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[galedekarios]

while i did a gifset to showcase an armour set, i was also intrigued by just how different the animation is for the wizard class vs gale's unique animation:

wizard class animation

gale's unique animation

it's amazing to see not only just how quickly gale performs the somatic component of the spell, but also his efficiency of movement compared to the standard wizard animation.

there's a world of difference here, the difference between a wizard vs a prodigy, an archwizard and chosen.

[willgrahamscock]

Oh, god. I understand now. This look Aziraphale has right after Crowley kissed him. I didn't understand why he'd look disgusted when we as the audience know that their feelings are mutual, and as Neil hinted, they both wanted to confess in this episode, but the Metatron changed that. "Do it again."

Richard Siken//Good Omens

[killrisma]

yes 90 minutes, so sad, but also! FUCK YEAH HES GONE!!!

[justgrench]

#i think this scene is so interesting and speaks to why i get so annoyed by the 'any portrayal of astarion#as having an degree of a conscience or goodness in him is stupid and woobifying. hes chaotic evil and thats IT' thing#the grief and guilt. the way he tries to talk himself into it. the way he removes HIS OWN autonomy to do it. pretends theres no other choic#esp in the context of other moments where he preens when hes called good. he LIKES being smth other than what cazador made him#but hes so SCARED. he spends this dialogue talking himself into killing them and he HAS to talk himself into it BECAUSE this kind of evil#isnt easy to him despite it all. theres still scraps of a conscience there yknow? and he hides it from himself by pretending hes less free#astarion is fun BECAUSE hes weird and contradictory and a bad person with the capacity 4 good. BECAUSE he doesnt know what he actually want#also i love the idea of him in this moment rly thinking abt the player....like whether theyre friends or romances#a player whos been really kind and loving to him...kept him safe....trusted him....#thinking about how they let their guard down for him and how in his old life THIS would have been the life#hed been damning them to....years and centuries in a tiny cage somehow even worse than his

I feel ill. All the fools and villains who ever fell for my ploys, they're — they're here!

[aydracz]

Final version of their St James Park bench

Now including some of the scribbles and little tokens of fandom love because those make the bench what it is

I might craft a few more miniatures before I move onto other projects, because they are just so much fun! (Sans the arsing with the glue gun.)

[soliloqueeer]

When I first watched this episode, I was very confused about Lestat's motivations for being at the trial. During Claudia's execution, I kept thinking, why isn't he moving? Just do something. Help her.

I understand now that Lestat, at this point, is much weaker than usual for reasons that haven't yet been fully explored. From interviews with Sam Reid, I also learned that there was no way Lestat would miss this trial. However, Lestat isn't a planner—he arrived, memorized his lines, yet was utterly unprepared for what was about to unfold. The only thing he knew for sure was that he was going to save Louis. That was his sole plan.

When Claudia says, "It's never been about me," you can see the guilt and shame in Lestat's eyes. Yet, when she announces her plan to kill everyone in the crowd after her death, he's staring at her with pride.

I believe Lestat did a lot of reflecting while in his coffin, pondering how he ended up in this situation and what led his fledglings to turn against him. I think he was actually proud of Claudia for successfully orchestrating his murder. She outsmarted him, and he had entirely underestimated her. This final act of violence made them equals in his eyes.

However, I don't think Lestat ever truly saw himself as a 'father.' He had no example of good parenting in his human life and this had no idea how to treat a child. From the beginning, he was referred to as Uncle Les while Louis took on the paternal role. Then, when Claudia became an adult, Lestat was forced to regard her as a sister.

The idea that someone could look to him as a father wasn't even conceivable to Lestat. In Claudia's final moments, when she looks to him like a child looks to a parent for help, it is horrifying on so many levels. It shocks him to his core when he realizes that he is her father and that he's letting her die right before his eyes. And even worse, Claudia was right—it was never about her.

[drew-the-pic]

[seriouslygoodomens]

I SLOWED IT DOWN! Yes the quality is poor but because we are working with the king of micro expression, I had to try to slow it down.

