#had to greyscale this because of spoilers????

[mrsthunderkin]

Objectively, one of my favorite expressions in the whole comic so far.

When Mordren shows any expression other than maniacal, he really shows off just how much he looks like Bartemus.

He's really just Bart but evil flavored.

And I love that the most about him.

[masonhasbean]

This has probably been said and I've never had an original thought in my life but William Wisp losing feeling in his fingers FIRST above all else is really important to me, actually.

SPOILERS FOR S2 EPISODE 15 AND UP=

The discoloration and loss of sensation in Wills hands begin at the place people use to feel most things. I can imagine having full feeling in your limbs as a hero is very important as to not lose them in battle. Ontop of probably being inconvenient to Will, it also kinda.. reflects his mindset on hero society a bit?

To Cantrip he says his hands are beginning to numb right before an arc where in a way looses touch with the world around him and his role as a Prime Defender. The greyscale arc, or as I like to call it the 'fuck you David Bell' arc lol. His views on the work they do and the people that surround them has been slowly deteriorating, just like his hands. Will litterally asks Cantrip about her views on things are run moments before she asks him "What are you?"

Then comes his: "I've been feeling less recently" Which I don't think specifically only refers to his hands but like.. they're talking about burns because of Jade's devices so yk.

The very person he tells this to however, later dies because of him as a result of him 'loosing touch' and his view of things washing into greyscale.

[roo-fanart]

This post contains Spoilers for all of In Stars and Time!

Please play the game blind if you can it’s so so so worth it.

So! I made a post on my main account a few days back making a joke about Loop looking like a xurkitree. I edited their eyes onto an image from bulbapedia, and voilà!

A loop both in full colour and greyscale!

But that got me thinking - what pokémon best suited the other characters? I’m still stumped on most of them, but the ideas for Siffrin flowed way too fast. some were obvious - pokémon with funky hats like murkrow, space themed pokémon (with a little extra) like minior or jirachi, celebi or basically any ghost pokémon for the loops, pokémon like ditto or zorua for twohats, SOMETHING to tie back to where he’s from, etc.

I was REALLY attached to mismagius (mostly for the hat/ghost type combo) but also kept coming back to mimikyu for the island. mimikyu were added in alola, their whole thing is mimicking (but in a way that’s obviously wrong), the ghost type also works for the loss of memory and the disguise has a lot of potential for any conversations Siffrin normally has about their clothes. I really loved the idea of a disguise that told of how clearly and then I had an epiphany.

do mimikyu disguises have to be pikachu?

I somehow managed to forget to write this, but Odile was the one who came up with the idea of the patch being the same colour as a mismagius eye. Siffrin doesn’t have an actual eyepatch underneath, because there is no eye (or eye socket) there either, most of the time - it’s just ghost mist. The patch was necessary to keep the disguise from fraying thanks to the damage, and the only way Isabeau could find to do that without damaging the craft on the disguise further was by patching over the damaged hole.

I debated a LOT with where to put Siffrin’s eyepatch. The ability disguise made it even harder - it would make more sense for it to activate, but the enemy wasn’t aiming for siffrin, they were aiming for Bonnie, who is probably tiny. I eventually decided that I was still going to have the sadness (equivalent) hit their actual eye, on grounds of “the only reason for an eyepatch would be if Bonnie stitched up the disguise eye as a non-verbal apology, rather than Isabeau” and “regardless of how naturally it happens, writing out disability is something I’m wary of”.

And yes! Mal du Pays! I knew fairly early on that I wanted to keep the silhouette but not the outline. Still not sure if I want to go with something close to canon Siffrin or something related to jirachi, but…

[aroacedm]

here’s 12 pictures of my art! context after each and my references at the end

tgcf spoilers!

12th

redrawing of the official art from tgcf volume 4! shi qingxuan is my favourite character and he xuan is a close second

this took me a while until i liked it but i wanted to recreate how the original created the ominous feeling and had so much detail and contrast while being in greyscale

11th

from the tgcf manhua, fengqing! i think their my favourite ship, and i hadn’t drawn them before so i tried to give it a go. not a big fan of the proportions but i think it turned out ok.

10th

@oceantherat (this is their favourite character from rain code) showed me the reference picture and i decided to try drawing it as perspective practice. it ended up a little bigger than i though so i couldn’t fit the whole reference, and the mask doesn’t feel rounded, but overall i like it

9th

same guy again! i wanted to try drawing him again but i think the shadows got a bit messed up. my cheap pens smudged a bit but overall i like it

8th

also from the tgcf manhua, this was from a meme that’s become an bit with me and ocean, just felt like drawing something and saw this in my photos

7th

after a dnd session with ocean and some other friends, i drew a scene from ocean’s character’s (also called ocean because that’s not their irl name) flashback! this guy killed her family! he’s one of her relatives! but i really wanted to focus on how dark the scene was, with almost everything being pitch black. i wanted to recreate the scene that left my players going D:

6th

here’s a younger ocean and her cousin that’s more like a brother! i hope nothing bad happens to him… i wanted to draw a picture that helped me as a reference for the backstory, to help build the character relationships and motivations

5th

it’s another character from that dnd campaign when they were younger with their brother figure! except this one is an NPC helping them out! i wanted to try and make the effect of torn paper but didn’t want to risk anything, so i left a bit of uncoloured paper to imitate a layer of partially torn paper. this was also to help when i was writing backstories

4th

this is the npc from the last picture in present time, i wanted to make canon designs for all the characters to help me visualise everything. i hid a few lore elements in this but because ocean is going to see this i can’t explain

3rd

i tried to redraw a picture of me and a friend on a ride together but in a more simple style (no eyes and mouth, ect) i haven’t shown the friend yet but i will soon. i’m the person looking at the camera. i really loved the photo and wanted to try drawing it

2nd

i drew this a while ago, but i still really like it. i used my own hand as reference (for some reason i used the hand i was drawing with) i’ve always been fairly good at drawing hands and when i sent this on an art group chat i’m in, i was quickly accused of being a witch. i can only draw to a level i like when i have a reference, and i always have my hands so it’s the thing i’ve drawn the most. i didn’t have the colour for my hands, but i think it turned out good

and finally,

i’m really proud of this one, i was sick and really bored when i drew it. this is from tgcf vol 6, but i’ve always been really impressed by the tgcf official art and how they look hand drawn but also digital. (you can see brush strokes but they look too perfect). i didn’t have all the different shades of grey, but i think i did well.

thanks for looking at all my art, here are the references i used and where they’re from

i don’t have the reference for number 9 but i’ll reblog with it when i find it

also i plan on showing more of my art but i need to find the original authors of the references

[sailorsplatoon]

since you mentioned shipping four and acht in the past do you have any headcannons of how their relationship would work?

Ooooh I’ve been hoping someone would ask this!!!

Side Order spoilers below!

Acht and Four first met in the Memverse. I go with the theory that Agent 4 was controlled by Order and became Parallel Canon. When Eight reconfigured their palette, they didn’t go back to normal because they had been fully greyscaled. So in a last ditch effort to save them, Marina sent them back into the Memverse in hopes of having them climb the Spire of Order and regaining their memories in the same way she planned for sanitized octos to. Acht met them during their ascent of the spire and slowly fell in love. As Agent 4 began to regain their memories, their feelings grew for Acht as well. (I’m actually writing a fanfic on this right now!)

