#I could talk about this for hours

[jenanigans1207]

You don’t understand how much the casual intimacy of this means to me. Reki resting his head on top of Langa’s and Langa just looking like he’s never been more in love with anything in his whole life? The comfort and security Reki feels to basically just melt onto Langa’s back, to put his full weight into Langa and just lean comfortably on him while they bicker? It’s genuinely such a pure expression of affection and comfort and more than literally anything else in the ova, this is what makes me the happiest.

[toxxtt]

playing around with some historical french fashions on furina (+ neuvi).. I think she should always get big silly hats

18th+19th century mens fashion is one of my fav fav fav things is ever so this was fun 🫡 love being fashion history neurodivergent

[lumsel]

The thing i love about dungeon meshi is it's about eating. And not in some bullshit metaphor way like eating as an analogy for love or power, no, it is unapologetically, literally about eating. How we relate to eating socially and culturally, how the dynamics of eating shape the natural world, how important eating is to our bodies and our wellbeing, everything comes back to eating. It is a story with total thematic focus on something most people would write off as too benign to be able to carry a whole story. But eating is important! We all do it, three times a day! Why shouldn't it get a story all to itself?

[pencilscratchins]

can’t shake the idea of amanda making the kids spend a harvest season on uncle trip’s and aunt t’pol’s pear farm in washington. this is basically a “the simple life” au where sybok forms a cult of personality, michael frees all the frogs from a local high school, and spock gets a crush. classic boy meets world stuff. (twitter) [ID in ALT]

[theelastword]

“Aziraphale and Crowley are so Romeo and Juliet-coded because they’re fated enemies who fell in love”

Yes!!!! But it’s also so much more than that!

(TW: Brief mentions of suicide)

One of the core aspects of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is that Romeo represents Juliet’s desire to choose for herself, whereas Juliet represents Romeo’s desire to BE chosen. In the play, Juliet is kept isolated from her peers with no friends her own age, and the very first thing we learn about her is that her parents have arranged a marriage for her with a man she doesn’t know even though she is only 13 (a ridiculously young age to get married even in Shakespeare’s day, during which the average age for women to marry was about 26). She hasn’t been given the freedom to choose anything for herself, from her morals (aka the arbitrary hatred of the feud that older generations force upon her– one of the founding themes of the play!) to whom she spends her time with to whom she chooses to love. As such, the first independent choice she makes by herself and for herself is Romeo. 

During their scenes, the lovers often have shared lines of iambic pentameter, but they are almost always started by Juliet— an indicator that she holds the power in the relationship. She sets the pace and chooses something for herself for the very first time, finally escaping the iron grip of her parents’ rule. This also plays into the symbolism of her death— she uses a dagger, symbolizing her desire to choose something for herself throughout the play as her parents try to make all of her major life decisions for her. In her death, she must ‘choose’ to mark her territory and sink the dagger into her own body in a twisted, tragic display of strength; in this way, her death becomes her last defiant demonstration of her autonomy. Daggers were also seen as a symbolically masculine method of death, proving Juliet’s power despite her seemingly lovesick, innocent nature.

Likewise, the first thing we learn about Romeo is that he is an emotional, vulnerable person in the middle of a bloody, violent, feud-torn city. He also specifically tells Friar Lawrence that his love for Juliet is different from his infatuation with Rosaline because Juliet actually loves him back; he clearly desires somebody to actively choose to be with him. Romeo’s sensitive side is made clear from his state of melancholy upon our first introduction to the character– in a world of hatred and meaningless fighting, he simply wants to forgo violence and be loved. And unlike Rosaline, Juliet actively chooses him. Just like Juliet’s dagger, this also plays into Romeo poisoning himself at the end of the play. Not only was this a traditionally feminine way to die, death via poison involves the spreading of toxic material through one’s body, almost as though the poison claims or ‘chooses’ its victim, much like Romeo craves someone to choose him throughout the play.

