#the serpent of eden IS the apple

[spacebubblehomebase]

Shit post!

Don't take this too seriously, but LMAO XD. -Bubbly💙

#lucilith #spacebubblearts #my art #doodle #hazbin hotel #lucifer morningstar #lilith #eden #pre-fall #long haired Lucifer #adam and eve #headcanon #crack #treated seriously #serpent #look at our little apple pie #hey look I drew me again! #well my mascot at least #strawberry milk is one of my three favorite drinks that isn't a latte #the others are grape soda and mango shake #very random but true #lesbians #maybe??? #shit post #why did I draw this so fast??? #or at all??? #I keep seeing that Luci gave birth to Charchar and I know it's a joke but I think this hc can add up to that now that I think about it XD #angel lucifer #angel x human #imagine being a lesbian before other girls were a thing LOL skill issue- *dies*

[digitalfossils]

Penthouse Deutschland (1989)

#80s #illustration #serpent #apples #planet #eden #satan #paradise lost

[self-spaghettification]

Claudia is going to be so insane S6

Viren, with reason but also spite, took Callum’s voice—taunting him, killed Avizandum, and coined Runaan and the other elves. Aaravos encouraged Viren to kill the leaders of the four other countries and to kill the guards hunting him in the castle of Katolis.

In comparison, Claudia has, unprovoked, almost killed a dragon just for hell of it and taunted Rayla with her parents just to not give them back (even knowing what it’s like to have a parental figure taken away.)

Terry was the only thing stopping her. Terry was talking her down both times. Terry is no longer in the picture. (for Claudia, currently at least.) Who knows what she’ll do with that lack of checking and Aaravos egging her on

so ready for her to be so unhinged <3

#Aaravos: points at Rayla. she did it #thats the only encouragement Claudia will need to make the main trio’s life a living hell <3 #fav version of this is from Teach Me The Bigger Light where Aaravos hands her an apple to bite into along with providing her the info #Rayla being the one to murder her dad and royally fuck up her life #its just so . so ….. serpent of eden grrgrgrrr #this is taken from a larger meta but it has to be said #tdp #tdp s6 speculation #the dragon prince #claudia #aaravos #viren #terry #tdp speculation

[thepringlesofblood]

don't make me tap the sign

[image id: screenshot of the simpsons "don't make me tap the sign" meme, where the sign is edited to read "“Hastur was a Duke of Hell. Crowley wasn’t even a local councilor” - Good Omens (1990)" /end id]

update: re-read the book lately and realized they spell it "counsellor" bc they're british. this makes sense but it also means my american ass can't help but read "counsellor" as the american "counselor" which is like a therapist or mental health consultant (the way i spelled it originally is like. someone who sits on a council. which is what i'm sure they meant). just wanted to share the fun image of crowley as a therapist ("I see I see. have you tried yelling at plants?"), or even funnier, that "Duke" as a title is like. a level above therapist. grand therapist. high throne of therapy. tier 1 therapist hastur la vista.

#it's very important to me personally that crowley is truly just some guy #like yes he's the serpent of eden and technically invented human sin #which basically just got him a pat on the back and then put to work for the next 6000 years #while the ceo (satan) largely gets the credit for the whole apple thing #bc good omens is a critique of bureaucracy and capitalism #crowley's not special bc of his status with hell or even who he used to be in heaven #he's special bc he's *crowley* #he's special bc he's imaginative and creative and optimistic and clever #he's lived and loved and worked on earth for so long that its had the same profound effect on him that it does on aziraphale #that gives them the perspective that heaven and hell lack #idk its just. a lot of feelings for me #good omens #original post #image id

[the-ineffable-dance]

Innocent Questions

Summary:

Ever since his Fall, the demon Crowley has been Hell's go-to for temptations. Because Crowley understands better than anyone... it always starts with a few innocent question.

