“On Azrael’s Fingertip,” by Stephen Player
Discworld 2015 Calendar November ImageI love! This! The way the fingerprint whorls are like deep ridges just as described in the book! The floating clock! The way the galaxies and nebulae are actually Azrael’s facial features, distorted by just how unfathomably huge they really are! And how very, very tiny Death looks in comparison.
This image honestly conveys the enormity of the character development Death has undergone during Reaper Man. He was so angry with Mort for interfering with the inevitability of a human’s death. But years later, here he is, making his case before the infinite Death of Universes Himself to receive just a
little, precious time, to pay back a human for the sacrifice she
made for him.Aʟʟ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀʀᴇ, ᴀʀᴇ ᴏᴜʀs. Bᴜᴛ ᴡᴇ ᴍᴜsᴛ ᴄᴀʀᴇ. Fᴏʀ ɪғ ᴡᴇ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴄᴀʀᴇ, ᴡᴇ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇxɪsᴛ. Iғ ᴡᴇ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇxɪsᴛ, ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʙᴜᴛ ʙʟɪɴᴅ ᴏʙʟɪᴠɪᴏɴ. Aɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴏʙʟɪᴠɪᴏɴ ᴍᴜsᴛ ᴇɴᴅ sᴏᴍᴇᴅᴀʏ. Lᴏʀᴅ, ᴡɪʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ɢʀᴀɴᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ? Fᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴘᴇʀ ʙᴀʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪɴɢs. Tᴏ ʀᴇᴛᴜʀɴ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀs ɢɪᴠᴇɴ. Fᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴋᴇ ᴏғ ᴘʀɪsᴏɴᴇʀs ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ғʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴏғ ʙɪʀᴅs.
Lᴏʀᴅ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴀɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀʀᴠᴇsᴛ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ғᴏʀ, ɪғ ɴᴏᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ᴍᴀɴ?
God, I love this so much.
Author: lebelinoria
my two categories of anime rec are “it’s okay if you don’t really like anime, you’ll probably like this” and “this will not make any goddamn sense to you if you have not wasted years of your life on trash”
y’all took about five minutes to turn this into some kind of contentious madoka post when i was just sitting here innocently contemplating the spectrum from miyazaki to the bread anime
Okay, so, I feel like I should explain the greatest invention of the modern age…that was produced by my apartment.
We call it, the Weeb Ass Shit scale, after our traditional method of asking what anime somebody was watching (”What Weeb Ass Shit is this?”)
It grades a given Anime from 0-10 on three different methods: Weeb, Ass, and Shit. An individual will have different degrees of tolerance for various levels on the different scales.
0 is low, 10 is high.Weeb is the degree to which the show assumes a familiarity with japanese pop culture or anime tropes in general, not only in terms of the actual content of the show, but occasionally at a conceptual level. Hyperspecialized high schools with all-powerful student councils, for example, add a couple points to the Weeb scale. Same goes for the presence or use of tropes that would be bizzare and off putting if you weren’t used to seeing such things in other anime.
A zero on the Weeb scale could be enjoyed by somebody who doesn’t even know that Japan exists, a 10 assumes the audience possesses a PhD in japanese cultural studies with a focus on animation. Something like Cowboy Bebop comes in at a 1, while I’d put Kill-La-Kill at a 6. Anything of the form “These Girls are anthropomorphic versions of something else” rates at least a 7 in my book.
Next comes the Ass Scale. Put simply, how much Fanservice is in the show. busty character design, male-gaze camera angles, skimpy outfits, hot spring episodes, character A tripping and landing in a compromising position on top of character B, all that nonsense.
At a 0, you’ve got something you would watch with your Grandmother after church (Miyazaki’s stuff comes in at a 0).Finally, the Shit scale, which covers general overall quality. A 0 indicates that the show is flawless, a 10 holds that you would rather sandpaper your own face than watch it. It should be noted that the Shit scale should be judged independent of the others. Too much T&A shows up on the Ass scale.
Proper use of this scale is in the form W/A/S.
For example, Shokugeki no Soma (Aka Food Wars) would come in at W 4/ A 6/ S 3This is a game changer!
I don’t watch Voltron: Legendary Defender, and for a while there I honestly wasn’t sure whether Keith is actually a catboy in the show, or whether people just keep drawing him that way.
@highfemscience replied:
He’s genetically a cat boy but he’s human passing
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This is lit !!
Black Germans are lit af
woah
they made the language soung cute omg
This is nice
German has never sounded cute to me until now
okay but what the song called and by whom 👀
The song is: Bist Fu Down by Ace Tee ft. Kwam.E
Hitler rollin over in his grave
Them Aesthetics tho
and there is more german music by artists of colour that is worth checking out:
BONEZ MC & RAF CAMORA feat. MAXWELL (Ohne mein Team)
They made such an ugly language sound so pretty!
omg I’ve been looking for this forever but google never cooperated!
I’m going to butt in on this long post and say you guys are being incredibly disrespectful regarding German. You realize people speak this language today, right? Just because the only time you hear it is when straight-to-TV Nazis are spitting explicit hatred does not mean that it’s an ugly language; it just means you have a limited scope of what German sounds like. Saying that it’s an ugly language, or that it’s some accomplishment to make it sound cute, is similar to calling AAVE an uneducated, primal version of English that can’t be taken seriously.
