#Eve was tempted

[koobiie]

crying in the garden

[navybrat817]

My, my, those eyes like fire I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre

[backjustforberena]

Eve Best in "Mourning Becomes Electra" at The National Theatre (2003)

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

Adam raised a Cain

BBC Merlin, The Beginning of the End (1x08) /// Cut by Catherine Lacey /// BBC Merlin, To Kill the King (1x12) /// Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente /// BBC Merlin, The Crystal Cave (3x05) /// Someday I'll Love by Ocean Vuong /// BBC Merlin, The Witch's Quickening (2x11) /// Cassandra, Florence and the Machine /// BBC Merlin, The Coming of Arthur: Part 1 (3x12) /// The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde /// BBC Merlin, The Coming of Arthur: Part 2 (3x13) /// Adam Raised a Cain, Bruce Springsteen /// BBC Merlin, The Sword in the Stone: Part 2 (4x13)

[thechibilitwick]

i don't remebebr how to drawwwww i hate artblock

[rockybloo]

When she's a maneater but you're into it

Anyways, for the people that remember my cannibal girl from last year-I finally colored a sketch of her and her boyfriend (and favorite snack)

This sketch is, I imagine, a scenario where they are still getting to know each other.

[tinycowboyart]

Time to share another one wip! I’m doing a painting for the first time in years, so we’ll see how it goes! So far I’ve only done the colour blocking

[ineffablelunatics]

Does anyone else think that the Almighty has just left everybody in GO? Heaven, Hell, Earth. Maybe, she’s watching from a distance or maybe she turned away after Crowley and Aziraphale dined at the Ritz. The narration of the first season sounded so intrigued. She sounded so interested in what they were doing, but also like, it was mostly already planned. There’s no way that all the coincidences lined up so perfectly without her, but what if that was the plan? After she saw Aziraphale give away that sword, what if the ineffable plan changed? The only way to see if her kids could fly is if she pushes them out of the nest, right? An omnipotent and omnipresent being could only really do that if they completely removed themself from the situation. Completely blocking themself off. The first 6000 years was just the test run. The control. It all started in a garden with an Adam. So it’s fitting that it all starts again with a garden and an Adam

[gothamcitycentral]

I don’t see much point in entertaining the idea of pure evil or full villain Lilith not only because it doesn’t line up with her established characterization but mainly because it goes against the show’s concept. Like the whole idea is taking traditionally villainized figures (demons, sinners, and the devil himself) and tying that treatment to the unethical dehumanization of real people and thus portraying them in a sympathetic and understanding light. So why take the historically villainous figure of Lilith and… keep her evil?

[forgetful-river]

You're allowed to ascend but only if God wants you to, and God can be a bit of an authoritarian bastard

[thret-rhett]

Adam, Eve, and Lilith. they’re my ocs now more lore in tags

[tonydaddingham]

so here's what we're told about the bet with satan:

god will allow whatever happens to job and his family to happen without intervention

heaven is following these orders, the terms of the permit, and will not interfere at all; whatever happens to job is in fact up to satan and hell's own actions

aziraphale considers the possibility that god does not necessarily want job and his family to suffer - or more specifically, that crowley is wrong

crowley is steadfast to the contrary, and asserts that god's will must be that the children die, and to question god is essentially to follow the same kind of fate (or as close as).

all of this is stating the fairly-obvious, i know. but i think we're possibly, once again, reading this scene and taking crowley's word for it - understandable, given that the minisode starts, and continues to be for a lot of scenes, from crowley's perspective. but there is nothing to indicate that god actively wants suffering brought on job and his family, nothing to show that that was her intent; satan seemed to initiate the bet, going by muriel's whole account, and god is letting whatever happens, happen.

because that's the thing: standing by and watching whilst hell does so is not, arguably, the right thing to do, but it is the right thing for god to do; to let her creation do what it wants. if hell chooses to go ahead with putting job and his family through hardship, then she will not - and should not - stop it. even when job is beseeching to her for answers, she does not give them; she cannot and will not get involved.

crowley and aziraphale do the right thing by putting a stop to it all, and i think that was the plan, particularly of the ineffable variety - not that crowley and aziraphale were pre-destined to stop it per se, but that all the players of her game would act on their own, and make their own choices. they would exercise their free will as they see fit, whether to cause suffering, or to prevent it. free will is not necessarily a good thing, but it is the right thing. this is the game of her own devising.

i also want to consider that this very situation may turn out to be, in part, a parallel of the fall. in the minisode, it seems that the reason why aziraphale didn't fall is because he did exactly as god intended - to act of his own free will, according to what he thought was right - but equally he would not have fallen if he had done the opposite (regardless of how he would essentially punish himself if he had told gabriel the truth). i don't think that god is in the business of punishing anyone, regardless of their motivations or moral alignment, if they are acting out of free will.

and further from this, i don't think god had a hand in the fall at all, not beyond it being - essentially - cool with her if some of her angels didn't agree with her plans for the universe. i don't think she cast them out in the way we're all imagining it to have happened. i think some of her creations acted with cruelty out of free will, and others did not. crowley obviously, more than likely anyway, belongs in the latter category. but she cannot interfere, she cannot and will not take free will away from them.

what crowley thought were her orders were unlikely to have ever been that at all. if anything - wherever crowley is or isn't placed in the narrative of the fall - i think she likely excused herself from deciding the fate of the fallen altogether, and left it to 'her people' to decide. her inaction, to allow the fall to happen, may not have been the right thing, but it ultimately the right thing for her to do. (frankly, i think we can take pontius pilate's handling of jesus' trial in Matthew as some further kind of parallel here)

then take into account aziraphale's constant rhetoric throughout s1 and s2 that humanity has a choice, that everyone has choices; i think he potentially understands god a little more than he's given credit for. and when he says that he's on god's side, specifically doesn't say heaven's, i think that's more literal than even he knows.

[absurdumsid]

Also I like to headcanon that nightmare was never possessed by the guy who killed nim

I AM SO GLAD IM NOT ALONE

[hubba1892]

[greeneyed-thestral]

Well, it must be bad.

[quoththemaiden]

The captioning saying "[indistinct, ominous whispering]" (because that's what it was in English) when Japanese!snake!Crowley is going on a clearly enunciated, tight-clipped, yakuza-style rant to Eve is absolutely hilarious omg