but yeah rayllum strolling into the starscraper like "yeah we want this super secret powerful weapon so we can kill an imprisoned elf. yeah he's totally evil we promise. we have his prison in your bag. also can you give us your equally rare gem stones to free these three other elves + human who looks like a dark mage, who we promise are totally not evil. we also have their prisons in our bag. yeah the same bag. you're 100% gonna give us the stuff, right?" is funnier to me than it should be
MF: "You've got the video, don't you?"
LN: "Yeah, I've got a couple."
MF: "What do you mean, a couple?"
LN: "Well, of you getting changed and then ... "
MF: "That sounds really wrong."
LN: "You had, you had my trousers on and I was flying in the morning, wasn't I. And you didn't take them off *devolves into unintelligible Lando noises and squawks*
SO, I come here today to talk to you about Aziraphale, Jane Austen and the double life he lives.
Because Nina teasingly refers to Aziraphale as being mysterious and surprising as a dark horse
and you know who else is referred to as equally surprising, a dark horse? Jane Austen
and I like how with Jane, we get Crowley's AND Aziraphale's version of the same person, who we very well know wrote books.
From Aziraphale, we get the things we mostly know about Jane: A novelist who held cotillion balls.
From Crowley, we get her secret outlaw activities: Jane was the brains behind a Robbery, a Brandy smuggler, and a master spy.
And, as Aziraphale didn't know about Jane Austen's criminal career, Crowley didn't know about her artistic endeavors. Her good side is hidden from Crowley, and her bad side is hidden from Aziraphale.
But also, there are some interesting parallels between Jane fucking Austen AND Aziraphale.
The minisodes show us that Aziraphale was an unwilling alcohol smuggler in 1941
he can also fool everyone when the time matters to his side and to Hell's side. In fact, his job as an angel is basically being a spy.
But also, he wrote extensively, he has many diaries that are just lying around in his shop
And of course, he has organized at least ONE cotillion ball
And, the brains behind ...well, many plans at this point, including saving Job's children, manipulating the room to make the angels believe those are Job's new kids, playing his own game for thousands of years. Aziraphale is the one finding Clues and finding who Adam was back in the Armagedidnt. I wouldn't put it past him to be paying his own part in the three-dimensional chess by going back to heaven.
It is very deliberate that the minisodes show mostly Aziraphale backstory, from his own point of view, he knows very well what he has done, the good and the bad.
And that's exactly my point. I think Crowley doesn't get the full picture of Aziraphale just yet
We know they don't communicate very well. And even after all their years together, they still have very strict preconceived conceptions about what angels are supposed to be and what demons are supposed to be, even when they themselves transgress those all the time.
I'm fairly convinced that Crowley's "You don't dance" surprised tone in the ball is carried from the idea that angels don't dance from season one, even tho we know from God's narration that Aziraphale does.
After 6k years Aziraphale not only is still surprising Crowley with cotillion balls and firearm licenses, and, as Crowley didn't know Jane's ordinary life, it makes me think Crowley really doesn't know about Aziraphale's diaries detailing their history together. (Bit of a Chekov's gun from Neil, imo)
note: From what I know, there is no such thing as the 1810 diamond robbery, it being entirely fictional but I am going deep into the suspension belief and run with it
4 Binguses!
I love small sized drawings and popping colors, and the art style of ghost trick lends itself WONDERFULLY to these little shikishi boards.
Fittingly, I revived my old gel pens for this (heat 'em up, give 'em a lil hot bath) which i had thought to be dead.
here be neat scans, too:
also:
Play Ghost Trick!!!!!!
originals for sale here:
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To a master guitarist, architect of musical dreams, founder of THE cornerstone hard rock band, studio sorcerer, impossible beauty, devilish dandy, fearless visionary, sexual tyrannosaurus, contradiction in terms, good boi (sometimes,) mostly fascinating, occasionally infuriating, and utterly unforgettable - Happy 80th Birthday to the incredible Jimmy Page! 🎂🎁🎉🎊🤩💖🎸
And behold - some of my favourite Jimages I've collected over the years...
Want to give a quick shout-out on all my socials to the genuinely wonderful folks at Worlds Away whose actual-play podcast is launching soon.
I got to illustrate the key art for their first season, which was a cool challenge in designing an adaptable, malleable layout for multipurpose use across platforms and contexts. Learned a LOT doing this, and I couldn't be happier for the opportunity.
making changes for canon divergent fics is fun bc the changes can be anything from between "weiss' left eye is blinded / yang dyes her hair" to "blake lived good portion of her childhood on a ship bc her parents were merchants bringing goods from anima to menagerie" (i may or may not have read more about beauty and the beast fairy tale)