#for him it's on sight

[casebasket]

Fucking. Galaxy brain take. I had a niggling that this whole season felt off somehow, tonally and plot wise, but you had the intelligence to voice it in words. This makes so much sense. Also, my humble morsel of contribution to your "Maggie isn't real" theory: Nina, only rational person in the entire show, couldn't be fully brainwashed, questioning everything all the time, referred to Maggie as "angel". It's done so off-handedly you can chalk it up to an awww moment that yeah they are metaphorical stand ins for Crowley and Aziraphale! But taken with everything, knowing her character, and also the name just being such a strikingly out of nowhere throwaway sticking out like a sore thumb, I interpret it as either a) unconsciously Nina has picked up on Something Off or b) ham-fistedly crammed in by Metatron to really push Crowley. I also love the idea that we were specifically shown the "flashbacks" because those are the ones being edited by Metatron which has direct influence on how they act now - e.g. Aziraphale wanting heaven again because he remembers the way Crowley looked when he created the stars. The flashback sequences didn't make sense to me before I read the theory because I'm like. This only tangentially relates to whatever is going on in the present. S1 flashbacks was one long cold open that helped establish their relationship for the first time viewer, and both sowed seeds to later pluck from and reaped the rewards of present day call backs. But S2 had so many holes it only works to see them as the pots for seed sowing.

EDIT: I had some brain blast moments in the shower I need to write down; might be a little repetitive of the first theory but w/e:

When we see the flashback scenes, they're specifically Aziraphale's memory of them. They are conjured up as Aziraphale's memories of these incidents. We see Job because Gabriel randomly said a line God said, which didn't even answer the question because the question was "what was the first thing you remember" and what he said was 2500 Before Christ not Before Creation, and by the time he was done this vivid memory sequence Crowley had left ages ago because he's not experiencing the same thing. A little weird when I watched it at the time because I'm like, why was that necessary, the end bit, where we're shown Crowley just quietly and inexplicably left? Time has passed. Aziraphale was having a whole episode in his mind. He was "reminded" that Crowley was Good and Lonely for it. This particular memory also served to remind Aziraphale how terrible Gabriel was as an Archangel, and thus maybe if he was Archangel things could be sunshine and rainbows!

And what about the clue he follows? It takes him to Edinburgh. It's the same - he went to Edinburgh on his own and remembered how Crowley helped Wee Morag but got punished for it (though when he fell down that sinkhole the tone is very unconcerned, weird), how vain Gabriel is. And who gave him this clue? Maggietron.

1941 was specifically conjured because Shax, hitchhiking and getting Aziraphale alone, mentioned Furfur. Crowley saved him, his books, him again, they had a lovely time, but they almost got found out. It was a near thing. But most importantly, Crowley confessed he trusted him, and Aziraphale knew he would always come through for him, and this gives him the confidence that Crowley would follow him to heaven if he asked.

All these incidences Aziraphale is alone or ends up by himself. These are his memories being brought back a little tweaked (in mind and/or reality) to sow discord, in addition to whatever Metatron's messing with at the present.

TLDR Re: Flashbacks: 1) Crowley was happy as an angel. 2) Crowley is lonely now, but still Good whilst Gabriel (upper management) sucks. 3) Crowley being Good gets punished in hell. 4) Crowley trusts Aziraphale and will always follow him. In conclusion, Aziraphale needs to "restore" Crowley as an angel, the two of them guide heaven together with their True Goodness, and Crowley will follow him to heaven. The flashbacks, messed with and planted by maggietron, subtly tilt Aziraphale towards the direction of returning to heaven.

Maggie and Nina's role in the previous season. Maggie was one of the satanic nuns that actively helped in delivering the anti-christ. She was on the demon's side. Nina was also a satanic nun, but inadvertently caused havoc in satan's plans by bumbling up the baby switch which ended up saving the world. The idea of characters being mirrors is quite prominent, I think, in Good Omens: Aziraphale and Crowley, Beelzebub and Gabriel, God and Satan (the song "I'll Be Your Mirror" by the Velvet Underground mentioned by Neil Gaiman but that might be too tangential). Maggie and Nina, though, aren't each other's mirrors. They're their past character's mirrors. Maggie is still trying to cause chaos, only now she's on heaven's side. Nina is helping the world/story again, just that this time she's not bumbling it up but being very rational and asking questions about what's happening. The only thing she's bumbling is her relationship, which deteriorated so fast and so dramatically and given to us in the visual form of WRITTEN NOTES (metatron margins lol) that it was honestly odd to me why so much attention was paid to it, in screen time and visual effect. I would also argue she bumbled by saying "angel" at the end, but that's metatron's fault, and her bumbling is honestly a Clue. And the effect of having their names be their character's names as well is meta in a, blurring the lines between fiction and reality kind of way, which also Smells Clueish.

How did Maggie and Nina meetcute? Coffeshop AU + stuck in a room together. We're shown that Aziraphale and Crowley gets a lot of their human ideas from books and film, and I'm willing to bet metatron has similar tendencies AND I'm doubling down that he read a fanfic LMAO and thought so this is what humans do! It would explain why this whole season felt like watching a 66k fic unfold!

Something something this thought isn't fully formed yet but something something Agnes Nutter's second book being or connected to the book of life and its destruction created an opportunity for metatron to usurp something something blah

The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Keep reading

[linkcharacter]

Thank you, Swansea.

