#repentant devil

[geraldofallon]

Romance in the Neath: Impenitent Devil

He has done everything at least once. Or, almost everything. His gaze lingers on yours, fierce as a coal on the hearth.

He looks younger than most of his kind, but he is not. His eyes are pale fire, and his cheekbones are gaunt as a parliamentarian’s sense of decency.

He looks bored, until, that is, he notices you.

[sethdomain]

i can be your angel or your demon

[see-arcane]

Faustus: "I've simply never been given a Sign that there are everlasting consequences for this decision"

Mephistopheles:

Mephistopheles, banging pots and pans together the second he appears: "I am a demon fresh out of Hell, and while all existence outside of Heaven is metaphorical Hell, I cannot express clearly or loudly enough that I am from the real literal not shitting you Actual Inferno and that if you make this soul-selling deal for magic party tricks you will regret it immensely!"

Faustus: "Mannn you're chatty for a figment of my imagination. Anyway, let's get that blood document signed, I want to do sorceries for fun and profit via the powers of Hell. Which is not real :)"

Mephistopheles, aside to Satan: "Hey I know it's ahead of schedule but can I conjure just. A fuckton of aspirin? Yes right now."

[kindaorangey]

well i'm comforted by the knowledge that book!armand has some faith in the christian god (and, like, that this faith is vital to his character) because it means theres absolutely no fucking way they'd just do that one-to-one in the show and so we're one step closer to an exploration of show!armand's relationship with islam

[nebunulcusentimente]

“And if the devil was to ever see you, he'd kiss your eyes and repent.”

- Farouq Jwaideh

@nebunulcusentimente

[magpie-trove]

Something so so deeply radically wonderfully creatively redemptive in thank you Aimee though

[faeriefully]

It is the first of October and y’all already arguing about witches

[butterflybaby98]

The Rebirth of the Queen

There was a princess who looked like a deep Atlantic ocean; Her eyes sparkled like green shades of deadly poison; With a hidden mystery black soul which man can be barely chosen; She looked like a fiction and was owned by a ruined beacon.

There was a knight; he saw that fragile lost soul as a Dame in a war; Her deadly eyes were a sin? Yet he chose to stay even though she was far; He offered his armour and gave his shield not knowing she was just a scar; The Knight almost died, but his soul was waiting for the victory roar.

Was the war between the princess and the Knight? No, it was for the freedom of a trapped soul of her inner pride; She handed over the sword to him to ruin her wasted side; He built her up by choosing the pieces which were only pure as white.

He reincarnated the queen, who was always in his ideation; Her glory eyes had the power to make him the king of paradise nation; He ruined all the lighthouses which misled his queen being her salvation; She gave the world he always dreamt about with lioness protection.

~Sham~

[smply-sktchng]

remorse

[eatanorange]

me: a grad school app due soon enough for me to be stressed but not soon enough for me to be *activated* about it, a couple dates scheduled, MOUNTAIN of laundry, my body begging for exercise, a form needs printing for work

also me: I think NOW is actually the time I have an unbeatable urge to write that fic I've been thinking about since summer when my relationship that has now since ended, was failing :)

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

And if the devil was to ever see you, he'd kiss your eyes and repent.

Farouq Jwadeh

[garoujo]

i don’t know what it is but there is something so poetic about hanma shuji’s kind of love

[soleminisanction]

Trying to reconfigure the first arc of Steph's Batgirl run into a revisionist fanfic has given me something entirely new to be frustrated about regarding that series.

Scarecrow's goddamn "Thrill" drug, the central plot-point of the first arc, makes no fucking sense. It's supposed to be this addictive, hallucinogenic street drug with fear gas as its base ingredient that pumps up the user's "adrenaline and cortisol" levels, with the implication that users take it when they're expecting to get into a fight. First user we see is a kid who got shot off-panel, and supposedly, Scarecrow keeps his goons addicted to it to keep them loyal to him.

Thing is, nearly every single person we see drugged with this stuff doesn't just get "a little aggressive," they go freaking feral, immediately trying to rip apart anyone they see. The only exception is Jordanna, who first acts drunk, then gets exactly one burst of feral anger in before she passes out.

So, okay, maybe this is something Scarecrow's cooking up to sell to the gangs and other baddies of Gotham, take the turf wars and street rumbles new level. Except then that raises the question of why the fuck would he drug Stephanie with this junk in the climax, seriously, why would he be that stupid?? Bane doesn't try to get Batman hooked on Venom!

Sure is super freaking convenient then that Stephanie is literally the only person in the entire comic who DOESN'T go on a feral rampage, she just gets all weak and dizzy and starts hallucinating people telling her what a bad superhero she is so she can prove them wrong. Like yeah, she took the fear toxin antidote before going in, but how exactly does that turn off the parts of the drug that are endemic to everyone else who takes Thrill (the feral rampage) and NOT the purely Informed Attribute that no one else but Stephanie experiences that is better associated with Fear Gas (the hallucinations)??

Also! What the fuck was the point of spiking the Harvest Festival punch bowl?? The only explanation Scarecrow EVER gives is, "Now no one in their right mind will go into the Devil's Square, which is exactly what Black Mask wanted!" But Gotham University is not in the Devil's Square. And the kid who died in the Devil's Square didn't even die of Thrill, he got shot. You're trying to tell me Scarecrow somehow planned for the kid to get shot, for the paramedics to refuse to enter the dangerous neighborhood to treat him, and for all that to lead to a riot that would result in the neighborhood being functionally abandoned by city services? Really?

No, of course not, that's stupid. It's literally just done as an excuse to get Stephanie involved with a case that she has zero reason to get involved in (especially because Babs doesn't want her there) and it doesn't even do that well.

I just. This comic. Goddamn. Were there no rewrites, or too many rewrites? I genuinely cannot tell.

[aloneata-crossroads]

[yeyinde]

Ooohhh I love these!!!

tigerlily— do you have any favorite quotes from any movies, tv shows, books, or poetry? (or from people in real life)

💛

It was so hard for me not to immediately list every single Sylvia Plath poem that shaped me in some way because the impact the Bell Jar, MGLS, ennui, Ariel, sheep in fog, Finisterre, Insomniac, and Two Campers in Cloud Country had on twelve year old me was immeasurable.

But!! I recently got into Arabic poems and poets after a friend recommended me checking out some poems by Fadwa Tuqan and Mahmood Darwish. The one that immediately stuck inside my head was:

'I would split open my heart with a knife; place you within and seal my wound; that you might dwell there and never inhabit another...' by Ibn Hazm

This might be the most romantic piece of writing I've ever read.

And because I can't help myself:

Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair

Tangling in the tide's green fall

Now fold their wings like bats and disappear

Into the attic of the skull.