on another note, you know who else i’d definitely fight? fucking dante alighieri
JOIN THE FUCKING CLUB. i want to fight dante so bad. can i have your reasoning.
god the entirety of the divine comedy was him wanking it. look at me i’m fucking dante and i’m going on a spirit quest through the afterlife because the virgin mary wants to save my soul in particular for some reason. my enemies? all in hell. my writing crush virgil? keeps giving me life advice because he’s also invested in my success as a human being for some reason (but i’m not saying i’m special or anything i’m humble and scared and i’ll faint a few times to prove it). my dead girlfriend who was never actually my girlfriend and i met like twice in my life but for some reason love more than my actual wife? she’s here!! and it turns out she loves me back!!! so much in fact that she prayed for my soul and the virgin mary decided to do her a solid and help me out!!! so now i get to meet all of these saints and oh yeah also literally see god
like okay i’m sure it was beautifully written in the original italian and i can appreciate the impact it had on the genre but dear lord it was really just a long biblical self-insert fanfiction