#You cracked the code

[imposterogers]

The avengers fight “crime” because they’re cops. The vigilantes fight crime because there’s cops.

wait --

#asks #the avengers #you cracked the code #daredevil

[fujii-draws]

This is how dadnoir feels to me. The universe at large saw this guilt ridden ghost and went "you know what this man needs?? Two kids!!"

GEHAJHAKDJSKHSIAND

#EXACTLYYY #YOU CRACKED THE CODE #‘’get dadded idiot’’ PLEEASEEE #Dusknoir After accidentally getting an army of sableye. eevee. and riolu to see him as a father figure:

[yarrystyleeza]

IS IT JUST ME OR ARE THE BOOPS LITERALLY THEM!?!?

IT'S LITERALLY THEM WTHHHHH

#Yomna's ask box #boop #tumblr boop #YOU CRACKED THE CODE #the aristocats

[gentrychild]

OMYGOD!!! Ijust had a revelation!!!

You know the sudden emergence of quirks is sus, and everyone have theories to what could cause it....

My theory----› bnha and saiki k are in the same universe

Saiki have used his psychic powers to give random hair colours to kids bcos he was born w pink hair so its plausible he, gave others a bit of power maybe spread it around a bit idk.

And saiki would be the beggining of the dawn of the quirks, and bnha takes place 200 yrs in the future

Everything makes sense now.

#bnha asks #saiki k #You cracked the code

[desireisqueer]

Ok but like have you heard the some of the lycris of "Dear Arkansas Daughter"? Girl those lyrics are literally describing the 2021 top 5

"You with the dark curls" (Gjon)

"You with watercolor eyes" (Katya)

"You who bears all your teeth in every smile" (Damiano)

"Says; I can always hear you sing, I wanna hear ya speak to me" (Barbara)

"But a stranger braids my hair up on a street" (Dadi Freyr)

And now tell me I'm wrong

OH MY GOD

#HOLY SHIT #YOU CRACKED THE CODE #HOOOOOLLLY SHIT #desires archive #esc21 #eurovision #asks

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

context <3

#THE FUCKING SOUND I MADE READING THAT REPLY #poppy: this is a genuinely good option <3 #sally: ...we're literally 28 #and then wally slams his head into one of sally's points. Instantly lobotomizing himself #jokes aside this is just. its so funny #theyre too short.... #they need the high chairs.... #but how are they gonna get into them... too tall... poppy has to pick them up and put them in... #except i doubt either of them would allow that #wally would probs be like 'no thank you' while walking away while sally suggests 20 alternatives #'why dont we sit on the floor? or go to my place? or do literally anything else?' #scribble salad #on an entirely different note: #AHA! I HAVE PUZZLED OUT HOW TO DO SALLYS POINTS!! #i have never been good at drawing stars but!!! i have cracked the code with her!!! #im so happy.... tonight is a night of Figuring Essentially Useless Stuff Out but being very pleased about it Anyway!!!!

[berrysquared]

Its called giving up paywalling yoo joonghyuk’s face

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoo joonghyuk #orv yjh #orv fanart #omniscient reader fanart #orv #berry art #i am never drawing this man ever again i hate him #eyebrows drawn by an artist my ass #i cracked the code #if u want to see his face follow my patr eon #HUGE business moves #you would not believe what this fanart was originally

[lemobadeskie]

#skz felix #lemonade skie #skz #skz fanfic #skz fluff #skz hyunjin #skz imagines #skz scenarios #skz smut #skz stay #skz han #skz changbin #skz x reader #skz code #skz channie #skz seungmin #skz i.n #skz crack #skz fanart #stray kids stays #felix stray kids #stray kids felix #stray kids #you make stray kids stay

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

#thinking abt my babygirl again #again #ive talked about him being a lil cockroach but i thibk we forget hes also a clown!! #my girl has range #the two genders are cockroach and clown #and boy oh boy is he both #like a looney toones character stuck in an eternal metaphor for suffering #cassandra coded girlie #yes my migraine is back #can you tell?? #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #netflix #hannibal netflix #frederick chilton #raul esparza #hannibal crack #renew hannibal #revive hannibal

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

You know what I've decided that Lucius was dirt fucking poor like the rest of them and then he became a marginally successful hooker and used that money to pay for a tutor or go to a university or whatever. It gives his little "Do we look like prostitutes" "Not terribly successful ones" line new depth, it explains why he's working for Stede (he ran out of money but now he has qualifications to dabble in other occupations, ones that might allow him to travel), and it explains why his go to ways to get out of any given problem are sex and blackmail. I'll bet it's why he's so good at relationships. We like to project relationship councilor onto him, but a relationship councilor would never yell at a client like that. But you know who does yell at clients like that. Prostitutes dealing with entitled Johns. Also that boy has saved multiple Johns' failing marriages through pillow talk. When somebody is paying you to fuck them and then you finish fucking early but he's still got 30 minutes, you might get a guy's life story and he might ask you for some advice, just saying.

