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Unknown, Comet from the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs, 1552
Later published as The Book of Miracles
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#Unknown#Comets from the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs#1552#Later published as The Book of Miracles#comet#comets#books#the book of miracles#Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs
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Illustrations from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, an illuminated manuscript from the 16th century. The book follows events from the Old Testament as well as supernatural or significant events from Antiquity up to 1552, finishing with the Book of Revelation.
#art#the book of miracles#books#16th century#manuscript#history#aesthetic#painting#symbols#hans burgkmair
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makes a to do list. gets too stressed to start on it before it’s waaaaay to late (ohno!!)
#it’s not even funny or like maybe it’s so ridiculous that it is idk#the deadline is today#I had 2 weeks and I have barely done anything#and now I’m going to return it late and it will be a miracle if it’s any good#why did I do this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#studyblr#bookblr#booklr#books#study#reading#aesthetic#read#book#chaotic academia#dark academia#march 2024#2024
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"There is no greater love than to give one's life for friends."
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) dir. J. A. Bayona
#society of the snow#filmgifs#filmedit#moviegifs#fyeahmovies#tvfilmsource#cinemapix#dailyflicks#dailyfilmsource#filmtvtoday#filmtv#mine#*#i literally won't shut up about this film#as an argentinian i've known the tragedy or miracle of the andes since i was a little child#i read alive! when i was about 7 yo watched the film and then read nando parrado's book when i was 10 yo#and this is the first time i've seen it perfectly capturates what they went through; it's the first time a film about the andes has a soul#it's just so masterfully done#congrats bayona he did it again
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Do I look like I run a bookshop?
Anthony J. Crowley, aka The Co. to A.Z. Fell and Co.
#crowley doesn't just know where things are#he didn't bother to miracle aziraphale's chair back in place#he put it back properly by himself in a very very human way#do you sometimes think that#the first time aziraphale saw crowley#crowley had a book with him#granted it was a book about how to make a nebula#but it was a book nonetheless#crowley and his imagination and enjoying a good story#as much if not more than the next person#and aziraphale admitting they both get enough use from the bookshop#that angel knew what he was doing#when he added 'and Co.' to the bookshop name#my edits#good omens#good omens 2#good omens spoilers#good omens 2 spoilers#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#goodomensedit
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Rachel Elizabeth Dare doesn’t need to be the Oracle to give Percy Oblivious Jackson a reality check
#seriously these two have a gift for obliviousness#no seriously annabeth is SO jealous of rachel and the ~idea~ of calypso in tbotl it's a miracle how percy can be like “oh i wonder whats up#she kissed you before you “died” and went on an “what if” island percy. she LIKES you!!!#percabeth#percy jackson#rachel elizabeth dare#annabeth chase#percy x annabeth#pjo book reread#pjo tv show#pjo tv#percy jackson and the olympians#the battle of the labyrinth#rick riordan
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I have a new episode of my podcast All Miracles Are Strange. It's about hysterical weeping, Margery Kempe, EM Cioran, and two ceramics work by the artist Carolein Smit (above).
It's also about how I cry a lot.
In this episode, I referenced Tears and Saints by Emil Cioran, The Crying Book by Heather Christie, Cry Baby: Why Our Tears Matter by Benjamin Parry, Interior Castles by Teresa of Avila, the Book of Margery Kempe, Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey, and the essay “Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe” by Santha Bhattacharji, which appears in the book “Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination.” I tried very hard to put in some bits from Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck, but couldn't make it work this time around.
If you would like to support my work or read more of what I do, you can find me on Patreon and Substack. If you want to see my studio work, you can see it on instagram and on my website.
This episode, along with all the others, can be found on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts
#all miracles are strange#lizz hamilton#museum of the vanishing dog#motvd#sometimes i want to apologize for putting these out slowly but i do end up having to read about 10 books per ep and have a job so like
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Another Flick I'm Looking Forward to Seeing!! 🕷🕸
#finally something to only took a day to make THIS IS A MIRACLE#art#digital art#digital drawing#digital illustration#fanart#marvel fanart#spiderman fanart#comic book#spiderman#spiderman movie#spiderman into the spiderverse#spiderman across the spiderverse#miles morales#across the spiderverse#spiderverse#marvel#miles morales fanart#end my suffering
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Today instead of another page, I bring you... DTIYS!
