#anti-christ timeline

[kalpeavaris]

the demon on my shoulder

some Kira & Nanuk sketches (ft. Theresa... ew... we hate her in this household) because my brain cannot let go of them so easily. I started writing the Anti-Christ Timeline and just... they're so goopy. Idk how to describe them. Literal brainrot at this point.

Just two women tired of gaslighting so they girlboss by slaying the beast. Work, honestly.

[densewentz]

hey in case anyone needs the reminder

fuck ai, and fuck the people using it to steal and scrape from artists and writers and actors and creators because they can't be fucked to pay for or learn a craft that requires passion and devotion

[demonic0angel]

Dan being forced to go to anger management therapy hosted by Harley Quinn.

(I refuse to believe that Dan would be forced into anything, so this is a Dan in Arkham AU lmao)

Wraith huffed angrily. “And that’s why he deserves pain and suffering.”

Harley stared at him in fascination, tapping a finger on her lips. It had been weeks after their breakout from Arkham, and Wraith was quickly becoming a good friend of the Sirens. It had reached a point where now, he was spilling his secrets over a glass of wine (stolen from a Bruce Wayne-endorsed party), about a boy he used to be and the timeline he came from.

It wasn’t the weirdest thing ever, since this was Gotham after all, but it was still both disturbing and thralling.

Harley could not help but stare as Wraith grumbled to himself, blue eyes flashing crimson and sharp fangs being bared in a snarl. Then she asked, “Did your sister ever say anything about this?”

Wraith huffed and swirled his wine lightly. “She said it’s a form of self-hatred. Because I blame myself for our family’s deaths, I blame Danny too. But I don’t care. We are the same person but we are not the same. He is still human, while I have transcended past mankind to be something greater.” His fingers clenched on the stem of the wine glass. “It’s not fair how he gets to be happy, but I can’t.”

A god complex, a superiority complex, and an inferiority complex, all born from the loss of family and self-identity. His psyche was absolutely damaged by his previous experiences, and trauma had made him into something very, very twisted. It was probably true that he was not human anymore, but it was so interesting how he had abandoned his humanity so thoroughly and thrown it aside.

“You can’t?” Harley asked. “Or you won’t?”

Wraith’s expression twisted. “I can’t.”

That didn’t seem right.

He was happy when eating red meat and drinking expensive wine. He was rather happy when they went shopping and included him in their jokes and games. He was plenty happy when he talked about his sisters. He was very happy when interacting with Nightwing, who seemed to effortlessly peel away his layers to reveal a playful, gentle personality that did not seem to be a facade.

“You seem happy around Nightwing,” Harley said. “And us. What do you think of that?”

Wraith glared at her lightly, but he didn’t seem angry, not like how he was when he talked about his little brother, his other self. The venom in his voice and eyes when he talked about his younger self would’ve been better deserved if he was talking about the Anti-Christ, but Harley didn’t voice this.

“Nightwing has the purest soul in this world. It’s strong and beautiful because of how kind it is. It should be a crime to be cruel to it, not when he’s so… good.” His expression gentled and he swirled his wine again before taking a sip. “And you and the others are… nice to me. I don’t want to spoil your fun.”

Harley beamed. “Aww, we like you too, Wraith-y poo!”

Wraith rolled his eyes and took another sip. Harley poured him some more without him asking, and they drank their wine in silence.

Eventually, Harley said, “It’s not healthy to hate yourself so much, y’know? Maybe you don’t want advice, but I think your sister would agree with me. You should let go of the past and live in the present. That timeline doesn’t exist anymore, does it?”

Wraith scowled. “It may not exist anymore, but I came from that timeline. I am who I am because of my family’s deaths and because of Danny.” The hatred in his voice was deep and potent, making Harley shiver. “It can never let me go and I can never let it go either. The past shaped me in ways that cannot be undone.”

Harley took a sip of wine to think. Then she said, “Well. No matter what, me and the girls are here for you. And I think Nightwing really likes you too! Really!”

Wraith hummed, eyes half lidded before he turned and looked at her with a quirk to his lips like a small, genuine smile. “Yes, I know. Thank you, Harley.”

She grinned. “No problem!”

They continued drinking together in companionable silence.

[dearunreliablenarrator]

I'm here, queer, and highly likely to disappear*; but here's a very unreliable introduction to this narrator.

Hi, I'm Saturn (for now at least, i think.)

I'm a black 20-something year old writer with a imagination that happens to be active at the wrong times. When I'm not writing, you'll find me struggling through classes and holding my cats in air jail for chewing on my clothes. and you probably thought a college dorm dryer was bad...

I often use music as a progression for my writing, using it to build the personality and lifes of my characters, cause I think you can tell a lot about a person with the type of music they listen to. This goes the same for food, whether they're cooking (or lack thereof), eating (which there'll a lot of and not just food), just for the sake of storytelling. Cause food can tell a story too!

You'll also see the use of Sims4 in these posts, there's nothing better to me than to be able to build my world from the ground up even if it is tedious. I often burnout myself out between both writing and building so its nice to be able to switch between the two! here's a small character visual as a start!

it's also nice to watch my characters evolve real time, they tend to outgrow some things faster than i can keep up.

As a current researching and scrappy practitioner, you will see hints of practical magic(k)/workings/information in my works. Influences from traditionally african american practices will be underlying themes in this world of mine; within my scope of course. How my characters navigate through a world that is both mundane and spiritual is something they'll have to overcome in all aspects; and how they affect future lives and timelines is all hanging on the fading tradition of storytelling.

follow, share, and embrace their stories; because there's only one way to keep them alive.

as for what i write or rather my niche: the unreliable multiverse

genres: (comp) (hist) (queer) romance, urban/southern horror, urban fantasy, and apocalyptic sci-fic.

topics/tropes: religious deconstruction, religious trauma, witchcraft (mundane, practical, scrappy, cultural, A(A)TRs.) anti-racism/racism,politics, social structure,found family, star-crossed lovers, childhood friends to lovers, ancestral/familial secrets, morally-grey protagonists,coming of age, the anti-christ, HEA, small town horror, mental illness/disorders, philosophy.

for some these topics may be a lot, and while i want my writing to be a source of escapism...fiction will always be influenced by reality, and that is something that will be in my writing (just not to the extremes), expect CW and TWs but they will not always be there.