Chapter 1: About an Apple

Excerpt:

“Good morning,” the serpent said, stretching himself in her direction as he kept his tail curled around the branch he rested in, letting his head break through the leaves that hid him from view. With a surprised “Oh!” the woman turned, a brilliant white smile lighting up her face. “Good morning,” she replied. Slowly she moved forward, no fear causing her to hesitate as she closed the distance and put her face close to the dark snout. The light glinted off of two needlelike fangs that dripped down the sides of his snout. He flicked his tongue again, tasting the innocence that rolled off of her skin. “I haven’t seen you yet.” “No, indeed… well, it’s a big place,” the serpent said, keeping his yellow eyes steadily on hers. “But s’nice to meet you."

Big thanks to my fantastic beta readers: @your-absent-father @akiwitch and @mauvelilywilliams

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #good omens fanfiction #ao3 #in the garden of eden #there was a wily old serpent and an angel on apple duty

[greenmoons]

Mal apples refrence

Once upon a time long long ago, someone wrote the story about Adam and Eve in Eden. You know the story? The serpent convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and then god kicked them out of eden?

So people have this headcanon (because it is considers headcanon and you all know that!) that the forbidden fruit was an apple? It because in Latin the meaning of the word 'malum' is evil and apple. The tree in Eden was called 'The tree of the knowledge of good and evil', and eating it was considered a sin, so the apple was identified as something evil.

Now, let's take it to descendants, firstly the apple is known as an evil fruit, it's one of the singatures of the Evil Queen, but the one with apples all the time is Mal and not Evie. Because of her name, because Mal, is part of the latin word for apple, so she got the apples. In the song 'Ways to be Wicked' Mal spread out corrupted apples to release the evil side of everyone. And this another allusion to the story. Because Mal is basically a dragon, and dragons are serpent like creatures (the new testament even called serpent dragons somewhere). Mal is a serpent who causing people to break the rules, like the serpent in Eden.

The serpent also described as satan or devil, and we all know who's Mal father is right? :) Her father is Hades, and he is the ruler of hell, the place where all the sinners go. So Mal make them sin so they'll go the her father's world.

And just another cute refrence, King Beast real name is Adam and Evie's name without the i is Eve, so both of these names has a connection to Mal.

The idea of this post come from conversation with @punk-spider-lilliss so thank you very much and most of the information is from wikipedia so sorry if there are mistakes.

#descendants #apples #adam and eve #ways to be wicked #mal descendants #evie descendants #king beast #garden of eden #serpent #evil queen #hades #heaven and hell #good and evil #disney descendants #bible #new testament #greek mythology #fairy tales #mal

[j-august]

Artistic fashions change, and for what was displayed on the walls around him Appleby was too old by a full generation. But human nature remains constant, and successful sales talk must exploit the identical weaknesses today that the Serpent first hit upon in the Garden. Appleby knew that he must be offered the very same apple that diverted Eve. Braunkopf could do no more than serve it up with some garnish of his own.

Michael Innes, A Private View

#quote #quotation #Michael Innes #A Private View #art #fashion #sales talk #human nature #weakness #Serpent #Garden of Eden #Eve #apple #garnish

[secret-plantcest-sideblog]

while i get where the wolfwood-judas comparison comes from with the tristamp dynamics, i find the accompanying knives-lucifer comparison hollow.

imo wolfwood and knives are 2 different interpretations of judas: one who betrays because he literally must; he has no choice, he is being directed by a higher power; one who doesn't really want to do it but is compelled, and whose betrayal catches jesus off guard. And then the one who jesus has always known would betray him; one who would embrace the divinity of his call to betray, who would if given the chance crucify jesus himself to achieve the desired ends because he loves jesus so deeply and fiercely that who else but himself should get the honor to kill him and bring about the resurrection.

