you ever dip your entire oreo in milk except for the part where youre holding it and feel like thetis dipping newborn achilles into the river styx leaving him invulnerable everywhere except for his heel

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New? I mean… officially the term fanfiction is only from the 60s. But, like… 90% of all stories written in history were pretty much just fanfiction of something older. So, I mean… new is not really the word I’d use.

@phinarei As someone who’s taken university courses in both mythology (Greco-Romano and Scanadinavian) and oral traditions of folktales, I can definitely confirm it’s nothing new.

Disney movies like Tangled, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Frozen, Tarzan, Peter Pan, Snow White, 101 Dalmatians, and Hercules are all visual fanfics.

Tolkien’s Middle Earth works are fanfic of Norse mythology.

Cinderella, for example, can be traced back to a thousand-year-old Chinese tale, while Beauty and the Beast can be traced back to the Ancient Greek tale of Cupid and Psyche.

Hell, the story of the flood in the Bible is fanfic of an older tale found in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

This is EXACTLY what I was talking about. Thanks for verbalizing things I was too busy to put into words.

Did Jesus have to die or was there another option?

There was another option. 

God made the rules in the first place, which means he could change them if he wanted at any time.

Christianity creates several huge plotholes for itself by claiming to have a triomni god. 

In this case, a god which created the universe in such a way that they were the ones to set the rules means that sending himself as a sacrifice to himself as a loophole for a rule he created in the first place was all for show and with no substance.

Compare this, for example, with the Greek gods which were unable to overrule the Fates and who had no foreknowledge of the consequences of their actions; some of their actions led to unpleasant or unintended circumstances which led them to difficult choices.

Not so with the Abrahamic deity; he knew full well in advance exactly what his actions would lead to and had the full ability to decide on exactly what the rules of the universe would be, knowing in advance what his choice would entail

Another good comparison is with the Norse gods. They physically built our world, yes, but they never had control over the rules of how the universe works; the rules that control how the universe works just are. 

Like the Abrahamic god, Frigga has the power of foreknowledge of events, but unlike him is unable to do anything with that knowledge, because if she knows it will happen it means it is already destined and out of her hands. The one time she does try to change something she knows will happen causes what she was trying to stop.

Like the Abrahamic god, Odin is sacrificed to himself. But his sacrifice isn’t to appease himself or to deal with a rule he himself created; he hangs from Yggdrasil (the Tree of the Worlds) for nine days and nights with a spear through his chest because he needs to prove himself worthy of having the Runes reveal themselves to him. It is a sacrifice he chooses to undertake, yes, but he had no say in the rules of how the whole thing worked or how the Runes would react.