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The Artistic Trio

& The Questionable Culinary(?) Trio(??) Saw people talk about how SQQ, LWJ and HC would probably get along given their artistic tendencies, and that left the food coma brothers and a LBH who has to rely on his demon blood to not pass out while eating whatever they came up with

wangsheng duo!

Model of a decomposing Tyrannosaurus rex at the Altmühltal Museum by Aart Walen. Bavarian Forest, Germany

What a wonderful, evocative, REAL sculpture. It really brings home how these were living thing, flesh and blood, not immortal. Fellow earthlings.

Dark Wen Yuan AU where Wei Wuxian still lived and A-Yuan grew to be his disciple. WWX doesn’t leave Burial Mounds and A-Yuan meets with other sects on his behalf. He doesn’t hate LWJ, he’s still fond of him, but him and WWX have a wrong perception about what happened They think LWJ attacked WWX with all the rest during the fight at Nightless city. Of course WWX and A-Yuan don’t know that LWJ actually saved him and suffered the punishment for it. THEY DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE SCARS ON HIS BACK AND BABY DOESN’T REVEAL IT TO THEM! Anyways Lan Wangji has not seen Wei Wuxian for 13 years, because wwx closed himself off with the strongest fucking barrier known to the cultivation world. (YES. It’s our genius YLLZ), and only sees Wen Yuan from time to time. However in this au, 13 years later there have been very fierce attacks that the cultivation world cannot handle and they think it’s the Yiling Laozu at work again of course, so they plan to make another siege. LWJ hears of this and hurries to see WWX and talk to him, to find out if it was really him who caused it (although he’s the only one who doesn’t believe it), and to warn him as well. He’s very nervous because he’s never seen WWX since 13 years ago and WWX never showed himself and neither replied to his confession. So LWJ kinda understood this as his decline and let him be. BUT NOW BABY HAS TO GO UP THE MOUNDS. And that’s where they meet again for the first time. With WWX wearing this cloak (I had too, it’s sexy ok?) and still demanding to respect Hanguang Jun even after all that happened :’(((((

I know the tumblr girlies are always up for weird fish women so maybe I can interest you in my Skirk genshin redesign

this is funny

like really, really funny

I have googled my life away. I have read bible verses. I have studied the ohilosophical meaning behind the numbers. I have become a modern Gallup trying to ask people to help me figure this out. What the FUCK does it mean.

Reblog when you get it…

THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY WHAT DOES IT MEAN

GODDAMMIT

still obsessed w an au where zoro doesn’t get caught by the marines, so he and luffy never meet at shell town. zoro continues pirate hunting and searching for mihawk (which brings him to the grand line) & luffy goes about collecting crew members like pokemon (and also goes to the grand line). their paths are aligned but never crossing, but the crew (nami & usopp especially) are convinced the demon pirate hunter is after them. luffy comes back from a day of exploring with a green haired swordsman look guys he’s sooooo cool he has three swords and helped me beat some bandits up. usopp faints on the spot

zoro, seeing the pirate flag and his brain cell working in overtime: ………you’re luffy. straw hat luffy. 100 million berry luffy. and this is your PIRATE crew………..fuck

luffy, confused as to why it’s such a big deal: and you’re roronoa zoro, demon pirate hunter, and you’re going to join my crew!

literally everyone: you knew?????????

luffy: I’ve been waiting to meet him forever!!

nami: he’s here to KILL you!!!!!

zoro:

luffy:

zoro:

luffy, making puppy eyes:

zoro: not anymore

sooo anyway. usopp deserved a god damn hug in w7 

Let me give ya’ll a little angst

cyno's comedy act debut in fontaine

(my twitter)

“You’re welcome, Wing.”

thinking about avatars in pre-modern times…

a royal food tester (eats food to see if it poisoned or safe) who, after years of fearing that every meal will be their last, becomes an avatar of the end

a “witch” whose entire life was shattered and who was burned at the stake, who returns in a gout of flame as an avatar of the desolation

roving bands of trackers who slowly grew more bestial and separated from their villages, chasing ever bigger prey as avatars of the hunt

children branded as changelings who become avatars of the stranger

shunned bastard children who beguile their ways into the good graces of their rich parent’s family and gracefully claw their way to the top as avatars of the web

just… avatars in eras long passed. shaped by the world around them

Oh. This isn't abotu ATLA

Local demon so evil, so wicked

after season 2

I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

skirk but as an older and jaded goth mommy

weh weh

I may do a series on how many different ways Crowley can get rid of The Metatron.