#The arrival

[aduckwithears]

The way Crowley automatically starts toward the bookshop, then has to do an about face for the coffee shop.

Little things to love about Good Omens S2 (17/?) - Masterpost

[halemerry]

So I was going through the season taking some screen caps for a different piece of meta when I stumbled on something interesting: the record Aziraphale listens to.

So in 1934, Shostakovich wrote an opera called Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. It was popular but after Stalin himself deemed the work corrupt he wound up banned by the Soviet Union. This had a huge impact of Shostakovich's life and was a very dangerous thing to have happen to you. There are even stories of him sleeping in stairwells to avoid arrest. So by 1937 he released the Symphony No. 5 in D minor. It is a piece written to get him back into the good grace of the authorities and as such it is informally called A Soviet Artist’s Practical and Creative Response to Just Criticism. This worked. Which on the surface makes sense but I urge you to go listen to this song. It starts out very angry. Then retracts itself into a very hesitant sonata. And then the music cuts into a harsh pattern of notes. It's cuts are jarring and there's something just slightly off in nearly all the melodies. Notably, most symphonies shift to a major key by the end. This one, despite spending a great deal of time leading up to the shift into one, refuses to. It's all false triumph. It's all about pretending to folk under the authority's pressure without actually making something that would glorify it. And it worked. Stalin approved of him again.

This was what Az was listening to. Az who is about to make a series of not quite right choices that to the right eyes look like him bowing back again under authority's pressure. He's listening to a song built to deceive those with power over the composer into letting him back into the fold. Whatever Metatron did to him and whether Aziraphale was magically and/or mundanely manipulated (I suspect and) I don't think it entirely took hold.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Episode 1 is called 'The Arrival'? 👀❤

[beerok23]

We. Us. Our.

[Pt. 6/12] [Pt. 1] [Pt. 2] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt.5] [Pt. 7] [Pt. 8] [Pt. 9] [Pt. 10] [Pt. 11] [Pt. 12]

Good Omens | 2.01 The Arrival

And the miracle is in here too. Because even if they don't say it out loud, there isn't a more 'together' moment than the nearly-25-lazarii-miracle they perform together. Until the Final 15.

[captainkurosolaire]

They're HERE! ~ Calling all hearties! He's HERE! ~ Brace your stance! ...I'm here. ~ (Additional dialogue below-cut, special thanks as well)

"...Ahoy ye, Chum-Buckets-Heads." "Just th' two of ye, today? We can wait fer more." "Naughty, momma Admiral, forgot t' pack yer lunch?" "But Daddy's home n' ...he's got th' memorable punch!"

(Special shout-out to the one-the-always of splendor, a moon goddess, a lifetime friend of mine of sheer-bountiful-treasure! @nini-dirthara-lothlenanas for Captain's design. I implore them highly for commission.)

[awkward-sultana]

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Sisi's wedding gown in 1x01,2,3

[ijustliketoedit]

lmk if you've any requests

[godzilla-reads]

⛵️ The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I’ve never read a graphic novel without words and I thought to myself, upon finishing this book, “this is what art is.” Each little square acts as a scene, a portrait, a voice to the immigration experience. The story follows a man who, we can assume, is immigrating and paving the way for his family. We follow him as he makes friends, learns his way, and experiences a surrealist world around him. The art is beautiful and the story is beautiful and I was taken aback from how cool and expressive this was.

I highly recommend!

[aduckwithears]

Oh, how mysterious.

Good Omens S2/Ep1

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Facial variations for"The Arrival" cinematic trailer

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Nuare

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What was the last Animorphs book you read? (As in, the one which you read for the first time after reading all the others for the first time)

IIRC, it would've been #38: The Arrival. That was the last one I managed to find when building my collection. And I distinctly remember reading that one and going "holy crap, I thought my brother was exaggerating every time he mentioned that one plot where an andalite teen girl gets sent to Earth, introduced as a quadruple child prodigy, paired with Ax for 0.5 seconds, and then put on a bus."

Like, I actually like The Arrival a lot more than my brother does — I love the Suicide Squad plot. It forces Ax to realize an andalite doesn't have to be a traitor to be a monster. It's overtly anti-CIA. It's a huge sign of character growth how quickly Ax swings from awe to contempt. It wraps up the threads introduced in #18, and sets up the endgame. It gets to show off why Ax is on this team: Jake out-leads Gonrod, Marco out-strategizes Aloth, Cassie out-teams the whole team, Rachel out-fights Arbat, and Tobias out-flies their pilots. It is not, no matter what Estrid says, about the cinnamon buns.

I do agree that Estrid is a weird and clumsy character whose backstory doesn't quite hang together, and that her romance with Ax comes off like Ax being so lonely for andalite company he latches onto an objectively terrible person. But that's the last one I remember reading, because I have clear memory of the realization that "Whoa, little bro really wasn't making that shit up."

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

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[flygonscales]

Didn’t know she started her own women’s shaving brand?

[awkward-sultana]

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Archduchess Sophie's white gown in 1x02,3

[ijustliketoedit]

lmk if you have any reqs