He's hooker coded you guys. My third eye just opened. Like he can't be rich because he was "a bit of a pickpocket back in the day" i.e. stealing for an occupation, but he had to get his hands on books somehow to learn to read and that's how. Lucius isn't middle class he's a prostitute. I'm betting that the progression of Lucius's life goes like this:

under 18 - pickpocket street urchin

18- 29 - hooker

29+ - pirate but in a way where he doesn't have to get his hands too dirty.

Also hot take but it might explain why he's not intimidated by Ed. Like the culture of piracy is to respect the captain or get hit, and to look up to these very successful pirates, but that's definitely not the culture of sex work. There was that high profile madam bust in hollywood where Charlie Sheen testified and I can't remember exactly what it was he said but basically it boiled down to "I'm famous. I'm not paying the girls to have sex with me I'm paying them to leave me alone after we have sex." And Ed is rock star coded. What I'm saying is that if Lucius was hooking in the Caribbean he knows at least somebody who has fucked a very famous pirate captain and he knows exactly what embarrassing shit that famous pirate captain asked them to do. He knows about Calico Jack's piss kink and he knows that Charles Vane has a foot fetish, and he has it on very good authority that Captain Kidd likes getting pegged. Blackbeard wouldn't come off so hot if you had all that information in your back pocket is what I'm saying. Like the other guys are looking at Ed like "Oh wow it's pirate Beyonce. he's like a god he's the top of his game he's everything I could ever hope to be." and Lucius is looking at him like "I bet your into pain play, aren't you" And he's right.

#lucius spriggs #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #I've cracked the fucking code you guys

[tastycitrus]

this is how player character works

#touhou #the process of becoming a player character in touhou actually just involves reimu and marisa liking someone enough that they just take 'em. #reimu and marisa: we diagnose you with playable. now come here bitch #but after sanae shikieiki forced them to stop doing that #this is why we no longer get stage 5 bosses becoming playable in mainline games. i've done it i've cracked the code #reimu hakurei #marisa kirisame

[thesherrinfordfacility]

take me up / cast me away

so this is going to be a veritable word vomit but this is actually so exciting to me; we obviously affiliate aziraphale with the flaming sword and both its biblical and GO narrative implications, but the catch that @frog-person made on this particular shot has got every synapse firing.

(and therefore this is a meta for @frog-person and them only, mwah✨💕)

not only is the sword going through their hands, but it's one sword of many in a particularly fiendish magic trick (or at least an earlier version of one made popular by the morettis in the 70s), and the box itself with all of its swords is relatively prominent in most of the scene, as background props go (more on this later).

now, i don't know enough about magic tricks or illusions to understand the significance that this aspect may have, if any - possibly the element of trust, sure, but also the sheer ability to hoodwink the audience into accepting that there is no way that whatever is inside could possibly survive such a trick. however, i simply want to just talk about the sword in general.

let's start with connotations and symbolism behind the image of the sword. first of all, it's a phallic symbol and is largely used in the context of knighthood, chivalry, and sovereignty. it symbolises justice, and truth, and righteous and merciful power. to hold the meter of life and death in your hands, and to be trusted to use it in conscience and clemency.

in alchemy, the sword was shown as a symbol of purification, between life and death. similar connotations in other histories, literature, and customs read the sword as being the key to balance between truth and enlightenment. later into history, especially in the middle ages, swords of discernible quality were understandably resource-intensive to make and therefore came to symbolise wealth, but moreso in the context of strength and glory, and further then a symbol of protection and shelter. traditionally, oaths and pledges would be made to the sword (literally, sworn-sword), and in turn swords were - and continue to be - used to elevate you to a higher station (eg. use of a knighting sword).

the imagery of the sword in the box is evocative of the sword excalibur, probably one of the most famous swords in literature and legend. cliff notes: excalibur was the believed magical sword of king arthur, and was written in some accounts (specifically in this case in the poem Merlin by robert de boron) to have lodged in an anvil, sat atop a stone, and that whoever could pull it from the anvil would be proof of rightful lineage of uther pendragon - and therefore, by divine right, king of the britons. obviously, arthur was said to have pulled the sword from the stone.

excalibur's symbolism can be interpreted somewhat as being as i said above; tennyson wrote that the words inscribed on excalibur as being (paraphrased): "take me up" / "cast me away"; to indicate that the sword is a weapon that should be used sparingly, only when necessary, and never without mercy or fair judgement. it is a power that can destroy, and should be safeguarded from turning that power to insidiousness. a call-to-arms when taken up, and a grace and peace when cast away.

