#in my head Eden is like

[nopecho]

Eden hot and sweaty from chopping wood?

YOU SIR RIGHT THERE.

I would love to cook again with you chef

[peaches-and-scr3ams]

this is actually just what happened to me on the release day

[luckyemi]

Silly little sketchy comic based on the little interaction I had with my friend during this splatfest, but only so much could've been said with limited capability , so this is a little message to everyone as well

[kacievvbbbb]

Honestly with the workload these kids be getting, what they are studying in school and just generally how they are treated. You really forget these kids are like 6 years old.

Anya is the only one that consistently acts her age and so she sometimes comes off as immature which is insane when you think about it they are all literally 6. This also works cause we can assume she is a year or 2 younger than the rest of her grade, still, even then it’s insane.

Which is why when the other kids actually start to show their age usually in situations of great emotion, the bus hijacking for one. Or even when the kids think one of them is going to have to leave because his family is now poor and they all rally around this kid they never even really spoke to, or when they literally think that some macaroons will make them smarter and help them pass the test. Or when they simply want to play outside.

it’s so jarring and you’re left being like oh right they're six, this isn’t normal. Six-year-olds shouldn't be put under this kind of pressure.

It's another neat little insight into just what kind of society these kids are living in. And a little bit of irony that Loid who wants to create a society where little kids don't have to cry anymore is on a mission that requires the infiltration of a school where little kids can't even be ones.

[freetobeafcknriot]

╰┈ ‘‘You murdered OUR BROTHER—!’’

ft. Allison & Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, season two episode four (2024).

[shima-draws]

Recently just binge rewatched all of Spy X Family and UGHHH Damianya. God Damianya

[heartorbit]

first artfight attack for ~xxri @xxri of her pjsk ocs! 💐

[borreall]

I listened too much to Lady Gaga now I made a doodle of Jayce and Viktor post-canon, you're welcome

[hakusins]

cw // scars

was minding my business and realized the reason why my pc likes eden so much HBREFBHJERF

my pc's reaction to this discovery:

[jeanmrow]

the monsters going to the club but instead of the GS or maserati it’s a clown car and nothing is different

[yukikinda]

Isabeau feeling like he killed his old self with his bare hands, to feel like he could be the type of person he needed to know back then vs Loop having wished for someone to understand them only to try and ACTUALLY kill their "past" self, I don't know if this is an actually parallel that can be drawn but !!!!!!!!

[the-ave]

I was drawing sleepyronpa stuff

and then I thought “I wonder what an Eden’s garden character would look like in pjs?” And then I chose one of my faves.

[slimynematode]

THE ELECTRONIC YET PALEOLITHIC GARDEN OF EDEN BEARING FRUIT UNTOUCHED BY OVERGROWN MEGAFAUNA OF FUTURES PAST

[quoththemaiden]

Aziraphale: The Sword that Guards the Tree of Life

Looking where the furniture isn't

This post is dedicated to @meatballlady's excellent insistence that if we want to try to predict where season 3 will go, we need to look at where the furniture isn't. That is, what must have been there but wasn't shown?

For this one, my source material is going to be Genesis. That is, in no small part, because it does in fact fuck severely that Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett took the angel with the flaming sword and the serpent of Eden and made them kiss (@joycrispy, @ouidamforeman). It's also because Genesis, quite simply, exists, and it seems safe to assume that most everyone in Gaiman and Pratchett's intended audience has been exposed to at least its first few chapters dozens of times.

What does Genesis tell us about Aziraphale's purpose?

3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—  23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.  24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

@joycrispy's analysis above highlights Aziraphale's role as given in the last verse: as the angel chosen to wield the flaming sword, he was sent down after Adam and Eve were expelled to prevent them from returning. Instead, he chose to protect them by giving that sword away. His desire to protect humanity is indeed beautiful (@give-soup-please, @snek-eyes).

But wait, what came right before that? "And take fruit also from the tree of life...?"

2:9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

That's right: What we see in the show is that Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden so that they'd have to deal with the rain and the animals and have to work for their food, but that was never the primary motivation. God planted two special trees, and after Eve and Adam ate from one of them, God was terrified at the prospect of them turning around and eating from the other. And thus, the Garden of Eden was made off-limits and set to be permanently guarded by an angel with a flaming sword.