CURRENT WIPs: the big three

Where The River Bends:

Bored of modern romance and her own life, Elaine Brown suffers from being a daydreaming, skeptical, hopeless romantic. In a plead to the Universe to grace her with a new addition to her routine, she finds herself stumbling into spell unlike her very own. Warren Soo has be dreaming of a life where days can feel like a breath of fresh air. When a random chance driven by his choices puts him in the space of unsuspecting Elaine, he can't help but be bewitched by the ease in which her days go by. Together, they navigate the modern world of romance with just the sprinkle of magic.

theme song

tag: #goddamnitsamson

Aletheia:

Sanctum, place of human design created to preserve those who survived the last of nature's destruction. When humanity was suddenly reckoned with the damage of over creation they are forced to pick between two things.

Stay or leave.

For those that had the ability to leave, Sanctum embraced them with open arms; promising a generational haven within their walls. Here, the people are communities; removed from the worries of past plagues and mortal insecurities. But all peace must follow order.

Questioning the world she's grown in , Emilia Porter has wanted to escape the stone boundary of Sanctum. Taking a chance to explore the land beyond, she registers for the Vanguard; the exploration and task forces that protect and serve the lasting stand of humanity.

Now away from the containing hands of those who seek perfection, she must weigh the truths; both tailored and unwritten.

theme song

tag: #findthetruthyouseek

Cherries Under The Sun:

A southern gothic horror that follows Grace Davis even in her dreams. Stuck in a constant cycle of despair, Grace often finds herself living in a loop of a forgotton past, wondering about the should've, would've, and could haves of her life. When her small college town of Marietta is shaken by a rise in missing cases, her hollow world soon becomes a flash of white papers and bloody lines. Now that her daily life of being ignored comes to halt and the lives of those around her are blurring together, they must now find a way to get their world back to normal. Before it is erased altogether.

theme song; intro; taglist

tag: #howsweettheesound

I don't know what else to put here, but that my characters are much like myself. Weird, witchy, creepy, romantic, sensitive,sarcastic, inquisitive (that's a big word for elmo), and a range of clumsy that only a handful of people can enjoy sooo...

IF you've found me or my wips to be interesting, please feel free to follow, ask a question or comment. Thanks for reading all this and from reader to another, create the book you've always wanted to see. Edison out!

i also don't really know how taglist work but if you wanna here's where to keep up! #theunreliableverse

1.* psst...you can find me and (to be)published works here!

[timelinetea]

The Cannes Connection

Since Sophia Bush left the Cannes part of her Glamour essay vague and portrayed it as fun coincidence that she and Ashlyn were working together, I wanted to provide some pertinent background information to the timeline (full timeline and background info will be coming to this blog in the following days):

March 26th - Ashlyn and Sophia reconnect with each other at the Angel City vs Gotham home opener in LA and they both share photos posing with one another and Ashlyn comments on Sophia’s Instagram post. 

March 30th - Gotham FC announces their season sponsors, and among them is Johnnie Walker Whisky. Why is this important?

1. Johnnie Walker Whisky also sponsors Angel City FC, the club in which Sophia is a partial owner

2. If you google “Sophia Bush Johnnie Walker Whisky” you’ll see that Sophia has a long standing partnership with Johnnie Walker Whisky, dating back to at least 2019, possibly longer

3. Ashlyn’s role at Gotham FC as the Global Creative Advisor, according to the original press release, is described as the following:

May 25th - Stagwell announces the speaker lineup for Sport Beach at Cannes Lions. The first panel Ashlyn is scheduled to speak at on June 19th includes two other speakers and a moderator. The two other speakers: Sophia Bush and Sophie Kelly, the Senior VP of NA Whiskey Portfolio and Diageo (Johnnie Walker Whisky’s parent company)

**When the original schedule was released, Ashlyn was also scheduled to speak on another panel on June 22nd, but for some unknown reason the final panel lineup changed slightly. (Ashlyn continued to stay in Cannes through the end of the week. Sophia left the day after her panel on June 19th).

Now that we've cleared that up, let's briefly break down what went down in Cannes.

Day 1 - Ashlyn and Sophia Speak at their panel together. Here's a short excerpt.

After the panel, they attend a dinner together, along with mutual friend Sue Bird, as well as other friends and colleagues.

Cannes Day 2

***Sophia leaves after Day 2, but she posts this upon her return. (I have no idea who took it, or if it was a self timer, but including it for reference)

Cannes Days 3 and 4

Meanwhile...

Cannes Day 5

That's all for Cannes, but I thought I'd include these minor post-Cannes details here as well.

June 26th - last public appearance for Grant and Sophia at the West End performance of Accidental Death of an Anti-Christ

June 27th - *date of separation listed on Sophia and Grant's divorce docs* (divorce not announced until August 4th)

Late June - Ashlyn returns from Cannes and immediately breaks up with Ali. (this is from the Daily Mail, so take it with a grain of salt)

I will try to continue updating the full timeline in the coming days, but these are some of the most glaring errors in Sophia’s Glamour article.

[hato-mercenary]

Tankies will bend over backwards to justify every single shitty thing that Russia has done to Ukraine and call anyone that argues with them a Nazi because fundamentally they value stalinist aesthetics and sticking it to the west over shit like basic human decency. They've gone so deep down the anti-western contrarianism rabbit hole that on a long enough timeline I won't be surprised if they start saying that the Ukranian children getting raped by Russian soldiers deserve it because living west of the Dnieper river makes them Nazis by birthright or something.

I wish I could drag these people the the houses in Bucha and Irpin where there are houses with bloody nails in tabletops where women had their hands nailed in place before being raped by Russian soldiers, where you can see rows of blood stains on walls outside of houses where entire families were lined up and shot, and where the guys from my old squad found shipping containers full of corpses with their hands and feet bound. I want to force them to look at these horrors and then demand that they explain to me how any of this is some sort of "Marxist-Leninist praxis" and not just crimes against humanity of the exact same brand the Nazis carried out.

I wish I could take them through Donetsk oblast and show them town after town that lies in ruins. Buildings shredded by autocannon fire, flattened by artillery, and peppered with bullet holes. I wish I could point out all of the still nearly pristine Russian Orthodox churches. Shiny and mostly untouched by the advance of the Russian forces that respect a symbol of their own culture without having a hint of what Christ's teachings were meant to teach them.

I wish I could show them the elderly civilians, struggling to survive in recently liberated areas. Either incapable of leaving, or too stubborn to go. I wish they could see the children. Waving and the soldiers. Smiling when given food. Feeding their families by teaching some of the foreign fighters Ukrainian.

I can't show them any of this. Because they don't care. They aren't interested. The death and suffering here is an abstract concept for them. They don't give a shit about people. Just about the ideology that defines their sense of self. That's theory without praxis. The ironic peak of the hypocrisy of internet tankies.