[porcelain-dionysus]

Nine would have thought Martha Jones was the coolest person in the world. Doesn’t even matter where in the timeline this was or what happened to Rose, he would have loved her leather jacket and her hairstyle. He would have loved that she was a DOCTOR! Her studying to be a doctor was so overlooked and he would have loved it. He would have thought she was the coolest person alive. Nine and Donna would have killed each other on sight

[ilions-end]

i've noticed just how often achilles' dragging of hector's corpse is framed mostly as an act of extreme disrespect, or only some brutal show of triumph. personally i think that's underselling both achilles' intention and what the trojans must be thinking as they watch it happen.

hector's corpse is divinely protected so it can't be damaged by the greeks after death; all that effectively happens in the iliad is that his body gets dirty. but under normal circumstances (and i'm not gonna impose realism on mythology, but the iliad is famously detailed when it comes to bodily trauma), the physical reality of dragging a corpse along stony ground for miles would be severe disfigurement and dismemberment. first the skin would wear off, then soft tissues, then extremities would start to detach. i think the iliad's original audience would be aware of that as an intended outcome.

achilles (who doesn't yet know that hector's body has been granted divine stasis) doesn't just want to parade his enemy's corpse around, he wants to tear it apart ("i only wish that this fury inside my heart would drive me to carve you to pieces and eat your flesh raw..."), he wants it to not resemble a human anymore. he wants hector's blood and flesh to circle the city of troy. he wants to make it impossible for hector's family to gather the pieces of him to cremate and that way hector's spirit won't find passage into the underworld. that's what the gods are preventing from happening, they're not just keeping the corpse pretty for priam to pick up later.

[lilislegacy]

Percy at ease

Percy calm, but a little on edge

Percy when mildly angry

Friendly reminder that Percy jackson - our beloved silly adorable seaweed brain - is absolutely terrifying. When he’s angry, when he’s scared, when he’s on edge - he’s not warm and fuzzy.

No other character gets that reaction from people. Jason (the sweetie) is perceived as calm and in control, nico (our favorite self-outcasted outcast) is perceived as solemn and creepy, reyna (girlboss queen slay) is perceived as confident and assertive, and annabeth (our girl) is perceived as fierce, clever, and formidable. They are all intimidating to an extent.

But not like Percy. No. Becasue even when he’s at ease, he’s described as wild and disobedient. And when he’s not at ease, even if just little bit, he’s perceived as powerful, dangerous, and scary. Someone who NOBODY wants to mess with. Nobody even questions his power. One look from him has literal gangs running the other way. One look from him has Leo so scared that he’s literally shaking, and feeling the same innate fright and alarm that he does when jason summons an ear-piercing, earth-shaking, deadly bolt of lighting.

like… HELLO??? can we all just sit on that for a moment?? good lord

One angry look from percy has people thinking one thing: Run.

Percy is, canonically, the character that people find the most frightening and intimidating.

And unless he’s in a good mood - which you better hope he is - the reality is that most of us would be completely terrified of him if we met him.

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

more:

[nunkisketches]

I'll stay right besides you

[datcravat]

It seems there's a new lawyer in town!!!

[chloesimaginationthings]

Jeremy Fitzgerald’s reaction to FNAF scooped Michael

[o0kawaii0o]

"What do you want?"

[morganafayes]

because at the end of the day it’s about how love and hate will destroy you equally. it’s about the fact that merlin and morgana both lost themselves because they became so consumed by their love and hate respectively that it made everything else not matter. because merlin loved arthur so much he hollowed himself out for the sake of it and morgana hated uther so much it ate her alive and became all she was

[keferon]

Guess who spent two days trying to understand how to draw a kiss

Based on amazing incredible gut wrenching Mistakes on Mistakes until..

[feligayzed]

it's been raining a lot where i'm at and I had a stroke of genius

you know how lizards like to bask in the sun? that but it's seb sprawled out in the driveway during a rainstorm

moisturized and enriched ✨

painter has to drag him back inside before he gets himself a cold smh

[ultravioletbrit]

“remember” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 342 words

“You do not.”

“I do too.”

“You remember the exact day you fell in love with me?” Regulus ask James incredulously.

“I think I nearly know the exact minute I fell in love.” James tells him.

“Bollocks.” Regulus says and James just shrugs. “Alright. When?” Regulus challenges.

“1 September 1972. I’m going to say…” James thinks for a moment. “…about 11:08am, give or take five minutes.”

“Oh, shut up, you did not.” Regulus dismisses.

“I did.” James shrugs, but his expression is completely genuine. “I didn’t know what it was at the time. But I remember it. I felt it. And it never went away.” James says.

Regulus softens, but still looks at James skeptically. “What did you feel?” He whispers and James smiles.

“I had just met you, you scolded me for calling you Reggie, shook my hand and told me my hair was atrocious.” James says with a small chuckle. “And I remember thinking ‘what eleven-year-old shakes hands and uses the word atrocious?’ But then I felt it, while we were shaking hands my stomach did this little somersault. And I didn’t know what it was, I had never felt anything like that before and I didn’t know what to do, so…” James trails off, looking at Regulus.

“So, you laughed.” Regulus finishes.

“And you thought I was laughing at you.” James smiles softly.

“And I hated you for it.” Regulus says, with a little pout.

“Yup.” James says, popping the ‘p’, and they both chuckle. “But every time I saw you my stomach did that little somersault. It took me a few years to figure out what it meant, but it was always there.” James tells Regulus as he looks deep into his eyes. “It’s still there.”

Regulus is gazing back at James with so many emotions and trying his best to hold back the tears threatening to fall. He puts his hands on James’ cheeks and leans in so they’re only a breath apart.

“You are a sap, and I love you so much.” Regulus whispers sweetly and pulls James in for a kiss.

[fonmythenmetz]

The most powerful force user to ever live (smol)

[canisalbus]

Reminded me of Machete and Vasco

I mean

That's pretty close to how I pictured them as well.