(im a whore for arthurian legend ok, im from southwest uk) (and have a tattoo on my arm of those words, im a basic cornish legend bitch)

now, i realise that excalibur is not literally a part of the GO story (that we know of, notwithstanding the flashback in s1), and the sword we know in GO has a rather different narrative importance (or does it?). so, we know that in genesis the flaming sword was given to the cherubim in eden to guard adam and eve, and this is pretty much transposed to GO right up until aziraphale does the Cool Thing and gives it away, meant as a means of protection.

however, given that it ends up in the hands of humanity's personification of war, it bears a rather vivid mirror to the intention of excalibur; that in casting it away, aziraphale inadvertently introduces the concept of destruction to humanity.

but im now going to move away from the symbolism of the sword itself (i promise im trying to organise this meta into some semblance of order), and instead look at it in terms of when aziraphale actually holds it. we start with him giving it to adam and eve:

and then when he takes it up at the airfield:

and in the time bubble with adam and crowley:

now this is really obvious, i realise, but it does have some bearing for me on the image we see in the 40s minisode. sword up: ready to fight. sword down: ready to rest. it's a reasonably common occurrence to see in heraldry (by extension in logos/emblems and even on gravestones) two crossed swords pointing up or pointing down. usually, for the former, that the prospective wielder is ready to battle, is prepared and willing, and is or always has been braced for the onslaught.

the latter however indicates that either the fighting is done, or that no threat is meant - and that this can be in death, in surrender or defeat, or out of conscientious choice. that the wielder may have chosen mercy, and to act with peace and without conflict. one step further - sheathed sword goes on to symbolise that a fight is not anticipated; not necessarily in the sense that the wielder is unprepared, but instead that they are not turning to violence as an option.

this is where i think the presence of the sword in the shots from the minisode, with all of the connotations of it from eden (and its similar, in my eyes, likeness to excalibur) come into play. as i said before, the sword/s are notable visually in the whole magic shop scene. its in primary focus along with the desk as they enter, its the first display aziraphale goes towards, and it oscillates in the background from to aziraphale's right, to between him and crowley, and latterly back again:

summarised thoughts on this, because it will otherwise be a truly garbled mess:

the sheer presence of it reminds the audience that a fight may be imminent, even if the scene/story is currently at peace

that whilst the narrative is not currently in full combat, it pays heed to not only the events of ep4 being somewhat of a fight, but the events that precipitate in ep5 and ep6, and leading into s3

that where it is currently cast in the figurative stone, it may be called upon to take up arms, and confer suggestions of sovereignty, divine power, and strength

that victory (however that may conclude) may only be possible with the right person in power; aziraphale as the new supreme archangel and prince of heaven

it also confers the necessity of protection, of justice, and of mercy, being elevated to a position where you have the power to make that judgement

all things which aziraphale intended by giving away his own sword, and is what he indicates in ep6 that he intends to deliver to heaven once he ascends

that this fight, whenever it may come, may literally divide him and crowley in the story that lies ahead

...you don't need me to explain this bit contextually, right?

the last thing that stumped me, however, is that there ought to have been something in ep6 that almost bookended all of this imagery (at least temporarily, until we have a s3), or at least indicated whether or not aziraphale chooses to take up the sword again like he does at the end of s1. that shows him prepared for a fight, to defend the weak, and uphold judgement in mercy... and then it hit me:

of course there bloody is.

#this is relatively unimportant and unneeded but this my shit #like do i believe that ive cracked a code and this was what neil intended to convey? no not necessarily #but do igaf and instead just like going full year 9 english teacher on this shit? absolutely #not proof read yet - pretend you do not Perceive The Errors #good omens #s2 meta #s1 meta #flashback meta #aziraphale meta #s3 narrative spec

[field-s-of-flowers]

You either die a Jay Gatsby or live long enough to see yourself become Hades Hadestown

#soph’s posts #hadestown #the great gatsby #jay gatsby #hades hadestown #To remake yourself in the image of the woman you love… bind her with a golden band #Holy fuck I’ve cracked the code

[penn-dragon]

Probably surprises absolutely no one what my gen rex ship is

#gen rex #generator rex #rex salazar #noah nixon #noex #is he... you know -whip crack noise- #best friends to lovers is my bread and butter #bonus points if one of them is dehumanized by the people around them and the other one makes them feel normal #this will only make sense to the 10 people who know my ocs but my sister pointed out that i like them so much because #they're jaden and collin coded hfkdjlscdk

[babacontainsmultitudes]

(At my Rebecca-style conspiracy board) Okay. So we know that Lincoln is the keeper of the three of the seven. Now (from some very quick research- idk much about this stuff haha I'm just goofing around but bear with me-) the four horsemen "appear with the opening of the first four of the seven seals that bring forth the cataclysm of the apocalypse" (X) and the fourth horseman in particular, Death, "is the obvious effect of the previous three: conquest, violent warfare, and famine" (X) THEREFORE Lincoln is Death the fourth horseman in this essay I will-

#:0 And otherwise I was thinking that Normal is Conquest/Pestilence Scary is War and Taylor is famine #dndads #dndads s2 ep 49 #KIND OF #dndads spoilers #NOT REALLY #dungeons and daddies #lincoln li wilson #heh. My ''Lincoln is an avatar of The End'' take is all coming together #NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I'VE CRACKED THE CODE I-