#the reference collection

[ennas-aesthetic]

If we DO ever get a Good Omens season 3 (and fingers crossed we will) then using the Second Coming as the narrative device to facilitate the final culmination of Good Omens' ideology and message is brilliant, actually.

Because the Second Coming IS NOT another Adam situation. And, contrary to the misconceptions I've seen, It IS NOT about Jesus being born again as a baby, etc, etc.

THE SECOND COMING. QUITE LITERALLY refers to THE LAST JUDGMENT.

As in. The SAME Last Judgment Michelangelo painted on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. As in - THE JUDGMENT of the Living and the Dead. THE LAST, FINAL, ETERNAL JUDGMENT.

It's the WHOLE thing Armageddon was leading towards. Book of Revelation speedrun: the world ends, everyone dies, and then they get resurrected again to be judged by JESUS himself. He will flick through the Book of Life (WINK WINK WINK DO YOU SEE HOW LOUDLY I'M WINKING AT YOU???), and if your name is there he will go "oh nice you deserve eternal paradise! :D" and if your name is ERASED from the Book of Life he will go "oh no, sorry, you go to the lake of fire for eternity now D:" (except apparently in Good Omens lore it'd just DOOM YOU TO NON-EXISTENCE FOREVER???)

And if you THINK about it, The Last Judgment is the ultimate manifestation of moral absolutism. No shades of gray, no chances. Just BLACK, and WHITE. Never mind that you're like Wee Morag and Elspeth, who are forced to do "bad" things because of circumstances. It's either you pass Judgment Day, or you burn (or disappear forever.) And the way THINGS are going in the Good Omens universe? I don't think there's ANYONE "good" enough to be "saved." Not Crowley, not Aziraphale. Hell, not even the Archangels themselves.

So it provides a PERFECT opportunity for Aziraphale and Crowley to UPEND that SYSTEM entirely.

I think that's what Crowley and Aziraphale would do in s3: establish a new kind of system in which angels and demons have free will to determine the right (or wrong) choice.

Giving them the APPLE, so to speak.

And then they'll go off to retire in a cottage, together at last.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #im sorry but i choke everytime someone refers to a baby jesus for the second coming #like i love yall and parent trapping aziraphale and crowley by the infant son of god would be amusing as heck #but also i rlly think this is about the Last Judgment guys KSLDSKDKLDS #thank you good omens yes this IS in fact how i use my collection of niche trivia on christian eschatology #putting my religious trauma into good use iktr

[raw-detergent]

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #supernatural fanart #spn fanart #my art #contributing to to the ecosystem #this started with me obsessing over the visual silhouette of jackles' bowed legs and ended with a reference collection in the hundreds #i have a cas and crowley lined up in the same style so back to the mines with me #art

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

some more random HoM au doodles

#hom au #american dragon jake long #jake long #ben 10 #ben tennyson #generator rex #rex salazar #jenny xj9 #my life as a teenage robot #kim possible #danny phantom #secret saturdays #zak saturday #juniper lee #rc9gn #randy cunningham #trying to use some of my collection for pose references and figuring out stuff for hom au i guess lol

[hoaxghost]

Some File Recovery demon lore! Feat a rather unfortunate example

Angels outnumbered The Fallen by a great deal so many demons resorted to splitting themselves off to boost numbers. Many also took this root to essentially end their conscious, a thing that is rarely ever allowed for immortal beings such as them.

Splits are essentially their own people, the more simpler way I could prob describe this method is 'Reverse 2048'

Also a fun lil fact but Stolforns and Sezzi are of the same Split tree, with the latter often calling the other his brother.

#my ocs #File recovery #demon oc #demon lore #body horror #also outside of pronouns split-demons will often refer to eachother with more gendered terms #Curser and Rico n Vera are all Splits with varying complex relations to their status #Even stolforn collecting halos is in cause of his interest in angels and how his root was one..only one degree of separation #but also splits are still barred from entering heaven or seeking redemption so many conflicting feelings there

[howtokillavampire]

do you ever see fanart so tasty that you are then obligated to join the fandom and spend all of your waking hours learning the lore behind the characters, or is that not a universal experience?

#this is how i got into batman #i mean im more into the batboys #im in it for the robins #does it count if wolfy's jesus fanart made me want to read the bible from an objective pov #technically thats a fandom #i think my entire southern baptist extended family would collectively die if i referred to them as a fandom #anyways #pretty art pavolovs me into consuming new media #batboys #batfam #batman #dc robin #dcu #coldflash #fanart #drarry #mattimir #superbat #hannigram #jonmartin #johnlock #samifer #jaydick #damijon #timkon #timbern #im totally forgetting a bunch of my fav ships bc my brain is tiny and forgets things #so please add your own blorbos #thanks for coming to my ted talk #but why tf are you still reading the tags???

[currently-haunted]

I think they can be so silly

#genshin impact #lyney and lynette #lyney #lynette #my art #curr's art #i still can't get over paimon mustache on the murder trial so i had to cop3 #my habit of collecting families of playable characters in genshin continues. fremine you will come home #idc i don't look at genshin outfit references anymore

[kaprisvn]

Here, take a Sun render for the long journey ahead!!

Obligatory click for better quality <3

I did this drawing on my phone and for some reason the colours look WAY different on PC...

