Space phone doodlin’.
lord of the rings if it slayed
@bil-daddy @archangelcrowliel @docdust y'all are too funny and can drop by my Crowley pics any time ☺️ thank you bunches for the compliment!
I'll show everyone the completed version when it's you know, complete...
Oh hi there good omens fandom, did I mention I made a Bildad costume?
It's not entirely done but it was done enough to wear to a convention! There's still some things I'd like to tweak cause I'm a perfectionist and OBSESSED with his costume. Like I could write an essay on the construction alone but I digress.
It was such a blast seeing the delight on all the good omens fans faces when they spotted me, the collective love for Bildad is truly a highlight of the fandom!
Also ft. @black-mambaaaa and @mercyful-benz as turtleneck Crowley and Heaven Crowley looking like we're about to drop the hottest album of the apocalypse.
Aaaaand Heaven Crowley and I waiting on turtleneck Crowley to finish all the pics with our Aziraphale (we only had one and had to share).
The sweet @quinnznos takes our pics as always.
Ok love u bye!
Neil Gaiman “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.” They also look at you funny when you request 2 copies of the same book through the inter-library loan. Even funnier looks when you insist on a hardback and paperback copy.
My quest inspired by @crowleysbookshop for the differences between versions of The Crow Road ended with: 1) two different publishers (Scribner vs. Abacus) and 2) different cover work artists. So not allot. If there is a difference, I missed it.
But there's double-meaning of Crow Road.
Crow Road is a street in Glasgow.
Crow Road is also a metaphor for death.
Two Crow Roads. Two Deaths. A second death.
Photo credit: @daria-meoi
The phrase "second death" appears 4 times in the Bible, specifically the Book of Revelation. The one Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis read to Warlock.
There's a first physical death. You've shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to meet your maker.
The second death is a reference to an eternal separation from God for non-believers and a swim in the Lake of Fire. Where bad folks go when they die.
A traditional interpretation is that the "lake of fire" and the "second death" are symbolic of eternal pain, pain of loss and perhaps pain of the senses, as punishment for wickedness.
Revelation 20:11-15
“Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
If I read that right those who experience this death are all those whose names have been removed from the Book of Life.
There's Hemingway's quote, "Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal." Is that also a Book of Life reference? The power of a name.
I don't understand the Book of Life yet. It's just something you scare cherubs with. I've seen some great meta from @beebopboom on it and the Guardian of the Eastern Gate.
Photo credit @fuckyeahgoodomens
I'm still wondering about these seats. Left Crow Road has rabbit seated. Rabbits are a Fibonacci reference. Then the empty seat. Then second Crow Road with Elspeth's hat over the back.
Why is there an empty seat?
Is it for Death?
A missing book? A book between two deaths. That seat is for the Book of Life.
All right I've been holding this back for a while but now you get to see my
Rating Tron's Exes
list
See? him face
FIRST UP WE HAVE
1. Dyson
Bougie Rat Bastard 3000
Is the Worst™
Absolute dork loser
Made a grab for power and betrayed his brother his captain hiS KING
Not even hot
2/10 Sucks like the vacuum he is
2. Clu
Discount fuck boi god wannabe
Okay listen
There's chemistry between them
Even if it's toxic af
He's part of Kevin of course he and Tron dated
Yes it was full of hate
Esp when he was stuck as Rinzler 😏
But sometimes u gotta date an asshole to know what u dont want
0/10 Actual Nazi
3. Able
Daddy? Sorry
FATHER material
Has stable job and income
Firm but kind and caring
Will tell u to stfu
Divorce was mutual and they got split custody of Beck so pretty chill breakup overall
10/10 Need I say more
4. Cyrus
Boundaries Were Crossed
Yet another betrayal *sigh*
My boi Tron knows how to pic em
Somehow more crazy than Clu
But less Nazi at least???
