#your kind of heaven

[lazycranberrydoodles]

they are so in love and disgusting and also sarcastic bitches. follow for more / prev comic / next comic

#i have BEEN the grossly affectionate couple in the friend group btw. maybe one more reason i love them #right off the bat after meeting they are holding hands and hugging and touching each others shoulders #xie lian even rubs hua cheng’s back to calm him down during the lang qianqiu/ qi rong scene #also #the fandom knows that xl is an essentially kind person but i’ve been paying attention to his dynamic w/ fxmq #they give each other so much shit lmao 😭 #when xl is with people he knows well and trusts he is truly so judgemental and sarcastic. #it is so funny. #can you imagine being confronted by the most powerful people in the three realms and they destroy your self esteem with dry fucking wit #feeling so insane about them currently #tgcf #art #hualian #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #hua cheng #xie lian #feng xin #digital art #my art #mxtx #comic

[l-e-i-k-o]

𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤.

#3/30 something sims done for my NSB SAVE. #thank the heavens. #okok so #hear me out #my nsb gen 2 sim has a kid with iggy pancakes #his name is nico #IGGY is a deadbeat daddy though. LOL #eliza and bob are split up #opposites do nottt attract #i felt like they stayed together for awhile for iggy but... after awhile they just kind decided to give it a rest #eliza got remarried to a wealthy man #they have 2 cats <3 #bob owns his own restaurant! #i gave bob some tats too #iggy rarely speaks to any of his parents #and he has a bad gambling problem #my sims #the sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 cas #create a sim #show us your sims #simblr #townie makeovers

[canisalbus]

"The concept of love is of course prominent in Christianity, so even as a kid being raised in a religious environment . . . Machete wasn't completely alienated from it. But it has always been a nebulous, unperceivable and unattainable thing for him."

I love that you could replace "love" with "God" or "divinity" here and it would still work. And in that way it matches the way I've been perceiving their relationship as Vasco granting Machete a kind of holiness he didn't think living people could have

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#ah I'm so glad you noticed that! #I'm bad at articulating anything but that's the vibe I've been trying to convey #if you choose to believe so these concepts can overlap a lot #to my understanding both love and religious experiences are capable of inducing intense altered states of consciousness #in other words they can mess with your head in similar ways #I dunno I just find that interesting #answered #daggermall #“the only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you” kind of deal

[sisyphusdraws]

Fan art of @i-drop-level-one-loot ‘s darling Kirtch <3

He’s just such a cutie. I’m sure he would take better care of his books, but consider this one a dog-eared copy from his childhood🪲

#yandere x reader #I kind of made up a lot of detail that I couldn’t see in your original sketch so I’m really sorry if he doesn’t match the vision #but I love me a shiny scaly beetle boy #tbh if he gave me art supplies and let me pretend to be an academic writing books on human culture and physiology I’d be in heaven #no shock collar necessary #I keep forgetting I have this blog lol

[illuminatedferret]

ascensions lian

one of my favorite things about rereading tgcf is finding little bits of info where MXTX showcases how crazy strong xie lian is. like in the PROLOGUE we learn that if people trying to ascend fail their Heavenly Tribulations they either die or are (socially? physically?) ruined. like, nevermind the rigors of cultivating to ascension, the act of ascension itself is lethally dangerous.

and XIE LIAN

this motherfucker ascended for the first time IN HIS SLEEP. the second time he was so busy pummeling bai wuxiang that he didn't even notice it!!! what the hell!!! what the hell is this guy on and how do i get some

#tgcf #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #heaven officials blessing #tgcf meta #illuspeaks #heaven official's blessing #like seriously its such a minor detail and yet its SO telling #it occurred to me writing this that the cursed shackles protections #may extend to ascensions. which is kind of fucked up #in a cheaty sort of way #but its also probably not relevant. this is all xie lian baby #if youre still reading this go read ascension woes by ijoke on ao3 #the title is an unintentional theft from there

[fauvester]

nicholas biddle, the god-favored prince of philadelphia!

beautiful and brilliant and just sweet 16!

