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I'm just gonna leave this here
Oh boy, the idea of dagon being chosen as the nxt grand duke instead of shax is killing me.
1. Their protective nature towards colleagues
2. Experience in leadership (maybe the head of the dark council)
3. Similar red sash as with Beelzebub (so probably a duke of hell now)
4. A somewhat closer relationship to Satan (like hell how do they know the great demon likes Hors d'oeuvre???)
I just...needed to let this all out, I know I'm overthinking this bcs I'm sure shax is the next grand duke with Furfur as their 2nd in command. But hell is unfair and I'm not so sure they reward hard working demons, not to mention Shax killed 70 demons under their command (sure it was against an angel but come on). Dagon's another alias is Lord of the FILES (disappointing they didn't have scenes with Belzeebub tbh) they could actually be nxt. Lastly I'm pretty sure Satan would want someone "close" as the nxt grand duke AND a Master of Torments. So uh yea.
..........
Or maybe what if at the end of it all Dagon becomes the nxt grand duke and Michael finally becomes supreme archangel. OR Jesus doesn't want 2nd coming anymore, Michael and Dagon become fed up bcuz no war and then they decide to retire together. Like, I'm doing office work to get the war we want and now we can't have it?? Screw this we are out.
The Big Damn Kiss
Buckle up, my fellow Good Omens Ineffable Mystery Puzzlers, Crackpotters, and Assorted Brainrotters, because I learned something HUGE yesterday.
This will be a bit of a long post, because I want to show you exactly how I got where I am. I want you to understand. I want to put all the naysayers to bed (ha! But I'm still gonna try), and settle this once and for all.
I know (almost) exactly what Crowley gave to Aziraphale during the kiss.
DO NOT TAKE ANY OF MY THEORIES TO NEIL! PLEASE!
Okay? Okay. Thanks. Shall we begin?
Ahem.
Firstly, whether you believe me or not, I am 100% certain that Crowley did, indeed, give something to Aziraphale in his mouth during The Kiss. I've covered that in the link previous. Okay? Okay.
I did not know what it was. I've now heard theories that it was a bullet (nope), a ball bearing (nope), hellfire (nope), and no one, NO ONE has suggested what I see. (If you have, hello! Talk to me!)
Here's our first foreshadowing Clue:
And here's our next foreshadowing Clue:
And the next:
And our last Clue:
With me so far? Well, that first GIF is a bit off, I couldn't find one of Crowley actually spitting out the flies. But he does. When Beelzebub first drags him to Hell, he actually goes "Pleaugh!" and spits out four or five flies. Edit: Found it!
Moving right along, we come to Crowley in Heaven with Muriel, looking at the trial. We learn two important things here:
One, Gabriel doesn't have a desk.
Two, Muriel does. Where they keep the records. And it's a bit lonely. Every few hundred years, someone comes and asks for something. Muriel can't access the sensitive ones, you have to be pretty high up. A throne, dominion, or higher. Like, maybe Supreme Archangel?
So if Gabriel doesn't have a desk, whose desk is he at when he's getting ready to leave Heaven? Of course I can't find a damn picture of Gabriel at the desk, but it's Muriel's. Where they keep the RECORDS.
Gabriel puts his memory into the fly, then gets on the elevator to go to Earth.
Now, when Gabriel opens the fly with his memories inside, we find out that it's a container. Bigger on the inside. You can put thing(S) in it. The bit we see of him remembering is shot in two parts, one where he's flying down a red tunnel, one where he's flying down a blue. If you slow this scene down and watch, you can see that he is NOT looking at just his own memories. There is more going on here, more that he was not present for. @embracing-the-ineffable put up a great meta about that here. Go look!
Now I figured Gabriel must have taken something else. Something important. Something useful. Something he meant to give to Aziraphale, except he forgot.
I also figured he must have left whatever it was in the fly when he took his memories out. Crowley must have realized while watching the trial footage that Gabriel also grabbed something else. I don't know when Crowley grabs the fly, but he does. And that is what he gives to Aziraphale in the kiss. Why? Well.
I had no idea what Gabriel took until I started working on the chiastic structure of season 2. I'm not done with that analysis yet, but let me show you one thing that I have found so far:
(The numbers are just to try and help me navigate the story and its events without time stamps)
My note #357 of what happens isn't quite right, but when I saw the only two times Aziraphale says "I forgive you" are towards the beginning of Season 2 and towards the end, I realized I had something.
Rephrase line 357: Crowley's kiss is forgiven IN EXCHANGE FOR RECORDS.
(Not that I think Crowley's kiss needs to be forgiven. It's just what Aziraphale says, and had to say at that moment, because the Metatron was listening in.)
What does Heaven in Good Omens remind us of most of all?
A big corporate entity. And what do powerful people do when they get fired from a big corporate entity? They download all their emails while they're cleaning out their desks. Damning emails. Emails that can be used to black mail or even destroy big corporate entities. Or, ya know, maybe they swipe some sensitive RECORDS?
