priest: i don't, ah, quite know what to say to you. if you are in such terrible danger, why are you taking it all so calmly?
constantine: hmh! i dunno, father. i had a bloke beaten to a pulp earlier this evening. that sound calm to you?
priest: you did what...?
constantine: i must've been off me bleedin' rocker. i've never done anything like it before in me life, y'know?
constantine: but there's header gets his guts blown out, and george is stickin' his head in the noose, and helen gets ... jesus, then friggin' sarah bites me head off — ! everything's coming to bits in me hands and it's so easy to just see red and now, shit, they could've killed the tosser for all i know!
and now i'm just like the bastards i've hated all me life! kill him! fire him! close them down! piss all over him! screw you, i can do whatever i want! i so much as blink and you're dead, pal! i'm in charge!!
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constantine: 'scuse me, father. i'm always like this when i don't get me own way.
— hellblazer #81, "rake at the gates of hell pt. 4"
babygirl you are just....so, sooooo offputting. (and grieving, and guilty, and terrified, but yeah: offputting.)
anyway, it's issues like this one that remind me why i kind of hesitate over some of the retcons in the recent spurrier runs, like the one with him now having opened dream's pouch of sand and stolen some before they even met. because like, it's easy enough to look at john constantine now — with 70 years of worst possible choices and unresolved trauma crystallizing underneath his skin to cover up all the soft, hopeful bits where he's used to getting hit — and assign him arbiter of ill intentions, magus of wasted potential, saint of shit choices, but man . . . he was new to this, once. he was still new to this 80 issues in.
80 issues in, and he's not used to losing friends yet; he even has time enough between catastrophes to grieve each individual one. still has enough left to live for at this stage to necessitate running and hiding, instead of bodily throwing himself at the problem like he learns to later, or sitting apathetically by to do nothing except smoke and watch the world fall apart when he finally gives up. fuck, he still apologizes.
and you're telling me this guy, this soppy wet cat motherfucker hiding from the devil in a church basement, so guilty over not knowing what happened to the guy that he paid people (paid chas, so chas could pay people) to attack that the bottle he's holding in this scene isn't even his second or third........this guy's past, more innocent self lied right to the face of DREAM OF THE ENDLESS and got away with it?
hm. i just don't know about all that.
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oh my god I got such a good grade on my research paper holy shit I'm going to cry
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81 - Explanations
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the great comet to reading the entirety of war and peace pipeline is actually so palpable and real
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the third panel!!!! it has been one of my favs since I thumbnailed it in like 2017. Consistent note on it has been: wife-shaped.
⇤ ⭠ ⭢ ⇥
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IT’S WHAT SHE DESERVES!
Also Yuuko reinforcing what I was just saying about her, deliberately pointing out to Kohane the good things that can come out of her gift, showing her how it can help her forge a better future. I don’t think we have ever seen Yuuko ever been so consistently kind and caring and genuinely helpful to any of her customers, and it’s practically everything I could ever want.
SEE SEE SEE SHE HAS A NEW FAMILY TO HANG OUT WITH AND ASK FOR HELP, AND ARE HAPPY TO HELP HER
This really IS everything I could have hoped for. I was genuinely scared for a while that Kohane’s arc was going to end in tragedy, BUT NOPE HERE WE GO, Kohane does the hardest thing she could and collapses her life around her in an attempt to help herself and her mother finally actually be happy - and she is immediately met with a new family holding out their hands and smiling and offering to help her whenever she needs it.
AND IT’S MORE THAN SHE’S EVER HAD IN HER LIFE. IT’S WHAT SHE DESERVES.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AND KOHANE WANTS TO BE PART OF IT ALL, AND ASKS TO HELP AS WELL, AND THEY IMMEDIATELY ACCEPT HER IN
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Good Luck Bad Luck Pages 81-85
Ko-Fi Patreon Webtoon
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Dex threw Mosscap a look and lowered their voice as far as it would go. "What kind of books does Ms. Amelia collect?"
"Oh, entirely pornography," Mosscap said. "It was very educational."
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers
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your mother will say things to you and u will lose all ur teenage years to an eating disorder and then ur mother will say "that didnt happen. i didnt say that"
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Hey Patrick Bateman Worstie, uhm, what the fuck do you mean by this? You aren't going to kill her just because she's late to your date???
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just turned in my completed thesis draft and as much am i’m beating myself up and regret the way i went about writing it/actively screwing myself over, i think there is something to be said about the fact that i wrote 55 pages in 12 days
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I never watched MLP. I am ignorant to the realities of the pony verse. I choose to believe everything you've been posting/reblogging about it is 100% canon.
If only the show was as gay as i make it out to be my god. Legitimately, i say this unironicaly, the show would be improved if it was fruitier. Not just "gay cool" but like. character relationships could be advanced and explore the subject and maybe the show would finaly know how to write romance lmao. But regarldess its a fun watch -v-
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Kohane waking from her slumber like me suddenly snapping to attention when Yuuko mentions the final moment is “very soon”
I mean that IS how time works, where things steadily get closer and closer, but this seems IMMINENT now. She’s been saying it for a while but this seems SOON.
I don’t think I’m ready.
But I WANT to know what happens.
BUT I DON’T WANT ANY CHARACTERS TO GO MISSING.
AND THOSE INVERTED COLOURS ON HER HAIR WHEN SHE SAYS IT?
:|
I find myself in a pickle of a situation
OOH Ok yes I had wondered if they were separate or both had been sold away. Kohane’s power to exorcise (ie, the feather) were enough of a price for her wish, leaving her original powers in place. So she can still SEE things, she just can’t do anything about it.
Which is more than she thought she would have left, and like Yuuko says, leaves her with a connection that she truly deserves to keep.
And like. Yuuko didn’t need to say that. She didn’t need to phrase it in such a kind and caring way, emphasising what Kohane has and deserves to have, and showing her the way to make a happier future out of the gift she thought only brought her negative things in the past. Yuuko didn’t NEED to do all of that BUT SHE DID And I need to keep her forever
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