What is is? Why are they cats? I don't know. I just wanted to paint clouds today. And I felt like doing DTIYS for the first time. So please go wild and have fun!
#goid omens#aziraphale#crowley#good omens 2#ineffable husbands#crowley x aziraphale#go s2#good omens art#good omens fanart#draw it in your style#good omens dtiys#draw this in your style#artists on tumblr#fanart#ineffable cats#good omens cats#cat aziraphale#cat crowley#book of miracles#aziraphale is loafing#Crowley is a long boi
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literally the hottest ancient Roman man I’ve ever seen…
credit to the editor 🤍
#I am peasant#HIS VOICE#still under the weather but I cleaned and did the laundry so you tell me#it’s a miracle#the man is healing me#tom glynn carney#the book of clarence
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Unknown, Comet from the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs, 1552
Later published as The Book of Miracles
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#the book of miracles#augsburg book of miraculous signs#comets#unknown#astronomy#astronomical art#scientific illustration#illuminated manuscript
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Bruce didn’t mean to slice Jason’s throat and if he did mean it, it was only to disable , it wasn’t lethal and the wound would’ve been treated, and though that didn’t happen it wasn’t Bruce who sealed Jason’s fate but Joker who set off the explosion, and anyways Jason didn’t actually die he comes back in other comics.
Except none of that matters. It matters for the validity of UTRH as a Batman story that Bruce has deniability sure, but does it absolve him? UTRH says No. At the end of the day Bruce would rather attack his son than let his murderer die. Bruce thought he was refusing the choice but the lesson of this tragedy is that refusing to pick one over the other boils down to choosing the other.
#I don’t care if Jason didn’t technically canonically die it doesn’t absolve Bruce one bit#we saw him bleed out onto the floor and then we saw the building debris his body would’ve been trapped under#narratively his arc was over he might as well have died a second time#Bruce doesn’t get point for DC deciding Jason was popular enough to keep alive he doesn’t get points for comic book bullshit miracles#‘Jason got revived a second time’ is as reasonable as ‘he walked it off idk fuck you don’t think about it’#the thing is UTRH is the most sympathetic Bruce has ever been wrt Jason IMO#but the split second decision he makes is so… significant#there’s a reason that the ultimatum scene of the movie version of UTRH gets made fun of#jason todd#batsalt#anti bruce wayne#put a pin on it
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It's very interesting that both Allura in this episode and Essek in 2.124 frame the Luxon as a pre-Founding entity that has been in Exandria since before the Primordials or the pantheon, because it really does complicate the idea of gods as a single unified classification. Discussions around, say, the Raven Queen's ascension and Artagan's godhood are interesting of course, but lend themselves to a hierarchy of being and power—mortals and archfey must be elevated to a higher position to reach a place among the gods—but the Luxon throws a wrench into the hierarchy itself.
Fandom discussions around the Luxon referring to it as an entity tend to feed into this hierarchy as well, even when framing the Luxon in a positive light, by placing the classification of god or deity as a literal higher power in a contemporary and very sociopolitical conceptualization of "power," positioning anything in that role as inherently oppressive, and I think this also does the conversation a disservice. A better metaphor, in my opinion, is to compare deities to the fundamental forces of physics.
The way that dunamis has been said to intertwine with reality on a minute level and the Luxon's extension of divine power without direct communication suggests to me that its power in relation to other deities is somewhat akin to gravity itself—gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces, but much farther reaching, and therefore it exerts a massive influence on the cosmos in spite of that lesser strength.* This echoes the complexities of trying to rely upon a hierarchy of being in this discussion, because such hierarchies are always constructed and imposed, not inherent. Sometimes they are constructed by those positioned at the top, and other times not, but from any angle, regardless of field, they tend to be used to justify some moral stance and standing.