[elegantwoes]

The I'm be queen this life fandom shows not only it's stupidity but also how misogynistic they are. No matter how much you Cesare fangirls want it to be true, no, Ariadne in the first timeline wasn't as awful as tomato head. Let's look at their actions:

Ariadne schemed and killed people to help Cesare become king. Which includes innocent King Alfonso.

Cesare took advantage of his emotionally vulnerable fiancee and manipulated her to do his bidding and instigated her to murder people for his sake including his half-brother King Alfonso

After the deed was done and Cesare became king he postponed the wedding ceremony with his betrothed. Sleeps with her before marriage in order to keep her by his side long enough till his reign was stable.

Discards her like an used handkerchief in favor for her sister and wants to marry her and make queen instead

Turns a blind eye and allows Ariadne to be locked up and eventually killed by her sister.

Anyone who can look at this should come to the conclusion that what Cesare does is significantly worse. Now don't get me wrong, what Ariadne does is wrong. She killed an innocent person, but at the end of the day Alfonso was a stranger to her in the first timeline.

Ariadne on the other hand was Cesare's betrothed. He owed her loyalty but in the end he treated her horrifically. For christ sake Cesare bedded her before marrying her. That alone makes him scummy.

Cesare is an emotionally abusive fuckboy who discarded his betrothed. Ariadne commits crimes out of loyalty to their beloved who she's legally bound to. That is radically different.

One is an morally grey anti hero. The other is a villain.

[bounderbibaker]

+WARNING ME MINOR+

Name: Bounder | Allegro

Aesthetic:

Neon Green Outline (Represent Code and Changes to Inverted Colors of whatever is behind it when he’s not in the Anti-Void)

Clothing \ They all have Vibrant red Line Running Across them

Thin Sportswear Jacket, with hood

Full Head Helmet/Face Guard

Black Cargo-Pants + Utility Belt + Heavy Duty Boots

Physical Appearance:

Head: One of their eyes are Completely gone and the other is cracked in two as it’s made of magic

Body: They are missing parts of ribs and a few ribs are just floating in place from magic

Arms + Legs: Slight Fracturing that is filled in by Red Code Lines

Bonus Things:

Items

Hoverboard (Like the one Marty Mcfly uses)

Looks like Floppy Disk when closed

Weapon: Khopesh

Diary(-ies) and Glitterpens (Has all the Colors)

Details

Can only write and read in Wing-Dings

Fluent in Tem-Speak

Inability to word

Christmas = Christ Miss

When he is sleeping he makes Crow Sounds

Absorbed Child who had a soul made from Perseverance and Kindness in equal parts.

No longer a Papyrus as his code has changed from Absorbing a Human Soul

Once a Year every year Bounder goes up to the Omega Timeline and shows off all of the New Reset buttons he has taken that year to Core!Frisk

He isn’t allowed in so he’s Passive Aggressive over it

Experiences

Bounder has Visited Horrortale several times as he’s pulled towards it for it’s violent tendencies expecting there to be a Genocide route, but it’s the same horrendous AU it’s always been.

Bounder has Fought several people from Horrortale but never kills them. He dislikes what they do and how they are, but doesn’t care.

His Goal : To prevent the Resetting of all other AUs | Anti-Hero

Characterization:

Nickname: Karasu Satsujin

Height: 7’2” | Width: 2’3”

Weight: 400 lbs (Base) 180 lbs (Midknight Raven)

Sexuality: Bisexual

Age: 25 Years Old

Gender: Male

Pronouns: Genderfluid | A/Fuckin/Problem

Physical Disabilities:

Partial Blind-ness | Mostly Cannot see things clearly unless he’s completely focusing himself to see that thing

Most things just look like color blobs

He can see things as long as he or his magic is directly touching them | If indirectly then it’s only a couple inches

Constant Numb Feeling in his Lower-Half

Sometimes his Lower Body just gives out and he can’t feel it

Physical Strengths:

Relatively Good Reaction Times | Only this good due to them having to have fought other people in different AUs

Strong: Bounder is very strong and actually surpassed Undyne in his AU

Stamina: Bound is relatively fast and can run for quite a long time, he chooses not to as to not exhaust himself.

Bounder has the ability to use his Glitching to his advantage which he can (Currently) glitch objects from predetermined Locations into his hands/area near him

Weaknesses:

Has to take time and energy to use just one of the Magic Types

To use just his Monster Soul’s Magic he has to focus hard

He cannot see people when his ranged magic is touching them so Range is fuckin Hell for him

His Spine is severely Damaged | He is still able to walk and move around normally with significant grace, but this is only due to his Perseverance and Kindness enabling him to move and fold as such | When it wears off randomly for short periods of time he will topple over and fall

The Kindness and Perseverance can wear off Randomly for Intervals of 5 seconds

Favorite Things:

Food: Cobbler | Blueberry Cobbler is Fave <3 

Drink: Cherry Limeade | Anything Fruity

Enjoys Consistency in Things

He enjoys wearing cutesy things and stuff, including Cat Ears

Likes to Bite Others

Disliked/Afraid of Things:

Cats | He just is scared of cats because they give off Inconsistent Vibes

Doctors and Therapists | Bounder doesn’t trust any one who is directly a doctor and/or therapist, he will actively have all of his weapons out around him as he makes sure they stay within 6-9 feet of him, no closer or farther as he doesn’t trust them.

List of Adopted Children;

Tea | @10beanie01 - Tumblr 

[roo-bastmoon]

I genuinely cannot understand...

...the mindset of "It's just an OST!" or "It's a collab not a solo!" or "It's a digital single not a comeback!" or "I don't like the subunit or other artists!" or "It's an EP not a full LP!"

Like, babe? It's our boys, and they made music to share with us.

So fucking stream it, and promote it, and vote for it, and buy it if you can (and with fanbase funding accounts, you can).

Christ, it's a multi-year "hiatus" with 2 members already in service and we are still being so loved up and spoiled. I for one am grateful for everything that drops.

I know each member is working themselves to the point of burnout and exhaustion, flying everywhere, spending hours in the studio, performing in shows, learning choreo, writing songs, making vids... just to make things for us.

There's 24 hours in a day. Plenty of time to hit all targets and support all 7.

WTF are "ARMYs" up to, pitting members against each other for chart goals or talking trash about collabs out on the timeline for other fandoms and partners to see? That is straight up anti behavior and I do not allow it anywhere near me.

Get it together. It's Festa. We are on lockdown.

Love (but slightly miffed), Roo

[unhealthy-reading-habits]

So after many many many meta posts I’ve been reading about Aziraphale and Crowley, one of the big turning points in their relationship I haven’t seen mention much is Aziraphale finally calling Crowley that he “knows where the anti-Christ is”.