So, the flaming sword.

Twice now, Aziraphale's sword has helped humanity survive complete and total destruction (@nottobehornyonthemain). The first time, he handed the sword to the first two humans, which protected not just them but the entirety of the human race via Adam and very pregnant Eve.

The second time, he let it be wielded by The Them, who used it to best the Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse and save the billions of humans already alive as well as unborn generations.

Perhaps the flaming sword was only intended as a plot point in the first season. However, if its purpose were completed, it could have easily been destroyed. As a narrative piece, it could have broken dramatically at the end of the face-off against the Four Horsepeople. Or, Watsonianly, God could have chosen to break it Herself; after all, it was already used against its intended purpose twice, so why let it keep existing?

Instead, it's carefully taken away to... where? Heaven?

The place Aziraphale is now going?

Or at least a place where he could likely find a record showing where it's being stored?

Whether you call it "rule of threes" or "Chekhov's gun," I think it likely that Aziraphale will be getting his sword back in season 3. He probably doesn't want it (@createserenity, @ineffableigh, @doctorscienceknowsfandom), but he'll need it.

The question, then, is what would Aziraphale do with the flaming sword he was given to prevent humans from reaching the tree of life?

If we're looking at where the furniture isn't, the biggest stretch of an interpretation would be to say that the missing furniture is the tree of life. If anyone knows where Eden is, it would be Aziraphale, Guardian of the Eastern Gate. We know that both Heaven and Hell want to end humanity. The opening credits have humanity walking to their judgment after their deaths; what better way to prevent that than by preventing those deaths?

The most intense version of this theory says that the audience should be familiar with the story of the Garden of Eden and know damn well that there are two special trees there and that Aziraphale was put in place to guard the second one — the one humanity hasn't eaten from yet, the one that grants immortal life. That's where, if I were truly trying to swing for the hills by aiming at where the furniture isn't, I would ideally like to end this post. If that were the case, season 3 could even open with Aziraphale walking towards the Garden of Eden, sword in hand, but this time approaching it from the outside with the intention of tearing the wall down.

But, let's be honest, making individual people immortal doesn't feel like it would fit with the themes of Good Omens, nor with Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett's world views.

So, let's take the tree of life symbolically: Instead of the tree of life granting individual humans immortality, it could instead represent giving humanity immortality. In that case, the thing that's where the furniture isn't is Aziraphale's sword. You know, the sword that's already saved the human race from extinction twice now, with both times being because Aziraphale gave it away.

I suspect that the sword will wind up in Aziraphale's hands again in season 3. I also quite suspect that it won't be staying there. In the end, I expect it will once again be up to humanity to reach out their hand to take the apple from that second tree.

[politemagic]

THE GOLD ACCENTS NOBODY LOOK AT ME HE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL

(via Facebook page)

[momentomori24]

If you could give Wolfgang new sprites, what kind of poses/expressions would you give him?

I shouldn't be allowed on the art team cuz I would immediately abuse my power to get this made into a sprite XD God we were ROBBED only having this be in one CG XD Wolfgang hitting the Etto Bleh my beloved

If there's other little poses he makes that I'd like made into sprites, it's definitely these ones!

For the first one: Wolfgang remains relatively cool and phlegmatic throughout the game, even during his more expressive sprites. I'd have really loved to see this pose of him more often cuz a) it's really cute and b) it'd a different take from his other flustered/nervous sprites. We didn't get enough have enough of those. I can imagine this one being used when he politely tries to reject a present he doesn't like.

For the second one: Look, he's hot. That's it. I just wanna see it more. If there has to be another reason to justify making it a sprite besides my simping, if there was a flashback scene between him and Grace in their little roomie situationship I'd like to see them in their casual get up. And if that would be a thing, I want his poses to be distinctly different from his usual ones. I want him to be more informal in a way he isn't around the group. Rather than he hands behind his back, I want him one resting on his hip or in his pocket. I want a sprite where he leans into his palm as he rubs his neck. I want his hair to be a bit mused. I want him to be more languorous and easy-going.

There's some other sprite ideas tumbling in my head for him, however, I feel like I'll just decide to draw them out at some point rather than clumsily try to describe them (I might use the examples I mentioned as references too). Thanks for giving me the idea, Anon!