#despair end

[asteriass]

I finally finished Mathis’s Despair End!

[Took me a while… cause exams…]

❝ Will you please trust that I will love you, regardless of who I become? ❞

Personal Rating:

😟/10

I enjoyed it, spend the entire day trying to finish it haha

The story does a good job setting up foreshadowing

SOMEBODY SAVE THEM PLS

Full Thoughts:

I thought I knew what was going to happen, & I kinda did, but then it became got totally bonkers after a certain point lmaoo

The thing with his route is that I can’t say I didn’t expect the plot twists that happened. I mean, Jean’s real identity was pretty obvious from the get go. Mathis and him had a pretty similar color scheme lol. And yea, that is pretty odd reasoning, but the game also kept mentioning how much he’s like a brother, so from the get go I was like “Oh, is he Camille?”. Same with the no-so-bruise looking “bruise/mark” on Mathis’s neck, which is practically always covered by his choker. And then a few other details too. But what really got me was the extent to which they occurred. Like DANG??? 😭 Towards the latter half of the route, the situation for our main leads kept escalating from bad to worse. And it’d be a lie to say my face wasn’t “😟” on more than one occasion lol

I think my favorite scene from his route was in the very start when Ceres brings Mathis some warm soup. Honestly, their whole exchange there almost made me misty eyed.

I also really liked the scene where Mathis was threatening Capucine. I mean, other than the fact that the CG of him crossdressing was utterly beautiful (💥🩷), I also liked the voice switch. From super stern to then Mathis’s usual self in the matter of a few moments. Honestly the voice acting in this game overall is super good.

I’ve read his Salvation End is really good, so I’m excited for that. Though that will of course have to wait because 3 more Despair Ends are left! Regardless though, I’m SUPERRRR looking forward to Lucas’s route which I’ll do next. And I’ve already got a bijjilion theories for it already so let’s see if any of them end up hitting close to the truth 🫡

[guiiay]

jinx and isha visit a walmart

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[aeymii]

She was BRUTAL 🗣️🗣️

[redactedhaunt]

some sketches of my fav guys

[mickules]

Through the years

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a continuation

Even though I relish the thorough gut-punch of angst, I'll admit, I'm way too weak for a happy ending.

Love Wins ✌️

[angelsdean]

"You're my guys....Those other toys, they don’t…spark joy."

[majunju]

the saying "til death do us apart" does not apply to these two

[gentlemanjuniper]

If I could inject just a little positivity to the news...

Season 2 has a lot of filler and stretches out a pretty simple mystery to six episodes. That's the appeal to some, I get it. But tightness and focus was not its strong suit. I remember feeling like it wasted a ton of time on side characters and it's possible shaving the story down to 90 minutes will skim things down to its most essential beats and be stronger for it. Basically, S2 got a lot of time given to it, and this is obviously my personal opinion but I don't think it used all of it well. I think S2 itself could have been half the length simply by employing more efficient storytelling and we'd not mourn too much.

A lot of S2's weaker plotlines feel built around people that Neil wanted to work with again, with so many recurring actors (I'm thinking of the zombies specifically, when that minisode could have easily been tighter without them). A lot of s2 to me feels like Neil just making work for the people he likes and wants to work with and a movie has to be more accountable to things like that.

Lots of entire fandoms exist around single movies. 90 minutes is not nothing. It's enough for many, many films to tell a complete story with cute character interactions and satisfying emotional arcs, especially when A&C are the only real significant connecting threads between both seasons thus far.

I don't think there are as many loose threads that absolutely need resolving as people may be thinking. Would I like to know why Aziraphale did the '40s apology dance? Would I like to see his bookshop gun? Sure. Are either of those necessarily essential to closing out the story? I don't think so. Really, what needs resolving is the second coming and, directly connected to that, Aziraphale and Crowley's rift. To me, not knowing the story obviously, that seems super reasonable to do in 90 minutes?

I don't think anyone involved in the final season can possibly be blind to the appeal of the show being Aziraphale and Crowley over anything else. That's certainly the reason why their roles were expanded to begin with from the book and why the second season was, nominally, all about them. They also now have to pay MS and DT for appearing in a movie rather than an ensemble show, there's no way they won't be front and center. Amazon wants a show that will make money and market itself; there's a reason why all the promo material for S2 was of Crowley and Aziraphale, because people engage with that stuff, reblog it, make art that promotes the show, etc. It makes no artistic or financial sense to make a movie that sidelines them.

GO is at its best when it has Terry's voice most strongly in it. That's why to me, S2 was a weaker, more meandering season overall (that, and I think the minisodes, while fun, just make the season feel comprised of different voices not always working in tandem towards a common goal). If I was a writer hired to condense a season into a film, and one of the authors had been rightfully disgraced, I would go out of my way to ensure the clearly Terry stuff is most significantly emphasized. It's telling to me that the Pratchett estate is producing and it's possible that the end result will result in more Terry, less Neil.

Think of it this way: everything we've gotten after S1 has always been extra. Imagine telling a fan of the book in the 90s that not only will you get a six episode adaptation, you also get a totally new second season, AND a movie?

Basically: I know this is disappointing but I think a lot of the pleasure of the Good Omens fandom was ALWAYS people picking up on and expanding on details, and y'all managed to do that just fine when A&C were only ensemble members in S1. You can and will do that with a movie too. And this solution both a) ensures first and foremost that Neil won't be involved or the allegations swept under the rug, and b) gives an opportunity for the heart of the story to be emphasized with greater focus, clarity and less filler.

Will we lose good stuff? Probably. But it's also possible we will get a tighter, more condensed, focused version of the best bits, the Terry Pratchett-est bits. I can easily see a 90 minute movie that, knowing they HAVE to focus on the important stuff now, is more Crowley and Aziraphale centric than ever.

[ministarfruit]

day 26: apocalypse ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[artsyebonyrose]

mukuro in cherry pop!

feel free to send me more suggestions if you have any, here are the palettes :3

[kittykatthetacodemon]

I too want to be so gay and in love that my relationship is part of an “institutional problem” and the actual Metatron, Voice of God, has to come down from heaven on high to stealth break us up because the miracles we do together are too strong. Power couple

[cracklewink]

MY GIRL FINALLY HAS A REF SHEET (my longest yeah boy ever)

I'm working on a comic about her see tags for more 👀

[pixelatinate]

lissa is talking about boys and mari is thinking about a girl

[buttered-toasty]

Cleaned up Mae sketches from earlier. Ignoring canon and drawing him happy in lieu of my other post, and also because I need to believe good things can come even to those in despair

[samwwise]

good omens 2 + @screenshotsofdespair