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'I'm an academic weapon', like okay bro but I'm begging you be more specific.

Are you a rapier? Using efficient techniques to study and target your weak spots?

Are you a dagger? Using sneaky tactics to get ahead of your peers?

Or are you just a massive fucking hammer? Using brute force methods till it works, powered only by sheer force of will?

On that note if your weapon starts to dull and feel heavy stop swinging and give it some tlc before heading back out onto the battlefield. The evil will still be there for you to vanquish when you get back.

After sleeping on this idea, I realise it also probably means that Astarion was probably sipping on the original recipe while alive. (Yes Halsin would be alive then too but according to all of you he's more of a 'plant' man). Imagine this man's disappointment if he gets cured and can drink fantasy cola again only for them to have removed the cocaine.

Dressing the bg3 characters in red santa outfits implies the existence of fantasy Coca Cola.

Dressing the bg3 characters in red santa outfits implies the existence of fantasy Coca Cola.

Would approach, for what is the apocalypse but an excuse to look badass in groups while being devious >=3.

@seraphimblessing

I WISH THIS TREND WAS MORE COMMON HERE SO IM STARTING ONE OKAY??!

MCM WAS AMAZINNGGGG. At lests 1 in every 3 bg3 vendors had their Astarion stuff sold out tho.

Went as Dr Clef this year so didn't get as many photos as last year (Akutagawa), but here's a few. =3

Not listening to ending arguments bc both ascended and spawn both fit "to be loved is to be changed" (Yes this can also be platonic love) and regardless of your personal opinions about either you should be able to appreciate that from a storytelling point of view.

Both happen because of your choices, neither can happen if you so choose.

Theres so much depth to both but both are fitting and in character paths for him to take, given what happens over the course of the game.

If the game didn't let you ascend him you'd all be complaining that he only got one ending, so stop being so whiny about other people's choices.

Crying on the floor as I add post-game cured Astarion ideas to my Web of lore. My poor immortal Tav is in mourning already. (I haven't even gotten to moonrise yet)

Anyway I'm off to listen to Nobody loves you by reuben, and sob. (I should be doing poisson distribution)

not only do i put a little line through my 7s but i put one through my Zs too. i’m sick and twisted. you’re never getting out of this network of caves alive.

Baldurs Gate being easily modable is a win for the lesbians fr. Its so refreshing being able to partake in loving the new manwhore character. (I love his male model too but I would NOT be able to handle the romance scenes comfortably without the femstarion mod). All games should allow you to transgender your companions.

(Yes I did put her in the wavemothers robe outfit. Yes I did get an outfit mod just so she could look more like the main character than my tav. Yes I did HUNT for the lesser restoration amulet so she would always get the buff)

Physics A lvl is already kicking my ass, so to prevent myself from becoming a living projectiles question, I've been utilising our Lord and saviour Hatsune MIKU, along with beloved icon, Gerard Way.

In Shimiji form, of course

(And yes im aware graphs of motion is not a particularly difficult topic, but the worksheet I did before this made me ever so tired, you must understand that this was a necessary move to save my education)

Side note, they may steal your hard earned scores, so beware

Ft, the mirror in the corner

I've finally realised why I hate songs written about romantic exes. It's not that I dont like them, just none of them meet my standards.

The standard, of course, being SIX THE MUSICAL.

HOLY SHIT I WATCHED IT RECENTLY AND IT WAS SOOOOOO GOOD, THE VOCALS, THE PERFORMANCE, THE OUTFITS.

L TO THE SWIFTIES BUT HER SINGING ABOUT BREAKUPS AT THE ERAS TOUR COULD NEVER.

Also I'm well aware that it's just part of the performance but Katherine Howard winked at me and she was very pretty and im not getting over that for a good week so yeah.

Whenever anyone calls themselves an "alpha" all I can think of is the generation. Like yeah sweetie well done! That's your generation! Now it's 9:00, time for bed so you have plenty of energy for playtime at school tomorrow!