This is utterly negated by the Luxon's existence. Whatever can be said about it as an entity, it seems to be an inherently amoral being—it does not seem to concern itself with moral questions, and very possibly has no capacity to do so. At the same time, dunamis seems to be enmeshed within the reality of the Material Plane and the Weave itself, perhaps even the Skein of Fate—as described, dunamis may well be the very particulate matter comprising the choices of everything in the cosmos and how those choices intertwine.
The Raven Queen, as an ascended mortal, can look upon the individual heroes of the story and acknowledge them, validate them, but the Luxon has no inherent position from which to look, and as such evades any positionality within the constructed hierarchy upon which the questions of this campaign hinge.
*Complicating this metaphor is the fact that gravity's weakness means it doesn't exert significant influence on a micro scale, but I do not ever purport to suggest that dunamancy is a one-to-one mirror of the realities of quantum mechanics, not least because Matt is definitely no more a physicist than I am.
#the return of the meta footnote#very important honestly#anyway all systems of classification are constructed and discourse would markedly improve if people actually recognized that#also I'm not gonna lie. the brevity of this already long meta is a fucking miracle. I nearly went looking for crit theory to quote.#I could've gone on WAY longer about both the constructedness of hierarchies.#was about to open up my book on the theory of taxonomies.#cr meta#cr spoilers#luxon blogging#critical role
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Foreshadowing, out of order?
In storytelling, is there a single word that means "the opposite of foreshadowing"?
WARNING: in trying to wrap my head around this, there will be wittering!!!
Wikipedia tells me that a flashback is a method of foreshadowing.
The Bullet Catch in the NZF minisode, being a flashback as well as told before the "present day" [speculated] event it sets up a clue for, well, that's what I've understood foreshadowing to mean until now, because isn't foreshadowing always presented before the event it foreshadows comes to pass?
The flashback/memory minisode, A Companion To Owls, is told after the "present day" event it foreshadows. Does that still count as foreshadowing, or is it instead considered "the big reveal" because it is told after?
And is this all that is meant by various things in Good Omens 2 being "out of order"?
The Hiding Miracle and the Memory That Both Foreshadows and Reveals It?
Indeed, it was a tiny miracle - as titled in the soundtrack - that worked as planned and "barely moved the dials" (but still a miracle in which "Noone will have noticed A Thing" however tiny it was, and that "Nobody notices he's here (...) Nobody can spot him, (...) especially if they're looking for him").
I believe it was the first of three events that happened that night, which, became the main focus of this "quiet, gentle, romantic" season, but paling in comparison to the other two events. Moving on!
Returning to how A Companion to Owls isn't told until after The Hiding Miracle and clues us in as to what was actually going on: this tiny miracle was made to appear far more powerful than it actually was, with the use of showmanship:
The ceremonious setup of being positioned on the circle in the middle of the room hidden under the carpet, between Aziraphale and Crowley; he could have been standing, but instead, "Jim... Sit in this chair." And it's a beautiful chair, like a throne, but Jim being taller wouldn't have worked for the image of the 'W' (similar to the 'W' shape made with Shadwell standing between Aziraphale and Crowley at the airbase, in the book Good Omens.)
ta-da!-look-at-this-very-complicated-and-powerful-miracle-that-we-are-doing
Why perform at all then, for an audience of none?
Ah, they're not alone, oooOoOoOOOoOoOooo, spooky. Go and see for yourself: check out the bottom left area of the screen when Crowley returns to the bookshop and says, "I'm BACK" (this is to do with the "framing opportunities" secret mentioned in the Gavin Finney BTS article https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/gavin-finney-bsc-good-omens-2/) Aziraphale calmly replies, "Yes, I can see that" and later gasps, reacting to something happening off-screen at 40m41s.
So this performance, not yet knowing who their audience might be, could be as a precaution, just in case.
Gabriel instinctively crosses his hands and is confused when Aziraphale and Crowley uncross them - or likely because Aziraphale was even standing there at all - because he remembers, or rather, in his mind's eye, sees the shape left behind by a missing piece of furniture.
