#unexpected ends

[maomango-doodle]

"And I hope you die, I hope we both die."

(Lyrics : No children by The Mountain Goats)

#trigun #trigun maximum #nicholas d. wolfwood #midvalley the hornfreak #wolfvalley #hornwood #tw blood #trigun rareship week #aaand here i come with wolfvalley for the first day!! how unexpected #feverishly drew this THEY MAKE ME SO ILL!!! REACHING CRITICAL STAGE BRAINROT #the prompts made me discover this song. i think it suits them #wanting each other's downfall even if it ends in their own #digging their fangs deep in each other's throat and not letting go. “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” am i right #unfortunately(?) i dont have anything else to offer for this fanweek so i'll sit back and enjoy everyone else's rare pair art🫡 #(ok but MAYBE just mayyyybe i have smth in mind for day 3 but idk if i'll have the time or skills to draw it...) #shinxo art

[egophiliac]

new chapter 7 installment dropped how we feelin????

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

THAT'S HIS DAD

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 6 spoilers #BABY DRAGON BABY DRAGON BABY DRAGON #i will take three thank you #god. lilia really has no idea how incredibly loved he is huh. #meleanor: (dies to protect him and her son) #malleus: (is literally born having a huge destructive tantrum because he wants lilia back) #silver: (bases his entire life and personality around how much he loves his dad) #lilia: wow i just can't understand why everyone is so upset about me dying #(somehow sebek ended up being the most normal about him and there's the most unexpected part) #man i really gotta redo lilia's um poster. i wasn't super happy with it to begin with but now there's like. fun shapes and context! #me: ha ha why is his magic called that. that's so weird. #me later: o-oh. oh i see. #SPEAKING OF SEBEK THOUGH there he is! THERE HE IS! #i was so afraid the armor was going to be a bad thing but NO he earned it! #he shook out his hair and turned out to have been beautiful all along! #episode 7 is about two things and two things only: dads and significant hair moments #and also speaking of dads! #i am taking lilia mistaking malleus for revaan based on his voice #as one more tick in the 'if crowley is revaan then there's going to have to be a really good explanation' column #the dulcet tones of dire crowley... #on the other hand if crowley tears off his mask and immediately starts sounding like malleus that would be THE funniest way to do it #auuuggghhhhh it's only been out for hours and already i'm like next part when #we've been cliffhanger'd again lads #idia finally came back to us and they were like 'please wait for the next release :)' #ortho did...did you somehow hack your way into silver's dream palace

[indigovigilance]

The Final Fifteen is about Terry Pratchett's Death

read on Ao3

The final fifteen is obviously a major plot point, and serves a role in a story that was written long before Terry Pratchett was ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But the scene itself wasn’t written until just a few years ago, during the writing of Season 2. In fact, the scene came about during a park bench conversation between Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore.

Others have noted that the non-romantic kiss that signals the story moving into the third act is a Neil Gaiman staple. The function of such a kiss, from Gaiman’s perspective, is to communicate.

In 2023 we are seeing a lot of stories written by men, for men, about men who are best friends and discover that their friendship can go deeper than the norms of society would usually allow; that platonic and romantic love are not so far apart, and perhaps the better word for a relationship that can be described this way is intimacy.

Neil Gaiman has made it clear in interviews that his friendship with Terry Pratchett was deeply intimate. They began collaborating on what would become Good Omens in the 1980’s, endured a tumultuous experience together through the first publication, wherein Neil offered to martyr himself on behalf of Terry if the book failed, and then spent the better part of two decades touring the world, meeting the people who loved their work. Neil would even off-handedly remark that Terry’s fans were so cheerful, and Neil’s seemed like they were ready to kill themselves; wouldn’t it be nice if they got married? From the outside, it looks very much as if Terry was Aziraphale-coded, and Neil was Crowley-coded, working together in an unexpected partnership to make the world a little bit more tolerable for the humans inhabiting it. I am not conjecturing that Neil and Terry had romantic inclinations the way their fictional characters do, but I think it is fair to say that their opposites-attract intimacy became an important part of who each of them were.

