Dramatic Crowley cannot simply stand up from a chair

He must launch himself from his throne

I had the great pleasure of doing a Lucian/Peter Vincent commission for dear @trashboatprince !

you can't read shakespeare's plays. begging everyone i meet ever to WATCH them please they're so much more understandable and fun and whimsical and the comedies are funnier and the tragedies are more heartbreaking when you can actually just. see everything. like you can't just READ it it's NOT A BOOK!!!!

Utterly obsessed with these Shakespeare playbook covers from the late 1960s by Paul Hogarth

(watching Hamlet for the first time) Oh, so that's where that quote is from. Oh, so that's where that quote is from. Oh, so that's where that quote is from. Oh, so tha

I was so confused during today’s Drac Daily about this part in particular

Because that??? Bro, that ain’t Hamlet.

I went digging and found someone attempting to explain it:

If it is referencing this scene then it’s the part in the play where Hamlet says he’s going to throw everything off the table of his mind and focus only on revenge (this does…not work out for him).

BUT THEN

SO BASICALLY

B A S I C A L L Y

Stoker’s dumb acting friend MISQUOTED SHAKESPEARE loudly and often enough that it wound up in this novel????????

Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

I couldn’t sleep until I drew this

okay but "would i were a man, i would eat his heart in the marketplace" is like. The Line of the play. it's beatrice's anger and frustration and, most importantly, her complete lack of power as a woman. her best friend and cousin was humiliated, abused, and left for dead, and there is nothing that she can do, because, even if she's allowed to make fun of the men when people find it funny, she ultimately has no power as a woman. and no one understands, no one believes her, no one gets the absolute rage that she feels on behalf of hero. to the men it's all a game. and it's this line that makes benedick understand. after that line, he goes from refusing to hurt claudio to promising to fight him, because he understands. he sees when no one else does that beatrice has no power. and he agrees to fight his friend, not because he wants to, but because he sees that she can't.

but the Beatrice/Benedick scene right after the wedding. it’s the first scene in the play where they are not openly antagonistic with each other but there’s still a kind of barrier between them at the beginning. he’s coming towards her, trying to help, and she’s also responding to that advancing. “how much might the man deserve of me who would right her” is Beatrice giving him a window but ultimately she’s still pushing him away. “a very even way but no such friend” and “it is a man’s office, but not yours”. Benedick doesn’t fight her on this last one, he has no comeback or question because he understands there is nothing he can do to cross this barrier that is less than being completely vulnerable with her. and he knows that it’s his job, his time, to be vulnerable first not hers. partly because right now she’s crushed and heartbroken and angry on hero’s behalf and so is in no place to be vulnerable with him, partly because he hurt her so long ago and so it’s his job to unhurt her first, and partly because he just wants to say it so badly because he loves her so much. and so instead of responding and continuing the dance he stops and he says it- the thing that’s been between them this whole time that his pride and hurt and pain prevented him from even admitting in his own mind. he takes a breath and just, says it- “i do love nothing in this world so well as you- is not that strange?” and it disarms her so totally, the way that nothing else could or would, and makes her able to accept his help and his love at the same time and I just love, so much, how that scene is constructed—with its opening lines building up in a way that’s reminiscent of their repartee of old, always opposing, always bantering, always engaged in a slightly bitter dance but then all of that shifting and shattering and dissolving in his incredibly gentle and life-altering admission of love that lays both of their hearts bare to each other. it’s really so, so much.

I tried my hand at dear @elahogn ‘s Halloween DTIYS, because I love me some giant snakes sipping tea! And I always need to practice my scales.

(Does anyone know of any other open dtiyses I should try my hand at??)

Hey, guys, have you seen the panel of Good Omens? What do you think? As part of the upcoming second season, we will also delight with this entertaining duet and allow ourselves a small experiment.)

Nanny Ashtoreth - by Anatrickster

Arhangel Michael - by Red Ambassador

📸 - by Omega N

Obsessed with this scene and will be forever; A very long meta.

Your ‘exactly’ and my ‘exactly’ are different ‘exactly’s’

The Scene.

Crowley’s exactly means “We need to be safe and together and away from danger. Let me keep you safe.”

Aziraphale’s exactly means “We need to help because it’s the right thing to do, and we fix things when we’re together.”

Note though, that this is the only time they clarify with each other, and they don’t actually say what they mean, they say what they want to do.

New headcanon unlocked... Dream saw what went on in Crowley's head, and was like "Oh hell no, not in my realm" And then sleeping became one of Crowley's favorite things to do.

this man CANNOT sit normally.

my average experience trying to work when benji is around . it's a good thing he's cute!

He’s so BAMF here, I love it! ❤

Bonus:

Wanted to redraw some iconic moments from the TV adaptation of that one popular Bible fanfic. Once again I’m like five months late

Michael Sheen’s face is so hard to draw but nothing beats the satisfaction of having captured even just a fraction of his feral energy. I feel like most of my enjoyment of Good Omens stems from the fact that none of these actors know how to not do the absolute most with their faces at all times

the hardest part was settling on the exact millisecond i wanted to redraw because every single frame is gold… You can tell how I progressively spent more and more time on each one lol

Also, here are some alternative versions of the last one:

this was the name of the ps file:

Edit: Part 2

*click & zoom for better view / HD versions on my dA*

And then God said thou shall give all demons soft animal crowns.

Headcanon that every angel has a demon who's their soulmate (romantic or platonic)

That one being they can trust and be themselves with, someone who can be their safety net and help them break their conditioning from their respective sides (I'll make a post with more on the conditioning later)

Till now we've seen:

Aziraphale has Crowley

Gabriel has Beelzebub

And there's been some speculation and shipping of:

Muriel and Eric

Michael and Dagon

(I only mentioned shipping cause those seem to be popular as romantic pairings but they could also easily be read as platonic!)

Now going to my point: I have this headcanon that metatron is just taking advantage of the systemic problems of heaven and spewing more and more bullshit to the angels to manipulate them into doing "what God wants" and has taken over by this point (mind you he is not necessarily THE problem of heaven, he's more of a representation of what is wrong with the system as a whole while also representing real people who are in positions of power and take advantage of a broken system to meet their own interests).

Now what if God,knowing that would happen, decided to pair the angels and then made half of them fall so that they'd have different points of view? Which yes is cruel and again a representation that God is kinda fucked up and so is her system and you might ask why do that? Why make all of them go through all this suffering to learn a lesson that wouldn't even be necessary in the first place if only she hadn't created the very problem the lesson was about?and my answer to that is: go read any passage of the Bible, that's just how God is,with all of her trials and tribulations...

But anyways, back on track: since they'd be fighting they would need a middle ground that didn't belong to either side (earth) and as they'd compete for human souls they'd end up meeting their soulmates and together they'd hopefully get closer to the humans and would start a process of deprogramming (I'll dive more into it on the conditioning post), cause that's pretty much what's happening with Zira and Crowley, is what happened with Gabe and Bee, they met their soulmate and started learning to enjoy life outside the feud between heaven and hell,they started learning that there's nothing wrong with just being happy and finding out who they want to be outside the limitations of their sides

So yeah

God knew shit would go down because she designed it to happen and decided to pair them all up to have some support on their journeys