Acht is initially terrified of leaving the Memverse because they know they’ll be in the Deepsea Metro and will have to face the reality of having been sanitized. Eventually, Four is able to encourage them to live in the real world for a little bit, but surprises them by going to the Deepsea Metro to be there when Acht did eventually leave the Memverse. This is where they had their first kiss!

The two both struggle with the trauma of losing their free will to an AI. They provide comfort for each other as best as they can.

Acht is significantly taller than Four and will often pick them up randomly, carrying them on their back.

Four comes up with a new nickname for Acht every time they see them. They have a list in their phone of ideas, most of which are food themed. A few examples: Mx. F1sh, Seaweed, Matcha Latte, Sushi, and My Corpse Bride (or partner or husband, Acht is ok with any of them).

Acht is emo and Four is kidcore so their aesthetics clash but in a beautiful way.

Four was a fan of DJ Dedf1sh before they met Acht.

Acht uses they/them and is an asexual greyromantic lesbian. Four uses she/they and is demisexual and pansexual.

Girlboss (Acht) x girlfail (Four)

That’s about all I’ve got for right now! Thank you so much for asking! I love these two so much and will gladly rant about them forever!

[catastrophicclouds]

Have some Kurogiri in these trying times. These last few volumes of MHA have been hitting hard, so I had to draw one of my favourite comfort characters. I also have a prediction for Kurogiri’s fate, but I’ll put that below the cut (major spoiler warning).

I was experimenting with different brushes and line weights, and I’m really happy with how they turned out. I can see myself doing more of these greyscale drawings in the future, so I’ll just have to see what inspires me next.

Most people I’ve seen so far are sure that Kurogiri/ Shirakumo died after getting blasted by Bakugo. But honestly, I’m not so sure of that. What Bakugo blasted was a separate portal and not Kurogiri, himself, so Kurogiri should still be safe where he was standing in the distance. And I know with how rushed the Rooftop Gang’s story has been in the last arc of MHA, it doesn’t seem likely that they’ll get a complete, fleshed out ending. However, even though there isn’t a lot of time before the story ends, I get the feeling that they’ll have more of a resolution than we initially thought.

There have been a few interesting points about Kurogiri in the last couple of volumes that I wanted to point out. First, we saw him practically melting in front of Mic and Aizawa ever since he joined them on the battlefield. This points to his body being very unstable in a way we hadn’t seen before. When Mic and Aizawa got through to Shirakumo, the shape of his mist would change, and eventually, part of it turned white when Shirakumo had fully woken up. But this being such a different reaction points to Kurogiri’s melting as having a different cause. I speculate that it’s because of his nomu body acting up rather than him waking up and having an identity crisis. Recently, he’s been constantly sedated in both a high end prison and a hospital so that he wouldn’t use his quirk to escape. He was tested on and examined a lot for the sake of research and finding out his true identity. Then, when he escaped the hospital, he teleported up to Mic and Aizawa, all while his body was freaking out, to teleport them away. After a behind the scenes reconciliation (?) with his best friends, he proceeded to open up a million different portals so more heroes could make it to the battlefield, eventually joining them there. That’s a lot of stress for his body to be under, to say the least, so it’s no wonder he’s having a hard time keeping himself together at this point. And now, with the extra weight of his two lives clashing together, Kurogiri has the added emotional stress on top of it. My man’s been through it all.

The next point I wanted to mention was how we saw his portal starting to deteriorate when he reached out to save Shigaraki. It looked like literal pieces of it were breaking off in shards while others were dissolving in the air, more like ashes from a bonfire than mist. So not only is his physical body suffering, but so is his nomu-engineered quirk. This is where the point of these details all comes together.

For one, nobody in the manga has mentioned either of these things out loud. I know a lot of creators like to leave smaller details for their audiences to pick up and piece together themselves, but for these details to be so incredibly obvious to the viewer, I’m certain that they’ll come up again later. And for them to come up, the story will also have to focus back on the Rooftop Gang. Not only that, but I doubt they would leave Mic and Aizawa (Aizawa especially), two fan favourites, just hanging like that at the very end of the series. What happened to Kurogiri will have to be brought up eventually. There may not have been as much attention on him in the final arc as there should have, but giving him and the gang some sort of conclusion would only make sense at this point and is practically inevitable.

And then to my last point, which is just my own speculation based on what we’ve already seen and my own thoughts over everything. I don’t think Kurogiri has a very hopeful ending for him. Midnight’s dead, most of the league is dead, Shigaraki who was almost like his own son is dead, a large part of the city is destroyed, last I checked, all of U.A. or at least a decent bit of it was destroyed, his own body is failing, and his two lives are merging together in a way that would make continuing to live very complicated for him. That is to say if he lived at all. With how totalled his body seems at the moment, a part of me doubts that he’ll be able to come back from that, not to mention his death being an easy way to a smoother plot. And even if he did, he’d have to finish school (which isn’t as much of a problem), decide whether he still wants to be a hero, figure out with Mic and Aizawa where they want to go from there (if they’ll still be as close of friends or friends at all), and live in a society that knows he was a villain at some point and would likely still treat him badly because of it. I doubt that just because the show is ending, everyone will get their own “happily ever after”, so it’s still possible that we’ll get a few more tragedies before it’s officially over. A part of me believes there’s a chance that Kurogiri will be able to live, figure out who he is now as a person, become a hero, and start that hero agency with Mic and Aizawa like they’d wanted. But as of right now, when volume 424 just came out, it’s looking like he might die in the end. If that’s the case, I’m sure he’ll be able to talk with Mic and Aizawa and get some closure before it happens, probably the good kind.

But whatever happens, I hope he’ll be happy in the end. I’d love to see what he would do with his friends if he got to live, maybe come to work at U.A. or they’d all leave for the agency (which I doubt since Mic and Aizawa really care about U.A. and its students). I’m also interested in what he would do with the surviving league members when everything cleared up. As a Kuropress/ Black Magic enjoyer, I hope we’ll see Kurogiri and Mr. Compress interacting a little bit, even if it’s not relationship related.

Well, that turned out to be more of an essay than I thought it would. As I said, most of this is speculation based on what I know about storytelling and what’s happened in the story so far. I can’t say for certain any of this will happen or even be relevant in the final volumes, but as far as I know, there’s a good chance some of these points will be touched on or even happen in the story. Here’s to hoping.

[bizlybebo]

For your final thoughts on PD once you finish, I present to thee:

This ramble ask

How ya feeling?

HOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTT ENDYYYYY

ENDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IT. I WAS NOTTTT EXPECTING ANYYYY OF THISSSS AAAAAAAAAAJRGBTJKWEFREGTKWEFREGTKRFGNYT

YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR BY SENDING IN THIS ASK. KJREHKJERHD

this is probably gonna be even longer than my ramble after completing the greyscale series so once again i dont expect you to read all of this but OHHH YM GODDD i need to dump my thoughts somewhere cause HOLY SHITTT

after writing this out i really only managed to touch on the last 2-3 episodes but yk. there are my thoughts on the ending so it makes sense. i dont think we wanna see how big my ramble on the entire fucking series could get

spoilers ahead for anyone else who sees this: literally all of prime defenders s1 and s2

ashe came home.

ashe fucking CAME HOME.

now, i had a feeling since about episode 35 that ashe was certainly coming home, because there was so much buildup, yakko did an ashe cosplay, etc. like it would have been stupid for her not to return at that point. plus i kept seeing people drawing a post-trickster ashe and was like huh.

so essentially, i thought that because i Knew, i wouldn't get blindsided by these final episodes. in fact, knowing almost made it more... bearable? i guess, because i could hold onto the light at the end of the tunnel that ashe was 100% coming home. it almost made me feel the same hope that the group was feeling about ashe, because i had that certainty and faith in the good ending.

and then william wisp fucking died. again.

i was really sleepy when i was listening to that scene but still persisting because my anxiety was slowly increasing as the episode went on, but when the trickster just. plunged his hands through william's chest i was FULLY awake just sitting in absolute shock. i'm not the kind of person to cry huge tears over media (i think the only time i non-happy cried watching riptide was ep 53), but when william died For Real i actually gave a good few sobs. i was no longer sleepy i was just in shock and then in grief.

and i was like. oh shit. maybe there is no good ending.

something like that ENTIRELY blindsided me in such a crazy way that it had me doubting ashe would even come home.

and i kept thinking, hey, no, he's risen before, he'll be okay! but then he went to the fucking spirit realm. he got dispensed there with kumori and began the first day of forever and i was like oh. shit.

william was gone.

and the REACTIONS from dakota and vyncent were both so guttural and real and true to their characters in their own ways. like so good it's nearly painful to think about.

dakota's loud. he's loud and he's rambunctious because he's dakota. he never speaks below a shout.

but when william was torn in half, he wasn't shouting, he was wailing. the absolute shock and denial he was in haunts me dude.

dakota's was begging william not to do this to him. he could forgive william for so much-- for lying to him, for not asking for his help, for fucking killing jade, but he could never forgive william for dying.

dakota's not the kind of kid to ask, y'know? if something doesn't go the way it should to him then he'll fight abrasively and outwardly for what he believes is right, or in the harder cases he'll bite the bullet and take the fall.

but here, he was pleading with william to just. not die.

and i think the final thing that shattered my faith that hey, maybe william wasn't gone was that tide was so accepting of it. he fell to his knees, he grieved and he was torn apart for a second, but then he was back up, holding dakota, going as far as to use a whole turn in initiative to only hug his boy despite the deadly circumstances. despite the world falling apart around them. to loosely quote my other mutual cayden (<333), "at the end of everything hold onto something and dakota had to hold onto tide because it was the end of everything for him" and i think that's just. the only way i can really phrase it. top 10 moments that rewired my brain chemistry

and dont get me started on dakota LITERALLY JUMPING THROUGH HELL FOR EVERYBODY. JUMPING THROUGH HELL, LOOKING THE TRICKSTER IN THE EYES AS HE DID SO. LIKE I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE BUT SOARING THROUGH THE BURNING SKIES OF THE CHAOS REALM? THE REALM THAT CORRUPTS AND WARPS EVEN THE STRONGEST DEMONS? AND STILL COMING OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE BECAUSE YOU'RE DAKOTA MOTHERFUCKING COLE AND YOU SIMPLY REFUSE TO SUCCUMB?? FUCKING INSANEEE.

and. fucking. fuck.

vyncent. MOTHERFUCKING. sol.

when i fucking catch condifiction.

vyncent sol is such an interesting fucking character. most of the time i'm like "there is something deeply wrong with him <3" in an endearing sense because yknow. he's a little strange. he's not from around here.

but oh my god.

vyncent sol, THE character development guy ever.

he starts off season 1 violent, unable to control his powers. he's violent, and he's scared, and he's homesick, and he's like a skittish dog who bites when it gets nervous because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing here.

but he changes. he grows.

he gets his closure with fauna, yeah, but then he finds a new home. he finds himself in a flying car, chasing after the fucking lich, watching william and dakota fighting in the front seat like a married couple, and he just thinks yeah. this is home.

and he doesn't quite unlearn his violence or his vengeance but they do certainly shift gears (also tidbit-- the 'fatal flaw' of justice is vengeance which is part of why i chose him for that human soul in the undertale shit i was telling you about :D).

his character is about balance. he has to learn not to be reckless and violent like in season 1, while also not apathetic and taking inaction like he did in s2 episodes 31 and 32.

at the end of everything, he protects william with his life, ready to interpose any attack. he thinks that he can do right by somebody this time, act now so that there aren't any consequences later (y'know, like he never did with jade, or ashe, or the lich).

but william. still. dies.

the sheer anger that vyncent felt in that moment was overshadowed so strongly by his grief, but it was still there. i can't even put it into words without going on a whole nother tangent but oh my fucking god. dude. vyncent sol has irreparably rewired my brain he is all i'm gonna think about.

prime defenders honestly is just THE character development show in general. i haven't even touched on william's development, on how he put faith in his friends over mal even if he knew it was going to make things much harder because he trusted dakota and vyncent so much. on how he literally got killed, repeatedly, over and over, in the spirit realm for 12 hours straight. on how he dirtied his hands during the greyscale arc out of fear.

on how he finally. stopped. running. stopped trying to escape who he was. but still won't come out of the closet

and god this is a looooong fucking ramble and i haven't even said much yet, this is only me screaming about the last two episodes really, but so much has happened in them that i just AUUUUGUGHGGHGHJKTEHRKJ

and. holy fucking shit.

JADE??? MAY STILL BE ALIVE??? D OYOU UNDERSTAND HOW FUCKING FERAL IM GOING OVER THIS JADE CANTRIP VENGEANCE ARC. I NEEEEEED XAVIERRRR TO SEE HER AGAINNNN JADE AND XAVIER'S FRIENDSHIP MEANS SO FUCKING MUCHHH TO MEEEEE

AND ATLAS? BRO POOR FUCKING ATLAS. he really could not catch a fucking break for the ENTIRE series. when bizly started describing the 'odd fizzling' i was like 'man this guy is just going THROUGH it with his career i feel kinda bad for him' and then.

he was dead.

i think grizzly said it best, how bizly has to 'keep reminding us that prime defenders is r-rated' cause yk. the sudden violence/gore. it was so impactful you were so right when you were talking about tonal whiplash because holy SHIT.

like we were just in mario kart hell chasing after le frog who stole pizza he couldnt even eat cause he was vegetarian. and then atlas' throat was slit and he was marked with an x. (x as in xavier's vigilante persona????????RTEHRTTT$YRJHTTETR)

im just AUGUGHGHGH so FUCKING UNWELLLL OVER THIS ENTIRE SERIES. I'M SO STOKED FOR WONDERLUST BUT ALSO THAT MEANS PRIME DEFENDERS PROBABLY WON'T RETURN UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR OR EVEN LATER.

i need a prime defenders christmas episode. dearly.

the bright side of this is that now i can write a shit ton of fic + inhale every single fic under the prime defenders tag on ao3.

but GODDD this is the most gutwrenching piece of media ever. i've never had such a strong hyperfixation since 2020 because the world is just so good. every single character and npc means the world to me. even summer and doug are constant subjects of my brainrot. even fucking lightspeed and harlem and aughughugnjtr.

thank you for the ask endy lmao im FUCKING CLAWING AT THE WALLS OVER THIS SHOW. AIUKGHEJHW

JADE CANTRIP REVENGE ARC PLSPSLPLSPLSPLSPLSPLS. I NEED HER TO COME BACK AND I NEED HER TO COME BACK WRONG AND I NEED XAVIER TO BE TERRIFIED OF HIS BEST FRIEND EVEN THOUGH IT'LL EMOTIONALLY DESTROY ME AKTJHETRKJTRWKERE

okay that's. all i can say for now

[malachiwardyt]

Hello again, podcast side of Tumblr.

