#Bilquis x Anansi

[kiaraspeaks]

You better get yourself a Queen. 

[mistressvera]

[zalrb]

Royalty.

[quellstak]

[sybillnott]

OTPS AND BROTPS

OTPs:

Shadow and Mad Sweeney

Shadow and Ostara

Ostara and Media

Anubis and Ibis

Salim and The Jinn

Bilquis and Happiness

Audrey and Happiness

Mad Sweeney and his coin

Anansi and Vengeance

Tech Boy and a good spanking

Laura and Life

Laura and Emotions

BROTPs:

Laura and Salim

(That’s it, that’s all of them)

BROTPs from Hell:

Mad Sweeney and Laura

Wednesday and Shadow

Media and Tech Boy

[veldian]

american gods got cancelled which means its mine now so here's everything that's canon

technobog is canon

shadow goes to therapy

tech goes to therapy

shadow gets married to marguerite

laura becomes a decent human being

(and goes to therapy)

zorya vechernyaya is alive

so is sweeney

cordelia dates polunochnaya

(cordelia also goes to therapy)

hinzelmann is alive too actually fuck you

world isn't an abusive piece of shit. the scene with trejo!world and tech that was actually nice? that but all the time and genuine instead of emotional manipulation

please let tech have good parents please i beg of you

old media is back bc i missed her but new media is still there too bc i think she's funky and cool

old media x easter is ALSO canon thanks. i miss them.

TYR IS ALIVE TOO FUCK YOU!!!!

and he loves and cares for fenrir fuck y

BILQUIS FINDS WHAT SHE'S LOOKING FOR IM STILL NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT SHE'S HAPPY NOW (AND DOESN'T HAVE TO ABSORB PEOPLE)

bilquis dates laura and anansi thank you so much for listening

town is alive too

sorry im just undoing all the stupid-ass deaths

salim meets back up w kai bc dude they were SO cute together PLEASE, i-

xie and tech are friends to lovers slowburn thanks

tech has SO many hands to hold, bro

tech and shadow are actually buddies

they go to platonic couples therapy

everything is good they all meet up and have really big dinners and its just nice and only a little bit awkward

wednesday? lol who tf is wednesday?

ok he can be here if he changes his ways and STOPS vying for war you SELFISH MOTHERF-

idk who loki is. die

[spiceukonline]

'American Gods' Review (TV Show)

'American Gods' Review (TV Show)

Dialogue

Acting

Development

Shock Factor

Visuals

2017-07-12

4.0/FIVE

ANYONE who’s a fan of Hannibal knows that anything made by its creator, Bryan Fuller, will not be for the faint-hearted.

Alongside Michael Green, Fuller brings us American Gods. Based on the bestselling novel by Neil Gaiman, the show centres on Shadow Moon (Ricky Wittle), who is released early from prison after his wife (Emily Browning) dies in a car accident. With nothing left, Shadow finds himself working for a man known as Mr Wednesday as he travels across America recruiting soldiers for a mysterious war. Shadow soon discovers that this mysterious war is being fought between The Old Gods and The New Gods.

Source: wildhunt.org

Having never heard of the book prior to its TV adaption, I was drawn by its intriguing concept. The people of the modern world are not worshipping The Old Gods as much as they used to (think Anubis, Odin, Bilquis, jinn from Islamic mythology, and leprechauns.) Just to say, a six-foot-five leprechaun played by Orange is the New Black‘s Pablo Schreiber is one of the best characters on the show – despite being a massive arse.

The six-foot-five leprechaun in question… Photograph: wikia

Anyway, these Old Gods are getting weaker as they exist purely from humans worshipping and following them. Bilquis, an Old Goddess of love once revered for her sexuality, is reduced to living on the streets and then having to use a dating app to find worshippers. A jinn who emigrated from the Middle East finds himself working as a taxi driver in New York. And Anubis – the Egyptian god of the afterlife – owns a funeral parlour.

Thanks to our modern obsession with social media, new ways of ‘worshipping’ have birthed New Gods – Media (Gillian Anderson), Technical Boy (Bruce Langley), and Mr. World (Crispin Glover).

Gillian Anderson and her many faces. Photograph: geektown.co.uk

Modern people are constantly worshipping and strengthening these Gods, despite being completely unaware that this is what they are doing. Gillian Anderson of The X-Files fame pulls out all of her acting skills for her role as Media: a personification of television and entertainment. Throughout the series, Anderson portrays a multitude of famous characters from TV and film including Ziggy Stardust, Marilyn Monroe, and Lucy Ricardo.

A word of warning: Do not watch this show with your parents. I made this mistake after witnessing Bilquis (Yetide Badaki) literally suck a man into her vagina, which whilst admirable is not family friendly viewing.

“A word of warning- do not watch this show with your parents.”

Granted the show is full of explicit sex scenes and is probably blowing most of their budget on fake blood, but American Gods isn’t just an excuse for sex, guts and gore; it also involves great storytelling. Each episode begins with a ‘Coming to America’ chapter which focuses on a different group of people throughout history coming to America and the Old Gods they brought with them. From ships transporting slaves as well as their trickster spider God Anansi to the first Siberian immigrants to North America whose Old God dies after being forgotten.

Each episode begins with a ‘Coming to America’ chapter which focuses on a different group of people throughout history coming to America and the Old Gods they brought with them. From ships transporting slaves as well as their trickster spider God Anansi to the first Siberian immigrants to North America whose Old God dies after being forgotten.

From left to right; Shadow Moon, Bilquis and Mr Nancy. Photograph: shadowandact.com

Also, the title sequence is ingenious, combining religious and mythological imagery with modern images, from a Buddha surrounded by party drugs and a fibre optic Medusa to a smartphone brandishing Ganesha and a crucified astronaut.

The show’s only critical flaw was the season finale; primarily the fact that I didn’t even realise it was the season finale. Abrupt and lacklustre, the final episode is disappointing and lets the rest of the season down.

The entire first season of American Gods if currently available on Amazon Prime, so go and binge the whole thing right now, for god’s sake.

[kiaraspeaks]

“Your words move me, Anansi. You see me. You and Ibis see the Goddess, the Queen. These men today look right through me.” - Bilquis

[quellstak]

[kiaraspeaks]

A God should provide more than comfort. 

[kiaraspeaks]

Bilquis and Anansi + Nonverbal Communication

[kiaraspeaks]

“The gift of faith in the face of torment was given to us when we landed on these shores. It was there we learned to look away from the cruelty inflicted upon us. Well I can look away no longer, I see a world in which little or nothing makes any sense anymore.”

“Amen.”

[kiaraspeaks]

Bilquis and Anansi in Season 2.

[quellstak]

i love how anansi is all heart eyes and smiles for no one except bilquis

[quellstak]

bilquis and anansi in american gods s2e01: house on the rock

[kiaraspeaks]

Nancy and Bilquis being best friends

Shadow saying something and Nancy and Bilquis make eyes from across the room

Nancy and Bilquis making bets

Nancy not being able to con Bilquis no matter how hard he tries

their friendship always being mistaken for a relationship

“that’s not how we met this is how we met” stories

nancy and bilquis on long road trips

bilquis not saying much but nancy never shutting up until she says more than five words to him