You know you've spent too much time hanging around fandom when...

[steepholm]

... you're reading Paradise Lost and find yourself wondering whether anybody's written Satan/God slash.

I'm way behind on LJ posts. Not only is there my birthday trip to York with lady_schrapnell to talk about, but also my trip to Roedean to not win the Southern Schools Book Award the weekend before! I'm still catching up on work things, though.





Authors left to right: Charlie Higson, Kate Cann (who won), Marcus Sedgwick, Steepholm, and Beverley Birch.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Oh, they have. Satan/God, I mean. I've seen it, though I don't offhand recall where. To be honest, I think it's probably canonical....

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing. Satan's self-torment - "I could go and humble myself to him, but then would I be tempted to rebel again and maybe get a worse punishment? Perhaps he knows that I would, so that refusing to offer me forgiveness is actually his way of being kind..." - just seems... well, slashy.

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

Definitely canon:

he created what I was
In that bright eminence, and with his good
Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.

(The book IV soliloquy is very Angsty, isn't it?)

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

{morbidly curious} {googles}
Yes, there is Satan/God slash.
Dunno if it's Milton-based, though, as I found that Yahweh-based slash fell --> that side of my limits. (Although I do sort of want to read some Greek pantheon now.)

Ooh, you met Charlie Higson! (Sorry, comedy fannishness ambush.)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I've written some Odin/Loki myself....

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can definitely see that one!

Hephaestus/Ares, that'd be interesting.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I've heard of the bearded Venus, but it never occurred to me before that Venus might be a beard...

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

And he was very nice. (But he and his partner stayed in a much posher hotel than the rest of us.)

[jadelennox]

Oh *course* there's Satan/God.

I wrote David/Bathsheba/Uriah once.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Where?

[jadelennox]

(yes, I am replying to old comments from a year ago. I am that behind on my e-mail, because I am an incredibly lame person. If you are still interested, David/Bathsheba/Uriah, And from Her Lips.)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am certainly still interested! And I should say that's the least gratuitous usage of Cohen's "Hallelujah" I've ever seen in fanfiction. (Also, the fic is excellent.)