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Anyone know good stories where selling your soul actually works out pretty well for the person doing the selling?

I'll give an example: Goth Western is a really awesome webcomic and graphic novel which the author describes as

A story about selling your soul for love, and how necromancy may not fix all your problems, but it’s certainly a start.
At the start of the story, Evelyn (one of the two protagonists) dies in a shoot-out (it's a stereotypical "wild west" setting). Her girlfriend Jackie sells her soul to Millustra, the god of love and death, to bring Evelyn back to life. It's really well-written and gay.

#Faustian #GothWestern
www.gothwestern.comGoth Western - Prologue - Page 1A story about selling your soul for love, and how necromancy may not fix all your problems, but it’s certainly a start.
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rdm

@ewdocparris
Emily knew their neighbour was a demon. She was the only one who could see her true face and 'Lucy' as she liked to call herself knew it.
So she made a deal. Not the usual one - no, this was simply for Lucy to leave Emily and her family alone.
In exchange, she would provide names of likely candidates for deals.
As her husband was a manager in an oil company, she got to meet lots of candidates. Ones the world was better without.
Even Pastor Jones could not find fault with it.

#SecretSciFiNetwork#Midjourney#WritingPrompt
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Laloofah

In addition to everything else about the latest stinking GOP 💩 show, Kevin McCarthy’s utterly naked, nauseating lust for power is truly vile. Someone needs to remind him that Faustian bargains never go well for the pathetically desperate, grasping bargainer. (Remember Mitt Romney’s groveling Nov 2016 dinner with tfg, hoping in vain to be nominated Secretary of State?)
The GOP has an especially long & ugly history of making bargains: “Unleashing the Furies” — morningshots.thebulwark.com/i/

Screen shot of Brittanica’s definition of Faustian bargain: ”a pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches. The term refers to the legend of Faust (or Faustus, or Doctor Faustus), a character in German folklore and literature, who agrees to surrender his soul to an evil spirit (in some treatments, Mephistopheles, or Mephisto, a representative of Satan) after a certain period of time in exchange for otherwise unattainable knowledge and magical powers that give him access to all the world’s pleasures. A Faustian bargain is made with a power that the bargainer recognizes as evil or amoral. Faustian bargains are by their nature tragic or self-defeating for the person who makes them, because what is surrendered is ultimately far more valuable than what is obtained, whether or not the bargainer appreciates that fact.” https://www.britannica.com/topic/Faustian-bargain
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Neil Carpenter :unverified:

Fair warning, don't ever buy a pair of shoes like these. Sure, they look fantastic. They were 75% off. We were in New Orleans. My size, normally difficult to find, WAS THE ONLY SIZE LEFT.

It's a trap. Once you own a pair of shoes like these, you find yourself thinking, "Can I wear those to that CISO roundtable? I mean, I already picked out a rose-colored dress shirt so they match, right? Obviously."

Before too long, it's no longer you wearing the shoes. It's the shoes wearing you.

But, yeah, I'm totally wearing them to the roundtable.

#shoes#Fluevog#fancy
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