Welcome to “Still Alive!”
The goal of this project started with a single idea: write a story using role reversal with the angels Michael and Lucifer. I wanted to do it this way because I feel other authors are doing an incredible job playing it straight, so I challenged myself to see if flipping the script changes anything from the classic story that we all know as “The Fall.”
Weeeeeelllll. . .
If you’re reading this now, it’s been a year and a half since I undertook this endeavor and it has long since evolved into what you see now: a multi-media project that’s trying to analyze the existence of gods and angels based on our history of worshipping them. It’s a sci-fi/fantasy hybrid that infuses real world facts and culture into it to show that myths all have a time and a place because I believe it’s important to know where we came from if we’re going to understand where we are now.
So, without further ado, here’s how you can indulge in my nonsense from ‘chronological’ start to present:
IN THE BEGINNING. . .
There was God. Yeah, it’s almost always God, isn’t it? Anyway, God exists, and God is here to show us how you care for one another no matter how challenging you are when times are troubled, a classic recipe of His. Ah, but He realizes our modern tastes may need to be catered to a little more if His word is gonna get out again. . .
THE PRELUDE: TRIPPING WITH THE GODS
“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion…Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
Before you get angels, you need to know the God who made them, and before you even know God, you need to know who he was before even that. Follow Yahweh and his consort-husband Ba’al Hadad through the early history of godly worship. . .
First Excerpt: In The Heart of the Garden
BOOK I
So we agree God is the beginning, but now what? Well, God needs some helping hands to spread the good word, and He made a deal with another version of Himself a looooong time ago, so all He’s doing now is collecting on it. Watch as He begins the first beings in the cosmos: the angels. And watch it from the eyes of our two favorite angels, Michael and Lucifer, the Oldest Lovers in the Universe.
The End is the Beginning: Prelude To The Apocalypse
BOOK II
After Michael has succeeded in killing his version of God, he’s able to seize The Throne for himself and tap in to a recent discovery even us humans know about: The Multiverse. And now that he has it, he’s determined to fix “The Fall” once and for all by getting it through our heads that it’s not how it happened. . .
Who’s Telling the Story? Turns Out, Michael Is
The Bible Hijacks The Multiverse with “The Epic of Michael” [HIATUS]
BOOK III
With the Epic done, Yahweh/Elohim (God) and Michael (also God) hash out the truth about their original realities mono e mono. From there, the two decide to strike again in a joint effort of showing us that yes, any condition they replicate is going to end the same: in violence, in death, and in corruption. They at least hope it takes the piss out if they make the world look fun and colorful, though!
Michael Spins Another Origin Story
. . .and Lucifer Spins Another Meeting Story
OTHER (FANFICTION)
Oh, come on, don’t give Michael and Lucifer that look! If they can infect their own multiverse with whatever idea they want, then you better butter your biscuts, because these two will look to anything that has them in it to perpetuate their legacy.
Michael and Lucifer Enter the Hazbin Hotel Universe
Michael and Lucifer Enter the Hazbin Hotel Universe, Again
Michael and Lucifer Skip Off to the Lucifer (TV) Universe Next. . .
Michael and Lucifer Don’t Know How to Shut Up So Here’s A Bunch of AUs At Once
MISC. WORK:
Early Previews: (1 | 2 | 3)
Understanding God By Comparing Him to a Casino
From the Author: Starting a Book With 1 Character
Real Gods Require Blood 