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TODAY WE EAT AT ARBY’S

a helpful tutorial

I was taking with my friend about good omens and we were wondering how the hell aziraphale-as-crowley managed to get into that bath without getting his socks wet and so I drew this ‘helpful’ guide.

I like to imagine that all the demons had to just awkwardly stand around watching him clamber around getting into this bathtub… @neil-gaiman can you confirm?

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This is even better than the people trying to get Good Omens cancelled on Netflix. I might confirm it when I stop laughing.

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I have been thinking about this scene a lot and while I appreciate the OP’s version as well as the very fine illustration, I can’t help but slightly disagree. I have always seen Crowley stand at the foot edge of the tub, raise his arms dramatically, falling backward in slow motion with an evil grin on his face, making a massive splash like the dramatic bitch that he is. It took a minor miracle to not get his socks wet, but it was worth it. Now I need an illustration of the entry I described for comparison…. for science of course.

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a comparison! (for science, of course)

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…okay, but can we consider this option? for arguments sake?

ignore that i ordered it backwards

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I imagined a lot of things while we were making Good Omens. I never ever once imagined this thread.

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I think this paints a good picture of the problem many people have with FGO’s sexualization of women.

Without looking up anything about either of these two characters, tell me which one is the embodiment of someone’s idealized lust who doesn’t even see themselves as a person, and which one is the proud sovereign warrior who became immortal after fistfighting gods for fun?

Chances are if you aren’t familiar with the source material, you probably guessed wrong.

See, Cu Alter and Scathach are both pretty fanservicey characters (to an equal degree IMO) and I don’t mind because I like them both! Heck, I love Scathach’s costuming specifically because of the implication that Cu Chulainn modeled his own body suit after his teacher’s because he admired her that much! Plus, the spandex itself is meant to be a nod to the way Celts often fought in the nude wearing nothing but war paint, which I thought was neat!

Heck I’ll even go off on a limb and say Cu Alter’s design may even be more overtly sexualized due to all the bare torso, tight pants, and just straight-up adding about 40 lbs of muscle because I guess the dark side makes you swole.

But then you see their final ascension art. Cu Alter’s is very much in-character for him, it even looks like a follow-up piece to his previous card sprite’s picture where he’s posed atop a mountain of corpses. Scathach, meanwhile, has this weirdly passive pose and almost vacant, submissive expression on her face, that feels entirely unnatural to her character.

It’s not universal across the board, sure, there are some female characters who are more covered up and given more dynamic or less sexualized final art but on average, this is pretty much what we’re dealing with.