In addition, Hitler and das Drittes Reich are not the defining characteristics of Germany’s political climate. The country has been democratic and (pretty much 90%) anti-fascist for what approaches 70 years, and their people and government continue to work tirelessly to escape the shadow of Nazism – this is part of the reason they’ve been taking in so many Middle-Eastern refugees. Invoking Hitler in regards to stuff like this is disrespectful and tactless.
I’m not a German, but I’m passionate about the culture they’ve created in the wake of authoritarianism, and I figured I’d throw in my two cents regarding how it’s been treated here. If any Germans or German-speaking followers believe I’ve said something wrong or overstepped a boundary, I’ll edit or delete this post.
German
over here, giving my two cents: I agree 100% with @phen01 and I don‘t
think that you crossed any boundary tbh, I‘m glad you said
something. I won‘t repeat your text as I completely agree with
them, I will just add mine:Most of
the artists mentioned in this thread are people who were, in fact,
born and raised in Germany. Blumio grew up in the city next to my
hometown, Joy Denalane grew up in West Berlin. The learned German as
their first language. To them, it is not the ‚ugly language‘ that
suddenly sounds beautiful. It is their mother tongue. The language
they chose for their art, for their music. By saying that ‚Hitler
is rolling over in his grave‘ (why even is there always a comment
about Hitler?) you make the mere fact that they are PoC and yet using
the ugly lanuage of the evil nazis a political statement. And
that‘s not supporting PoC, that‘s the exact opposite. You could,
instead, learn something about their lyrics. Pay attention to what
they‘re singing about, or how they are engaging against racism.
Because yes, most of them are activists. Most of them have at least
one or two songs that center around racism, e.g. Blumios „Hey Mr.
Nazi!“. Celebrating these songs and their messages? Sounds like a
better idea to me.And
please: Before you make jokes about Nazis, about the German language
(which is in fact, not only used by Germans) or about our culture:
Educate yourself a little bit. And by that, I mean something that
isn‘t a movie about WW2. Yes, our ancestors started a war. Yes, at
least 55 million people died in a horrible way, and in vain. Yes, we
should remember this event and learn from past mistakes – but I
think it‘s about time to get over the idea that everything German
is Nazi per se.I‘m
tagging @allthingsgerman because they usually have very good ideas in
discussions like this. Maybe you already said something about this,
but I can‘t recall.Also: I‘m white.
If any person of color living in Germany thinks that I said something
wrong, or crossed a line or am being offensive, please text me and
I‘ll take this post down, or edit it accordingly.I said it in the tags in a previous reblog: Her pronunciation is 100% High German, i.e. the standard variety of German. Newscasters today sound like her. (The word choice isn’t terribly High German though, it’s imbued with hip hop slang as you’d expect, which btw is used by hip hop acts regardless of their or their (grand)parents’ ethnicity). She hasn’t applied some magical Blackness or whatever to German, she’s just singing in her mother tongue, because, yknow, she’s German.
(NB: Most German singers use Standard German in their songs, even if they speak with a more regional accent. I’ve searched for interviews with Ace Tee, and she speaks with a faint North German accent).
Standard German has changed a lot in the last 80 years, so when people hear pathé news from the 1930s, then this is not German how it’s spoken today. It wasn’t even that widely spoken back then, because more people were speaking dialects than today. And of course if you only ever heard German spoken in Nazi speeches, then this isn’t a terribly good example of spoken German in general. Basically if you listen to any politician giving a hateful speech it will not be representative of whatever language they’re speaking.
This isn’t cute because Afro-German magically makes an ugly language cute but because the song is just fucking cute. Nothing to do with the language (which is just bloody versatile and can be cute or aggressive when needed).
For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7HyGa2YFg4
Such cute and pretty German, right? I think not.
s/o to my german fellas for making this post better.
This is lit !!
Black Germans are lit af
woah
they made the language soung cute omg
This is nice
German has never sounded cute to me until now
okay but what the song called and by whom 👀
The song is: Bist Fu Down by Ace Tee ft. Kwam.E
Hitler rollin over in his grave
Them Aesthetics tho
and there is more german music by artists of colour that is worth checking out:
BONEZ MC & RAF CAMORA feat. MAXWELL (Ohne mein Team)
Only black people can make German sound lit 🙌🏾
this is fun and cute, i love it! sounds like samurai champloo soundtrack, doesn’t it?
five minutes each for FIGHTING
you deserve someone who looks at you with so much love when you aren’t looking
I just had this hyper-realistic dream and like. I don’t even know what to make of this lmao
I was sitting in this park, on a bench, looking up at the night sky and all the stars and stuff, and I blinked and suddenly the entire sky was different. I’m talking different constellations, the sky absolutely packed with billions more stars, some so close they’re massive. I’m like wtf and suddenly I realise there’s an old man sitting next to me, dressed in like 1940s clothing, also looking up at the sky.
before I can ask him if he’s you know, noticed, he speaks, without looking away from the sky.
“this is what the universe really looks like,” he tells me.
“oh,” I say. a pause. “…can you put it back?”
he smiles and nods. I look up. the sky has gone back to normal.
“what do I do with this information?” I ask, looking at him again.
he turns his head and, smiling, looks me dead in the face. "be careful.“
hey op im pretty sure you mightve just met god or something like that
hey op im pretty
sure you mightve just met god or
something like that
^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
just moving along like everyone else 