#devastating in a way

[et-in-arkadia]

this is such incredible advice for creating any kind of art i have to put it over here to remind myself

#thanks michael #this is also like #devastating in a way #like thinking of him playing aziraphale #with aziraphale desperate to be alive #to connect to breathe to see to touch #michael giving all of that over in his performance so that aziraphale can live again through him #i’m mortally wounded #michael sheen #good omens #fucking michael sheen man #creativity

[formywriyinglalala]

this genuinely breaks my heart

#it makes me so angry that the comments on the vid are all “dont blame Islam” #and “its a lot of women’s choice…!” #to see the happiness in their eyes before and then to see how the eyes THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL are completely covered is devastating #it’s not a fucking choice if everyone is telling you this is the only way you can be a pious woman #or if you’re going to be killed otherwise #radblr #rad fem #radical feminists please touch #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminst #anti religion #anti islam #radical feminist safe #radical feminists please interact #radical feminists do touch

[theoldkyokodied]

If you follow my main you had to know this was coming… anyway. Enjoy these bloodweave doodles :)

#bloodweave #gale x astarion #astarion x gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate more like baldurs gay amirite folks? #yeah sorry the themes of hunger abuse and power got to me. I’m not immune to thematically mirrors #I have so many thoughts about the it’s not even funny anymore #oh you mean to tell me that canonically gale would offer up his blood if asked and that astarion can’t even do that bc of the orb ?? #tasteful irony that the guy who would want to help can’t do that bc of a mistake he made for love. #especially devastating for someone who measures his self worth in usefulness #oh they are so fucked up and they could understand each other in ways hardly reachable to others #once I start an origin run it’s over for you guys I will be so insufferable. even more than usual

[lesbiandardevil]

i was reading through daydream hour the other day and found these matching winter wear sillys so i doodled them together poorly

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#obsessed with izutsumis crochet tail cover and hat ... #marcille and her cat girl sister <3 #also i finally finished the manga and im devastated but in a pos way #dungeon meshi #marcille donato #marcille dunmeshi #izutsumi #scribbles #my art

[diabloku]

husband(s) ⁉️

the malewives are fightiiiing

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #alastor #lucifer #hazbinhotelVox #vox #vivziepop #vivziepopfanart #radiostatic #radioapple #appleradiostatic #Vox won by the way #i'm devastated #lol #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel husk #angel dust #husk #This was about the hottest HH character competition BTW

[joycrispy]

I'm seeing some confusion out and about over the title A Companion to Owls (generally along the lines of 'what have owls got to do with it???'), so I'd like to offer my interpretation (with a general disclaimer that the Bible and particularly the Old Testament are damn complicated and I'm not able to address every nuance in a fandom tumblr post, okay? Okay):

It's a phrase taken from the Book of Job. Here's the quote in full (King James version):

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. --(Job 30:29)

Job is describing the depths of his grief, but also, with that last line, his position in the web of providence.

Throughout the Old Testament, owls are a recurring symbol of spiritual devastation. Deuteronomy 4:17 - Isaiah 34:11 - Psalm 102: 3 - Jeremiah 50: 39...just to name a few (there's more). The general shape of the metaphor is this: owls are solitary, night-stalking creatures, that let out either mournful cries or terrible shrieks, that inhabit the desolate places of the world...and (this is important) they are unclean.

They represent a despair that is to be shunned, not pitied, because their condition is self-inflicted. You defied God (so the owl signifies), and your punishment is...separation. From God, from others, from the world itself. To call and call and never, ever receive an answer.

Your punishment is terrible, tormenting loneliness.

(and that exact phrase, "tormenting loneliness," doesn't come from me...I'm pulling it from actual debate/academia on this exact topic. The owls, and what they are an omen for. Oof.)

To call yourself a 'companion to owls,' then, is to count yourself alongside perhaps the most tragic of the damned --not the ones who defy God out of wickedness or ignorance, and in exile take up diabolical ends readily enough...but the ones who know enough to mourn what they have lost.

So, that's how the title relates to Job: directly. Of course, all that is just context. The titular "companion to owls," in this case, isn't Job at all.

Because this story is about Aziraphale.

The thing is that Job never actually defied God at all, but Aziraphale does, and he does so fully believing that he will fall.

He does so fully believing that he's giving in to a temptation.

