#parallel: reach

[mugentakeda]

damn thats so crazy

[princip1914]

A little hopeful moment which I missed on the first watch, but which I think is so important. Nina and Maggie come to have their talk with Crowley. Now, we all know that Crowley is Maggie—yes, sure, Nina is sarcastic and suave and cool and calls Maggie angel—but it’s obvious that Crowley is Maggie and Nina is Aziraphale. Crowley even admits it himself in the very beginning of this conversation when he tries to justify meddling to get Maggie and Nina together:

“Nina needed rescuing.” Yeah, you know who else always “needs rescuing”? Anyway, moving on.

Nina says she just got out of a relationship and it would be a disaster to get into another one right away. And then this happens:

Nina says she hopes Maggie will still be around, but she knows she can’t ask Maggie to just wait while she figures out her own baggage. There's no guarantee. And then Maggie interjects—

The parallel between Maggie/Nina and Crowley/Aziraphale is so intentional as to feel heavy handed. So what does it mean that we get this exchange in at this particular moment in the script—buried within the conversation which is the catalyst for Crowley confessing his feelings, occurring in the lull immediately before the spectacular dissolution of everything the first two seasons were building towards?

“We could have been us,” Crowley says. Crowley walks out of the bookshop. Crowley turns off their song in his car. Whatever tentative blooming thing has been building between him and Aziraphale for six thousand years appears to be very clearly over. Aziraphale presses the kiss to his lips and knows there is no guarantee they will ever have a chance to be together. There's no guarantee that Crowley will ever want to forgive him, that he will keep on waiting for him.

But.

There is.

[yellowvixen]

SCREAMING AND CRYING ETC

[ahappyphjl]

companions through life...

[musicalchaos07]

brb going feral from the implications

[yuridovewing]

[dykealloy]

ripple effect legacy // my tears are becoming a sea, M83

[vanpalmr]

YELLOWJACKETS | 1.05 | 2.01 |

[imminent-danger-came]

So the intros take place at the sea of the cast out

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: dismemberment / ]

I think a lot about how Leo’s rescue could have easily ended in him losing a leg as the portal snaps shut on the Krang still clutching the limb, or, alternatively, only having Leo’s right arm make it out, still held dearly in his brother’s hand as the rest of Leo is left behind. (The latter hits even harder, as it directly parallels his future self in the worst of ways.)

I think a lot about how so many things could have gone wrong during the course of the movie with even a little bit of a change, but it really is harrowing how much of a coin-flip the entirety of the Prison Dimension rescue was.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

evermore & ocean imagery

[asoftepiloguemylove]

DON'T HOLD BACK AND I PROMISE YOU CAN FALL IN LOVE AGAIN

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // Taylor Swift Delicate // 君には届かない I Cannot Reach You (2023-) cr. Mika // pinterest // Richard Siken Crush // Joan Tierney The Elektra Complex // Hi-Fi Un!corn U&I // 君には届かない I Cannot Reach You (2023-) cr. Mika // Reinaeiry It's You, It's Me, It's Us // Kurt Vonnegut from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut // BTS Hold Me Tight // 君には届かない I Cannot Reach You (2023-) cr. Mika // Richard Siken "Snow and Dirty Rain," Crush // Margaret Atwood Shapechangers In Winter // 君には届かない I Cannot Reach You (2023-) cr. Mika

[otaku553]

Procrastination doodles of sabo for the king sabo au :)

[sharksandjays]

im emo

[thegirlthatcriesacademia]

Mackenzie Herbert, Chasing Trains // Artwork by @/archbudzar on ig // Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration // Lana M.H. Wilder