#falling angels

[cas-dyke]

sometimes i think about the scene where the angels fall in s8:e23-“sacrifice” and go “huh they really made that. like that was a really well done and powerful and pretty sequence.” and i love it!!

and it’s in the same show as Demon Jersey Shore Snooki/Nicole

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Falling Angels :: Norman Lindsay

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“Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated ; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity.”

-Miguel de Unamuno : “The Tragic Sense of Life”

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I really am starting to have fun drawing them!

[1five1two]

'Falling Angels'. Norman Lindsay. 1930.

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Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels

[moonsjonghyun]

falling angels dir. by wong kar-wai (1995)

[fannele]

I did this art you can find it on twitter ‘Agirlwhohavefandomillness’

[miserylamalice]

Warning ⚠️ blood

Did it hurts when you fall?

[funsizepunkelf]

falling angels

[horsesarecreatures]

Book review - Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

This wasn't a bad book but it’s a bit of an odd one. Told primarily from the perspectives of two neighboring couples, their daughters, their household staff members, and Simon the gravedigger's boy in many short alternating chapters, the book focuses mainly on the girls Maude and Lavinia who meet at 5 years old at the graveyard and grow up to be friends. It takes place at the beginning of the 19th century in London as the families who have neighboring plots at the graveyard meet there for the funeral of the queen. The couples don't really like each other, but the girls become best friends so their lives get entwined. Although nothing too morbid happens for the first two thirds of the book, the primary setting is still the graveyard because the girls like to play there with Simon and look at the stone angels.

Maude is pensive and mature, while Lavinia in contrast is silly and has a flair for dramatic. Maude’s mother is not a particularly likeable character - she is discontent in her marriage and her family suffers for it. While she becomes a suffragette and much of the focus of the book is on that movement, she is not an extremely admirable character because while she fights for other women’s rights, she neglects her daughter emotionally to the point of cruelty, knows it, and doesn't care. She is also concerned with only educated women’s right to vote, but has the audacity to ask her underpaid staff members for donations to the cause, and is condescending towards Lavinia and her mother.

Eventually, the actions of Maude’s mother lead to death and heartbreak in her own family, Lavinia’s, and Simon’s. The book, which had previously been rather light in tone despite all the foreshadowing with the graveyard theme, becomes very dark very fast towards the end. Nonetheless, it is a rich story that keeps the reader engaged because it flows so fast and the full context is revealed with each character’s point of view. I really liked the character of Simon and his friendship with the girls. 

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Can we go back to this for a sec? To Aziraphale having to explain the concept of being in love to the other angels? Because I cannot imagine what a trip it has to be, falling in love with someone when that is literally not something you are supposed to be able to do. When it is something you barely understand. When the object of whatever this is isn't supposed to be able to feel this way either, except as time goes on you start to realize it's happening to him too. And neither of you can actually talk to each other about it.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Falling Angels - Norman Lindsay. :: [Guillaume Gris]

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“This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.”

― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

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actually i'm not done gushing about the animation in this scene, LOOK HOW SMOOTH, HOW GOOD THE CHOREO IS!!! LIKE VISUAL BUTTER

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We really don't talk or post enough about Colin Thompson. When you forget about The Floods and his silly, admittedly super-memeable long stories, some of the most underrated picture books of numerous generations remain. Colin Thompson artworks from the hand-drawn era of his picture books were fucking beautiful. And that's not just when or because he put heaps of activity and density into them. Just LOOK at this...

If that's not a truly elite surrealist at work, I don't know what is.

[verkomy]

falling

you can get a print here: inprnt!