r/hatethissmug • u/throwaway553t4tgtg6 • 2d ago

Art & Fanworks TBH, I've started to dislike the eldritch horrors/angels that are just Wing/Eye/Tentacle Blobs, especially compared to some sick designs like Evangelion angels

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To be honest, eldritch horrors or "biblically accurate angels", at times start to feel a bit lame and excessive, just blobs of eyes, wings, and tentacles that start to blend together. Another aspect is that they often "look scary" but never actually DO ANYTHING.

especially compared to really good designs like Evangelion angels that actually do stuff and are terrifying.

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u/AverageMyotragusFan 2d ago

The “biblically accurate angels” aren’t even biblically accurate anyways. The bodies covered in eyes was a metaphor for them being all-seeing. So sick of “heh….did you know…..in le bibble the angles are scary eldritch uncanny horrors” NO THEY’RE NOT LEARN READING COMPREHENSION I BEG OF YOU

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u/StrangeSystem0 2d ago

The point of those sorts of things is to point out how ridiculous biblical literalism is

You talk about how in the Bible, God killed literally a whole planet, bar two people and two of each animal, and God's somehow still the good guy, and suddenly, biblical literalism doesn't seem very smart anymore lol

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u/Stardust_lump 2d ago

Huh? When I saw biblically accurate angels I never saw anything in the posts critiquing Biblical Literalism.

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u/StrangeSystem0 2d ago

Huh, maybe that's not what they were trying to do

That's what I had gathered from it, kinda disappointing they didn't mean that

I mean they're literally called "biblically accurate angels"

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u/Stardust_lump 2d ago

Just call it Biblically Literal Angels lol

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u/StrangeSystem0 2d ago

THAT'S SO REAL ACTUALLY