First slash: Jesus/Judas

[alena_hu]

Thank you for the lovely encouragement.

Title: The Man That Clothes Me
Summary: God the Father plays a trick on both Jesus and Judas.
Pairing: Jesus/Judas
Notes: Partially inspired by the 2000 version of Jesus Christ Superstar. The main plot point is inspired by the pseudoepigraphical Gospel of Barnabas, together with a few Gnostic ideas. The

Comments

[norwich36]

HOLY CRAP. That was an amazingly original concept. (Clearly I need to read the Gospel of Barnabas, because I just love the whole premise of this). I am completely blown away, and really hope there will be more of this.

[alena_hu]

*blushes like a beet*

Thank you!

[butterfly]

Here via a rec by norwich36. This is a really fantastic idea. The construction of the story is very strong and it flows beautifully. I really hope you continue this.

[alena_hu]

Oh, thank you very much! I am really glad that you enjoyed it.

I really hope you continue this.

I think I will... ;)

[fredbassett]

That was absolutely bloody brilliant!!!!

[alena_hu]

Thank you, glad that you liked it! :D

[phantomdaae1981]

Absolutely AMAZING!!!!

Really, absolutely stunning.

[alena_hu]

Thank you so much! :D

I was also just reading some of your Jesus/Judas that I found on christ_slash, which I found wonderful. Especially "If We Go Too Far", that was definitely very sexy indeed! ;)

[spes_unica]

Finally got round to clicking on the cut (you know how it is) - hm, interesting idea, although now I'm the one who is confused about all this son-of-God-not-son-of-God business raised by Barnabas, and its precise relation to your premise (which is that Jesus is the son of God but there is an illusion so they appear to have swapped appearances and Jesus is being mistaken for Judas and then goes and adopts the part instead of going directly back to Heaven and hangs himself like we all know Judas does? is that it? Sorry, I feel very dense - must be time of day and bad health. Should go to bed.).

Anyhow, nice writing! I like Lucifer. Is he Miltonic?

[ETA now you have me watching bits of the 2000 musical on youtube - yes, I can *definitely* see where you're coming from there... ;-)]

[alena_hu]

Ooh, thank you so much for reading, and the comments

[spes_unica]

[Sorry about all these edits!]
I think it still says Jesus was the Son of God

No, that's what it apparently says he wasn't! Hence my confusion, but of course your version makes sense as it is in any case!

A propos of hanging - did I ever send you my music essentials mp3 compilation - I have a feeling I did! - check out Gesualdo's setting of Responsory 4 in the first night section - I think it's merely "track 04" but it is actually also the fourth track. The words ought to be:
Responsory

[alena_hu]

No, that's what it apparently says he wasn't!

Ah, my bad, then! That's what one gets for only scanning the information in the must cursory manner before speaking, I guess.

And see how beautifully he soars up on "se suspendit" which is part of the repeat section.

You did indeed send me the compilation! And I just took out the Gesualdo disks and listened to the Amicus meus part. Yes, indeed I see what you mean about the beautiful soaring, and I have to say it's giving me ideas about crucifixing and hanging and other acts of love. Then I wanted to look up the Hanged Man card in Tarot, then I saw (just on Wikipedia) that it's also called the Traitor in older decks...

Oooh, check out the Gesualdo setting for the descent into hell for your inspiration!Thanks so much for this! It is inspirational indeed. I'm not so great at talking about the musical points, as you know, but I especially loved the starting section and the "inter mortuos". The text, needless to say, is pretty much perfect for what I'm hoping to imagine. And now I'm going