#the boy king of chilladelphia <- echolaling in my head while i drew this #tcgf au #nicholas biddle #i wanted to draw pretty princess biddle SOOOO BAD ITS DRIVINGME CRAZYYYY #hes a poet hes an editor hes a bon vivant and most importantly hes a civil servant and economist #who is going to bring eternal and well-managed glory to his kingdom! #he thinks hes a man of the people (he for sure is not) but the people love him anyways #king of heaven james monroe watching this lil guy like haha. i like this one best. hes going to be my little successor. #everyone else like Uh your highness hes literally going to be a civil god thats kind of cringe. whats he going to do paperwork evil to deat #complete lack of fighting ability be damned my boy can work an abacus! #nb does not become the white no-face in the end because he falls from heaven too early so houn gets the dubious honor instead #peacock n chrysanthemum motifs. for obvious reasons

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

#saw carnation lily lily rose by john singer seargent irl today. it was basically at my doorstep all along idk why i never went to see it #it was placed at a corner in the gallery. me and my friend sat down and sketched the paintings of beautiful naked people quite badly. paper #provided by tate britain. she told me about how she couldnt look her boyfriend in the face after a harrowing film about war. when i say the #interview was informal i mean the person who was supposed to be my boss told me let me get you a cider and then he said after #50 years of life he knows people are inherently good and it only takes a little bit of kindness to save this world. he said he tricked #his wife into keeping the baby and then he said he quit his job at a US bank to help people find meaning and in it #he would have liked to find meaning. instead he started climbing with his friends. he said he chews his cigarettes because its a habit from #when he had to hide things from people. the entire time i felt uncomfortable and incredibly enlightened. this is my friends mentor. she has #his pattern of pauses and expletive and penchant for ends-justify-means attitude. i do think im not very clever #but maybe one day i will love you enough to make up for it. i wrote code i dont understand staring at the final error i thought about how #we both thought of how when we're too old to remember the voices of our friends we would like to stand in the pathway of the LHC beam pipe #cut it open and eat light in the freezing cold vacuum (kills you long before radiation will) the invisible puncture wound unfolding dna #back to the start larger than you ever were. you go to heaven once youve been to hell. my friend is in my bed #practicing calculations of eigenvectors by hand and she is uninterested in a visual proof you are uninterested in incompetence #we catch a train this is your kind of burden you tragic hero wincing at that word you only do this because you have to. im the only one #who can. i am a coward in this for the fucking poetry. the visual proofs. the pretty numbers. an architect who was horrible at maths wanted #to be a philosopher and accidentally ended up neck in deep in 70th Error On Visual Studio Code i want to kiss your eyes before we say #goodbye we both know there is no love in the way there should be. I still have your dress in my wardrobe. i hope you make art. #you think im alright head-wise i think you fucking hate me i think ill never be so clever you want me to tell you my idea? #if you wanted more of this world i would have liked to kiss you harder. we cant both be like this. im sorry i cant be with you the whole wa #the love is gone if you have to ask it. his breath catches his eyes feel stiff it is -1.9 kelvin he is near the beam pipe i miss holding #his hand i miss her singing voice i miss his hair and i found the antonym of pain thank you for carrying me home.

[potatoesandsunshine]

me trying to convince the companions in the "revenge corrodes and corrupts everything it touches" dlc to come back to the mojave: i've got a life. i've got a robot dog. that could be you. please. people laugh together there

#dead money #f:nv #thinking about the rest of the game while you're in dead money truly sounds like you're inventing a kind of heaven in your mind #'there's no toxic cloud' ok send her back to bed she's imagining life without the toxic cloud again.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

ive seen your “wouldn’t be the first time i got beheaded” comic on like 7 separate occasions and feng xin’s face gets me every. dang. time 😭

LOL thank you. the different reactions to Classic Xie Lian Antics is so funny to me. feng xin is so openly horrified and disturbed every time xie lian talks about that kind of stuff. i guess he thought that xie lian would have improved his situation by now (the last time he saw him was bricklaying at the start of his second banishment).