We know the events leading up to this moment, and the devastating scene immediately after at the bookshop, but I feel it’s really worth highlighting that this a major change in Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s dynamic, namely this is the first time (that I could find) where Aziraphale went to Crowley after an argument.

For the majority of their relationship, Crowley is the initiator – he is the one that seeks out Aziraphale, for discussions or tries to get Aziraphale on board with his way of thinking (in modern era).

Garden of Eden – Crowley approaches Aziraphale

Mesopotamia – Crowley initiates the conversation

Golgotha – Crowley approaches Aziraphale again

Rome – The first time Aziraphale approaches Crowley

Wessex – Random chance (part of the ineffable plan)

The Globe Theatre – Aziraphale messages Crowley to join him at the the Globe Theatre, since Crowley comments that Aziraphale said “they would be inconspicuous here”

Bastille – Crowley saves Aziraphale

Victorian London – their first big fight, it’s implied Crowley is the one that calls Aziraphale here since he is the one requesting a favour, and ends up them both stating they didn’t need the other (first big fight)

WW2 – Crowley saves Aziraphale, Crowley hasn’t contacted or communicated with Aziraphale about being there since Aziraphale seems genuinely surprised at him appearing, and walking into desecrated ground!

1960s – Aziraphale approaches Crowley with the holy water

So as we see from the above timeline, its is established that Aziraphale CAN and WILL approach Crowley first (Rome, The Global Theatre and 1960s).

However, when they have their big fights, Crowley is the one that has to initiated the next conversation – Aziraphale, either from nervousness or fear from Heaven, does not seem willing to approach Crowley after an argument between them.

This is shown a few times over the course of the tv series as well when they have fights, Crowley is the one that has to restart their communication channels, or redirect so Aziraphale doesn’t leave.

Example 1) Victorian London to WW2 argument and resolution

Example 2) St James park in the first episode, after Crowley first proposes stopping Armageddon, Aziraphale intends to immediately leave

Crowley is the one that has to restart the communication by purposefully choosing something he knows Aziraphale will agree with

Example 3) The band stand break up – Crowley is the one that walks away from the argument but Aziraphale does not contact him again. Crowley has approach him in the Bentley outside the bookshop as a last-ditch effort to convince him to leave with him to Alpha Centauri

Now it is very obvious that Crowley is an impulsive demon. He does not think beyond Step 1.

This is shown so many times from him since the beginning (he didn’t think it was that big a deal tempting Eve - he’s admitting he didn’t think through the full consequences of what he was doing), up to the start of the current story when he is given the anti-Christ. Crowley immediately drops off the anti-Christ at the nun hospital (probably because he was being monitored by lower management) but I also think it’s because he isn’t very capable of thinking more than one step ahead.

The logical thing would be to stop and try and speak to Aziraphale first before progressing the evil plan but he goes immediately to the nuns, and only after contacts Aziraphale, at which point they have to come up with a counter plan.

While Crowley is very good at coming up with plans and ideas in the moment, it’s never with a long term multi-step plan in mind. The only “goal” he has is staying with Aziraphale.

An example of this is like in the previous Band stand -> Alpha Centauri -> Cinema scene -> Last chance to convince Aziraphale (get in the car) sequence

Crowley calls Aziraphale, again initiating the contact. He tells Aziraphale to go to the 3rd meeting point, which Crowley has memorised but Aziraphale flusters which one is correct.

At this point Aziraphale KNOWS where the anti-Christ is but during their band stand break up scene, he explicitly says several things that he knows will hurt Crowley:

There is no “our side” – but Aziraphale slips up and says “not anymore”

They cannot just leave – but Aziraphale never says he doesn’t want to leave, but rather than "there is no where to go"

“A: I don’t even like you” “C: you doooo” – Aziraphale doesn’t deny it at all but deflects that he cannot work with him, not that he doesn’t like Crowley

Now, why is this important? Because Crowley is impatient but pays attention when Aziraphale talks, and in the moment he storms off, most likely because he knows he’s going to lose his temper, but he was listening during the conversation.

It’s shown consistently in their history that when Aziraphale tells him something, Crowley remembers it, no matter how trivial, as well as repeatedly mentioning throughout the story Aziraphale’s favourite things, so specifically he knows his favourite places, specific composers, foods and activities.

I strongly suspect after leaving, and having time to clear his head, Crowley would have noted what Aziraphale did and did not say, which gives him the main thing that keeps him attached to Aziraphale; hope that they could continue to be together.

Aziraphale wants to be with Crowley, but he cannot admit it yet. Normally, Crowley would give him what he needs, time to think which before has always worked with their last big argument in Victorian London. But now they do not have the luxury of waiting for Aziraphale to process things. Armageddon is coming.

Crowley returns to his flat and falls back on his normal habit. Coming up with a last minute, not thought out plan to be with Aziraphale and he comes up with – escape with Aziraphale somewhere else, namely Alpha Centauri.

This hasn’t been mentioned before as an option (at least I don’t remember it being mentioned as a feasible option) until the band stand scene. Why? Because Crowley probably just thought it up on the spot while talking to Aziraphale then (impulsive/not thinking beyond the next step).

And because it is not a thought-out plan, Crowley couldn’t present it to Aziraphale in the correct way which would normally work in getting Aziraphale on his side. Contrast with episode 1 re avert Armageddon, Crowley knew what to say and delay for time so he can work on Aziraphale to get him to agree. But in this instance, they don’t have time, Crowley didn’t know what to say to convince him (and it could be argued that he says the “wrong” thing in this instance by saying they have been “friends” for 6000 years), so Aziraphale dismisses it.

If the escape plan was an option 11 years ago at the start of this crisis, Crowley might have had enough time to convince Aziraphale, but he doesn’t right now, he’s just running on instinct and first thoughts are being acted out rather than thinking it through.

While Aziraphale says he doesn’t know where the anti-Christ is (a lie), Crowley has no reason not to believe him. Crowley could have kept trying to find the anti-Christ after Aziraphale says it is over, but now Crowley has abandoned all the previous plans to avert Armageddon to follow through with the new plan; running away with Aziraphale.

As soon as he found a likely candidate (and a little soul searching chat with God) he then goes… to a movie theatre? Why? The doomsday clock is ticking, and he’s wasting time in a movie theatre, what’s the motivation here?

Because he knows he has to give Aziraphale time to calm down. After every big fight in the past (and from the “you go too fast for me Crowley” comment) Crowley has learnt he has to give Aziraphale time to process his emotions before he approaches him again. He’s very conscious of not upsetting his angel, of not pushing too far as his biggest fear is Aziraphale never talking to him again.