#like idk the lucifer bit rings hollow to me bc like #it's about his relationship to vash #vash is the jesus figure here #his relationship to knives is not one of jesus to the tempter #his relationship to knives is one of someone that he loves deeply and who loves him deeply #repeatedly betraying hurting and violating him for what knives believes is vash's/the world's own good #and imo his love for vash >>> his hatred of humanity #i think 98 had the best case for an old testament-flavored character parallel tho and in that case...knives is eve #he's literally eve #he eats the apple. he learns the evil of humans. he forces vash out of their eden #but also i am. biased against anything with lucifer bc lucifer is but an OC in a bible fanfic au where the serpent was the satan from job #was Satan the big baddie himself #so.laduhflsdiuhf #anyways as a certified trashy messy jesus/judas lover the idea that it wouldn't work with plantcest is wild to me

[fashioninpaper]

A beautiful lithograph by French artist Louis Icart. Unfortunately I had to censor it to get it past tumblrs censors.

#Louis Icart #lithograph #garden of Eden #Eve and the serpent #tumblr censorship #Apple

[picaroroboto]

in the Garden

#ff14 #ffxiv #meteion #ffxiv hermes #endwalker #endwalker spoilers #thinking about the Garden of Eden symbolism in Elpis got me fucked up #like Hermes is associated with apples (his fav food) and snakes (part of his boss design) and is the guy responsible for breaking paradise #but he wasnt tempted by some malevolent serpent but by an innocent child #offering him the answers he made her to find

[adventurechristianity]

Trick Or Trick

“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” Genesis 3:13 That day in the garden, when the serpent tricked Eve into eating an apple? That had to be Halloween. I remember the house on my street that gave out apples on Halloween. An apple? Who wants an apple on Halloween? That’s worse than the dentist who gave out toothbrushes. At least those came in a nice variety of colors. But an apple? We already…

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#apples #devil #eve #garden of eden #halloween #serpent #treat #trick

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

remembering the time I tried to explain what good omens was to my art teacher when I animated crowley for my final project and when I said "the Bible but make it gay fanfic between the serpent of eden and guardian of the apple tree", this man perked up and said he would watch it immediately. it was a chill class where everyone just kind of worked with their headphones on and this guy just sat at his desk watching good omens for the rest of class.

a week later it somehow came up in conversation that he had finished the show. when I asked him what he thought he just went quiet then said "... you didn't warn me and I cried an embarrassing amount."

yeah dude thats normal over here welcome to the cult.

edit: I forgot the best part! this was at a fairly conservative, small catholic school with at most 200 kids from preschool to eighth grade. and the fact that he got that excited at the mention of Bible fanfic in this catholic school makes me so happy to think of.

#good omens #aziracrow #final fifteen #i made a grown man cry but the cult has grown #ineffable husbands #ineffable divorce #go2

[gangrenetickween]

Devil was probably pissed when Newton invented gravity.

#science #issac newton #newton’s Law #gravity #apple #Christian #christian jokes #serpent #garden of eden #joke #funny #please think I’m funny #hot science girlies #i am in love with you #and definitely not my best friend who has a boyfriend #but I’m actually not #I don’t think #well I mean clearly

[justafterjericho]

#serpent #serpent of eden #apple #forbidden fruit #ceramics #the apple is kinda shitty colored #sometimes I hate glazes

[joycrispy]

'Erased from the Book of Life' is such an insane threat to make against Aziraphale and Crowley, specifically.

Erase Aziraphale? Then Crawly stands alone on the walls of Eden, watching Adam and Eve plunge unarmed and lightless into an empty world.

The flaming sword stays in Heaven. It never becomes a token of War, one of mankind's shadows --what takes it's place? What do the Them wield against the Four if 6000 years earlier there wasn't an angel, overcome by the itch of compassion, to gift humanity the means to defend itself?

Erase Crowley? Then there is no Serpent of Eden. That probably matters less --they were always going to eat that damn apple, one way or the other.

...But do you suppose Aziraphale would look up in time to watch his stars go out?

Would he look up in time to remember why the sight destroys him?

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens meta #I'm just thinking out loud here

[alargehunkofdebris]

Aziraphale’s reaction to the kiss: A Breakdown (that’s it that’s the reaction.)

