#nocturnals maggie

[sinbolical]

this totally happened no one can change my mind

[ditzyevie]

Pocky day!!

[doodly-af]

The Nocturnals gang are all here

[nocturnals-tunnel]

Ted : I just ended a four year relationship.

Diego : Oh, I’m so sorry. Are you okay?

Ted : Hm? Oh yeah, I’m fine. It wasn’t my relationship.

*Mia and Maggie fighting from across the room*

[luneraclipse]

I don't see any Fan art of these two 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[nocturnaldancers]

I made a nocturnals oc :D her name is stella (provisional). I head canon that she was the one who taught ted how to drive lol

Extra doodles I made for the discord

[izzyatchi]

i kept screwjng up ness so you can have lucas and paula instead !!! I’ve replaced Mia with Paula because i think it really suits her, especially with mia having tried to have been a leader and make everyone happy..definitely can see paula doing the same for her friends, family — everyone.

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 3

Book summaries below:

The Raven Cycle series (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily Lily Blue, The Raven King) by Maggie Stiefvater

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

Fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, series, young adult

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion.

But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.

Classics, horror, gothic, 1870s, novella, adult

[songbird-of-eden]

A CLUE?! The Missing Death Theory

Good Omens S2 SPOILERS below!!!

Okay, it has been the nocturnal habit of mine over the last 3 days to suddenly dwell on the Good Omens finale and scrutinise every detail in a sleep-deprived thought soup.

And apparently, tonight, my last two remaining braincells fired up their little engines and decided to put something rather interesting together.

One thing that got me when I watched the finale was the book that Muriel was reading. "The Crow Road."

So I decided to give it a quick Google, and realised the opening line of the book is one that Gabriel, or Jim, stumbled across earlier in the season. It goes like this:

"It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."

Now, you may be thinking, okay, but what does this have to do with anything? And you would be right to be confused, but hear me out.

Death has a major, reoccurring influence in S2.

Yes, we have the obvious coffee shop "give me coffee or give me death" reference (this has a major point that I will get to a little later, but please, bear with me). But that is not the only one.

Throughout each episode, Death has been raised and eluded by numerous characters. In ep2, Jobe's family were saved by our ineffable duo. In ep3, we have the incident with the graverobber and stopping her from calling it a day. In ep4, we have the rise of the nazi zombies. In ep5, our unfortunate fellow from the ball gets thrown to the demons and appears to die, only to make a reappearance later on in ep6, albiet looking a little nibbled on.

And then there's the fact that miracles, as Crowley points out, are measured in "the power required to raise people from the dead."

Still with me? Okay good. Because its gonna get a little more crazy from here. Time to break out the funky tinfoil hats.

So, yes, many of the characters seemingly ellude death, right? Not a big point at first glance, considering the upbeat nature of the show... until you consider this.

Whilst in the coffee shop, the Metatron asks whether anyone ever chooses death instead of coffee. A weird line to be sure - perhaps an awkward statement of an angel unsure of how to interact with mortals. Totally plausible, right? Well, what if it was a test?

Nina claimed to remember everyone by what they order, and replied that no one has ever chosen death. I mean, I would hope so, but what if Death was no longer a thing that happened?

What if our devious Metatron wrote Death out of the Book of Life, considering that Death is a being instead of a simple concept as shown in S1 - and so the Metratron was asking as a test to gauge Nina's response. To figure out if his alteration had taken effect?

Okay, yes. It sounds a little wild, but if that is not the case, it does not mean that something is not going on with Death.

Going back to The Raven Road book, the plot follows a boy in pursuit of uncovering the mystery around his missing uncle. So perhaps, it is not so crazy after all to believe that something, or rather, someone is missing.

Which leads me to another missing creature.

Remember that heartbreaking line from Crowley? "You hear that? No nightingales?"

It was the dagger in many fan's hearts, but potentially held another meaning. Because in the poem: "Ode to a nightingale", the bird is used to represent, to an extent, death. As well as the concept of immortality.

Which means it's disappearance may be signalling a strange shift in the world.