Applying this dynamic to Good Omens, I think that Aziraphale serves as the Juliet of their relationship; Heaven controls every single aspect of his life and identity, forcing him to comply with their every wish and trying to break or mold him to fit their standards and bullshit morals that are really just an excuse for meaningless hatred, much like the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. In a similar vein to Romeo being the only thing that Juliet chooses because he makes her happy, not her parents, Crowley is the choice that Aziraphale consistently makes outside of Heavenly abuse (the same can be said for humanity and books and food and music etc etc, but for the sake of this post I’m talking  specifically about relationships). Juliet’s musings in scenes like Act II, Scene 2 or Act IV, Scene 3 are some of if not the wisest verse in the entire play, and it all comes from a lovesick young girl whom most people write off because she is silly and soft and innocent– much like Heaven takes advantage of Aziraphale’s kindness and his strength is often underestimated both by people on the show and even fans of it. 

Additionally, Aziraphale is similar to Juliet in that both of them, in large part, set the pace of their love stories— Juliet starts her shared lines of verse with Romeo, and Aziraphale tells Crowley to slow down and match his pace for fear of risking both of their safeties. This is a fascinating aspect of Aziraphale and Crowley’s dynamic– by all accounts, Crowley should resent Aziraphale for pushing him away and implying prejudiced things about angels vs demons throughout their relationship, but– at least until the s2 finale– there was always an unspoken understanding in which Crowley knew that Aziraphale, while misguided and sometimes unfair, was keeping them safe from Heaven and Hell combined and didn’t really mean or believe anything he said. 

This kind of power and unspoken understanding is very evocative of Romeo and Juliet, because some literary scholars and historians attribute the establishment of ‘private’ selves to Shakespeare himself: the idea that people could harbor secrets and not mean everything they directly say was a deeply uncomfortable notion in Elizabethan England, and Romeo and Juliet as a play revolutionized this concept, popularizing a whole new literary tradition and setting fictional relationships down a long path that eventually helped create the dynamic between Aziraphale and Crowley in the first place! Furthermore, in nearly every flashback in Good Omens in which we see the development of Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship, we start with Aziraphale alone, and Crowley either finds him or ‘happens’ to be in the right place at the right time. Much like Shakespeare’s young lovers, Aziraphale starts the moment and Crowley completes it. Good Omens also parallels Romeo and Juliet as a piece of fiction because the play was among the first to highlight regular people, implicitly stating that tragedy and romance can happen to anyone, not exclusively royalty (before this, almost all famous tragedies centered around royals). This revolutionizing concept of who stories can be about leads us directly to Good Omens, in which the focus of the story is not well-known, powerful biblical figures, but two people who should, by all accounts, be Nobodies. The same can be said for how Armageddon is stopped in season one, in which embracing human nature over Heaven and Hell and choosing to be a normal human kid is what allows Adam and the Them to save the day. 

Moving on to Crowley– he spends the whole show warring being the emotional, vulnerable person he actually is versus the violent, hard demon he’s ‘supposed’ to be, much like Romeo’s struggles in feud-torn Verona. He parallels Romeo in that Aziraphale gives him the opportunity to be vulnerable and kind and, rather than admonish him for not being the picture of a violent rogue, he loves him all the more for it. After being rejected by Heaven and cast out for eternity, Crowley needs someone to welcome him in and choose him just like Romeo does. Aziraphale chooses Crowley for all his quirks, just as Juliet does Romeo. For the record, the opposite argument could easily be made, as well; Crowley loves Aziraphale because of his quirks and kindness rather than shun or abuse him for them, like Heaven does, and Aziraphale also desperately needs someone to choose him after Heaven reminds him time and time again that he’ll never be enough for the angels. Crowley chooses Aziraphale just as much as Aziraphale chooses Crowley. Overall, though, I think the parallels fit best when applied to Juliet/Aziraphale and Romeo/Crowley. 

[hmsdoodlin]

Forever and always thinking about how Hearts time in apathy could have affected Whole and the other two.

I personally like to think he was down there for at least a week or a month, which is so much time to negatively impact everyone!!!

Did Whole change? Did he become completely numb and disinterested with the outside world and his own intrests? Does he eventually stop finding enjoyment in things and begins to live on auto pilot? Two dead eyes staring into the mirror when Mind wrestles him out of bed to brush his teeth?

