This post is less Good Omens- related and more personal, but there's been a lot of arguing over "representation" in the fandom the past few days. The strong feelings people express are awesome but ALSO I really want us in the community to appreciate and listen to one another.
People want to KILL queer people. There are still many, many places where it is not safe to have any identity other than cis het. Fighting that means sticking together, not tearing each OTHER apart. Allosexual, asexual, lesbian, gay, cis, trans, nonbinary, gender queer, GNC... we're all part of this community and we're stronger together.
In Good Omens, Neil Gaiman gave us a glimpse of what a world could be if people got to decide for themselves how to present and who to love without the hate and prejudice that inevitably comes along with that in the real world. I know people are questioning exactly what Crowley and Aziraphale are and how they identify, which is fine (honestly I don't know that we'll ever find out for sure. It may be something private between the two of them). But saying things like "it's homophobic" (for them to be ace), or "it's acephobic" (for them to be gay) sort of defeats the purpose of "it's a love story", doesn't it? At the end of the day, maybe it doesn't matter what EXACTLY they are. They're unapologetically QUEER and their story is for and about all of us.
It's okay to disagree. It's okay to ask questions. I mean, that's the moral of Good Omens, isn't it? We don't have to be the same; we SHOULDN'T all be the same... there's strength and beauty in our differences. But even if we don't all agree with one another, let's support each other.
I see them as gay male coded beings who have chosen that identity for themselves and would enjoy sexual pleasure as much as any other earthly pleasure. If YOU see them as agender or nonbinary sexless entities who are QPR or ace or aroace and would never have sex, I SUPPORT THE HELL OUT OF YOUR RIGHT TO DO SO. I'm in your corner and I will fight for you.
Love you all. Love that we love the ineffable love story of Good Omens, whatever form that takes, and let's lift each other up rather than tearing each other down.
Normally I wouldn‘t post wip‘s but I thought since it‘s Oikawa-san‘s birthday I might as well make an exception.
I‘m currently working on a series of casual-wear Haikyuu characters, but I don‘t want to post unless I‘ve got them all finished. Sooo... see this as a sneak peak I guess?
Pepa is slowly becoming my favourite character to draw, I love how they designed her, she has just so many expressions!
plus she‘s super hot
Took me a week but I have added to the craze.
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just a random experience I had. My mom who‘s by all means not been very involved with LGBTQ+ matters (appart from the three years she thougt I was a lesbian and never said a thing about it so we stan her as an ALLY, also she figured Azi fell in love with Crowley back in s1 when he saved his books in 1941) she seems to have claimed the kissing scene of season 2 of good omens as her favourite moment, which honestly comes as a surprise for me. Because I‘d feared she would take it as a humorous bit, but she honestly looks so heartbroken whenever she asks me to put it on soo, I don‘t even know where I meant this post to go, I guess I just wanted to share this experience because it seemed so wholesome; especially since my family used to be awefully conservative before I (very involuntarily so) became the show off for our family and made them more progressive and accepting. I just CANNOT wait for season 3, and to my surprise, neither can my mom lmao
the fact that I got Alternate Universe with an unhappy ending while my two least favourite genres are au's and angst is not only ironic but also a great description of how my life's going atm
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Levi in the new uniform because I‘m a s i m p
Aight we watched no regrets (the levi ova) and I don't think I've ever seen her so sad omg
Like she saw Isabel's head and she was like "IS THAT HIS BUDDY" to which I said "well, that's Isabel" to which she replied "ᵒʰ ⁿᵒᵗ ᴵˢᵃᵇᵉˡ" in the tiniest voice. I mean damn, she hasn't been that emotional at any point in the main series for ANY death at all.
Kinda had to chuckle after her closing words after we finished episode two though:
"well... that was sad"
Redraw of Zuko, 2016 vs 2021
some close ups:
This!
I felt the same way when I finally watched Merlin a couple of months ago. I‘d been going through the worst four years of my life at the time but somehow this show woke something up inside of me that I thought I had lost many years ago. For the first time in possibly a decade I felt alive again, felt like myself! I really hold it dear to my heart and I‘m so very glad that the fandom is still this active and thriving because whenever I‘m relapsing to my old bad habits and mindsets I can pick up some fanfic or look at the amazing fanarts and feel a little better almost instantly.
Merlin is the first show I've cried over in a while. I'll see deeply profound posts abt it and just tear up like a mfer and it's exhilarating. I hate how much it makes me feel (lie) and I haven't felt so alive in at least a year. Merthur saved my life probably. :)
literally this............
look okay i am gonna get REAL cheesy
but when i first found merlin, i was 17, 18 years old. i was in a really pivotal time in my life and i was... so confident. so ready to take on the world. and these characters, they helped me. they were ready to take on the world, too, and i was ready to fight alongside them.
we drifted away, as we do. and i had... a really traumatic early 20s. one that made me lose myself. i no longer wanted to fight, to believe, to hope. survival was hard enough.
finding merlin again?
i feel like i am waking her up again. the person i was when i was ready to fight for what i believed in. i now want to pursue my lifelong dreams for the first time in years. i am passionate again. i am waking up.
merlin is an essential part of my life, and I am so glad to have him, and arthur, and gwen, and the knights, and Morgana, and all of you along with me.
This has definitely been done before but I really wanted to do it too.
Big F for Pepa‘s arepa tho
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