Yep. Tom is old-school, black robes and inverted crosses evil. He shaves his head and cackles because it’s expected. Souls damned one-off, and they pretty much have to walk up to the gates, knock, and ask to be admitted into Hell.
Bob is the kind of man who has MP’s and CEOs’ personal numbers. 100% Will to Power, forests razed, villages wiped out, thousands dead because it was 1p/thousand cheaper to cut corners on food safety and buy a government Ministry. Souls? Believers? If they don’t serve his ends he doesn’t give a toss.
His is the kind of evil that lays waste to planets with a smile. He is infinitely more dangerous
All of the this. In my always-vigorous Steeple headcanon, Tom gets cease-and-desist letters about his look from Anton LaVey. Bob probably *parties* with the Top Gear people.
If Trident is the Top Gear of Satanism, I see no way that Bob Warren isn’t a menace to life, liberty, dignity and the very well-being of the plant (but I may be biased as this is one of my favorite Bobbinsverse villains in some time).
I wonder if Tom has the good taste to loathe Bob appropriately in return, or if he is the specific type of pathetic to yearn for Bob’s approval nonetheless
Given that they visibly studied Satanism together earlier in their lives, I suspect that they had a falling out, and that we’re going to hear more about it.
So, Bob’s a mainstream Satanist? I wonder how Trident fits into that. It’s clearly not the usual face of mainstream Satanism, given how Tom and Brian reacted to it. Is this a new veneer the mainstream CoS has created for itself? Some new (secretly) Satanist society? A pet project of Bob’s? A splinter sect Maggie doesn’t know about? Something else? I guess we’ll find out…
At least the goat is m having fun. There’s something so sad in Maggie’s old room. You can see she tried really hard to isolate herself from her family in a friendly place. Seems she wanted to be forgotten by her nefarious dad. If her and Penrose will become a thing, that will be the cerry on top against Bob! I’m pretty disappointed by Billie. After months of service in the Church of Satan she discovered that’s an unapproved splinter set just now?
I love Billie as much as the next person but I’ve never seen her as the investigative type. She didn’t even know that she doesn’t get paid and in fact, had to pay rent to be part of CoS. She is very earnest but not practical.
And now I am wondering if Maggie’s dad not liking Tom is the broken clock being right twice a day, or he manages to be way worse.
But Maggie’s room being undisturbed… and her not bothered into the town except for a invitation. Maybe dad doesn’t care enough to work into bonding with her daughter, but also doesn’t want to completely erase her from life as that would also be work. That way could remain in a wishy washy position of “well she is always welcome back to fold” all confortable and with no need of doing anything.
This would be a very different kind of orgy from what she’s become used to, though. More like the powerful using the powerless than “do what thou wilt”.
Both gestures signify a similar meaning in the U.K.!
The middle finger signifies an erect phallus as a general rule in most European-derived cultures it appears in, whereas the two fingers that we as Americans are so used to seeing as a peace sign are, in Europe, actually a medieval expression of defiance by archers – who would raise their arrow-nocking fingers at enemy armies to show that they still had them, as said fingers would generally be cut off if the archer was captured, and could shoot an enemy with them.
Well, at least daddy dearest has good taste re: Tom Pendennis
I… kind of get the sense that Bob is WORSE than Tom. But likely more charismatic.
Yep. Tom is old-school, black robes and inverted crosses evil. He shaves his head and cackles because it’s expected. Souls damned one-off, and they pretty much have to walk up to the gates, knock, and ask to be admitted into Hell.
Bob is the kind of man who has MP’s and CEOs’ personal numbers. 100% Will to Power, forests razed, villages wiped out, thousands dead because it was 1p/thousand cheaper to cut corners on food safety and buy a government Ministry. Souls? Believers? If they don’t serve his ends he doesn’t give a toss.
His is the kind of evil that lays waste to planets with a smile. He is infinitely more dangerous
Also Tom unlike Bob, apparently doesn’t seem to be into beastiality so that’s at least a few brownie points for him.
Suspect the bestiality is solely for extortion, later, a la Epstein. He personally couldn’t be bothered, otherwise.
What bestiality? The goat’s only “amused.” Maybe he’s a more-or-less ordinary pet who simply Likes To Watch. 😉
I think probably the goat is ceremonial rather than participatory. Which explains its amusement rather than terror.
…by which I mean, you can’t humiliate a goat.
Although a goat could humiliate you.
All of the this. In my always-vigorous Steeple headcanon, Tom gets cease-and-desist letters about his look from Anton LaVey. Bob probably *parties* with the Top Gear people.
Neither though is worse (except maybe BOb just on power and influence alone) than the owner of Pixey Garage.
Bob is infinitely more dangerous and does more evil in a day than Tom manages in a year
If Trident is the Top Gear of Satanism, I see no way that Bob Warren isn’t a menace to life, liberty, dignity and the very well-being of the plant (but I may be biased as this is one of my favorite Bobbinsverse villains in some time).
…planet, even. Plants too. Maybe!
Well, the ARE many plants on the planet.
