#certainty of death

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Lost boys

#mayhem art #star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker fanart #obi wan kenobi fanart #star wars art #this one was sitting in my drafts for about a month. idk why I was holding onto it -cries- anyway #this is shortly after Qui-Gon's death. Both of their lives just got flipped upside down. Anakin is traumatized by having to leave #his mother behind‚ then his Master's sudden death‚ and he's left with no certainty in his future. #Obi-Wan just witnessed his Master die‚ helplessly‚ then having to take care of this little human in his Master's stead‚ meanwhile feeling #wholly inadequate to be so suddenly knighted let alone immediately becoming a Master and taking responsibility for another being. #Both of them losing the constants in their lives. left uprooted. the only anchoring point being each other. #I imagine Obi-Wan wouldn't reach out to Anakin first‚ but if Anakin expressed compassion with him‚ grief‚ and his need to feel secure‚ #Obi-Wan wouldn't turn him away #this was just my excuse to give them a proper soothing hug in their time of mourning

[sandinthepipes]

The fact that I can wholeheartedly enjoy ofmd and good omens and appreciate the angst because I KNOW there will be a happy ending.

See, I’ve never had that. None of us queer folks have ever had that.

#it’s boggling my mind #how a thing that is so simple is so groundbreaking #do you realise how fucking starved for content we have been #AND ON TOP OF THAT WITH MIDDLE AGED COUPLES!!!!! #maybe we can live past thirty and be happy #oh no I made myself cry #also I know that technically we don’t have the certainty that ofmd will have a happy ending but like #it’s a bunch of queer people put into the same room if the flag actually ends up meaning death again I will burn something #our flag means death #ofmd #good omens #good omens 2

[pratchettquotes]

I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.

"No, right's right and wrong's wrong," said Miss Flitworth. "I was brought up to tell the difference."

BY A CONTRABANDISTOR.

"A what?"

A MOVER OF CONTRABAND.

"There's nothing wrong with smuggling!"

I MERELY POINT OUT THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK OTHERWISE.

"They don't count!"

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#DEATH #bill door #miss flitworth #reaper man #discworld #terry pratchett #philosophy #morality #ethics #right and wrong #good and bad #certainty #relative #smuggling #contrabandistor #places to stand #they don't count

[mixelation]

maybe i should just lean into the shinigami thing wholesale for reborn au

orochimaru @ smol tori: if you keep playing with the marked kunai, one day the yellow flash will come investigate. and he's a killer who would not make an exception even for little oto girls : )

tori: he'd kill me.....?

tori: i mean. he can try :)

#conversations that become hilarious in hindsight #oh btw i decided in plasticity/reborn au #that orochimaru is obsessed with cheating death because he saw the shinigami #he summoned him for something and upon seeing it knew #with absolute certainty #that one day he would die and ultimately become a meaningless memory #and becoming so acutely aware of his own mortality freaked him tf out #reborn au

[rosemarysdragon]

with the average life of a greek demigod seemingly ending under the age of 25, i think it’s completely possible and plausible that there are many demigods who get married at 18 or something, because fuck it, if i’m gonna die in the real world in under ten years i might as well get tax breaks for it! and it’s not out of the question that all these bonded-through-trauma kids have deep romantic connections with certain people that they’ve fought countless monsters and defied death with, and when they age out of camp might want to keep that person safe or even just keep around them.

give me demigods going into capture the flag with cheap engagement rings hanging with their camp necklace beads, give me weddings at half-blood hill where the demeter cabin handles florals, give me chiron tearing up standing in the back row because these kids he helped raise aren’t kids anymore, and even though that’s beautiful it also means he can’t protect them much longer

#give me beautiful tributes to love that double as tributes to the demigods themselves while they’re still alive #how many of them make it to their five year anniversaries do you think #the shock of all the greek demigods at the romans growing old makes me sob #because that means it was never a feasible reality #it was never an expectation #camp-wide flash mob style proposals by apollo kids #confusion over what cabin someone might go to after marrying another camper #there’s so much to explore here #and the fact that it’s all driven by the certainty of a young death is so heartbreaking #percy jackson #pjo #camp half blood #chb #camp half-blood #chiron #also imagine mr d as the officiant #he’d only do it for certain campers he likes #still get their names wrong though #mr d pjo #mr d

[homoquartz]

it's been said but bears repeating

stede was hot this season. he was such a westley to blackbeard's buttercup

#our flag means death #like handsome hot but also personality hot #his new confidence and certainty and his expressive love for ed

[ssaraexposs]

Remember when the sweet Atsushi broke Akutagawa?

#atsushi was not holding back #boy's had enough of the death threats #aku kinda had it coming #but still #it was pretty mean #like it's the only sensitive topic about akutagawa #and atsushi hit it with absolute certainty #he knew he was going to cause damage #and he still said it #aku's reaction though #he really wasn't expecting the jinko talking back #meanie atsushi #akutagawa ryuunosuke #atsushi nakajima #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bsd manga #bungo stray dogs #bsd s3

[lschmidtartblog]

Absolutely embarrassing resurgence of my childhood hyper-fixation that rewrote my still-developing brain 20 years ago. Watching a very small teenage boy and his ancient Egyptian pharaoh friend possessing his body to play card games was life changing and still kinda hits

#my art #fan art #procreate #yugioh #yugi moto #yami yugi #i just watched the episodes where Yugi duels Joey while he's possessed and theyre in a death trap designed to drown the loser #it was the most memorable series of episodes when I was 10 like i was hanging onto the screen week by week #can say with certainty that it still slaps #like yugioh is a bad show but very fun like why is any of this happening?

