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Not me saving each and every Astarion screenshot for „drawing reference“™ despite A) not having any time to draw whatsoever and B) not even being in full denial about the fact that I just wanna look at my pretty pookie lol

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 screenshots #reference #astarion

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#reblogging this because I KNOW I‘ll need it #But my stupid ass will forget about this post in like #.1 seconds tbh #art #reference

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Took me a week but I have added to the craze.

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#this is it #this is the real ending #i refuse to believe this isn‘t what happened #good omens spoilers #good omens #crowley good omens #aziraphale good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands

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I can absolutely not believe my first ever gay ship is competing against one of my newest favourite gay ships in a final of gay ships.

I don‘t even mind who wins or looses, I‘m just absolutely delighted about who the finalists are lmaooo

(and not to mention - the man, the legend, Neil Gaiman himself commented on this makes this post certified iconic)

AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Quarterfinals

This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

#good omens season 2 #good omens #aziracrow #spirk #star trek #captain kirk #james t kirk #spok

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Not to mention, Crowley hit rock bottom SO OFTEN. First he fell, which he didn‘t mean to, then he‘s forced to do evil for eternity, but it becomes crystal clear right from the get go that he does not WANT to do evil. The earliest insance of this would be the temptation itself, he doesn‘t see what‘s so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway - I don‘t think he would‘ve done it if he thought it was truly aweful. He goes out of his way to save Job‘s children, although he has no connection to them and they‘re arguably just some spoiled brats. (Heck he even saved the GOATS). He shows Jesus the kingdoms of the world not as a temptation but as a curtesy, because he doesn‘t think he gets around a lot.

I could go on but my point is: Crowley is NOT evil. Like, at all. And for someone with a moral compass it has to be hell (lol) to be forced to do evil until times end. And then he saves that girl in Edinburgh and probably gets tortured for however long Aziraphale didn‘t see him. Rock bottom again.

During Armagediddn‘t Hastur finally finds him out and tries to collect him to be destroyed. He has to pull an entire stunt, killing another demon in the process, to make it out of there - just to be rejected by Aziraphale. Rock bottom.

Sure, Azi has faced difficulties as well, but they‘re just never as grievous as Crowleys. Season two ends with Crowley hitting rock bottom AGAIN.

It wouldn‘t make sense for Crowley to be the one facing despair yet again. You can only kick a character that‘s down so often - at some point the script needs to flip so Aziraphale can grow too.

That‘s why I also think it would make sense for Aziraphale to be the one in desperate trouble during season 3. Be it by disappearing or not. He NEEDS to fall on his face spectacularly so they can be equal. So that they can be at the same point in their emotional journey and ultimately FINALLY get together at the same eye level.

"There will come a tempest" scene & possible S3 Crowley & Aziraphale foreshadowing...

When Gabriel is apparently possessed in the second half of Awning of a New Age, he and the woman who appears to be possessing him say something that is strangely repetitive:

"There will come a tempest and darkness and great storms, and the dead will leave their graves and walk the Earth once more and there will be great lamentations."

There is no actual difference in definition between a "tempest" and a "storm." A tempest *is* a storm-- both are wind and rain together. The usage of them is more of a matter of manner of speaking-- it's situational. "Storm" is the common usage while "tempest" is just the more literary, more poetic way of saying "storm." Your local news station reports on an impending "storm" but a poet might call that same storm a "tempest." As a result, the prophecy is weirdly repetitive at the start, right? It really reads like this:

"There will come a storm and darkness and great storms..."

Ok, why repeat it? Why use "tempest" and "storms" in the same phrase? Why separate them? To Crowley? Maybe because whoever this is is trying to warn Crowley specifically of events, not just warn of them in general. Because the word that triggers the whole thing is "tempest"-- and it's Crowley who said it. It's Crowley who called what he just did in Awning of a New Age "a tempest" and not a storm because he's poetic and dramatic like that.

So... what if the first part of the prophecy is actually already in motion? What would this potentially tell us about S3?

What if it's kind of like Agnes Nutter's first prophecy for Aziraphale was in S1-- "...thy cocoa doth grow cold" being about *that particular moment right then* with a difference of it being unclear right now if Crowley really understands that someone is trying to warn him through Gabriel? If this is the case? Then S3 isn't about *preventing* The Second Coming-- it's about somehow trying to *reverse or fix it*... because it's already happening. The tempest is Crowley's storm in Awning of a New Age... which Crowley thinks he failed at but didn't really entirely. It's his failure, in his estimation, to get Maggie and Nina to fully vavoom that causes him to tell Aziraphale that it's Aziraphale's turn to try-- setting up the meeting/ball to go the way it does, leading directly to the end of S2. What comes next?

Darkness and great storms. The end of the world. The dead rising from their graves and walking the Earth once more. The Second Coming. And there will be great lamentations...

