#how? I’m in awe

[tokenducks]

Charles “We’ve got literally forever to figure out what the rest means” Rowland

#what in gods name is their ship name #someone make a poll so we can vote and figure it out please and thank you #dead boy detectives #charles rowland #edwin payne #paynland #I’m not tagging chedwin because that’s awful #tho my issue with paynland is people are gonna get confused if it’s payneland or paynland #whatever #payneland #they are so important to me #I love how romantic love isn’t shown askre important than platonic #devoted if the best way to describe their relationship

[glitchedcosmos]

Don’t make promises you can’t keep

#IT IS DONE #WOW #ITS DONE #look at it look how awful it is #jk I’m just glad it’s done #enjoy I hope it came out ok #sonic prime season 3 #sonic prime angst #sonic prime #sth #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sonic fanart #sonic the hedgehog #mini comic #sonic art #sonadow #sonadow prime #sonic prime art #comics #art #digital artist #digital art #my art shit #I’m gonna miss prime so much man #art blog #artist on tumblr #my artwrok

[easyaesthetics]

Shuake & tweets - Happy 11/20!!!

#I am an unapologetic prince outfit hater LMFAO #it did grow on me & I like it for its symbolism but I will nvr forget how excited I was to see his thief outfit when we entered the casino #and then saying ‘oh. that looks awful.’ ALOUD TO MYSELF IN MY ROOM HAHAHAHHA #I love him so much that I’m willing to overlook it tho <3 #IT NEEDS MORE RED!! the white looks so unbalanced 😭 #anyway YEAH happy 11/20!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 my second 11/20 in the fandom :))) #persona #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #mine #akeshu #shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #sae nijima

[not-another-walnut]

the percy jackson racial discourse will never not be insane to me because rick has said several times that he was pressured to make pjo a very white and heteronormative series but as soon as he had power he made every other book as diverse and queer as he wanted.

how were you guys surprised that when given the opportunity, he diversified his story the way he had originally wanted to???

#y’all are so exhausting #I’m so glad I only see the sidelines but that’s still so toxic #I don’t understand how people have such awful takes like did we read the same books???? #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

Please stop telling people to die. Please stop telling people to kill themselves. For the love of everything, please stop. Don’t do that.

#the amount of awful things I have seen these past few days #guys please please please #it’s perfectly okay to dislike someone it’s perfectly okay to not support someone it’s perfectly okay if someone makes you really really #uncomfortable and angry #it’s not ever okay to tell that person to die #or tell that person to kill themslves #that is not ever okay #in any circumstance #I don’t care who the person is I don’t care what they did I don’t care how angry they make you #do not ever tell them to die #don’t ever freaking do that #my post #y’know what screw it #I’m maintagging this crap #wilbur soot #wilbur situation #shubble #this doesn’t just apply to This by the way #this applies to every situation and everyone #but it’s extra relevant right now I think

[jellyvibes710]

@evenmoreofadisaster it’s a super rough story board but I first stumbled upon these guys because of @2aceofspades doodles of them and now I’m gradually becoming obsessed haha

I haven’t gotten too far into the story yet so the dynamic might be off, I’m sorry if it is 🫠

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #save rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt donnie #rise of the tmnt #rise disaster twins #rottmnt disaster twins #i still dont know how to tag #but aw well #maybe posting this will help motivate me to actually finish #if not I’ll probably just delete it #buying more time with tag’s because I’m nervous to post this #ahhhhhhhhhhh

[fuckyeahisawthat]

“I don’t think that is what God wants. And I don’t think you want it either.”

This line of Aziraphale’s in the Job minisode keeps sticking out to me. Because this is the heart of the problem, right? This is how Aziraphale can see Crowley so completely and also not at all.

Because yes they suck at open communication and yes it’s because they had to hide their relationship for thousands of years and have so so so much trauma and fear to work through. But ALSO they actually do have a profound difference in how they see the world that keeps coming between them, and it’s not just theoretical but deeply personal to both of them.

Because Aziraphale still wants to believe that God is good. He can’t let go of that because his whole identity is wrapped up in being an angel of the Lord, and if God’s not good then what has he been doing for his entire existence?

