#sorry if these weren't that good

[magicomens]

Ah yes. Anthony Justdontgetstabbed Crowley.

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#good omens #bbc merlin #aziraphale #crowley #magic omens au #comic #art #oof coloring took ages #long post #sorry the duel is next part! i had to split these #so yeah we romanticize knights (and I'd expect it from Azi too) #but historically they weren't always uh decent people #and i thought there could be some shitty ones among Uther's

[cowardlykrow]

“Not my circus, not my monkeys”… Except those are his monkeys and they are the circus

#Okay so i think the idea is that Lautski is on a date and the terror duo were ABSOLUTELY stalking them #because of course they would #but (if they weren't already being the most obvious stalkers) they get caught #because then the seagulls descended #but listen okay #Why they attack (and how on earth they carried that weeb away) is up to you guys #because i dunno #i’m just here to make nonsense comics that give me a good chuckle #NPMD #nerdy prudes must die #for some reason i gave them different clothes sorta?is it obvi i dont have a sense of style at all #Pete Spankoffski #Stephanie Lauter #Richie Lipschitz #Ruth Fleming #Also i don’t know why but when it comes to drawing comics #i forget who anatomy is #i seriously don’t know her #esp when it comes to arms? Lord do i hate arms #Art #fanart #Also this whole comic stems from a story about seagulls stealing sausage links? #that's all i got for you #also im so sorry steph my beloved #i can not draw you at all and this is a curse i carry like a ball and chain #starkid #hatchetfield #//Komic

[actual-changeling]

An angel and a demon walk into a bar.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, one that would have annoyed Crowley greatly before- before. Maybe it would have been mildly amusing, were it not for the fact that it is a pub, not a bar (a mere technicality that somehow still mattered), and it is the first time in seven months that he is looking Aziraphale right in the face.

He chose the place, walked right out of the bookshop and across the street the second Aziraphale looked at him with his stupid purple eyes and opened his mouth. Same table, same drinks. New silence.

A demon leads an angel into a pub so he does not kiss him again.

Less of a joke, more like the beginning of a nightmare he has had every single time he tried to sleep, woken by whispered words either confirming his worst fears or greatest desires; both incite fear, one way or another.

The low table between them is enough of a barrier to prevent a repeat of their last interaction, it has to be, although this time Aziraphale is looking at him with violet-coloured longing and an apology on his lips, no longer pleading, no longer angry. He is asking for forgiveness, and if that isn't a deeply ironic twist of fate.

Before either of them says a single word, Crowley finishes his drink and raises his hand to order another one, clinging to the familiar sting of alcohol in his throat to burn away the questions lingering on his tongue.

An angel followed a demon into a pub because he loves him.

Aziraphale wishes he could tell himself Crowley looks like he did seven months ago, that he hasn't changed, but he is done lying to himself, to either of them. Behind his shades, dark, darker if that is even possible, he can feel his golden gaze heavy on his face, familiar and the answer to an empty longing in his chest.

His drink goes untouched as Crowley downs one, then another, and it is after the third that he finally begins to talk.

"What do you want?"

Bitter, sharp, spit at his feet with an anger he expected and yet doesn't know how to react to. Underneath it is pain—more pain than any being should ever have to experience—and instead of trying to carry some of it for him, he only added to it.

"I want to apologise."

"Fine." Crowley shoves his empty glass away and gets up. "I don't forgive you."

Reflexively, Aziraphale reaches out and curls his fingers around his wrist when Crowley tries to walk past him, blinking up at him with eyes the colour of dying Myosotis.

Forget-me-nots.

They both freeze, the point of contact a crack in the walls they have spent centuries building and seven months rebuilding, and he knows he has made a mistake immediately.

Crowley stares at him, still as stone, until he suddenly rips his arm out of his grasp, almost cradling it against his chest. With dawning horror, Aziraphale realises he is shaking, tremors running through him like waves breaking apart on a rocky shore.

"Don't you dare touch me." Panic, not anger. Pure, unfiltered panic blooming beside a mountain of fear that could outlast an eternity.

"I-" He doesn't know what he wants to say, what he is trying to say, what he needs to say to make him stay. Oh, the irony of it all.

Crowley leaves the pub, and the Supreme Archangel stays behind.

Not a demon anymore, not technically, he is done with sides, and deeds, and choices; he never makes the right ones anyway. His wrist hurts with the ghost of a kiss, and he cannot get the glint of purple where summer sky blue should be out of his head. 