Opinions on THE kiss (that unfortunately do not have anything to do with how well it was acted, I dont have the time to unpack all that)

Clearly, they are in love before the kiss, and the kiss is not what makes their relationship/ defines it as romantic, this much I agree with, and its a take I've seen a lot of. (I'm also pretty sure the beloved author (executioner of my heart) has said that the kiss is not what people should take as confirmation of their feelings. )

Another thing I've seen that goes alongside that is that the kiss was not a romantic in any way at all.

THIS BIT is what I dont like.

YES Crowley kissed him because he was desperate and he was desperate BECAUSE he loves him.

Romantic gestures and situations do not have to be positive and I think people are forgetting that you cannot have love without loss because otherwise you would never be able to fully appreciate it.

Hell, romance is inherently tragic.

The kiss was not what MAKES their relationship romantic but it was still romantic, in a saddening, beautiful way.

Basically what I'm saying is:

"Crowley kissed Az because he was desperate to get him to stay, and they both show their romance in other ways LONG before the kiss"

Goes hand in hand with

"Love is what made him so desperate and the kiss is still romantic, not despite how sad it is, but because of it"

Given that Az asks if caffene is calming, does this suggest that Az has tried/has been willing to try drugs (poor anxious angel) to calm himself down. Does the fact that he indulges in alcohol also suggest he is open to substance use as a celebratory/ casual thing.

They've been through history, they were around when class As were perfectly legal and even medicinal.

My point is, past Aziraphale has probably done cocaine.

(Or at the very least drank it in old cola)

Current Az has probably ran into a stoner that tried to/ managed to convince him weed will reduce his anxiety.

What if- what if- what if we get a second kiss and its still not *wedding bells perfect* but Az does it out of desperation instead of Crowley doing it out of desperation and afterwards- afterwards he says "im sorry" instead of "I forgive you" wouldn't that be nice.

I am so glad that my odd rambling actually made sense. My brain mulch is in fact expanding foam and has taken over everything in favour of good omens analysis.

Iiiiits metaphor time!!!

So, it's been shown a few times that Crowley and Aziraphale are opposite but similar, different sides of the same coin, ect, etc.

One very important metaphor for this is the yin/yang. Its been mentioned in interviews multiple times and I think its very true "little bit of a nice person"/"just enough of a bastard" fit this SO well.

But those lines are s1, they fit together because they both represent one side and everything is balanced. They fit together, they dine at the Ritz.

In season 2 however, they don't. At all. Aziraphale makes a point to do more "good deeds" even if they arnet in line with heaven. The whole "very good at forgiveness" and him being visibly upset in the Edinburgh minisode where there are no solid lines to be drawn for morality indicate a bit of negative development on his part. Perhaps the fact that he no longer reports to heaven makes him feel like he has to do more good to make up for it. Hence why Az gets defensive about telling Crowley the good things he's done in the coffee shop scene.

I mean, he was almost about to get Crowley to kill a child in s1, his ability to bastard has decreased.

On the opposing side, Crowley is better this season. Infact I'd say he isn't good or bad. Bad for heaven sure but he is just entirely indifferent to the humans for the most part.

At least that's what I thought until I rewatched it. It's in the way he let's Maggie and nine out of the shop without hesitation, even when he could be mischievous. Its in the way he guides the shopowners out the bookshop trying desperately to stop people getting hurt. Hell, even in the minisodes (ESPECIALLY THE EDINBURGH ONE) he's just floating somewhere between chaotic neutral and chaotic good. (Possibly even neutral good).

While he does also do good in s1, he denies it much more strongly, so perhaps being distanced from hell has allowed crowley to just, do whatever he wants (which just so happens to be good).

There is a point here, let's get back to it.

So, using the colours black and white as in the yin/yang symbol. They both get more white. Obviously, this causes an imbalance. I reckon, crowley pretty much becomes his own symbol, having equal good and bad in him (lets be honest, the "bad" is just him beign a silly little guy). Now I'm deffinetly not saying he doesn't need Az at all, only that he functions as moraly independent. His biggest flaw is that he wants to get away from things instead of fixing them, probably becaue3 he's to scared to try.