This time around, I did a video on Ethics Town, a relatively new cosmic horror podcast about a British valley town where nothing is quite as it seems. Right now Ethics Town is a terribly underrated series, so this video is both my analysis of it, and also my attempt at getting more people to listen to it.

Anyways, yeah, watch the video if you want, or not, it's up to you I guess. If you want to, though, I really do suggest you take the less than four hours and actually listen to the podcast, it's well worth your time.

SPOILERS FOR ETHICS TOWN SEASON ONE BEYOND THIS POINT. CONTINUE READING AT YOUR OWN RISK. / / / / / / / / / /

As with the last post, I also want to share the art from the video. For the first one, I wanted to do something that captured the feel of the Ethics Town logo, which is all black and white and red, so I stuck with a pretty monochromatic colour palette here. The image depicts the Mayor of Ethics, Ian Jacobs, moving the wrapped body of Natascha Flynn to make space for a nearby factory's planned expansions. It was one of two scenes I considered, and I think this was the much better option. The skyline in the background, while not perfect, is meant to mimic the same skyline seen on the Mayor's hat in the logo. The other weird detail here is that everything was done linelessly, which was very weird for me, because I thought it created an interesting look. Oh, also, yes, I did give Ian a ponytail.

The other art piece is a sketch of Ian Jacobs and January Johnson, because I wanted to experiment with how much I could push their designs before they stopped looking like the same person. I also wanted to have their outfits at least be a little similar, so both of them have outer coverings closed around the middle of the chest around a shirt beneath, and both Ian and January have black headware. I considered giving January a white band on his headphones, but it just wound up getting lost. Another notable difference is in the hair, which I imagined here as blonde, probably in a more platinum direction, though you can't tell that very well from the greyscale. Ian's hair is pulled back in the aforementioned ponytail while it's left loose when he's acting as January. January also has a little more stubble, and his eye bags sag a little more. Finally, even though I only really had two colours to work with, I wanted to try expanding on how he acts within each role using the clothing. January's clothes are lighter, thanks in big part to the grey and white striped hoodie, which is designed to make him seem more emotionally truthful than he actually is. Underneath that light tone, though, is a plain black tee, which ties him to the darker colour scheme of Ian and also hints at the fact that, below his friendly and approachable personality hides the dark secret that he is, in fact, the Mayor who has been making such terrible decisions. Going back to the sweatshirt, the grey and white striping is also slightly reminiscent of the stripes on prison jumpsuits, which is a way of representing his feeling of being trapped into bad decisions and being ensnared by Ethics and his secret role as Mayor. Speaking of the Mayor, Ian is a lot simpler. I considered giving him a big, slightly cartoon-y MAYOR sash, but I wound up preferring how he looks without it. Generally, I tried to keep his wardrobe darker and more formal, and, of course, I had to include the fancy hat we see on the logo of Ethics Town. I also reduced the amount of vape cloud around him for two reasons. First, the in-story reason, is that Ian has accepted who he is and the role he plays in the "narrative" of Ethics, so I imagine he's a bit less stressed. It also works really well metaphorically, though, because he's not disguised anymore. When we see Ian at the end of "The Identity Issue," the mask is fully off. Artemis knows exactly who he is, which means that his identity doesn't have to be clouded by as much smoke. Oh, also, it's a cosmic horror podcast, so if I didn't put something tentacle-esque around the main antagonist, there would be problems.

And I think that about covers it. I had a lot of fun listening to the podcast and making the video, and I hope it can bring joy to y'all as well. Catch y'all next time around for The Buried Explained!

[themadauthorshatter]

... I'm not apologizing at all😆

Recently, I've been checking back in with Welcome Home and have had my fancy caught buy an AU called Greyscale Wally AU by the superbly talented @sweetest-honeybee (I highly recommend it, it's AWESOME) and got this idea after seeing some spoilery endgame stuff that was posted

This will contain some spoilers for the AU, so you might want to check that out first before reading this, and this is purely speculation based off of what I've seen

This doesn't really have a title, but Trigger warnings/content warnings for abuse, manipulation, swearing, and humanoid Home being mean and scary

With that out of the way, ENJOY!

Sleeping was steadily becoming something that Wally was familiar with, along with the feeling of nearly unbearable discomfort in his entire body that rarely faded. The only real time it left was when he slept, thanfully.

But he also dreamed when he slept, and he resented it with every fiber of his being.

Each night, he would be haunted by a horrible visage of one of his friends shouting at him, hurting him, turning on him as if he had caused the desaturating plague that slowly, seemingly spread to the neighbors.

It had gotten to Barnaby, at least.

And Home won't tell me why.

Wally burrowed deeper into his blankets, letting sleep overtake him.

And he saw Barnaby and Sally, their colors muted and their demeanors drained and skittish.

Barnaby seemed more agitated than fearful, but kept his eyes averted.

A hand clapped onto Wally's shoulder, covering it entirely as a shadow loomed over him.

"What's the matter, Darling?" Home asked, speaking clearly rather than using the creaks and clatters Wally was used to. "Aren't you happy to see your friends?"

Words failed Wally in that moment, even when he craned his head up and saw Home.

Or, at least, some twisted visage of Home that had a face, one that was... rubbery as it moved, being stuff and movable all at once with enough edges and shapes making up his face to make Wally's head spin.

It would have been better to see Home as a body with Home The House on its shoulders.

But Home doesn't love you. He hurt you, remember?

"You're not," Home surmised, his tone light, but disappointed. "Well, I shouldn’t be surprised, should I? Ungrateful as you are, you're never satisfied with anything I do for you."

Wally stumbled back as his eyes locked on Home's, Home towering over him.

He also managed to find his voice.

"I.. I'm not," he quivered. "Why should I be? You hurt them."

Home followed him, easily keeping up with long legs and an even stride. "I wouldn't have had to, if it weren't for you."

Wally cringed and flattened his hands against the sides of his head; foolish as it was, he couldn't stand hearing the careless tone Home used to say horrible things. "I didn't do anything!"

"But you did."

Home held Wally's hands on one of his own and caught Wally by the jaw, forcing the smaller of the two to meet his now dark eyes.

Wally pulled and twisted to try and break free, but Home shook him, adjusting his grip to grab Wally just under his cheekbones, nearly crushing Wally's face.

"And you just can't learn your lesson."

Wally whimpered when Home pulled him close and snarled loud enough to make Wally kick at the ground to get away.

"You have all of this because of me, you miserable mound of cotton!"