Which brings me to my final point. We are in the home stretch now kiddos!

The second coming. The Metatron's grand plan.

In biblical text, it states that the Second Coming will be a sudden and unmistakable incident, like "a flash of lightning".

Now, where else did we see lightning? Hmmm. What about Crowley's enraged outburst that sealed poor Maggie and Nina in the coffee shop?

Which makes their line an episode or two later even more interesting...

Maggie: "Did it all start with the lightning?"

Crowley: "No, way before that."

Does this mean that events were starting to be influenced and set in motion way earlier as the Metatron began to tinker in the book?

We also have the name of S2 ep1 being called "The Arrival" - a name the Second Coming is sometimes referred to as, along with the text: "For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise."

So, just take a moment to digest that.

An archangel's call. Well, we've had two of those - Gabriel calling on Aziraphale as well as Aziraphale being called to heaven. Then we have the trumpet that plays whenever Micheal and co descend from Heaven, a sound Aziraphale actually asks whether Maggie could hear.

Which leads to the final part: the dead in Christ will rise.

People are not dying as they should, be it from the influence of our ineffable duo, or perhaps, it is the Metatron's plan after all. A way to start the second coming.

Even the opening credits alludes to this with Crowley and Aziraphale seemingly leading a crowd of humans out of hell and through various time periods, but perhaps I really am getting ahead of myself.

So yep. Something is very up with Death.

Anyway. I need to be up in 5 hours for work. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk before the incoherent babbling begins.

[nonagesimus]

big invisible spark | a stephanie brown fanmix

brutal - olivia rodrigo | did it to myself - orla gartland | runaway - yeah yeah yeahs | paris (ooh la la) - grace potter & the nocturnals | until the morning - charlene kaye | interlude: i'm not angry anymore - paramore | alaska - maggie rogers | caught in the middle - paramore | get lucky - halestorm | garden song - phoebe bridgers | watch me while i bloom - hayley williams | boom swagger boom - the murder city devils

cover from the Hicham Habchi variant cover for Batgirls #2

[sinbolical]

i wish i couldve done more but im still gettin used to animatin n stuff 🙌🙏

[ditzyevie]

Alien stage Au sketches

[doodly-af]

Girl, is Ted’s truck you’re asking ✋😒

[nocturnals-tunnel]

Furniture Valley drama

Mia : How do you know what’s good for me?

Maggie : THAT’S MY OPINION!!!

Ted : *speechless*

Diego : *surprised but somehow heard from a distance*

[febuwhump]

congrats to the following creators on completing all 29 prompts of febuwhump by the 29th of february! if you didn't complete febuwhump - congratulations anyway on taking part; you engaged with creativity and you have more at the end of february than you had at the start.

creativeflowers

Circus_Complex

blogger360ncislarules

SnowPoet

HighAsAFlyingFish

Lightning_Zombie

What-the-Whump

Kaz-oooo

StellarCoachman

such-a-random-rambler

NatK

MultiFandom_08

adzeisval

Flick

across-violet-skies

thethistlegirlwrites

MagicalStardust

Crimsonlyinglilly

whumpinthepot

Featherly

goth-automaton

HHeLiBeBCNOF

Marbius

Janetm74fics

kabie-whump

lassielowrider

her_ladyships_soap

Vedis

just-here-with-my-thoughts

jupiter2932

amorista

Honey-Dewey

KyberCrystals94

hurtmyfavsthanks

Bodldops

pipwasreal

rrainydaydreams

uss-genderprise

ABFA

Writer_loves_tropes

Toby Strange

here-be-bec

quiet-nocturne

chrysochroma

Mellia Bee

thewildballyntynesgrow

scratchandplaster

Demonz_Dream

ex0rin

Lamaenthel

Maggie-Atwood

Lies_Unfurl

Writersmorgue

librathefangirl

Autobot2001

Mantis God

Nade

flowers-all-around-me

Michelle

CourtesyTrefflin

waterme-stories

grammar7wannabe

all halls of fame

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