Cages Or Wings, Which Do You Prefer?

35. British. She/Her. Grey-Homoromantic Asexual. I spend far too much time reblogging Les Misérables, Tolkien's Legendarium, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Fullmetal Alchemist, Discworld, Wicked, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Musketeers, Dragon Age, Hamilton, Spartacus, Mass Effect, Voltron, Star Wars, Yuri on Ice, Horizon Zero Dawn, Assassin's Creed, Detroit: Become Human, Good Omens, Hadestown, The Witcher, Life Is Strange, The Untamed, Critical Role, Batman... Let's just say I have a lot of fandoms...

[samsheadraws]

Justice League of America core members forming a heart! Yay! i had a lot of fun making this print, and I hope to debut and sell it soon! <3

[svnsetromance]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN House of the Dragon (2022 - ) — insp.

[sparrow-hawk]

You want allies to go after the gods. I've got places to look.

[yenvengerberg]

SHEEPSTEALER + reddit commentary

[alysmond]

#he's got a madness about him you only see in the eyes of targaryen descendants

[xoxo--yours]

polycule...? just kidding...............polycule??? jk.........pol-

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

Day 7: Dragonseed(s)

Addam of Hull

[lokiusmybeloveds]

reminder that anakin skywalker canonically coined the term transgender in star wars and grand moff tarkin was sleeping with a male stormtrooper who would put on a hick accent whenever they hooked up. happy pride I guess.

[captaingondolin]

not sure what it says about me that I know chapter and verse of the gay stormtrooper, but this makes the invention of the word transgender even more baffling. is it a goncharov cleverly disguised by being next to a canon thing that nevertheless looks insane? or is it real and I missed it? please inform me

[safekh-aubi]

100% canon

[ra-artblog]

Happy glorious 25th!!🪻⚔️

[floatinghanmi]

primehood on the mind

[soft-october-night]

I read the book when I was a kid and loved it. This season truly felt like a return to the themes of the book. I hated S2 because it felt completely pratchettless, but in this season I could feel his presence so much more. The themes of the messiness of humanity and free will, which were literally the point of the book and S1, were finally back on full display and I adored it.

In terms of production, holy shit what a refresh. The camera is intentional! There are shots that are GOOD and thought is in the cinematography! The sound design in the bookshop at the end? Loved it so much, gave it such a true feeling of emptiness. The little graphics are back!!! They felt like terry pratchett's footnotes in the first season and I'm so happy to see them again here.

My biggest criticism is that it should have been at least 3 episodes. Like it needed another hour or two to fully cook. Jesus was left on the cutting floor, the heaven murder mystery was left on the cutting floor. Michael's descent felt a little unearned and I'm sure that was supposed to be more developed as well.

I know some of y'all out there hate the ending and all I can say is that to me, it felt very true to the themes of the book and I loved it so much. Even without someone pulling the strings, in a universe of free will and no silly ineffable plans, they still find and love each other. They're literally married and grow old together and that's the most any of us can ask for.

[highlyincorrect]

Honest (SPOILER) thoughts regarding the GO finale, I think a valuable piece of writing people are kinda overlooking is the INCREDIBLE subversion of their main motivations

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

I don’t know but I think it’s absolutely beautiful to get to know characters that you thought had these black and white motivations, only to discover that when it all comes down to it, they are capable of throwing everything we assumed about them out the window. There’s no black and white or even grey, but a whole world of mixed up colours and choices that make them whole. The sinful Angel and the selfless demon to the last.

[safekh-aubi]

I’m sorry, but does no one appreciate a bittersweet ending anymore?

[tesb]

The Force will be with you, always. HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!

[artisfaction]

Sightseeing in Gotham.🦇🦸🏻‍♂️

(They crash into a roof 5 minutes later because Prime was in the way).

[villainpencils]

Diana please

[faiyaart]

5 years later:

This is Karma Grayson.