Dante's Inferno - Blog Posts
Sometimes I think about the Ugolino statue in the Musée d'Orsay where he's sitting, surrounded by his sons, gnawing at his fingers.
The way their hands all claw at his legs?? while he's clawing at his hands?? And you can just feel everything on each of their pained expressions- the hunger, the desperation. THE LITERAL REPRESENTATION OF DECISIONS EATING AT YOU
Currently thinking ab Traitor by Matthew Stover as a parallel to Dante’s Inferno
Both are about the main character going through the lands of the dead and emerging as new, enlightened people.
Vergere & Virgil are both guides through the land of the dead (their names are even similar!)
The embrace of pain is limbo
Lust, I don’t know, I’m looking for answers for this one.
Gluttony is the garden of the Dhuryams
Greed is the mouth/stomach/worm thing that those people are living in.
Anger is when Vergere ‘betrays’ Jacen to Nom Amir and the Vong warriors and he fills the room with force lighting
Heresy is when Jacen learns the truth that there is no light or dark side of the force
Violence is when Ganner fights hundreds of Vong at once.
Fraud is when Jacen fakes a defection to the side of the Vong.
Treachery is when Jacen and the world brain work together to subvert the Vong.
My main question now is, who are the three in the heads of the devil? One option is that the three are Jacen, Vergere and Nom Anor, as they are the three the book is primarily about, but this is the easy answer. Anakin Skywalker could be one of the heads, as he is famously a traitor, though he did not stay one his entire life. Jacen is likely one as well. Who else could be?
Christianity is actually really cool
I just got done binging Wendigoon's old series on Dante's Divine Comedy, and I have to say, it really gave me an appreciation for just how awesome Christian writings, and by extent the bible really are. It's so hard to appreciate the cool aspects of Christianity these days because so many people in Gen Z associate it with right-wing politics and annoying preachers. It's much easier when you are allowed to take in these ideas without people pressuring you to believe a certain thing about it.
And sure, there are still many ideas I disagree with, but the ideals of virtue in helping others and the way it's explained in the Christian cannon are really inspiring to me. The reputation of Christianity would be so much better with secular people if there were more Christians willing to explain Christianity in a manner that wasn't so pushy and judgmental.
Anyways, I just felt inspired to write this post and put my thoughts out there. Check out Wendigoons videos on Dante's Divine Comedy if you ever get the chance.
What do you guys think is the most popular fanfic?
All I could come up with was dante's inferno, but I feel like there's something else
You will find a gate bearing neither thorn nor rose
Beyond it are fools who speak incomprehensible prose
A land of sulfur and flame
For sinners who deserve nothing but shame
Now listen well and have fear
Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here
- A poem I made for school
Im having so much fun overanalyzing unreal unearth in my fb account i fear that i might spam my moots with it
Local Italian crusader unwillingly teams up with a hyperkilling blue camera with legs to save his wife who got trapped in Hell.
(Artwork by kariwolf197 and requested by me)
Nessus from Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters Spoilers!!! (Kinda)
I don’t know if this was intentional or not or if someone’s already pointed this out but when I saw the film, I noticed some similarities with King Ghidorah and Satan from Dante’s Inferno.
Both are three-headed demon kings who are trapped in ice, longing to escape. I satan’s case: the more he flapped his wings, the colder it got and the more trapped he became. I just thought it was an interesting parallel to have King Ghidorah encased in ice in Antarctica 🤔😎👌
y'all remember when dante wrote a fanfiction of the bible and then hozier wrote a fanfiction of said fanfiction?? iconic if you ask me
Just gonna throw this into the void:
Odyssey Odysseus would either be aligned with the stranger or the eye, even though I'm leaning more into the stranger due to the continuous shedding of his Identity and constant deception; Ulysses from The Divine Comedy would definitely be aligned with the eye for his even bigger want for knowledge (he literally got killed by God because he went were no human could, for him humans were made to constantly try to get more knowledge ("considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza", translation: "Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to love like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.")
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as i pass through the second circle,
i wonder ‘is this inferno able to hold all us sinners?’
‘will it ever be enough for the long lines of fools,
of the liars and the traitors?’
brimstone and basalt beneath my feet and in my nose; not an unfamiliar feeling
as i watch the souls devour each other
in reckless fury, passion
on the backdrop of a hurricane of blue fire, carbon on hydrogen
crashing bodies on bodies,
with the echo of the endless storm in my mind,
i feel burning nostalgia in my hands,
in my mouth
for our earthly time together, burning coldly
and slowly in the remnants of my mind,
already half eaten, empty
by Ugolino, hiding her half-eaten fingers from my blind eyes
we are all fools, i more than most
for willingly walking into a sulfuric hell,
and for letting myself get eaten, like roadkill
by a devil who could never be satisfied.
as i crawl my way down to the bottom,
the last circle, lust to treachery
to the icy depths of this menagerie of our creation,
i know that if there isn’t enough room for us
so i will make room
as i forced my stomach to give space in its tiny insides
for your ravenous hunger, too much for two.
i will make room in the bottom for us
to make sure the devil devours us both,
judas, brutus; they can watch
as He chooses which of us will be the greatest feast.
they will vote, of course, with their half eaten hands and minds, on whom will be ripped apart first
and be sure, my dear
they have not seen our insides, thawing and clawing
they can jest, but never know the extent
of the crime committed,
we may be frozen in the lake together, but
there is not enough space in this devils mouth for the both of us
your cold blood will serve as a better appetizer,
than mine, i will stand and watch
endlessly burning, endlessly waiting
for starvation to take its toll
on my soul,
ripped from my body.
-L
