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redid the link tree thing! canât believe itâs been a year
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guys iâm alive!! just been very busy, and the only art iâve had time for is either for college (which means i canât share it) or for the dnd campaign iâve gotten into (and the subsequent scp rpg campaign that hasnât started yet)
i will get some art to you soon though!! just not sure how soon
I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.
They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.
Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.
The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.
They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?
cosmic owl design for my au ! ! the cosmic prophet !
REDRAW!!
so, i redrew this piece of Hastur i did last year:
and??? look at the difference?? the anatomy, the lighting, LOOK AT IT
anyway, i redrew this and had a bit of a crisis of ânext year iâm gonna redraw something iâm proud of now and iâll realise how shite i wasâ but then i realised how positive it can be to realise how youâve grown, both in good ways and bad ways, so thereâs that
anyway, i might post a speedpaint of this on youtube if thatâs a thing anyoneâs interested in? maybe? ah well. enjoy :]
i donât remember if i posted this but i found these and crowley would ABSOLUTELY wear them
i saw a guy that looked exactly like neil gaiman, and the only reason i knew it wasnât him was because he was wearing grey skinny jeans
iâm having one of those things where you love something so much that you physically cannot draw it
i wasnât going to post this but i think you deserve a treat
a half-abandoned style test i did - enjoy :]
hey, you see that blue? of thorinâs and fĂliâs eyes? yeah, thatâs yellow
anyway, some fun little headshots i did yesterday, at first as a sketch page to loosen up and then as a colour relativity practice. i did genuinely mean it when i said that blue is actually yellow. i couldnât tell if i preferred the shaded or unshaded versions, so you get both, as a treat
also, slowly progressing in the silmarillion using any spare time when my brain also happens to be working, and lemme tell you - eru knows what heâs doing, knows what everyone else is doing, is the one who chose for that to happen, and heâs still salty about it. heâs so done already and the first children havenât even arrived yet
i need to know - has Shane ever seen stupid deaths??? like?? i was rewatching some old content and honestly, i think heâd really love the joviality of Death. someone at watcher, please show Shane stupid deaths
please. look at him. shane would adore him
Everyone's talking about how Nina and Maggie seem on the outside to mirror Crowley and Aziraphale respectively, but it's actually switched, and Nina mirrors Aziraphale while Maggie mirrors Crowley.
But I haven't seen as much talk about how the same thing is happening with Shax and Muriel.
Shax is Crowley's replacement on earth at the beginning of S2, and Muriel becomes Aziraphale's by the end. Muriel and Aziraphale particularly are presented as very alike on the surface (see their enthusiasm over playing a 'human police officer' and an intrepid 'newspaperman' for example). And Shax is eager to learn from Crowley, who has kind of taken her under his wing and is teaching her how to be a demon on earth.
But beneath their surface appearances, Shax is actually a mirror to Aziraphale, and Muriel is a mirror to Crowley. Shax and Aziraphale are the (soon-to-be) leaders of their respective Sides. Muriel and Crowley are nobodies, insignificant (as of now) to either Side. Shax and Aziraphale are stubborn, ambitious, and determined to make real change to their respective organizations for the benefit (or detriment) of humanity. Muriel and Crowley both crave connection, they both have (or will) come to deeply care about earth and humanity, and they both are (or once were/still are deep down) openly curious and filled with wonder and love for creation. In season 3, it's going to be Shax vs. Aziraphale in Heaven/Hell, and Muriel and Crowley figuring things out on earth together.
This parallel is just as important as the Nina/Maggie parallel, and will arguably be more important in Season 3.
Nina and Maggie mirror Aziraphale and Crowley as a couple, as partners. How they have to all grow into themselves before they can really be together.
Shax and Muriel mirror Aziraphale and Crowley as individuals. Aziraphale and Crowley have become increasingly codependent for 6000 years, and even more so in the four years before season 2. They need this time apart to learn and become comfortable with who they are without each other. And in that time, their encounters with Shax and Muriel will push them to grow, challenge them, and help them embrace parts of themselves that, up until this point, they relied heavily on each other to bring out in them.
It's Aziraphale, who's always been stereotyped as soft, vulnerable, ultimately weak, who's going to showcase his own strength. It's Crowley, who's always seen as all walls and sharp edges, who's going to become comfortable with his own softness. It's Aziraphale, who's always relied on his connections, not just to Crowley but to the people in his community, the restaurants where they know his name, who's going to have to trust himself to stand alone in order to face off with Shax. It's Crowley, who started out "on my own side" and who's only ever let Aziraphale in on it, who's going to have to open himself up to meaningful connections, first with Muriel, but then with other people and the world.
I have a lot more to say about how this mirror works and how it might play out in season 3, so let's get into it! (Seriously, this is gonna be a long one)(Like I've been writing this for weeks).
my impression of the silmarillion so far (iâm nine pages in to AinulindalĂ«):
Manwë: responsible brother, tired
Melkor: whiny bitch
IlĂșvatar: already regretting making Melkor a whiny bitch, even if it is integral to his plan
early days in the Garden⊠i love thinking about Aziraphale at peak cute and naïve cherub :^]
I feel like it gets super duper over looked that Aziraphale refuses the archangel position at first, and only accepts after hearing that Crowley wouldn't just be left behind, he'd be taken care of even better in heaven with Aziraphale protecting him from the very Hell that wanted to destroy him, because he also saw the horrors they were planning for Crowley [a holy water in a bath tub as some kind of celebratory event, at that] not just the other way around. There's so much hate for the angel because he "picked heaven over crowley" or "walked out on their relationship" but he didn't, HE PICKED CROWLEY, he's always picked Crowley, just not while considering what Crowley would want. Yeah arguably it was selfish and in his best interest, but that isnt the least bit abnormal for people to do??? especially idiotic celestials that dont understand proper communication. but hey what do I know???
Supreme Archangel Aziraphale
so, i started this last year as just aziraphale holding a sword, and then never finished it because i hated it. i had no inspiration today so i went through old wips, found the sketch, and thought iâd make it better. tada.
anyway, he misses crowley. and also grew a beard, because drawing beards is really fun, especially on characters who can grow a beard but donât.
i think crowley would love it, but wouldnât be able to handle it, and would tell aziraphale to shave it all off for his own mental and emotional stability and wellbeing
I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.
Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."
Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.
Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.
Something like this:
We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--
--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.
But it turns out he was this:
!!!
With his curly little--!!
And his neat white--!!
IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:
"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."
(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)
In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.
In sum...an innocent.
(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.
We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.
Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)
So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--
*checks notes*
--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.
...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.
All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?
He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.
That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...
...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'
What does that tell us about who he was? Is?
Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.
Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."
And what reason does he give?
("I know you."
"You do not know me."
"I know the angel you were.")
What does that tell us about who he was? Is?
("The angel you knew is not me."
But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)
tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.
'Innocence died screaming' and all that.