In 2007 Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s. As the disease progressed, he began to lose himself, and knew that the person he used to be was slipping away. He wanted to end his life on his own terms, and die as himself, but England did not and still does not allow for voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide. He advocated for the right to die but never achieved it, and ultimately succumbed to the disease in 2015. Neil Gaiman has spoken a lot on the topic of death, and one answer of his that resonated with me reads:

Mostly it feels terrible. It even feels terrible when it’s someone who has been in a lot of pain for a long time or has not really been there for a long time and you know that Death has in some ways been a blessing: suddenly you are mourning the whole person. 

It doesn’t get easier as you age. It gets stranger. The point where you realise how many people you used to know and like who aren’t there any longer, and you cannot talk to them or see them or laugh with them is painful in a way that I had never expected. The first time that someone you had a romantic relationship with dies and you realise that there had been moments both of you shared and now you are the sole custodian of those moments and one day you will be gone and they will be lost forever is peculiarly strange and hard. 

~~~

The entire show is seeded with references to Terry Pratchett, but the most important one is the one that’s missing. Neil Gaiman cameoed as a sleeping moviegoer in S1E4, but a long time ago, he and Terry had discussed cameoing as sushi restaurant-goers, because sushi was weirdly prominent in the book. That cameo would have been in S1E1. But when it came time to do it, Neil couldn’t. Not without Terry. 

Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we’d had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing… not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I’ll sit and I’ll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I’ll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn’t do it.

Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.

Neil: I was keeping it to me self ‘cause I was always like: Oh, maybe I’ll be… this will be my cameo. And then I couldn’t. I was just so sad, ‘cause Terry wasn’t there. And it was probably the day that I missed Terry the most of all of the filming - it was just this one scene ‘cause it was written for Terry and all of the sushi meals we’d ever had and all of the strange way that sushi ran through Good Omens.

~~~

In the Final Fifteen, it is clear that Crowley and Aziraphale want to stay together. They love each other. They each know that the other loves them. There’s nothing that needs to be said, no convincing that their bond is true and real and precious.

But Aziraphale has to go to Heaven, and Crowley cannot follow him there.

I cannot speculate what it must have been like for Neil to endure losing a friend who, though I’m sure he desperately wanted to still be in his life, he also knew that life had become a burden to him, and grieved that Terry was not able to choose the time and manner of his departure from this Earth. This sort of complex grief, we fan-ficcers know, is the kind that is often best processed through story-telling. 

I think that what we see Crowley going through in the Final Fifteen, alongside its importance to the story arc of Good Omens overall, is Neil processing his grief at losing his friend Terry Pratchett, and even the kiss, that violent, terrible, awful kiss, was the symbolic representation of Neil saying goodbye.

#neil gaiman #terry pratchett #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #ivoc #this meta ended up being only about 2/3 the length of my usual metas and somehow that feels appropriate because Terry's life ended too soon #and the jarring brevity of this piece parallels that feeling of sudden unexpected loss #for me anyways I don't know about you guys #if this made your eyes even slightly moist you are obligated to reblog to help someone else feel their feels #I don’t make the rules #but them is the rules #blessed by Beelzebub

[erenthology]

Drabble but I had to make it pretty :3

Eren is pretty nosy. When he visited your dorm for the first time, he went through everything in your room, shamelessly. You were lying half naked waiting for him, meanwhile this dude was smelling your perfumes.

“‘Hmm, what’s this? ‘Who’s this in the picture with you?”

“His name is Dave, he was my prom date.” you tell him, growing irritated.

“He’s ugly.” He puts the photo facing down and joins you on bed but sits down instead of pushing your head into the mattress fucking you raw. “are your sheets linen? Is that what you prefer?”

You stare wordlessly, this was not how you expected the infamous collage star to to act when invited into your dorm. You usually meet at his place because he insists to always pick you up and have you spend the night at his. So when you asked him if he wanted to come to your place you instead, you could swear you saw his eyes sparkle.

You put your feet on each side of his shoulders which gets him to glance down in between your legs. “Wow, you want to fuck me so bad.” he tilts his head to the side as if to get a better look.

He’s on his knees, hovering over you as you’re lying down with your legs open “Keep talking like that and I’ll find somebody else to fuck me.”