A lot of people say that this anguish Aziraphale feels after the kiss is due to this feeling of “Why now? Why didn’t you do this before, when I wanted you to?” And I think that can be part of it, for sure. But man, that’s just one part of this gigantic, writhing ball of emotions in Aziraphale in that moment, all of them fighting each other, all of them painful. I’m going to breakdown the breakdown, because writing essays analyzing the minds of fictional characters is apparently all I want to do these days. Also, judging by this absolute nutball of a season that confirmed literally multiple “bit of a stretch” deep dives, I feel I can ignore that little voice whispering “this is silly” into my ear. I can dive as deep as I want, because there goes Neil Gaiman with an aqualung, swimming deeper.  

So. The kiss, and why Aziraphale looks so gosh darned sad about it. 

First of all, there’s shock. Major shock. Because despite everything, he still likely never thought this would ever actually happen. (Him and me both.) Or maybe – a small maybe, but a maybe that I might put a dollar on, if the odds were good – the idea of kissing Crowley never occurred to his conscious brain before at all. He’s so good at compartmentalizing and denying that it’s very possible he’s managed to nip every intrusive thought before it went far enough to be fully conscious.

Then, there’s fear of being seen. (“Who is watching? Will the Metatron see? He only allowed me to work with Crowley after he regained angelic status – if he sees me and Crowley now –”) Then, a layer deeper, there’s his ever-present fear response to things going too fast, because despite how we all know he feels, he’s still not sure he’s ready for any kind of partnership, let alone one this intimate and close. Because even for humans, this is a really, really big jump – we typically don’t kiss when we haven’t even been on a date (officially) yet, and usually not before both parties admit to their feelings.

Then, even deeper, is that anguished, heartbroken “Why now? My God, why now?” response, because his subconscious has always wanted this, but also knows that this is the worst possible time for it to happen, and now he’s lost that first kiss with Crowley—the one he wanted, anyway. The one that was supposed to be filled with joy, and is instead marked with the worst pain he’s ever felt.

Then there’s the second “Why now” response, and this is where I might be dipping a toe into the Hot Take puddle. Because I think there’s that knee-jerk fear response he’s yet to shake, and which overtakes his rational thinking whenever he’s terrified of Heaven or unsure of himself. It’s the suspicion he’s always held of Crowley. He’s thinking “Why now?” as in, “Is this the temptation that God and Heaven warned me about? Is this Crowley the Serpent, fulfilling his duty? Is this the true proffered apple, a kiss that’s meant to keep me from serving Heaven? Is he tempting me, knowing how I feel, knowing I’m weak?”

That’s the true anguish of this scene, I think. He’s fighting all these feelings, but on top is this old fear, this old anger and suspicion of Crowley, assuming he’s lying. Demons lie, Crowley admitted it himself. Crowley is the original Serpent of Eden, designed to tempt people away from God. And this feeling is what’s on top, because the alternative is…what? That Crowley actually feels this way? That Crowley, a demon, loves him, Aziraphale, enough to be this vulnerable, with no wicked ulterior motive? Aziraphale is a lot of things, but he’s certainly not a being who thinks he’s desirable. He sees himself as opposite to Crowley, and if Crowley is temptation personified, Aziraphale is then the personification of undesirableness. Deep down, this idea of the Serpent of Eden being tempted by him, Aziraphale, is simply ludicrous.

And then there’s self-hatred that he even thinks this thought of his friend, then suspicion, then fear again, then confusion, then anguish, then fear, then pain, and so on. All of this happens in a few seconds, and all of it coalesces into a singular takeaway: “This is the worst.” And because the one who technically caused it is Crowley, Aziraphale does what he does very well: he forgives Crowley, because he’s too prim and angelic to say “Goddamn you,” which is what he truly means. Goddamn you for making me feel this way. Goddamn you for making me doubt you. Goddamn you for forcing this option on me, when I can no longer take it, and when I don’t even know if it’s real. Goddamn you for putting this apple in my hands when we both know I can’t eat it. Goddamn you for reminding me that no matter what, it is not in my stars to live a happy life. 

#good omens 2 #good omens #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens meta #good omens 2 meta #go2 #go2 spoilers #gos2 #gos2 spoilers #good omens s2 spoilers