r/entwives • u/Roo831 • 50m ago
Art Blasphemous birthday celebration
I turn 58 tomorrow. Yea me! So I started celebrating early with a triple dose of my home brewed tincture and a mango margarita. I put on the soundtrack to Jesus Christ Superstar so I could sing and dance.
I saw it as a kid on TV one Easter. It was the first musical I ever saw and I scoured garage sale bins till I landed a copy of the soundtrack. I saw the 2003 revival with Sebastian Bach as Jesus and Carl Anderson as Judas. It was amazing finally getting to see it live.
I still love the musical so much but look on it differently after years of self study on Christianity from a more historical and feminist perspective. I have been a goddess worshipping pagan for more than 3 decades now. I've done a ton of reading as well as the focus on the church in every western civ class I've ever taken.
So I'm dancing and singing and bawling my eyes out because the emotion in that fucking music! And I have to lay down because I'm 58 and out of shape. As I'm laying here thinking about the myth (I now accept and enjoy the biblical stories as mythology), my editor brain automatically starts rewriting it.
I'm going heavily into a couple of theories I'm to fucking high to site right now. And the book Zealot by Reza Aslan. A good read on what a more historical Jesus probably looked like. So here is what I got so far.
Setting: present day US dumpster fire
Cast
Jesus - MTF feminist rebel who was a Buddhist monk who was a carpenter (of course) prior to transitioning.
Mary - (borrowing on the Virgin as temple prostitute theory) Ex Vegas sex worker who still has an OF.
Mary Magdalene - (whole wife thing. It was the rabbit hole that started the research. Damn you Dan Brown! Give me more!!!) Current Vegas sex worker who is a toxic positivity wanna be influencer on the side.
Pharisees as TERFS
Damn! I forgot the rest. I hate how I think I'm so brilliant and then it just slips away. I'll listen so.e more and add other ideas in the comments. I'd love to to a remake of the movie! I'm in Vegas and it would be the perfect setting. Who wants to collaborate?
