#When Angels Sleep

[thegoldenappleofdiscord]

i love that canon nico's appearance is described as unnerving. percy says he has a glint in his eyes that makes you think he's either a genius or a madman. people comment about how his presence is eerie and how he just seems to show up, like a specter. his smile is said to be more unsettling than his scowl. pretty privilege nico is a fun hc but i just love the idea that he looks like some eldritch being at his worst and a sopping run-over black cat at his best.

#scary nico is my fav nico #also i like how my fav characters all described nico favorably at one point #reyna describes him as angelic when he's sleeping #apollo says his smile is like “the sun peeking through snow flurries” #and will is will solace i don't even have to explain that one #nico di angelo #nico di angelo pjo #nico di angelo headcanon #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #heroes of olympus #hoo #toa #tsats #pjo hoo toa

[p4nishers]

crowley, drunk off his ass: and i was yk just some fucked up soul born in cold and rain but he was my fucking sunlight or whatever

hozier, frantically writing on a napkin: HHHMMMM TELL ME MORE

#hozier is INSANELY azicrow coded and i am going feral over the implications that crowley heard the lines 'if the heavens ever did speak she #the last true mouthpiece' LIKE EXCUSE ME????????? #'u called me angel for the first time my heart leapt from me' and crowley cries himself to sleep #'heaven is not fit to house a love like u and i' and crowley projectile vomits onto the floor #'it cant be unlearned i have known the warmth of your doorways' 'i slithered here from eden just to hide outside ur door' 'though i burn how #could i fall when i am lifted by every word u say to me' and his ass is GONE he has EXPLODED #good omens #inefabble husbands #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #azicrow #hozier #crowley #aziraphale

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Consider Husk finally spending the night and in the morning when Angel tries to wake him, Husk is doing that limp, floppy body, double eyelid thing cats do when they're sleeping really good and Angel reacts the way those tiktok cat owners do, which is to assume Husk just fucking died

#ya know when a cat is in a deep sleep #and you can just waggle them about like a floppy baby #and it takes them forever to wake up cuz they're sleeping so hard #yea that #ppl on tiktok seeing the double eyelids on cats and assuming their dead is hysterical to me #ik they just are probably new cat owners but this is like basic cat stuff #hazbin hotel #huskerdust #hazbin hotel husk #hazbin hotel angel dust #cats

[solargeist]

Can we pretty please get a Grian and Xelqua meet-up?? I love how you draw Xelqua and Grian and I just need to see what they would do if they meet......for science of course

wait hold on.. goes crazy .. I don’t have a design for Xelqua, that was just Grian earlier, but…. I think it’d go well

I think Xelqua is his patron, so he’d be excited to meet him !

but I was also playing with the idea that Little Grian here is a reincarnated version of Xelqua, but still looks up to him, prays to him, would want to be picked up and hugged by him, the safety of it. (How can he be reincarnated and still have a form here ? Well the divine can be a bit finicky)

#something something abt the first thing little grian says to Xelqua is did you hear me ? When I thanked you for the food ! #<- Aether showed him how to pray before meals #ask #my art #Xelqua #sketching #Late night doodle of them . Yawnssss #Also something something abt Grian being a reincarnated Xelqua and the two angels having to take care of him #he has no divine memory ! Maybe some vague feelings involving being scared of lightning and missing the ocean . But he’s just a little kid #that needs to be fed and kept out the weather and his back scratched so he’ll go to sleep #someone hold me back this is becoming a one shot au #Also Xelqua is 5’0/152cm still. Aether and Flora can’t tell if he’s another child when they see him 😭😭😭 #Grian and Xelqua meet and it’s like when Goten met Goku for the first time . Bursts into tears rn live #kidxelqua

[pochiikou]

#He's such an angel when he's asleep #Kaoru being way too clingy when he sleeps #matchablossom #sk8 #kaoru sakurayashiki #kojiro nanjo #sk8anime #sk8 fanart #SK8 the Infinity #cherryblossom #sk8cherryblossom #sk8ships #kaoru x kojiro #yaoi #SK∞ エスケーエイト #エスケーエイト #sk8theinfinityfanart #digital sketch #digital art #clip studio paint #pochiikou