He raises an eyebrow, “keep saying stuff like that and you’re gonna get punished.”

“By who?” you clench your thighs.

His eyes track the dirty motion of your hips and licks his lips as if to taste you. “only me. why, is there someone else on your mind?”

“I mean, dave did hit me up recently. he’s grown quite attractive.” you like being petty.

Not even a crack of a smile. “You know, when you say stuff like that, it makes me want to fuck you silly.” he delicately strokes your cheek.

Huffing out a breath, you’re about to tell him to go ahead but get interrupted by him tracing your lips with his fingers. “Your lips turn down at the edge,” he smiles, “you have the perfect pout.”

Your breath hitches in your throat, not really used to being treated like this. Eren keeps surprising you and yet you find ways to ignore it. But you have a feeling that he’s fully aware of your antics and is being patient with you.

“So?” you dart out your tongue around his finger. “want to see it wrapped around something other than your finger?”

He adjusts his boner and pushes your legs down around his waist. Gazing into your eyes, he calmly speaks. “you have no idea how much I crave you. every second of every day.”

Swallowing hard, you feel the tension in the room about to snap. He lowers his body and pushes your legs up, folding you in half with his body weight.

Face to face, Eren looks at your searchingly. He’s waiting for you to kiss him, he wants you to show him you want him. So your hands reach for his face, and you brush your lips against his. He sighs a breath of relief, as if he’s been holding it it this whole time, and kisses you back.

Feeling content, he draws back and watches as you’re unable to open your eyes for a few moments afterwards. Eren smiles and releases your legs, then viciously hugs you and starts rocking you back and forth.

“You’re so cute.” he squishes you.

“stop, I’ll cut your teddy bear the next time I’m over Eren I swear.” you threathen harmlessly. He gasps, “first of all, Eldy is not a teddybear he’s my son.” he jokes back. Laughing at his antics, you realize you’ve gotten further involved with him than you might’ve realized.

The inside jokes, he kissing and unnecessary cuddling. As if noticing you’re drifting away, he puts you on his lap and grabs your laptop. “Let’s watch a something.” he strokes your thighs.

“Dibs” you both say on the same time. Turning to face him, you yell “supernatural” again, at the same time.

He stares intensely, “oh baby, you were so made for me.” he draws out enthusiastically. “Yeah yeah, just put it on.” you turn your face back to hide your blush.

Your bodies are tangled together, he holds you as if you complete him. Legs in between yours, arm around your torso, you’re surrounded by him. “Eren, did something happen?”

You can tell this makes him happy. “you care about me.” he smiles cheekily and kisses your cheek. So that’s the reasons he just wants to hold you.

“So, what’s wrong?” you forcefully let out. It feels a bit uncomfortable but you can tell he’s not uncomfortable at all. “Don’t worry about it, just let me hold you.”

“Fine.” you don’t know why you make it sound like you’re irritated, you’re not. But Eren doesn’t say anything, you have a feeling he’s learning how you work and actually understands you. Either way, you let him hold you.

#was i need of slight comfort so idk why it ended sweet i planned on having him dive in between your legs but life is unexpected I guess! #btw this is rugby Eren getting you to lower your walls(if you read the prev drabble ykyk) #i have noooot read through this but atleast the header is pretty<3 hihi #you can send me asks if you want to read something in particular #eren smut #attack on titan eren #eren #eren jeager x reader #eren aot #eren fanfiction #eren jaeger #just in the clouds for eren #eren x reader #eren yeager x reader #Eren fics #Eren x you #Attack on titan

[mobius-m-mobius]

LOKI APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | for @dailyloki Day 7 : Creation with a color or free choice: Lokius in Season Two (insp)

#mobius #loki #lokius #lokiweek2023 #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #dailyloki #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #belated finish since some unexpected things went down irl but hey made it to the end of the week and w/ my favorite set i've ever made #that's my roman empire right there!! #had a blast celebrating the most incredible season and seeing everyone's gorgeous creations #so here's to the next time we get to see the only ship in existence again 🥰 #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs #flashing cw

[canisalbus]

I think they have different feelings on this development

.