Obviously, The Second Coming sounds horrible in GO. It's The Metatron's plan and he's the main antagonist. It sounds like they're going to destroy Earth and the known universe and only the the chosen few will survive it but what intrigues me about this is why whoever is delivering this prophecy is warning Crowley about great lamentations. Crowley is the one who prophesied in S1 that he thought the real war that was coming was "all of us versus all of them", and he meant he and Aziraphale and humanity versus the system of Heaven and Hell. So far, he seems to be correct on that and given that it was a set up line in the final moments of the season for future plot, it seems likely to be true. This would be how he survives it. Armageddon in its S1 round was supposed to trigger a war between Heaven and Hell that could have resulted in Crowley and Aziraphale being separated for eternity after it. They managed to push it off until the end of S2 and now Round 2 is a different flavor of Armageddon. The Second Coming is what Crowley seemed to predict in S1... but someone here is trying to get a message to Crowley and it sounds as if it might be meant for him directly as much as it is for the world. And what might that prophecy possibly be saying about S3's Crowley & Aziraphale plot, specifically?

That after Crowley's tempest comes darkness, comes great storms, comes the end of the world, comes The Second Coming... comes great lamentations-- great grief, great mourning. I'm not saying that Crowley wouldn't be broken by the end of the world but I am saying that someone warning Crowley that in an era of "the saved" being given eternal life, that will Crowley will be experiencing great lamentations feels very much like Aziraphale is not among them. (I am not saying that the show will end like this-- it will be fine.) It also would be the height of irony if Crowley and Aziraphale spent their time together always thinking that they had the about 6,000 years until Armageddon and that it was probably Crowley who wasn't going to make it beyond then and then it turns out that Aziraphale, who always thought that he was the one who was going to spend eternity alone without Crowley if they couldn't figure out a way out of Armageddon... it's Aziraphale who then doesn't make it.

It might also be worth considering that Crowley is the character who was given information along with us about The Book of Life from Beez-- someone who would know and whose memory isn't damaged. He doesn't need this information if he's the one getting Book of Life'd. He needs it if his plot in the future is to try to un-Book of Life someone.

There is also that while Michael was threatening to Book of Life Aziraphale in the bookshop, they didn't just *do* it-- and then The Metatron said that Michael wasn't qualified to do it. I'm not sure how true that is or if it was just him getting Michael to knock it off and stop giving everyone spoiler alerts for his game plan lol but The Metatron *would* be qualified and is the angel associated with The Book of Life in religious texts and S2 ends, as we all know, with Aziraphale getting in the elevator to Heaven with The Metatron.

You know those unused concept art images of the bookshop that didn't make it into S2 where it's the last thing standing in what looks like some kind of apocalyptic nightmare around it?

Crowley saves the bookshop during The Second Coming? Sends as many from Whickber Street as he can to Muriel in the shop and makes sure it survives because he can't see it destroyed again and, in doing so, he might have preserved evidence of Aziraphale's existence enough for a plot to bring him back when he finds out he's gone? (I'm aware that the idea with The Book of Life is that the person is erased from existence and so never existed at all. I'm a romantic and this show is too, really. Aziraphale can't be fully erased and Crowley can't fully forget him. Fight me on it if you want to lol but I also can't see how a plot to bring him back happens unless Crowley somehow remembers him.) S2 also gave us way too many things Aziraphale has made in a way that kind of foreshadow his disappearance in a way that makes their existences more relevant. His sketch of Gabriel. His diaries. The photo Furfur took of him and Crowley in 1941... Then, there's this line. This bloody line:

...and that one...

...and this bit from S1 when Aziraphale is in a state of semi-existence and what can help them is what Crowley saved from the bookshop...

#don‘t mind me obsessing over s3 #not that I want our angel to suffer but like #he kinda has to #watch me be completely fucking wrong once it comes out #neil is famously unpredictable so who knows #aziraphale #crowley #good omens 2 #good omens #good omens theory #good omens season 3

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god dammit for how long does Arthur think he needs to sleep, my boy should be r e s t e d.

aw man.

#petition for merlin to whip open the curtains of avalon #and shove a croissant in his mouth #bonjour motherfucker #time to get up you slept through enough bs #go on and fix stuff #i‘m bored #merlin #bbc merlin

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[deep breath] now listen... listen—

#I know this is about something deep #but I can‘t help thinking #A little poison for Kara y‘know #no blood on Arthurs hands #Mordred sad not mad #Morgana could kick rocks #why has nobody thought of good old fashioned homicide #they never consider homicide #well except Morgana I guess #bbc merlin #merlin

