#this is foul of me honestly.

[myoonmii]

I think the downright most horrific and brutal detail in the show is that Kilgharrah actually used Merlin to make sure Arthur's death happened with the pretence of protecting him

[lale-txt]

Love the bingo event but 2 cards for readers vs 6 cards for writers is foul, why not more 😭😭😭

is it really foul or do just have no idea how long it takes to write sth

[yuseirra]

I'm viewing footages and watching the news right? And the reporter's saying "what an earth was he(the president of sk) thinking"

We don't know either. I can't believe this happened... I slept through this whole event, so it feels like a fever dream. How is this real? I happened to sleep really early yesterday, it just happened to be on that particular night.

[moe-broey]

Had. An extremely funny vision to revamp Moe's staff.

The design isn't super final, I can never really decide how I want the accents to look... trying to keep them in line with how the Askr trio's weapons look. Especially the signature color magic glow that's present in their special arts!!!

Anna has it too!!!!! You just don't see it bc her art gets cut off in game. Also, additional image bc you don't see the handle v well in her special.

Which is why, here, the green gem is most prominent on Moe's weapon.... geen....... idk if I'm keeping the other ones that look like the summoning circle orbs. It was just something I wanted to try out!

BUT. BUT. The Main Idea here is that Moe added its own touch to the staff. Yeah, the dangly halo was a Neat idea, but this concept is just so much funnier to me..... says SO much about Moe as a character... it is ALWAYS. Making and customizing things. I can also see Moe using the carabiner practically as well! Now, I wonder why it held onto those two feathers in particular... 🤔

[the-good-luck-anomaly]

WOUND UNDER THE CUT. CW FOR WOUND

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

haven't had to make one of these for a while...

um okay anyways i'm not doing too hot mentally today!! so i'm gonna take a break for tonight and ask that you please send me Foul Legacy asks (or Arlecchino. honestly i'll take anything at this point) because lord knows i sort of need them

[everygarm]

[spineless-lobster]

Literally we had a thunderstorm today and I kept having thunder bringer and storm stuck in my head the entire time what has this musical done to me

[sannyo-appreciation-posts]

Sannyo only paid attention to one thing in Foul Detective Satori 33. (Spoiler free)

They are adorable little creatures

[sage-nebula]

Book Reviews: Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Rating: 3/5

I first read this novel in 2009, when I was 19 years old. At the time, I thought it was the best book I had ever read. I fell in love with the humor, as well as the themes it presented, and I went on to read works by each of the individual authors. (Learning in the process that while I loved Terry Pratchett's work, Neil Gaiman's was not at all for me.) Now, having revisited this novel fifteen years later (using the copy I already owned), I'm sad to say that I don't love it as much as I once did. And no, it is not because Gaiman has turned out to be an abhorrent human being (though he has).

Good Omens is a novel featuring an ensemble cast, but is chiefly about the impending apocalypse that is to be brought about by the Antichrist. Due to a mix-up at the time of the Antichrist's birth, however, he was raised independently from the forces of Heaven and Hell, and as a result the fate of the apocalypse rests solely on his humanity.

What I discovered a decade and a half ago, after reading both a Discworld novel and American Gods, is that the things I enjoyed about Good Omens came from Terry Pratchett. The humor, the use of footnotes, the things it had to say about both humanity and spirituality — that writing style and those themes are present in Pratchett's works. Whereas, Gaiman's style focused on presenting story through use of metaphor in a way that, after awhile, feels try-hard. While the first time I read this novel I thoroughly enjoyed it, this time I had a more difficult time getting through it, and I feel that part of it is due to the disparity of enjoyment I feel from the style of the two authors.

For the most part, the humor of the book still hit. There were definitely jokes that have not aged well at all (e.g. the "it's funny because he's homophobic!" miscommunication joke with the American soldier at the air base, as well as several racist "jokes"), but several of the jokes that I remembered loving from the first time I read the book still landed (e.g. Crowley putting the fear of himself into his houseplants, the footnote explaining Aziraphale's excuse about "misplacing" his flaming sword when God asked about it, leading to God not asking him again). I enjoyed most of the characters, and in fact liked the Them much more than I remembered; their banter with each other is extremely natural, and they come across as the endearing children they were meant to be.

Despite this, there were definitely parts where I felt the book dragged. It took me longer than I expected to finish this novel because I would begin reading, and then start feeling very drowsy shortly after starting. This is unusual for me; if I'm interested in a book, often it will override my desire to sleep no matter how little I've had. Yet with this, there were passages following less interesting or likable characters (e.g. Shadwell) that, despite my best efforts, put me to sleep. It was also wild seeing how quickly the plot ramped up to the apocalypse before even the midway point of the book was reached, only to have the actual day of drag on. (Did we need so many cut-backs to what the police were doing on the M25? No.) The pacing of the novel presents a definite problem.