What about Mind? Is he overwhelmed with this new responsibility? He thought he’d be able to do it all alone but Heart contributed a lot more than he initially realized. Is he confused? Frustrated that piloting their host gets harder and harder as the days pass? Does he start to spiral? For the first time in his life he got what he wanted and it’s not working how he thought it would. So much time planning, so many nights imagining himself as the leader, why is he failing? What if he takes all of his anger out on Heart with his songs, the 3 song tangent being him getting more and more frustrated. Whole isn’t getting better and instead of accepting that he might be wrong he only hates Heart harder.

I can’t even guess how it affected Soul, only showing up at the very end to put a stop to this once and for all. Did he feel empty too? Did his chest ache everyday for the man 6 feet under? Did he finally show up because Mind was killing their Whole just like Heart had predicted? Or was it because he was finally ready to give up?

You can even go into how it affects their house! Does it get colder? Are all of the pictures of Heart magically wiped away and covered in purple ooze? Do clocks begin to appear and tick louder and louder until it’s deafening? Is the sun brighter? Does it blind your eyes? Does it burn your skin when you step outside? What about the opposite? What if the headspace gets colder and colder, more snow piling up everyday as the sun emits no real warmth. Does the moon disappear? Are the nights unfathomably dark?

SO MUCH COULD HAPPEN

[nezumi727]

I could talk about them for hours <3

[sntafe]

davey jacobs act 2 costume change you will always be famous

[mira-mercury]

It’s not even the “I love you” that got me. It was the “you changed me, Dean.” Think about that. YOU changed ME. you CHANGED ME. Dean had so much of an impact on Cas it changed his entire outlook on life and the people he cared about.

That’s deeper than an I love you in my books

[kantimplora]

"Tyler and The Hyde" "Tyler's Hyde" "Evil Tyler" UNLESS—

Laurel literally drugged him with chemicals, it could just be simple old mind control.

Also considering Hydes have been around for more, since Faulkner wrote his diary many years before the novel was published.

And that none of the other outcasts have the classic things:

-Werewolfs still have control over themselves when they tranform

-Sirens can walk and talk at the same time

-Gorgons only stone people temporarily

So let's give the boy some credit? He tried his best at helping Wednesday out

[foxetails]

graceland too // post trimax

[justcallmelittlesunshine]

Hear me out!!!

Submissive...

Service top...

Praise kink...

Crow.

Welcome to my ted talk...

[nestokaodevojka]

i love how the aib fandom ignores any act of violence if it's not physical

[castlephantom]

I'm often thinking about Sara being in Vampire Killer.

She is like a ghost to every single Belmont. She can see, she can hear, but they don't know that she is there. Her pain that none of Leon's descendents will recognise or notice her and she will be simply remembered as "Leon's fiancé" and not "The Soul of Vampire Killer."

And that makes me wanting to write her as the hope, the strength, the true power of Belmont clan outside form being damsel in distress or a fridged woman.

[duskdawnallen]

i was thinking about raptor (mostly bc 3 people sent me the same edit of him, they know me so well) and hes so. weird. back when haley’s circus didn’t go international, he was there and when mary grayson joined the circus with john, he stayed close to the circus. he literally loved her way too much to let her go.

then when she died, he literally kept an eye on dick throughout his life and set himself up to join the court of owls when they expressed an interest in dick and then he killed someone and built up his reputation just so he would he the one they send to work with dick grayson when he joined the court.

he literally hated the court all that time, they are just rich men trying to control a city through the shadows (his whole thing is that he hates rich people in politics) and then he worked with dick to take down the court but set it up so it looked like dick had convinced him to betray the court

and then he tried to get dick to join him as his partner but he fucked up by trying to kill bruce wayne so dick handed him off to spyral’s custody

[stop-that-train]

Will using Leno to distract himself from Mack and whatever they have going on but it's Pushing it Down and Praying by Lizzy McAlpine

Will coming to BC back to visit his boys but now something is different but it's Pushing it Down and Praying by Lizzy McAlpine