Do you have any tips on how to pick colors for a piece? Not exactly like the technical stuff but more like but reaction knowing? If that makes sense lol
I’m really bad at picking colors, but I usually try to make them stand out against eachother enough to not make things muddy!
This chart is really handy!
I know we talk a lot about Crowley and Aziraphale but, like, Pepper telling the Antichrist she’s not his friend any more? Standing up to War with no prospect of surviving but doing it anyway because if she didn’t she wouldn’t be Pepper? Brian running to check on his fallen friend but also grabbing a bat on the way because his friend just hovered in the air with red glowing eyes? And then lowering the bat when the first thing Adam says is ‘I’m sorry’? Wensleydale saying ‘actually yes, goodbye Adam’? Being little and not especially good at anything but standing with his friends because that’s just what you do? The Antichrist being defeated by the power of friendship??? I’m having a lot of feelings about the Them, this is the good shit right here
i one hundred percent agree on this, but i will admit i found it funny in the most endearing way possible that at one point it can technically be summarized as the antichrist going “i dont care what you do u^u” and his friends just walk off, and this child, who may i remind you is the antichrist, still levitating off the ground, clearly DOES care and is now following and Hovering Angrily behind his friends to keep conversing as they go “well we dont wanna be friends with you anymore :/” and he snaps at them awkwardly in return and they just keep walking, and iTS JUST. ITS OBVIOUSLY A VERY INTENSE MOMENT BUT ALSO KINDA COMICAL THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS HOVERING ANGRILY BEHIND HIS FORMER BUDDIES IN THIS MOMENT THATS A LOT LIKE JUST EVERYDAY KID-FRIEND-FIGHTS. ITS A BIT DRAMATICALLY IRONIC, IS ALL, EVERYTHING NORMAL EXCEPT “OH YEAH ADAMS THE ANTICHRIST, BTW, THATS WHY HES LEVITATING”
its just so wonderfully mundane at first glance despite the weight of everything thats happening, i love it. adam looks really awkward, literally the most powerful being on the planet, being kinda ignored and having to either follow or be left behind entirely, fumbling through the sort of dialogue i havent seen since elementary school, as pepper, brian, and wensleydale coolly walk off, and adam wrestles with his personal pride vs. how much he values their opinions. its very much “dangerously powerful antagonist has a moment of social awkwardness and suddenly the situation is very remniscent of mundanity,” which is not only a very symbolically powerful scene, but really funny to me.
i mean, obviously the fact that adam is the antichrist very much only intensifies the strength in his friends turning their backs and walking away (i dont wanna diminish how powerful this moment is!!), but also its kinda casual danger dialog and i DIED when it happened.
Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Honestly though, imagine being the angel who Fell for asking questions. You were just curious, you wanted to know more, and depending on how literally we take 'I just asked questions' either you eventually got fed up with being brushed off and turned to Lucifer for answers, or you straight up pissed the other angels off enough that they kicked you out of Heaven.
Either way, you then end up in Hell, which to me at least doesn't look like the kind of open and nurturing workplace environment that would welcome the questions of a curious demon. Certainly the likes of Hastur and Ligur openly discourage innovation, preferring traditional 'craftsmanship', which doesn't speak well for their acceptance of curiousity.
And then you get assigned to Eden, do the whole apple thing (aka the thing where you have to cause someone to fall from grace through their natural curiousity by tempting them with knowledge— and yeah, God's really rubbing it in by this point) and end up making smalltalk with an angel while watching the two humans walk off across the desert.
And you notice that the angel's flaming sword is missing and you decide to ask about it. "Didn't you used to have a flaming sword?" Because you're the one who asks questions, you can't help it. "What, lost it already have you?"
And. He. Fucking. Answers. You.
Like seriously, imagine that. Chances are last time you asked an angel anything you ended up being catapulted into a pit full of burning sulphur, now this one's openly telling you that he gave away his flaming sword.
And this is not something he should be telling you. Aziraphale will later lie to God about this, and even if we're assuming that he was counting on his word being taken over a demon's should it ever get back to Heaven, he's still announcing to a member of the Other Side that he's currently unarmed.
