#normalized terror

[the-holy-ghosted]

Girls will say "this is my beautiful wife" and their beautiful wife is just a weird looking man

[rosieofcorona]

This Place Wants Us Dead (2024)

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[azfellandco]

It's about Crowley bearing witness to Aziraphale's desire, about the way that desire is animal and visceral and enormous and terrifying*. And about how Crowley sees that and wants it. Crowley offers the ox rib and watches Aziraphale eat because eating provides them no sustenance, it's purely for pleasure, sensual, selfish. And Crowley introduces Aziraphale to this, and thousands of years later still takes obvious pleasure in feeding Aziraphale, in watching him eat. In watching Aziraphale's pleasure.

And I think it's significant the things we see Crowley put into his body in s2, and why: six shots of espresso, as something bracing before seeing what it is that made Aziraphale call him in his "something's wrong" tone; whiskey, because he has to give Aziraphale some bad news; wine, because they "might as well get comfortable" during the storm coming down on Job, after Aziraphale learns that Crowley is actually pretty unhappy with Job's suffering; and poison, to dispose of it so Elspeth (or Wee Morag, I've fogotten which is which) doesn't die. Crowley doesn't take Aziraphale's "something that calms you down", only consumes things that not only don't bring him pleasure but are an attempt to prevent pain. Crowley, who introduced Aziraphale to this important physical, sensual, selfish pleasure, denies it to himself. He denies himself the eccles cakes, he denies himself partaking in food, and he denies himself Aziraphale.

And we see throughout the rest of the season other things he's denying himself: the comfort and safety of a home in the bookshop in favor of the mobility and ready-made escape of living in the Bentley, the surety of saying what he really means during the confession. He cannot bring himself to admit what he wants, that he wants. Gabriel and Beelzebub "going off together" is not what he wants. He wants Aziraphale, but he doesn't say that, because he's never, in the years and years and years we've seen this season, let himself want or be seen wanting. "Going off together" is as close as he can get to speaking it. "A group of the two of us" is as close as he can get. So he has to watch as Aziraphale leaves and takes his pleasure in the world with him.

[radetzkymarch]

Tumblr fans of doomed polar expeditions be like, “my man my blorbo my love my princess” and show you a picture of a single gnawed-up human bone

[bondagebimbo]

wake up babes here’s some boobs to start ur day off right <3

[clowndensation]

pov you're roman roy, and you have a body that has reactions you can't control, and those reactions are pathetic and freakish and prove just how much you've gotten it wrong. you can't laugh, you can't talk, you can't even cry at your father's funeral without everyone seeing what a failure made flesh you are.

[seldompathic]

Too much fear in familiar blue eyes for his liking :((

[boatswainer]

[avotuli]

this isnt about nightmares or fear, this is about love

[deadrlngers]

James Fitzjames + Caravaggio's Entombment, David with the Head of Goliath, Penitent Magdalene, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Death of the Virgin, Bacchus

[suddenly-frankenstein]

and then they've never seen each other again

[calciumdreams]

aghh, them < 333

[starringvincentprice]

[annecoulmanross]

So I think I'm back for real this time, and it's because we somehow live in a world where there's a SHIPWRECK CANNIBALISM MUSICAL ON BROADWAY?!?! Which I had the deep delight of seeing recently.

If you enjoyed The Terror (2018) you will LOVE Swept Away: A New Musical Tale, I swear.

What can I do to consume this cannibalism musical?

Learn more about the production here! Or read this excellent Vogue article.

If you live in or near New York City, you’re in luck! The show is currently in previews, about to open for real later this month.

If alas New York City is not in your future, you can still listen to the original recordings of the musical's songs here and the new official recordings of three select songs here. You can also join me in begging for a full Broadway Cast Recording!

[futuristicdoormats789]

(staring into mirror) today i will not be thinking about crozier wearing one of fitzjames's gloves after he is gone. today i will not think about how crozier does not let go of fitzjames's hand once in his final moments, only to coax what will take him away down his throat. i will not think about the pain of fitzjames's request, to ask crozier to guide him somewhere the other man cannot go. today i will not think about how they do not look away from one another. today i will not think about crozier's soft 'its alright' when fitzjames explains why he cannot haul because it is alright. because they have time. they have time.

[sicktwistedlimpwristed]

astronomical levels of Victorian doll energy here he looks like something I'd buy at the antique store