[cloudysarts]

this show would be good if literally everything about it was different

#read these tags please(unless ur an HH fan in which case please ignore them) >>> I DO NOT LIKE THIS SHOW #i hate viv///ziepop so fucking much its actually unreal. every time i think about her i seethe #been hatewatching it ('legally') nd its awful. like i mean i knew it would be going into it but goddamn. so much worse than i expected #you may be like 'whyd you draw this then'. i wanted to make a finished piece with my redesigns #for funsies me and my boyf have been rewriting/redesigning the whole show . thats been our fun little craft #i feel similar about this that i do about fnaf and miraculous ladybug even tho this is objectively worse in every way #theres this eternal feeling of like. man. if the writers were competent then this concept would be interesting #but theyre not so. here we are #anyway. im gona try not to put hate in the tags lol #but i like how this turned out too much NOT to post it #anyways mutuals please dont unfollow me for this i promise im normal JDSFHJKDFHJDFKHJK #Hazbin Hotel Redesigns #Hazbin Hotel Critical #Angel Dust #Husk #Huskerdust #I guess. #genuinely a little scared to post this ones. im scared ill lose mutuals over this AND/OR fans will harass me for those tags JHKSDFHJKJK #im posting it and then immediately going to sleep. might delete later if even 1 thing goes wrong #EDIT RL QUICK i wanna add: i dont care if you like the show <33 good for you!!! i respect it!! i liked it when i was 14. i just dont now. <

[isbergillustration]

One of them is going to fuck you up. The other will cheer them on supportively. Up to your imagination who does which.

#drawings that were a second hand study of a sketch study i did of a blurry screencap while deeply sleepdeprived last night. but different. #drawing #artists on tumblr #illustration #procreate #digital art #eldritch angel #and complimentary guy (gender neutral) #warm up for lets be real going to bed. only got four hours sleep when i got home this morning and my 3 day headache is retreating slowly at #last so good night i guess #my art

[goldendoodlerlockerlove]

This is one of the funniest moments in the show and no one can convince me otherwise.

#linda belcher #merry christmas #i rewatched this two-parter recently to get into the christmas spirit and when i tell you i wheezed SO HARD at this part #i forgot about this moment and it completely caught me off-guard. it reminded me why i love linda so much #gene’s “isn’t she an angel when she sleeps?” 🤣 #and bob checking her pulse ☠️ #poor tina and louise look so concerned

[azu-rye]

— the difference twixt fate and free will is whether you’re singing, “ooh, could you take a look at me?”

#honkai star rail #sunday hsr #hsr #hsr fanart #yes this is laplace’s angel by will wood #give it a listen. sunday core tbh #azu's gallery #i only draw when im sleep deprived

[wis-art]

fallen angel 🎇

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#lesbians #my art #art #drawing #doodle #angel #demon #angel girl #demon girl #lucy #wiki #sometimes #when im very worried #and scared #i do pray to my guardian angel #sometimes when im worried about my friends #i do pray for my guardian angel to help them a little #i been so sick lately #i been sleeping in bed all day #i wanted to draw wiki's face very silly #goofy like #sword #i linked a cool song with it #that i really like #and listened to many times #also lucy is wearing her halo #except it doesnt float so she just hanged her halo on her horn

[tsukiyo-7]

(Eternally, eternally)

Do you like the way it feels?

Like fire from the heavens

Carving past the surface into you

Do you like the way it feels?

Like fire from the heavens

Tearing me asunder beside you

#This time the culprits are Sleep Token #this is for the red series #dean winchester #spn #supernatural fanart #when the angel blade is also a damocles sword #cw blood #idk how to fucking tag this #pls tell me #🐭

[eldritch-ambrosia]

you know, i love that episode of that supernatural magic drama tv show (the one with Anthony Steward Head as a father like figure!) where the dark haired character gets poisoned and their blond love interest goes off to fight for their life to get the antidote for the poison while the dark haired character cries out for them in their delirium while their friends take care of them until the blond returns with the antidote but there are complications and it's almost too late to save them but they're healed in the end!

Huh? What do you mean "which show are you talking about?"

#bbc merlin #buffy the vampire slayer #merthur #spangel #buffy summers #merlin #arthur pendragon #angel btvs #btvs #i was watching the buffy episode with friends #and said “this is like that one merlin episode” when Angel started moaning in his sleep #and my friend sighed deeply and went “yeahhh” #where's the Merlin btvs au we all crave #can you believe the buffy episode is the end of season 3 and the merlin one is the middle of SEASON ONE?? #gay people are stronger #i'm sure this has been talked about before #but it was such a moment where me and my other merlin friend just looked at each other