Az on the other hand, still refuses he can be bad at all. He's an antihero at worst, doing bad things for perfectly good reason, (hiding Gabriel to PROTECT him). Its this inability to compromise that eventually leads to him blurring the lines between actual good and heaven good, causing him to be delusional and fall back into his old way of thinking at the end.

Pair this with the whole "they want the same thing but are going about it in diff ways", "they don't talk", ect.

They are no longer the yin and yang, they no longer fit together as a pair because Crowley is trying to make himself whole and Az is either ignoring the problem altogether, or trying to be only good. He is trying to have a calm life on earth without letting go of the divine good of heaven and its just not going to work.

I have a feeling that next season Crowley is going to be shifting between emotional and nilhistic (just because he's more moraly stable doesn't mean he is emotionally, bless). Az is going to have to struggle with trying to fix a system that is broken in the name of the one leading the system (god). HOPEFULLY these cause them both to reevaluate their flaws (crowleys running away, Az with his inability to do so) and just erase the moral obligations altogether.

You know Nick was struggling mentally by the fact that he went to do his maths GCSE in pencil.

I mean, he did the higher paper so he's not stupid, just stressed.

Iiiiits metaphor time!!!

So, it's been shown a few times that Crowley and Aziraphale are opposite but similar, different sides of the same coin, ect, etc.

One very important metaphor for this is the yin/yang. Its been mentioned in interviews multiple times and I think its very true "little bit of a nice person"/"just enough of a bastard" fit this SO well.

But those lines are s1, they fit together because they both represent one side and everything is balanced. They fit together, they dine at the Ritz.

In season 2 however, they don't. At all. Aziraphale makes a point to do more "good deeds" even if they arnet in line with heaven. The whole "very good at forgiveness" and him being visibly upset in the Edinburgh minisode where there are no solid lines to be drawn for morality indicate a bit of negative development on his part. Perhaps the fact that he no longer reports to heaven makes him feel like he has to do more good to make up for it. Hence why Az gets defensive about telling Crowley the good things he's done in the coffee shop scene.

I mean, he was almost about to get Crowley to kill a child in s1, his ability to bastard has decreased.

On the opposing side, Crowley is better this season. Infact I'd say he isn't good or bad. Bad for heaven sure but he is just entirely indifferent to the humans for the most part.

At least that's what I thought until I rewatched it. It's in the way he let's Maggie and nine out of the shop without hesitation, even when he could be mischievous. Its in the way he guides the shopowners out the bookshop trying desperately to stop people getting hurt. Hell, even in the minisodes (ESPECIALLY THE EDINBURGH ONE) he's just floating somewhere between chaotic neutral and chaotic good. (Possibly even neutral good).

While he does also do good in s1, he denies it much more strongly, so perhaps being distanced from hell has allowed crowley to just, do whatever he wants (which just so happens to be good).

There is a point here, let's get back to it.

So, using the colours black and white as in the yin/yang symbol. They both get more white. Obviously, this causes an imbalance. I reckon, crowley pretty much becomes his own symbol, having equal good and bad in him (lets be honest, the "bad" is just him beign a silly little guy). Now I'm deffinetly not saying he doesn't need Az at all, only that he functions as moraly independent. His biggest flaw is that he wants to get away from things instead of fixing them, probably becaue3 he's to scared to try.

Az on the other hand, still refuses he can be bad at all. He's an antihero at worst, doing bad things for perfectly good reason, (hiding Gabriel to PROTECT him). Its this inability to compromise that eventually leads to him blurring the lines between actual good and heaven good, causing him to be delusional and fall back into his old way of thinking at the end.

Pair this with the whole "they want the same thing but are going about it in diff ways", "they don't talk", ect.

They are no longer the yin and yang, they no longer fit together as a pair because Crowley is trying to make himself whole and Az is either ignoring the problem altogether, or trying to be only good. He is trying to have a calm life on earth without letting go of the divine good of heaven and its just not going to work.

I have a feeling that next season Crowley is going to be shifting between emotional and nilhistic (just because he's more moraly stable doesn't mean he is emotionally, bless). Az is going to have to struggle with trying to fix a system that is broken in the name of the one leading the system (god). HOPEFULLY these cause them both to reevaluate their flaws (crowleys running away, Az with his inability to do so) and just erase the moral obligations altogether.

