#satyr tails

[drconstellation]

The Assistant Book Seller

Edit 1 Dec 2023 - added missing information on the "ribbon pattern."

Edit: 3 Dec 2023 - correct information about middle pattern from creator

GABRIEL: Greetings! I'm Jim! It's short for James, but I don't need to keep telling everyone that. I'm an assistant book seller.

I'm sorry. Before I do anything else, I need to apologize for something I need to write further in. I didn't plan to write it, I just kind of bumped into it and, well, I can't ignore it. So...sorry. It's said. Forgive me for what needs to be done.

Although he arrived with nothing but a cardboard box and Rodney the Stunt Fly, Aziraphale made sure Jim was clothed in appropriate raiment while under his protection. We'll forgive him that he took a step back about, oh, fifty years or so to the 1970's, as Jim's overall look is a nod to the famous old sitcom "Open All Hours." So if he looks a little bit out of place, or, a little bit familiar, even, that's why.

While we are used to seeing angels in overcoats, it's Jim's vest that is the particular feature here. But I will take a moment to comment on the overcoat - not just the colour but its lapels. Aziraphale has obviously given him a colour with an earthly connection and one that indicate that he has bought Jim under his protection, but the lapels look quite neutral, with one up and one down. (Muriel is the same in their Inspector uniform, btw) This is the first indication they are between two things at the moment.

Onto the vest.

There is so, so much work and thought put into this vest! It was a one-off commission for the show, and the creator, Sandy Higgins, has said she is not allowed to give away the final design pattern. I have tried to contact her, and I'm waiting for a reply, so in the mean time I thought I would ask my keen knitter of a sister-in-law about one of the patterns I'm not sure about. "Well, that's Fair Isle knitting," she said, but she knew nothing about the individual line pattern I was interested in. Hmm, I kind of know that already, its in the notes that are guiding me for this meta, but hey, why not do a broader search and see what comes up?

So once I got back home I did. "Fair Isle knitting patterns" hmm...Wikipedia page for starters...what on *earth* is that at the bottom of the page...? YOU ARE. FRIKKING. KIDDING ME!!!!!!!

"See also: Gumbys"

oh ffs

I am so sorry that needs must make me mention Monty Python yet again, but here we are. And we must mention them, because this link is just too...unbelievably, deliciously good.

If you aren't familiar with the Monty Python catalogue, and don't recognize the mention of Gumbys, they were a set of characters that dressed and spoke in a certain way but the main points to take away were they wore woolen vests in the Fair Isle knitted style and their catch-phrase was - wait for it - "My brain hurts!"

I think we've heard that somewhere before?

CROWLEY: When you first arrived, you said you were here because they were planning to do 'Something Terrible' to you. So you remembered it then. Remember it now. GABRIEL: It hurts to remember. My head isn't built for that.

Right. Now we've got that out of the way...back to the serious stuff.

The colours used in the vest are not your typical angel colours. There is a base of angelic off-white and there are some bits of purple for his royalty around the shoulder area - sometimes you need to look carefully for it. Otherwise it is dominated by vintage shades of red and green. Well. Who's an agent of change driven by love, then?

The horizontal stripe pattern is partly to remind us of the classic biblical robes with stripes that ran along them, much like the style of Crowley's black and red robe in the Job minisode, but is also part of the traditional Fair Isles pattern work. And each row only has two colours, but up around the shoulder area we do see purple start to sneak in as a third colour.

On to the incorporated symbols! I'm going to go from bottom to top.

On the lowest two we feature Crowley and Aziraphale. We have Crowley's demon satyr tail from the Good Omens logo on the lowest stripe - the double-headed arrow.

The next stripe is Aziraphale, with a variation of the classic OXO pattern ("hugs and kisses.") The X is meant to represent his angel wings, and the O is modified to mimic the "o" with a halo in the Good Omens logo. I've highlighted all three in the image on the right.

The third row up is a Sumerian Star pattern that represents one of the flowers associated with Gabriel, the lily. They are supposed to represent the purity of Mary, mother of Jesus, as he had one in his hand when he visited her during the Annunciation.

The row above that is what I believe to be a Byzantium pattern, and is included to show "an Angel's ability to be timeless."

The next three rows are still under a bit of a question mark as I write this. I plan to come back and edit it in if I find the answer.

The bottom of the three is the Duke of Buccleuch pattern, "to celebrate the long and necessary contribution that the cottage industry of hand knitted items."

The middle one - ? (perhaps you, the reader, know? It looks like a spiralling ribbon if I stand back, but that isn't sparking any connections, either.)

Edit: @noneorother tells me in a reblog (below) that this pattern represents the shoelace from the magic incantation Aziraphale uses "Banana Fish Gorilla Shoelace." So it is ribbon-like! This then points to the Second Coming, as it the shoelace references the end of the book, and the last paragraph of the book references Yeats poem "The Second Coming" as well as the novel 1984. To me it is then also telling us there is a cycle occurring, or a cycle that needs to be renewed. This fits in with some other clues other meta-writers have been picking up.

Edit 2: Turns out none of that was correct - I heard back from the creator herself and it's actually the double-ended satyr tail pattern again! It just seems to make a bit of an illusion of a ribbon or shoelace.

The pattern below is a modified OXO pattern.

The top one looks like two rams horns facing each other. A hollowed out rams horn can be used as a trumpet, and is known as a shofar in Jewish religion. Gabriel was traditionally known to carry a trumpet.