The ceremonious setup of being positioned in the centre, between Sitis and Job, this time in the background to have Bildad appear a little shorter in height for the stylized 'W', then crossing his hands. The pot containing Sitis and Job's children being the circle, hidden by the circle of carpet (robes) made as Sitis and Job embrace.
ta-da!-look-at-this-very-complicated-and-powerful-miracle-that-we-are-doing
Had we seen Jim's and Crowley's conversation about memory before The Hiding Miracle instead of much later in episode 5, then it would have been foreshadowing, yes?
*temper rising* A "reveal," or "out-of-order foreshadowing"? (VBUAXNAUSX*keyboard smash*NYVIFGNOMAI) grrrrrr!
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After the Job story is told, (save for the final scene) and Aziraphale calls for Crowley, my head-cannon used to be that Aziraphale wanted to talk about hair -
Aziraphale: Crowley, I gave you lovely long locks in my retelling of this story, how about you?
Crowley: Nah, "shoulder-length bouncy 'bob'" is what I put - a "Lob" I think is what they're calling it these days.
But now I think that, to book-end Crowley's beginning with, "Your boss said that to Job, do you remember?" (imo they are so good at blending in, they can act human better than any human can act human! So, while feigning the memory span&loss&retention of a human, of course they can remember most everything. Angel stock: constitution of an Ox, memory of an Elephant.) Aziraphale may have wanted to remark on Jim's crossed hands from the night before and how similar it was to Crowley's doing so; that it was evidence of Gabriel still somehow being able to connect with images from his memory. "Crowley? You also did that thing... does Gabriel remember?"
If each minisode contains something that foreshadows or reveals what magic tricks occurred during this season's present day events, I feel that the only thing left is from "The Resurrectionists" minisode, where Crowley Goes Large (woah, woah, woah, another case for The Song Is The Clue?!?) ... or makes himself, something or someone else tiny.
"Size and shape are simply options" after all, so I do wonder about Hell's Usher, where the only time we've seen him is when he is small enough to fit in a bathtub and yet he is HUGE in the opening title sequence of season one. Behind him, Noah's Ark stranded between two damaged buildings (or one damaged building and maybe the Pleasure Cruiser Morbillo?)
Something else that may be revealing of stories yet to be told of the past, while also foreshadowing a near-future event:
Based on what Crowley said, this is not the first time Crowley and Aziraphale have performed a half-miracle together! Whatever biiiig miracle they're about to do (speculated event #2) could still be completely balanced and undetected, but then a plume of miraculous activity emerging from the circle gateway (privately speculated event #3) is what poor Aziraphale will appear to take the blame for.
Things being out of order may have started with the question, are season two's present day events being told out of order? There are other things appearing out of order as well, for example a change in the order of colours in the Rainbow (for "present day" episode two only I think, beginning Violet then Red, etc.) Or, in this case, narrative devices being so intertwined, one flashback-event can contain images and phrases that both foreshadow something yet to happen as well as to reveal what happened in a part of the story already told.
As always, please no asking or tagging Mr Gaiman as this blog post contains theory and speculation, thank you.
#The Hiding Miracle and A Companion To Owls#wittering on#please forgive me#Good Omens 2#foreshadowing#out of order#the big reveal#narrative devices#relearning something forgotten or learning something new? never too late#overthinking technical words and probably VERY wrong about it#Good Omens 2 theory#The Song is The Clue#Good Omens book reference “stylized W”#Tiny Miracle#Crowley Goes Large#“Size and shape are simply options”#Hell's Usher goes large?#Good Omens#Good Omens Opening Title Sequence#Good Omens 3 speculation#first time making GIFs such fun!#good omens meta
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Big Barda in Mister Miracle #5 by Jack Kirby
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gideon and the fleece
miniature in a copy of the "weltchronik" ("chronicle of the world") by rudolf von ems, zurich, c. 1340-50
source: Zurich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. 15, fol. 133r
#14th century#rudolf von ems#weltchronik#gideon#the sign of the fleece#miracles#fleece#book of judges#medieval art#illuminated manuscript
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