#protected by angels

[aashiquidreams]

Divine protection manifests in different forms, sometimes invisible amidst chaos but clearer once I regain calm. I once read that protection can manifest as redirection. What initially seems like a detour, obstacle, or rejection often guides us towards something better or shields us from harm, its significance revealed only in retrospect. Reminding myself of this gives me faith that, regardless of circumstances, I am divinely protected. For that, I am thankful.

[sheissobeyondthem]

What I saw at the beginning of the year vs the end.

[kawaiiinla]

What a lovely way to start the year?

when i got home after the new years celebrations last night, i took off my boots and found this pin stuck in the bottom of one of them,, a good sign for the new year perhaps ? :-) 

[itsliyahhbih]

Fat nuggets’ thread 🩷🖤

[polubrony]

I can’t with these two, my brain decided that it gonna latch itself onto them and fulfil every sappy couple-y thing it can with these sketches

A little trivia - i heard that it was canon, that Vaggie is the best dancer out of the whole hotel crew, so yeah

Little spoiler for next posts

Ima do some chaggily/two-and-a-half halos/charlies angels sketches, cus i love these three together too and finally did some rough sketching with them

[coffeecatcraze]

It is not lost on me that Charlie and Vaggie were initially not doing great against Adam and Lute...and then proved Carmilla was so fucking right.

Vaggie is absolutely FUCKED here. She's been in this position before, with Lute looming over her spitting vitriolic judgment, Vaggie's blood on the ground. Back then, she couldn't stop Lute from taking away her wings, her eye, her home, and her purpose. But now? She has more than that; she has love, because she has Charlie.

When Lute threatens Charlie, everything changes. Vaggie fucks her up immediately...and shows "mercy" knowing that being forced to live with part of herself gone (her arm was CRUSHED, no way was she getting it back), the shame of defeat, and the knowledge that someone she's been looking down on so completely is responsible for it all is a fate MUCH worse than death for Lute.

And Charlie? Charlie's insanely powerful but has no clue how to use her power to its full potential because she's never had a reason or desire to fight until now. Even when she's being strangled, when she's pissed-off and vengeful, she can't really tap into that power. But then Adam comes at her dad and is about to catch him off-guard.

He's about to hurt—possibly kill—her dad, who she's finally building a good relationship with; her dad, who just showed up to protect her despite the risk of politically turning this battle from an act of defiance by a willful princess to an act of full-on rebellion by the King of Hell himself. She reacts on instinct to protect her father and stops a hit that destroyed Alastor's shield. And she does it effortlessly.

Carmilla was right. For these ladies, at least, the need to protect someone they love, no matter what kind of love it is, is exactly what rallies them to come at enemies who were just kicking their asses and absolutely dominate.

[mylifeisafadingtragedy]

Protected by angels

It was just like another weekend except for the fact that she was done with her entire miserable life and it was New Year’s Eve. Waking up late, eating whatever was left from last week’s trip to the store which mainly comprised of chips, and logging in to begin editing for the day. She was once living up to her name, Lucia. Now she was the shell of the person she used to be.

She held up her phone for it to unlock and before it turned on, she saw her reflection, sad and forlorn. Her hair was matted and grimy. Not that it was bad but she hated it. She opened her messenger only to sigh and turn it off again. No new messages. She was angry. She got up from her desk and looked out her window. The sun was already overhead and she saw a boy selling newspaper in the street. She had talked to him a few months ago. He seemed nice and had a thick French accent. She went out and bought a newspaper.

“Good afternoon, miss.”

“A good afternoon to you too, peter. Say, how’s your mother doing?”

He switched the papers to his right side and smiled, “Much better, miss. I was going to take the bus today to see her at Paravels.”

She knew it was far away and offered him a ride, to which he happily obliged. “We have a campsite there too, miss. You could spend time in the mountains and watch the stars. My mother used to take me there sometimes. But its mostly free at this season.”

Looking at the road, she knew this was something she’d usually never do. She glanced at the sleeping figure of the golden haired boy in the backseat and wondered how easy it would be for kidnappers to kidnap this kid. Making a mental note to tell his mom about it. The rest of the ride was quite uneventful and she dropped him at the lilac coloured building which overgrown red rose bushes covered.

She started to the mountain in her brown mini camper. Peter’s mom had given her a basket of fruits from her garden. She seemed healthy now after her medications. Lucia looked at the phone again to find that no one had contacted her again. Her friends had promised that they would be in touch always.

Guess it was all a lie.

She felt betrayed and just thought maybe it was because she wasn’t enough. She was the only one to start trips, parties and get togethers. She had moved to France a year earlier and she was entirely alone. There were people like peter who were her friends, but she felt that even if she died tomorrow no one would know. Looking up at the black void, she felt weirdly comforted that even the universe was lonely sometimes. Maybe things will get better, maybe they wont. But she would see through it. And she shifted her gaze to the fire, she heard footsteps nearby. She whirled to her feet, her hands on the machete strapped to her belt but loosed her grip when she saw that it was an old man. Sure old men could be murderers too but something about this old man seemed…off. Almost ancient and like teak wood.