#your boyfriend turning into a brick of butter is like a very niche brand of body horror #answered #puppyboycunt #own characters #Vasco #Machete #gift art #I sure hope he can unbutter himself at will otherwise this is a very unexpected but tragic end for them

[artbyleav]

“I can’t just go running off into the blue, I’m a Baggins of Bag-end!”

Martin Freeman did such an excellent job with this role 🥹

(Done with procreate)

#my art #i was having a lot of bilbo feels when i drew this #like can you imagine? just being a dude and suddenly going on an insane quest with a king no less #like he is just a biggins of bag end #and he cant just go running off into the blue #fanart #lord of the rings #bilbo baggins #young bilbo #the hobbit #the hobbit thorin #bagginshield #thilbo #thorin x bilbo #dwarves #tolkien #an unexpected journey

[expiredsoda]

(draw out scene of resident lover bela's route 🐢

alright y'all, I get the appeal now she is hot. this game single handedly makes me love the dimitrescu sisters so much, they're simply undeniable <333

this part crack me up so much, mc all gay and trying to be respectful then camera switch to bela being all piss off and serious (done drag mc right back to reality lol

welp guess it can't be help when they stare at you first huh, perks of being a short lesbian ig

#resident lover #resident lover spoilers #bela dimitrescu #her bad ending is so unexpected i was so sure i win this time but sadly no #dead again lol #🐠🔆

[somegrumpynerd]

A bunch of doodles of Dream and Nightmare having fun as kids

From a perfectly normal lighthearted tiktok

#UTDR #UTMV #Dreamtale #Dream Sans #Nightmare Sans #My Art #Nothing unexpected or upsetting about it just a regular tiktok #No but for reals it has a kinda sad ending so if you're not looking for twins angst just look at these #They had lots of fun playing as kids #Playing hide and seek in the forest and making potions with grass and mud #And they're GONNA have fun together as adults who agree on a truce if it's the last thing I do!!!!

[lemonadeslice]

accidentally got invested in final space last week. my favorites are the wunderkind kitty cat and the space war-criminal his dad! 💙🧡

#i have repeatedly forgotten to watch the show since the pilot debuted BUT the graphic novel news finally got me to do it #my verdict is that it is VERY hit or miss but it mostly hits. it's pretty cute #final space #avocato #little cato #hysterical to do the ''violent merc with a dark past'' shtick and then name the guy avocado. by the way. genius. #oh also when i say ''favorites'' i doooo mean ''basically the only ones i cared about by the end'' #but i meeean. like it's myyy fault they did a solid father son dynamic and then threw in some VERY unexpected curveballs. i had no choice.

[hiero-green]

unironic Sorry Boys art, im not sorry the zombie video tickled my funny and creative bone a lot

geolf and the sketchbook doodles i did before deciding i wasn’t satisfied

#sorry #sorry boys #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle #philza #in an actual story tommy would be the unexpected MC #starts off as one of the side characters just trying to survive and generally Out of His Depth #and then all the drama ends up revolving him #wilburs whole thing namely #ok bye #hierogreen draws #sorry ranboo didn’t get anything other than a doodle in my sketchbook he was just kind of There for the most part #as much as i love him

[mesugakl]

#darkstalkers #morrigan aensland #marvel vs capcom #art #artists on tumblr #artwork #my art #illustration #my unexpected art secret is that i drew bodybuilders for a short time so im like... ok. at muscles #but i prefer not to bc im too obsessed w high end darkwear #also i really like old guys and used to draw them a lot #going 2 draw more buffwomen and will try not 2 cover them up with mountains of clothes like i like to do w everyone #im going to be tabling at my first ever con soon so i gotta pump that shit out

[undertalethingems]

Unexpected Guests Chapter Nine: End

First / Previous / Chapter 10

Sans manages to find his way out of the gloom--at least a little--thanks to one goofy skeleton. It won’t fix everything--it can’t fix everything--but it was the push he needed to not fall into complete despair. With Papyrus around (or in this case, a giant skeleton dragon that’s something of an extension of his personality) how could he?