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just a random experience I had. My mom who‘s by all means not been very involved with LGBTQ+ matters (appart from the three years she thougt I was a lesbian and never said a thing about it so we stan her as an ALLY, also she figured Azi fell in love with Crowley back in s1 when he saved his books in 1941) she seems to have claimed the kissing scene of season 2 of good omens as her favourite moment, which honestly comes as a surprise for me. Because I‘d feared she would take it as a humorous bit, but she honestly looks so heartbroken whenever she asks me to put it on soo, I don‘t even know where I meant this post to go, I guess I just wanted to share this experience because it seemed so wholesome; especially since my family used to be awefully conservative before I (very involuntarily so) became the show off for our family and made them more progressive and accepting. I just CANNOT wait for season 3, and to my surprise, neither can my mom lmao

#good omens #good omens season 2 #aziracrow #aziraphale #good omens spoilers #crowley #neil gaiman

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So I‘m rewatching good omens with my mom and I‘m hollering because I just imagined the story of season 1 from Shadwell‘s point of view.

Imagine you scam a dude who you think is mafia into paying your rent for sixty years, to the point where the mafia mans son takes over his place as your sponsor. Parallel to that you convince some naïve old bookseller who you‘re pretty sure is gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide to also send you money every month under the guise of providing him with an army. (What in gods name would the pansy need an army for? Who cares, at least he pays amiright). This carries on for decades. Those two couldn’t be more different people. Until one day you walk in on the southern pansy performing what can only be described as a satanic ritual and promptly exorcise him with nothing but your index finger, then return to your landlady (?) who you‘ve been insulting despite clearly being quite fond of her for the better part of your adult years.

Said woman then suddenly becomes possessed by the gay demon you JUST exorcised with your finger, only it turns out he‘s actually a good guy and while still trying to come to terms with the fact that your finger is capable of expelling demons, the world is ending and the woman of your heart is possessed by an angel, said angel promptly orders you to rush to Tadfield on a flying moped to kill an 11 year old boy with nipples all over using a century old cannon that you cannot possibly be sure actually works.

And then, when the day couldn‘t possibly get any weirder, your other sponsor - the scary mafia dude - shows up IN A BURNING CAR (which admittedly isn’t even the weirdest thing that happened today) and isn‘t only acquainted with the gay bookseller but seems to be unmistakenly, hopelessly, ready-to-jump-him-at-any-moment, head over heals in love with him and now you have to third wheel the mafia dude and his boyfriend who‘s currently stuck in your future wife‘s body, only to witness the boy you were meant to kill make up a whole ass new body for the gay angel out of thin air, then tell off his dad - who seems to be satan in carnate - then get told off by his adoptive dad who has about as much of a clue as to what happened as you do. Also your new recruit dips to a small english village because he fell in love with a witch, despite you telling him to set them on fire on sight.

Like if he hadn‘t been utterly mad before, I‘m sure Shadwell would‘ve been at the very least institutionalised after all this.

#I wonder what was the most absurd thing for him #probably the realisation of #shit my bosses are banging each other #do they know i ripped them off #also will i get smited #smote #smitten #for scamming an actual angel #who cares #as long as they only got two nipples #good omens #good omens season 1 #seargent shadwell #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley

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Maybe Crowley finally meets God in S3 and they tell him that he was granted one question for saving the world

And Crowley simply asks why did you reject me

And God says they have never rejected him. They simply knew he deserved more than Heaven could have ever given him. So they let him go, and Satan put him on Earth, and they gave him an Angel smitten with him so he wouldn’t be lonely and always felt loved

#this is lowkey healing my soil #shit I meant to type soul #but you get it #just finished watching it with my mom #as if i needed the gut punch a fourth time #the german dub is atrocious #sidenote #good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers

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If I had a nickle for every time a beige-wearing biblically lesser known angel forsook his gay love to take charge of heaven out of naïve motives I‘d have two nickles. Which isn‘t a lot, but it‘s weird that it happened twice.

#aziraphale and castiel have a scary lot in common #but i trust in neil to make his ending a proper good one #yes #in neil gaiman we trust #i‘m still not over season 2 #i‘d say sorry for the go spam but i‘m not #i‘m also not done #good omemes #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #supernatural #castiel #supernatural season 6 #good omens spoilers #good omens

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I just had a thought.

In episode five of Good Omens 2 Aziraphale reminds Shax his bookshop is a former outpost of heaven and therefore an embassy which they cannot enter. Shax retaliates by reminding HIM that he‘s an outcast, so technicalities don‘t exactly stand that firmly anymore. And while the demons were not actually able to enter the shop on those grounds, one of the shopkeepers did actually end up getting hurt (regardless of whether he was put back together or not).

I just thought, maybe Aziraphale was so willing to go back to heaven because he thought he‘d give humanity more security this way?

In the end, his decision to go back, to break Crowleys (and his own) heart was solely based on the hope to change things for the better - not for heaven or hell exactly if you ask me - but for humanity. He knew if he‘d run off with Crowley humans would‘ve been at the total mercy of heaven and hell and, let‘s face it, that‘s not the brightest future to have.