Lucia had extra fruits anyway so she invited the old man who called himself Melchizedek to a cup of tea.

“God be with you, kind daughter. You have always been ready to help anyone. Sometimes you need to help yourself too.”

Lucia wanted to say something but she couldn’t find her voice.

Melchizedek continued, “sometime the people who you surround yourself may not appreciate you enough and that’s okay. They need time to grow and be present for the people who cared for them before its too late. Don’t hate yourself for something you didn’t do, Lucia. But you need to save yourself. You need to live a life you want for yourself without feeling the need to get validation. Just take things one day at a time. One step at a time”

Getting up he said, “Get home safe, kind one.” She could only speak after he walked past the curve of the road. Racing to the bent road she started looking for any sign of the old man. There was nothing. Not even a breeze. Walking back to her camper she put things back, deep in thought.

It’s okay. She was alone. But she is alive. Awake. She could call them instead or even just text them one last time. She had to keep looking for her soulmates. Even if the ones now weren’t. She must keep going.

The sky erupted into colours and the sounds of the firecrackers filled her ears. A single tear brushed past her cheek.

She would live. Another year. Perhaps this year doesn’t have to be like any other. She could still be the kind loving person of yesterday and be selfish enough to love herself too.

As she lit her front yard light and took off her boots, she couldn’t help but smile as a chill ran through her spine.

There in the heel was a embellished piece of metal in which were engraved the words-

“Protected by angels”

You let out a contented sigh as your campfire crackles under the starry night sky. The forest was quiet but peaceful that night. An old man trudges to your camp, asking to sit next to the fire.

[triona-tribblescore]

Husk went and bought some bike-safe clothes to cope with his adrenaline-junkie boyfriend uvu ✨

[msssayana]

[fallenangelblade]

no because what do you MEAN the first thing benny does upon meeting castiel for the first time in purgatory is angrily confront him about why he left dean? meanwhile dean is clinging to the hope that it was just an accident, there’s no way cas would leave him intentionally, right? girl………

[methoughtsphantom]

Danny fake guardian angel au

You know how sometimes it’s highlighted how you have to be very careful on what you say in the presence of a spirit because they can twist your words and end up bidding yourself to it?? well uno-reverse-card the spirit also has to be careful on what he says because when Danny had said he owed the dude one for coming to his rescue in a gala Vlad had dragged him to, he didn’t expect that to be taken literally.

danny: wait seriously?? i literally say that all the time!

cw: not after being crowned ghost king, you haven’t

danny: but—but I was also human when I said it. doesn’t that protect me or smth

cw: *shakes his head*

danny:

danny: omg this is a nightmare

cue timmy’s brucequest period (cuz he’s the guy) being so high strung and tired, he just wants some company, which is a so low stakes thing to want the deal Danny unintentionally goes sure we can do that and pulls him towards the guy, despite Timmy never outright saying he wants company. (tim always speaks in the sanctity of his own mind, not out loud)

So. random spirit manifesting. Tim going all who the fuck are u

and Danny panicking and saying your guardian angel

Tim not being impressed while Danny promptly blushes like a moron because that did not come off as he wanted it to.

Yes accidental dead tired where the dynamic goes from Tim trying to shake this probably demon that somehow latched to him being all like ??? dude leave me alone, and Danny being there like bitch i’m trying

to

huh. im actually being protected by a spirit like he said he would. he’s strangely an idiot but also he’s overpowered and just never leaves my side which he says it’s an angel obligation but I think it’s bullshit but also hoping it’s not because it appeals to my crippling fear of abandonment (anyways he really seems to take after those little cartoon angels that poof into your shoulder to keep from me doing wrong decisions) translate into my future boyfriend seems increasingly appalled to what i am up to

meanwhile danny

Bitch you better thank your god I’m dead because otherwise I would already been killed. I did not sign up for a assassins what the fuck I thought you were a normal civilian not a literal superhero and omg that is a fruitloop. no no back off you wrinkly raisin this is my emotional support idiot you can’t have him and what do you mean you’re messing with time whatever this way I can get back to clockwork—

[edorazzi]

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[prideprejudce]

I think alot more people would enjoy the show if they learned to see Rhaenyra and Alicent as Unreliable Narrators, and characters who are supposed to have glaring flaws and weaknesses.

Mandatory preface- There are Issues™️ with season 2 that are its own other ask- but the complaints ive seen about character assassination on both women kind of tells me ppl just wanted to see the two just GirlBossing around, not being tragic characters trapped in their own circumstances.