[youngpeachenthusiast]

date idea: i am icarus and you are the sun

#currently listening to #hozier #unreal unearth #i carrion (icarian) #wasteland baby #sunlight #and though i burn how could i fall #when i am lifted by every word you say to me #if anything could fall at all #it's the world that falls away from me #but also #each day you'd rise with me #know that i would gladly be #the icarus to your certainty #oh my sunlight sunlight sunlight #strap the wing to me #death trap clad happily #with wax melted i'd meet the sea #under sunlight sunlight sunlight #yeah i am gay #we know #bye

[ohmyglobwhatthefrickamievendoing]

Dragging my ass back to Good Omens where somehow the by the book asshole from S1 became (somewhat) redeemed and got to run away to live happily ever after

#yeah the husbands are still divorced but we all know with 100% certainty they'll get their happily ever after #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #ofmd izzy #izzy hands #good omens gabriel #go gabriel #ineffable bureaucracy

[journey-to-the-attic]

oooooh it is so very late at night and I am having #thoughts #emotional #notclickbait

thinking about how in the grand scheme of things IK is like. inherently the bravest being in the devildom

Mind You it's not even to do with the massive amounts of trauma she's been through, it's solely because she is a human

Humans lives are like a second long compared to these centuries (eons even) old demons- she knows virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things compared to them

And yet despite her knowing nothing (and being aware that she knows nothing and could die at any second) she still walks forward with little hesitance, trusting and learning and growing which is the bravest thing you can really do as a human (imo)

Even just the fact that she lives knowing she could die at literally any moment makes her braver than like. half the cast. because while yes they have all been through their respective traumas, they still live for HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years, and every like. 200 years or so they'll maybe once think 'man i've been alive a long time' and continue on with their day

IK, as a human, looks around at just. the place she's in. and registers that virtually anything there could kill her and says 'yeah I could probably survive'

I honestly feel like it awes the others, especially given their lack of knowledge on humans. If I was a demon I'd be like 'shouldn't thinking about dying break your brain or smth' and here's this baby walking around like 'hey how many ounces of fucking cyanide could I chug before things start getting serious'

And I rewatched Finding Nemo recently and pictured this scene with Lucifer and IK and I think I severely dehydrated myself with how much I cried

IK: "He says to let go! Everything is gonna be alright!!"

Lucifer: "How do you know?! How do you know something bad isn't going to happen?!"

IK: "I don't!"

SHE KNOWS NOTHING!! SHE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF HOW FATE CARRIES HER OR WHAT SORT OF INEXPLICABLE DANGERS LIE AHEAD OR EVEN THE BASICS OF HOW MAGIC WORKS AND YET SHE BRAVES THE UNKNOWN ANYWAYS AMD LUCIFER IS IN AWE!!!!!! IM GOING TO BE SICK

this is us right now THAT'S OUR GIRL

for real though. it's like watching a baby bird fly for the first time. it's tiny and helpless and could be crushed in an instant in a predator's jaws, but it clambers out of the nest and jumps for the sky anyway, even if it could very well smash itself to pieces on the rocks below

one of my favourite genres of character tbh... i love that baby bird so dearly

#answering asks #whensam #i think the especial thing with lucifer is that as avatar of pride #he moves forward with absolute certainty that he WILL be able to handle what comes next #(and he panics when confronted with the fact that he can't) #versus ik who's tumbling on with no idea where she's going or what she's doing #it's like. we see lucifer adapt to new life in the devildom by dedicating himself to earning his place there #it's all deliberate and calculated because he needs him and his brothers to survive #whereas ik gets there. looks around. realises 'oh this place is a death trap.' and just keeps chugging along #she wanders her way home and that's how she thrives #they're both lonely at the start of their arcs in different ways #but lucifer thinks he can do it on his own while ik always welcomes company on the road #auhgh i love doing this. i love getting emotional and introspective over my own characters spshdfhsk

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

People calling it a "quarter life crisis" forget that with the way life expectancy, healthcare, and food nutrient content is going these days it's probably a "third life crisis" at best.

#midlife crisis #quarter life crisis #third life crisis #percentages #i'm not even 27 yet #but I'll be LUCKY to get another 50 years #i feel like that post about hamsters #where they scurry along following a silver line connecting their birth to their death #scurrying without fear knowing with absolute certainty what's gonna get them in the end #I feel like I know how I'm gonna die #and it's not pleasantly in my sleep in my 90s surrounded by loved ones i can tell you that #i'm not in a good place right now

[funforahermit]

something that i've been dreaming of, that probably won't happen, but let me just write it down..

stede and ed could just acknowledge that they want different things in life right now and STILL be a couple.

ed could live a nice quiet simple life as an innkeeper slash fisherman somewhere on a beautiful coast, while his husband stede goes back to sea, striking fear, doing raids, getting all that out of his system for a few years, bringing back fine things every time he visits his love (which is often).

and one day, when he's ready, he'll come home for good and never leave again.

#tbh i would absolutely LOVE that as an ending #i don't even need to see the end just the start of it #just them parting ways but on good terms and only temporarily #and having the absolute certainty that they're still together #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death

[howifeltabouthim]

It's not that I didn't care if I died. It's that I knew I would survive.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

#survival #death #danger #bleak #depressing #certainty #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #lisa taddeo #animal

[fieriframes]

[But don't worry, there's plenty more joints and death is life’s one great certainty. I'll be looking for you next time on "Triple D."]

#s34e05 off the beaten path #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #one great certainty #triple d #joints #death #life

[spacevixenmusic]

I can't believe Stan is fucking dead

#golden girls #golden palace #stan zbornak #rose nylund #sophia petrillo #blanche devereaux #I really like the way this show approaches death honestly #when you get to be a certain age and death becomes more and more of a certainty it's nice to just be brutal and blunt in how you handle it #also spoilers but Stan did not in fact die #he faked his death to run away to Spain for unpaid debts lmao