And with that, Chapter 9 concludes! Chapter 10 is going to be action-packed--and it begins on Oct. 6th! Stay tuned~

#undertale #undertale comic #unexpected guests comic #gaster basters #sans (undertale) #sans can't ignore shenanigans forever #it goes against his very nature XD #and so this chapter of hurt/comfort ends... #and we reach toward what was originally the last chapter of this story.

[approaching-catharsis]

obsessed with Bheem's switch from 'bhaiya' to 'anna' when he admits his identity to Ram, actually.

(rip to those who watched it in Hindi, idk how many of these nuances carried over in the dubs and subtitles. but! I had the delight of loving how Telugu's dialects are used in RRR, so figured I'd share some of what I noticed!)

[disclaimer: this is just based off my experience/what I've heard from others, not necessarily, y'know, academically studied.]

Bheem in RRR broadly speaks two different kinds of Telugu - one with his fellow Gonds, and one when he's pretending to be Akhtar. You'll also hear a third style of Telugu used by characters like Raju, Raju's folks, pretty much every non-Gond character actually, and the songs, etc.

The choices about which style of Telugu the film uses at different moments is absolutely delicious to dig into.

For one, when Bheem is speaking to other folks of his tribe, the pronunciations and words he uses are very distinct from the 'standardised' style of Telugu that the other characters primarily use.

(I call it standardised only because that's the form of Telugu taught in formal education. It's not just pronunciations and words that differ between different styles, but even the grammar and verb forms change!)

But when Bheem is pretending to be Akhtar, his language changes completely. What Akhtar speaks is closer to standardised Telugu with heavy Hindi/Urdu influences (words like 'bhaiya', meaning brother, are Hindi additions. In other styles of Telugu, you'd say 'anna'). 'Bhaiya' IS something you hear in some Telugu-speaking regions, plus this is Delhi so there's bound to be Hindi influencing the language. It absolutely makes sense for him to speak that way when he's pretending to live there.

So, Delhiite Akhtar calls Raju "bhaiya" and refers to Seeta as "bhabhi" - both of those are Hindi words. Hindi words that are definitely not used in other forms of Telugu.

And that's why the moment he admits his actual identity to Raju is SO satisfying, because he goes:

[in standardised Telugu] No matter how long we spend together, I always long to spend more time with you, bhaiya. But I need to leave. [beat] [in distinctly Gond style] Anna, I've hidden the truth from you.

Even if you can't make out the difference styles in Telugu, you'll notice that Bheem never calls Raju 'bhaiya' after that point. Because that's not the Gond style, and he's dropped the disguise. Raju is anna now, a very Telugu word.

(also while looking up the line I just noticed this: We see Akhtar through a curtain/veil when he's saying he needs to leave. It's when the camera pans past the curtain and the disguise lifts, that we see Bheem speaking as himself. nice.)

just, the way that scene is done, with the curtain and music in the background and the language/code-switching the moment he drops the disguise is SO satisfyingly done.

And the choices in what style of Telugu is used by whom throughout the film is DELIGHT to explore. I absolutely love this lil detail tbh, the attention paid to language in this film. <3

#dialects and style of speaking does a lot of characerisation in many telugu films actually #i have only recently started properly paying attention to this and i'm loving it #also i am so used to calling [the historical figure] Ramaraju/Seetha Ramaraju #that I had to consciously keep correcting myself and calling [the character] just Raju‚ heh #anyway! good stuff #rrr #placeholder tag #never thought telugu films would end up on this blog but here we are #unexpected!

[theworldsoftolkein]

#the hobbit #middle earth #the hobbit fanart #gandalf #an unexpected journey #an unhealthy obsession #the desolation of smaug #the battle of the five armies #smaug #bilbo baggins #the shire #bag end #tolkien #burglar #thorin oakensheild fanart #balin #dwalin #lake town #bards family #bard #bard the bowman #thranduil #hobbit fanart #the hobbit trilogy #botfa #fili #fili and kili #kili #ori #dori

[charmac]

#iasip #sunny 9 #the gang tries desperately to win an award #who else up (its the end of the work day) thinking about how any one of them could have answered this #like theres literally a quote from their show #they could have answered the question with #but all three of them took the question seriously and answered sincerely #awjehsdsjdhhh. #sunny subverting tv tropes... #its a little more unexpected #ahhhh save me...