BronxWench

We will build it up, and we will come back home… home again.
 

Thank you all!  Another adventure filled trip around the sun indeed!  I’m healing nicely from the surgery.   

Hey, I’m a Christian-friendly pagan. What can I say?

It’s sad. But burning down and being rebuilt is kind of what cathedrals do. Notre Dame will rise again.

And as a pagan-friendly Christian, I appreciate that.

Hey, I’m a Christian-friendly pagan. What can I say?

Hey, I’m a Christian-friendly pagan. What can I say?

As horrible as this is… there’s something amusing to me putting “Oh sweet gods” as an exclamation for a Christian Cathedral burning.

Me too.  The good news is that they seem to have saved the other towers, as well as the historically vital artwork inside, so while this was bad, it could have been much worse.
 

It’s a real fucking shame. Amazing old building.

Absolutely horrible.  But if we choose to be positive then you can say that it’s been damaged, not destroyed, and that every century has changed it in some way, so it’s now the 21st century’s chance.

So far, they seem to be leaning towards an accident involving the restoration work that’s been ongoing.

So far, they seem to be leaning towards an accident involving the restoration work that’s been ongoing.

I am both comforted and disturbed by this notion...

I am both comforted and disturbed by this notion...

Yup – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity being one such example with a, uh, Nordic Jesus. I’m sure some of the modern white supremacists pull the same shit.
Aryan Jesus was also a character in Ghastly's Ghastly Comic back in the day, alongside Drunk and Bitter Jesus. That was a quality webcomic…
“Oh, wait, you the first born? Yeah, you be afraid. If it’s any consolation I don’t like this any more than you do, kid. Pharoh being stubborn.”

Strangely for a Judeo-Christian angel, he’s rather averse to Jewish people.
I may regret asking this question, but is Aryan Jesus actually a thing, or are we just talking about paintings depicting Jesus as white rather than Middle Eastern, like The Last Supper?
Also…
It’s always good to know that Kevin’s ME-teor joke is very much in the JayDee spirit.

I accidentally looked at Lovecraft rather than his fictional universe and created the world’s most racist angel, Klandalphon, responsible for all of the Aryan Jesus imagary, currently tasked with working as guardian to the POTUS.

You have got to be kidding me… they can’t let you have ONE day off????
 

I took the day off from one job, and I still have dinner to finish and a ton of laundry that needs doing….

I’m actually familiar with Freefall, even if I haven’t actually read it.  The website Atomic Rockets, which is a useful if sometimes hard to navigate resource for physics equations and potential spaceship designs, has referenced Freefall more than a few times, even using images from the comic as illustrations.
I have actually seen some pictures of angels with wings that are either attached lower down on the back or at the hips.  The latter is strangely popular in anime-inspired works, along with small demonic wings attached at the hip.
If we’re going to talk about skeletal structure, then mid-back makes some sense, since the wings would have their own scapulae rather than being mounted on the ones being used for the arms (removing conflicts over muscle attachments) and would put the wings closer to the center of mass of the human body.  Having said that, it does look a little strange to me, and it would likely conflict even worse with the sword, since now the scabbard would be knocking into the humerus of the left wing instead of passing underneath it, and the angle it would have to be at would be even more restricted than it would with shoulder-mounted wings.
I’m really not a fan of hip-mounted wings.  I feel like as soon as those things start flapping you’re going to end up with the torso hanging forward from the hips during flight, which is not the most majestic image.
Ultimately, though, I don’t know that realism matters that much here.  these are preternatural organisms, after all; they treat the laws of physics more like polite suggestions than anything else, so where the wings are mounted is, as far as I can tell, more a matter of personal preference.
Speaking of which, what did you mean about interpretations of the Bible?  I ask because the only times I recall angels actually being described are in Ezekial 1 (which describes Cherubim and mentions that they have four wings, but never mentions where the wings attach to the body) and Isaiah 6 (which describes Seraphim, but again doesn’t say anything about where the six wings are attached), and maybe Zechariah 5 (verse 9 describes women with wings like those of a crane or stork, who may or may not be angels; again, no word on how the wings are attached).
Feel free!  I’m always happy to learn about new stuff.
Also, this has nothing to do with anything, but while scanning Deviantart to find pictures of the various wing arrangements, I ran across this, which I am linking to because it’s just really cool and creepy.
No kidding.  If the description of your otherworldly visitor includes “four to six wings” and “covered in eyeballs,” it could be something from the Cthulhu Mythos, or it could be something from the Bible, which is kind of awesome.

friggin loooove kids in the hall and orphan black. Never heard of redwall, I’ll have to check it out!

Redwall if yer into animation.

A good dose of Lost Girl, Dark Matter, Flashpoint, Orphan Black, and some Kids in the Hall for the comedic side might help.

If I might reccomend a work? Check out the webcomic,  freefall.  It's about the early days of a human space colony, a prototype AI and the first alien citizen. It's a comedy, a good one, but the author is a fan of robotics, economic theory, philosophy and psycholdy and works it in really well. It's a really well done reasitic setting to go with a good story and jokes. 
 
It might help, but also I just want to reccomend it. 
If I might reccomend a work? Check out the webcomic,  freefall.  It's about the early days of a human space colony, a prototype AI and the first alien citizen. It's a comedy, a good one, but the author is a fan of robotics, economic theory, philosophy and psycholdy and works it in really well. It's a really well done reasitic setting to go with a good story and jokes. 
 
It might help, but also I just want to reccomend it. 
 
Also, given support of skeletal structure and some readings of the Bible the wings are more likely to be mid-lower back or hips. I can link some tutorial examples