Even more if you’re Welsh!
I wonder if Tom has the good taste to loathe Bob appropriately in return, or if he is the specific type of pathetic to yearn for Bob’s approval nonetheless
Tom appears to find Trident annoying, and trident appears to by Bob’s front organisation, so the current implication is actual loathing.
Of course, you can guess what you like about secret, repressed motivations.
Given that they visibly studied Satanism together earlier in their lives, I suspect that they had a falling out, and that we’re going to hear more about it.
Puff skirt dress, with big boots. Good pairing, yes.
“So sure he would have turned this room into a gym”. He hasn’t even let the cleaner in to have a go at the cobwebs.
So, Bob’s a mainstream Satanist? I wonder how Trident fits into that. It’s clearly not the usual face of mainstream Satanism, given how Tom and Brian reacted to it. Is this a new veneer the mainstream CoS has created for itself? Some new (secretly) Satanist society? A pet project of Bob’s? A splinter sect Maggie doesn’t know about? Something else? I guess we’ll find out…
A new, disruptive, modern, brand. As ISIS is to Al-Qaeda or Bannon and Miller are to the old Aryan Nations.
I think CoS is probably a very minor satanic player in the Bobbinsverse
Perhaps the Mennonites of the overall Satanic Reformation.
At least the goat is m having fun. There’s something so sad in Maggie’s old room. You can see she tried really hard to isolate herself from her family in a friendly place. Seems she wanted to be forgotten by her nefarious dad. If her and Penrose will become a thing, that will be the cerry on top against Bob! I’m pretty disappointed by Billie. After months of service in the Church of Satan she discovered that’s an unapproved splinter set just now?
I may have to snip a small screenshot of that goat just to use in future Steeple-based discussions. The very cheek of him!
Bear in mind that Billie’s sources of information will mostly have been Tom and Brian. And you can bet that Tom bigs himself up.
That’s true. But still….
I love Billie as much as the next person but I’ve never seen her as the investigative type. She didn’t even know that she doesn’t get paid and in fact, had to pay rent to be part of CoS. She is very earnest but not practical.
She’s very practical, too — Lottie described her as an “able Mabel”. She’s just way too trusting for her own good.
I’m surprised that the goat is not in search of the buffet. Then again, it may be amused as a result of eating the clothing everyone took off.
Perhaps the entire buffet is now gone because it was eaten by the goat? If so, this might explain why the goat is so happy.
Maybe the Satanists ate the buffet, and then the goat ate one of the Satanists, and that’s why he’s happy!
The goat thought it was a dining room, too.
ANY room can be a dining room if you’re a goat.
And now I am wondering if Maggie’s dad not liking Tom is the broken clock being right twice a day, or he manages to be way worse.
But Maggie’s room being undisturbed… and her not bothered into the town except for a invitation. Maybe dad doesn’t care enough to work into bonding with her daughter, but also doesn’t want to completely erase her from life as that would also be work. That way could remain in a wishy washy position of “well she is always welcome back to fold” all confortable and with no need of doing anything.
It’s just routine JPF/PFoJ/JPPF narcissism-of-small-differences, exacerbated by the fact that the shared motive is all about Will To Power.
Not sure why the news that Daddy Warren loathes Magus Tom draws a wide-eyed “double whoa” from Billie. I mean, doesn’t everyone?
I know *I* do.
Also, you’d think that walking into an orgy wouldn’t be much of a shock for Billie by now.
Although she wasn’t expecting to encounter Satanism in a buffet room, true.
I’m assuming that what traumatized her was the quality of the VIPs. So much flan in (or out of) red trousers!
This would be a very different kind of orgy from what she’s become used to, though. More like the powerful using the powerless than “do what thou wilt”.
I think that “double whoa” was more about Billie suddenly gaining increased understanding of her closest friend.
To clarify: Things are falling into place for Billie.
About Maggie, and about Tom, as well, come to think of it. This explains a lot.
That butterfly coathook. My heart.
Thank you for the note. I couldn’t figure out the middle poster and thought those were weird fish monsters.
Pussy Riot is composed of merpeople in this universe.
I recognized the Pussy Riot poster immediately. Very on-brand for Maggie.
Maybe not a gym, but least had the room dusted now and then
Pussy Riot…..how old is Maggie? Now I think she’s younger than I thought she was.
I’m glad the goat is in good spirits.
If I were those VIPs, I would be quite nervous that the goat would take a nibble. But maybe that’s the point?
“a massive middle finger”
I thought in Britain it was two fingers. Live and learn. 😉
Both gestures signify a similar meaning in the U.K.!
The middle finger signifies an erect phallus as a general rule in most European-derived cultures it appears in, whereas the two fingers that we as Americans are so used to seeing as a peace sign are, in Europe, actually a medieval expression of defiance by archers – who would raise their arrow-nocking fingers at enemy armies to show that they still had them, as said fingers would generally be cut off if the archer was captured, and could shoot an enemy with them.
No, the peace sign is the insides of the fingers, the UK archers-derived thing is the outside of the fingers, same as the “bird”.