Home all but threw Wally into a turn, wrapping his arms around him, one trapping Wally's arms at his sides as he grabbed a fistful of blue hair.

Wally yelped at the sharp tug at his head, but it quickly numbed when he saw Barnaby and Sally, both with their mouths stitched shut as they gazed brokenly back at him.

Black fluid-like tendrils crept up and around their bodies, and both of them withered the further it climbed.

It wasn't like the discomfort he'd grown used to.

Instead, it hurt.

"Stop it," Wally begged, his voice quiet.

"I didn't want to do this, Darling," Home said ruefully, too close for Wally to bear. "But you left me with no other choice."

The inky black covered both Barnaby and Sally completely and shrank into the ground, then flattened against it.

He killed them.

A burning grew in Wally's eyes, one followed by a trailing dampness that ran down his face.

He killed them. They're my friends! He killed them, but they didn't do anything!

"I can always remake them," Home remarked, "it'd be easy."

He moved closer, forcing his poisonous words to drown out Wally's rampaging thoughts.

"But that means it would all happen again, if you keep being disobedient."

"Please," Wally sobbed, grasping onto Home's arm in order to stay standing. "Please, Home, stop it."

The harsh grasp on his hair turned gentle, long fingers with sharp nails combing through blue threads.

"Have you learned your lesson?"

Wally only cried harder, burying his face into Home's upper arm. "What did I do, Home!? Just tell me!"

The hand in his hair lowered to his back, rubbing circles and occasionally patting Wally's shoulder.

"None of this would have happened, if you'd just listened to me," Home mused. "All of this can go away, Darling, and all you have to do is accept that what you did was wrong."

A tugging at his ankles caught his attention, and a scream ripped through Wally as the black tendrils climbed up his legs.

"Home, stop! Please, Home, make it stop!"

The corner of Home's mouth curled upward before falling once more, his arms loosening as he stood and stepped away from Wally.

"I want you to apologize," Home said sternly. "And I want you to accept that you wronged me. If you can do that, I'll let you come back, I'll take all the pain away, from you and anyone else I gave it to, and everything will be the way it was before."

The tendrils continued to rise, trapping Wally's hands and dragging him into the ground.

"But I don't know what I did!" Wally shouted as he thrashed and clawed to keep himself above the ground. "What did I do to make you do this!?"

Home smirked and crouched down as Wally was dragged further down, cupping his face with one large, clawed hand.

"Think about it, Darling."

The tendrils wrapped around Wally's mouth and eyes, silencing his screams, but also intensifying them.

He only knew how intense they were when he opened his eyes and saw Frank and Eddie over him, both shaken and wide eyed, but overly relieved to see he'd awoken.

Even if they'd done it in the dead of the night.

"Easy, bud," Eddie murmured as Wally shakily sat up. "Just us. Just came to check on you."

Wally hugged his knees to his chest, eyes brimming with tears.

Frank lightly placed a hand on Wally's forearm. "You wanna talk about it?"

Wally only lunged and threw his arms around Frank's torso, and Frank carefully hugged him back.

"It's okay," Frank soothed him. "You're gonna be okay."

Wally barely heard him, not with two raging and terrifying thoughts tearing through his mind.

I hate this.

I hate Home.

[37gorditas]

Why was Spamton so much more unsettling than Jevil?!?!

(Deltarune Chapter 2 spoilers under the funny line!)

I thought about this stuff when i was in the shower, so it probably doesn't make much sense but here goes!!!

Alright, I might be having serious brainrot, but i think compared to Jevil, Spamton is unsettling as FUCK. I mean, one of them is a fella in a jail cell somewhere that really likes chaos (and is also probably based on a random LINE sticker pack)...

Spamton, on the other hand, while also having similar thoughts of freedom and is also similarly Kind Of Unhinged, is a bit more disturbing, especially when you're working to fight his NEO form. One event that sticks out to me is when you transfer his data onto the Empty Disk. As the data starts transferring, line by line, the shop turns greyscale, the music lowers in speed, and Spamton disappears.

When playing through the game myself, I immediately left because Crap! I Kinda Liked That Guy! Something about him just Disappearing just got to me. Another pretty unsettling thing that happens is at the end of the Spamton NEO fight, he just. Falls to the ground, motionless. His NEO form lies there on a black background for what seemed like Hours, and the gang appears on a path leading out of the basement (IIRC.)

Now, I don't think everything literally turned Pitch Black for the gang when they were on the tracks there. Seems that the game intentionally has everything else black out to emphasise what happened to US, the player. The same goes for the shop, in a way. While maybe the colour DID get transferred from the room along with Spamton (and the telephone???) it's like the game litters these jarring, quiet moments with Spamton throughout the game. But why?

Maybe it's to show the parallels of Spamton to Kris. Kris is also unsettled by Spamton, especially seen after the fight, when they yell that they're not OK (if that option is picked.) Spamton may have painted a picture to Kris that there's no way out of being puppeted forever. (He talks about not being [Big] enough and that makes new goofy theories spring up in my head which i'll spare you guys from.) Kris is pretty annoyed by us, the players, already, and they DO have times where they just sever our connection to them through the SOUL, but these periods of time are brief. Spamton crushed the hopes that Kris may have had of completely regaining control.

But why show the parallels to US? What do we do, rewrite the game to make things go better for Spamton and Kris? Honestly, there's no way of knowing until at least chapters 3-5 come out. I need more LORE...... more TINY CHUNKS OF PLOT....... more FUNEE CHARACTERS......... to think about and tie back to this.

That's pretty much all I had to say, to be honest. I had a lot more ideas about this in the shower, but they don't make much sense to me now. PLEASE tell me what you guys think because there are probably a lot of pieces i didn't connect that well, and things i would've got wrong. I don't know where I thought I was going with this. Just putting my thoughts here so I can look back when the rest of the chapters come out and laugh.

TL;DR: Spamton's presented as being unsettling because he has pretty similar toils to Kris, who is also probably unsettled by him.

Thanks for reading!

[ocarinarevised]

Blighted Beginnings - 3

"Hey! Look at that, color! But it looks a little off... and there's still dithering? This wasn't how you colored the cover! What is the meaning of this!" Yeah, I meant to have pages like this since I figured out the dithering.

I've taken the base greyscale panel and colored it! I call this "pseudo-color" because it is in color, but the image it's made from is still black and white. I've done this because I wanna keep the visuals of the comic limited to four shades for stylistic reasons, but there are situations where color is important or visually interesting enough to warrant it, even in this black-and-white comic. This is one where the color is important. What ever could it mean? We'll find out later I suppose.

Now for the details of the comic itself... GODS! I'm gonna start with the story. So I've actually written a good portion of the first chapter before I let myself start drawing for the comic so that I won't run into any stray plot details that I only notice while inking. (i've heard that becomes a problem at a certain point)

Well I've already hit the first snag. The detail actually has to do with the... color? DAMMIT! I said I was moving on from that... Anyway, for reasons that I'm not gonna get into right now due to the specter of OUT OF CHAPTER SPOILERS, the flash in the last panel had to be changed to blue from green... It might not seem a huge detail, but trust me, it is.

I do like "KRAK-A-THOOM!" as a sound effect for very loud thunder... I don't know where I got it from, but I know I did get it from somewhere... Maybe it was egs? It was probably egs... I'm gonna read egs after posting this! Thanks for that wonderful idea, reader.

