#The arrival

[violettttttttttttttt]

I finished playing The Arrival and I can't stop thinking about her😔

[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

[nunl33]

🤤

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

So I read the first 30 or so animorphs many times over. I also read #54 and the Ellimist Chronicles a lot. But the ones in the late 30s through the 50s, I probably only read once or twice. What are the highlight books in that span? The ones that you get excited about in the re-read?

TBH, #36 - #52 really is where the series dips in quality. Continuity gets shaky, Jordan and Rachel especially have out-of-character notes, and some of the plots are After School Special Handled Badly. But. Many excellent books to be had in there. My favorites:

#38: The Arrival One of the less popular books overall, but my favorite Ax story. I love how the andalite Suicide Squad coming to Earth becomes this visceral demonstration of how much better the Animorphs have gotten than even elite andalite fighters, because the Animorphs are just so damn experienced. It also forces Ax to confront his growing discomfort with andalite imperialism while also driving home just how lonely he is as the only member of his species on this entire planet. He wants to go home, but even if home's waiting for him, he's no longer the person who fit in there.

#45: The Revelation Of course I'm a sucker for any book that lets Eva be awesome, but I also really like the pacing and tonal shifts in this one. It goes from light (Marco at dinner with Peter and Nora) to horrifying (Peter almost infested) to bittersweet (Nora infested, Rachel being a true bro) to bleak and disturbing (Visser One's near-death) to almost giddy with tension and humor (stealing the Bug fighter) to horrifying again (Eva not being the sweet person Marco remembers). It feels like the best of Marco's narration, silly and dark all at once.

#49: The Diversion Mostly I like this one for the deep irony in Tobias's and Jake's arcs. Tobias starts out darkly humorous about how he's their least source of worry since he doesn't have any family, while they're all micro-focused on Jake because they plan to evacuate Tom. Tobias ends trying not to pity the now family-less Jake (because he knows how much it sucks to be pitied) as he and his mom and her dog sit on a park bench playing fetch together. It all reverses, in the span of a few hours. And Jake's mistake is what got them there.

#51: The Absolute Another one of my all-time favorite books, because the Marco-Ax-Tobias dynamic is unparalleled. It's a breath of fresh air before the awful bleakness of the endgame, a chance to let the three Animorphs who are actually having an okay time of it have one last wacky adventure set against the backdrop of their friends falling apart around them.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Arrival ✦ 1980

[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.

[awkward-sultana]

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

[moon-bun-bun]

Coping so hard abt the fact I can't wear little devil to work so Nina and Kate in little devil 💖💖 back on my creepypasta idol bullshit kets go 😤💖

[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.)

[ijustliketoedit]

lmk if you've any requests

[aduckwithears]

Oh, how mysterious.

Good Omens S2/Ep1

[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!

[ronniesart]

IM A NASTY DOG!!!

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