in the entire history of musical theatre ever i'll die on this hill

#i'm going a reread of Iscariot for Lent (cause of course i am)#and oh my #the way i'm jumping from “WHO'D YOU THINK YOU'RE KIDDIN'? HE'S THE EARTH AND HEAVEN TO YOU”#to “NOOOOO!!!! NO YOU MORON WHAT'RE YOU DOING??!!!!”#sometimes going both at once #is definitely an ✨experience✨.#i got shot in the heart in an entirely new way already and i'm not even half way through #*chuckles* i'm in danger!#what can i say #any Judas who says (SPOILER) “He seduced me with His love” in a completely non-s*xual way can have my whole heart and bank account #cause dude. saaaame #thank you again for your ask dear anon keep em coming! :D #God bless you! <3 #judas #Tosca Lee #hey did you know the most spiritually intensive time of my life and finding my vocation was triggered by hyperfixating on this book? heh #not tagging other ones these tags are already too long

Final verdict on Parable of the Sower: there are a lot of good things about the book, but unfortunately they're all overshadowed by how much the way it handles theology grates on me. The actual teachings are unobjectionable, but there's a distinct lack of nuance with how they interface with the plot.

I've been mentally comparing it with the book I had just finished before starting it, Iscariot by Tosca Lee, because they're both about a self-identified prophet starting their own religion. But I think the reason that Iscariot works for me and Parable does not is because while the former portrays Jesus' miracles as happening as they're described in the gospels, it also makes it very clear why his contemporaries reacted badly to him. The amount of times that Judas has to step in and do damage control by saying "He speaks in metaphor! He's not actually planning on committing acts of domestic terrorism!" would almost be comedic if not for the story's foregone tragic conclusion. Meanwhile, Parable seems to take the stance that Lauren is right about everything and is uninterested in hearing arguments to the contrary. You could argue that this is just a side effect of the fact that the story is told exclusively from her point of view, but on the object level the plot is like "Problems caused by Lauren: 0. Problems caused by people not adhering to Lauren's ideology: 1 morbillion."

Those who are more spiritually inclined than I would probably like it, but my skepticism definitely put an upper limit on how much I could enjoy it.

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What the Fuck Am I Reading: Forbidden

Ooh, sounds like a harlequin romance, huh? Something saucy, eh? Some good ol’ fashioned trash, what? Man, I fuckin’ wish. I’ve barely started this book and I’m so done. The premise is that it’s the future and all human emotion except for fear was eliminated by a genetically engineered virus centuries ago, but now there’s some magic juice that can let people feel emotions again. But uh-oh! Only for very special boys and girls! Not those plebs! They die if they drink the magic juice! Also, there’s two types of magic juice: one that lets you feel ALL emotions, and one that only turns back on the shitty ones like rage and jealousy. Guess which ones the bad guys got! And our protagonist is just the specialist of special boys because I guess his dad knew about the magic juice and some random old man got to the special boy because “HEY, YOU’RE WHAT’S-HIS-FACE’S SON, HAVE SOME PLOT” before conveniently being murdered. And because the author isn’t imaginative enough to actually figure out how a person would live and grow with just one emotion, all he can talk about is how there’s an absence and how people “once” felt sadness or love or whatever--like bitch, you invented a world where those words have no meaning, so the characters wouldn’t think like that; to them, the stunted version would BE normal. Ugh, and everyone repeats themselves so damn much. Someone says, “WE’RE IN DANGER” and the other person says, “Huh? What? Explain it five more times.” I’ve already heard the damn history of their world like three fuckin’ times in exposition-fests. And the special-boy protagonist is so fucking dumb. He just had his emotions turned back on, and first he crawls around on the floor worshiping his friend as the most beautiful angel (real original mythos, btw), before remembering his mom died and having to run immediately back home to roll around in her blood (figuratively). All this while the government is apparently after him and supposedly has been stalking our special boy for years (because he’s special-boy). Also, can we talk about what fucking stupid worldbuildng it is to have this government where the law says you can NEVER run away from law enforcement on penalty of death... when the whole society is built on the idea you have ONE emotion and it’s fear? Like, fight-or-flight-or-freeze is kind of what happens when you’re scared, and yet THAT’S a capital offense when they do catch you after you run? I get it’s a totalitarian government or whatever, but they’d be like mass-murdering people all the fucking time, then, and that would scare people into rioting, wouldn’t it? Also they just threw in that people with imperfections--like scars--are immediately murdered, but, like, why. Ugly sumbitch ain’t scary, no reason to kill them if all you got is fear. And holy shit am I tired of hearing about fear. How many spines they got, that the cold shivers be doing the electric slide down them? I dunno, I thought it sounded kind of like an interesting premise--maybe like Equilibrium--but it’s kind of just annoying shit. I give up.

#what the fuck am I reading #ted dekker #tosca lee #forbidden #book review