[somegurl8]

Spoilers for this campaign I’m in called In Charm’s Way (this only applies to my one friend who’s in the game and doesn’t know this info, you know who you are so please don’t look)

Had some time to finish my design/doodles for what my changeling bard Casi really looks like plus add their real name, so meet Six

Couldn’t show it here since it’s all pencil but his eyes are actually meant to be completely multi colored sclera and all because of Feywilds stuff, besides that his design is mainly greyscale.

As for the reason why she goes by “Casi” instead of “Six” is because the former is a stage name and she was only named Six because she’s the sixth child of seven

[meandmyechoes]

Kingohger ep15

starting this one early coz ritamoru ig live after this

eh we still don't get a film preview yet

i'm so nervous lol

from the preview images it looks like the team will split in two with the Colours rescuing Suzume and the Greyscales on negotiations

even their fortune stick is bee theme

woah the expressions change!!

guess i shouldn't be surprised by Kuroda dropping in to hand him his phone but this does nothing to clear up that fanart of Kaguragi making a "old man squint at phone" face when Yanma tried to teach him how to use a smartphone

Kaguragi ringtone !

you kings like to talk hand free so much lol

WAIT that's a video call Racles can't use smartphones booooooo

ehh throne shot?! (bet it's before they got dragged into whatever the colours are up to)

lol Jeremy in takuan land

Shutup prima you know how hard your sausages are to find

Soy rice ah soy rice ah Kagu 😏

"his only sister"… so no more dybowskii siblings :(((((

he overthrew the last king because he was taking all the food for himself?????! 🤩

YOOOOOOO practically going as everyone thought

is Rita a screenshot again

sickling! I was right... or am I?

(waiting for "2m Suzume" if even tv asahi made fun of it)

alright i get it Gira is basically living with Yanma for now huh

Jeremy outright told them!! Good boy!!

BETROTHED BETHROTHED BETROTHED!!

Yanma 'translating' Gira's evil plans 👌 one of us Himeno

"let's steal the bride!!!" Gira… (tired kogane voice)

Rita's here to provide illegal advice 👌

I feel like Rita would gladly ignore their illegal activities if they hadn't heard anything but they DID and it's WRONG to lie so now they have to be there to hold the brain cell

i'm so here for Suzume outplotting those two

one second makeup on

omg

(sound of Tools and Farming Tools shattering)

okay 16 rita is rising if Suzume is not leaving

PLS give us more political intrigue 🙏

ah Her Majesty's new earrings

Gorokke nei dou yau gum yat lah 😏

(rewind) hmm Suzume's performance really has that naivete… makes speculating her age even harder

I'm so here for Kaugracles fic after this developlment

or see how canon goes if Racles was 竹馬 with Betaria

Kaguragi's speech and determined look… So-san's acting 🙇

Gira making sentai history again transforming fetal position

yeah 16 is definitely Rita + team esp. director changes at 17

King Kong reference?

Moffun Ep 2 TODAY??!??

ugh heartbreaks at Kaguragia's face

YES HIMESAMA PLEASE KICK RACLES' ASS thank you for sticking to the Suzume hachi motif of taking over others' territory!

禍國殃民嘅女人…ありがたい…

<LIVEBLOG SIGNAL LOST>

production notes: Director purposefully look for designs from students + wait five weeks for Gokkan lah (more later)

cast blog: ahh a wild yuzuki appears! Team Wings... my team wings...

+ Morphonia is a pro in helping me close the zipper before filming. Somehow that's not easy so thank you for always helping!

Ritamoru real

SPOILER

Gokkan had a royal family???!!? Everything Rita is RITA and not GOKKAN KING??!!（😍😍）Morphonia is the last princess!! Rita as Morphonia's Knight😭😭 Ritahime next ep Himeno bringing Rita a Moffun gift😭😭 Ritamoru Ritahime can be so real

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tangent: seeing the Tools actually broke Toei's servers trying to order Racles's acrylic stand, very admirable

[eiseryn]

Pieces of Her Heart

Lei has three people who are the most important to her: Her three friends, Ceres, Elise, and Vail. She doesn't believe in unconditional love, not knowing that she unconditionally loves her friends. So unknowingly, she has given them all pieces of her heart. So throughout the campaign, it has been difficult for her as the events of the campaign has made her doubt and distrust her friends. But I believe that at the end, if she lives, she'll continue to view them as her friends. After all, her friends are why she's risking her life to go on a suicide mission which hopefully will succeed and thus save the city (I hope?)

There's a lot of symbolism in this piece! Details I'm particularly proud of include the greyscale stripes as the wallpaper/background, which resemble prison bars. Are her feelings toward her friends Furthermore, the circular "spotlight" that shines in the image and focusses on Lei might also resemble what you see through a rifle/gun scope (cuz uh she's almost been killed a few times). The intricate parts of the mirror portraits are from a tool on CSP! But ofc did the shading myself. Vail and Ceres are smiling softly because they haven't done "betrayals" as Elise did. So Elise's portrait, which is facing away from Lei (because SPOILER: she sedated Lei in the neck when Lei turned away from her LOL) and cracked (showing the fractured trust). This is why Elise's expression in her portrait is also rather sad and downcast.

Vail and Ceres are smiling in their portraits because Lei has decided to trust her after the events that caused her to mistrust them are partially resolved (It's complicated). In these portraits, since they are supposed to represent the pieces of Lei's heart, she imagines them in their best state and she loves to see her friends smiling. She wants to protect their smiles, Ceres', especially, because Ceres is a light in this dark, dark world, that Lei desperately wants to make sure doesn't get extinguished. As for Vail? His talk about dreams makes Lei feel like she might also be allowed to dream and hope for better things for herself, even in such a harsh and unforgiving world.

She loves her friends so much 🥺🥺🥺 I love her so much.

And if we want to talk about Lei herself, her expression is a quite empty (because of all the things she's had to experience) and the light is again, gone from her eyes... She's a very quiet crier (because she's been scolded for making too much noise from her mother) so she's used to having tears stream down her face, silently... If only someone could comfort her 🥺🥺🥺

BONUS: The image without all the dramatic lighting. I had to render it to this point, after all.

[loxare]

Today I have wonton soup and perogies.

