Twilight of the Sandwiches

When I grow up, I wanna be a supervillain

[herpsandbirds]

Bornean Falconet aka White-fronted Falconet (Microhierax latifrons), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, endemic to Borneo

photos: Akshat K, Kenneth Cheong, Andrew Hunt

[twilightofthesandwiches]

I mean, I do think Musical Omens whole plot beat about Crowley and Aziraphale and Adam trying to Heroically Sacrifice themselves by erasing themselves from existence is a little weird. Like the new lore they added to explain the mechanics of the whole thing was a bit clumsy, and in general, the Self-Sacrifice is always inherently kinda weakened if it requires someone else to go down with you as well. Like, the idea that Crowley and Aziraphale are finally doing something truly selfless for Humanity and for the world is kinda discordant with the fact that the main thing they're doing is convincing Adam to erase his own existence. Like, the original 'let's fight Satan' sacrifice is always going to be better (and it's also resolved in a way that gives Adam more Agency then Musical!Adam)

But also, considering Current Circumstances, I can't deny it's very satisfying to see a Cosmic Retcon situation that is actually set up and build up to in the story, that has solid understandable logic for why it would solve the Current Problem, that would actually save the world Crowley & Aziraphale loved for 6000 years… and also ends up being prevented in such a delightfully silly way as Satan asking to call off Armageddon because he doesn't want Adam to die and then agreeing to try to talk out his differences with God over a nice dinner. When faced with the seemingly-unbreakable cosmological rules that meant that Adam had to die for the world to be saved, the rules were simply… changed. And then God and Satan went on a date and everyone lived happily ever after.

It really wasn't that hard, GO3……

[i-got-a-penis-yall]

What conservatives are DESPERATELY trying to keep from you is that they are too late. You can live a happy, successful life as a trans person now.

I don’t even mean some vague notion of “trans joy” I mean you can make it. You can be a young trans person who grows into a middle aged trans person who gets to be a wrinkly old trans person.

Even if you didn’t get to be a trans kid more and more kids are getting to be trans. They exist right now! They will also grow up to be trans adults and we get to be the ones to show them what that looks like. We get to pave the path that SO many people fought to forage

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Also, hey, isn't it fucked up that Musical Omens!Satan has the more compassionate, responsible response to his estranged son choosing to Retcon himself out of existence than GO3!God?

[norapotwora]

I'm back with these quick frogs after a month-long break from drawing due to illness. It's hard to get back into the rhythm, but I'm glad I can draw again.

What should I draw next? Let me know in the comments!

Also, if you'd like to support me, I recently started a Patreon (CLICK). The timelapse of this drawing will be available there as well.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

"All Living Things" is pretty unambiguously the Good Omens' Musical biggest song. It's the one that was kinda released in full online, and it's the one that gets the Dramatic Reprise at the Climax and the one that's performed as the encore by the end. And I'm thinking about the Thematic Implications here…

"All Living Things" is the song for Crowley and Aziraphale trying to raise Warlock. Hell, Heaven and Aziracrow trying to sabotage the plans of both all have different visions for what the Antichrist should be, but the one thing they all have in common is the refrain of this song, "All Living Things Depend on You", everything about the future of the Earth hangs on this one kid. Crowley and Aziraphale putting all these resources and effort trying to shape that kid in the way that they'd prefer because the fate of the entire world depend on it. Warlock even has a gag where he lampshades how it's a weird and fucked-up thing for a kid to internalize and they're 'going to give [him] a complex'.

And on some level this was 'Wrong' because, well, they have the wrong kid. Warlock is just a rando Human, Adam is the kid on whom the entire future of the world depends… But also…

The song gets a Dark Reprise when Adam agrees to Retcon himself out of existence to stop Armageddon for good (and Crowley and Aziraphale also have to sacrifice themselves for this Cosmic Retcon to work… It's pretty Weird bit of lore tbh, but it's established pretty early on so whatever….). Because the mindset of this song is what that entire sacrifice is based on, Adam wants to be just an ordinary little boy, to live, to be a person and not a piece on the Cosmic Chess Game, but All Living Things Depend on Him. He didn't get the kind of fucked-up childhood Warlock did, but the events of the last day has speed-run through him internalizing that idea.

But in the end it all ends up being entirely unnecessary, Satan decides to call off Armageddon permanently to spare Adam's life and he and God talk over their differences and the Ineffable Husbands set them out on a date and that's all it took. "All Living Things Depend on You" seemed like such an unbreakable cosmic law but it all came down to personal misunderstanding and familial beef, that was solved by making Satan and God to act like people and not like grand cosmic forces. And then of course, all of the Armageddon stuff before that was also averted via a Group Effort of Adam and the Them and Anathema and Newt…And if All Living Things really did Depend on Adam, it's not because he's a vessal for the world's destruction, it's because his estranged fucked-up biodad does still love him.