It’s only after the movie scene and Hastur warns Crowley that Hell knows and is coming after him now that he impulsively goes to Aziraphale immediately. This is not following the rulebook the both of them have set over the millennia but Crowley is out of time and out of options, and in his desperation all he can do is follow the plan (the one-sided plan he’s made up on the spot in his head the day before) of get his angel and go to Alpha Centauri.

Aziraphale is most likely still reeling from their previous break up, and all the issues with Heaven’s indifference to the suffering the war will cause and his crisis of faith, when Crowley appears too soon and too forcefully.

Crowley opens with a pet name, apologises (badly) then very badly tries to emotionally manipulate Aziraphale to go with him now “work with me here, I’m apologising here, yes? Good, get in the car”.

The usual suave, manipulative Crowley is completely out of the window because of his distress, the only driving force is “get the angel, then get out”. Aziraphale hasn’t even spoken yet and Crowley has already had the entire conversation of “convincing” Aziraphale to get to his objective with himself.

Aziraphale, rather obviously, refuses but he says something extremely telling which again I think Crowley does not realise at the time since he calls Aziraphale stupid, but after leaving (and dramatic exit monologue because of the stress he is under) he would have realised what Aziraphale was saying.

Aziraphale was still trying to find solution for them – after saying there is no “our side”, after everything Aziraphale said during the band stand, he was still trying to find a way to avert Armageddon by “talking to the right people” and even trying to find a way to talk to the Almighty herself just to get this Armageddon thing “all straighten out”, showing to Crowley just how much Aziraphale cares about him and wants to be on Earth with him.

I don’t think Crowley realises until after these interactions what Aziraphale is saying, but we know the Crowley takes in pretty much everything Aziraphale says since he can quote their conversations from the past flashbacks, but given the stress Crowley is under and his own impulsive nature, he cannot process the conversations at the time so instead leaves but then takes the information on board when making his next move.

While driving back to his apartment, suddenly the plan has changed again, running away to the stars is out and now it is avert Armageddon again - by full on killing other demons.

Crowley is now throwing his full weight behind Aziraphale and their relationship, no more towing the line between Aziraphale and keeping Hell off his back. While Hell is now aware that Crowley has messed up, and coming for him, Crowley could probably find a way to slither his way out of this situation (No, I’m not apologising for the bad snake joke).

He could also have just left, he had enough time in his flat to set a trap with holy water and the water mister bluff, if he actually wanted to leave to the stars, he could have done.

But he chooses to instead kill (and/or at least hinder) his demon trackers to buy himself and Aziraphale time, all because Aziraphale has told him he is still trying with the original “stop Armageddon” plan. After everything that happened between them and all the hurt comments, Aziraphale is still trying and that is enough to convince Crowley not to run.

And then the big moment, Crowley has killed a demon with holy water, his bluff has been called with Hastur, and Aziraphale calls him “I know where the anti-Christ is”.

Aziraphale is saying he is now fully on “our [Crowley’s] side” – can we interpret it this way? Yes!

Aziraphale explicitly told Crowley that he would never tell him where the anti-Christ is even if he knew, because they are on opposite sides.

And now Aziraphale for the first time is approaching Crowley after (two) big arguments and giving him the single piece of information that shows he is with Crowley.

Crowley seems to have the utmost trust in Aziraphale, since he doesn’t even seem to think to question if Aziraphale is right or not, if the angel says he knows, then he knows!

After trapping Hastur, his first action (again, not thinking anything through) is to go straight to Aziraphale.

Why do I say he is not thinking things through? Because trapping Hastur in an answer machine message is which is literally playing a message showing he has betrayed Hell (rather than losing the anti-Christ being just a “cock up”) is stupid and keeping him alive as a witness means it is problem that Crowley has to sort out later.

But none of that matters, because his angel is on his side and Crowley’s only objective is to be with Aziraphale.

Which makes the bookshop scene even more devastating, can you imagine the joy Crowley must be feeling while driving to the bookshop (despite the circumstances)? Aziraphale has finally moved away from abusive Heaven, shown Crowley that he trusts him and is now firmly on "our side".

Crowley was playing “You're My Best Friend” by Queen which is a love song, probably thinking that Aziraphale and him still have a chance, that hope of averting Armageddon and being together on Earth for the foreseeable future.

But then, Aziraphale isn’t picking up his phone, which makes him on edge again and when he arrives, the bookshop is on FIRE.

He never once seems to think the Aziraphale has betrayed him i.e. returned to heaven to fight or run off himself without Crowley.

Crowley truly believes that someone has killed Aziraphale, as it is the only explanation in that moment, Aziraphale was ready to be with him, them against Heaven and Hell and there was no reason for him to not be in the bookshop and the bookshop not to be on fire unless the angel was dead.

His angel is dead, nothing stings more than having your hopes raised so high and for them to be shattered.

After this harrowing moment, Crowley goes to get drunk and just wait for the end of the world. There’s no more fight, no more plans, not even try and find Aziraphale’s murderer and get revenge – the only plan was to be with Aziraphale and with that gone, he has no interest to do anything else.

I won’t go into the bar drunk scene since that’s a whole analysis on its own, but after Crowley gets hope again, that Aziraphale (even in sceptre form) is still there, or a part of him, his first thought after their chat about the book was to get to him.

Crowley says “wherever you are, I’ll come to you, where are you?”

He doesn’t think beyond the first step, he has no idea where Aziraphale is or how any of it works, but it doesn’t matter to him. Crowley’s only thought is “get to Aziraphale”.

When Aziraphale says about meeting him at the airfield, Aziraphale is noticeably upset at this and questions “why?”, he doesn’t like the idea because it goes against his one plan. But what his angel wants, his angel gets and Crowley will be at that airfield, losing one of his most precious possession in the process as Aziraphale is the number one, and only, plan.