And so when bad things are happening he falls back on This cannot be what God wants. The whole of season one, he refuses to believe that God could really want the world to end—even though we now know he knew this was a possibility before the world even started. He keeps going up the chain of command, trying to find someone to intervene. “That’s why I’m going to have a word with the Almighty and then the Almighty will fix it.” As if God doesn’t have all the information or hasn’t been paying attention.

And really, the events of season one reinforce this worldview for him. Because if the Archangel Fucking Gabriel isn’t sure what God wants, then maybe God did want them to stop Armageddon. Maybe it was Aziraphale and Crowley who were doing God’s work after all.

He’s gotten as far as realizing that Heaven’s orders are not the same thing as God’s will, but he still hasn’t detached the concepts of Good and Right from God in his worldview.

Crowley is a good person who does the right thing so he must still be an angel deep down. “I know the angel you were.” The only way Aziraphale can conceptualize Crowley saving Job’s children is, “Come on, you’re a little bit on our [God’s] side.” So Crowley’s fall was a mistake; Crowley belongs in Heaven, where he was so happy before the Fall. Why wouldn’t he want to be an angel again? And yeah maybe Heaven sucks now but God is still good, so there’s hope that the system can be reformed with a change of leadership, and Heaven can be made to actually do good, the way God always intended.

But that’s not how Crowley sees the world at all. He is operating with an entirely different understanding of reality. Because he figured out a long time ago (at least by the time of the Job job, but probably long before that) that you can’t base your sense of morality on what you think God wants. Not just because you don’t know for sure, but because sometimes God’s plans are fucking awful. God in Good Omens is not kind to Her creations. She doesn’t tolerate questions or doubts or disobedience. She’s capricious, turning on the creatures She made and killing a bunch of them when She’s in a bad mood. She punishes indiscriminately and disproportionately. She wagers human lives like gambling chips. The kids were supposed to be dead no matter who won the bet.

I think it’s interesting that Crowley is the one who introduces the idea in season one of “What if the Almighty planned it like this all along? From the very beginning.” That’s probably a comforting thought to Aziraphale, soothing his anxieties about going against Heaven right when he is feeling acute distress at the idea of no longer having a side. (And, in that particular moment, no longer even having a bookshop.)

But it’s not a comforting thought to Crowley. Have you seen what happens when God has a plan for you? It fucking sucks. Woe betide you if you’re the Barbie God decides to play with today. (At bare minimum, you’re coming back with some burn marks and a weird haircut.)

I’ve brought up the line “There are no right people. There’s just God, moving in mysterious ways and not talking to any of us” before, and I tend to focus on the “there are no right people” part. But also, there’s just God.

Aziraphale tends to draw a distinction between God’s will and Heaven’s orders when it suits him, and collapse that distinction when it doesn’t. Crowley almost never differentiates between God and Heaven. There’s just God, and She’s not going to explain why this is happening or listen to pleas for mercy (although Crowley still tries). You can’t trust Heaven or Hell, and you can’t count on God to show up and make everything all right. Sometimes God is in fact the reason that things are not all right. You’re on your own.

(And. Look. Crowley is right on this one. There are certainly aspects of their relationship where they’re both equally responsible for things being a shitshow, but the text is pretty unambiguous about Crowley, a demon, having the most accurate read on the nature of God in the world of Good Omens out of any of the metaphysical characters.)

Crowley rebuilt his entire sense of self, alone, after the Fall. He created himself anew and developed his own moral compass and sense of identity independent of both Heaven and Hell. “The angel you knew is not me.” When Crowley does the right thing, that’s not his angel-ness shining through; that’s just Crowley.

And from a like, trauma recovery point of view, it’s actually very healthy for him to have the realization that sometimes God’s just kind of a dick. He didn’t do anything to deserve getting kicked out of Heaven. None of them did. Just God messing them about because She didn’t like being questioned, or She wanted to see what would happen, or She needed two sides for Reasons and didn’t much care who was on one or the other, or She’s playing some fucked up little game for Her own amusement. (And if there was some Great Plan that required Crowley to fall…well, that is also fucked up. Because it doesn’t matter if there was a reason. It still hurt.)

And while Crowley in general is extremely patient with Aziraphale and his slow, halting journey away from Heaven…it’s gotta sting, every time Aziraphale doesn’t want to believe that God could be cruel, when Crowley is standing right fucking there. It’s gotta hurt when Aziraphale refuses to see something that Crowley knows to be true through his own lived experience. Because it should be enough. What happened to him should be enough to make someone who loves him walk away from Heaven and never look back. And it isn’t.

