#seductive death

[weirdlookindog]

Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois - Seductive Death, 1852

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[bizarrelittlemew]

Crowley 🤝 Edward Teach convincing your crush to do something taboo and symbolically erotic with you

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

I died and went to Hell (hell was a bland but somewhat cozy townhouse) and they tried to torture me but none of their torture methods worked on me so I decided I had nothing to lose and tried to seduce the Devil (did not work - he is asexual).

[thebramblewood]

Supernatural seduction, take two: the professor has arrived.

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Lilith: I don't think you'll be needing this anymore.

Man in Bar: [flustered] W-why's that?

Lilith: Both of our mouths are about to be very preoccupied.

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Lilith: FINISH HIM!

Helena: [sobbing] I can't, Lilith. Please don't make me do it.

Lilith: [disappointed sigh] I suppose I can help you out. Just this once.

[sound of body hitting the water]

Lilith: But you’ll have to learn eventually.

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Helena: [in a dull, detached tone] What turned you into this?

Lilith: Into what precisely?

Helena: A vampire, to start with.

Lilith: [hesitates slightly] It’s a boring story, really. Besides, my human memories have grown so foggy. If you must know, ask Caleb. I’m sure he’d love to spin our maudlin little tale for you.

[amateur-weatherman]

get it, he's carrying the entire GO Ao3 community :D

[ourtubahero-blog]

There’s always that one curl!

[ingravinoveritas]

Audio of Michael with Kathy Burke on the Where There's A Will There's a Wake podcast being asked who would play Aziraphale if he dies and saying that he'd want David to play both parts. Transcript below (bold emphasis mine):

KB: "What about your colleagues' response? I mean, if you're in the middle of--I mean listen, in Nye, when you're doing theatre work, you do have understudies. But let's say you're were doing a new series of Good Omens with the great David Tennant--" Michael: "Well, I don't know about the great, but okay. With David Tennant, yeah." KB: "Who would replace you? I mean, who would put up with him, do you think?" Michael: "I mean, I'm loath to say it...but really, he should play both parts. Because originally we were--originally I was--Neil Gaiman, who wrote the original book with Terry Pratchett that the series was based on--when I first started talking to Neil about it, when he told me that he was going to do it, originally we talked about me playing the other part, the part David played. And one of the sort of things about us doing it is we'd never really acted opposite each other before because we'd usually be up for the same parts for many, many years. I think it was sort of between me and him for Casanova when he did Casanova. I mean, he's far too egotistical to let me know the parts I got over him--" KB: "--Of course." Michael: "There we are. That shows what the relationship is like. I'm quite happy to say the part that he got over me. But so, the fact that we were together in this was quite unusual, because normally we would be playing the same part. So that's quite good in a way, cause they're both, they're sort of light and shade of the same person in a way. So once I did pop my clogs, maybe he would have to then--you know the way they do it, do you remember that film Dead Ringers where Jeremy Irons played twins? So I'd quite like to see David playing both parts. And it would be his homage to me."

[whatsthelimitoncharacters]

So, in my opinion, Athena is probably dead. I think that it’s dumb and doesn’t make sense but the listening party animatic definitely implies she’s dead

Here we have some before and after pictures. When I first saw the livestream, I assumed that she was just gonna pass out and that people were overreacting. However, the glow fading really implies that she is in fact dead.

Shortly before the earlier images, we see Athena kind of holding onto life with her glow flickering. We can assume she is almost dead because Ares asks if she’s even alive(I will return to this). All this considered, despite the fact she isn’t glowing in a lot of scenes in this song(such as Odysseus showing her Telemachus), her glow fading really does show that she is probably dead.

