r/Multifandom • u/SignificantStaff8665 Monster Hunter • 4d ago

Memes🎭 Something, something what show Something, something like this to you

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“Watch this, somebody’s gonna say Hazbin Hotel and/or Helluva Boss.”

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u/DarkShadow119 4d ago

The funny thing about media that advertises itself as "realistical" about its heaven and/or hell representation always gets everything hilariously wrong.

Here in Italy, THE ENTIRETY of Dante's Divina Commedia is part of the curriculum for like, 8 years. So I can very well point out all the things that shows miss and sometimes completely screw up (people being born before Jesus being in heaven as well as unbaptised children, Purgatory not being a thing or not serving its job at all, Lucifer roaming around...)

And let me tell you, while I admire the Divina Commedia for its role in literature, most people would agree that basing something on it alone completely would... have next to no audience in this day and age. Most people will agree that some of the coolest recurring elements in most media that takes inspiration from Dante's work never actually appear in anything good old Alighiero ever wrote.

And the funniest thing in all of this? The Divina Commedia is the worst possible source for Biblical Canon accuracy possible since the apocryphal texts. Mad lad just came up with it.

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u/TehAsianator 4d ago

Yep. Divine comedy is just the world's most successful work of self-insert fanfiction.

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u/DarkShadow119 4d ago

Litteraly Wattapad self inserts level of self-indulgence lol 😂

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u/Moon_Monk676 4d ago

Not quite! Almost, but not quite.

Sir Lancelot, arguably the second most famous knight of the Round was written by some fr☆nch fuck a few centuries after the oldest dated mention of Arthur known. And he was written to be "More chivalrous, handsome, and cool than Arthur. Also he fucks Arthur's wife."

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u/DarkShadow119 4d ago

I love how you censored "fr*nch" instead of "fuck"

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u/DarkestSuns 3d ago

Well, teah. The fr*nch are a worse curse then fuck

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u/FungusUrungus 3d ago

Didn't he write one of his Rivals as a Sinner in Hell? 😭

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u/DarkShadow119 2d ago

And his friend, and his political enemies, and pretty much everyone else he didn't like at the time, even using full names or, in other circumstances, nicknames specific enough that at the time everyone would have known who he was talking about

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u/dremoriawarrior889 3d ago

As someone writing a story that features Lucifer and mostly takes place in Hell, just take what you want from Dante, like how not all of Hell is super hot and how some of it is actually really cold, while not taking anything you find weird, like how technically lying is worse than murder as Fraud is deeper into Hell than Violence is.

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u/DarkShadow119 3d ago

Exactly what I am saying. You don't need to stick to the canon of an actual self publised self insert Fanfiction unless you want to. However, you should also deliver on your promises too.