The Bentley is waiting for him, providing an escape from the noise, the people, him.

Apologies instead of I'm coming back.

A sickening aura of holiness tinged with the burn of ozone instead of books and dust and soft, silly angel.

Seven months of waiting, of pleading with God, of cursing Her, cursing him, cursing the entire fucking world for taking and taking and taking from him without pause, without even a fragment of mercy.

For this.

An angel returns to heaven. Crowley curses the stars and cries.

#alex writes good omens #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens season 2 #go2 #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #ineffable divorce #emptying out my tumblr drafts which are usually full of posts that weren't worth posting #but this one was actually fun to finish #sorry no more fluff back to the angst #this is 700 words long my god i have issues #one short tumblr post and i end up with a fic #anyway #shoutout to the people that get the bojack horseman reference

[hedgehog-moss]

Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

#ask #book recs #the book i started reading last night is The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak and i also didn't #expect it to have an english translation but it does #i'm only at the beginning and so far it's philosophical ponderings about what kind of creature the neanderthals were #if they were humans in a different way than us. with a different kind of intelligence #and how to understand it without projecting our own way of being in the world onto this other humanity #sorry to quote cioran again but it reminds me of when he said every generation misses the good old days and #if we retrace our steps from regret to regret we'll find the original regret #our nostalgia for a time when humans weren't yet human

[ineed-to-sleep]

Well you see they're just very good friends

#vtm #vtmb #vampire the masquerade #oc.pepper #oc.vince #technically not their first kiss but kind of their first kiss #first fr fr kiss #their actual first kiss is during italian dinner to keep up appearences bc they're posing as a couple #but their first like 'I am kissing you bc I want to and btw I'm in love w you' kiss is in the luckee star #after pepper talks to nines #it's funny to me bc they weren't in the best of terms before this #vince was kinda mad at pepper bc she almost bloodbound him while frenzied and she'd been frenzying on purpose and just generally #being rlly irresponsible #she's sorry tho. she's very very sorry and trying to do better #but like he just puts that aside bc of the bloodhunt and how worried he is abt her #and he shows up and they have a good talk and the feelings come out and etc etc and then kiss #kiss kiss smooch smooch. they love each other v much #vincent is still worried abt pepper's behavior but what can he do. she's his problematic fave 🤷🏻‍♀️ #ship: viper #sleepyscribble

[dragondawdles]

last anniversary I drew kiwi and miriam so this year she finally shows up albeit a bit late

#wandersong #audrey #audrey redheart #audrey wandersong #dragon doodles #art's been fighting me again AND I haven't drawn her in a hot second BUT we clutched it and I am happy with it so! 🏂 #HITTING YOU WITH BEAM OF PLAY WANDERSONG PLEASE IT'S VERY GOOD #sorry just have to throw that in there in case there's people who weren't here during my wandersong era #she's nyoomin and zoomin

[mortellanarts]

My heart just burst like a glass balloon

#strelitzia kh #strelitzia #khux #kingdom hearts #zoom in on the boots I like how the little boots turned out 😊 #this was for the character+song from the year in review thing thing pretty sure someone from another platform asked though #either that or the ask deleted itself °~° #also it's one of the only ones I liked out of that.... sorry but the songs just weren't good matches like AT ALL 😔 #my art #I FORGOT!! THE CAPTION!!

[ianthoni]

Rhett calling Link daddy and Link calling him boy/son compilation (cause link said don't call me daddy like Rhett never did it before 🙄)

#there's probably more but yk i didn't had the time #also sorry for the quality and audio :/ #good mythical morning #gmm #rhett and link #rhink #also i know one of this is role play but you can't tell me they weren't into it

[kinnbig]

KinnPorsche Gif Series | Favourite Ghost Ships [2/?] | ArmTankhun

#THEY #anyone else obsessed with armtankhun or is it just me and emma/tumblr user thewholedamnboulangerie #sorry one of these gifs is a bit blurry they weren't in focus in that scene but it was too good of a moment not to gif #kpseries #armtankhun #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kpts #kinnporscheedit #tong thanayut #bas asavapatr #tankhun kp #arm kp #darcey.gif #darcey.txt #bl.gif #kinnporsche.gif #darcey.main

[emeraldotter]

notebook doodles

#doodle #crappy art #emeraldotter's deer obsession continues #they weren't lying about campos notebooks i'm sorry to say #they really are that good huh

[thecrowstoes]

Thinking about malevolent podcast and how unsettling it would be to talk to someone who's eyes don't match their expression. Their face and body language is panicked but the eyes are full of grim determination. Their face show nothing but the purest relief and joy but the eyes are scared and confused. The expression is one of outrage and hatred but the eyes are full of fearful sympathy.

