END OF YEAR 8 IS COMING

Happy Pride Month, from your favorite Wing.

I've talked a lot about how the phrase "Biblically Accurate Angels" is offensive and inaccurate, because it's a corruption of Jewish ideas about angels.

But a lot of you may be wondering, "well, what *are* Jewish angels anyway?"

MyJewishLearning just published an excellent article summarizing and explaining the different Jewish concepts of angels and how they are described, and I highly suggest reading it if you'd like an understanding of Jewish beliefs surrounding angels. Click here to read it.

i'm just going to ask, what's your opinion of Tzaphkiel's design?

It's fine! Essentially a clever reuse of the quad-wing template seen on other Heralds. (T)Zaphkiel is a Throne, so an Ophan, and thus the eye seems okay even if I still prefer anthropomorphism.

i did it

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A bizarre impact of popculture I've observed is that nowadays you can encounter religious people deadly afraid of Ars Goetia demons, who are about as religiously significant as oc monsters from Dungeons and Dragons

Training with the crew.

With the Meta-Knights being skilled with such a diverse set of weapons, Meta Knight would definitely know a thing or two about them.

do you know what is the magazine that the artwork "emerged" comes from? (related, i feel so robed that this design wasn't used for cherub, i mean, do really like SH Cherub, but imagined having this creature in your party)

This is credited in Digital Devil Apocalypse for a magazine called "M2 Discovery." Pretty difficult to find information about due to its fairly mundane name. Its covers all say "Discovery" in romaji but also render it in katakana as "ディスカヴァリー" precisely (as opposed to ディスカバリー, which is how it is misspelled in DDA). It styles itself as a "Mediamix Magazine" (メディアミックスマガジン); the "M2" probably refers to this.

I couldn't find the issue with Emerge but this interesting cover popped up after I found the right spelling:

An issue, volume 26, from November 1996 with SMT2 Michael featuring a "Devil's Compendium" feature that's continued from the previous month's issue. Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything else about the magazine.

I'm personally not that hot on Emerge's cherub as a demon design, but I feel it wasn't intended to be one. Kaneko with some greater artistic freedom going wild.

UPDATE: Added Discovery Jan. 1997 Volume 28 featuring Emerge on the cover, found by Vesk.

There are so many different Amazons (I am very sorry Wikipedia).

(I am not entirely sure what "vinaceous" means, was not in the dictionary. But I think it means "wine-colored".)

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a sans should be able to fly. Its Gaster Blaster are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The sans, of course, flies anyway. because sanses don't care what humans think is impossible. White, black. White, black.White, black. White, black.

MAGIC is always the answer.

have you seen the 'Outsider' Kirby music video by Rinyo?

tried to find what you meant and only this came up (i am very unfluent in japanese so)

is this what you were talking about? if so, then yes, i've seen this before and I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH LIKE GOOD GOD

anyone who's a kirby fan must see it at least once.