[saltwatersweets]

i could talk about husk and alastor’s relationship for hours its not even funny. what is their deal. alastor often oversteps husk’s physical boundaries in the pilot. husk frequently backtalks and insults alastor and cusses him out and faces no consequences. alastor could easily force husk to work at the hotel but decides to butter him up with alcohol. it says in the wiki that alastor considers husk to be among his closest companions, with the likes of niffty and ROSIE (though admittedly i doubt this is still canon). husk brings alastor’s leash up to his face and seems surprised when alastor, the guy who kickstarted his career in hell by KILLING OVERLORDS WHO DISSED HIM, snaps at him, implying alastor does not often pull rank like this. speaking of alastor’s deal, how the hell does husk even know alastor HAS ONE. did alastor just randomly tell him about it over a bowl of popcorn and ice cream like a duo of middle school girls’ gossip. i heavily doubt it. what is up with these two.

#for the record i am not victim blaming husk for how alastor snaps at him in ep5 #alastor was being a total dick and hypocrite #but also the way husk reacts when alastor DOES snap at him seems equal amounts surprised and terrified to me #like youve just poked at a sleeping wolf and are shocked its turned around to bite you #as if you’ve poked it before with little issue #compared to angel’s relationship with valentino and how he very much is not surprised by how shittily he treats him in ep4 #idk. i think theres something to be talked about there #my post #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel analysis #alastor the radio demon #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel husk

[casdeans-pie]

It's just that, when you think about it, the blood that runs under Dean's skin, that keeps him alive, is just like the Grace that runs under Castiel's.

There's no touch for this healing - no barrier of skin. It's just the inner workings of Cas reaching out to touch the inner workings of Dean. Knitting him back together

#just having normal thoughts about normal things yknow how it is #destiel #castiel's angel powers #castiel heals dean #i wrote this last night when i was almost delirious with needing sleep lmao #deancas #spn 15x08

[nanomooselet]

Episode Zero: High Noon At July

So anyway, Vash is right about everything.

Yes, I'm exaggerating. There are plenty of caveats to Vash's ideals. There are hard ethical questions surrounding humanity's relationship with the Plants, and those will have to be answered or neither species is going to survive much longer. But nothing's going to get better if all they have is Vash, busy getting shot at, and Knives, busy getting his brother shot at. What Vash has been struggling with from the opening minutes of the show is that he's been assuming all the blame for what Knives does, taking punishment and abuse from him and from humans without a word of protest, simply because he believes it's what he deserves.

And it's not. It never has been. He's never been to blame. It is, unequivocally, something Knives did to him.

From those same opening minutes, Knives has been the twin with agency. Never mind that he caused the fleet to crash and instigated the entire plot, or that he was also the one who actively sought to discover Rem's secret; I mentioned before that he offered Rem a choice before escaping in the shuttle. But what I noticed the second time was something equally crucial. Nai is the one piloting the shuttle. Vash is just a passenger, carried along as Nai steered, subjected to his decisions and forced to bear the consequences for his actions. And Nai didn't exactly... ask to be one piloting. He just sits in the chair and takes the stick, not a word said. He assumes agency for himself and for Vash both without room for discussion.

When Nai offered Rem a choice, and she refused, he resolved to give no one else he loved a choice, ever again. But Vash never got a choice, not with Nai. And that became a pattern.

When Nai told Vash: you're my accomplice, you're the one who gave me the program access code (I'm all but one hundred percent certain he means that when Vash accessed Tesla's records, Nai remembered the code he entered), Vash started to run. He fled. He couldn't bear the culpability - it's pretty much the instant he began to engage in suicidal ideation. He ceased to exercise his agency because he believed it lead to this unimaginable horror. The die is already cast: he's Nai's accomplice. It's decided.

Or rather, Nai decided.

Did Vash really keep running for a hundred and fifty years? Well, no, not quite - Knives (naturally) called time-out when Vash pointed a gun at his face. Just wait for a short while...a mere century or so. I promise I'll build a world of Plants. Even he, I think, realised slicing off Vash's arm was a bit of a dick move and had to regroup. But a hundred years later the game was back on and Knives's next move was founding his cult, stealing Plants, committing murders and framing Vash, and Vash was just as bereft of agency as before.

Vash the Stampede is a name that humanity gave him, but they gave it to him because of Knives. Note how it fits the naming scheme of the other members of his cult. Zazie the Beast. Elendira the Crimsonnail. Nicholas the Punisher. Livio the Doublefang. Monev the Gale. E.G. the Mine. A stampede is a herd of running animals too scared to think about the damage they cause as they flee for their lives. And that doesn't really apply to Vash, but it describes the twins as a combined force - Vash flees, Knives follows him bringing destruction. Vash is afraid of facing Knives; Knives is afraid of being without Vash. And between them, complete and utter ruin is left in their wake.

So what changed?

I said before that Meryl is the only other character besides Knives with agency, with a couple of exceptions, and I'll say right now that Vash isn't one of them. In this game, Vash's agency - really Vash himself, his power, his soul - is the prize. People want to have Vash. They desire him. And he doesn't think he has a choice but to fulfil those desires in order to make up for his sins, which is why he went to confront Knives in July - despite knowing, deep down, that his brother will not be convinced and he's walking to a hideous fate, perhaps his death. Vash is an Independent, but he doesn't seem to think he has free will. It's been beaten out of him so viciously he attributes all his hard-earned skills to luck and his compassion to some instinctive bodily urge, as though he's a trained animal. Which Knives takes just the most disgustingly cruel jab at - You need to smile, show your charm, and behave like a harmless pet./They only love your charm, your tricks, and the tightness of your leash. Imagine if Rem had ever heard him talk that way to his brother. (I'm curious how the translation worked there.)

Ah, Rem. We see so little of her. We know almost nothing about her, save that she was an imperfect woman who did her best, who loved both her children as hard as she could. Who chose to love them. Who told them that as long as you can make a choice, you can choose a better future.

I think that was a belief she privately struggled to hold, personally. Knowing that by her inaction an innocent child was subjected to a worse fate than death, it would have been hard to imagine there could still be a future for her. I hope that in the end she came to forgive herself, even if only a little, and not just because of the twins. But we'll never know.

And after Rem, Luida. Who told Vash he was a survivor rather than a coward and he deserved to live, and who survived herself because of Vash - the very last time he stood by, frozen, as Knives tried to take away someone he loved. Who, with Brad, showed that humans can change and learn, and that though they still need to rely on Plants they need not consume them. Who began to take real, practical steps towards that chosen future for both, who gave Vash his coat and built him his hand - a protective memory and the part of the body that reaches out to another that his brother cut from him. Because of them he found contact with his own kind, and began to bridge the gap that had always existed between the two species, and the two sides of his own nature.

And finally tiny Meryl. Inexperienced, sheltered, easy to knock down, easy to pick up, unarmed, all alone, and absolutely filled to the brim with rage. Meryl's way of caring for things is by getting righteously, furiously angry about them. I wonder how long it's been since anyone knew and cared enough about Vash to be in the position to get angry on his behalf, over what's been done to him. Knives didn't take the slightest bit of notice of her (except to dismiss her as "another parasite" because he's a bitch like that) until Vash responded to her. She wasn't even supposed to be there - Zazie just thought it would be funny. Zazie is the best.

(I always wonder if the song Vash sings was him trying to answer Meryl's frantic cries for him to wake up. If he somehow how meant to lift her closer or build the path she climbed to reach him. Conrad said he couldn't speak human language anymore. What if that was the only other way?)

These three women all shared faith in Vash and his ideals, and loved him, rather than what he's "supposed" to be or what he could do for them. All helped form him into the man he is now. Each of them had agency and made choices, even hard ones. And so in the end, Vash's victory over Knives's cruelty also belongs to them. Vash awakens because the connection forged by these women allowed him to pull himself free of the pit of corrosive pain Knives plunged him into - breaking chains of guilt his brother had forged to keep him by his side forever. When the question is asked, "Whose side are you on?" the answer is neither the side of humans nor Plants, despite what Knives thinks. It's the side of Vash choosing his own future, inspired and supported by the women who loved him, rather than being trapped and frozen in the past. Inevitably there will be mistakes, losses - even horrors.

And it'll still beat any future this asshole chooses for him.

#trigun stampede #tristampparty #trigun meta #meta: tristampparty episodes #mother is the name of god #i also have feelings about vash's angel arm #but it is past midnight #that said #it absolutely sends me that knives ACTUALLY GOT his lame cowboy planet #and he doesn't appreciate it in the SLIGHTEST #like. what more could you even WANT from the universe when you have a whole-ass cowboy planet #yes i AM sleep deprived how did you know

[cottonheadedninnymugggins]

My dearest, beautiful, brave boy I am so sorry

#he deserved so much better #he deserves the world #my sweet boy #gojo my beloved #jjk spoilers #jjk 236 #GEGE WHEN I CATCH YOU #SLEEP THAT LITTLE ONE EYE OPEN GEGE TRUST IN THAT #my beautiful Angel boy #gojo angst #gojo satoru angst