On Love And Monsters

on love and monsters

caitlyn siehl - start here // the umbrella academy 2020 // rainbow rowell - carry on // omar rayyan 2015 // crimson peak 2015 // mary shelley // kristen cashore - graceling // beauty and the beast 2017 // topaz winters - 'it was something monstrous, this want for you'

That was quite unconventional, as far as endings go. Much more like the beginning to a new adventure than anything else. 

requested by @justoceanmyth for her fic nightmares and strange-dreams

mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be.

Gabriel 😩😩😩

it’s like, gabriel doesn’t switch vessels, we think he might just be like that now. gabriel has been on earth too damn long. gabriel has a thing with the pagans, and we find that very confusing. gabriel parades his archangel powers on earth, perhaps to a bigger extent than any others. and he’s the youngest, and possibly the weakest. gabriel is playing with his toys. gabriel disappeared again. gabriel can’t handle the family politics. there might be something wrong with gabriel.

the tango dynamic is just so different from the actual archangel dynamic while i also try to preserve enough of what makes the archangels so integral to each other, because they’re so codependently important to one another’s development that it means so so much to me and so much to each other’s stories that even though i’ve altered their dynamic by changing the setting (making them human, making god human, giving them peers, siblings), it’s still been my mission to make it clear that there’s something deeply, deeply intrinsic and strange about the four of them 

like you can’t simply look at raphael, or gabriel, or lucifer, or michael, you have to look at all four of them, or at the very least two of them, to get this kaleidoscope understanding of their collective psyche because they were the only ones old enough to really understand 

it’s the four of them or it’s none of them but it’s also all four of them in pairs (because gabriel looks up to michael in his way, because gabriel and raphael are twins, because lucifer and michael cling to each other even when at one another’s throats, because no one has ever understood raphael and lucifer’s sharpness like each other, because raphael leans on michael more than anyone else, because gabriel has always been lucifer’s favorite), and all of them are so explosively strange. they just,,, mean so much to me