It’s not that I don’t want people to look at me. I just want people to see anything other than the obvious. When it comes out of me, it’s wonderful. I hate it, but it’s wonderful. It’s me. It’s part of me. It’s as easy as breathing… but I’m not particularly interested in breathing any more. I couldn’t be everything you wanted me to be. And you saw what happened any time I tried to be anything else. I’m sorry I disappointed you, but… Try to be kinder. You have no idea what people are going through. Yours, Fucking Tara x.
Tim: The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
And so we reach the end of our trip through history and catch up to (almost) the present, as I’m assuming most people reading this won’t need a snapshot of what life in 2014 was like. I’m planning a post trying to pull together some of the patterns I’ve noticed in doing this research, and various other stray thoughts – but for now, enjoy your final eight grisly murders…
Tim:The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
Now the year numbers are going up rather than counting down, we’re positively tearing towards the modern day, and the history is getting far more recognisable to the average joe, with familiar faces like Charlemagne, Richard the Lionheart and samurai all making an appearance. The common theme in this set of eight seems to be Christian leaders sticking their noses where they don’t belong, resulting in some confused Franks, multiple Crusades and a lot of broken artwork…
Tim: The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
Our sixth octet of Recurrences bridges the gap between BC and AD, and sees two great powers rise, in the form of the Han Dynasty and the Roman Republic, only for them to crumble into bloodshed and chaos. Feels like an appropriate arc for WicDiv, no?
Tim: The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
We’re past the halfway mark in human civilisation and heading rapidly towards that good good Anno Domini, but Ananke is still popping noggins off like they were blackheads. In this entry, some of the Classical world’s greatest empires and philosophers take a swing at changing things, but the answer seems to lie further East…
Tim: The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
In this entry, we hit the halfway mark in our voyage through history, as we found a modern religion, celebrate the most baller of all the Pharaohs and watch thousands of years of progress get flushed into the Mediterranean Sea…
Tim: The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
In entry three, we take the focus off of Northern China and Egypt for a while, and head off on another global tour as the Bronze Age starts to kick in around the world, climate change claims some victims, and we find out what looks were considered on fleek in Middle Kingdom Egypt.
Unpopular opinion but I don’t think the whole pregnancy thing is that bad in itself.
The fact that something is a trope doesn’t immediately make it an invalid plot choice, and it’s true that many authors have misused this particular trope, but I personally feel like I owe Gillen the benefit of the doubt at the very least. I wanna see where he goes with this.
Motherhood and pregnancy are not inherently bad or uninteresting and I think there’s a lot of potential for compelling storytelling that hasn’t been explored much yet. Wether a cis dude is the right author to do it remains to be seen, but for now I’m tentatively hopeful
Tim: The Wicked + The Divine#36 finally gave us a
definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke
first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through
the annals of history and provide some
context for what was happening at the time.
In our second octet of Recurrences, the Bronze Age starts to get some traction, Egypt and Northern China dominate our Early Civilisation Showcase, and it’s still Big Boi Season when it comes to proboscideans. Spoilers (for real-world history, mostly) after the cut.
Just realised something. In the 1730s recurrence Ananke has Inanna make Woden miscarry a bunch of times and in exchange makes Inanna a god.
Do you reckon that was achieving the same thing as what modern day Baal did for Ananke?
I was thinking of this as well. But I thought Inanna killed Woden’s babies once they were born, not made her miscarry. Either way it feels like it may be related to what Baal is doing, yeah
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