The romances in the book felt forced as well — and no, I'm not talking about Crowley and Aziraphale, because while one can easily ship them if they want to (and I think I've heard their relationship was made explicitly romantic in the TV show), they aren't written as explicitly romantic in the novel, and can easily be dismissed as friends. No, I'm talking about Newt/Anathema and Shadwell/Tracey. The first is particularly egregious given that she only sleeps with him because a prophecy said she was supposed to (meaning — did she feel coerced into it? and why is she still hanging around with him after, when they barely know each other?), and the latter is awful because despite the book insisting that this bigoted, crotchety old man is likable, at no point does he actually come across that way. The romances were not a central tenet of the book, but their presence still did detract from it, in my opinion.

Lastly, I would be remiss not to mention the anti-Asian racism that crops up at multiple points throughout the novel. Off the top of my head:

1.) The broken English used for the voice alert system in Newt's Japanese car;

2.) A Tibetan monk is referred to as having an "Oriental" face, and I believe that "the Orient" is also mentioned a couple of times;

3.) The factory that produces Newt's fictional car is said to come from Nigirizushi, Japan. There is no such place. Nigirizushi is a type of sushi. Now, since the car is called a Wasabi, one could simply say it was meant to be a joke . . . but Gaiman and Pratchett had absolutely no problem listing so many different towns and places in England (yes Tadfield is fake, but it's south of Oxfordshire, which is real), and had no problem naming real places in the United States, yet they couldn't be bothered to grab a real city from Japan? Not even Tokyo, well-known enough without having to look it up? It feels disrespectful and yes, racist.

Now, this book was published the year I was born. I cannot tell you from experience what attitudes toward East Asia were at the time this book was written, because I wasn't conscious for that. I know that, once-upon a time, "oriental" was an "accepted" term. But plenty of racial slurs start off as "acceptable" terms by those in power. And having Asian characters and places be the butt of the "joke" so many different times in this book didn't feel very funny to me.

With all of that said, while this is no longer a book that I would actively recommend, it's not one I would dissuade people from reading, either. The comedy, in places where it is actually effective, is entertaining, and while it is very surface-level, the questions it raises about religion and the concepts of good or evil can make the book an enjoyable read.

However.

If you do choose to read this book (or any other book authored by Neil Gaiman), I implore you to check it out from a library, get it second-hand, or hell, even pirate it. As I mentioned at the top of this review, I already owned this book. The reason I decided to re-read it was so that I could have a fresh perspective on its place on my shelf. But if I didn't own it, and couldn't get it from a library, I wouldn't have. What Neil Gaiman has done to countless women is beyond heinous, and he does not deserve your money. I implore you to not give it to him. And certainly not over this book, which is average at best.

Regardless of whether there is a Heaven or Hell, we do have Earth. Let's make some good choices while we're here, shall we?

[hp-lonesome-actual-art]

UHM. UH. More messy rushed doodle collection from today. I will not confess to anything my mouth is sealed shut. Most of it is mindless fun; nothing to do with brainstorming storylines or being worried about staying canonical to how his character is typically presented. Head empty no thoughts since I desperately needed a break from animating again

…but yes to answer your question I’m a bit deranged about him please keep scrolling

[dollwritesarchive]

hal panels that just give me a feeling ™️ part one of a thousand

[kyros-tha-soldier]

King riku: *asleep in his bedroom at the palace*

Doflamingo: *BUSTS WINDOW OPEN*

T H I S K I N G D O M B E L O N G S T O

M E N O W

[c-kiddo]

Idk, as someone who watched dsmp, when we talk about c!Techno, we do mean the character, a good chunk of his characterization comes from the fandom. And dsmp generally has the vibe of dnd with friends, bad acting included OwO

ok lol. people outside the fandom dont know that though, is the point, and its so weird to get mad at people for not knowing. and i guess, but ur stuck with dipshits like dream doing a joker arc rp

[nowshesdoingitallthetime]

[mad-hunts]

barton literally finding any excuse to be physically close to those who are, like, in his tight inner circle whenever he feels like he just cannot cope with things going on inside of his head or even on the outside by like... laying his head in his head in their lap / on their shoulder or something similar as they're hanging out. and whenever they're understandably confused by this, because this is the first time he's ever done anything like this, things only seem to get progressively more bewildering and maybe a little bit sad from there. and this is because he's just like ' hey, so i know this might be kind of a weird request, but don't judge me please. i'm just sooo tired of everything, so can you like... stroke my hair or something? '

and depending on whether they actually do it or not, i could imagine barton and this friend of his sort of forming this mutual understanding ( that's probably a mix of nonverbal and verbal ) that whenever he's feeling particularly bad or twisted up inside, he can come to them and just. curl up with them on the couch or something, like JSJSJ barton is honestly sooo confusing sometimes, y'all, because he'll actively seek out comfort from people he trusts in such a vulnerable human way but then he will turn around and kill someone in the most heinous way imaginable the next moment. like i'm currently going feral over this rn because WHATTT HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK but also... OUCH??? i'm not sure how to feel about this if i'm being honest because it definitely demonstrates that barton does genuinely feel thing's despite what some people might think but he's also a terrible person so