Oh yes.
Records that Gabriel meant to give to Aziraphale, but he forgot. Records that Crowley realized Gabriel had put in the fly. The fly that Crowley grabbed once Gabriel had his memory out. The fly that he gave to Aziraphale when he kissed him. The fly that no longer held Gabriel's memory, but did still contain those damning records.
Here's Aziraphale reading the records:
Here's Aziraphale being horrified and outraged by what he's reading:
And here's Aziraphale realizing he has got some GOOD DIRT on Heaven. Maybe enough to bring them down:
That's it folks. I have no idea what the records actually say, and maybe we're not meant to know until season 3, but whatever it is, it's GOOD.
That's my story, and by God Herself, I'm sticking to it.
Okay but like can we talk about how Gabriel acted this season is Gabriel's default. It's how he would act without Heavan's fear mongering and threats. It's how he acts without his thousands of years of reinforced stoicism and cynicism. Without the memories of all that he's just as sweet and curious as Aziraphale was when he first started truly loving and understanding humanity. He dusts the bookshop, he waves happily and introduces himself to everyone he sets eyes on, and he loves hot chocolate.
And don't even get me started on how he's still so changed from last seasons Gabriel when he gets his memories back. Mr. "Shut your stupid mouth and die" would NEVER put his hands over his heart and positively melt at the sight of Beelzebub. He wouldn't say no to a heavenly plan. He wouldn't be so nonchalant in the face of falling. He wouldn't memorize a Buddy Holly song or drink human beer. He, over the course of three years with Beelzebub (as platonic work friends to lovers), unlearned all of that brainwashing that Gabriel has had drilled into his head for 6000 years. He realized "wherever Beelzebub is is my heaven".
Someone help me I'm having emotions
The offers that can't be refused: the Metatron-Beelzebub parallels.
Because people keep telling Crowley said no, Aziraphale said yes. Oh, God, give me strength.
Crowley said he rejected Hell's offer, but did he? Let's compare the Beelzebub's and Metatron's methods. Let's find the parallels between the scenes.
The appearance of the superiors is accompanied by bell ringing in both cases.
Crowley and Aziraphale are unpleasantly surprised, they exclaim their superiors' names. Why would such high-ranking bosses personally visit a traitors' hideout?
They remind about the arrangement with their superiors.
The threats: the direct one from Hell, the veiled one from Heaven.
The change of guises.
The flattery.
The knowledge of the Earth as the deciding factor for their choices.
The mentions of Gabriel. It's logical for the conversation with Beelzebub, because the Prince's of Hell motives are already clear. Crowley was summoned for the purpose of finding their beloved Archangel.
What is the reason the Metatron mentions him? And as a benchmark for assessing Aziraphale's actions. From the point of view of the Voice's of God manipulative art, one can understand why. Aziraphale cannot be evaluated on the Michael or Uriel scale, because he himself considers them as bad angels.
And finally, the position offers. Crowley nodds while looking at Beelzebub, Aziraphale says he don't want to go to Heaven.
Bonus: the threats of erasing from the Book of Life. Crowley rushes to Aziraphale intending to save him. And Aziraphale having received additional threats from the Metatron tries to reproduce their conversation for Crowley.
They're the same, Your Honour!
Crowley has refused to be a Duke of Hell just like Aziraphale has agreed to be a Supreme Archangel. Neither of them have responded yes or no.
It's clear this demon lied to Beelzebub, but his angel is also very experienced in this matter. And Aziraphale is accused of doing exactly as Crowley did. Without a chance to get out of it, he decided to keep silent, so as not to incur the wrath of his superior. Namely the Metatron who is even higher in rank than Beelzebub.
Gabriel: Worst thing about dating a demon, on three.
Aziraphale: Okay, easy.
Gabriel: One, two, three:
Aziraphale: The emotional distance-
Gabriel: Flies.
All the I LOVE YOUs Aziraphale didn't say
Blessed to have you.
I love people who choose to be gentle with strong boundaries even after being hurt and mistreated. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to keep shining and caring despite encountering the darkness and cruelty within some people.
funny realization about rain world
yknow how the iterators have messengers (hunter, spearmaster, ect.), little dudes they send out to deliver stuff
the definition of an angel is "a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or *messenger* of God, conventionally represented in human form with wings and a long robe."
the iterators are artificial gods, which makes any messengers they create angels.
idk if this is significant its just funny calling the "stab everything to death and absorb its nutrients" scug and the cancer scug angels
you know, it's always weird seeing people be like
"well in my language we don't have a gender neutral term so I'm going to refer to him as he/him, despite him being clearly non-binary"
cool story, however first: yes there is, enbys aren't just an english thing, do some research, and if somehow, there isn't? make one
second: YOU ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH RIGHT NOW. THIS ISN'T EVEN A "this is the internet, speak english" thing, it's a YOU ARE LITERALLY USING A LANGUAGE WHERE EVEN IF IN YOUR NATIVE ONE THERE ISN'T A NONBINARY PRONOUN, HERE? YEAH, THERE IS. IT'S REALLY SIMPLE TO USE
third: you can always apologize for misgendering someone or something, however it becomes an actual problem when you double down despite everyone correcting you.
