the new testament is easier to understand once you realize that structurally it's just fanfic (the gospels) and comment threads (the epistles)
and revelations which i guess is shitposts? the analogy breaks down 🤷🏻♀️
@darius based on my reading the gnostic gospels are more like tumblr discourse
@aparrish - shitposts and revelations are my favourites.
@aparrish medieval religious art is the shitposts
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Maybe looking at comics is also useful, since they have this long history of fanfic becoming canon & bits of canon being thrown out, fan discussion getting varying levels of canonicity based on political expedience, & long complicated narratives chunked arbitrarily and about which only the exceptional bits are remembered.
Also this perspective makes it easy to compare Grant Morrison's run on any comic to Revelations.
@aparrish lol pre-internet shitposts
@aparrish book of revelation : erowid trip reports
book of revelation : time cube
book of revelation : long arguments on evangelical fora about eschatology
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@aparrish I think the gnostic gospels are the shitposts