But no, Crowley asked and Aziraphale answered, and that's a pattern that ends up being repeated.
When they meet up again, a thousand years later, Crowley asks about the sword again, and Aziraphale not only answers but goes on to answer even more questions about the Flood. Like, this is basically treason now. If Crowley actually wanted to interfere with Aziraphale's business then this would be brilliant for him, because the angel is perfectly fine with spilling the beans about the entire divine plan.
Again, at Golgotha, "come to gloat, have you?", a rhetorical question that Aziraphale nonetheless answers. And answers by admitting that he's "not consulted on policy", openly implying that he disapproves of this. Crowley even gets to ask more questions: "what did he say that got everyone so upset?"
In the book Aziraphale takes the time to answer Crowley's questions in the middle ages about how exactly humans get to Heaven or Hell (and how the class system factors into this).
In the series, he gets him to admit to travelling across the channel dressed as an aristocrat during the French revolution because he wanted some crepes.
On the way back from the nunnery— book again— Crowley even gets him to tell him which world leaders are working for Heaven. (I cannot stress enough how easy it would be for Crowley if he actually wanted to work against Aziraphale.)
It gets to the stage where their break up in episode three is triggered by Aziraphale's decision to stop answering Crowley's questions. First he avoids them— "have you got the antichrist's name, address and shoe size yet?" "Shoe size? Why would I have his shoe size?"— and then he openly states that he won't tell Crowley where the antichrist is, because they're on opposite sides.
And then when they make up again Aziraphale answers his question, by telling him where the antichrist is.
Crowley is the angel who Fell for asking questions, and Aziraphale is the angel who regularly risks Falling to answer them, and this is why they are perfect for each other.
ways i have tricked people into thinking i am competent:
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This is AMAZING thank you for your life tips and guidance, friend
i just really needed it to exist
thinking about how odysseus’s dog argos stayed alive for 20 (!!) whole years after odysseus left for troy just so that he could see his master again, only to die the moment after he finally saw that odysseus was home
The Glorious Mollymauk - Long May He Reign!!!✨
(Painted while imagining he’s looking down on the chaos crew and thoroughly approving)
Laughing my ass off at your tags
#relatable moana
detritus says fuck transphobes
incomplete list of favorite nott moments, in no particular order:
i think edward elric entire military experience can be summarized as john mulaney’s “horse loose in the hospital” bit
there is a CHILD ALCHEMIST LOOSE IN THE STATE MILITARY!
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE CHILD IS GOING TO DO, LEAST OF ALL THE CHILD!
HE’S NEVER BEEN IN THE MILITARY BEFORE!
They interviewed a man who once saw a baby in a restaurant.
WE’VE ALL SEEN A BABY IN A RESTAURANT!!!
THIS IS A CHILD. LOOSE IN THE MILITARY.
And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the child, and then, 5 miles under the capital city, an evil homunculus was like, “I have a huge transmutation circle and I’m going to kill everyone to become god!” And before we could say anything, the child was like, “If you even fucking look at Amestris, I will punch you to death with my fists. I dare you to do it. I want you to do it. I want you to do it so I can take my unresolved daddy issues out on you, I’m so fucking crazy.”
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Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, just surprising. Like, “Today the child did alchemy without a transmutation circle,” and everyone is like, “Huh, I didn’t know he could do that.”
The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the child at all. Those are the days when everyone is like “I think the child has finally calmed down,” and then the child is like “I just uncovered a government conspiracy. I went in that secret lab and snuck in there with my tiny body. I have a tiny body, but don’t you tell me that, or I’ll fuck you up,” and you’re like “That’s what I thought you’d say, you tiny fucking child.”
And then for a second we’re like “Maybe the government will fire the child,” and the child is like “I have dismantled the government.”
And its like, I didn’t know he could do that, that shouldn’t be allowed no matter who the child is.
Some people are like “There should NOT be a child in the military”
And I’m like “Well WE’RE WELL PAST THAT”
Some others are like “If there’s a child in the military, then I can do human transmutation with my daughter!”
And we’re like “Well those two things DON’T ADD UP AT ALL!”
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Beautiful work of art. I can’t wait to introduce this to my group.
Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