#i think that feng xin still has this respect and reverence for xie lian lodged in his head #being loyal to someone who has changed to be near unrecognizable is a bitch.... you devoted your childhood to the guy who now sleeps on #straw mats idiot. and of course the lingering guilt of leaving #ugh ive been thinking about unrequited xianle fenglian recently #mu qing on the other hand. feels a sort of 'this is what you deserve' way about xie lian. unlike feng xin he views the royalty/divinity #as something that was given to xie lian. the darling of the heavens. and seeing him haul junk around is kind of gratifying. #but..... uh oh mu qing looks like you still care about him too. :( #i was very skeptical of xianle quartet polycule shipping before (was a staunch hualian-only guy) but now i realize the potential..... #not art #ask #tgcf

[goatpunches]

this man has never showered once in his life

#he sleeps on your couch and drinks all your booze #he doesn’t take care of his tattoos or piercings so they get infected #you never invite him to parties but he always manages to show up #and yet ….. i want him #anyway some kind of modern au?? #i blame kaya #qi rong #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #fanart #mxtx

[bravevolunteer]

i've said this before but i'm so convinced the aftons did a grand canyon vacation

#it's RIGHT THERE. THEY'RE IN THE BOTTOM CORNER OF UTAH. #that and for as much as fnaf taking place in utah is made fun of it is pretty known for a lot of scenic locations/national parks/etc #please envision the most dysfunctional family nature activities in the world with me #like on one hand the aftons in the earlier years doing these mundane things is so WAHHH #but also. chaos. utter fucking chaos. #michael is also just not a nature hiking kind of guy. granted i doubt william is either however i can see it either being an aftons + emily #thing or just a This Is What Normal Families Do Right Kids Pack Your Bags #he's sweaty and there's BEES and he's spooking his siblings by pretending like he's about to push them off (he's NOT. god. why would you #even think that smh) #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

[doodlboy]

Yk realistically if the om bros were fucked up like demons should be, they wouldn't be that disturbed by bloodlust el's personality.

However, I think the terror and angst comes from the fact that they lived with him his whole life, and for the most part, he was very passive and calm and never immediately resorted to violence, so to see [what used to be] their human revel in bloodshed is.. unsettling.

#bc they loved him for being human #being kind!! he was their connection to the entirety of humanity bc he loved people. bc he was human #they knew he was going to die eventually bc he's mortal. to them his life feels like minutes passing by 2 their immortality #[the universe where he turns in2 bloodlust el is the 1 where solomon can't reproduce the accidental immortality spell he used on himself] #[so el dies of old age after a full life of the devildom and his partners and magic] #so- imagine you die. your life was full and complex and loving #and [for a reason i haven't decided on yet] heaven/the celestial realm wipes your memory of all of that shit and u turn in2 a blank slate #2 be molded and shaped into something befitting an “angel” #then u start getting your memory back and you damn near start another war bc you're so pissed off you fight god & actually land a hit #which gets u cast out of the heaven and when you go crashing into hell you land smack dab in the middle of the garden #that belongs 2 the ppl who once loved you #but when u crashed you fucked up your head and now you're “wrong” #different from the human these people want you to be. and you hide away. they make you feel like a monster when you can't stop it #and get imprisoned for it. then used as essentially a court jester/executioner bc the prince needed to do *something* with you #fucked up #they wouldn't care if he was just another demon. but he's what remains of the human they loved yk #so it's more disturbing #anyway long ramble over #elliot rambles #obey me #obey me mc #obey me demon mc #obey me demon oc #avatar of bloodlust #demon elliot oc

[quietwingsinthesky]

I guess I can't really get behind cas saving dean from hell as a destiel win, or lines like 'you don't think you deserve to be saved', because. this is not a point at which cas is doing because he believes dean is good and loves him or anything but. he saves dean because that's heaven's will. when he reminds dean that cas, and heaven, are who saved him in early s4, it's not him really saying 'you're a good man', it's a debt that he is using, pretty explicitly, to get dean to do what heaven wants. even the handprint reads like... ownership, in a way.

cas is complicit in heaven's manipulation of dean after he's pulled out of hell. that's what makes his rebellion later powerful, because this is an angel who believes in heaven so strongly that he will look into the eyes of the righteous man he saved and tell him that if he doesn't do what he's told, he will throw dean back into hell.