But of course Crowley is one hundred percent not going to talk about this, if he is even fully self-aware about having these thoughts, because it’s far too painful and vulnerable. (He talks to plants, goats, God, and no one in a bar at the end of the world, but never to Aziraphale.) And so he says “Tell me you said no” and “I think I understand a lot better than you do” because he can’t say Choose me. Just this once, choose me and he can’t say Believe me.

And Aziraphale is not going to think about all this and work it out for himself, because he has a massive lump of denial centered around exactly this thing, that sometimes God hurts people who didn’t do anything to deserve it. I’m sure he’s thought about the Fall in abstract terms, enough to be afraid of it, but not in terms of this is a thing that happened to a person I love. And he has certainly not allowed himself to draw any conclusions about the nature of God from it, because that is far too scary a prospect.

And so they’re stuck. Until they can figure out how to remove this massive landmine from the center of their relationship, they are going to keep having the same fight over and over again, and they’re going to keep hurting each other without fully understanding why.

#do you know HOW HARD it is to write genuine ideological conflict that also feels deeply personal?? and they did it SO WELL #i am in awe tbh #good omens #good omens s2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #heaven #hell #god #the god in good omens is not nice and you can’t convince me otherwise #is a tag i have from s1 and i’m sticking with it #fall thoughts

[marisatomay]

Happy anniversary to the time Katy Perry was suspended in the 6th grade on November 14, 1996 for humping and making out with a tree while imagining it was Tom Cruise.

#obsessed with how many people in the tags are learning about how awful and stupid catholic school is. I’m so sorry.

[viola-halogen]

It’s a love song. It’s the song that makes the world go round. It’s a promise. It’s hope for a gentler, brighter future. It’s a candle in the dark. It’s a protest song for beating down walls. It’s an apology. It’s reconciliation. It’s a litany against doubt. Its lyrics are laaaaa la la laa la la laaa.

#hadestown #i’m honestly in awe of how much emotion and how many different meanings they can fit into just that little melody

[bergooz]

i feel like part of this is another lesson in parasocial relationships. we in fact do not know the people we watch sometimes multiple times a week on our little screens or even the people we pay to see at live shows

#corey.txt #watcher #talking about shane ‘eat the rich’ madej specifically btw #it just feels hypocritical to me #like correct me if i’m wrong but they make jokes about how awful capitalism and stuff is all the time

[softly-and-suddenly]

People are so boring about classic literature sometimes. Like I know it’s cool to be critical of men in books from the 19th century or whatever but it just leads to ripping out all of the nuance in favor of “Uh all of the Brontë men were evil and abusive and that’s all there is to those characters.” Say something interesting. I’m begging you

#yes this is about a class I’m in. what of it #There is a scene in Jane Eyre where Jane approached Rochester to ask him for leave for a few weeks to see her sick aunt #and he protests and makes a fuss out of it and he gives her a bunch of money and then takes it back and gives her less than he owes her #and if you read it in the strictest and least charitable fashion then you could say that Mr Rochester is an evil piece of shit who won’t #let Jane out of his sight and doesn’t give her what she’s due #but if you actually read it in the context of the book it’s so obvious that he’s joking around with her #and she’s ribbing him back in that same scene #because when you start out with the idea the Mr Rochester is an irredeemable monster and therefore everything he does is suspicious #you miss out on the very obvious fact that he and Jane are best friends! Their personalities gel perfectly #which is why they become so infatuated with each other #Saying ‘well Rochester didn’t give her all her money so he’s clearly manipulating and abusing Jane in this scene :(’ #is such an awful boring take that ignores what Charlotte spent hundreds of pages doing with these characters! #try having reading comprehension how about that #wuthering heights #jane eyre #the tenant of wildfell hall

[erros429]

WHY WAS THIS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME ONTO MY YOUTUBE I’M CRYINGGGG 😭😭😭😭 SISTERS????????? SISTERSC????????1?:2???? SCISOSRSS??-1???:??2?