I have made a mockery of God (cursed out the metatron) and so had this posted through my door.

Luckily for both parties, I did not open said door till they left. 100% my plan from now on when they stop by is to quote good omens as if it is scripture.

Disclamer: I am not making fun of religion, nor would I attempt to. However the concept of door to door preachers makes fun of itself.

Yet another comment on the sunglasses, but it has to be said.

Crowley is at his most vulnerable when he doesn't have the glasses on, so when he does, he can pretend everything is okay. This is why him putting them back on at the end is so tragic because he CANNOT just go back to being casual friends/acquaintances with Az.

Crowley is CONSISTENTLY at his most jokey/sarcastic when he does have his glasses on. This is him having is walls up, but is also him being a silly little guy and being in total denial about how much he'd sob if his love was unrequited.

Everyone was so happy about him taking his glasses off more in s2 but that's really the tragedy of it. He loves and loves and only loses when he confronts the truth, at his most vulnerable. He only fully realises how broken his and Aziraphales relationship is when he tries to be open.

They may be circular but they are 6000% his heart shaped sunglasses and the lenses are more rose tinted than the NGC 40 nebula.

if you want to take more psychic damage

honestly I can see quite a few FoB songs but THIS in Heaven, Iowa just sent me :)

Wonderful songwriting paired with wonderful show writing makes for an absolutely exquisite grieving process.

THE FINALE!!!

I love it in the same way that poisonous plants are beautiful, that fire is cozy and the way that the unfathomable vastness of space is comforting.

Bittersweet does not begin to describe my feelings it was done SO well and though devastating is 100% agreeable in terms of character development.

The writing and acting for this season have been so wonderful but that last 20 minutes especially made me feel emotions I did not know existed.

Oh, and Michael Sheen?? Smiling that hard in the release day video??I just know he is enjoying the mass suffering of ep6 and to be honest I cannot fault him.

“Nothing lasts forever”

Okay so obviously even on a surface level, this HURTS. BADLY. And it’s already kinda established that Aziraphale meant his earthy possessions (bookshop, ect), while Crowley took it as their arrangement and relationship.

Crucially though, I think it speaks to how brainwashed he really is. Not even necessarily by miracled coffee or any dirty tactics, just heaven being heaven and Az feeling obligated to listen to the metatron.

After all, in season one, one of the ways in which Crowley tries to get Aziraphale to agree to help him stop Armageddon is by listening material things he wouldn’t have anymore. While choosing Heaven and believing he can make a difference is VERY in character and a crucial mistake he needs to make for his development, the idea that Az can just, let go is so unbelievably foreign to me, so I was thinking about what his thought process could possibly be if we rule out miracled obedience.

In fact, after Crowley leaves he even seems concerned about the bookshop.

THEN, I thought, possibly, Aziraphale is an lying angel who lies.

AZIRAPHALE DOES NOT WANT TO LEAVE EARTH AT ALL, HE DOES NOT WANT TO LEAVE THE BOOKSHOP. HE ONLY SAYS THAT TO TRY AND GET CROWLEY TO GO WITH HIM BECAUSE HE THINKS THEY WILL BE HAPPIER IN HEAVEN. HE IS WILLING TO GIVE UP HIS SHOP BC HE WANTS TO SEE THE CROWLEY WHO WAS HAPPY TO MAKE THE STARS. THE POOR DEMON TAKES THE WORDS IN THE EXACT OPPOSITE WAY THEY ARE MEANT. “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER” IS HIM PLEADING WITH CROWLEY TO GO WITH HIM BECAUSE IF HE REFUSES TO GO TO HEAVEN AND LEAVE EVERYTHING ELSE BEHIND THEN THEY BOTH LOOSE EVERYTHING INSTEAD OF ONLY SOME THINGS.

This is likley an over analysis, do with it what you will but I’m choosing to believe it.

Don’t google symbolism. Don’t do it. You’ll cry.