Source of Gifs: fuckyeahgoodomens https://fuckyeahgoodomens.tumblr.com/post/633606041548079104/good-omens-gifs-masterlist

[louisisalarrie]

Look. I wasn’t here during bbg. I don’t really think I have sufficient information to have an informed opinion on it, having not lived through it in real time. But Jesus Christ if it’s real then Louis Tomlinson really gave new meaning to the phrase “men are trash” in 2015/16. And that’s a tough pill to swallow if you’re just trying to support him and like his music. But there is no escaping this conversation in his fandom and yeah. It’s a lot.

if you have a squiz through this, and also check out skepticalarrie’s tags about bbg here, they’re full of info about the exact timeline and how we lived it, if you would like to!!!!

but yeah. that’s the thing, right? it destroyed louis’ image. Larries weren’t just unlarrying bc they believed bbg was real, they were leaving the fandom entirely or focusing on the other boys only because they couldn’t believe Louis could be like this to his kid, or act this way in general. It was so damn messy. Fans of Louis, antis, neutral 1d fans… so many people left the fandom. Louis got an incredible amount of hate. party boy louis and bbg was an absolute mess. But it did the job it needed to: solidifying harry hating Louis in the media, and making Louis out to be an absolute heterosexual mess. it tarnished his image, and made it extremely hard for him to get a good grasp on his solo career.

so, at this point, you’re either:

1. not believing in bbg and defending louis’ character (with a hell of a lot of proof as to why bbg isn’t real)

2. believing in bbg and defending louis’ actions as a father (mainly for not wanting to be lied to by ur fave and this industry so there is usually no swaying their mind, because of course it’s hurtful to accept)

3. not attached to bbg and just enjoying the music and staying out of fandom drama

it’s kind of a pick ur battle topic. but everyone I know on here that’s been unsure, after digging into it, has seen the chaos and agreed it’s shady as fuck. hell, there are antis/neutrals/solo louies who believe bbg is a stunt, but don’t believe in larrie. so, you’re correct lovely anon, it ultimately comes down to who you believe Louis is as a person.

[kalpeavaris]

Anti-Christ Timeline - Echo & Evie Edition

In the AC-Timeline Echo gets kinda... "resurrected" but without its powers and is just a simple (and way too small) communication drone. In order to have them under control Evie takes on the task of essentially being a glorified sitter for what is an evil chihuahua in a robots body while also searching for her mother's remains.

guess who is not happy about the unpaid work and having to constantly restrain Echo from biting people

[emeraldspiral]

So I finally finished watching a Let's Play of FFVII Rebirth, shockingly without The Algorithm recommending me anything that spoils the ending, and in the spirit of that I'm putting my thoughts on the ending below a cut.

So going into it my thought was that Aerith's death is such an iconic moment in video game history and so integral to the plot it'd be insane to have her survive just for the sake of fan wish fulfillment. But it begs the question of what the point was of introducing the idea of defying fate and changing the story if you can't change the one thing everyone spent decades trying to avoid or undo. I think early on my thought was that the best course of action that would respect the integrity of the original story would be to have Aerith still die, but then change the ending of the final game so she comes back after it's all over. That way you still get your dark middle chapter/second act setback, and you don't undermine the original story, but you're still actually doing something with the concept of defying fate and pleasing the fans who always wanted to save Aerith. In a way it's even better to have Aerith come back in the end because it fits with the elements of Christian mythology present in the story. If Aerith is the Jesus to Sephiroth's anti-Christ and Jenova's Devil, then why shouldn't the one thing that changes about this story be her getting resurrected in the end?

The way things played out in Rebirth, I still think this is likely the case. Being the dark middle chapter, of course it had to start us off thinking that because Team Avalanche scored that victory against the Whispers in the first act, things could turn out different. But the point of the second act is to take you down from the high note the first act left us on, which it does by showing us that maybe you can't fight fate after all. First we found out the Whispers were still around. Then we found out definitively that Wedge was killed after seemingly escaping his original fate. You get Cid and the Tiny Bronco under totally different circumstances, yet the plane still crashes and becomes a boat. Cait Sith leaves the party after betraying the group rather than blackmailing his way into staying with them, but he still ends up sacrificing himself at the Temple of the Ancients anyway. Near the end in the Zack timeline, it seems like there's a split where he either chooses to get medicine for Cloud over saving Biggs, or goes to save Biggs, only for Biggs to still die anyway in both timelines. If you were asking what the point was of saying you could defy fate in the first game if the second game was just going to say you can't after all, it was to get your hopes up on purpose so that when Aerith ultimately ends up dying again, it feels just as fresh and shocking as it did the first time around rather than something players are simply resigned to as an inevitability.

As for the ambiguity about the situation, I've seen some people suggest that the Aerith we see at the end is Jenova in disguise, a figment of Cloud's imagination, a ghost that only he can see, or a version of her from another timeline where she didn't die. I haven't heard anything quite like the theory I'm starting to formulate though.

So my hot take is that whatever's going on with Sephiroth is also going on with Aerith. We know Sephiroth already fell into the lifestream once, with Jenova's head, and that his whole plan was to get in there again so he could become a god, but when Aerith died she ended up there and used her magic to stop meteor. We know that Sephiroth did still worm his way in there though, because it was his tainting of the lifestream that caused the geostigma in Advent Children, which Aerith purified after he was defeated again.

So I think to some extent Sephiroth and Aerith both ascended to a kind of godhood by becoming one with the lifestream, and it's because of this that they were able to transcend the barriers between worlds and see through time. That's why they both had foreknowledge of future events. In Rebirth, we learn that Sephiroth exists as the same being simultaneously across different worlds via the final boss battle. In other words, he is omniscient and omnipresent. I believe Aerith was as well in the beginning of Remake, but by the end, she was separated from the rest of the omniscient Aerith collective, and lost her foreknowledge of the future and awareness of alternate timelines. Near the end of Rebirth however, she starts to reconnect with her other selves from developing her Cetra powers and Sephiroth creating tears in the fabric of reality. Regaining her foreknowledge of future events allowed her to accept the inevitability of her death and try to ease Cloud's guilt over it, and at the moment she was meant to die, she became fully absorbed back into her omnipresent self. Maybe there's still a version of her who did survive after all, who's separated from the others since her death was what led to her entering the lifestream and ascending to godhood. But that's not the Aerith who fights with Cloud and sees him off at the end. Whenever we see Aerith after her death, that's the omnipresent goddess Aerith. The reason only Cloud can see her is because Aerith touched his face as she lay dying, passing on some of her omniscient awareness to him, just as she did with Marlene.

The reason why in the original FFVII Aerith stayed dead was because Sephiroth wasn't fully defeated yet. But now that his omnipresent self has gone back in time to try to change his fate she has an opportunity to wipe him out of existence from every reality. Only when he's completely eradicated will her business with him finally be done, and she can be free to return from the lifestream.

[the-girl-who-didnt-smile]

RANTING ABOUT SAINT D. PETER (HAZBIN HOTEL)

The rant.

As a disclaimer, I am agnostic. As I am no longer Christian, it really doesn’t matter what I think about this. But I still want to share my thoughts, as I love hearing myself talk.

THIS IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND, but Hazbin Hotel is a very anti-Christian show. I defend the right of creatives like Vivienne Me D. rano - a queer Latina woman - to criticize Christianity through their artwork. Christianity is the majority religion in America. I know this is a hard pill for a lot of Christians to swallow, but many forms of bigotry have been spread across the globe by Christianity. That being said, I do not respect shallow criticisms of Christianity. I am only interested in nuanced criticisms. I will defend the positive aspects of Christianity, and I do not want to deconvert any Christians with my fanworks. 