Also, for those who care, I SWEAR I DIDN'T GIVE UP ON MY COMIC I'VE JUST BEEN STUPIDLY BUSY. I was sick for a week, got my wisdom teeth removed (it was hell), got sick again, had to catch up on over a weeks worth of school work, and now IM SICK AGAIN. I've been having a rough 2 months but I still want to get the comic done :)

#He is a very avid moon advertiser #I CANT BELIVE SUN GOT A LEVEL IN HELP WANTED 2 IM #Going to sit there for hours just looking at him #I will break the games boundaries to give him a hug I will do it #solar lunacy #I mean it's technically not Solar Lunacy BUT there is a reference to it in here ;) #Moon plush. #sun fnaf #fnaf #fnaf security breach #moon fnaf #dca fanart #daycare attendant #sundrop #sun x reader #Kapri's collection

[satellitedusterart]

intrusion

#my art #oc art #dahlia #the visual of the ufo in the bg was me trying to recreate a scene from a dream i had the night before i collected references #basic gist behind dahlia is that she's a homestead who performs odd jobs for family friends around town #''aw nice where do the aliens come in'' idk yet :3 i'll figure it out #rambler

[wintermelen]

Thing I did for @klaart for the spooky Ghoap exchange. It’s a soft Autumn vibes coffee shop au.

Ghost is a pumpkin spice girlie. It’s canon.

Fixed a few mistakes I only noticed after posting. Don’t know how I overlooked soap missing his beard.

#ghostsoap #ghoap #spookyghoapexchange #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #i’m pretty proud of this?? #it’s been a while since i’ve done a fully finished artwork #many many references were collected in the making of this #can’t believe it pushed me into using perspective guidelines

[aristoteliancomplacency]

I present to you the work of another painter of fish plates. Y’know how you use ‘scare quotes’ for various purposes, including indicating that you’re not actually sure about The Thing?

Well, this guy was so bad at whatever he was painting that we call him…

The ‘tadpole’ painter:

Here’s another example:

This one was sold as part of the Graham Geddes collection at Bonham’s auction house in 2008 for £2,040.

They describe it as ‘three fish including a wrasse with dorsal spines, an angler-fish, the rounded body with multiple black dots, two large round eyes with pupils, an open mouth with teeth bared, and a ray with pointed face, the body with multiple black dots’.

Which like… bold fucking move missing out the fact that they have legs. Though I can’t say I envy whoever had to write the description.

#first one is: #from ‘Greek red-figure fish-plates by Ian McPhee and A D Trendal #from the Macinagrossa collection in Bari #which I think is a private collection? #Trendall and McPhee refer to him as ‘a very minor artist’. #v rude. #imagine the auctioneer writing the description like ‘sooooo… uh. anyone know what this is supposed to be?’ #and a colleague just pointing out the fact that it’s the ‘tadpole’ painter and shrugging apologetically #because it was looted we do not know where it originally came from #(though many were found in tombs) #anyway. my personal head cannon - and I cannot emphasise enough that I have literally no evidence for this. it is just a flight of fancy #is that someone has to bring their child to work for a few days #and just let their kid play around and decorate plates that were write-offs for one reason or another #and some kid just sat their happily painting their crude little fish on these plates whilst their dad worked away #Fischteller #fish plates #tagamemnon

[louhinks]

the other of my fallout ghoul OCs. Andy works as an accomplished antiques restorer for various clients on the West Coast. She lets Finch live in her basement because they've known eachother for 200 years and neither of them have anything better to be doing

#my art #fallout #ghoul #fallout ghoul #fallout oc #original character #digital art #digital illustration #oc: andy #she has an impressive collection of pre-war photos for reference materials #and will make sure you mysteriously misplace your family photos into it

[anonymocha]

My favorite little goobers (Click is 3 patches away from being replaced).

Using @titaniumions’ template! I rambled about each of them before. Here’s that post.

#Lilya #Sonetto #Schneider #Kaalaa Baunaa #Baby Blue #Druvis III #Druvis #Medicine Pocket #Click #Door #reverse 1999 #reverse 1999 fanart #Schnetto #Druvlilya #KaalaaPocket #MediBaunaa #yuri is bountiful #wlw #nblw #i want to be pat by Kaalaa Baunaa too…. its unfair….. #medpoc girlkissing collection #but all of this could be platonic too :3 #mochadoodles #the druvlilya is a reference to bloom into you btw #theres not one but TWO mineral x beast ships here

[futuristichedge]

#still not over why they did this. i mean i totally understand they're rascals but like this SCENE #vector. no hesitation ''get me the pepper mill'' when theyre supposed to be heading out to vanillas. girl #sonic x #sonic the hedgehog #team chaotix #espio the chameleon #vector the crocodile #charmy bee #god i love their dynamic. this scene felt a little mean but thats sonic x for u #espio #vector #charmy #my gif #currently collecting a bunch of references for the inside of their house and SO confused by how their house is?? supposed to be constructed #will post once ive got it all for the convenience of artists 👍 and then i will ignore it #it needs to be homey u canNOT be living out of a cubicle-lookin ass house.

[cachiko]

yeehaw

#vashwood #trigun #trimax #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash the stampede #natural bright sunlight my mortal enemy #this was hard and i no longer have a functional hand #anyway i collected a bunch of mid century western romance covers and now have a stockpile of reference

[marlenacantswim]

christopher eccleston doctor you have my mind and soul, with your beautiful nose and ears and smile and military-grade repression capabilities. he's so sassy and cunty and has that kind of functional-adult-autism that your dad's gone 50 years undiagnosed with.

14 second progress video under the cut, snip snip ✂️

in reality this took me 11 hours, which i was only able to figure out by adding together the video lengths of all the hbomberguy essays i got through as i drew.

#special shoutout to the Doctor Who ttrpg Adventures in Time and Space 9th Doctor Sourcebook for the convenient collection of reference pics #tw suibaiting #doctor who #nuwho #9th doctor #ninth doctor #christopher eccleston #the doctor #running my mouth #made this with my hands #my artwork #artists on tumblr #doctor who fanart

[noxaurumque]

they are looking at each other tenderly

#pathologic #burakhovsky #collecting important reference photos