(Edit: people this is about the podcast malevolent where a character's eyes are literally not his own, he is possessed by an eldritch monster god that uses his eyes. I see that I could have phrased this better but please check the original tags before assuming stuff!!!)

#i just think its such a cool concept. that the eyes should be utterly separate from the rest of the face- subtly or not revealing the #two seperate entities sharing a body and you wouldnt know it unless you looked them in the eyes and realised that they weren't theirs #anyway yeah #malevolent #arthur lester #john malevolent #sorry for all the malevolent posting recently i just caught up yesterday it was so good

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

𝐬 𝐦 𝐨 𝐤 𝐞 𝐛 𝐫 𝐞 𝐚 𝐤

two versions because i'm indecisive hhh >:')

#my art #art #animation #illustration #gif #my gif #my animation #utmv #dust sans #dust!sans #human!dust #human dust sans #waaa i'm SO happy with this omgg #i had this animation in my head for moooonths i'm so glad it ended up as i envisioned HAHHGSHGA i finished this at four am lmao #i was gonna end up with the second version one only but idk the vibes weren't what i wanted x) it looked too good not to post tho >;Dc #my animation program is really limited so that's why it's in a gif format xd the bg looked cooler without the compression but it's fine u3u #hair was a special hell to animate for real >:'D i can't believe animators worldwide have to deal with this torture smh smh</3 #sorry i was gone school is stomping my energy out lately 😔 hope this little thing made the wait worth it hhh :'Dc #have a nice day everyone!! <333

[tumblezwei-art]

Kyoko as princess Odette!! That would be sooo cute!

MY GIRL!!!! Inspiration taken from the ballet bc i thought she'd look really pretty

#skip beat #kyoko mogami #drawing requests #my artwork #sorry for how long this took to get out #I had high standards for making my girl look good and my hands weren't listening

[yuseirra]

+ referring to these dialogues from his link episode ↓

Ryoji should've taken me(the MC) to dinner.....that'd have been nice

#persona 3 reload #ryoji mochizuki #p3 reload #ryomina #persona #I feel so sorry for that boy; he's too kind for his own good #supposedly he got that from the MCs.. if that's the case I get why he stresses that the MCs have a kind heart in the movies and the games #persona 3 reload spoilers #he wouldn't have suffered if he weren't kind or had the feelings to begin with #on that regard he's really similar to zen #I find it really sweet that it's death out of all the gods in the series that end up to be the most loving and selfless ones #spoilers #doodle

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

I gotta say that the majority of fic ideas that tumble through my brain are fix-it fics for YJ. I'm super not jazzed with where the show went (especially because we've seen it be amazing) and I mourn the loss of the writers room.

(Because truly, the thing that made season 1&2 so much better than the later seasons was a writers room where all the writers got together and workshopped ideas and running jokes and characterization. We don't get that in the later seasons. The only ones who see the big picture are Greg and Brandon and sometimes the first idea isn't the best idea. Sometimes you need a writers room to bounce plotlines off of.)

It's a little bit weird having slim to no hope for another season of Young Justice and not really feeling happy with where the show is and yet being totally obsessed internally with fixing it. It's a really odd war I have going on within myself right now.

You know, say what you want about DC comics but at least they aren't so bad that my brain is yelling at me to fix it 24/7. Like... They totally used to be but now it's pretty chill actually

#...i say right before the new flash run starts #fingers crossed. i hope i didn't jinx it #AARGH. I AM SO FRUSTRATED ABOUT YJ #because. holy shit. the last two seasons were bad. im sorry. they were. they weren't good. and they were nothing like the first two #and i just want to fix it because im emotionally attached to the characters #but i also am still so mad and disappointed with the series #its a weird confliction #i could literally rant for hours about this #big mad

[transjudas]

they’re literally just friends hanging out, having fun, and teasing each other on stage (x)

#mcr #mcredit #my chemical romance #gerard way #frank iero #gerardwayedit #frankieroedit #userkam #sorry sorry i'm giffing so much today but i had to gif this when i saw the video #gerard looks so good #and frank is literally just standing there laughing at his friend #unwell #and the PAT #i love friends who are in a band #who weren't in a band for a while #and didn't really talk #and then they became friends again #and now they're a band again too #it's fine i'm fine