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this post is about hollow knight.
or could also be about any other thing really, seriously I see this shit in deltarune.
(had to stop watching a theorist after they kept doubling down on using he/him pronouns for kris lol)
post script: this is actually about a specific comment on a youtube video. but again this is so weirdly common place that it could be about anything
11. we reached 10 followers so heres a slivermoon pmv..doomed yuri
edit : i call them triple affirmative, and they will be tagged w both slivermoon and that from now on
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honestly, pebbles was a dick, and it was an awful move but like? he was literally suicidal, depressed, was dealing with the same shit everyone else was and went into chatrooms which further fucking drove him to try literally anything.
like he regretted everything afterwards, and has dealt with who knows how long of torture from his own mistakes, and the knowledge that he more or less killed his sister.
that line "I can't help you, I can't even help myself" ISN'T HIM BEING RUDE, IT'S HIM THINKING HE CAN'T DO ANYTHING, AND IS UNABLE VIEW HIMSELF AS ANYTHING BUT A WORTHLESS FUCK UP.
and when rivulet's campaign happens, he's almost dead. taken down to near the same level as moon, and sees someone who could possibly help not himself. but moon, and sacrifices a mass rarefaction cell, to do atleast something that may make up for what he has done.
rainworld is a story of mistakes, not one of people being evil.
but yes I would throw pebs across the room and pull out his wires but like, that's different.
also like, he hasn't talked to anyone since the incident?
like of course he's not in the right headspace. he's been isolated from everyone who could maybe even help, sure it was by himself, but like??? still?
AHAHAHAH TY VERY MUCH, btw Let's find Larry is short, interesting horror game, I think you can find some gameplays on youtube. The game is short, but with the interesting plot and unusual way to show this through non-standard mechanics for such stories (kinda my opinion I guess??).
you know what? I don’t care (almost) what kind of response there will be. this is a crossover. Rain World and LfL, how do you like this? I don’t know how to draw, but I love making clay figures and writing, so I’ll try to explain everything with that. I really hope that at least someone will be interested.
I won’t go into details, one of the types of animals that inhabit the Rain World is slugcats. Slugcats are playable characters. These wonderful creatures look like this:
I made Willy-slugcat. that's it.
All slugcats have something like a name, for example, the purple one is called Spearmaster, and the green one is called Saint. The big chubby one's name is Gourmand.
Willy would be called Pretender. His peculiarity is wearing masks that can be obtained from dangerous predators. These masks can be used to scare away other predators. Another property of the Pretender is that he can imitate the sounds of predators larger and more dangerous than the slugcat (for example, the hissing and bubbling of lizards).
It seemed to me that this mechanic was very suitable when we are talking about Willy Mack. . .
It is how slugcat with mask looks like!
I'll move on to Willy. this cutie silly boi:
admit that you fell for this cute, harmless face. . . but this is still the same Willy, who can only be satisfied with meat. he is agile, resistant to falls from great heights, fast, dexterous, and very resourceful. he has a torn ear, the tip of his tail is missing (someone bit it off), he is always covered in scratches and scars. lives on the Sky Islands - a region densely populated with a wide variety of living creatures. One of his weaknesses is that he is a poor swimmer, he quickly gets tired of swimming, but he doesn’t need to swim where he lives.
BTW he's VERY associative slugcat, so he does not squeak and meow like them, he didn't have a chance to learn. His only interactions are hisses and short “barks.” just watch how cats sometimes bark and you will understand what I mean.
Most likely neither LfL fans nor RW fans will watch this. well. . . In any case, I wanted to share my work.
lord the peasants are so loud today
me fr.
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day 30 overseers on a mission
support me on kofi i forgot to put them in my last posts oops
Prompt 28!
This wasn't what I had in mind for this particular art month submission post (more info on that below), but since the full mv is still a long ways away- this will have to do!
So uhhh the original plan was to release a full music video of my 3rd and final rain world song submission for rw art month, but for the past week or so I had been bombarded with one complications after another (and also final exams), which heavily ate up a ton of my free time
Before I knew it, all I could get out in time before this art month ends was this teaser made using a part of the mv that's 3/4 of the way done... and that's after a 12 hours marathon of doing nothing but working on it tonight (with breaks, don't worry)
But that's alright, because I think what I've got to show here is more than enough to tell y'all what to expect from the full mv, and this will do just fine for my art prompt submission anyways!
Things change, sure, but where my rage and grief go
Long ahh nose
