WicDiv

Every now and then I remember WicDiv, so I log into tumblr and I take a look at my old blog. It’s a strange feeling.

While I wouldn’t want to go back to that period of my life (since I enjoy the current period a lot more), I do really miss feeling such a strong connection to a comic book, and its community.

Looking forward every month to the next issue, writing posts about it, discussing theories with other people in the community, marveling at the amazing fan art.

I really do miss that.

I’ve been meaning to write a post about what WicDiv meant to me, but I can never seem to finish it. It’s been on my drafts for almost 3 years now. Every time I remember WicDiv I write another paragraph. It’s my Winds of Winter. Hopefully one day I’ll finish it.

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kierongillen

Writer Notes: The Wicked + the Divine 44

kierongillen:

Spoilers, obv.

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kierongillen

Ananke should have let Woden survive because watching how GoT ends would have been a harsher punishment

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enigmatic-wankery:

Pantheon at the Parthenon 😈😇❤️

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myfirstsearchengine

I Am The Resurrection?

myfirstsearchengine:

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Alex: Ever since Rising Action was first teased, something has sat uneasy with me. Ever since the first cover was unveiled. Ever since the final issue of the last arc, in fact.
Since those immortal words, scribbled in sharpie on a notepad:
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I was thinking about that recently, if Laura coming back lowered the stakes, and undermined the death theme of the book.
I think it did, in a genre savvy kind of way, but at the same time, I think it raised the stakes, by making the WicDiv universe much more real.
I mean, yeah, bringing back a character who we thought was dead does lessen the impact of their death, and makes us think that any (past and future) deaths may not be final. But…didn’t we already kinda think that? Or at the very least, were supposed to think that?
The recurrence, as its name implies, is tied to resurrection, to coming back. The characters themselves tell us that constantly, particularly in the early issues.
“Au Revoir, just Au Revoir”
We are told they’ll come back in 90 years, that they’ve had past lives, that this is not the end. Amaterasu even believes she’ll see Luci in two years, in some sort of godly afterlife.
And that belief did not stay inside the book. I remember back in 2014 people here on tumblr were fantasizing about Luci and Laura’s reunion in ninety years (the “Laura becomes the new Ananke” theory was really strong back then).
That belief was even stronger with Laura’s death. Most people probably already believed that Laura would come back in some way, given the Persephone’s myth. We thought she died, and that she would back to life through some magical mean, tied to her powers as Persephone.
Issue #18 and #19 furthered that belief. Her eyes, her performing powers, the “Persephone is in hell”, it all pointed towards an actual resurrection. Both Ananke and Persephone implied that Laura was in some sort of magical undead state.
But issue #20 changed that. Laura didn’t come back to life, she never died. There’s no magical afterlife, that we know of at least, Laura’s powers did not bring her back to life, she simply didn’t die.
Death, actual death, truly is final in the WicDiv universe now. Lucifer isn’t coming back, Inanna isn’t coming back, Tara isn’t coming back, and if Laura ever dies, she won’t come back.
Superpowers aside, the WicDiv universe is much more real now. Despite their god status and powers, the gods are just as helpless against death as the mortals. Maybe that’s the point.
“Just Because You’re Immortal, Doesn’t Mean You’re Going to Live Forever”

Me in 2016: “Lucifer isn’t coming back, Inanna isn’t coming back, Tara isn’t coming back”

WicDiv 3 years later:

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