SOOO here it is. With a few dot points 😉

1. Crowley has such a soft expression on in this moment. No anger, no fury, just desperate love.

2. Watch Aziraphles face! He is clearly hurt and upset but the MOMENT he locks eyes with Crowley he sorts, still sad but there is a change, a moment of realisation of what is about to happen. Something he has wanted for a long time

3. You can see him straight up and lean in towards Crowley before they kiss. He was ready for that next move.

4. Once their lips meet, his face is not one of shock or discomfort. It's the face of pure bliss! His eyebrows soften and he kisses Crowley back! (Kissing David is everything you could ever dream of ~ Michael sheen)

5. They both soften their faces into it. Both finally getting to do what they truly wanted, if only for a moment.

6. This is not a rough kiss, it may look it but you can see Crowley pulls back slightly to soften it, he wasn't expecting the kiss to be reciprocated so he had to soften his touch. He would never risk hurting Aziraphale like that, especially not with something this important.

7. Not pictured is the hand grabbing his back! Aziraphale is fighting so hard not to throw away all his worry and enjoy it. He wants to be lost in the moment but he can't be because he is being watched by the metacockblocker!

Normal speed. No need for it to be here, I just love this scene.

[glazedcroissant]

Tormented soul

Speedpaint here, if you like

Edit: Alright. Alright. This. THIS piece bothered me so much that I went back and edited it a bit. I mostly just tweaked the colors. For those of you who saw the original, no you did not :)

[aphel1on]

AURGH auwarghh the autistic parental trauma... the epi was wacky hijinks then dropped this on us out of nowhere... (sobs) laios... laiiiiooooos

[violet-periwinkle]

GOOD OMENS FANDOM WAKE UP WAKE UP

[somehow-a-human]

90 minutes….. to wrap it ALL up… will any of the reveals be satisfying? How much will we be missing out on from the original scripts?.. To say I’m devasted is an understatement. We, the fans, deserved so much more. I am happy we will see a canonical ending, but I’m sad and I just want to read the scripts from those original 6 episodes if I’m being honest.

EDIT: Im so thankful for whatever the hell Rob and Rhianna had to do to get us ANYTHING. My frustrations are directed to one man (derogatory) specifically. We had a S3 renewal confirmation and 6 completed episode scripts before the allegations came out and it tanked the entire production. Not even beginning to mention the victims but, how many people’s incomes were affected by this near cancellation and the now reduced run time? All because of one guy.

[tobyisave]

Reason #48234872 Kiibo should've lived: so Maki can have someone to recreate a normal human adolescence with while Himiko and Shuichi go into a state of depressed hibernation for the next half decade...

Honestly I never even thought of this pairing until I started drawing this months ago, but I think they would have an interesting dynamic postcanon. It's hard for them to relate to each other at first — Maki has seen way too much and Kiibo has seen like 0 things in his life ever — but they've both been dehumanized, made to believe they're dangerous,* and barred from participating in "the real world" for most of their lives. And because of that they just want something that is, to use Maki's words, "as vanilla as possible."

Also, they're both autistic straight men and I want to see the hijinks that ensue when you put two of those in the same room.

*Obviously we see Maki being viewed as dangerous by herself and others; I can't even tell anymore if it's obvious that Kiibo shares that experience to some degree or if I'm just too deep in my own Kiibo lore... But here's 2 thoughts on why I think that's something they canonically share:

They both hurt someone close to them in their backstories, and that weighs on them enough that both of their Harmonious Heart events are about wondering if that person would hold it against them. Also for reasons I won't elaborate on here, I'm pretty sure Kiibo at least subconsciously views himself as a danger to others due to the environment he grew up in after Iidabashi was injured. I mean imagine having an emergency stop button permanently installed on your body "just in case."

Despite everyone's backstories being fictional, Kiibo and Maki have still killed one real person each --- Kiibo killed Tsumugi (and endangered everyone else), and Maki effectively killed Kokichi/Kaito ('effectively' just as in it could create the kind of "I killed a guy" guilt that is relevant to this discussion. I'm not going to even comment on the actual causality of that entire situation). Even if you don't count that, Kiibo being the only person with a body count is an interesting reversal given he's a pacifist and seems to have the most rigid moral code of the cast (something I also think was a precaution of sorts).

(+ Credit: Background of page 6 is traced from this random photo of an ice rink lobby. I made up the background of page 7 and that's why you can't tell what the hell anything actually is.)