(At that, I actually want people of all faiths to be able to engage with my weird fanfiction...not that this is necessarily recommended..!)

One of the most redeeming qualities of Christianity is the Biblical figures – especially, Jesus Christ and Mother Mary, but also the Apostles. Saint Peter – the Jewish fisherman who became one of Christ’s loyal Apostles and a leader of the early church – is one of the most important figures in the New Testament.

If St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) was supposed to depict the actual Saint Peter, it is a horrendous portrayal and criticism is totally warranted! But to me, it is obvious that St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) is not supposed to be Saint Peter at all. 

As many have pointed out, St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) is a completely different ethnicity from the actual Saint Peter. Although he is often portrayed as a Caucasian, the Biblical Saint Peter was actually Middle Eastern. One of the most ancient churches is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church; as such, their depictions of Biblical figures are often more ethnically accurate. This is a much more phenotypically accurate portrayal of St. Peter (and St. Paul) than most Americans are used to: 

All these New Testament figures (including Jesus and Mother Mary) are Middle Easterners who would get profiled by airport security. Even in the time period they lived, they were ethnic minorities under the Roman empire.

St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) isn’t just a white boy. This man is the blondest, blue-eyediest, whitiest white boy to ever white!! In all seriousness: While Jesus assembled followers from all walks of life, it is really unlikely that one of his closest followers would be blond and blue-eyed. Unless…Jesus was born in Scandinavia instead of the Middle East…?

HAZBIN HOTEL EXISTS IN AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE OF WORLD HISTORY WHERE JESUS D. CHRIST WAS SWEDISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, sorry…[clears throat] St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) isn’t just the wrong race! Everything about him is just…not Saint Peter!

Saint Peter is often portrayed as an old man. But the TV series The Chosen has one of the more accurate portrayals of a young Saint Peter: 

Admittedly, he would not have looked like this much of a pretty boy, and he would have had less Eurocentric features. But this portrayal is accurate, in showing his Middle Eastern heritage and ruggedness. It is clear that Dallas Jenkins valued Biblical accuracy, and he deserves praise for this! (seriously…The Chosen is an outstanding modern adaptation of the New Testament…!) Saint Peter was a poor, hardworking fisherman. He was also a minority under the Roman empire. Jesus Christ - a minority himself! - selected his followers from the margins and bottom of society, and empowered and defended the poor. This is one of the many redeeming qualities of The Messiah, and one of the reasons why Saint Peter is such an important Biblical figure.

Meanwhile… St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) doesn’t look like he’s worked a day of physical labor in his entire life! He’s just this little Book of Mormon lookin twink!! Even if Hazbin Hotel does exist in an alternate timeline of world history where JESUS D. CHRIST was Swedish, a blond blue-eyed version of Saint Peter wouldn’t look like this! He’d still be a rugged, poor fisherman - not this little nerdy guy who looks like he died in the 21st century.

It is also implied that St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) is queer…specifically pansexual, or maybe bisexual. How much more obvious can it be that he’s not really Saint Peter? He’s the wrong race, physical build, AND sexuality!!

(this is not to shit on St. Peter (hazbin hotel)...leave this man alone!!!)

I don’t know this for certain, but I just kind of assumed that Vivienne Me D. Rano is an ex-Christian, and that she created Hazbin Hotel to criticize the negative aspects of Christianity. Presumably, homophobia and racism would be among her chief criticisms. If this is true, there’s no way she isn’t aware of who Saint Peter actually was. His such an important figure to the New Testament, every church emphasizes his importance in the Gospels and Acts! Assuming Vivienne D. Medrano is an ex-Christian, the decision to portray St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) as a pansexual blond blue-eyed twink must be a deliberate one. My interpretation is (1) This is her way of communicating that St. Peter (Hazbin Hotel) isn’t actually Saint Peter. He’s just some other guy named “Peter” (also a reason I don’t think Jesus D. Christ - and by extension, Mother Mary and the Apostles - exist in Hazbin Hotel…watch me be wrong about this…!). (2) Vivzie D. Pop is trying to tell a story where Heaven is corrupt. If Heaven is corrupt, it totally makes sense that it would be a majority white community. Assuming it's intentional, I really think this is smart criticism about the whitewashing of Biblical figures, and that this can be commentary on structural/institutional racism (e.g. zip code inequality) in the real world!

Still, I can see why this would bother Christians. If I was writing for the show, this is what I would do: Just show a brief scene with St. Peter wearing a little name tag. The name tag says “HELLO MY NAME IS SAINT PIETER”. 

He’s Saint Pieter with an “i”. He’s not actually Saint Peter!

(Although if we get technical here, instead of changing his name you could just show his birth certificate and confirm that he was born with the name “Peter”... This makes it obvious that he’s an entirely different person, because the real life “Saint Peter” wasn’t actually named “Peter”! The Anglicization of the names of Biblical figures (e.g., Yeshua →  Jesus) is arguably a form of whitewashing in itself– OH SHIT! I”m starting to go on another TEDx Talk. I REALLY like hearing myself talk!!)

[englishknightsky]

When renowned philanthropist Kenny McCormick died unexpectedly at the age of 50, he left one final message for his three best friends Stan, Kyle, and Cartman. Shoved deep up his asshole on a USB stick was a video message for them.

It was a heartfelt scolding of the three that ended with some extremely colourful insults and a warning to never intervene with the past, because the timeline would always correct itself. The smouldering remains of his laboratory was proof enough of that.

The last message he left was a phone number, or rather, the hint of a phone number, as he explained that the video would not allow him to speak the name or number of this contact he wanted them to call. Scrawled messily everywhere around the lab was a single number, six. They crowded around an old school, vintage landline, shaped like a cheeseburger. It had been Kenny’s prized possession his whole life and had been more reliable to him than his best friends ever had. (He said that in his video message too, taking pride in the fact that it probably hurt their feelings.)

Stan dialled the eleven digit number while Kyle stood to the side and grumbled about how it wouldn’t work, that eleven consecutive sixes would not create a valid phone number, but Stan shushed him as the phone rang. It wouldn’t have rung if it had been an invalid number, so that was a good sign, at least.

It rang, and rang. It rang on much longer than a usual phone number would, and didn’t cut to a voicemail message. As the trio waited impatiently, crowding around the phone, it started to heat up. At first it felt like it was just an old piece of electronic hardware heating up from overuse and malfunction, but then it got hotter and hotter, to the point where Stan’s hand began to burn and blister and Cartman knocked it out of his hand. They stared in horror at the receiver, expecting it to burst into flames, but then everything stopped, and a tired voice answered. The voice was incredibly clear and sounded more like the person was in the room with them rather than on the phone.