For Alicent specifically- she just isn't written to be Cersei 2.0, and while it was really interesting to see motherhood from cersei's point of view, its already been done!! I actually prefer seeing Alicent's mercurial clinging to and abandoning motherhood- its interesting!! She was made a mother at what- 15? An age where you truly arent mentally developed enough to raise 3 kids, AND be a child bride, AND be a queen, (AND be a lesbian).

Alicent is interesting to me because she's stunted at 15 years old, she's an adult woman who talks to and sometimes bullies her kids as if they are her peers, and is obsessed with her childhood crush(es). She hasn't built any new relationships* past the ones she was entangled with as a teenager, she's obsessed with both acting out to make SOMEONE see that shes suffering, (she's honestly pretty blatant for someone who prides themselves on being the Temperate Voice of Reason) but also to erase herself and reset to before she had to marry the king, before aemma died.

I think most of her 'bad out of character' decisions are just these two impulses winning out, her trying to force a reset, go back to a time where none of this had happened yet, when things were simpler and she had love and every day wasn't the worst day of her life™️.

She sleeps with cole, the man she thought was pretty at 15 (her last uncomplicated attraction just before it all went wrong and aemma died) -she doesnt seem to like it that much, but she does seem compelled to seek him out, esp when upset- shes obsessed with, and desperate to reconnect with Rhaenyra, her childhood best friend (and first love) and get back to where they were as kids, AND she still treats and asks her father for absolution as if he's still the only authority that matters to her just like she did at 15. Alot of her 'victim complex/bewildered they took it so far' behaviour in the plotting of rhaenyra's usurption reads to me like a teenager in over her head, she talked big game and now its real and shes panicking!! She's tragic BECAUSE she's still a teenager- so stunted shes unable to meaningfully grow up and learn to make healthier choices for herself, or move on and stop trying to grasp at the 'if i could just go back' urge.

As a mother, I think this creates an interesting dynamic as well, and I do like that in the casting even, she seems closer in age to her kids than rhaenyra does to hers. I think the contrast ppl are drawing with Alicent Protecting Her Kids in season1 compared to her giving them up in season two isn't bad writing to me, just massive differences in context. Sure she protected Aemond in driftmark, but we cant ignore that she probably felt humiliated by her husband choosing rhaenyra's side over hers in front of everyone, did it seem like a grown woman fighting for her son?? or a teenager furious with her ex winning one over her again? or both!! both sides twisted together is still interesting! When she protected Aegon from Rhaenys, is stepping in front of her son the king to protect him from the enemies dragon fire not the most romantic daydream of a deserving death a child bride could come up with?? Was it the impulse to protect the son she couldnt decide if she loved or hated, or was it to have the most heroic death possible to escape the reality that she sees coming. And if Rhaenyra hears about how Brave she was in the face of a dragons maw, and cries about it forever and feels sooo bad and regrets it til the day she dies, thats an added bonus. I think Alicent loves her kids, but is teenager selfish about HOW she loves and protects her kids, and is unable to be a mature, consistant, protective mother to them when she also sees them as having ruined her life. I think in season 2 when she 'gives them up' shes relieved, and once again following the compulsion of 'if i reset to when Rhaenyra was heir, i had no sons, and i wasn't married or queen, everything will be better'. I think theres complexity to it, i think she does love her sons and feels insane about it, but I think Alicent has been trying to Go Back in more and more Intense ways ever since she got married, and we might be giving her sanity more credit than it deserves when it comes to the need to wipe the board clean and go back to being 15.

hey anon are you trying to get married to me or what

[yujateaandpi]

hold on I’m going to be emo about Digimon for a moment. The whole essence of the franchise is “my good weird talking dog loves me soooo much and all they want is to live peacefully by my side but when my life is threatened (which is often) they transform into an immensely powerful being just so they can give their life up for mine. And sometimes they do and sometimes they are reborn but other times they do not come back and there is no way to repay or fill their loss. And sometimes I betray them but they will forgive me forever no matter how I mistreat them. And sometimes they forget who I am but they will never stop following me because that love doesn’t go away. All they want is to stay small and get head scritches and snacks but the world gets threatened literally every day so they’re always fighting for me. We live in two different worlds and they can’t always be next to me but they’ll wait. They’ll wait years and even when I’m older and have changed they’ll know who I am. They don’t understand why I’ve changed but in their eyes, I’m still the same child.”

[kaeraesketches]

✨ “I’m afraid it’s time for you to leave. NOW.”

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✨ Oooohhhh, somebody messed with the wrong demon…and his angel is coming for vengeance.

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✨ BAMF Azi, anyone?? Yes, I think so 🙌🏻.

[princessfroslass]

How the fuck do I move on and become a functional member of society when this frame of Husk using his wings to shield Angel and Cherrie exists.