Why specifically battery operated? Feels vaguely Pratchett-y, but in reverse (you don't really need much to summon Death himself, just a bit of mouse blood and a stick, but the pageantry makes the summoner feel better)

A don't tell them that you knew Jane Austen was behind the 1810 diamond robbery as if that wasn't fresh news to you just a few days ago

Side note, I don't remember if I mentioned this last time and I want to eat soup and watch drama, not read thoughts from last time but anyways. Hoping Nina and Maggie don't actually end up together. Not as like, oh they'll never be together, but like. They could end up together. Maybe. Possibly. But for right now Nina especially needs some single time and that's ok. Anyways back to Shax

C stands out so much and I am living for it. It's not just that he's a dark spot on an incredibly white background (ow my eyes), but also he hasn't stopped moving, and heaven is usually so still. Angels move to their places, and then stay there. He's just going and going and going, so many unnecessary movements. He compared the angels to bees but he's the one buzzing

AND HIS OUTFIT IS OFF WHITE AND SHINY. I love that too. Back in the first season, A went to heaven and his suit was blindingly white, as opposed to the nice cream he usually has, so I like that he gets to keep this spot of grey

See, this is the kind of bonding I wish we could have seen from Maggie and Nina earlier. Also, go Maggie 🖕🖕 those demons. That's a whole mood

Shax is voicing a few anxiety thoughts Maggie has had but not all of them and clearly none of the most potent

Oh. Oh no. That counts as permission. Oh dear

I like how the lighting gets less warm bookshop and more creepy horror movie greyscale as the demons come in, but the warm bookshop lighting is still very visible

That poor rabbit ear hair demon keeps getting vapourized. At least he didn't get hit by the Metatron? I feel like that would hurt more

Ugh, I hate Muriel's office. Open plan nightmare while still somehow being incredibly isolating

Heaven didn't delete C's account after he fell aksjdhaia

Armageddon Take 2 gets a solid Nah from Gabriel, so that's good. Love having continued existence

Demons vs fire extinguishers. Exiltingiushers: 5, demons: 0

Yeah, this does seem out of character for Gabriel, I say as if I haven't quickly scrolled past and yet still kinda read the spoilers all you gremlins put on here. He was very Pro-Armageddon last season

Why yes, he is C's emotional support angel, just like C is his emotional support demon. They support each other, that's the point. Although they could do better on the emotional support. Maybe have a Conversation or six

So C was an entire prince of heaven? Dang, good on him. But yes, there is some sort of institutional problem, where asking questions and not killing billions of people gets you cast out

C is so supportive of Muriel. But then again, they do give off that wet puppy vibe where they say things that are so sad that you can't help but try and buck them up. Anyways, erasing memories isn't a kindness

Oh hey, there's the box.

Poor A. His books are so abused. First fire. Now demon skulls

Ah, and that's why his box was empty

Is that a halo?

Oh it is

Poor rabbit demon

Ok so everyone got discorporated. Except Shax. Who is asleep on the couch. What makes Shax different?

This feels like the set up to a joke. Three arch angels, a scrivener and a demon walk into an elevator

And how did these demons get in here? They weren't invited! Do Dukes of Hell get special passes, because I'm pretty sure the arch angels were all invited in the first time

Oh, so that's why the fly

The immortal fly who Jim has tried to crush several times

Does he have to eat it?

OH THIS IS WORSE THAN EATING IT

Gabriel doing a swearing again

Are they. Speedrunning A&C's 6000 years? This is absolutely The Arrangement

Oh no, angels don't have music? Like, they have the Choirs of Heaven, but they don't have just. Regular tunes? Sad

NO NEED AT ALL. They say, right before meeting again. Also, Gabriel. Get better hobbies

Is Gabriel getting tempted by human foods?

Ok so Gabriel can turn every record to Every Day manually, but for Crowley in the Bentley it's just automatically Queen's Greatest Hits.

I love that they have a Song

Ok here's the first lesson in gift receiving. "Thank you." You have a lot to learn, but you're doing ok so far

Is that Furfur by the way or are there two demons with similar hairstyles? If that is him, once again, how did he get in here?

Oh wait, maybe the embassy status of the bookshop was revoked when A declared Halo Wars

HE FIGURED OUT THANK YOU

Awww, they are absolutely speedrunning the A&C relationship

Neither of them slept, so they're going to need that coffee

Oh good, the guy is ok. That's lovely to see

Oh good they're doing actual bonding. Again,n I don't want Nina and Maggie together this season, but this is good set up for next season

C is loving A yelling at all those angels and demons like they're kindergarten students. And so am I

Awwwww. Also, Gabriel, don't know what you're talking about because that sweater is amazing and I want it

"How badly understaffed hell is" said the grand duke of hell to the demon whose legion consisted of 70 demons

I am very interested in this old man with the oat milk latte. Who is he. Does he want to ask for death? Is he going to ask for it next?

Oh wait he's the Metatron. That's why I recognized him. Never mind

I've never seen him with a neck before

Saraquel recognized him immediately. Probably because of the trial recording. Also, does he come down to Earth a lot? He knows how to order a coffee and that's more than I can say for basically every other angel ever, so

Poor Muriel. They're having a rough day

He knows how slang works too

I DO NOT CARE for that look that Metatron gave C

Muriel you didn't even drink the cuppertea, how are you going to do the alcohol

WHAT BOOK IS THAT

Aw, C is helping tidy up after the party

Yes Nina! These are all things I've been saying for episodes now! Also, awww, angel nickname

And more that I've been saying for episodes! They never communicate!! I love these humans. Sometimes you just need an honest conversation

Ok whatever this news is that I've only been partially spoiled on is definitely going to delay their actual heart to heart

The Crow Road by Iain Banks. Hm, never read it. I like the cover though

Metatron is too close to them. Stop looming

Oh, glasses off

NO. DON'T HOLD THE THOUGHT! A! He just! Told! You! That if he doesn't start talking now he's never going to talk and now you're steam rolling over him with things! He was so ready for an honest conversation!!!

Is A a leader? I don't think so because he's spent the last 6000 years avoiding the entire heavenly host and also being an individual. He also does tell people what they want to hear, as the whole Job fiasco showed us, because he didn't actually tell the angels they were wrong, he just tricked them with something they thought was right. I think Metatron is angry at A about the Armageddon thing, is what I'm saying, and doing a Revengeance

Like, these """projects""", if they're anything like the Armageddon project, aren't anything that A would be interested in running! Armageddon Take 2 is still on the table! Gabriel Nah'd it, but Metatron still wants it to happen! A, remember all the things you like about Earth!

Exactly, you don't want to go back to heaven!

You can work with him! Here on Earth!

Oh no. Does C even want that?

Ok so. This is the same system that kicked him out for asking questions. And punted him into Hell, where horrible things have been done to him presumably. Saraquel said that giving Gabriel to Hell as punishment was a possibility. But now he's relatively free and wandering about and looking forward to a nice retirement with his angel and then this? Heaven isn't a reward for him

A really needs to actually Look at heaven. And C needs to tell him about what happened with the hellfire. Because heaven are not the good guys. A should know that from when Metatron said that he does want Armageddon to happen, actually

Technically he didn't say no. He said he'd think about it. There's still time for a no

OH GOOD HE'S STILL SAYING THINGS

Starting off with some understatements. Getting into some really good honesty. Power through this C, I believe in you.

Oh this is getting painful. I'm out of soup and perogies so I'm going to pause and get some ice cream. Ugh, even when they're communicating they can't communicate! I want to tie them to chairs and shove them in a closet until they say everything they're thinking! Anyways, ice cream

"Nothing lasts forever" "I love the bookshop but it's already burned down once and time will eventually claim it. But if I do this thing, I can make a difference in heaven and make things better for everyone"

"No, I don't suppose it does" "Clearly you think our relationship is temporal and significantly less important than this new job that you'll hate anyways. Is that all it took? A promise of power?"

