Collage 37: You Also Do That

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A collage about some of the traits Alastor shares with the rest of the Hazbins. The background is art of fingerprints in different color gradients. Across the top is the text “Let me be the void you fill with/taxidermy fingerprints,/taxonomize our differences” in the Genius Lyrics font and three lines. Below that on the left is the text “I must do what is necessary to live up to my own self-image” juxtaposed with “my self-image depends on giving people a chance to do better, even when it's hard”. Aligned to the right is the text “RAGE.” in all caps, bold, and with a space between each character, “she was a demon of Wrath - and a virulent one”, “Cherri grinned, and in that face was all the joy of Wrath in its truest form, unobstructed by social norms and free, free at last to rage”. Below that is the text “little household spirit of limitless fealty, but only to a few” juxtaposed with "’Something to devote myself to,’ he murmured like a prayer”. Below that, flush with the right edge of the collage is the dialogue: “Vaggie's mouth had fallen a little ajar, but then the hatred was in her too, and she declared with viperous intensity, ‘Well, you definitely made Hell a better place by taking him out of it.’ Alastor raised his eyebrows, then his smile metastasized into vicious glee. ‘We agree, then, that there are some demons who are simply irredeemable, and unworthy of forgiveness even if they weren't.’" Below that and aligned to the left is the text “I'm afraid of the moment you grow tired of my extreme personality and run for the hills!” juxtaposed with “nobody loved me anymore”. Below that off to the right is the text “so familiar with the horrors of mankind that you are unfazed by mine”. Below that and very close to the right edge of the collage is the text “It had been some time since he had successfully friended a wild animal, and it was always a titillating achievement” juxtaposed with “it was the grueling cryptogram of self-awareness in the face of grandiosity that had elevated him, made him more than the rabid animal”. At the bottom of the collage, in bigger text than the rest of the quotes and two lines, is the text “I don’t really believe in virtues-and-flaws./There’s, like… traits, and that’s it.”

"Let me be the void you fill with taxidermy fingerprints, taxonomize our differences" is from Will Wood's song "I/Me/Myself". All other text is from Anguish of the Marrow. The background image is from here, and is attributed to Olga Kurbatova.