Spectacular revenge plot tbh
Looks pretty sick 😎
World's Messiest Breakup
5/10 Dedicated to the bit
4.1 Beck
CRACK SHIP I SWEAR
I know y'all are about to come for me
But listen
Programs have no concept of age
This ship is purely for fun for me, I highly ship them as father and son usually (see: Able)
Something about the desperation and trust issues between them speak to me
We all know it would never work out
7/10 doomed by the narrative (if we HAD ANY)
5. Flynnster
fuck boi God SUPREME
I am highly biased on this
loves Tron so much he ported him from the old system
Spent more time with him than with his own son (-1 point for that)
named everything after him
Tron was ready to give up his own life to save him
ANGST
never officially broke up but he thought he was derezzed so that counts
9/10 HERE WE STAND WORLDS APART HEARTS BROKEN IN T- ok I'll stop
6. Ram
Cinnamon Roll too pure yadda yadda
Wide eyed sweetheart
Never did anything wrong in his short cycle
Was in a brief polycule with Tron and Flynn
Only broke up because he derezzed
What's not to like
11/10 perfect angle
7. Yori
HER
Unpopular opinion y'all are about to murder me
They were each other's beards
She's a nerd lesbian
Because she's hot and I want a chance with her I want her to be
They simply realized they preferred other programs and amicably broke up
She calls him up from the first system every now and then and they spill some hot tea and rebellion tips
100/10 bc im in love with her here have another pic
Anyone I missed?
In conclusion, all users and programs desire Tron carnally, grid's biggest slut, he's in nothing and is my everything thank you for coming to my TRON Talk next time I'll rate Beck's exes cause that's been overcooking in my brain too
When people ask me what cut of meat they should get for a specific recipe and I recommend a thing and they go with something completely different and probably wrong because what do I know about meat it’s not like I work at a meat market
retail though
Okay so as I'm sitting down to take a crack at ciphering the angelic language on the show, I've come tot the conclusion that I have so many clues and other things I found, that it's time for me to start slowly dropping these out because boy oh boy have I been collecting clues and theories like a dragon hoards golds. I've also added another member to this blog who will be posting theories and clues as well.
That being said, welcome to the Sequence of Opening Credits Post Part 1, or the I sat down and played the opening credits at .25 speed and took screen grabs of everything weird I found. (Which, brief disclaimer, my eyes are not perfect and I'm bound to miss things, even my glasses don't 100% correct my vision. There's bound to be things I miss and if you happen to find them feel free to add in your finds!)
Today I'm starting off with Jim/Gabriel. Since it was said recently in a panel he's in every scene of the opening, and I knew that cause I've found him...at least I think I found all his appearances... I'm going to start this series of posts off by sharing them with you.
Right off the bat, we have him in the scene directly after Crowley lights a match in a cave.
He's there, nice and clear and noticeable. Keep that in mind because I think that's the most openly we see him in the opening credits.
The next scene after the goats his the graveyard scene. He's already a little trickier to find.
And for those who don't see him in that picture, here's a closer look.
Next seen they enter the mausoleum and you see Gabriel as they decline
(I'm realizing now that if I use too many images there might be a parts 1.1 lol) Any ways after hiding behind that tombstone shaped similarly to (but not quite) the one that says 'Here lies the former shell of Beelzebub) we see him (or at least me, I'll be honest I don't see him when they're walking over the lake of fire) Is in London??? Getting bombed.
Now is you don't see him here that's okay, I told you it gets harder.
He's standing here in this window, even more interesting to me, once the plane drops the bomb that explodes into rabbits...
He's hiding his head in the box lol.
Moving on, I ALMOST didn't see him in the next scene (walking through West End) because I shit you not, he's tucked away in a little nook.)
He is actually hidden (paint me like one of your French girls style) IN THE FRONT of the scene. Makes me wonder if that's where he might be when they cross the lake of fire.
Moving on. Next time we seem him is in space, while Crowley and Aziraphale are doing an interesting little 'swapping sides dance.' Our mans is clinging for dear life lol
In the next scene is where I get confused. Crowley and Aziraphale are sitting on the roof aaaaand...
Jimbriel is standing above 'Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death?' Why not about the bookshop??
In his next appearance....he actually has wings? Which is sus to me again but what isn't sus about this show lol. Jimbriel is in an elevator, riding down as the line of people making their slow death march pass.
Using all my will power to acknowledge the blatantly weird things in this screen grab alone, I move on.
In this one, I will momentarily ignore our boys kissing in the opera box and instead show you, Jimbriel. ALSO in an opera box.
Now I'm not sure Jim is in the direct next scene cause no one is, but there is a falling apart? statue of Gabriel in front of Mount Zion.
Aaaaand finally we have him walking along with everyone else, preparing to seal his fate. I won't do a close up of this one because he's right there.
