Every Time Guillermo Del Toro Puts His Tiny Key In His Cabinet Of Curiosities While Dressed In His Fancy

what’s it called when you’re so disconnected from reality that cold water doesn’t feel like anything and you can barely taste food anymore

saltburn is about a gay little freak fumbling a boy bad bitch so hard he decides to kill him and his entire family about it. and then he's like no yea I wasn't IN love with him or anything I just wanted to get their estate. drinking his cum and fucking his grave were necessary to the plan ok.

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I'd like to ask you how you started shipping Lucifer x Michael and what inspired you to finally write a book about it! I'm sure you have some kind of origin story behind it 😂 Just like how you thought of pairing Samyazza and Azazel, I swear that until I read A&M, I had no idea about Samyazza and the other Watchers. It was a surprise for me to look it up out of curiosity and discover that they're actual names mentioned...

I actually went into detail on why I paired Lucifer with Michael in the special birthday edition of ABM (in a long introductory note). I've also talked about it here, but I'm not really sure where that ask is.

The (reiterated) answer is that I thought it was interesting that a lot of people I knew in real life had the idea that they would have been friends once; I'm talking about my religious family and friends here. It's interesting because there's no scriptural evidence for it, and there's no... religious tradition of Michael and Lucifer being friends. The idea that they're brothers (as in, blood brothers) spawned from this (unfounded) idea everyone seems to have, I think.

There's this part in ABM where Rosier says that Michael and Lucifer loving each other "just makes sense" and yeah, it does. Outside of any ABM context, it just makes for a really compelling tragedy to all the statues of Michael casting Lucifer down that we see everywhere. It explains why Michael never looks happy in those statues, that's for sure. They're all so melancholic. You don't need to read ABM to get that feeling either.

In terms of actual biblical evidence, there is none, but I was really fascinated by the fact that Michael only ever speaks once in the Bible, despite his 4 billion appearances, and it's at Satan (in Jude 9). It comes as a memory though. Jude basically says, "Do you remember when Michael fought with Satan over Moses' body and said that God rebukes him?" The fact that it's a memory with little context and that Michael wouldn't condemn Satan with his own heart made me... think a lot.

Michael's name means "Who is like God?" also. It's meant to be a rhetorical question. Well, who do we know who'd want to answer it anyway? Who do we know that would try to become one with that question? (Kiss it, fuck it). The devil, obviously. And it just makes sense. Michael, the sword of God, the chief prince of Heaven. Of course Satan loves him. And why wouldn't Michael love God's most beautiful and favorite angel back?

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thought of Michael coming to regret what he's done and being taunted by all the iconography of him killing, hurting, casting down Lucifer everywhere he looks on Earth

May we please get more cute daddy Baal, Luci, and baby Cain facts pls? 🥺🥺

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Baal loves Cain so so much. When Cain is a baby, Baal somewhat struggles with how to hold and care for him, but once he gets a hang of it, he really likes carrying him around (though clumsily). When Cain is a toddler, he really likes sitting him on a knee or on his shoulders. Baal will also stop whatever he's doing if he feels someone tugging on his tunic, then smile down at Cain, and scoop him into his arms.

One of the first things Lucifer ever did with infant Cain was lay some of his jewelry on him and watch him play with it. Lucifer carries baby Cain with him all the time, if not in his arms then wrapped up against his front or his back. Lucifer's favorite thing to do with young Cain is go out walking with him into the forest and teach him about flowers and nature. When Cain is older, Lucifer tries to be less fussy, but he stills scolds Cain if he's ever out too late or slightly injured for whatever reason or his clothes are askew. Whenever Cain isn't there, Satan is visibly sadder, at least in private, maybe sitting on a chair and staring at the fire place silently.

Oh and I think there's a little family-esque portrait of the three of them somewhere. It's probably not an ornate oil portrait or anything, but a painting of them a stone slab somewhere, just small enough for Lucifer to bundle, then have Baal carry when the migration happens. It's just Lucifer, Baal, and a very young Cain. I think an artist suggested it to Lucifer since Cain ages and they should try to immortalize this moment, and Lucifer decided it wouldn't hurt. (i think lucifer looks pretty stern but if you squint, you can see a tiny, soft smile)

I’ve been reading Dune and I can’t help but imagine it in old Studio Ghibli style…. Also if the lighting looks weird just remember that Arrakis has two suns. So.