So while I absolutely agree he‘s beyond naïve in thinking he could actually change things, it‘s also the only choice he could‘ve realistically made. Because every other would‘ve meant to choose his own happiness over the survival of the world. And that would’ve just very much not been in character for him.

#I‘m not on either side #I understand both crowley and aziraphale #I just now get the irony of phrasing it this way #but the hate for azi is out of bounds #and very much not justified #it‘s a debate of love against ethics #and honestly who can win that #it‘s just lose lose no matter how you look at it #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #aziracrow #good omens

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good omens crack → 2/?

#This actually somehow cured my season 2 heartbreak #well not entirely #But still made me all giggly and warm #love me some fluff in these angsty times

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This compilation is basically all the reasons I love this fandom and more

Still can't believe Aziraphale tempting Crowley to get some oysters wasn't just a flirty play on words but was actually a reference to the time Aziraphale fully gorged himself while Crowley basked

What a wild moment to just bring up in conversation like that

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This post is less Good Omens- related and more personal, but there's been a lot of arguing over "representation" in the fandom the past few days. The strong feelings people express are awesome but ALSO I really want us in the community to appreciate and listen to one another.

People want to KILL queer people. There are still many, many places where it is not safe to have any identity other than cis het. Fighting that means sticking together, not tearing each OTHER apart. Allosexual, asexual, lesbian, gay, cis, trans, nonbinary, gender queer, GNC... we're all part of this community and we're stronger together.

In Good Omens, Neil Gaiman gave us a glimpse of what a world could be if people got to decide for themselves how to present and who to love without the hate and prejudice that inevitably comes along with that in the real world. I know people are questioning exactly what Crowley and Aziraphale are and how they identify, which is fine (honestly I don't know that we'll ever find out for sure. It may be something private between the two of them). But saying things like "it's homophobic" (for them to be ace), or "it's acephobic" (for them to be gay) sort of defeats the purpose of "it's a love story", doesn't it? At the end of the day, maybe it doesn't matter what EXACTLY they are. They're unapologetically QUEER and their story is for and about all of us.

It's okay to disagree. It's okay to ask questions. I mean, that's the moral of Good Omens, isn't it? We don't have to be the same; we SHOULDN'T all be the same... there's strength and beauty in our differences. But even if we don't all agree with one another, let's support each other.

I see them as gay male coded beings who have chosen that identity for themselves and would enjoy sexual pleasure as much as any other earthly pleasure. If YOU see them as agender or nonbinary sexless entities who are QPR or ace or aroace and would never have sex, I SUPPORT THE HELL OUT OF YOUR RIGHT TO DO SO. I'm in your corner and I will fight for you.

Love you all. Love that we love the ineffable love story of Good Omens, whatever form that takes, and let's lift each other up rather than tearing each other down.

#absolutely beautifully put #couldn‘t agree more #also not everyone wants or needs labels #they‘re here #they‘re queer #let‘s stand together #a unified front is better than a civil war anyday anytime #good omens

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Ya so I just finished season 2 of good omens and among the emotional distress, heartbreak and borderline trauma that ending gave me I got a thought.... Did the kid Zira and Crowley mistakenly raised get therapy? I think he needs it

#shitpost #well just kinda I'm actually concerned #I'm trying to cope with humour #Seriously I watched Lucifer as distraction #Only to immediately start crying upon seeing angel wings #I am not doing too hot #Good Omens #Good omens season 2 #good omens season 1

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Something interesting I just realized, because I‘m experiencing it pretty badly at the moment:

It‘s hardly talked about, but once you are making noticable progress in your recovery from depression the damage it has done on your life really starts to kick in.

Suddenly you‘re more aware than ever how much work/social events/life in general you missed, because the question „Why did you achieve so little over the past couple of years?“ is absolutely inevitable and people will think that you were lazy during that time.

I think this is the most dangerous point of recovery for relapses, because whenever someone asks you what you did or didn‘t do while you were sick the realisation hits like a train.

Me saying this could definitely be regarded as pretentious, since I myself haven‘t exactly found a way to cope with this feeling, but I feel like it‘s very important to drown out those voices of „you didn‘t do anything“ „you were just lazy“ and „you‘re a complete failure, look at you“ with thoughts of „I survived.“ „I made it through“ „I managed not to let myself starve, I showered“ „I fed my pets/watered my plants regardless of how terrible I felt“

I‘m mainly saying this to myself in this post, but figured maybe this makes it onto the feed of someone who needs to hear this as well. Stay strong guys, we can get through this!

#depression #mental health #recovery #struggle #emotional hurt/comfort #motivation #rant #personal rant #mental illness #mental illnesses #depressive disorder