[lenaellsi]

so you're anthony j. crowley, long-time exile from heaven and recent exile from hell, and you've finally figured out that the mess of overwhelming and infuriating and intoxicating feelings you've been harboring for the only being in the universe you've ever been able to rely on might, whoopsies, be something a little bit like love. but not love the way you remember heaven loved you, or the way they told you god loved you (they lied), but love like the humans do it: messy, and awkward, and incongruously infinite, and so, so fragile.

and, well. okay, you think. this'll be horrible. embarrassing for both of us, probably. but i'll tell him. you've never been a coward, no matter what the other demons might say. screw your courage to the sticking place, or whatever. macbeth. aziraphale loved that one.

so you talk yourself into it, you gather every scrap of courage and honesty you've got left, and you say, all right, angel, i've got something to say, only aziraphale's got something to say, too, and--

aziraphale doesn't love you back.

or. he does, but he loves the ghost of the angel you used to be, not the person you've made yourself since. he loves you, but he loves you like god did--loves you good, and quiet, and dull. he loves you without your grief, or your anger, without even that first bite of the apple. he wants you like that again, he says. defanged, like the Antichrist's domesticated hellhound.

(you worked for hell for a long time, and for god for a long time before that. you're intimately familiar with what it is to offer someone everything they've ever wanted, and then to twist it, to mutilate it, into an unrecognizable hell of their own choosing. you're not sure why it surprises you anymore. you're not sure why you keep letting the surprises hurt.)

and so you do the thing you've done since the beginning, because you've never been able to stop yourself: you push. you push hard, and you grab him, and he's so angry and you kiss him and you don't think about it, don't think about it, this is the most important temptation of your life, the only one that's ever mattered--

and he forgives you.

so you leave. at least that way you can do it before he does. you've always been a step ahead and to the left; stupid to think this would ever be different. stupid to think he might choose you, with all of heaven and earth spread out in front of him. nothing lasts forever, not even the stars.

he told you that a long time ago.

[onaperduamedee]

I have the Rand and Moiraine conversation seared onto my mind: the way the roles are reversed and Moiraine asks advice to Rand, the way Rand seeks her out when she is unraveling in a corner, the way she starts to grasp what the power feels like on his end, the way he just knows what she saw because he may contain it but he feels deep down what the madness is doing to him and the likely outcome.

I talked about it before in regards to Egwene and Moiraine watching Rand train in 302 but it is a reality than women, be it partners or mothers, can end up the victims of the man they take care of, especially when they are ill, and it's very much hovering over their conversation here. Yes, she will follow him despite knowing it might take her life.

It's not easy though, because dying during the Last Battle as she stood beside Rand as she believed when she guided him to the Eye of the World is not the same heroic death as this new fate of hers.

Her reaction to his questions about Rhuidean guts me because Moiraine probably saw Rand killing her as often as she saw Lanfear killing her, and we know she is terrified of Lanfear. She must be terrified of him as well.

But the trick is that Rand doesn't ask once if Moiraine saw Rand dying at her hands because he knows what is happening already inside him. He knows that killing him to save the world is a reasonable option.

Moiraine answers "sometimes" to all his questions knowing very well she kills him just as many times, trying to prevent the madness, Eggy's death, hers.

Knowing this is the worst outcome still for the world.

There is so much that passes between them behind the words.

I will be haunted by Moiraine's little almost smile after she tells him he sometimes kills her, as if saying "it's okay, really" and the way he looks at her afterwards because he starts to understand what she's willing to give to protect him: a form of unwavering trust that isn't about trusting his decisions and actions but about informed acceptance of who he is.

They are the best mentor/student relationship I have seen in a while.

[beebopboom]

I still can’t get over that we got a shot of this.

Of Shax watching as Crowley goes up the elevator to Heaven.

It feels like such an overlooked moment because yes,

It emboldened her in her attack on the bookshop now that it was just Aziraphale

but also,

She now knows a demon can get into Heaven through the elevator she just used to come up from Hell.

And just the way we linger on this shot, hell ep.5 ends with it. It feels a bit more significant than we give it credit for, the implications it may have on next season.

Demons able to get into Heaven, if it has to be angel assisted or not is unconfirmed. I’m voting unassisted just cause the way Michael was able to go to Hell. But anyway,

A Heaven that is going through a change in power, one most are probably not happy about.

and Shax who is very good at making connections, collecting debts.

Just maybe something to watch out for.