If you need some evidence from the songs, we can also get some without looking at the animatics. First and most importantly, Ares asks if Athena is dead. While Ares isn’t the most respected god and many would label him as kind of dumb, he would probably know that gods can’t die if that’s the case. Him asking this does show that a god can, in theory, die. If you want mythological precedence, you can look at how Pan died(I know that there’s a bit of debate to that but idc). Another piece of evidence is actually Calypso saying “Last i checked, goddesses can’t die.” Many people take this as proof that Athena is incapable of death but it’s already been established by major gods that a god/goddess could die and there’s a mythological precedent, so calypso may be lying. In honesty, she isn’t being entirely untruthful in saying that she can’t die. Odysseus is just a half dead mortal king and Zeus is the single most powerful god. Odysseus can’t kill calypso while Zeus could kill Athena. This segues very well into how this line fits into the larger saga. Instead of this line acting as foreshadowing for Athena’s survival, it instead acts as tragic irony for Odysseus. Athena is Odysseus’ only chance at leaving and she dies. The irony comes because Odysseus’ problem could be solved if only a different goddess had died. The wrong goddess died and now it’s up to Zeus to decide whether Odysseus should be set free.

Now, if I’m correct, then I have a lot of feelings about this. If I’m wrong I have slightly less. If I’m right, you can see my previous post for a lot of my reasons why I think athena dying is a bad decision, but I’ll give one here. Gods don’t die. Pan is the only death I can think of (not counting stuff like Helios disappearing over time) and the phrasing of pans death could also be interpreted as the cult of Tammuz praising him for his one myth. Even characters that are treated as mortal like Medea (both her parents are minor gods so she probably should be too) don’t get myths where they die. Medea just runs off to a far away land. Kronos is sliced to bits. Typhon is sealed under Mount Etna. Kronos’ children are swallowed whole. ATHENA’S MOTHER GAVE BIRTH IN ZEUS’ HEAD. IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE THAT ATHENA COULD DIE. If she isn’t dead, why is the animatic like that? Jorge had to have commissioned it. I doubt the animator would have added that in on their own. Why would it be framed so much like she’s dead if she wasn’t.

[eloise175]

VADTD Novel spoilers - side stories chapter 32

A guide to seduction with the sillies: Penelope the girlfailure of them all who is actually very jealous over her not husband, and Callisto the idiot sandwich who is as dense as ever and got his clothes ripped to shreds because of it

Drunk Penelope is an absolute menace hfhsbsjs ‘Mr. Regulus’ is peak rizz, W Penelope rizz 🦅🦅

Callisto shall learn the true feeling of being manhandled into submission from this moment onward ✨

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a student at UCLA and I was some sort of secret agent. I had to seduce and kidnap Ben Shapiro, but they wouldn’t let me kill him, so I let him go out of spite.

[ourtubahero-blog]

I swear to God, the fandom will join in if we don’t get season 3.

[ingravinoveritas]

| NTAs red carpet 2021 vs. Pride of Britain red carpet, 2023.

[seductive-suffering]

Im taking it day by fucking day.

Minute by fucking minute.

Second by ever lasting second.

I keep going, I keep fighting.

The battle I may never win but I didn’t give up.

So why the fuck did you?

How could you so easily take for granted the lifetime we promised each other.

How could you die while I’m stuck breathing?

You selfish monster, or is that me?

[ardentpoop]

anyway s2 will always have a place in my heart

[morsesnotes]

This is the second part of that clip. Thought I'd share it for the bit at the end. :)

[disenchanted-youth]

After watching the trailer, I honestly thought I might hate San. I always hate when they pull the "how can he be a guy" cliche because it is never done well and always end up feeling homophobic rather than questioning. But they're doing it so well that I actually feel sorry for San. Yeah, he's like a 100+ year old man, but deep down he's just a confused little baby trying to keep up with the ever-evolving world, and the show really nails that.

Also, I already knew I'd love Vee, but I didn't think I'd love him this much. He's the most adorable little sunshine and I need to place him first in my list of my favorite bl sunshine characters for now. He seemed sus in the first ep, less sus now, but I'm intrigued regardless.

I thought it was cool that he didn't feel any connection to Wad's death spot. Usually, in these stories, the character would have some kind of emotional moment there. So thankful that they're avoiding the annoying reborn love clichés in the early episodes. It's better to see San and Vee fall in love rather than the usual "if we were together before we might as well be together now". If he's not really Wad, someone needs to give this show an award.