#dungeon meshi #farcille #look i’m best friends with my sister and we do NOT do the things that these two did #cutest sister is CRAZY 😭😭😭 #if one of these was a man there would be NO people saying 😍😍 aw the cutest siblings 😍😍 #erros doesnt know how to shut up

[gigglingjester]

I wonder if these people remember that Valentino is a rapist and a human trafficker…

#someone shared this in the discord I’m in and I’m just…. #I’m at awe how stupid these people are #I’m not sugarcoating it anymore #vivziepop critical #helluva boss critical #hazbin hotel critical #anti vivziepop

[whaliiwatching]

Hey hello. Consider. Hobie reading over and suggesting edits to drafts of Peter's writing and then going home visually with clippings and quotes from said writing as a part of him. Alternately, Peter takes inspiration from quotes visible on Hobie

heart on your sleeve…..

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #noirpunk discord was chatting abt words on hobie’s university signature reflecting his thoughts which i’ve done before lol #hobie gives me the opportunity to be obnoxious abt poetry <333 #oh how i love them #thank you anon!!! i rlly appreciate people leaving lil ideas in my inbox #even if it takes a while for me to figure out how they’ll work #but it’s so much fun and it’s so sweet and i’m so glad people think of me to share their ideas!! #they’re both writers except parker usually sticks with prose #and hobie with song lyrics so i believe in my heart of hearts #that they are both SHIT at poetry #(yeah song lyrics are poetry but the structure/vibe is way different lol) #poetry is something they almost unconsciously start to practice together/for each other #type of nerds to be like ‘aw this is such a sweet love poem… you spelled this wrong and repeated this phrase already—‘

[mstormcloud]

I think applying tropes commonly found in Sonadow fics to other sonic ships is very funny

Like today I saw the cute posts by Blu-ish about how hedgehogs circle and headbutt eachother when courting and how Sonic and Shadow would do that and I agree.

However I think the implication that mobian hedgehogs do this is HILARIOUS when applied to ships that only involve one hedgehog.

Like Silver starts circling around Espio one day and lightly shoving him with his hip or his shoulder and Espio is like: ???? What are you doing??

Or even Blazamy like- Amy keeps circling Blaze and the less Blaze reciprocates Amy does it more to try to get Blaze to react. Blaze eventually just tries to politely tell Amy to stop cause it’s hard to hold conversation while she’s moving all around.

But later Blaze talks to Silver and is like: “I have no idea what she is trying to do…perhaps she is finding a weakness in my stance? Should I fear her hunting me for sport???”

And Silver is like: uh. Well. I think she’s hitting on you? It’s a hedgehog thing.

And Blaze just freaks out because WHAT DO YOU MEAN AMY WAS FLIRTING WITH HER

#silver would hold that over Blazes head for way too long #cause for the FIRST TIME HE KNEW SOMTHING SHE DIDNT HAHAHA #honetsly another Sonadow trope that I think would be interesting to see with other ships is the paw thing? #like yes some Sonadow fics are very strange about it I’ll admit #BUT #I really like the idea that the gloves are a culture thing it’s just very fun to think of how mobian culture would differ from human culture #like ofc I’m an espilver trigger so my brain goes there like #I love the headcannon that Espio reads romance novels #but I also feel like on Mobius a lot of romance tropes would be things usually done by mammals #since just like in real life I headcannon that mammals are commonly seen as cuter than reptiles even in Sonics world #so Espio gets a little self conscious about such things (cuz he’s a teenager and worries a lot) #he doenst ahve soft fur to cuddle or ears to flick or paw pads #but I feel like if he were to show silver his hands silver would not even care about such things #because silver just loves Espio cuz he’s Espio #looking back on my tags and noticing typos is so embarrassing lmao #like uh I meant to write espilver truther above….not trigger #Aw well whatever #silver the hedgehog #sth #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #espio the chameleon #amy rose #espilver #sonadow #blaze the cat #blazamy

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

he’s THE guy ever

#death note #l lawliet #manga redraw #my art #he’s THE guy #i love him #did u know i didn’t even care for him my first read/watch through of dn #so wild #that’s bc i was weirdly fixated on light #and i love light he’s perfect and awful and great #but now i understand #L is the guy ever #you’ll never guess but i’m tired lmao #winter brings it out in me #i’ll wake up and be ready for a nap an hour later no matter how long i’ve slept #maybe i should get that checked out #anyway friendly reminder that soon i shall finish my comms sheet and comms will be open probably by the 7th december #maybe sooner.i need to check when my finals are but they'll be in the first week-ish of december and after that i can draw and sleep all da