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    Cathy replied to the topic Examples of How You Use Subtext in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 4 years, 8 months ago

    @obrian-of-the-surface-world
    Ooh I love your symbolism with dead city of Azragoth, it’s got so many layers and demonstrates how passive we are about the sins right in front of our noses while we judge distant crimes we may not be a part of physically but are in our complacency. Especially how unconfessed sin grows and wounds and eventually destroys us like lack of trust in a relationship.
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    Within is a remnant of the citizenry that has survived the plague.  This concept was written and imagined back in 2017, long before the disturbing events of our modern time. It almost feels like this story was a portentous dream of our present times.

    Bwahahahaha! “Avoid it like the plague” is a saying we can use no more because apparently humans don’t.
    But it really is crazy how so many writers are able to do that, I’ve heard so many stories about stories being written and it turning out like a prophecy. I guess it just goes to show how we can see things coming from a miles away and still blind ourselves.

    Cathy, the doll symbology is also chilling.  The manipulation is a kind of talisman voodoo doll, which is what the enemy attempt to plague real people with. Satan creates a mental caricature of us and plants it in our own minds, and then he abuses the representation of this idea of who we are and makes us feel small and victimized, presenting himself as a threat to us.  But our identity is truly and happily found in Christ himself, and his representation of us to us in his “doll” is not true.  When we discover that, Satan can no longer manipulate us by fear, or threaten us when we realize we are safely held and made secure by Christ Jesus.

    That’s exactly it! You said it better than I could!!
    One of the devil’s most effective lies is accusing us of a sin so often that we fall into it, or if we don’t we’re so preoccupied with not being found guilty of it that take our attention off God, off Love and kindness toward others. Good deeds become a guilt-response to poor self-image and not acts of love, the fear of being evil makes us do evil or at least fail to do good. At that point we don’t even see people as people but we see them as dolls as well; means to an end, a way to do our good works to feel better or receive assurance or approval.

     

    @rose-colored-fancy

    Oh no! Poor Liorah!!
    Lol she’s tough she’ll get through it. Just don’t send Faye into the desert alone!!! :D. Like @obrian-of-the-surface-world said the blood symbology is really powerful! And it works perfect for PTSD, the dual symbolism is really fantastic it’s like how God takes evil and turns it to good <3

    Ummm…. So you know when someone asks you about a specific thing of your WIP and the entire plot dissolves and you remember nothing, especially not where you used this or that? Yeah. That’s happening XD

    LOL IKR!

    Ooh, that’s so cool!! That’s awesome, I loved the imagery you used! Ahh, Alessio is so awesome! *Still wants to give him a hug*

    Lol, thanks!! I love my little morbid cupcake, he deserves a lot of hugs… ooh maybe we RP that idk how he would react to you hugging him; depends on his mood, the weather, the alignment of the stars lol XD

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