He's wrong about that, but still...he's realized something terrifying. Which is that doing God's will and doing what's right are sometimes mutually exclusive. Even more terrifying: it turns out that, given the choice between the two...he chooses what's right.

And he's seemingly the only angel who does. He's seemingly the only angel who can even see what's wrong.

Fallen or not, that's the kind of knowledge that...separates you.

(Whoooo-eeeeee, tormenting loneliness!!!)

Aziraphale is the companion.

...I don't think I need to wax poetic about Aziraphale's loneliness and grappling with devotion --I think we all, like, get it, and other people have likely said it better anyway. So, one last thing before I stop rambling:

Check out Crowley's glasses.

(screenshots from @seedsofwinter)

Crowley is the owl.

Crowley is the goddamn owl.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #there's probably a few thousand words more I could say about this but. I think I'll just hang the implications deliciously aloft for now. #something something tfw the embodiment of all your worst fears and self-doubts shows you the only real kindness you've known for centuries #you can't help but love him and you can't help but fear him but above all you TRUST him the way you're supposed to trust God but don't #brrrrrrr #do you think Crowley would vibe with being an omen of spiritual devastation or do you think he would get drunk about it #good omens meta

[suntails]

governance

#if u ever need a center frame composition of a giant malleus and a tiny silver then boy howdy am i ur girl. obsessed w this imagery #this is the third time ive drawn something along those lines im SICK i cannot be cured #the way malleus talked abt micromanaging everyones dreams to make sure theyre staying in-line/happy and called it governance is DEVASTATING #he is a KING he WILL keep tabs on everything to have it go smoothly. he was born for this its his duty #and silver in his home turf...the land of dreams.....WHEEZING #he will NOT be governed he will NOT stay complacent. he will fight back with everything his has. for YOUR sake #dies #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #malleus draconia #diasomnia #suntails

[vanpalmr]

YELLOWJACKETS | 1.03 | 2.07 |

#shauna shipman #jackie taylor #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #jackieshauna #shaunajackie #jackie x shauna #shauna x jackie #* #ella purnell #sophie nelisse #parallels #sorry i cant watch an episode of this show without thinking about devastating parallels #they were kids! they needed each other and didn't know how to love each other in a way the other could understand! #the BEGGING to be haunted is really getting me #like fuck dude

[seldompathic]

Too much fear in familiar blue eyes for his liking :((

#sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic art #nine the fox #sonic prime spoilers #sonic prime season 3 spoilers #I AM NOT OKAY #Bro legit had a fucking panic attack for a second there :(( #He didn't know what to DO and that messed me up dude #seeing someone who looks WAY too much like his brother staring up at him with sheer terror HFISNDKWNFJ #FUCK I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS #this season was made for me tho >:)) My specialty is devastated expressions and this baby was FULL OF EM #sonic prime

[myoonmii]

Does anybody ever think about how the very last thing Arthur ever did was caress Merlin’s head and smile softly at him while his breath slipped away, never once looking away from him

#doesn’t it just haunt you in your sleep #doesn’t it just tickle your bones #this show will never not devastate me even after 11 years #Merlin #bbc Merlin #Merthur #arthur pendragon #the way they cared for each other will hAUNT me #gay people look at what you have done

[chucktaylorupset]

I think there's something to be said for fanfiction that loves canon in a way that’s rude. Like thank you for this wonderful thematic tragedy made out of this character’s entire arc ending in death, it was emotionally and intellectually moving, but also fuck you fuck you fuck you they live, this time and every time they live, they never died, their flaws are not their undoing, actually they have no flaws, actually they save everyone, actually who cares about a story, any story, where this one dies, actually i cared about that story so much i made a new one, actually i cared so much i unmade the old one, you gave me morals and i left them for the mortal, but they’re mine now and i will never let them die, actually thank you, actually fuck you, strongly worded letter to follow