“Damien Thorn, Prince of Darkness, how may I help you?”

A tired voice cooed, in a gentle, high pitched British accent. It sounded vaguely familiar to them but they couldn’t put a name to the voice. Cartman muttered something about the French under his breath.

“Damien Thorn?” Stan repeated, thinking back to a kid they’d grown up with in elementary school to highschool. Dark and brooding, with an awkward, puberty laden, squeaky voice. When they’d graduated they heard he’d run off to elope with some blonde chick, and Cartman had spread that rumour he’d become a cultist.

“Well, I’m not, obviously.” The voice drawled out sarcastically. “Do you require the Dark Lord’s unholy services today?”

Stan had never been particularly religious, and Kyle and Cartman’s religion saw Satan as less of an actual being and more of a catch-all name for general adversaries, but nevertheless the implications of Damien Thorn being Satan made them all sweat. They supposed it was obvious, he was literally the Anti-Christ.

“Our friend… he died, and he left this message telling us to call this number.”

There’s rustling in the background of the call, maybe paper, or bedsheets, as the chipper Englishman (Stan was fairly sure it was a man, at least.) began muttering, then called outloud.

“Damien, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman from South Park are on the phone, looking for their dead friend.”

The trio paled immediately as they stared in shock, sure there was a chance he’d recognised Stan and Cartman’s voices from their limited dialogues, but Kyle hadn’t said a damn word.

“Who the fuck are you?” Kyle asked.

“I’m the Queen of Hell, darling.” The voice purred, and finally the phone was passed over. The lilting, soft English accent was replaced by a very deep, brash voice.

Damien Thorn’s voice used to be funny, something they all teased him about as it cracked constantly, but now it was like a roaring fire as it rumbled and mumbled, he was seemingly tired as he yawned and slurred his words.

“You want Kenny.” He wasn’t asking, he was making a statement.

“Yes! Is he there? Did he go to Hell?”

“Of course he did. You’re all going to Hell.” Damien confirmed, sounding oddly cheerful for such a harsh threat, or truth, Stan supposed. “Sooner than you might think. But for now, he’s only here for a short while.”

In the background they hear the drawl of Kenny’s slight Southern accent, Redneckisms that he’d retained his whole life, as he yelled out a loud “Woo-hoo!”. They could almost see the dopey look on his face.

“Take those undies off, demon! I want your dick in my ass and Pip’s dick in my mouth!”

The look of abject horror on the trio’s face was almost palpable. Able to be palped. Damien didn’t hang up the phone as the rustling of sheets and the creaking of the bed began, and before Kyle slammed down the receiver Cartman managed to yell out a quick:

“Don’t get demon AIDS, Kinneh!”

I... didn't have any ideas for this week, I'm so sorry. It's just a sex joke with the bare minimum of Dip themselves. Will write something better for those fat, sexy, hairy old men eventually. ❤️‍🩹

[lesser-mook]

Dune: Part Two - Some of the best pieces of Anti-Christ Propaganda I've ever seen. And by itself? A well produced, well made film. Though it is heavy-handed aka long as shit (Movie Recommendation )

Holy Wars, Chosen One rising from the Desert, Third Eye's and shit, Free people/"Fremen" fighting for their desert land, Fall of The House of Atreidas/Collapse of Empires *cough America cough cough*, seeing timelines, Nukes n shit.

The powers that be really, REALLY want nuclear war. If it ain’t a Civil War, us killing each other, they want nukes flying. 

The Eternal's had good cinematography, so did The Ritual but those can't even touch this.

This movie, in IMAX? Was/IS a must see experience, religious experience even. If you haven't seen it in IMAX, Do it. Please. Don’t miss out.

But outside the realm of conspiracy, they're just well made movies on their own. The sequel had way better pacing, Part 1 was just 2 hour setup and it was worth it. So so worth it.

This movie is 2 films in one package, if you paid to see this? You're not wasting your money if you went to see this experience.

My biggest complaint besides the hefty runtime, expansive lore being somewhat crammed & rapid fired at the audience (hence a LOT of exposition), would be the fact that we never get to see exactly how the worm riders dismount or how a caravan riding the worms back- then get OFF the worm in the first place.

Jessica was pregnant, how did she get on the worm?! And how did they get her off the worm? 

See we’re shown how dangerous it is to get on a worm, every step involves mounting it while it’s in motion, it doesn’t stop to let you onboard. So how they transport crowds looks cool, but it in the movie specifically (fuck the books) the movie didn’t show that detail. 

Now, let’s put credit where it’s due: These two movies by themselves are a serious feat, especially in this nauseating cinematic universe era of film-making.

This isn’t Star Wars, this isn’t Marvel or DC. 

This is custom lore from a lesser known title, and a sequel with the magnitude of Avengers Infinity War in just 2 movies, coming off of one film with 2 hours of setup (which is basically what Part One was). All in just 4 years, not enough people are addressing how impressive that these two movies exist & executed in the way they were.

This isn’t DUNE II, but “Part Two”. The same narrative, same story, effortless momentum. Way better filmmaking than Endgame, better story, and better music (Hans Zimmer annihilated this OST, as usual).

This easily could’ve been a storytelling disaster, a contrived, over-ambitious mess with yet another messy Messiah overtone that falls on it's face, but it did well.

And while Paul isn't the most engaging main character (he has some gary stu-ish traits, which was ironically written to be part of the narrative) but he is no boyscout.

He cries, he will train, he is taught, he outbursts, he gets emotional, and when he's serious, it's serious. Not perfect, and is a man of vengeance, not Talk no Jutsu, not punching away the darkness of someone's heart to free their inner child or some bullshit:

Paul is here to handle business. Period. And you slowly see him developing emotional calluses to the point where you see him becoming something else entirely.

And that's ALL imma say, for now. Go watch the movie.

It could've been mess, but it works.

It ain’t no masterpiece, don’t mistake my compliments for hype, the movies are not perfect- but I didn’t expect this to impress, at all.

The music is just the movie's voice. The DNA.

Hans Zimmer's vision for music, coding the DNA for all the films he composes for is: Otherwordly.

Especially post- 2010, it’s like composing Interstellar was a period of transcendence for him.

Ever since that movie, his style entered a whole new realm, it’s almost intimidating how good he is.

Woke culture be damned, Films like this (while propaganda) still demonstrates in a good way, exactly what Hollywood's true potential is capable of.