And thus the Grand Finale is singing about how "All Living Things depend on you, and you, and you, and you, and you"… Both because everyone in the cast contributed to saving the world at least a little, all living things depended on everyone on stage, and also singing it to the Audience. Not "All Living Things Depend on You" as in one singular person being treated as a tool or carrying the burden of the entire world, but all living things depend on all of us. Because we can save the world together, and because everyone's little 'stories' can influence others in unexpected ways, and we need to take this story's themes of cherishing the world that we have and environmentalism going forward with our lives and all living things depend on all other living things together.

And also, yeah, it's just a pretty damn catchy song.

[yomi-yori]

𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋ undead corporation - tokoyo soukenshin

decorative backgrounds are the best!

[chained-to-the-mirror]

This is a portrait of Mimmi, for my dear friend. I drew this in return for a bunch of fabrics.

Patreon / Ko-fi / Commissions / YouTube / Cara / Redbubble / Colouring book

[tinygryphon-58570]

A snake-girl and her snake-cows <3

[phaeton-flier]

There is a common belief that everyone already agrees with you and simply needs to have the wool pulled away from their eyes with some simple statements.

And I can't say I've never had this happen to me—there have been ideas I've been exposed to which immediately made sense upon hearing of them—but in general people really do believe the things they believe, even if they don't have actually solid reasons to believe them. And if you want to make change, you need to actually do the hard work of convincing (some, enough) people, talking to them like adults and not like children

[twilightofthesandwiches]

The Good Omens Musical adding that little extra bit of Drama where Anathema didn't actually know the man Agnes prophesized for her to get together with is a Witchfinder and Adultery Pulsifer's descendant and she gets angry and suspicious at Newton about that for like a hot minute there was kind of an odd adaptational decision, considering how jovially Anathema takes that whole 'your ancestor killed my ancestor' thing in every other version of the story...

...But I have to say that Agnes Nutter's actress jumping out to shout "SUPRISE!" when Anathema figures it out kinda maybe totally redeems it for me. Like… I can't pretend like predicting her descendant will get together with a Witchfinder Pulsifer but leaving it out of the Book because she can prophesize the look that will be on Anathema's face be hilarious doesn't sound like something Agnes Nutter would do…

[mrcaputo]

Just an art request from discord with a big booty Azzurrina.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

It is pretty funny how, well, Musical Omens is kinda trying for a TV-Omens-Style 'Forbidden Relationship' angle on Aziracrow, and Hastur has a sort of Subplot about trying to 'bust' Crowley for fraternizing with an Angel and he does threaten that Aziraphale would no doubt also be in troubles for that with his boss…. But then Aziraphale sings his whole-ass Musical Number about how he doesn't want to leave Earth for Heaven because Earth is where Crowley is and Crowley is the only person he can trust while accidently still on the line with the Metatron, and the Metatron just… doesn't give a shit. Are Musical Omens Aziracrow actually a Forbidden Romance or is it more like just Hastur looking for an excuse to hate Crowley even more?

[bryonieamber]

Commission for @everysinglepheel of their Flight Rising dragon, Yacón!

[twilightofthesandwiches]

So, like, the way Musical Crowley tells it, he chose to become a Serpent as basically a spur-of-the-moment decision when he got to Eden under the orders to 'go up there and make some troubles'. So why would he already have a Snake-Themed name (Crawly)?

He got 'Crowley' in Eden, Aziraphale misheard 'Crawly' and Crowley decided he liked that better actually. But maybe he got 'Crawly' in Eden as well? Did he straight-up did not have a Name since the Fall, he couldn't figure anything that felt 'right' and all of his higher ups (lower-downs?) were perfectly content to just call him 'Hey, you there!' or whatever?

And then when he started chatting with Eve as a Serpent, he realized that he needs a name? Maybe Eve was just like "Oh, yes, hello, Mysterious Talking Giant Snake, my name is Eve, what's your?" and he had to think of something fast and decided that "Crawly" is… clearly not quite right, but good enough for now…

Maybe Eve named him 'Crawly'? So he kinda got his name partly from her, and partly from Aziraphale…

Crowley spending the Indetermined Amount of Time since his Fall and up until Eden not being able or willing to find a new name for himself that feels quite him and then going up to Eden and then one temptation job with a Human + one chat with the Angel later and he worked out a new PERFECT name that he decided to stick with 6000 years later feels like a very Compelling concept to me...

[ommanyte]

I want a pangolin Pokémon :(

[ommanyte]

[ommanyte]

[iamthesweeper]

i cant wait till she tries to figure out why pineco is a bug type

[ommanyte]

[tracobuttons]

This has got to be the funniest discourse I’ve seen on this hellsite

[greeniery]

if i ever interacted with you and it was awkward just know im sorry and painfully aware that sometimes i come off like a person who is having the first conversation of their life