I may be reaching here

Oh glasses are back on

He's definitely hearing "we can only be together if we're both angels" instead of "this position is only good if you're there by my side, restored to the glory I first saw you in"

THERE'S A LOT MORE TO SAY. SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

Ouch

C calling A an idiot, a word he used to describe angels and demons and people who weren't Us

Ouch. One ace tries to copy what he's seen allos do, have the kiss, convince A of his feelings, but the other ace is just hurt by this, this physical imposition of something he may have wanted but not in this context

Metatron You Dick

NO. NO! You do not get to mock the questions! No!

Loving the trend of angels spending time on Earth and learning from it. A, Gabriel, Muriel. Metatron clearly learned how to be a bastard, the bastard

The same Second Coming. That leads to Rapture. The thing that also. Kills all the humans. That one?

Well he needs to stop that now doesn't he

Poor C. All sad and alonely. Just him and the Bentley

Which isn't playing Queen. The Bentley misses A. TAT

Ok so fuck these credits. A is clearly trying not to cry. C is smad. The music is melancholy. I don't need this

Long elevator

And now they're blurred as of looking at them through tears YOU AREN'T SUBTLE GAIMAN

AAAAGGGGHHHHHHH

Ok so thoughts! I still don't know what the point of the nazi zombie episode was! Was it just to show how much they trust each other? Did they actually not trust each other until almost 6000 years into their acquaintance? What? Ugh, I have to wait until next season to find out what the the nazi zombies deal is aren't I? Has A&C just. Left a trio of nazi zombies to run around london, eating people?

We thought the "two thirds of the way through the story break up" was bad in season 1, but this one takes the cake. Painful! Very painful! Especially since they were just about to actually communicate!! Well, C was. Well. He tried. He did ok for a first attempt

I hope A gets to retire soon.

I wonder who's going to play Jesus?

Good omens 2 ep 1 thots under the cut!

CROWLEY LOOKS!!! SO HAPPY!!!!!! MAKING HIS NEBULA!!!!!!!!! I'm so sad he got the wind taken out of his sails. And I know exactly how much trouble he got in just for asking a few questions. Theory: God is omniscient, and as such knew Crowley needed to be a demon to save the Earth. It sucks, but it's growth for both him and Aziraphale, who needed to learn to duck around the rules, and growth tends to hurt. I'm just sad Crowley got hit that hard

Aziraphale only valid landlord???

Crowley ornithologist?????

Wait, why is the mail getting delivered to the Bentley rather than Crowley's apartment? What happened to his plants? Is he just never in his apartment so it's better to deliver to the car?

Record shop coffee shop ff slow burn

John Hamm's john & hamms are on display

This is unrelated to GO but I made wonton soup to eat while watching this and it is very good. Mmmm

Those poor tomatoes

Aziraphale's music interrupted by nudity and amnesia

Oh god heaven still hurts my eye holes. So shiny

No one tell naked amnesiac Gabriel about the existence of twins

Someone get him some pants. Aziraphale please get him some pants not just a blanket. What if he stands up?

Trailer ship bait line is a good line. Aziraphale thinks of Crowley and goes all soft

"The thing" is probably the box that was doing a lot of heavy lifting to keep this show PG, that was also dropped when the door opened and left in the street. Someone should probably go pick that up before someone else takes it

Ah. Good, it's still there

Oh her name is Shax. Neat! I love Crowley's hair swirlies. The ones on top. They're nice

Gabriel's Jim's terrible short term memory will absolutely be remembering Gabriel and not retaining anything else

The reaction to a bit of litter in heaven is killing me

So Crowley is one of those coffee drinkers. Also, if I were the record shop lady, I'd bake Aziraphale a thank you cake

Getting tired of writing out all the names, sk they're just A and C now

Oh no, the coffee shop lady is taken. Poor record shop lady

Blanket toga is not a substitute for clothes

I thought "ask him properly" would lead to some magic angel stuff, not asking more aggressively

ARGUMENTS. I feel like A is playing on the time last season when C left, saying he was going to go to another galaxy (Andromeda?) and then ended up regretting that. To clarify, I'm currently paused so I haven't heard C's response yet so this entire paragraph could become moot

I feel like C's going through some stuff that he hasn't told A about

Man drinks six shots of espresso, spontaneously combusts, gets struck by lightning

The relationship and circumstances around these two shop keepers is so fanfiction. If they don't get together, I hope they can spend the time trapped in this coffee shop bonding and becoming besties. Also, there should be a manual override for the security system. Not having one is stupid, because of things like this. What if they were trapped in the record shop instead, and there was no readily available food? An internal manual override is crucial

I like Micheal's sleeve cuffs

Ooo, disabled angel!

Muriel I hope you get some confidence. And also I want your skirt

Small bit of litter confuses and confounds angels

Oh, wonder why Beelzebub got recast. (Don't go out of your way to look it up I don't care enough to check myself and definitely not enough to inconvenience someone else)

So. The conflict here is that C could give up Jim, get a promotion and that's a problem taken off his hands, but A would be mad at him. Or, he could do not that and risk both him and A getting erased from existence entirely, which will uh, make it so the apocalypse last season did not get stopped. Oh boy

Oh this coffee shop lady does not care for records. At all

Crowley "my bad" actually made me die laughing so that was excellent and also my ghost is now typing this

Oh I do not care for the tone of Lindsay's texts. At all. Nina you deserve better. I do like the format of the texts coming up though. The paper and red pen makes it seem a lot more personal and angry and uh. Not good.

One of those said "remember what we said about mutual respect" and blowing up your partner's phone angrily because they're late isn't respect, which is necessary in the "mutual" bit of mutual respect. I would personally be concerned that something had happened. Maybe walk down and see if they're alright. Assume that their phone had died maybe, idk

A: glasses on. C: glasses off

"You were right" does not contain the word sorry and oh good, A knows that. Oh there's a dance? 👀

Why. Why do they do that. This is hilarious, but I feel like it makes it more difficult to apologize for things if there's a humiliating dance involved. Which also still doesn't contain the word sorry

Jim go back upstairs. Also, why does he still not have clothes?

See, in the trailer, Muriel didn't recognize Gabriel, and I thought that was just because they've never met. Interesting to see that, no, there's an active reason for that

Being persona non grata with heaven means A isn't allowed to do miracles anymore? Or just that the miracles he does are more heavily scrutinized?

Ah, the old "immediate proof that the last thing said was completely wrong" trope. Also, weird seeing heaven with a red filter

Ah. Bit of warning for people sensitive to flashing lights. I don't think this flashes fast enough, it's a hard cut between red filtered heaven and white heaven, with a second or two between each cut. But like. Go carefully. It only lasts for a bit and there aren't too many interesting visuals during it. Right after C says "no one will have noticed a thing", stops when Uriel asks for the alarm to stop

Oh A. Can't stay out of trouble to save his life

All in all, I liked it a lot! I'm looking forward to the hijinks A&C get into, I really want to know why C's mood is so foul rn when he was generally cheery at the end of last season, or as cheery as he gets, wondering about all the empty boxes. One empty box is fine, but two? Suspicious. Hoping Nina dumps Lindsay, has a nice long recovery period where she can enjoy being herself, and then gets together with record shop lady, whose name I will remember sometime probably. But I'm out of soup, out of tea, and out of excuses to not pull nails from my wall, so I'm gonna go do that now

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Criminal Minds | 15x05 | Ghost | Matt Simmons

I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy