#i feel too blessed

[barbieaemond]

Starboy 💫

#listen how am i supposed to sleep when i can stare at this all night long smiling like a lunatic giggling and kicking my legs #i feel too blessed #i’ll sleep when i’m dead #aka tomorrow #ewan mitchell #aemond targaryen #ewan nation

[tempo-takoyaki]

Listen, I love the "XL helps HC to see how beautiful he is" scenario as much as the next person... But I also see it like this.

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hualian #heaven official's blessing #hob #myart #hua cheng #xie lian #I have a friend who's so pretty and confident the pretty privilege automotically applies to her #I've seen people treat her differently RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME #sometimes I look at her and wonder if this how people feel when hc talks to xl #anyway I think that hc needs the bing-qiu method of “not as beautiful as you yes I love you the most” too #also this xie lian took me 3 seconds to draw but 5 mins to sketch it's an art to come up with such a stupid face you know that? #hc my pretty princess <3 I want him on his knees

[artingstarvist]

TGCF Vol 3, Chp. 43 - 44 (First "Kiss") Part 2 / 5 (First, Next)

Next part is finally done! Xie Lian's inner monologue kills me.

Novel excerpt under the cut:

[denotes panel #]

[1, 2] Xie Lian blinked, trying desperately to bat away the thousands upon millions of lingering crystalline bubbles. [3] Then he found himself caught by a pair of strong arms. [4, 5] One hand circled his waist, and the other grasped his chin. [6] In the next second, something cold and soft covered his lips. [7]In that instant, Xie Lian's eyes bulged. Never in his life had anyone treated him like this. First, no one dared, second, no one could. However this person was swift like the devil and had appeared so suddenly that he had no chance to defend himself before he'd been plunged into such a state. [8, 9] Flustered, he thrashed and desperately tried to push the person away. [10] Instead, he only succeeded in choking on large mouthfuls of water as string after string of bubbles escaped his mouth like crystal beads. Of course, this was a big mistake underwater. [11] The hands round his waist only tightened, pressing their bodies closer together, and Xie Lian's struggling hands were firmly folded and crushed against his own chest, trapping them in place. [12] His lips, too, were securely sealed. The kiss deepened, and with it, a breath of cool, gentle air was transferred into his mouth. [13, 14, 15] Completely helpless and at a loss, just as Xie Lian began to accept his fate, he finally saw the person's face clearly. [16] It was Hua Cheng. [17] The moment he realized it was Hua Cheng, he stopped struggling. Innumerable random thoughts popped into his mind, all inappropriate for the time and place, such as : So it was Hua Cheng! No wonder he's cold. [18] Ghosts don't need to breathe, but he can still transfer air to me?! [19] Don't ghosts sink in the water? [20] Hua Cheng suddenly opened his eye. [21, 22] Staring into that dark eye from such an intimate distance, Xie Lian froze again, then resumed struggling, his arms flailing like a duck so clumsy it was drowning. [23, 24] Hua Cheng easily corralled those thrashing limbs, and with his arm still firmly locked around Xie Lian's waist, Hua Cheng took him and speedily swam upward.

#tgcf #heaven official's blessing #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian first kiss comic #my art #if you feel like this needs a cw/tw tag let me know i wasn't really sure??? I dont usually post things that need warnings #just tell me wtf to tag it as if it seems too much #im so tired of looking at this tho fr #next episode they tackle the fetus spirit!

[twiyke]

theo your rolls too tough your swag too different they'll kill you...

#HOW havent i posted art of him before he's been my favourite since DAY ONE theo nation im so sorry... #the suckening #jrwi #just roll with it #theo collins #jrwi soda #avepharts #the suckening spoilers #only if you look too close but still #he is literally my goat that's my BOY. that's my BOY RIGHT THERE. BLESSED IN ACTUAL REAL LIFE BY HOMOSEXUALITY. #didnt draw the back of his jacket cape but it probably has the dangs on it and the old demons + fangs logos in patches #didnt feel like drawing it lol #also i like to think post-11 he only wears silver jewellery

[canisalbus]

hello! i've written a short little machete fic, and i wanted to share it with you as thanks for all the incredible art and generous question-answering you've been doing these last few months. i hope that if you give it a look, you enjoy it. <3 keep up all your amazing work! archiveofourown [.] org / works / 50945128

✦ A Voi ✦

#wake up honey new fic dropped #feeling blessed #eating this out of your hands like a baby deer #it's so good you guys treat my lads so well #and write so beautifully and vividly and eloquently #I rambled about this in length in the fic's comment section so I won't repeat myself too much here #but in this one Machete has a little breakdown and gets lovingly bathed like the sad and stunned dog he is #really captured his neuroticism and endless uneasiness #excellent Vittorio content augh I adore him #I'll definitely come back to this later and draw proper actual fanart because some of the scenes are so thematically and visually strong #I need to be able to see them with my actual eyes #dangit I forgot the cut on his lip #had a minor crisis over the color of Machete's robe but maybe it'd be white like the rest of his sleepwear #as a contrast to the usual blacks and reds #fic A Voi #doomcountry #own art #own characters #Machete #CanisAlbus #blood #I said this before and I say it again #if you read the thing and like it it would be very kind and appreciated if you left a small comment to doomcountry as a thank you #you don't need an ao3 account and you can do it anonymously

[raetttriestowrite]

Me, an author, side eyeing my WIP: you're not going to do anything weird, are you? We've discussed this. There's a plan. We're going to stick to the plan, aren't we?

The WIP: *presents subplot, presents additional conflicts, presents character development, laughs in my fucking face*

#raetttriestowrite #fanfiction #writer problems #raett rants about writing #look honestly it's not that bad but it's relatable #so feel free to reblog #just. Bless This Mess is a disaster of a series and there are way the fuck too many things going on #and i'm staring at the word count of the next part #and am really hoping that isn't an indicator of how long this is gonna be #but don't hold your breath #i am very very slow. and i'm not that far through the plot. and it's uh. 3.5k #so. this may take a while. hopefully not six months but we'll see #considering i'm fully expecting to be laughed at by my plan as per the post

[indigovigilance]

The Final Fifteen is about Terry Pratchett's Death

read on Ao3

The final fifteen is obviously a major plot point, and serves a role in a story that was written long before Terry Pratchett was ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But the scene itself wasn’t written until just a few years ago, during the writing of Season 2. In fact, the scene came about during a park bench conversation between Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore.

Others have noted that the non-romantic kiss that signals the story moving into the third act is a Neil Gaiman staple. The function of such a kiss, from Gaiman’s perspective, is to communicate.

In 2023 we are seeing a lot of stories written by men, for men, about men who are best friends and discover that their friendship can go deeper than the norms of society would usually allow; that platonic and romantic love are not so far apart, and perhaps the better word for a relationship that can be described this way is intimacy.

Neil Gaiman has made it clear in interviews that his friendship with Terry Pratchett was deeply intimate. They began collaborating on what would become Good Omens in the 1980’s, endured a tumultuous experience together through the first publication, wherein Neil offered to martyr himself on behalf of Terry if the book failed, and then spent the better part of two decades touring the world, meeting the people who loved their work. Neil would even off-handedly remark that Terry’s fans were so cheerful, and Neil’s seemed like they were ready to kill themselves; wouldn’t it be nice if they got married? From the outside, it looks very much as if Terry was Aziraphale-coded, and Neil was Crowley-coded, working together in an unexpected partnership to make the world a little bit more tolerable for the humans inhabiting it. I am not conjecturing that Neil and Terry had romantic inclinations the way their fictional characters do, but I think it is fair to say that their opposites-attract intimacy became an important part of who each of them were.

In 2007 Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s. As the disease progressed, he began to lose himself, and knew that the person he used to be was slipping away. He wanted to end his life on his own terms, and die as himself, but England did not and still does not allow for voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide. He advocated for the right to die but never achieved it, and ultimately succumbed to the disease in 2015. Neil Gaiman has spoken a lot on the topic of death, and one answer of his that resonated with me reads:

Mostly it feels terrible. It even feels terrible when it’s someone who has been in a lot of pain for a long time or has not really been there for a long time and you know that Death has in some ways been a blessing: suddenly you are mourning the whole person. 

It doesn’t get easier as you age. It gets stranger. The point where you realise how many people you used to know and like who aren’t there any longer, and you cannot talk to them or see them or laugh with them is painful in a way that I had never expected. The first time that someone you had a romantic relationship with dies and you realise that there had been moments both of you shared and now you are the sole custodian of those moments and one day you will be gone and they will be lost forever is peculiarly strange and hard. 

~~~

The entire show is seeded with references to Terry Pratchett, but the most important one is the one that’s missing. Neil Gaiman cameoed as a sleeping moviegoer in S1E4, but a long time ago, he and Terry had discussed cameoing as sushi restaurant-goers, because sushi was weirdly prominent in the book. That cameo would have been in S1E1. But when it came time to do it, Neil couldn’t. Not without Terry. 

Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we’d had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing… not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I’ll sit and I’ll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I’ll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn’t do it.

Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.

Neil: I was keeping it to me self ‘cause I was always like: Oh, maybe I’ll be… this will be my cameo. And then I couldn’t. I was just so sad, ‘cause Terry wasn’t there. And it was probably the day that I missed Terry the most of all of the filming - it was just this one scene ‘cause it was written for Terry and all of the sushi meals we’d ever had and all of the strange way that sushi ran through Good Omens.

~~~

In the Final Fifteen, it is clear that Crowley and Aziraphale want to stay together. They love each other. They each know that the other loves them. There’s nothing that needs to be said, no convincing that their bond is true and real and precious.

But Aziraphale has to go to Heaven, and Crowley cannot follow him there.

I cannot speculate what it must have been like for Neil to endure losing a friend who, though I’m sure he desperately wanted to still be in his life, he also knew that life had become a burden to him, and grieved that Terry was not able to choose the time and manner of his departure from this Earth. This sort of complex grief, we fan-ficcers know, is the kind that is often best processed through story-telling. 

I think that what we see Crowley going through in the Final Fifteen, alongside its importance to the story arc of Good Omens overall, is Neil processing his grief at losing his friend Terry Pratchett, and even the kiss, that violent, terrible, awful kiss, was the symbolic representation of Neil saying goodbye.

#neil gaiman #terry pratchett #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #ivoc #this meta ended up being only about 2/3 the length of my usual metas and somehow that feels appropriate because Terry's life ended too soon #and the jarring brevity of this piece parallels that feeling of sudden unexpected loss #for me anyways I don't know about you guys #if this made your eyes even slightly moist you are obligated to reblog to help someone else feel their feels #I don’t make the rules #but them is the rules #blessed by Beelzebub

[nandors-girlwife]

I squeaked and giggled and twirled my hair so now you will too!!! Here are some young Jeremy Brett pics that make me have feelings

Oh my god?????

#no he's just SO FUCKING PRETTY #the cheekbones??? the jawline???? THE EYES??? KSKDJDKALSLS #im dyiiiing #oh my gooooooooood #im actually peeling my skin off while chewing my organs piece by piece #yes that's how i feel JESUS #god bless men #that meaning jeremy brett #jeremy brett #my man #also his first wife was so pretty too????? #SHE LOOKED SO ELEGANT DAMN #the adventures of sherlock holmes #granada holmes #my fair lady

[libbyrequiresescapism]

*flips table* mizu

#holy shit I drew #bless you mizu #I’ve been obsessing over them #like they’re just so attractive and badass and everything I need #wanted to study their face and get a feel for it #would like to do one for taigen as well #he’s pretty handsome too #blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #mizu #it ain’t taimizu but its hard work #my art

[bakudekublogblog]

kacchan really is so funny for being like BUT WHAT ABOUT BAKUDEKU CANON when he finds out izuku is quirkless

#bakudeku #bkdk #mha spoilers #bnha spoilers #mha leaks #he really is like WHAT ABOUT US #WHAT ABOUT EVERYTHING WE BEEN THROUGH #izuku is such a Gabriella too he DO be running away from his feelings every chance he gets #what about US IZUKU WHAT ABOUT OUR MARRIAGE #WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS MANGA IF WE ARENT MARRIED #and Izuku is like oh no my baby is on too many painkillers hahaha he’s not proposing to me right now that’s silly #if he was proposing that would mean he loved me and I can’t accept that reality I’m too much of a burden #I can’t think of myself long enough to realize I am valued #two months ago Izuku was like :) I’m so blessed kacchan talks to me almost normally #how is he supposed to process he was just proposed to by that same boy #like he’s also just gone through almost losing him he’s probably like I’m lucky he’s alive and breathing near me #and kacchan’s like I LOVE YOU I WANT YOU FOREVER #Izuku is overwhelmed ok give him some slack

[spiders-and-swords]

How on earth do you clean up a sketch?

#he was going to be holding the flashlight but screw that. turns out it’s incredibly difficult to draw in perspective #also it looked a little too similar to the official cover art #i feel like I’m able to draw his proportions a lot better than when I first did a year ago #i still can’t draw shoes though lol. bless you Deviant Art reference my one holy savior #sketch #traditional art #kim kitsuragi #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart

[esmes]

2023 revival todd/lovett + touch

#sweeney todd revival #annaleigh ashford #josh groban #sweenett #my gifs #nellie lovett and the subtle art of the dry hump #tough to pick just a few moments too bc annaleigh is ALWAYS touching him god bless #but these are my faves #the swagger with which he takes her face and walks her backward in the fourth gif contrasted with the unbearable intimacy of the last #you can see it almost ALMOST feels nice enough to give in to but also not at all..... ha hah hA ha #they are so sick and twisted and i am v normal about them :) #** #2023 revival #otp: if you only knew #sweeney todd #mt

[clownsuu]

Small detour of what I usually post, but I absolutely wish (other) clown the best of luck during these confusing and almost hopeless times- nobody knows how to deal with such amount of attention in such short amount of time- a blessing and a curse to behold

#Seeing their posts absolutely shattered me #I may never be able to relate to how he’s going through rn but at least I can relate to the fear of living in absolute fear #the fear of unable to be yourself in your own home with creative and personal freedom #The fear of being terrified that the thing that gives you the most innocent happiness will be heavily demonized and threatened #The fear of getting caught doing something you love and being yourself with your found identity #The fear of destruction #I relate heavily to this and to feel you are going to be caught doing anything that isn’t a crime hurts #I wish him safety and love during these stressful days #He’s brought so much joy to my life that I must keep private irl too #Whatever he decides for the fandom I will fully support it #I will still continue posting of course unless he wishes otherwise #If he sees this (which I doubt) hey other clown lmao- you are loved and not alone #It may be scary but you are not alone- you will never be alone #There will always be people out there who love you and there will always be those who are not even worth giving time of day #The internet is both a blessing and a cruel cruel unforgiving place #I hope it doesn’t deter you from doing what you love and hold dear #I hope you have anyone you can be with online or in irl that can give you the comfort you need #You deserve peace and security #Do what you feel is best #Welcome home

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant & Friends - Convention photos - Part Two

Link to [ Part One ] of this set

With extra-special thanks to Rich Keeble, Maggie Service, and Georgia Tennant for sharing some of these shots from the Proud Nerd Convention. ...and additional thanks to @BloodyTwittah10 for her "Georgia Is That Special!" sign, which Ty Tennant liked so much he asked to keep it so they could take their own photo with it (as seen above). Thank you for sharing your story and for letting them keep the sign! 🥰

Video Source [ rtl news ]

#david tennant #convention photos with friends #ty tennant #peter davison #good omens #doctor who #proud nerd convention #stan lee #we know how david feels about photoshoots #I hope he's having fun with these (bless him) #rich keeble #nina sosanya #maggie service #donna preston #sylvester mccoy #jodie whittaker #I love that now we're getting behind-the-scenes of these photos too #stuff i posted

[five-and-dimes]

Obviously I love and support all of Destruction's creative endeavors but I just think he deserves to at least once have Hob Gadling drag him bodily to a Break Room so he can see people getting the catharsis and release of destruction in a safe and appropriate space until the feelings dissolve away and what's left is some people crying with relief and others laughing with glee as they start to find joy and fun in the contained chaos and they all leave feeling so much better when they arrived and then the room gets swept up and no harm was done.

Just. Destruction seeing a space where his nature isn't war, or bloodshed, or abuse. It's just humans getting their feelings out and having fun with it too.

#the sandman #destruction of the endless #destruction x hob #I just have a lot of feelings about Destruction okay #and rage rooms God Bless rage rooms #I have too many wips but if anyone wants to write this... 👀

[mrsfitzgerald]

brussel3 | ohne dich 💖

#rammstein #paul landers #richard kruspe #paulchard #I MAKE INHUMAN NOISES #TEARS ARE STREAMING DOWN MY FACE! #THEY LOOK SO REAL HERE #PAUL WITHOUT GRAY HAIR AND RICHARD WITHOUT A HAIRDO #THAT WASN'T ON MY BINGO CARD #KISSING IN THE RAIN? #TO THIS SONG? #OHNE DICH WILL NEVER BE THE SAME FOR ME AGAIN! #IT'S TOO BEAUTIFUL! #AGAIN THIS FEELING THAT I SAW SOMETHING PERSONAL #AND I WANT TO CLOSE MY EYES AND NOT LOOK AT THEM #AND AT THE SAME TIME KEEP LOOKING #😭😭😭💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #ASDFGHJKL #BLESS LUIS FOR FILMING THIS #my ramm gifs #stadium tour 23