A kiss for canon and spit in its face all at once, it’s great

#my post #i use and plan to use the 'canonical character death tag' WAY too much to post this but still #fanfiction #everybody live nobody dies au #and a five #this is about your blorbo absolutely but before that it was about #robb stark #to crown him is to kill him #on the one hand he must die because there are no good kings #king of the north was the death knell of robb the good brother robb the good son robb the loving friend #on the other hand #he was the nicest sixteen year old in the world #on the other hand fuck you there sits the only king i mean to bend my knee too #what if king was just a name for a brother who loved you #love that story of thematic importance about the inherent devastation of feudalism #but fuck you he's perfect and he lives #fuck you let him be soft and let him be mine #in general im against sandpapering your blorbos but actually my blorbos are soft and round and perfect #boubas if you will #and who cares if theyre a little unrecognizable #the version of them that gets to live #resurrection and comes back wrong but with the multiverse of what if they lived fanfiction

[taeiris]

not me being late as hell to mermay

#it was you all along… i shouldve known mike wheeler #to wills voice being the one that needs him #im devastated #i watched the new tlm and DIED #i actually cant stop thinking about it #figured since its mermay and im obsessed with tlm and i always have to find a way to insert my pookies into everything #i did this LMAO #mermay #prince eric mike #mermaid will byers #mermaid au #tlm #byler #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things fanart #byler fanart #will byers fanart #mike wheeler fanart

[logicalbookthief]

The way we get this line:

And after that Kazuki struggles the entire episode with feeling like he doesn’t deserve to be happy. Then at the end—

We get Rei & Miri actively trying to make him happy with the French toast.

#buddy daddies #kazuki kurusu #rei suwa #miri unasaka #so we were all emotionally devastated by this episode right #no but the way that kazuki’s love language is cooking #and how rei & miri dismissing his dinner and all the hard work he put into it is the last straw #and we come full circle by the end with them trying to cook for kazuki #don’t look at me ok the found family it got me

[leverage-ot3]

the found family trope is inherently queer and you can’t change my mind

#I’m right #found family #this has probably been done before but this has been on my mind so too bad #leverage #leverage redemption #tagging all the fandoms I can think of that this applies to #the witcher #all of us are dead #red notice #motherland fort salem #team as family #supernatural #i hope this doesn't get blocked by people that blacklist supernatural lol #im watching the long way down job i can't wait to be emotionally devastated #avatar the last airbender #atla #brooklyn 99 #the good place #stranger things #sense8 #warrior nun #there are totally more found family shows and media #im just tagging ones i know/have seen #ouran high school icons #ghost hunt #doctor who #mine #popular posts #1k #2k

[cherrirui-official]

"You know... You didn't have to take that with you."

"But I promised him I'd take him out to see the ocean one day."

#for context uhmm how do i explain this #so around a few weeks after Jd arrives Bruce is like “Hey... where are the others?” #and Jd is like “ooooh 🤪🤪 he doesnt know...” #Since at this time JD believes that the entire tribe is dead. including his brothers and grandma #so Jd has to take Bruce to the now abandoned troll tree and give him the bad news #Bruce doesnt believe it at first. even if the tree is abandoned they cant be dead? right?? they cant be #so he rushes over to their grandma's pod. thinking that theyre just in hiding and waiting for them to return #and all Bruce is able to find in the empty pod is Branch's old stuffed toy Croco #which solidifies to Bruce that everyone is dead. their friends their family. everyone #Bruce is obviously devastated by the news. he doesnt show it a lot but he doesnt take it too well #he ends up bringing Croco with him back to Vacay Island and patches Croco up #since Croco is a bit worn out due to being left in the pod for years #and since then Bruce always keeps Croco hidden in his hair. both as a memoir of his baby brother #and also a reminder of how he failed as an older brother... ouch #ofc the others arent dead. its just that now both Jd AND Bruce believe that the rest of the trolls are dead #also King Trollex is there bc i wanted to put him there. I like Trollex :] #a knee ways more bb au art i promise the next bb au art will be lighthearted #tho now im gonna work on the next violet gijinka batch bc ive been starving my friendlocke audience for too long #sorry friendlocke fans ill feed u next dw #cherris canvas #trolls #trolls band together #trolls john dory #john dory trolls #trolls bruce #bruce trolls #king trollex #beach bros au #sorry for rambling in the tags i hope u dont mind ahaha

[appropriatelystupid]

KATIE McGRATH + PURPLE

#katie mcgrath #lena luthor #morgana #the adjudicator #gloria miller #lucy westenra #for such a ehh movie that throwaways one is particularly devastating thanks to the stocking... if only if had been a true garter #she should be put in more purple asap #shades of mcgrath #happy bday to me not a bad way to ring it in