And that concludes The Opening Credits Pt.1. I would say something more, make a little theory or something, but I don't think there's much to say on Jim giving someone (whose name currently escapes me) said in an interview Jim is in every scene. So anyways. Here's this for you to hold as reference, or just look at, or ignore cause I'm not sure myself how important it is. (Yay me for fitting this all in one post!)
Anyways I'm going to get started on cracking this Angelic language. Stay tuned for more Opening Credits posts because believe me. I have more.
Yes! I also want to point out that the little trance Gabriel goes into in episode 4 when he's remembering things is paraphrasing the book of Revelation! "The dead will leave their graves and walk the earth once more and there will be great Lamentations." There is a part in the Bible where the sounds of trumpets and instruments and other things mark the second coming of Christ, and the dead rising from their graves is ALSO one of the signs (I can't remember if it's before or after, it's been a WHILE since I've read it). And coupled with the zombie Nazis, the living dead? It was all foreshadowed and I just love that for once all that miserable reading and sermons throughout my childhood and teen years gave me at least some knowledge for this wonderful show specifically. However, the thing that really sticks out to me is the word "lamentations" which gives off a more...dark interpretation. I was under the impression when I first read the book that it was meant to be a happy thing. First the dead would rise to join Jesus, and then the living. So I wonder if Neil's interpretation will be something more out of a horror movie. I can't wait :) Sorry to hijack your post op, I had some thoughts and you sparked them!
I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out yet, but in Season 2 episode 3 (aka the grave digging episode) Aziraphale drives their Crowley's car. In the car he's listening to classical music and the piece he gets to play is 'Danse Macabre' by Camille Saint-Saëns. And if you don't know the 'Danse Macacre' it's a classical piece from 1874 and the French title translates to 'dance of death.' The piece itself is in a minor key and has a lot of strings that gives it an almost playful yet dreary tone. It's often interpreted to represent the resurrection of the dead, no matter the walk of life, and then dancing around graves. The overall message is basically that death is inevitable and no one can escape from it, that it doesn't matter who you are, all things come to an end.
So anyways, I recall Neil Gaiman or someone (sorry if it wasn't you Neil, I can't remember if I saw it here on Tumblr or in one of the several Good Omens interviews) that everything that happens in the show is deliberate. We all know it's deliberate that Crowley listens to Queen/the Bentley turns all music into Queen (sorry im not doing this explanation justice) and we also know that Aziraphale seems to like classical music. But I think there's a darker meaning almost to him listening to the 'Danse Macabre' and that maybe there's just subtle hints all through the season that the end is inevitable no matter how desperately this angel and demon try to prevent it. Or maybe it's even that this whole time it was telling us anyways that Aziraphale was bound to become Supreme Archangel. Or maybe it's just because this episode is about grave robbing, digging up the bodies that died and using them for a new purpose (also considering the grave robbing episode takes place in the early 1800s, before this piece was composed but still) and the piece is actually just to set the tone of the episode. Or maybe it's different all together.
Either way, I think it's important to note the piece he's listening to and the story the piece tells and it's relevance to the story as a whole.
Dune always gets me with the prescience thing.
Knowing every possible future can't be any form of freedom when you are chained to the only route that will save humanity. A route that kills 62 billion and counting in order to save the rest and it's all for a goal hundreds of millennia in the future.
By becoming the Kwisatz Haderach you have doomed the rest of your lineage to take part in your bloody work and have forever stained your beloved father's name.
The golden path is paved with blood on Atreides hands, but would not interfering make it any different? Can you justify the means if it means the survival of your race? Do you even deserve to survive after what you've done?
Does Paul(and Leto II) actually limit the possibilities through his/their own perception of the future? Could it have gone differently if humanity hadn't discovered the spice and interfered with time in the first place?
Or, like eating the one forbidden fruit in the middle of a garden, was this always the only option for us because humans can't help but fuck around and find out?
Heeeeey so uh not to bug you or anything but when you gonna rate CLU's exes? Your ratings are good af 👌
Uh oh you've boosted my ego, now I'm going to draft it out
give me 5-10 business days cause I'm terrible at posting(also thank you, I love this fandom so much)
Ope, click the new link instead!
Hey guys I made an FMV :)
Have you also been feeling down about the ending of Good Omens 2? Well look no further. This probably will still make you sad. Enjoy!
I can't promise that I will only talk about tron in the year of our lord 2021 but I will be thinking about it constantly.
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