The ancient meander pattern would be recognized by most people, included as another classic timeless pattern found all over the world. For some it symbolizes eternity and endless flow.

The wheels here appear to be Michael's ophanim wheels, that would have eyes around the rims.

The hourglass is to remind us that time is running out. Memento mori - "Remember that you die." It is a major theme in both series.

Right up high, just before we lose the rest of the vest inside the overcoat, we get a glimpse of a large diamond-shaped icon. I wonder if this is another stylized set of angel wings, like we saw in the Job minisode on Aziraphale's golden collar.

To finish off the outfit, he is wearing dark gray trousers with sneakers! I'm sure that's so he could keep sneaking up on Aziraphale in the shop, haha. His shirt seems a little too large for him and the tie is knotted too high and is not settled along his centerline. It's all at odds with his previous neat and sharp appearance as Supreme Archangel Gabriel.

I'd like to say a big thank you to @aduckwithears for helping me with information on the vest and finding the creator's other social media sites. You can see their two posts about it here and here.

[crowberri]

[In Stars and Time] some siffrins some loops…

[combodactyl]

Sonic and the Fire of Olympus: Chapter 2 part 1

And that's was it for part 1. I thought it would be cool if I added a hawk or two to Windswept hills to make it different from the other plains levels.

And these are the basic enemy types I will be using. Funnily enough the guy on the left appeared to me in a dream and I thought it fit the vibe so I added him. Stay tuned to see part 2 of this chapter since it releases tomorrow.

[popppyfur]

I have this Headcanon that Trolls like Smidge, Legsly, Fuzzbert, the glitter trolls etc, are actually subtypes of pop trolls from the troll trees that were destroyed by the Bergens before the troll tree being caged. The reason no one thought Cooper was weird is because they thought he was a similar case.

Like there were several pop villages according to Band Together, so there were probably other types of pop trolls in those places right?

trolls' biology is just weird in general. i think this is only really noticeable w the pop trolls. i think one can assume that before being hunted down and entrapped their numbers were massive and allowed for a lot of variety. the thought of a pop troll civilization encompassing numerous trees in one area and having each have a higher number of a sub-type of pop troll sounds so cool!!!!!

also MAN my memory is dog water bc for the life of me i dont remember there being mention of pop villages aside from where poppy and the others live??? HOWEVER the theory of pop trolls escaping over the years and evolving into their respective sub-types i.e. k-pop feels pretty relevant to this case! evolution is weird

[galderthefuzzy]

Gravus, the Twilight Herald

Spreading the word of the Twilight Father is a holy task, a very important task. Spreading it and acting as the hand of Twilight, is even more important.

While fairly young, this slim satyrs cunning, intellect and charisma has brought him up in the ranks of the Twilight's Hammer. He gained infamy and respect by orchestrating several high profile operations that ended up with a resounding success.

Upon his capture by the Brigade, Gravus has proven to be an extremely tough case to break. However, the Brigade's wardens can be very.. persuasive. A few years later, the satyr has emerged back, wielding his powers anew, but with a new purpose, not acting on behalf of his old masters anymore.

I have finished this piece in early 2023 and completely forgot about uploading it. I think it's a shame.. despite still working in a completely different way and spotting a few things that could be touched upon, I think it's a shame not to upload it and introduce this character! Do you think that cultist turncoats like Gravus can be redeemed? I hope you like how it turned out, despite it being slightly older!

[cottagedeer]

Roze N Ambrosia

Age| Appears in her 30s-40s (born in the late 80s during the mushroom war) |

Body| (pre-ascension) 5’4ft, 120lbs, lean | (post-ascension) 5’6ft, 280lbs, chubby |

Occupation| (pre) Apothecary, Apocolypse Survivor, forager/hunter, & Vampire hunter | (post) Odd jobs & Mentor |

Hobbies/Skills| Tailoring/weaving/crochet | Toxicology/naturopathy/botany | fortune telling | whitling/basic survival |

(brief) Backstory|

Roze, when she was originally human, once survived the mushroom war and faced the start of the Vampire invasion Pre-ascension. After a hunt for food turned south, Roze collapsed into the strange contaminated river water from a mutant bear attack. Sadly, she crawled out gravely wounded, which she sadly succumbed to. Her body encased in the elements for centuries, and her surroundings, once a city of rubble now reclaimed by nature. But then, when the land revived from a time where the land turned sweet (during the Elementals arc), it caused a phenomenon that awoken her from the afterlife, surrounded by a coffin of moss inside an egg-shaped boulder, a tender self-sustaining ecosystem that held once a human, now an anomaly in a strange land called Ooo.

[pols-doodles]

Papa Primo and Papa Secondo for my satyr AU

[lilmisskiwi-art]

One more of my cheeky boy

[valorieravenchild]

Lift the sticker on PATREON!!!!

[cyberpawn]

everyone's favorite little satyr!!

[destructionfang]

me after cooking up the most evil yer pretty oc ever

[befuddled-calico-whump]

he looks like grover!

awww yeah he does

[moltensmusings]

Realizing how much your younger self just straight took things from content she liked.

[kayspaceprinceart]

Thinking about Agreus, a Dionysian type god of the wild, dancing, and storytelling again

Also it’s been SO long since a work doodle… wow

[art-of-axel-lyhrs]

the Art of Axel Lyhrs

Axel Lyhrs

[weeby-monster-the-bastard]

i cant draw animals sadly :< but i thought up these two mythical creatures, a cow centaur tboy x a deer-satyr enby, how cute it would be, eating grass and making flower crowns! i wish i could draw them