#this is not an anti-cas post to be clear. or even really anti-destiel? #it's just kind of weird that this is all portrayed so romantically when like. that's not how it is in the show. #castiel marks dean because heaven owns his ass. not because he loves him. dean is a tool to them. engraved. #this is a personal thing anyway #i like this about their relationship. i think its more impactful for cas to view dean the same way heaven does at first. as a sword. #and then to learn more about him and to realize that he should trust him over heaven. #rather than him being dtf from the get-go #also because hgnnn dehumanization brain go brrrrr. to get pulled out of hell and for your savior to look at you as a dog that needs to have #his chain yanked and reminded he can be sent back to the pound if he bites #i take it back cas saving dean from hell is a destiel thing in the way that it is cas collaring dean for heaven's use and realizing that #maybe he wants dean collared for his own use deep down. cas who hasn't interacted with anyone but other angels in centuries. #who has lost so many of his siblings to save this one man. who has no real control over what he is ordered to carry out. #looking at dean like. but i can control him. he will obey me. i can be his private god. #yeah its destiel like that i guess #destiel #spn #dean winchester #castiel

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

Underrated moment of joy in this season: The bleating ravens.

I swear my heart grew three sizes in that moment. Cuz I knew, I KNEW, that there was obviously no way Crowley was ever going to hurt a kid. I wasn’t sure how he was going to get out of it but I was positive he’d figure something out.

But the thing is (and I’m almost ashamed to say it) I completely bought the destruction of the goats. I didn’t love it, but I figured it fell into the same ~morally gray~ category Crowley so often does.

But turns out that demon is too kind-hearted to even harm a herd of goats! And that fact makes me MELT! Crowley is so soft and good on the inside, and he has such a strong sense of right and wrong, it kills me.

I want to wrap him in a blanket and give him a little kiss on the forehead. It’s what he deserves!

#mine #good omens #Crowley #i love him your honor #he’d HATE being wrapped in a blanket and given a kiss on the forehead which just makes me want to do it MORE #Is it weird that the ravens made me cry almost as hard as the kiss?? #idk the unexpected kindness of Crowley never fails to hit me over the head with feelings #The poor boy works so hard to seem scary and man and he’s simply NOT #it’s charming and lovely every time #also I feel like that moment really drives home how strong his sense of Justice is #and how he’s one of the only characters truly capable of thinking for himself #cuz he want planning on being caught… he wasn’t being good for aziraphale or anything. #he was just doing the right thing because it was right #despite the feelings of Heaven OR hell #and that’s SO HARD even in regular life much less for a literal demon

[catilinas]

idk what’s going on but this fucks

#odyssey book 22 To Me #hey uh we kind of turned your boyfriend (commensality ritual) evil…… yeah there was supposed to be a feast but it turned into people getting #killed :/ there’s blood and gore in the food now :/ yeah with the implicit cannibalism and everything #wait actually thinking some more odyssey book 22 REAL? #beeps #heaven official’s liveblogging #tgcfposting

[silviakundera]

Shi Qingxuan's teeth were chattering. "I want to die.."

"Dream on," Ming Yi responded coldly.

There it was again, that familiar frosty tone of voice and those equally icy, cruel words. It was the same as it had always been, but now it took on a completely different meaning. - TGCF

I'm sure this has been pointed out many times, but when re-reading I have been DELIGHTED by MXTX's slight of hand with the He Xuan character. The cast and the reader both presuming tsundere cliches & writing off any derisive and adversarial statements as moody, harmless defensiveness instead of sincere malice. The guy told u a thousand times he's not your bestie!

👏 👏 👏

#aw hes all combative but kind on the inside 🤡 #lets put all our clown noses on #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #guys guys comment w other brilliant uses of tropes to mislead the reader #im trying to think of more now #where the cliche seems to be played straight #and everything reads believably for the reader #but its an intentional misdirection #working on your fan trope assumptions #your fannish knowledge works against you