When we enjoy watching a clown we're enjoying that feeling of superiority -- someone capering and japing to coax laughs from us and us dispensing them generously like a monarch throwing coins A clown is reassuring as he is irritating, because that's how it feels to be needed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Just as a hero is intimidating and arouses envy and jealousy even as he commands admiration -- it's at once a relief and yet an insult to *not* be needed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Anyway that's what Rob Benedict means about why he can't punch someone and be taken seriously -- he can't stop that impulse to mug at the camera like "Hey, so did I do a good job? You liked me punching that guy, right? Did it work? Is he knocked out?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
And that's not just the character of Chuck Shurley THAT'S WHO GOD IS ON THIS SHOW God is not the hero, only mortals are heroes, only mortals CAN be heroes God himself is a fucking clown The ULTIMATE clown
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Thomas Aquinas tried to address the paradox of God's "sufficiency", that God is perfect and therefore completely satisfied with his own existence and doesn't need anything, and therefore somehow created the universe as a purely superfluous act SPN just throws that out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Forget that, it doesn't make sense If God were happy and secure in who he was then all of this would be a big damn waste of time, wouldn't it The little fucker needs an audience to laugh at his jokes and clap at his magic tricks so much he CREATED the audience
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
It's like the stuff with the Ebon Dragon creating the Unconquered Sun in Exalted God can't be a hero, he can't possibly know what heroism means -- to believe in something so much you're willing to sacrifice yourself for it to the limits of your power
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
God can't believe in anything higher than himself because there isn't anything higher than himself He can't make a sacrifice, he can't push himself to the limits of his strength, he can't die for a cause because he's limitless, immortal, omnipotent
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
He's *not capable* of doing anything for any reason other than masturbation He *created* the concept of heroism, he made heroes and he set up the tragedies they would be forced to demonstrate their heroism against, *because* it's something he can't understand or participate in
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
That is the whole tragedy of his existence, and why he is on a certain, incredibly perverse level, to be pitied, even as he is the ultimate enemy of all true heroes
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Benedict gets that across very well when God goes full villain in S15 That hungry, lustful, leering gaze he has as he watches Sam and Dean pushed to the point of having to make yet another awful choice and murder someone they love to save the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
That happy little Palpatine grin, just barely trying to hide his slowly hardening erection The ugly paradox that there's no one in the world who appreciates Sam and Dean's tragic lives as much as Chuck, who *wrote it* -- and it's that very fact that makes the tragedy a sick jokepic.twitter.com/81DK8HnWaL
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Going back and watching the end of season 11 is going to be like that moment in your Buffy rewatch where Jonathon gives Buffy the award in the prom episode of season 3.
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